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‘The Great Wall’ Scales $24.3M In First Day Of China Release
Legendary's highly-anticipated action fantasy, The Great Wall, officially released in China today. The Day One estimated take, including Thursday night previews, is $24.3M (RMB 169M). Directed by...
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Peter Berg & Mark Wahlberg On ‘Patriots Day’: Has Wahlberg Eclipsed Damon &...
EXCLUSIVE: In their third collaboration after Lone Survivor and Deepwater Horizon, director Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg turn their ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances storytelling to Patriots...
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Gavin O’Connor New Beneficiary Of Matt Damon’s Busy Sked: Will Helm ‘Father...
EXCLUSIVE: Yet another filmmaker is benefiting from Matt Damon's relentless schedule. Gavin O'Connor has been set to replace Damon behind the camera, directing Father Daughter Time: A Tale Of Armed...
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Awash With 6 Oscar Noms, How ‘Manchester By The Sea’ Navigated Storms But...
The road to Best Picture for independent films is usually filled with uncertainty and adversity. Only in hindsight does it seem like some beneficent movie god plotted the course, and that calamities...
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Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway Among Final Round Of Oscar Presenters
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway – fifty years after the release of their classic Bonnie & Clyde – are among the final slate of Oscar presenters confirmed today by producers Michael De Luca and...
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‘Incorporated’ Canceled By Syfy After One Season
EXCLUSIVE: Syfy has opted not to renew freshman drama series Incorporated for a second season. The futuristic thriller, executive produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, ended its freshman run January...
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Jimmy Kimmel Explains How Oscars Should Have Ended
Jimmy Kimmel tried, on Oscar night, to convince best-picture presenter Warren Beatty to appear on his ABC late night show the next night to talk about the snafu. "I told Warren Beatty he was in...
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Paramount, Disney & STX Show Exhibitors Exactly What They Came To See With...
CinemaCon came into full swing Tuesday with presentations from STX in the morning, Paramount in the afternoon, and Disney (including a screening of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) in...
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Alexander Payne’s ‘Downsizing’ To Open Venice Film Festival
Alexander Payne's Downsizing has been tapped to be the opening-night film, in competition, at the upcoming Venice Film Festival. Sources have confirmed the news about the pic, a social satire that...
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‘Suburbicon’ Trailer: Matt Damon & The Mob In George Clooney’s Venice-Bound Noir
The George Clooney-directed Suburbicon was announced earlier this morning as a world premiere competition entry at the Venice Film Festival. Matt Damon stars as a family man dealing with the aftermath...
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Showtime Orders Boston 1990s Crime Drama Pilot From Ben Affleck & Matt Damon,...
Showtime has given an official pilot order to City On A Hill, executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, and directed and executive produced by Gavin O'Connor (The Accountant, Warrior). Written...
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Alexander Payne On ‘Downsizing’, Opening Venice & Snarky Tailors
EXCLUSIVE: Tomorrow, Alexander Payne's Downsizing will open the 74th Venice Film Festival. The Matt Damon-starrer marks a number of firsts for Payne, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind such great pics...
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‘Downsizing’ Teaser: First Look At Alexander Payne’s Venice Opener
UPDATED with press conference details: Alexander Payne's Downsizing splashed onto the Lido this morning as the Venice Film Festival gets underway. The sci-fi comedy was met with applause at the first...
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George Clooney’s ‘Suburbicon’: 1950s Idyll Crimes & Echoes Of Today’s America...
George Clooney's Suburbicon will have its official world premiere in competition here at the Venice Film Festival tonight. Unveiled to the press this morning, it's being called “Hitchcockian,”...
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George Clooney, Matt Damon, Julianne Moore Talk ‘Suburbicon’, American Anger...
Following well-received morning screenings of George Clooney's Suburbicon, the filmmaker and stars Matt Damon and Julianne Moore discussed the 1950s-set crime comedy/drama with international...
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‘Suburbicon’ Trailer: Damon, Moore & Isaac In Clooney-Helmed Dark Satire...
EXCLUSIVE: “This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices.” That’s how Paramount describes Suburbicon, the George Clooney-directed satirical noir starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore and...
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Survival Guide Comedy Series From Military Vet Duo Ordered By Netflix With...
Netflix has given an eight-episode straight-to-series order to The Green Beret's Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse, a hybrid scripted/unscripted comedy written, produced by and starring two military...
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‘Downsizing’ Trailer: Matt Damon Gets Small, And Discovers A Big New World
Alexander Payne’s satire Downsizing drew plaudits when it opened the Venice Film Festival two weeks ago, and today Paramount has dropped the first full trailer. The film takes the premise of how much...
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Alexander Payne On ‘Downsizing’ And Finding A Fictional Solution To The...
Alexander Payne had the distinction of opening this year's Venice Film Festival with his new film Downsizing, which followed last year's La La Land in a first-night slot that is often seen as a...
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Matt Damon To Receive Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award From BAFTA LA
BAFTA LA has set Matt Damon as the recipient of its Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film. Presented by Newegg, the prize is given to “a unique individual, upon whose work is stamped...
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