MattDamon-related stories
Posted Sep 13th 2009 10:08PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Site Announcements, Reality-Free

The folks at our sister site
Cinematical are working hard to give you news and reviews of the best -- and worst -- the silver screen has to offer. Here are some of their musings on the latest blockbusters, indies, and everything in between:
Posted Jul 30th 2009 2:01AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Celebrities, Documentary, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free

You never know when the most innocuous-sounding panel is going to bring out the A-listers here at the TCAs. But when a big name is behind a project and he or she is passionate about it, that person will brave the room of critics to promote it.
To say Matt Damon is "dedicated" to the new History documentary
The People Speak would be an understatement. The family of the Oscar winner lived next door to Professor Howard Zinn, on whose book,
A People's History of the United States, is based. He and his
Project Greenlight partner Chris Moore have been trying to bring the book to TV for a decade. "I have one of first copies (of Zinn's book) in hardback. It had a huge impact on my life so that's why I stayed with it. The moment we had iany influecne in this town we tried to get thids project off the ground."
Continue reading Matt Damon and Marisa Tomei promote History's The People Speak - TCA Report
Posted Mar 16th 2009 12:06PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Reality-Free

What are the odds that a big screen adaptation of ABC's 1980's hit
MacGyver will be a success? Judging by the success-to-failure ratio of TV-to-movies, I'd say it's 50-50 at best. For every
The Fugitive, there's
The Wild, Wild West. A
Mission: Impossible reboot works well enough as a Tom Cruise vehicle, but a live action
Speed Racer is an unmitigated disaster. Still, the optimist in me will hope that New Line's
MacGyver to the big screen will work.
They first mentioned this about a year ago, but it's picked up some traction now.
There's no star attached as yet, but a lot of De Laurentiises -- Dino is exec producer, Raffaellla and Martha are producing for Raffaella Productions. (Giada is sticking to the Food Network.) Fortunately, the series creator, Lee Zlotoff is attached, too.
Continue reading MacGyver heading to the big screen...still
Posted Oct 17th 2008 4:25PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Site Announcements, Reality-Free

The folks at our sister site
Cinematical are working hard to give you news and reviews of the best -- and worst -- the silver screen has to offer. Here are some of their latest musings on the latest blockbusters, indies, and everything in between:
Posted May 5th 2008 8:25PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Late Night, Celebrities, Reality-Free

Sarah Silverman, the star of
The Sarah Silverman Program, is fu*king Jimmy Kimmel, the host of ABC's late night talk show
Jimmy Kimmel Live. At least we assume so, considering they've been dating for years and kidding about their love story in public -- remember her video, "I'm fu*king Matt Damon,"
which he countered with "I'm fu*king Ben Affleck"? These two are a fun couple and seem to really have it together. However, don't look for Ms. Silverman to ever become Mrs. Kimmel.
Simply stated, Sarah Silverman told People.com
that she's vowed to never marry Jimmy Kimmel. Nothing personal, Jimmy, she just likes things exactly as they are and doesn't want to muck it up with rice, flowers, lace, cake, invitations and all the other wedding malarkey.
Clearly, little Sarah never fantasized about her parents walking her down the aisle, standing under the chuppa with her groom, and seeing the man of her dreams shatter a wine glass beneath his foot, all elements of a typical nice Jewish wedding for a nice Jewish girl like Sarah.
Continue reading Forget it! Sarah says she's not marrying Jimmy Kimmel
Posted Apr 9th 2008 8:35AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Late Night, Industry, Reality-Free

So, Disney CEO Robert Iger was having one of those yummy breakfast confabs talking about the future of the network and new media, alternate platforms and all those other fun buzz words about how we're going to be watching shows in the next few years. Then, kind of as an aside, he was asked about Jay Leno. With the end of Leno's era as the host of
The Tonight Show looming -- and Conan O'Brien chomping at the bit to take over --
Mr. Iger said that he wouldn't rule out ABC going after Jay.
Ken Auletta of the
New Yorker pressed Iger about Leno, to which the ABC head man squirmed and said, "It's not something we typically comment on."
Continue reading ABC still interested in Leno
Posted Mar 14th 2008 9:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Entourage, Web, Celebrities

File this under the category of do-it-yourself politics. In this YouTube.com era, it was only a matter of time before it happened. MoveOn.org has joined forces with Oscar-winners Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Oliver Stone, multiple Grammy-winner John Legend and author Naomi Wolf to a TV ad contest for Barack Obama.
The contest is called "Obama in 30 Seconds," in which Barack supporters are being asked -- challenged -- to come up with half-minute videos that focus on what it is about the Senator from Illinois that inspires them. The winning entry will be shown on national television.
Continue reading A new challenge for Obama fans
Posted Aug 3rd 2007 12:53AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews

"
You Don't Know Dick": A very quick fun fact about Dick Cheney to help you decide what to get him for Christmas... He wants a silver deathbox. And I can't believe I'm half-defending Cheney, but, in all fairness, he didn't actually say, "Damn, I need one of those"... He said he
thought it. That's a fairly significant difference.
"Indecision v. 2.008: Food Edition": Presidential candidates have been using teh interwebz to share their stories from the campaign trail. I'm not gonna lie, this segment made me really, really hungry. Although, that bit about John Edwards and his wife celebrating their 30th anniversary
at a Wendy's left me more confused than peckish. Yeah, you're a normal all-American guy, Edwards, we get it. A normal all-American millionaire Senator guy.
Continue reading The Daily Show: August 2, 2007
Posted Jul 26th 2007 5:41PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Late Night, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities

Jimmy Kimmel has taken his Matt Damon joke to the next level, by actually placing a
full-page advertisement in Variety congratulating Damon on his star on Hollywood Boulevard. Kimmel has an on-going joke on his show where he pretends that he ran out of time and had to bump Matt Damon from the schedule-- he frequently apologizes to Damon at the end of his show. Damon even played along when he appeared on Kimmel last year, pretending to be annoyed at always getting bumped.
The ad says: "Congratulations on the star and sorry we ran out of time. We'll try to squeeze you in soon." And, at the bottom, it says, "This ad cost me $8,512". That's an expensive joke. Do you think he can write it off as a business expense?
Posted Jun 29th 2006 9:44AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Talent, TV on the Bigscreen
Would you cast Gary Sinise as Dr. Leonard McCoy in the next Star Trek film? Or, how about Mike Myers as Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott? Well, Chris Beaumont would. In fact, he'd recast a number of famous faces to play the legendary U.S.S. Enterprise crew in the next Trek movie.
In his Casting Stones column on Blogcritics.org, Chris admits he got this idea to recast the Trek movie when it was rumored that director J.J. Abrams wanted to cast actor Matt Damon in the role of Captain James T. Kirk for the new Star Trek film he was putting together. From there, Beaumont put together a list of stars to take the places of the other members of the crew. Most of his suggestions are right on they money. For instance, CSI:NY's Gary Sinise could be a dead ringer for Bones McCoy with a change in hair color. His choice of Billy Zane as Commander Spock would work as well, as Zane does have a similar look to Spock in some of the earlier episodes.
However, some of his choices are a bit off. For the role of Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, Baumont picks Mike Myers. Now, Myers could handle the accent well, but it would probably remind the viewers of his role of Fat Bastard in the Austin Powers movie series. I could hear him saying 'Captain, I canna give you any more power because I've got a crap on deck that could choke a donkey!.' Another questionable choice is Malcolm in the Middle's Frankie Muniz as Ensign Pavel Chekov. I'm not too sure about this one. Actually, with plenty of copious makeup, I think Myers would make a better Chekov.