Matt Damon: The Bourne Expansion
Wed., Jun. 25, 2008 7:15 PM PDT by EOL Staff
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Seeing the one-time Sexiest Man Alive appear, well, not at his sexiest while shooting the Informant in Hawaii has kind of put us at a loss for words.

While our blogger brethren over at Just Jared and Jezebel have come up with some pretty ingenious headlines to accompany this photo, we're, quite frankly, simply speechless.

Thanks to Emily for coming up with this stellar headline, which had us all laughing. But she had tough competition, so we had to share some of our favorite runners-up below. Thanks to everyone who chimed in; you guys are hilarious.

From Alex: Good Will Plumping

From Ron: The Talented Mr. Un-Ripped-ly

From Karen: I'm not F'ing Matt Damon!

From Susan: You PROMISE you'll watch my fries for me???

Have to agree that I prefer the other picture, but at least the quotes have me laughing for the first time today, as it has been a very bad day!

I do like that he's willing to gain weight for a role--Sexiest Man moniker be damned

Sigh...but it's such a shame.

They have been filming his new pic around and in my home town . The flab and the mustache are all for the movie. He looks so different. Still cute in the face tho. I would do him...maybe with my eyes closed tho !!!!

My first thought when I saw him in the close up with the mustache was that he looked like the husband of Dorothy Stratten, Paul something. The little slime bag who murdered her.

Hasn't this already been filmed as The Insider with Russ Crowe?

Yes, and the female version has also been covered with Erin Brokovich / Julia Roberts.

Don't get me started on the constant regurgitation that Hollywood has become...

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The Afflecks and Damons Go on Double Date
Originally posted Sunday June 29, 2008 06:00 PM EDT

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck met up with Matt Damon and his heavily pregnant wife, Luciana Barroso, at Nobu Malibu on Saturday night for a two-hour dinner on the patio that included cooked fish and sushi rolls.

"Ben and Matt were entertaining the girls with stories, and they were all laughing a lot," says an observer of the couples.

When dessert came, the celebratory group toasted – after all, Garner and Affleck's third wedding anniversary was the following day.

"Jen and Ben were in a great mood, and they left Nobu hand in hand," says the observer. Also spotted at Nobu Saturday night: Kate Hudson, back in L.A. following last week's Santa Barbara getaway with Lance Armstrong. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner

Photo by: Splash News Online

Well, no creepy 'stah anyway

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Matt Damon's wife Luciana may be pregnant, but it's his expanding waistline that's making all the headlines in Hollywood.

"I think I lost my [Sexiest Man Alive] title," the actor joked to PEOPLE Wednesday at the Ante Up For Africa poker event in Las Vegas.

But that's no sympathy bump. Damon estimates that he gained between 20 and 30 pounds for his upcoming thriller, The Informant, directed by Steven Soderbergh.

"It wasn't necessarily that I needed to be fat," he said. "It was that I needed to be 'doughy.' "

Even though the weight-gain was required for a role, that doesn't stop Damon's friends from mocking him mercilessly.

"Some things are just self-evident and don't even require making fun of," his B.F.F. Ben Affleck said at the Rio Hotel and Casino event, which raised money and awareness about the genocide in Darfur. "I mean, the man buys two seats on an airplane!"

So how did the Oscar-winner pack on the pounds?

"I just stopped working out and basically just ate whatever I wanted," he said. "I ate a lot of In-N-Out, a lot of burgers, a lot of beer and basically had a great time ... When you're in your 20s you can do that kind of stuff. When you're in your 30s, its a whole different ballgame."

Read more about what Damon eats to maintain his transformation in the Bodywatch section of this week's PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.

Matt Damon and His Wife Welcome a Girl

It's another girl for Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana, his rep tells PEOPLE.

"Matt and Lucy Damon had a baby girl named Gia Zavala on Wednesday, Aug. 20th. Everyone's doing great," Damon's rep, Jennifer Allen, tells PEOPLE. "She is a healthy baby girl."

The newest addition is the third little girl in the Damon household, joining big sisters Isabella, 2, and Alexia, 9.

Damon recently joked about living with so many females, telling USA Today from his home in Miami, "I'm so outnumbered down here, it's crazy."

Damon, 37, and Luciana, 32, met in Miami Beach in 2003 while he was filming the comedy Stuck on You. They married in December 2005 at City Hall in Manhattan.

