George Clooney goes full Coen Brothers (they co-wrote it with Clooney and Grant Heslov) with Suburbicon – the tale of Gardner Lodge, a suburban dad who gets in too deep with a loan shark. Things get out of hand…
Yes, it’s a comedy.
Suburbicon opens on October 27th.
Written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea is already racking up awards to go along with its critical acclaim.
In a new video, Matt Damon, Casey Affleck and others make the case for Lonergan being the voice of our generation. Check out the video after the break.
Continue reading Manchester by the Sea: Lonergan: The Voice of Our Generation!
He knows everything. He remembers everything. It’s just that the everything he remembers isn’t the everything that there is to know.
Couple that with the changes in the world since the last Jason Bourne film (WikiLeaks, Snowden, etc.) and the potential is there for a really terrific movie.
Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass talk about bringing back Jason Bourne in a new featurette from Universal Pictures – plus new footage!
Check it out after the break. Jason Bourne opens on July 29th.
The chase is on in The Runner a new reality series that’s executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. More than a million dollars is at stake in this series that combines puzzles and hunting.
From a field of competitors, one is chosen to be The Runner. By following a series of clues over 30 days, he seeks to finds the prize – but the other competitors are hunting him – and if whoever catches him takes the prize.
The runner premieres on go90 on Friday, July 1st. Check out the fast-paced trailer after the break.
Continue reading Speedy Trailer: Affleck/Damon Reality Series The Runner!
Four years from help; fifty days from starvation; thirty-one days from no breathable air. Astronaut Mark Watney is going to have to science the $#!+ out of this one.
Check out the new trailer for Ridley Scott’s The Martian following the jump.
Pearl Street Films, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s production company will be producing the pilot for Incorporated. The potential Syfy series would follow executive Ben Larson, who must change his identity to infiltrate the cutthroat world of corporate culture to save the woman he loves.
The series was created by David and Alex Pastor (Selfless, The Last Days) who will also direct the pilot. For further details, follow the jump.
Continue reading Damon & Affleck’s Pearl Street Films To Produce Incorporated Pilot For Syfy!
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are doing sci-fi with Syfy – their Pearl Street Films is developing Incorporated, a futuristic espionage thriller for the cable network.
In the future, corporations have all the power and Incorporated will be the story of one man’s efforts to beat the system. Check out the press release following the jump.
Continue reading Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Incorporated Into Syfy Family!
The idea of setting a film in a world where the 1% live on a giant space station and all of Earth is a third world country is a good one, but I think there might actually be too much action in it and the allegory might be a bit too on the nose. Still, even with too much action, it’s the smartest big-budget movie of the summer and quite possibly the one of the smartest of the year.
There’s a new, extended trailer for Elysium – Neill Blomkamp’s follow-up to District 9 that stars Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. It looks pretty cool. Check it out after the jump.
Elysium opens on August 9th.
Remember how Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 came out nowhere and dazzled? Well, his follow-up, Elysium is coming soon – here’s the first trailer. The film which stars Matt Damon (in thoughtful action hero mode) and Jodie Foster (bringing the evil), reaches theaters on August 9th.