There is a tiny, one minute preview of Matt’s interview on The Early Show. He talks about his controversial comments on Sarah Palin in 2008.

Video: The Early Show Preview

As awesome as we know Critics’ Choice Movie Award nominee True Grit is going to be, we don’t envy star Hailee Steinfeld. After all, girlfriend had to be spanked by Matt Damon with a wooden reed. That’s not how you want to look in front of our future husband! “It’s a scene in the movie that needs to be there for a whole host of reasons. And so, they just put a big pad on Hailee. And we practiced. And I said, ‘Hailee, does that hurt?’ And she said, ‘I can’t even feel it,” Damon explained. Awkward! We hope our introduction to Matt Damon doesn’t involved him beating us with a tree branch, but we’ll keep our butt cushion on at all times, just in case!

Matt, of course, would never bring his character’s corporal punishment home to his daughters IRL. “I definitely don’t spank ‘em,” Damon told People at the film’s New York premiere. At least we’ve made some strides since cowboy days. Better dental hygiene, the invention of Dunkin Donuts  and the icy alienation of the time-out chair are things we can all be proud of.

Source:  The Fab Life

Last week we said Neill Blomkamp was reteaming with pal Sharlto Copley for his next big project, Elysium. What’s new this week is that movie is on the hunt for a big-name star in one Matt Damon.

Deadline.com says Damon is in talks to star in the sci-fi film, the plot of which is being guarded more closely than the truth about Anderson Cooper. Production company Media Rights Capital is bankrolling both Elysium and Damon’s next movie, The Adjustment Bureau, a George Nolfi vehicle costarring Emily Blunt.

We don’t need to tell you what happened the last time a director created a sci-fi story under a shroud of secrecy — no, we’re not thinking Avatar, but rather The Book of Eli. That did wonders for the Hughes Brothers and  Denzel Washington, didn’t it?

Source:  Tampa Bay.Com