Damon is a "phenomenal" father, his close pal George Clooney told PEOPLE in 2007. "He absolutely adores those kids. He's doing it really well."

Damon, PEOPLE's reigning Sexiest Man Alive, is currently preparing for re-shoots on his thriller Green Zone. But after that, the actor will enjoy some down time with his growing brood.

"[I'm] taking the rest of the year off," he told USA Today. "I'm just hanging out with my family."

Gia Zavala - cute name. Not too out there.

Matt Damon returning for 4th ‘Bourne’
‘Supremacy’ and ‘Ultimatum’ director Paul Greengrass also on board
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LOS ANGELES - Matt Damon is about to be “Bourne” again.

Universal will produce a fourth installment in the popular “The Bourne Identity” franchise, according to Variety.

Damon will return as superspy Jason Bourne, and Paul Greengrass (who directed “The Bourne Ultimatum” and “The Bourne Supremacy”) is also on board for the new film.

While the previous three “Bourne” movies have been based on the novels by Robert Ludlum, the latest chapter will be an original story.

George Nolfi, who co-wrote “The Bourne Ultimatum,” will pen the new script.

Universal had planned on stopping after “Ultimatum,” the third movie in the series, but decided to move forward with the fourth film after its predecessor grossed $227 million at the U.S. box office and $215 million overseas.

Damon, who last starred in “Ocean’s Thirteen” in 2007, will next be seen on the big screen in the crime drama “The Informant,” slated for a March 2009 release.

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Universal moves ahead with 'Bourne'
George Nolfi to pen fourth installment of series
By MICHAEL FLEMING

Universal is moving ahead with its fourth installment of "The Bourne Identity" series, setting George Nolfi to write the script.

Nolfi was co-writer of the third film, which was based on a story by Tony Gilroy.

Though the series is based on the Robert Ludlum novels, the new film won't be based on a Ludlum title, but rather an original story.

Studio toppers Marc Shmuger, David Linde and Donna Langley are making the continuation of the Bourne franchise a top priority in their effort to mount tentpoles, and they've secured director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon to attach themselves to a new film (Variety, February 22, 2008).

Pic will be produced by Frank Marshall and exec produced by Jeffrey Weiner and Henry Morrison.

The studio intended to stop at the third installment, but the film grossed $227 million domestically and $215 million overseas.

TEE TIME
Matt Damon sees green – literally – as he plays a round of golf on Wednesday in Miami.

Matt Damon Blasts 'Repulsive' Bond

Matt Damon thinks James Bond is "repulsive".

The 'Bourne Identity' actor - who plays CIA agent Jason Bourne in three hit films - has lashed out at Ian Fleming's famous British spy, currently portrayed by Daniel Craig.

He said: "He's repulsive. Bond is an imperialist, misogynist, sociopath who goes around bedding women and swilling martinis and killing people.

"The movies have a formula, they stick to it, and it makes them a lot of money. They know what they are doing and they're going to keep doing it."

Damon was due to play Eliot Ness - a US agent who is famous for his efforts to enforce prohibition in Chicago during the 20s - in new film 'Torso', but the movie has fallen victim to the current economic climate.

It was due to be directed by David Fincher - whose latest movie 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' received 13 Oscar nominations - but Paramount Pictures pulled the plug on the project, fearing it could cost more than £120 million to make.

A source said: "Paramount are still keen to make 'Torso' but don't want it to be an expensive risk so are looking at ways to bring it in for less money. If they can't make their sums work, other Hollywood studios may well step in."

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Matt Damon Says Gaining 30 Lbs. Was Easy – and Fun

Looking tanned and trim, Matt Damon declared his latest film challenge as "probably the funnest time I've had working."

He also enjoyed making the movie The Informant!

What PEOPLE's former Sexiest Man Alive was describing was adding 30 lbs. – not to mention the cheesy moustache, hairpiece and glasses – to become nearly unrecognizable for his role as Mark Whitacre, an agricultural company's vice president-turned-FBI informant.

"It was very, very easy to gain the weight," Damon told reporters at the Venice Film Festival on Monday. "It was very, very fun, probably the funnest time I had working because I didn't have to go to the gym after work and I just ate everything I could see."

Based on a true story, the comedy – which costars Two and A Half Men's Melanie Lynskey and Scott Bakula – is Damon's latest collaboration with Oceans director Steven Soderbergh.

