Damon: Bourne back in five years?
Matt Damon is confident the Bourne franchise will return – but fans will have to wait a while.
“I think it’s kind of a thing where enough time has passed where it won’t matter if we wait five more years and do it,” the actor admitted backstage at the Critics Choice Awards.
“We just want to make sure if we do it we do it right,” he insisted.
“There’s been a lot of pressure for us to do it, obviously because it’s successful, but that’s that moment I think where you’ve got to step back and make sure you don’t make a mistake and make it for the wrong reasons.”
Since the success of The Bourne Ultimatum in 2007, Matt says he and filmmaker Paul Greengrass have been keen not to rush into anything.
“It’s really up to Paul Greengrass because I’ve always said I wouldn’t do it without him,” Matt said.
“When it feels like the right time, I think Paul will be open to doing it.
“I think Paul’s probably going to do one or two other films that he’s got cooking but then after that, I’m sure.”
Matt was at the Critics Choice Awards to receive the Joel Siegel Award for Service to the Community. The 40-year-old was keen to talk about his charity Water.org which is helping developing countries get safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
“I see when these things are implemented and the affect that they have, that’s a great story to be able to bring back and that to me is what gives me an optimism about it.”
True Grit star Matt Damon: “Having to spank teenager was hardest job I’ve had in movies”
MATT DAMON’S had his share of hard-hitting roles in Saving Private Ryan, Green Zone and the Bourne series.
But even though he’s kicked, punched and shot villains in the past, Matt says his hardest task to date has been belting a teenage girl.
In a key scene in his new movie True Grit, Matt plays a boastful Texas Ranger who takes his 14-year-old co-star Hailee Steinfeld over his knee and wallops her with a stick.
A dad of four daughters, Matt has never raised a hand to a girl in real life so he and the film directors Joel and Ethan Coen took precautions to make sure Hailee was protected.
The star said: “They put a big pad on Hailee’s behind. And we practised. I said, ‘Hailee, does that hurt?’ And she said, ‘I can’t even feel it.’”
Matt is adamant it is a form of discipline he would never practise, saying: “I definitely don’t spank them.”
Newcomer Hailee was picked from a pool of 15,000 for the role. and Matt calls her performance “astonishing.”
It earned her a nod in the best actress category at the Baftas yesterday.
“This character is nothing like Hailee Steinfeld actually is in real life,” he said.
Matt loved being directed by Hollywood greats the Coen brothers in their remake of the John Wayne classic – and reckons he’s the one red-blooded male who hasn’t seen The Duke saddle up with Glen Campbell in the original movie.
Matt said: “When I found out about this one, I asked the Coen brothers if I should go see the original. And they said, ‘Actually, the book is where you should go because we’re not looking at it as a remake of that film, as much as a strict adaptation of this great book’.”
True Grit stars Hailee as a 14-year-old girl who hires a boozy US Marshal named Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) to hunt down the dim outlaw (Josh Brolin) who murdered her father.
Tagging along on the manhunt is Matt’s lawman, who may be more windbag than wild west hero.
“I am,” said Matt proudly, “a true nincompoop in this movie.”
That’s not to say he doesn’t earn his spurs eventually.
His butch role is a million miles away from his life at home in New York with the five women in his life.
Baby Stella is the latest addition to his family.
There is Isabella, four, and Gia, two, and stepdaughter, Alexia, 12, his wife Luciana’s daughter from a previous marriage. He joked: “I might have to get a male dog.
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Damon plans to reunite with Affleck
Actor Matt Damon is planning to reunite with best friend Ben Affleck on some project this year.
Damon has been trying to reunite with his “Good Will Hunting” writing partner for the past 10 years, but nothing worked out because of family commitments.
“We’ve been talking about it for years, so hopefully we’ll get to do it. But we also want to make our own film. We’ve been trying to work together again for 10 years now, but life has taken us in different directions,” femalefirst quoted him as saying.
“Having small kids is big. Most of your energy goes there. Having small kids and living in different cities just means that you don’t see each other a lot,” he added.
Damon added that he admires the way Affleck handles criticism.
“When his film ‘The Town’ came out and just did so well I was so proud and happy. He dealt with a lot of s**t for a lot of years that was unjustified and was the butt of a lot of jokes. So to watch all those people who have to eat their words, he was a bigger man about it than I was. I’m petty enough to really care about that stuff and laugh at the demise of all these idiots that just don’t know talent when they see it,” he said.
