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“Contagion” follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart.

The movie is set to be released on September 9th.

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Emily hinted that you believe in love at first sight because of how you met your wife. Is this true?

It is. It’s funny, I’m sure that it was, but I wonder – now that we have four kids and have built this life together – if I’m retroactively imbuing that moment with all of the subsequent experiences. I feel like it was love at first sight, but maybe that’s just my revisionist history.

Do you remember what she was wearing?

I remember her smile. That’s what I remember more than anything.

Do you believe in destiny? Do you believe you have your own life in your hands?

It’s one of those questions that you can’t answer and I think that’s why people have been asking it for millennia. We’re trying to propose it in a fun way in this movie. I feel like I’m in control of everything until I look back at my life and go, “Wait a minute, what odd series of events took place.” There is that Garth Brooks song where he sings “Thank God for unanswered prayers” – every job that I auditioned for that I was desperate to get that I didn’t might have taken me down a different path. It’s that thing where I feel stuff could be predestined, but I sure like to think that my choices were better.

What made you choose this film?

George (Nolfi, Director) is my friend and when he first showed it to me we had worked on one movie together, Ocean’s Twelve. Subsequently while he was doing more and more drafts of The Adjustment Bureau, we did the third Bourne movie and that was a movie that we were writing as we went. It was a lot of pressure and going through that experience with him and spending hundreds of hours in hotel rooms trying to figure out what we were going to shoot the next day, I knew he could handle the pressure of directing. There was so much more pressure in the Bourne situation that I knew this would be kind of a cakewalk.

What about the story?

I thought the story was interesting. I hadn’t really done a love story and I really loved the idea of a modern-day love story, the obstacle to which was this Philip K. Dick creation of this Adjustment Bureau. It seemed tonally to be really unique and not like anything I’d ever seen and ambitious in that way, but also ultimately a really entertaining and a fun movie. Plus, I believe in George.

Do you think that actors are like politicians, that they hide behind an image to sell tickets?

To a certain degree. I really wonder how much you can micromanage an image anymore. I think with technology being what it is, there’s very little mystery left with public people. Celebrities get followed around 24 hours a day and get their pictures taken 24 hours a day. You can open up a magazine and see where they spent their entire week and when they went to Starbucks. There’s very little intrigue.

The whole star system has changed drastically. Nowadays almost anybody can be a star overnight.

Thank God for that. The reality shows that are in all the magazines, I don’t know who any of them are but I’m so grateful because it’s a match made in heaven that they want to be in those magazines.

It seems different than before because now it happens very fast and also lasts for a few seconds.

Fifteen minutes is way too long now. It’s taken a lot of pressure off [of me]. I live here [in New York] and walk around all day every day and I’m fine. A couple of guys showed up to take my picture when Stella was born and that was it. They know where I am and they know where I live. I talked to the guy and asked why has was taking my picture and he said it was because I just had a daughter and they wanted to get an updated photo of me. They didn’t come by my apartment because they wanted to respect my privacy. I said, “Thank you, I really appreciate that.”

But they got you anyway.

They got me taking my kid to school. They know where I live and where my kids go to school, but they don’t bother me. I’m not what is selling magazines right now, so if they need to get an updated photo they come and squeeze off a couple of shots. My kids never know. I drop my kids off and go talk to them and ask what’s going on. “Did something happen I need to know about?”

You’re also approachable and a very nice guy and you try to live a normal life instead of having millions of bodyguards around.

Which is why I think there’s not any interest; when you demystify that stuff. Those magazines really sell sex and scandal and there’s nothing scandalous about a middle-aged married guy with kids.

You play a politician in this movie. Is there anything fascinating you find about politicians or politics?

No. I certainly admire people who do it, but it’s not a life for me. I met this political consultant for this movie, a smart political strategist who had worked for Clinton. He said he was thinking of retiring and I asked why. He said because they basically figured out the most effective thing you can do is just to sling dirt, and whether it’s true or not that’s what actually works. All of the nuance from his job is gone. He used to find it very interesting to try to craft arguments as to what was going to connect with people. So you spend your life raising money to throw mud.

But you are interested in human rights, aren’t you?

Very much so, but I don’t think the most effective use of my time is to go into politics. There’s things like water.org. I can get that out there just as effectively like this.

Do you know why George Nolfi decided to make The Adjustment Bureau now? We’re living in a time when people feel oppressed by all these different circumstances and institutions. Did you think about that when you were making this film?

