Watch the Trailer for Invictus: Is This the Next Best Picture?
It’s a movie about the transformation of the racial culture of South Africa. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. Anybody else feel like they know where this is headed?... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsCoen Brothers Cast Damon, Brolin and Bridges for True Grit
The Coen brothers have gotten acclaim for their violent Westerns (No Country for Old Men) and for their period pieces (O Brother, Where Art Thou?). So the announcement that they are currently casting for a remake of historical Western True Grit seems like a no-brainer.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsKanye West is Dead, Long Live Kanye West: Is 2009 the Year of the Celebrity Death Hoax?
Rumors of Kanye West’s death by car crash began spreading online just hours after he, followed by label Island/Def Jam, took down a public stream of We Were Once A Fairytale, a Spike Jonze short film starring the rapper himself.... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DaySteven Soderbergh Gets Michael Douglas and Matt Damon into a Hot Tub
Michael Douglas and Matt Damon are going to get quite close for a forthcoming Steven Soderbergh film.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsWatch the Trailer for Steven Soderbergh's The Informant!
For those of us still smarting over the cancellation of Moneyball, Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant! may be the last chance we get to see the director in big-budget mode for a while. A comedy about a business executive who decides to turn in his own company, kind of, the movie is based on actual events and reunites Soderbergh with frequent collaborator Matt Damon.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsSpringsteen, Vedder, Damon, Cheadle, many more aboard for People's History of the United States
In an unusually ambitious project, the History Channel announced that it plans to adapt Howard Zinn’s seminal 1980 book A People’s History of the United States as a two-hour film with archival footage and readings by Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder and John Legend and film stars like Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Don Cheadle and Marisa Tomei.... read more
Found in: Movies, News10 Memorable Oscar Acceptance Speeches
You've just walked up to the podium in a daze. After bracing yourself for the disappointment that you've been trying to convince yourself you shouldn't feel, some movie star in a bejeweled dress tears open an envelope and calls your name. Now all eyes in the room—and in millions of living rooms—are on you, and you have to say something funny and something poignant and thank all of the people who need to be thanked, and the giant clock that only you can see is counting down, just like Charlie Kauffman said it would. It takes a special talent to... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayPretenders in Chief: Paste Casts the Presidents
When we learned Josh Brolin would be playing George W. Bush... read more
Found in: Culture, FeaturesSteven Soderbergh developing a Liberace biopic
Steven Soderbergh has been hard at work on a bold, daring biopic that dares to go where other directors fear to tread. No, we're not talking about his movie Che, because plenty of other people have and likely will create films centered on Mr. Guevara. Soderbergh's truly revolutionary biopic is on Liberace.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsSarah Silverman nabs Emmy for "fucking Matt Damon"
Accepting her award for outstanding original music and lyrics at the 2008 Creative Emmy Awards, Sarah Silverman gushed onstage, "Oh my gosh...this makes a year of [catcall voice] 'I'm fucking Matt Damon too!' totally worth it. Matt Damon, I'm going to be honest, had very little to do with this being popular. And the person for who this video was made, Jimmy Kimmel, who broke my heart, oops... who... will always have a place in my heart."... read more
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