Matt Damon
An affable player who has cultivated friendships in tandem with his showbiz career, Damon began acting professionally while attending Harvard University. His first notable role was as an anti-Semitic...
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10/07/1970
Cambridge, MA |
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Big films, A-list stars are in store for Christmas week
August 15, 2001 10:04am ESTA bounty of buzz-heavy, star-studded new releases will kick off the countdown to Christmas this year, promising something different and special each day of the week. The holiday movie bonanza commences Tuesday with the limited release of Sony's "Girl, Interrupted." Adapted from Susanna Kaysen's critically acclaimed memoir, the film stars Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie as two iconoclastic young women confined to a mental institution. Lifting the box office spirit Wednesday are three wildly antic
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Ben Affleck: I Am Not Batman
August 15, 2001 10:04am ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 30, 1999 -- And, no, Matt Damon won't play Robin, either.Oscar winner (and Damon cohort) Ben Affleck has taken to his official Web site to personally shoot down a rumor that he's to play Batman (Batyoungadult?) in a revival of the big-screen franchise."...[T]his story is absurd," Affleck wrote in a message-board missive posted Tuesday. "There is no Batman script, no movie being planned, they have not called me or my agent. ..." The actor, next seen as an evil (well, i
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Tom and Nicole: Dealing with Divorce?
August 10, 2001 6:41am ESTTom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, whose divorce will become final on Wednesday, are both expected to attend Tuesday's premiere of thriller flick The Others in Los Angeles, according to published reports. Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Crowe, Vanilla Sky.
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Ben Affleck checks into rehab
August 03, 2001 1:23pm ESTActor Ben Affleck has voluntarily check himself into a rehabilitation facility for alcohol abuse.
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'Stuart Little': The Little Mouse That Could
July 31, 2001 12:30pm ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 2, 2000 -- "Stuart Little" may squeak softly, but he carried a big cheese stick at the box office during New Year's weekend. Columbia Pictures' animated talking mouse movie returned to the No. 1 spot, surging ahead of Al Pacino and Matt Damon and claiming a place in the cinema record book. With total receipts topping $7 billion for the first time ever, 1999 was a record-setting year at the U.S. box office. "Stuart Little" closed out the year with another historical f
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'Toy Story 2' edges out 'Green Mile'
July 31, 2001 12:30pm ESTThere was a close race for first place between Buena Vista/Disney and Pixar's animated blockbuster "Toy Story 2" and Warner Bros. and Castle Rock Entertainment's opening of the drama "The Green Mile." Based on Sunday's estimates, the G-rated "Toy 2" held on to the top spot on the chart, but only by a nose. When the box office dust settles Monday, it is possible that because the two films were so close in the estimates, they could wind up reversing positions. Working against "Mile" was the fact
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'Stuart Little' Livin' Large
July 31, 2001 12:30pm ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 9, 2000 -- Hollywood got through the first weekend of the new year in slightly better shape than studio insiders expected. It took just $11.5 million to put Columbia's "Stuart Little" in first place, making it the weekend's only Top Five film to crack double digits. Lackluster tracking scores last week had suggested that the new year might kick off with none of the Top Five films doing better than single-digit grosses. Columbia's PG-rated family comedy held on to the
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Quote of the Day: Affleck on going blonde
July 30, 2001 7:40am ESTBen Affleck, to Us Weekly magazine, about dying his hair platinum blonde earlier this month for a project he's planning with his younger brother, Casey, and Matt Damon that will spoof boy bands: "I dyed my hair for photo tests. I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?''
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'Angels' Beat Devil
July 23, 2001 9:52am EST"Charlie's Angels" won this weekend's box office election by a mile despite projections that "Little Nicky" might give it a devil of a time. "Angels," Columbia's PG-13 action adventure comedy, continued kicking box office butt in its second weekend with a still sexy estimated $25.0 million (-38%) at 3,037 theaters (theater count unchanged; $8,232 per theater). Its cume is approximately $75.4 million, heading for $150 million or more. "Angels" had the highest per-theater average for any film play
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'Angels' Should Fly High
July 23, 2001 9:52am ESTWith heavenly grosses clearly on the horizon, "Charlie's Angels" is poised to kick off in first place this weekend. The PG-13 action adventure comedy opening via Columbia at 3,037 theaters is flying high on Hollywood's advance radar screen. "I feel this movie is (going to open) closer to $30 million than $20 million," predicts one insider. "I think it's going to get every teenager out there -- male and female." "Number one by far," agrees another studio executive. "About $25 million-plus. It's (