Yeah, it felt timely. I’m sure [Philip K.] Dick felt he was making a comment about the FBI, but it does end up being a timely movie. I think maybe that’s why the story survived, just because it is relevant to the time that we’re living in.

From the outside, an actor’s career looks like its calculated, but its seems to be made up of accidents in a way. Do you recall any life-changing accidents in your career?

I’m the guy who passed on Avatar. Score! Actually, I would never pass on a Jim Cameron movie. The truth is I was finishing The Bourne Ultimatum and I literally couldn’t do it. I was desperate to work with him. I think he’s just a genius. It really was out of my hands. But what I really want to do is sit next to him while he directs and watch him because he’s such a visionary. I joke now and say I’m the guy who passed on Avatar because it’s a good line. I also say that it’s too bad that I did because the movie clearly suffers from my absence.

Does being nominated for an Academy Award feel make you feel good about yourself?

I always feel like the right actor gets the role. I’d worked with Gus [Van Sant] twice before, and he called about the role that Josh Brolin played in Milk. He sent me the script and I couldn’t make it through the script without bawling my eyes out because it was such an incredible story. I told him absolutely, I’m in, and he sent me all the research materials to play Dan White. I remember I was on the road promoting the Bourne movie and I was talking to him from Australia, then something happened with the financing and they pushed [it back] like three months. I was going off to do Green Zone and I literally couldn’t do it because of the conflict. There was a writers strike coming up so I had to bow out of Milk and it really upset me. I knew the movie was going to be great, but then I saw the movie and Josh was so good in that part. I felt the movie was great and the right actor got the part. The Fighter was the same way. I was supposed to play Christian’s role and I dropped out. Darren Aronofsky was going to direct it, and we both dropped out. But I look at Christian’s performance and go, “My God, the right actor got the part.”

You prefer to live in New York rather than Hollywood?

Yes.

It’s more normal for your kids and for your life.

Yes, it is. There are more paparazzi in LA.

New York is a great place to raise your kids. It’s changed.

It’s really changed, totally. You can see [by] how many strollers you see. The diners all have stroller parking.

When you’re playing against Terence Stamp, I kept thinking it was Jason Bourne meets General Zod.

[laughs] I kneel before Terence Stamp!

What was it like?

It was awesome. For that part we needed some gravitas, because there’s that great monologue he gave about trying to take the training wheels off and letting humanity go, but human beings keep it screwing up. Obviously, we needed a big actor for that, a person with a lot of weight and heft and we talked about someone like Robert Duvall. One day George called me and said, “What about Terence Stamp?” I thought it was a terrific idea and we literally ended up with our first choice for every role. We got everybody we wanted, which is a credit to George’s script.

Is it true that there was a different ending with a Chairwoman?

Yes, we had the Chairwoman. I don’t know if that’s a secret or anything, but we shot it and it was too much like a philosophy lesson. She literally had a five-page monologue, which was beautifully written, but we saw the movie [with it] and it just stopped. We had all this momentum and it just kind of stopped dead in its tracks, so there was a whole rethink about how to finish it. The whole question was, do we really want to see the Chairman? The Adjustment Bureau was made up of men and women, but a lot of people don’t notice that it was all male. But it was all male because the reveal is that the Chairman is a Chairwoman. Once we redid that, it’s all male. [laughs] Total misogynists! We have to re-shoot everything!

This is your first romantic role and you have an amazing chemistry with Emily. It’s not easy to get that spark onscreen.

She’s really great. We have similar senses of humor. We laughed the whole time and were just goofy the whole time. In defining the relationship, when we were rehearsing the great thing about having a writer/director is that we changed stuff and tweaked stuff and that didn’t throw George at all because he wasn’t totally rigid in his thinking. We all knew that if the relationship worked then the movie could work, but if it didn’t then we were dead. The David character was always a great lead role and we wanted and needed her to be a formidable, three-dimensional woman. With a modern-day woman it should feel like a modern romance, so we talked about it a lot in rehearsals and tried to get that dynamic and her natural, great sense of humor into the dialogue.

Are you going do more romantic roles?

If they’re good. I’ll do anything that’s good. I never choose thematically, although maybe themes do appear, but that’s by accident. Career strategy doesn’t really work. You end up making your best educated guess one movie at a time, then at the end you look back and maybe there’s a pattern or maybe there isn’t. If a great romance came along, I’d certainly love to do it.

