Calendar:
8 December 2009 - Matt on Early Show
8 December 2009 - Clint Eastwood on Lopez Tonight and Ellen
9 December 2009 - Morgan Freeman on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
10 December 2009 - Matt on The Jay Leno Show
11 December 2009 - Invictus to be released
13 December 2009 - The People Speak to premiere on The History Channel
12 March 2010 - Green Zone to be released
20 March 2010 - True Grit scheduled to start filming in Texas and New Mexico
Late 2010 - The Adjustment Bureau to be released
Late 2010 - True Grit to be released
December 2010 - Hereafter to be released

Currently filming:
The Adjustment Bureau in New York

Reports from the Los Angeles premiere are at LA.com, E Online, IBN Live, and ITN. Actor Julian Lewis-Jones also discussed the premiere and party here. Photos are at PopSugar, Bauer Griffin, Socialite Life and here.



Team Clint celebrated lavishly at the after party, held in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel ballroom, with the Eastwood family filling one couch pit, the Damon crew taking over another (with Orlando Bloom in tow), and even Nelson Mandela's daughter Zindzi and grandson Zwaloba ensconced in a third. The party was made complete with a jazz band, groaning tables of filet mignon and salmon, and gaggles of gigantic guys who star as the rugby players in the uplifting flick. Even the real captain of the South Africa Springboks, Francois Pienaar, the guy Matt Damon plays so convincingly in the film, was on hand.

Official production notes for the film are available here, via the official site. An article about Freeman and Eastwood is at the LA Times, and a separate article with Eastwood is at the Times Live. A video interview with Francois Pienaar is here, and an interview with writer Anthony Peckham is here.

"Matt may not be the same height as Francois, but he has the same tenacity and power," Eastwood remarks. "He also worked out very hard and got himself in terrific shape for the film. And," the director adds, "by structuring set-ups and camera angles, you can make a person look the way you need them to look."

Damon needn’t have worried, as Pienaar says he was immediately impressed by the actor. "He's a great bloke. I was struck by his humility and his wicked sense of humor. He wanted to learn everything he could about me, my philosophy as a captain and what it was like for us in 1995. We also chatted about the game of rugby, what happens in training and about the technical aspects. We had a lot of fun."

For the cast, preparing for the rigorous demands of actually playing rugby, "the training was very intense," Damon states. "I did a lot of weightlifting and put on a lot of muscle. I also did sprints, which I’d never done before, and some boxing. When I got to South Africa, Chester said, 'You look really fit. What have you been doing? I said,'Well, I've been weightlifting, boxing and sprinting.' And he looked at me for a while and then goes, 'Why didn’t you just play rugby?'" he laughs.

The article at Parade and a behind-the-scenes look at the interview and photo shoot by Janice Kaplan are now available - excerpts:



Now that he’s a father, Damon cares more than ever about encouraging tolerance. He and his wife, Luciana, are the parents of Isabella, 3, and Gia, 1, as well as Luciana's daughter from a previous marriage, Alexia, 11.

"I don’t think it's a natural state for children to be prejudiced," he says. "A case in point: I was trying to explain segregation to my stepdaughter. We talked about Alabama in the '60s, and she was utterly baffled. Alexia is very dark—her father is Cuban, and my wife's Argentinean—so I tried to explain that she probably would not have been able to use white water fountains. She goes to school with all types of kids and plays with everyone, so it was a lot for her to grasp."

Janice Kaplan:
Matt arrives first and gives me a big hug. We'd spent time together a few weeks earlier when he wrote a terrific PARADE cover story on charitable giving, and now he graciously greets me as if we're old friends. Intensely focused, he has energy that can light up the room. As we pour cups of coffee, he's relaxed. He chats easily about his daughters and the new movie he's working on in New York.

A few minutes later, Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman come in together. For two guys in their 70s (79 and 72, respectively) they look pretty good. Eastwood, typically, has driven himself over to the interview. Like Damon, he's a straight shooter--a caring, sincere guy not much interested in the trappings of celebrity. We've also worked together before, and he was as cordial and courteous as I'd remembered.

