Matt Damon

Steven Soderbergh may direct The Man From U.N.C.L.E. big screen adaptation

Steven Soderbergh is in talks to take over directing duties on the long-in-development film adaptation of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. at Warner Bros., THR reports. Scott Z. Burns, who wrote Soderbergh’s The Informant and the director’s upcoming medical thriller Contagion, is negotiating to write a new script for the project. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. television ….

Scarlett Johansson looking to join Matt Damon in Cameron Crowe’s ‘Zoo’

Scarlett Johansson is in final talks to star opposite Matt Damon in the Cameron Crowe true-life drama We Bought a Zoo, THR reports. We Bought a Zoo is based on a memoir by Benjamin Mee, who used his life savings to buy a dilapidated zoo on the English countryside, filled with 200 exotic animals, both ….

Pics from Philip K. Dick’s Adjustment Bureau starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt online

EmpireOnline has posted new images from Adjustment Bureau, which is loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s short story Adjustment Team about a politician on the verge of winning a seat in the US Senate before meeting a ballet dancer played by Emily Blunt, who seems like the woman of his dreams. The only problem is ….

Biggest names in Hollywood gather for “Night Before” fundraiser

As Tinsel Town gets ready for its biggest night of the year, Academy Award nominees and presenters joined some of the most well-known film stars in the world for the eighth annual “Night Before” party to benefit the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF). Money raised supports the extensive programs and services MPTF provides to ….

Win one of two copies of the Kevin Smith Blu-ray Film Collection

On November 17th, Miramax Films will release The Kevin Smith Blu-ray Film Collection, which includes a stunning Blu-ray Edition of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, as well as all new Blu-ray Editions of Clerks and Chasing Amy, plus hours of outrageous new bonus material. To celebrate the release of The Kevin Smith Blu-ray Film ….

Jason Bourne 4 gets a screenwriter and start date

Josh Zetumer, who wrote the script for the upcoming Dune remake, has signed on to pen the fourth installment of Universal’s “Bourne” movie series, writing what is being called a parallel script, according to THR. George Nolfi, who co-wrote The Bourne Ultimatum, was tentatively on board to co-write the screenplay for the next chapter in ….

Hurt Locker star headed to The Adjustment Bureau

Anthony Mackie, who most recently appeared in The Hurt Locker, has been cast in Universal Pictures’ sci-fi thriller The Adjustment Bureau, which Matt Damon and Emily Blunt are currently attached to star, according to Variety. George Nolfi, who’s making his directorial debut, will helm the movie from his own script, and produce alongside Chris Moore ….

Win one of five pair of tickets to advance screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo

The long awaited U.S. debut of animation master Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo is here. The New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival is presenting the first East Coast screening of the film in a special pre-release event 3:00pm on Sunday, August 9th at Symphony Space in New York City. Also, if you’re feeling lucky, New York – ….

Emily Blunt boards adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi thriller Adjustment Bureau

Emily Blunt, who recently completed work on The Wolf Man and will play Princess of Lilliputia in the upcoming Gulliver’s Travels, is attached to play the female lead in the George Nolfi-directed adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s short story Adjustment Bureau, opposite Matt Damon, Variety reports. Damon will play a smooth-talking congressman whose political future ….

Leonardo DiCaprio to headline online poker film written by Rounders scribes

Paramount has nabbed rights to a pitch from writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien that takes place in the world of Costa Rica-based online casino gambling, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in the film, and produce under his Appian Way banner, alongside Jennifer Davisson Killoran. The project is in ….