11
May
2012
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and the guy from The Office are teaming up to hold a Santa Monica fundraiser for Elizabeth Warren’s US Senate bid.
Warren’s popularity among Hollywood celebrities has been well-documented. In this case, the celebrity hosts are home-grown. Damon and Affleck are famous for their ties to Cambridge, where Warren lives. And John Krasinski of The Office is from Newton.
The invitation to the May 21 party, first reported by BuzzFeed and confirmed by the Warren campaign, lists contribution levels from $1,000 to $10,000 for top-level couples. It will be on the rooftop of a production studio called “Bad Robot.”
Source: Boston
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7
April
2012
Environmentalists are giddy over the news that Matt Damon is starring in an anti-fracking film.
Damon’s agency confirmed to Politico that the actor is slated to star in “The Promised Land,” an “anti-fracking movie” that he co-wrote with actor John Krasinski (“The Office”), based on a draft by Dave Eggers (“Where The Wild Things Are”).
According to Variety, Damon and Krasinski will star “as rival corporate executives, with the former thesp playing a character whose life is thrown into disarray after he arrives in a small town.”
The film will also feature Frances McDormand “who prefers to follow the rules as opposed to breaking protocol,” Rosemarie DeWitt as “a schoolteacher caught between Damon’s and Krasinski’s character” and possibly Hal Holbrook who “will play an engineer who lives in the town and opposes a corporate takeover being led by Damon.” The movie will be directed by Gus Van Sant (“Good Will Hunting”).
A casting agency posted a call for extras on their Facebook page this past Monday, specifically searching for “great, character faces, farmer looks, senior citizens, and kids” in the Pittsburgh, Penn. area where the film is shooting “from late April through early June, 2012.”
This isn’t the first film to tackle the hydraulic fracturing debate. In 2010, the film “Gasland” documented the health concerns of citizens affected by the fracking industry, and featured a flammable water scene which caused quite the stir.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a drilling process for extracting natural gas from shale rock. The procedure has caused concern due in part to the chemicals injected into the wells for drilling, which may taint nearby drinking water. President Obama touted “safe” natural gas drilling in his State of the Union address, but also said, “I’m requiring all companies that drill for gas on public lands to disclose the chemicals they use. Because America will develop this resource without putting the health and safety of our citizens at risk.”
The feasibility of protecting the health of Americans while conducting hydraulic fracturing operations is debatable. Dimock, Pennsylvania has been at the heart of this discussion. The small town’s wells were tainted by fracking operations, and the drilling company and the EPA have (at times) delivered clean water to the residents.
According to ProPublica, recent EPA tests of Dimock’s water reveal “dangerous quantities of methane gas” and “dozens of other contaminants, including low levels of chemicals known to cause cancer and heavy metals that exceed the agency’s “trigger level” and could lead to illness if consumed over an extended period of time. The EPA’s assurances suggest that the substances detected do not violate specific drinking water standards, but no such standards exist for some of the contaminants and some experts said the agency should have acknowledged that they were detected at all.”
Not everyone is concerned about fracking, nor are all groups excited about the film, including the creators of pro-fracking film “FrackNation.” The film’s co-producer Phelim McAleer is known for attacking Al Gore about climate change and recently told HuffPost’s Lucia Graves, “when you strip away the emotions and the hyperbole, the answer seems to be that we need to investigate further.”
As Politico pointed out, FrackNation posted on their KickStarter site: “It will not be easy getting the message out with a sequel to Gasland in the works and now a big budget Hollywood movie concentrating on scare stories rather than true stories. Now, we recognize Hollywood movies don’t have to be truthful – they just have to be entertaining, but it’s likely that PROMISED LAND will increase unfounded concerns about fracking.”
Many would argue that concerns about fracking are not “unfounded,” including Damon himself — In 2010, the actor posted a short video promoting the Working Family’s Party “working to prevent risky natural gas drilling” and keep water clean in New York.
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5
February
2012
Matt Damon is nominated in the category, “Man You’d Trade Your Husband For.” Check it out and vote for him! He is currently losing to Mr. Robert Pattinson.
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6
January
2012
Matt Damon says his happiest moments were in bed making his children.
The ‘Contagion’ actor has three daughters, Isabella, five, Gia, three and Stella, 14 months with his wife Luciana Barroso and is also stepfather to her daughter Alexia, 12, from a previous relationship and the Hollywood hunk says his family are the most important part of his life.
Asked by Vanity Fair for their Proust questionnaire, when and where he was happiest, Matt answered: ‘In our bed, making our children, and in the hospital watching them being born.’
Matt also revealed his personal motto is ‘Don’t be a d-bag.’
Matt has previously revealed he loves being surrounded by females even though his daughters find it easy to manipulate him.
He said: ‘When Isabella was 18 months, she was trying to get a treat out of me. I said no and she asked me again so I caved in.
‘Then my wife came into the room. Isabella looked up at her mother, shyly smiled and put her head down. I knew that at 18 months old, this creature had control over me.