In Venice with wife Luciana, Damon heads off to Toronto tomorrow for the film's North American debut just as pal George Clooney is expected to arrive in the Italian city for the red carpet turn of his film, Men Who Stare At Goats.

Source: People

Matt Damon: ‘I Feel Like an Impostor’

Matt Damon feels like an impostor.
The Hollywood hunk says even after years in showbiz and a succession of hit movies he can’t be confident he’s justified his leading man status.

“You always feel like somebody’s going to show up and go, ‘Okay put that thing down, what the f*** are you doing here and who let you in here?” Matt said.

“I really feel like any moment I’m going to be caught out and I’ll have to go and get a real job. I’ve always felt that way.”

Damon recently revealed he’d happily make another Bourne movie — but only if the script is good enough.

“We need to get a script that’s good,” he said. “And if we can get a script that’s good, we’d do it. But there’s not one in the next year, at least.

“Maybe in two years we could shoot one, but only if we got a good script. But it’s the same way we felt about the other ones. If we could figure out a way to do it, then we’ll do it. But we won’t do it just to do it.”

Source: showbizspy.com

Affleck And Damon Are Related

Genealogy experts have discovered movie pals BEN AFFLECK and MATT DAMON are 10th cousins.

The actors are childhood friends from the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts and found fame together starring alongside each other in a number of movies, and winning an Oscar each for their 1997 screenplay Good Will Hunting.

New research from the New England Historic Genealogical Society has delved back through their ancestry and uncovered a common 10th great-grandfather, William Knowlton, a bricklayer who hailed from 17th century Ipswich, England.

The society also claims to have linked Affleck to Barack Obama and Damon to six or seven American presidents, reports TMZ.com.



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Damon Eyes Directing Career

MATT DAMON is determined to step behind the camera one day - because he's learned from the best directors in Hollywood.

The actor has starred in dozens of box office smash movies during his 12-year long career and has been guided by top directors including Martin Scorsese and Steven Soderbergh.

Damon has secretly been picking up tips from the moviemakers - because one day he would love to direct a film.

He says, "I can't wait to direct. I choose my movies based on the director and so I've been treating the last 12 years like a film school.

"All the directors I've worked with have been very tolerant of my questions. The next step is for me to try it myself."

But Damon is putting off a directorial career for now - so he can learn more tricks of the trade.

He adds, "I'm not in a rush. The jobs that I'm getting not only are really exciting for me as an actor but I'm still working with people that I have a great deal to learn from."

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Matt Damon Won’t Star in Violent Movies

MATT Damon has turned down a number of movie roles because he refuses to act in films that are too violent.
The Bourne Ultimatum star has rejected a number of scripts which include gratuitous fighting — because he’s worried it may affect people’s real-life actions.

“I always look at the violence in a script,” Damon said. “I don’t want it to be gratuitous because I do believe that has an effect on people’s behavior.

“I really do believe that and I have turned down movies because of that.”

Damon recently revealed that he feels out of place in Hollywood.

“You always feel like somebody’s going to show up and go, ‘Okay put that thing down, what the f*** are you doing here and who let you in here?” he said.

“I really feel like any moment I’m going to be caught out and I’ll have to go and get a real job. I’ve always felt that way.”

Source showbizspy.com

Matt Damon's 'Serious Family Matter'

Matt Damon had to pull out of a charity fundraiser because of a "family emergency of a serious nature".

The 'Bourne Ultimatum' star was due to host an event for OneXOne - a charity which aims to improve the health and wellbeing of impoverished children around the world - in San Francisco tonight (23.10.09) but instead had to return to his home in Boston yesterday evening (22.10.09).

Representatives for the 39-year-old actor have revealed the emergency didn't involve any of his children with wife Luciana Bozan - Isabella, three, and 14-month-old Gia Zavala.

Charlize Theron is expected to attend the gala.

Meanwhile, Hollywood director Steven Soderbergh has praised Matt for his fantastic work ethic on new movie 'The Informant!'.

Soderbergh, who also directed Damon in 'Oceans Eleven', said: "It was such an odd story and it required a certain kind of performance

"In this case, having worked with him was a huge benefit because we had to move so quickly."

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Damon: 'I Don't Have To Deal With Fame'


Matt Damon has claimed that he doesn't have to worry about being famous.

The Informant! star explained that because he is married and has children, there isn't much gossip about him.

"I probably have to deal with the least amount of nonsense around celebrity," he said. "Barring me getting up on a bar and dancing or leaving my wife for Lindsay Lohan, there's no story to update. Every six months someone comes and squeezes off a picture of me and, yup, I'm still married."