What do you mean by a good role for you?

I’ve read thousands of scripts and written scripts, so I know a lot about the technical side of it. For me, honestly, it’s a feeling I get, which I’m sure has to do with the thousands of hours I’ve spent working on screenplays. But if something moves me, I will usually do it.

EXCLUSIVE CLIP FROM “THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU” (On DVD and Blu-Ray)

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Remember George Miller? Dr. (as in physician) George Miller, the director who brought you ‘Mad Max,’ ‘Babe,’ ‘Lorenzo’s Oil’ and ‘Happy Feet’? Well, five years after he introduced dancing penguins to the world, he’s back with a ‘Happy Feet’ sequel titled, appropriately enough, ‘Happy Feet 2 in 3D.’ Set for a November 18 release, the film uses the voice talent of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Hank Azaria, Alecia Moore (Pink) and Sofia Vergara. ‘Happy Feet’ charmed audiences of all ages with its story about the world of the Emperor Penguins — who find their soul mates through song — into which a penguin is born who cannot sing … But he could tap dance something fierce. The sequel takes the next logical step — the hero of the first film has a son who is dance shy. Warner Bros. has just released a teaser trailer — to coincide with the release of ‘Kung Fu Panda 2.’

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The eagerly anticipated sequel to the Oscar-winning hit Happy Feet Two finds tap-dancing penguin Mumble and his pals using their smooth moves to save the penguin nation. Mumble and Gloria (voice of Pink) have started a family of their own. Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because tiny son Erik is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven — a penguin who can fly!! Mumble has no hope of competing with this charismatic new role model. But things get worse when the world is shaken by powerful forces. Erik learns of his father’s “guts and grit” as Mumble brings together the penguin nations and all manner of fabulous creatures — from tiny Krill to giant Elephant Seals – to put things right.

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Genre: Romance/Thriller
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13
Starring: Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Anthony Mackie, Terence Stamp, John Slattery, Daniel Dae Kim, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Michael Kelly, Liam Ferguson, Anthony Ruivivar
Director: George Nolfi

Plot: Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? Matt Damon stars in the thriller The Adjustment Bureau as a man who glimpses the future Fate has planned for him and realizes he wants something else. To get it, he must pursue the only woman he’s ever loved across, under and through the streets of modern-day New York. On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, ambitious politician David Norris (Damon) meets beautiful contemporary ballet dancer Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt)-a woman like none he’s ever known. But just as he realizes he’s falling for her, mysterious men conspire to keep the two apart. David learns he is up against the agents of Fate itself-the men of The Adjustment Bureau-who will do everything in their considerable power to prevent David and Elise from being together. In the face of overwhelming odds, he must either let her go and accept a predetermined path…

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Featurette – Behind Scenes Fate vs. Free Will – Screencaps

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Watch the full interview with Matt Damon and the cast of “The Adjustment Bureau” tonight. “Piers Morgan Tonight” airs weeknights on CNN/US at 9 p.m. ET and on CNN International at 1200 GMT/1300 CET/2000 HKT.

(CNN) — When CNN’s Piers Morgan asked actor Matt Damon if he was happy with the way President Barack Obama has been running the country and if Damon was “a fan” of the president, Damon answered “no.”

Damon and the cast of “The Adjustment Bureau” — Emily Blunt, John Slattery and Anthony Mackie — are Thursday evening’s guests on “Piers Morgan Tonight.” During the course of their conversation, Damon and Morgan covered Hollywood, politics, fatherhood and much more.

“He (Obama) misinterpreted his mandate,” said Damon. “He’s doubled down on a lot of things.”

“In his State of the Union he didn’t even say the word ‘poverty,’ ” said Damon. “You’ve got millions of people languishing in it.” Damon, who backed the Obama campaign in 2008, said he appreciates that the president is a “deep thinker.” The actor called Obama brilliant, but said he “definitely wanted more.”

When questioned about what he’d do about Afghanistan, Damon said, “I don’t think the mission there has been very well articulated. And I think it would help to kind of reframe the way we’re thinking about being there and why we’re there.”

Damon also said there has not been a meaningful reform of Wall Street. He said he believes that is “dangerous” and “shameful” and that the financial crisis is “just going to happen again,” because “they don’t make anything. They don’t build anything.”