“There aren’t many people who the industry views as just being able to pull an idea out of the air: write it, direct it and star in it. So now I’m just looking for a job from him,” he added.
Elysium Finds a Home at Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures has won the bidding war to distribute Neill Blomkamp’s thriller Elysium, with Universal Pictures in talks to co-finance the project.
Neill Blomkamp started setting up meetings with other studios today, but those meetings were canceled after the Sony/Universal scenario came together. We reported last week that Jodie Foster joined the movie alongside Matt Damon and Sharlto Copley.
Little is known about the storyline of Elysium, although it is believed to be set 100 years in the future on another planet. Elysium is slated for release in late 2012, with pre-production set to start in April, and filming slated to begin in July. Filming will take place in Vancouver and Mexico City.
Media Rights Capital, which is producing Elysium, has also signed a deal for another Neill Blomkamp project entitled Chappie. That movie will start production immediately after Elysium finishes. No plot details were revealed for Chappie.
Elysium comes to theaters in 2012 and stars Sharlto Copley, Matt Damon, Jodie Foster. The film is directed by Neill Blomkamp.
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Matt on the set of “We Bought a Zoo”
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Golden Globe Awards Pictures
Matt was at the Golden Globe Awards and here are some pictures:
Critics Choice Awards Pictures
Matt Damon Recognized At Critics’ Choice Awards For Water.org Charity
While Matt Damon has taken the back seat to his “True Grit” co-stars Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld so far this awards season, the actor was acknowledged Friday night (January 14) by the Broadcast Film Critics Association during the 16th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards for his humanitarian efforts.
In a segment presented by Jimmy Kimmel and Emily Blunt, Damon was given the fourth annual Joel Siegel Award for Service to the Community. While Kimmel provided comic relief, joking that the Oscar winner is “the greatest guy in the world,” the actor received serious accolades for his charity, Water.org.
Blunt, who stars with Damon in the upcoming film “The Adjustment Bureau,” explained that the organization Damon co-founded with Gary White helps to “provide developing countries with safe drinking water and sanitation by partnering with local communities.”
As Blunt delivered the staggering statistics that less than 1 percent of the Earth’s water is drinkable and more than 1 billion people don’t have access to clean water, Kimmel continued to kid with Damon, telling him, “Sean Penn is actually in Haiti right now … carrying things!”
Kimmel, who gets the last laugh at Damon’s expense every night on his late-night show, then cried foul on Damon’s many awards, mocking, “You know how much water he wasted in that shower scene in ‘School Ties’? A lot!”
Damon, playing as good a sport as ever to Kimmel’s jabs, then took the stage to accept his award to a standing-ovation audience that included his “Good Will Hunting” collaborator Ben Affleck. After taking a shot back at Kimmel — “I literally have no idea why you’re here,” he quipped — Damon got serious about receiving what he described as “a wonderful honor.”
The actor acknowledged the work of late film critic Joel Siegel, who, as Damon told the crowd, “Believed that you should use celebrity to improve the lives of others and he lived that way. So, I’m really honored to get this in his name.”
Though plenty of the segment included joking around with Kimmel, Damon got very serious when he delivered the news that, “Every 15 seconds, a kid somewhere on planet Earth dies because they don’t have access to clean water and sanitation.”
Calling that information “disgusting and unacceptable and unnecessary,” he added, “These are issues we’ve known how to solve here for 100 years in our country. … Just imagine if we cured AIDS tomorrow and in 100 years people were still dying of it, 3 million of them a year. It’s just really ridiculous.”
Damon concluded his speech by thanking his partner, White, and informed viewers that by donating $25 on the Water.org website, they could give a child “clean water for life.” He then promised that they would change the fact that 1 billion people do not have clean water and offered to viewers, “Feel free to join us.”
Matt Damon Receives Joel Siegel Award
Getting special recognition during the course of the evening, Matt Damon was toasted at the 16th annual Critics’ Choice Awards in Los Angeles, California on Friday (January 14).
With the always-swanky ceremony taking place at the Hollywood Palladium, the “Bourne Indentity” star was brought onstage by Emily Blunt and Jimmy Kimmel to receive the fourth annual Joel Siegel Award.
The honor was bestowed upon Damon, a renowned actor and philanthropist, as a way to pay homage to beloved Good Morning America film critic and BFCA member Joel Siegel, who lost his long struggle with cancer in June, 2007.
Other big winners at the Critics’ Choice Awards included “The Social Network” as Best Movie and Natalie Portman as Best Actress.
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