Damon, 39, isn't intimidated by the older stars, but he wants to make it clear how much he admires them. In fact, he once got a meal with Morgan as a gift.

"I used to talk about him so much that, about 10 year ago, my previous assistant arranged for us to have dinner together," he says. "It was a gift to me for Christmas. We didn't have a project to talk about or anything--it was more like a 'Make-A-Wish' dinner where I asked him questions about acting and he politely answered."

During press junket interviews Matt confirmed that he will not be doing Bourne 4 without Paul Greengrass - reports are at EW and Collider, in which Matt also confirmed that Liberace is still expected to shoot next summer. During an interview at MTV Matt talks about why he had to withdraw from last year's Milk.

An article at the Wall Street Journal praises Matt's acting as part of a new style in Hollywood representing the end of the method actor.

From Entertainment Weekly's 100 best of the decade list:

60. Matt Damon as action star
When he first signed on as the ass-kicking amnesiac Jason Bourne in 2002, no one would've predicted that Damon would become the decade's best mixer of brawn and brains. Shows what we know.

62. "I'm F---ing Matt Damon" video
A talk-show host's famous comedian girlfriend confesses in a catchy song that she's shtupping No. 60? Yeah, that'll go viral.

A quote from New Zealand's Dominion Post from Melanie Lynskey about Matt:

"He has this prosthetic nose, a funny thing in his cheek, a hilarious wig and he put on a significant amount of weight. In a way that liberated the audience because he's so handsome that it's almost distracting. He's sort of built to be a movie star. He has the perfect face and it would be really hard to look at that face and be like 'OK, here's the bumbling guy.' So it was really wonderful to be working with him and see him change physically. You were able to see how great a character actor he is. He could do anything. If he was an uglier guy he would be the greatest character actor alive."

Finally, Chris Moore discussed The Adjustment Bureau during an interview about The People Speak with Josh Brolin at Coming Soon:

CS: Chris, what's the next project for you?
Moore: I'm currently producing a Matt Damon movie called "The Adjustment Bureau."

CS: Is that based on a Phillip K. Dick story?
Moore: It sure is. It took a long time for me to get the job and I finally got it. It is and it's George Nolfi's directorial debut. It's Matt and Emily Blunt. It's a lot of fun.

CS: George worked on "Bourne" movies?
Moore: He wrote the last "Bourne" movie and "Ocean's Twelve." That's how he knows Matt. It's a very sort of big Hollywood movie and so we have to deliver on that.

Matt and Lucy attended the Los Angeles premiere of Invictus on Thursday evening. Photos are at Wireimage, Getty, Fotoglif, PopSugar and the Daily Mail, which reports that Lucy's dress is by Dolce & Gabbana. Video and interviews are at Fox LA, ET and El Mundo.

The paparazzi went wild for Matt Damon's date night with wife Luciana. He told ET, "The thing about any movie really, is you live through it with your family. We were all together in South Africa, it was a big family experience, so it's nice to bring my wife to see it."

As leaked months ago, Matt, Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman are on the cover of this week's issue of Parade magazine. A few quotes and photos are currently available at the site. Freeman was named joint Best Actor and Eastwood was named Best Director by the National Board of Review today. Invictus was also named one of the best 10 films of the year by the organisation.



Clint: "It's fun working with young Matt."

"He's great and does a terrific job. I'd look at him often and think, 'I wonder if I was that good when I was his age.' Chances are I wasn't. But it was fun to be vicarious and think, 'Yes, that's a role I might have done.'"

Matt Damon: "I felt a lot of responsibility playing this role, and I came prepared, because I knew I'd have only one shot to get it right."

Reports from the Clint Eastwood tribute on Tuesday are here, WWD, Roger Friedman's Showbiz 411 and People. More photos from the event are at Pure People, Faded Youth Blog and PopSugar.



"I've kind of come to judge good jobs and directors by how my wife feels about them. My wife loves Clint Eastwood," said Damon, the first of the presenters. "Not only because her husband was happy every day when he came home, because I got to do what I wanted to do, the way I wanted to do it and felt completely fulfilled creatively but because I had breakfast with her and the kids every morning and dinner with them every night. I never felt I was sacrificing family life or my work it was the perfect blend. And that’s the life I hope I can carve out for myself as I go forward."