‘Men don’t have a chance. I feel we’re such different species.’
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6
January
2012
Matt Damon will have to wait a little bit longer before making his directorial debut.
In October, THR reported that the actor, currently in theaters with We Bought a Zoo, would direct an untitled Warner Bros. drama that he co-wrote with actor John Krasinski. (Author Dave Eggers was also involved in coming up with the story.) Damon was also going to star in the the drama — which was described as being in the vein of Erin Brockovich—and was one of the producers on it.
Sources now confirm to THR that Damon has dropped out as director due to what are being called “scheduling issues.” It’s unclear how this move, first reported by Vulture, will impact the project. The THR source says Damon is still on track to act in the movie but declines to provide specifics.
At the time the movie was announced, Warners, which houses Damon and Ben Affleck’s Pearl Street shingle, was quite high on the project and was eying a spring production start. Story details were kept vague but the plot was known to center on a salesman (Damon) who arrives in a small town only to have his life changed. Krasinski was also due to star in it and was one of the producers. His involvement is said to remain unchanged.
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28
December
2011
Matt Damon has worked with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, but in his latest role as a single dad who buys a zoo, he finds himself working with children and animals. So we had to ask, is it more difficult to work with little ones and furry ones, or Brad Pitt and George Clooney?
“Definitely Brad Pitt and George Clooney,” Damon tells me on my HDNet talk show “Naughty But Nice.” “It’s similar, oddly. If a scene goes well, you throw them a treat. In George’s case, it’s vodka.”
However, it’s when his “We Bought A Zoo” co-star Scarlett Johansson compares Damon to a baby hippo that the actor really starts to speak his mind.
“I would be a baby hippo?” Matt asked me. “That is sweet. If Scarlett were an animal, what would she be … Uh, a baby hippo — bitch!”
But Damon does have someone on his side. Director Cameron Crowe said Damon would be a Lion — something he agrees with: “See! He’s got my back! No baby hippo bullshit!”
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21
December
2011
Academy Award winner Matt Damon says he can relate to Benjamin Mee, the character he plays in the new Cameron Crowe film, “We Bought a Zoo.”
“I think mostly because I saw it as a love story between this guy and his wife,” says Damon.
Mee is a Los Angeles newspaper columnist and adventure writer who, as a single father, faces the challenges of raising his two young kids. Looking to give his family a much needed fresh start, he moves to a home situated in the middle of a zoo, which he and his two children will attempt to bring back to life.
“She passed away (Mee’s wife) but he is still equally in love with her and trying to kind of keep it together,” says Damon. “That really resonated with me. I would be hopeless without Lucy (Damon’s wife of six years).”
Damon tells Anderson that there are things that only a mother can give to her child. “I just see in my wife… the way she can talk to our kids and I am just thankful that she is there.”
The father of four, who says his heart grew five times when he became a dad, tells Anderson that when it comes to disciplining his kids, he’s a “total pushover.’
“You know where your partner is strong and you are weak,” says Damon. “Or where you’re strong and picking up slack for them. It really helps to have two people doing it.”
Damon and his wife, Lucy (Luciana), have a parenting trick he calls “Tag Team Parenting.”
“If you’re burning out… we treat it like tag team wrestling. Where we’re like… ‘tag.’”
Sometimes, as a parent, you need to walk around the block and take a breather. Damon says to his wife, “I am going to go over and get a cup of coffee. I will be back in 20 minutes but I need to get some air. And it’s understood.”
“I like the idea of tag team parenting,” says Anderson.
“We literally say, “tag.” You have to do that.”
Source: Yahoo!
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17
October
2011
Washington, Oct 17 (ANI): Matt Damon has revealed that he is determined to outdo his friend George Clooney and appear in more of director Steven Soberbergh’s movies than him.
Till now both the stars have been seen in the same number of Soberbergh’s movies, with each of them having one in the pipeline, but now Damon has shown his will to outdo his friend in the collaboration stakes.
“We’re tied at six. But I’m going to win – that’s all I’m saying. We each have another one lined up with Steve and then I’m hoping that I can sneak in as an extra in the one he directs after that. I told Steven that it really matters to me. I want the title. I really want it,” Contactmusic quoted him as saying.
The 41-year-old actor who can next be seen in ‘Contagion’, a thriller about a fatal pandemic that sweeps the world admitted that the subject matter made everybody involved in the movie more hygiene conscious.
“Steve actually sent the script over with a note that read, ‘Read this and then wash your hands.’
“We were saying when we were making the movie, ‘We should get some stocks in Purell [a hand sanitiser]‘. We did have that conversation,” he added. (ANI)
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14
August
2011
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8
August
2011
“I met Matt Damon and it was ridiculous. I’ve met people more famous than he is and been fine. But with him I got all giggly and went red with embarrassment.”
-Harry Potter actress Emma Watson was star-struck when she met Matt Damon.
Aww Hermione is a fan 
Source: Hollywood.Com
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