Matt Damon didn’t even attend the 2024 Academy Awards on Sunday (March 10), but the show’s host Jimmy Kimmel made sure to prank him anyway.
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Matt Damon has confirmed that he is open to the prospect of starring in a new instalment in the Bourne franchise.It was first reported back in November that a new Bourne film might be in the works, with All Quiet on the Western Front director Edward Berger in talks to helm the project.In an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last week, Damon confirmed that Berger is indeed in the early stages of developing the new film, and expressed an interest in returning as the amnesiac action star.“There is a great director named Edward Berger,” Damon said. “All Quiet on the Western Front is a fantastic film, and he’s wonderful and he said he had an idea.
I would love to work with him, so he’s working on it. Look, I’m as anxious as you are to see if this thing [happens].
I hope it’s great and that we can do it.”Damon went on to explain, however, that at 53, his days of credibly portraying the character may be numbered. “At a certain point, somebody is going to need to take it over.
I’m not getting any younger.”There have so far been five films in the Bourne franchise, which is based on a series of novels by Robert Ludlum. Damon has played the CIA assassin Bourne in four of the five films, beginning with 2002’s The Bourne Identity.
He did not appear in 2012’s The Bourne Legacy, which featured Jeremy Renner as a new character Aaron Cross, but Damon did return for 2016’s Jason Bourne.Reports suggest the currently-untitled sixth film is in early development at Universal. While no cast is attached, insiders claim Damon “would be approached first” about potentially returning to the role once the script is completed.Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front won four Oscars last year (Best International Feature, Cinematography,
.Matt Damon didn’t even attend the 2024 Academy Awards on Sunday (March 10), but the show’s host Jimmy Kimmel made sure to prank him anyway.
Oppenheimer at tonight’s (March 10) ceremony in Los Angeles.The star won the award for Best Supporting Actor for his role of Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan’s hit movie.Downey Jr. beat the likes of Ryan Gosling, Sterling K. Brown and Mark Ruffalo to pick up the award.
Three times a charm for Robert Downey Jr. who finally won an Oscar on this third nomination tonight for his turn as Lewis Strauss, the hostile United States Atomic Energy Commissioner in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
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Oscars 2024 host Jimmy Kimmel to shake it off.Jibes about the pop star and football player couple are “not off limits, but probably played out,” Kimmel, who will emcee the Academy Awards for the fourth time on Sunday, told CNN.The “Bad Blood” singer has, for better or worse, been a fixture of host monologues all award season long.Comedian Jo Koy flopped at the Golden Globes in January when he remarked, “The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL? At the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.”The CBS broadcast then cut to Swift, who did not laugh at the bit.A month later, Grammys host Trevor Noah kept things friendlier with his Swift shtick. “Are you seeing what’s happening right now as Taylor Swift moves through the room?” he said of the eventual Album of the Year winner.
It looks like the partnership between Ben Affleck and Matt Damon‘s studio Artist Equity and Amazon MGM will continue to bear fruit. Deadline reports that the companies will team up again for “The Accountant 2,” a sequel to the 2016 action drama starring Affleck.
Andrew Scott stars as the infamous Tom Ripley in Netflix’s new limited series “Ripley,” which premieres on April 4. Based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling novels, the series begins when a wealthy man hires Ripley to travel to Italy and convince his vagabond son to return home. In accepting the job, this marks “the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder,” per the release.
On its way to the Oscars, Christopher Nolan’s historical epic Oppenheimer has set a record at Peacock, landing the biggest launch weekend for any film on the platform.
Well, these are dangerous waters Ben Affleck is wading into…
six years after they divorced.The “Yes Day” actress, 51, is currently in talks to star alongside Affleck’s bestie Matt Damon in his Netflix project “Animals,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.The upcoming crime thriller will be produced by the “Argo” director, 51, alongside Damon, 53.Affleck will be directing the production and work is set to begin in March in Los Angeles. The storyline revolves around a a mayoral candidate and his wife who must save their son after he is kidnapped.
Cillian Murphy and Matt Damon are stepping out for the premiere of their new movie!
Last November, Universal Pictures announced a new “Jason Bourne” film in development, with “All Quiet On The Western Front” director Edward Berger helming the picture.
EXCLUSIVE: Passing the time between Oppenheimer takes in a New Mexico bunker one morning at about 4am, Cillian Murphy and Matt Damon sowed the seeds of a future collaboration. Fast-forward to today, and Small Things Like These is opening the Berlin Film Festival.
Alex Ritman With the 2023-24 awards season galloping towards the finish line, the whirlwind of ceremonies, red carpets, dinners and other glitzy occasions for feted stars of the moment to be feted some more is keeping most of the nominees exceptionally busy. Among the busiest must be Cillian Murphy, tipped to add both Oscar and BAFTA wins to the Golden Globe he’s already won for his lead turn in “Oppenheimer.” But just as his diary demands reach near farcical levels of back-to-back events, the Irish actor is making a quick detour to Germany to open the Berlinale.
Matt Damon was in a chatty mood during Tuesday’s appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, updating that a sixth Jason Bourne film is in the works.
Matt Damon has revealed that not everything in last week’s Dunkin’ Super Bowl commercial was scripted.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director When news broke last November that Universal Pictures was developing a sixth Bourne movie with “All Quiet on the Western Front” director Edward Berger, fans were left wondering if Matt Damon would be returning to his iconic action franchise. The Bourne series, which includes four films headlined by Damon and one by Jeremy Renner, has earned $1.6 billion worldwide. Damon’s last outing was 2016’s “Jason Bourne.” Damon made a recent appearance on “The Late Show” and stopped short of confirming he’ll star in the new Bourne movie when the topic was brought up by host Stephen Colbert.
EXCLUSIVE: On Thursday, the Berlin Film Festival will kick off with the world premiere of Small Things Like These, starring Cillian Murphy, who also produces, and marking the first time an Irish movie opens the Berlinale. In the exclusive first-look at the 1985-set drama (check it out above), Murphy’s family man Bill Furlong comes face-to-face with Emily Watson’s formidable Sister Mary whose convent is concealing dark and disturbing secrets.
Super Bowl 2024 advertisement, which features Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, ex-NFL star Tom Brady and Jennifer Lopez. In the extended cut, which was posted by the official Dunkin’ Instagram account, Affleck, 51, can be seen asking Lopez, 54, she could help him develop some “beats” after watching a news report that called the actor “the boredest man in the world.”“Do you have any time today if I wanted to squeeze by and like …” the “Gone Girl” actor says trailing off. “I understand,” he adds after it is made clear the songstress isn’t interested.
Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso were some of the guests at the Naeem Kahm New York Fashion Week show. The couple, on a rare outing together, decided to wear matching outfits, with both sticking to a leather theme. Matt Damon and wife Luciana Barroso look stylish in recent outing in New York CityMatt Damon and Luciana Barroso look fit in Miami BeachDamon and Barroso attended the show and were photographed holding hands and posing inside the building.