Friedman also talked with Matt about Bourne 4. An amusing take on the saga by the Guardian is here.

Star Matt Damon tells me he isn’t going ahead with the fourth "Bourne" movie without director Paul Greengrass.

"I'm waiting for Paul," Damon told me last night at the "Invictus" premiere for the Museum of the Moving Image. "And he'll come back when there's a script."

New Australian interviews with Matt to promote The Informant are at The West and The Age.

"I'd like to say I have some great story about deceiving everybody and getting away with it, but I don't," Damon, flashing his baby blues, says with a smile at the Venice Film Festival. "As my brother and I were growing up, my mum would make us feel so guilty. So we never felt the need to lie to her."

As if to tarnish his wholesome image, Damon explains how he had been celebrating the night before.

"My God, we were up till six in the morning," he says, scratching his head and gulping down a full glass of Evian water after a night of heavy drinking with his buddies, including George Clooney.

"Yes it was a big night," he concedes, in the salubrious surrounds of the celebrity Venice haunt, the Hotel Cipriani.

"But I'm only here a couple of days. This afternoon my wife and I fly back to New York to see our kids, who we left behind for the first time. They're with their grandmother but it's been strange being without them. Even if it's very romantic here, there's always that thing when you're not used to being away from your kids - you just talk about them the whole time. So it's romantic but we have to remind ourselves."

Photos of Matt on the set of The Adjustment Bureau on Wednesday are at PopSugar. A photo of Matt with the New York Dodgers' Tommy Lasorda is linked on Lasorda's Twitter.

Matt and Lucy did not attend the Invictus premiere in New York, but did attend the Museum of the Moving Image tribute to Clint Eastwood. Photos are from Zimbio via Getty Images.

Clint Eastwood discussed the filming of Invictus and Hereafter at the Hollywood Reporter, including:

THR: How do you approach working with an actor like Damon?
Eastwood: We just talked a little bit about it. We got him a dialogue coach -- and that's very important: South Africans are very critical of actors who don't have the accents down.

THR: Did you rehearse with him at all?
Eastwood: We didn't rehearse too much, but we rehearsed some of the plays in the game. As far as rehearsing him as a performer, no, we just jumped right in.

THR: Have you given much thought to plans for the next few years? You're doing "Hereafter," but after that?
Eastwood: Everything is contingent upon the material. "Hereafter" came about as I was doing postproduction on "Invictus." I've already done over half that picture, but I'm taking a hiatus now until Matt (Damon) is available and then we'll come back to it in January.

THR: How much of it have you done?
Eastwood: We shot for three weeks in England and for a little over a week in France. Now I've got an American sequence that features him. It's three stories all converging together. We'll go back to England to do the final sequence.

All stills from Invictus are now available at IMDB and here.

True Grit is reportedly scheduled to start filming on 20 March 2010 in Texas and New Mexico, with a base in Austin.

More reports confirming Paul Greengrass is no longer attached to Bourne 4, and rumors of a possible replacement, are at Variety, The Playlist and The Wrap.

Greengrass: "You won't find a more devoted supporter of the Bourne franchise than me. I will always be grateful to have been the caretaker to Jason Bourne over the course of The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. I'm very proud of those films and feel they express everything I most passionately believe about the possibility of making quality movies in the mainstream.

My decision to not return a third time as director is simply about feeling the call for a different challenge. There's been no disagreement with Universal Pictures. The opportunity to work with the Bourne family again is a difficult thing to pass up, but we have discussed this together and they have been incredibly understanding and supportive. I've been lucky enough to have made four films for Universal, and our relationship continues. Jason Bourne existed before me and will continue, and I hope to remain involved in some capacity as the series moves on."

Photos from the set of The Adjustment Bureau on Tuesday with Anthony Mackie are at Bauer Griffin, I'm not obsessed and here. Matt is set to film at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday.

Invictus will premiere at the Paris Theater in New York tonight (Tuesday). Following the screening Clint Eastwood will be honored by the Museum of the Moving Image. Details at Variety, here and here.