Morgan asked about Damon’s well-known disapproval of Sarah Palin and the fact that he has spoken out against her since she was announced as John McCain’s running mate in 2008. Damon said he still feels it was reckless to have someone who was “a complete mystery to everybody” be “literally a heartbeat away from the presidency.” Damon also said he disagrees with Palin politically. “She’s not somebody who I would vote for.”

Damon said, though, that while he is passionate about politics, he has no political aspirations.

“I feel like the work I do now allows me to change things,” he said. Damon said he puts most of his free time into the nonpartisan Water.org movement, which is dedicated to getting clean water to people.

While he said he is “interested in everyone’s opinion” and “interested in people who don’t agree with me,” when talking politics, that’s not his main interest. “I love my job. I love making movies.”

“The Adjustment Bureau” is based on the premise that people have no control over destiny. Forces manipulate their every decision and there is no free will. In the film, the team known as the Adjustment Bureau is charged with keeping people on their predetermined paths.

Matt Damon and Emily Blunt’s characters fall in love, even though they are not predestined for one another, and opt to fight the Adjustment Bureau.

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I’ve been a fan of Matt Damon’s since Good Will Hunting. In the thirteen years since that film got released, Damon has starred in countless films and even though he is known the world over, every time that I’ve been fortunate enough to talk to him, he’s always been beyond cool and willing to answer any question. So when I sat down to talk about his new film The Adjustment Bureau for our partners at Omelete, I figured I was in for a good conversation. However, no matter what I was thinking when I walked in, I left the room even more impressed with Damon. That’s because when I first walked in he told me how much he loved my Goodfellas t-shirt and then we spent a few minutes talking about Martin Scorsese and Goodfellas. He was going to tell me a Godfather Part 2 story when I actually forced him to switch gears. However, after telling me some great stories about making The Adjustment Bureau, Damon gave me updates on Cameron Crowe’s We Built a Zoo and Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium.

But I’ve left out the best part.

At the end of the interview, I told him I’d love to hear his Godfather Part 2 story and then he smiled and proceeded to tell me an awesome story about the making of The Godfather Part 2 which he must have heard from either Scorsese or Francis Ford Coppola. I’m a huge fan of the Godfather films and had never heard what he told me. If you’re a fan of Damon’s, or just want to hear an awesome actor geek out like the film nerd that he is, you definitely want to hit the jump:

Finally, for more on writer-director George Nolfi’s romance/thriller The Adjustment Bureau, click here to watch 7 clips. The film also stars Emily Blunt, Terence Stamp, John Slattery and Anthony Mackie.

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* We talk about my t-shirt
* What are some of his favorite films. He talks about Goodfellas
* We then talk about The Godfather Part 2
* How did he get involved with The Adjustment Bureau
* We talk about how the film balances a love story and sci-fi
* How is working with Cameron Crowe on We Built a Zoo
* What’s up with Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium. Says he shoots this summer
* Ends the interview with an AWESOME Godfather Part 2 story

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Matt Damon and Emily Blunt learn that their fate may be in the hands of a mysterious organization in ‘The Adjustment Bureau,’ in theaters March 4, and we have a first look behind the scenes at what Emily calls a “brain-melting experience”!

“They’re kind of a timeless group of people who are essentially guardian angels,” says Matt of the title organization. “There’s a master plan written in a language that our brains couldn’t possibly comprehend. … If somebody’s kind of going off-plan a little bit, they give them a little adjustment.”

Based on a Philip K. Dick story, ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ casts Matt as David Norris, an ambitious politician on the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate. When he meets beautiful ballet dancer Elise Sellas, he is instantly smitten — and the course of his future changes, prompting the Adjustment Bureau to intervene, no matter what the cost.

“He was only meant to meet this woman Elise that one time, because it’s not in the plan for them to be together – but David is completely obsessed with her,” explains Matt.

Emily adds, “I think it speaks volumes about the attraction that these two people really have for each other, that he’s willing to risk a lot for her.”

Of the mysterious organization that controls their fate, she adds, “I think it must be such a brain-melting experience to come across an idea of The Adjustment Bureau, let alone to be confronted in a physical sense by this bigger force than you ever imagined. … There’s something ominous about them in how human they are.”

Working together has made the thriller that much more fun for Matt and Emily. The Brit actress says of her co-star, “He’s an instantly likable guy. He’s sort of an impossibly awesome guy. We hit it off instantly,” while Matt smiles, “I can just ride on her coattails – she’s got talent to spare.”

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