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Ford v Ferrari poster released ahead of Sunday’s first trailer

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With the first trailer set to drop this Sunday, 20th Century Fox has released a poster for the biographical drama Ford v Ferrari featuring Christian Bale as Ken Miles and Matt Damon as Carroll Shelby; take a look here… Academy Award®-winners Matt Damon and Christian Bale star in FORD v FERRARI, the remarkable true story of […]

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon teaming up for McDonalds Monopoly theft movie

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20th Century Fox has come out victorious in an intense bidding war for the feature film rights to Jeff Maysh’s Daily Beast article ‘How An Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game And Stole Millions’, with the studio tapping Matt Damon to star and Ben Affleck. The article tells the story of Jerry Jacobson, head of security […]

Matt Damon to star in the John Krasinski-produced The King of Oil

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Deadline is reporting that Matt Damon is in early talks to star as fugitive billionaire trader Marc Rich in The King of Oil, a new project from John Krasinski’s Sunday Night Productions and Universal Pictures. Based on Daniel Ammann’s biography The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich, the film will explore the […]

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s City on a Hill starring Kevin Bacon heads to Showtime

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Showtime has just ordered the new series City on a Hill from Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. The crime series will star Kevin Bacon (The Following), Aldis Hodge (Underground), Jonathan Tucker (Westworld) and Mark O’Brien (Halt and Catch Fire). City on a Hill is created by Chuck MacLean (Boston Strangler) and based on an original idea by Academy […]

Movie Review – Downsizing (2017)

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Downsizing, 2017. Directed by Alexander Payne. Starring Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Rolf Lassgård, Ingjerd Egeberg, Udo Kier, Søren Pilmark, and Jason Sudeikis. SYNOPSIS: A social satire in which a guy realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself.   Downsizing is the second failed social satire […]

Movie Review – Suburbicon (2017)

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Suburbicon, 2017. Directed by George Clooney. Starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Noah Jupe, Glenn Fleshler, Gary Basaraba, Karimah Westbrook, Tony Espinosa, Megan Ferguson, and Oscar Isaac. SYNOPSIS: A home invasion rattles a quiet family town. It’s all too easy to discuss the rather meat-headed prescience of George Clooney’s Suburbicon, a film unable to shift a […]

Second Opinion – Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

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Thor: Ragnarok, 2017. Directed by Taika Waititi. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Ruffalo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tessa Thompson, Jeff Goldblum, Taika Waititi, Idris Elba, Karl Urban, Anthony Hopkins, Clancy Brown, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Rachel House, Tadanobu Asano, Luke Hemsworth, Taylor Hemsworth, Sam Neill, Charlotte Nicdao, and Matt Damon. SYNOPSIS: Imprisoned, the mighty […]

Alexander Payne’s Downsizing gets a new trailer

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Paramount Pictures has released a new teaser for Alexander Payne’s upcoming sci-fi comedy drama Downsizing which stars Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Jason Sudeikis, Hing Chau, Laura Dern, Alec Baldwin, Neil Patrick Harris, and Maribeth Monroe; take a look below… When scientists discover how to shrink humans to five inches tall as a solution to […]

First teaser for Alexander Payne’s Downsizing

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With the first full trailer for Downsizing set to arrive in a little under two weeks, Paramount Pictures has released a teaser trailer for director Alexander Payne’s upcoming sci-fi comedy drama Downsizing. The film received its world premiere today at the Venice International Film Festival and features a cast that includes Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Jason Sudeikis, […]