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Christian Bale believes Robert Pattinson is a good choice for the Batman role

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Christian Bale believes Robert Pattinson is a good choice as the new Batman in the upcoming Matt Reeves directed film, The Batman. In a recent interview with Variety during the Toronto International Film Festival, where he was promoting his upcoming movie Ford v Ferrari, Bale said: “Oh, good. Good choice, he’s interesting. I’m sure he’ll come up […]

Bond v Bourne v Hunt: Who is the Ultimate 21st Century Action Hero?

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the three major action heroes of the 21st century… As we sit and bask in the aftermath of the most recent Mission: Impossible instalment, it seems as good a time as any to take a look at three of the most prolific government Assassins of the last couple of decades. Mr […]

Abigail Breslin to play Matt Damon’s daughter in Stillwater

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Following on from last week’s casting of Matt Damon (The Martian), it has now been announced that Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) has also signed on to appear in director Tom McCarthy’s (Spotlight) next film Stillwater. The project, which McCarthy has written with Thomas Bidegain and Noe Debre, sees Damon playing an oil rigger from […]

Matt Damon to star in Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater

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Deadline is reporting that Matt Damon has signed on to star in Stillwater, the next film from director Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent, Spotlight), which is being produced by Participant Media and Anonymous Content. The film will see Damon playing Bill Baker, an oil rigger from Oklahoma “who travels to Marseille where his estranged daughter […]

First trailer for Ford v Ferrari starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale

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20th Century Fox has debuted the first trailer for the biographical drama Ford v Ferrari (Le Mans ’66 in the UK). Directed by James Mangold, the film stars Matt Damon as American car designer Carroll Shelby and Christian Bale as British racer Ken Miles who were tasked by Henry Ford II (Tracy Letts) to build […]

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to reunite for Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel

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According to Deadline, not only are Matt Damon and Ben Affleck set to star alongside each other for the first time (cameos aside) since Dogma way back in 1999, but they’re rumoured to be performing script-writing duties alongside Nicole Holofcener on an adaptation of Eric Jager’s book The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by […]

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 […]