However, he admitted that he often parodies himself in an attempt to control the media attention surrounding him.

"People who thought they could control their image are from a different era," he said. "I guess it's being proactive. You're not waiting around to get ambushed."

The Informant! is released in the UK on November 20.

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Damon 'Loves Everything About Fatherhood'

Matt Damon has revealed that he loves everything about being a dad.

The Informant! star, who has two daughters and a stepdaughter with his wife Luciana Barroso, was asked about his favorite part of being a father.

"That's an impossible question to answer, because I couldn't limit it to just one thing!" he told In Touch Weekly.

However, he added: "I never knew I could function this well with no sleep!"

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sometimes he seems too real to be true!! I love when he said that about leaving his wife for Lilo!! lolol he knows what a joke she is!

Matt Damon's Frankenstein Fears

Matt Damon worried about sounding like "Frankenstein" in his new movie.

The actor, who stars as 1995 South African rugby captain Francois Pienaar in 'Invictus', worked hard for over six months to perfect every aspect of the character.

He said: "I worked hard on the accent and on training physically to build myself up to try to pull off the illusion of being the captain of a South African rugby team.

"Tim the dialect coach and I talked a lot about how a lot of people, when they do a South African accent, really overdo it and end up making somebody sound like Frankenstein."

However, one aspect of the character Matt was unable to tackle was his height, admitting he had fears he was too short for the part.

Speaking about a reassuring phone call he received from director Clint Eastwood, Matt added: "I said, 'All right, I'll worry about everything else. You worry about the fact that I need to grow six inches to play the guy."

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Dillon Hates Watching His Early Movies

MATT DILLON finds it strange watching his breakthrough performance in 1983 movie THE OUTSIDERS, because he was barely even an adult when he filmed the scenes.

Dillon was 18 when he shot his part as a young troublemaker in the film, which also launched the careers of Tom Cruise and Patrick Swayze.

And the 45 year old struggles to comprehend he ever starred in the movie, as it seems a lifetime ago.

He tells Total Film magazine, "It's actually very weird for me to see those films now. And the further I get away from them the stranger it is because I was a f**king kid, man, a little kid.

"Although in my mind at the time I wasn't. When I made The Outsiders, I think I had just turned 18. C. Thomas Howell and I were the youngest guys on that movie."

But Dillon is grateful he was cast in the film, as it gave him the opportunity to work with some of Hollywood's greats.

He adds, "Just working with Francis (Ford Coppola). When I found out I got the job, it was one of the greatest days of my life. Francis was a real legend."

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Matt Damon Ready For 40

Matt Damon isn't bothered about turning 40.

The 'Bourne Identity' actor couldn't care less about reaching the landmark age in October because he has been told by his 'Invictus' co-star Morgan Freeman, 72, it's the best age to be.

Matt revealed: "I was talking to Morgan and someone said I was about to turn 40 and Morgan said, 'Are you about to turn 40?' I said I was and he said, 'You are just coming into your prime.' I said, 'Really?' And he replied, 'The 40s are the best decade by far. That's when things really get good.' "

As he gets ready to enter a new decade of his life, Matt - who has two children, Isabella, three, and 16-month-old Gia, with his wife Luciana Bozan, who also has an 11-year-old daughter Alexia from a previous relationship - is hoping to try his hand at directing.

He said: "I can't wait to direct. The only thing that is stopping me from directing is that I keep getting these great roles."

'Invictus' tells the story of how Nelson Mandela - played by Morgan - and South African rugby captain Francois Pienaar - portrayed by Matt - joined forces to lead the team to an unlikely 1995 World Cup victory over the All Blacks and unify the racially fragmented country following the end of apartheid.

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Damon Plots Oscars Tantrum

MATT DAMON is threatening to steal the show at the Oscars - by throwing a tantrum when he doesn't win a Best Supporting Actor honour.

The movie star has already accepted he won't beat category favourite and Inglourious Basterds star Christoph Waltz - and so he's thinking about his reaction when the German's name is read out on Sunday (07Mar10).

He tells WENN, "I'm waiting for the losing actor to have the courage to just go 'F**k!' when the camera pans on him. If I have the balls you'll see me do it on March 7."

But the Invictus star could be a winner at the Oscars on Sunday if he can look more gracious than pal Stanley Tucci, who is also nominated.

He explains, "I emailed Stanley Tucci. We have a contest to see who could look more magnanimous when Christoph Waltz wins!"

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Damon Too Boring To Be A Paparazzi Target

MATT DAMON is never followed by the paparazzi in Hollywood because he is too "boring" to be photographed.

The actor admits he is free to go about his daily activities without a throng of snappers following his every move, and he's convinced the photographers all decided not to focus on him because he is not as interesting as other big stars.

He tells the Sydney Daily Telegraph, "I feel I have an unspoken deal with paparazzi. I won't do anything interesting if they agree not to follow me. If anyone wanted to photograph my life, they'd be bored in a day. Here's Matt at home learning his lines; here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library.

"I don't mind being thought of as boring, if it means that no photographers follow me."

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Outnumbered Dad Matt Damon

The 'Green Zone' actor raises three children - Isabella, three, 18-month-old Gia and 11-year-old stepdaughter Alexia - with wife Luciana Bozan and admits being the only male in the family means he is always outnumbered and gets told what to do.

He said: "I live with women and girls so I don't have control over anything!"

Although he sometimes misses some moral support, Matt says his children help keep him grounded and his family is his main priority.

He said: "It's pretty easy to kind of lose your way. I think working consistently with great people is really helpful. Also having kids is really helpful. They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly. There's a routine that you get into with kids that precludes you from going back to your single days. I'm probably more boring than I used to be. I go to bed earlier and I get up earlier."

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Benji Madden Wants Matt Movie

Benji Madden wants to make a movie with Matt Damon.

The Good Charlotte rocker is a huge fan of the 'Green Zone' star and has set his sights on taking up acting in order to make a film with the actor and his friend Ben Affleck.

He tweeted: "I love Matt Damon. He's the man. I'm gonna become an actor, so I can do a movie with him. then I will be the man 2. Matt Damon and Benj Affleck.

"Matt Damon is the s**t! givin me a new Goal 2 work 2wards, gonna do a movie and when they ask 'Benj- what inspired u2act?' I'll say 'Matt Damon' (sic)."

The 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' hitmaker was particularly delighted when one of his followers told him both actors are fans of his band.

He added: "Wooohooo!! I'm a shoe in!!(sic)"

While he has ambitions to act, Benji is currently focussing on completing Good Charlotte's next album, 'Cardiology', which is due for release in May.

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Matt Damon Thinks Marriage Is 'Ridiculous'

Green Zone star Matt Damon is running the risk of upsetting wife Luciana after admitting he thinks marriage is 'ridiculous'.

The 39-year-old actor has been married to model wife Luciana for four years, and they have two young children together.

Asked if marriage has changed him, he said to The Hollywood Reporter: 'Yeah, I think so. Somebody said to me recently: 'Wow, you really love marriage.'

'And I said: 'No, I think marriage is ridiculous. I think it's a totally ridiculous idea.' I love being married to my wife - she's the best thing that ever happened to me, but if she ever left me, I wouldn't do it again.

'Because it's crazy - to spend your life with one person and not be totally driven crazy.'

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Exclusive Details on Matt Damon's 30 Rock Gig! He's Playing...
Today 11:57 AM PDT by Kristin Dos Santos
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As if you needed another reason to bow down and worship (seethe with envy over?) the awesomeness that is Tina Fey, sources are spilling a ridiculously good one.

NBC has confirmed that Matt Damon is joining 30 Rock this season, and here's what show insiders tell me exclusively about what Matt will be doing, and for how long...

Spoiler Alert:

According to sources close to the show, the current plan is for Matt to be a love interest for Tina Fey!

That's right, first Liz Lemon hooks up with Jon Hamm, then James Franco, then James Franco's pillow and now this.

Though 30 Rock's producers are still hammering out all the details, sources tell me NBC is hoping to get Matt on for multiple episodes. However, Matt is shooting another project this spring, so it all depends on Matt's schedule and whether 30 Rock can be squeezed in. So at this point only one Damon-Lemon episode is guaranteed, but there may be more.

One thing is certain: Sarah Silverman is gonna be pissed.

Oh, and Floyd can eat his heart out. Suckah!

The Beverly Hilton was the setting for the American Cinematheque Award show honoring Matt Damon. Damon, with wife Luciana, attended along with Harvey Weinstein, Lauren Sanchez, Charlize Theron, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, and more.

Wifey looks good!

Aww. How cute. He bought her a shelf-like boob job.