What: Museum of the Moving Image Salutes Clint Eastwood
When: Tuesday Night
Gala screening: "Invictus," Paris Theater, New York City, 6:30 p.m.
Gala dinner: 583 Park Ave., New York City, following screening

As part of the museum's special Clint Eastwood Salute on Dec. 1, the museum will be screening the filmmaker's latest work, "Invictus"—the South African rugby drama starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon—at the Paris Theater. It'll be followed by a gala presentation that will bring to the podium such past Eastwood collaborators as Hilary Swank, Marcia Gay Harden, as well as Freeman and Damon in person.

A new positive review for Invictus is by Peter Travers at Rolling Stone. A new publicity shot is from a profile of Morgan Freeman here.



Eastwood, shooting on location in Cape Town and enlisting Chester Williams (the single black player on the Springboks team) to coach Damon, lets action define character. The rugby action electrifies the movie. But the performances make Invictus a movie you bring home with you. Damon may be shorter than Pienaar's 6'4" Afrikaner god. But he brings athleticism and grace to the role and a sense of burning conscience. Freeman seems born to play Mandela, and he never delivers a false note.

Eastwood's modest approach to these momentous events shames the showboating that passes for filmmaking in today's Hollywood. Invictus reveals a master at the top of his game. Eastwood's achievement is something rare: he's made a film that actually is good for the soul.

Invictus is profiled at the Hollywood Reporter, which includes a reference to Matt almost turning down the role due to family commitments.

Given Eastwood's decades-long relationship with Warners and reputation for bringing in productions under budget, it was no surprise the film got a quick green light with a budget in the $60 million range.

But the production soon was hit by a series of delays. First, Freeman wanted to work with director Mike Nichols on a Broadway revival of Clifford Odets' "The Country Girl" in spring 2008. Then Matt Damon expressed interest in playing Pienaar, but his wife was pregnant and he wanted to spend time at home with the baby.

A report on the making of Invictus from one of the rugby players who was part of the South African team is here, extracted from an article at GQ.

Paul Greengrass is reportedly no longer attached as the director of the next Bourne movie, according to The Playlist. Some details from the report are below, including Universal's response:

A small part of the problem? Greengrass, who has been busy toiling away on "Green Zone," was not consulted by Universal in the hiring of a new writer. This obviously did not make him happy, but that's only part of the issue that's been ongoing for some time (meanwhile, no one seems to love Nolfi's version).

What's Matt Damon's take on this? He's "loyal to Paul" which means he's likely not going to star in any "Bourne 4" film without him. Or at least not without his blessing and even then, it would have to be a spectacular script (and right now one of those doesn't exist, but Universal has been exploring other options....)

So with the recent Comcast/Universal deal on the horizon (Comcast will likely buy 51% of NBC Universal from General Electric, i.e. proposing to take majority control of the movie company) what does that mean? Well, one of the first things Comcast apparently did was call Patrick Whitesell (Damon's agent) within the last two weeks to ask if Matt was going to do the 'Bourne' film or not because it was going to figure in their valuation for the studio.

Some have suggested Greengrass walking away is a "typical Paul move" and again, that he possibly could be back on the project in a few more months, but at the very least it does strongly indicate the tension and problems that have been brewing between the director and the studio for several months now.

A Universal spokesperson said the studio would not comment on the situation.

IFC have labeled Matt the 'Actor of the '00s' in a new feature, including:

Off the success of the "Bourne" franchise, he's been able to write his own ticket, working only with the directors he wants. This has led to an improbable string of smart, multifaceted turns that reveal an actor of precise physical control and dense emotional shading, whose action heroes are given the same detailed treatment as his indie film grotesques, all of which are at the center of the most influential films of the decade. He's a subtle miniaturist who also happens to be a gigantic star, a rare and wonderful thing.

The first reviews for Invictus are available at Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Huffington Post and Newsweek. At this time, Matt is strangely not scheduled to appear on any talk shows to promote the film.

Variety
With the exception of the meeting with Mandela and a couple of family scenes, most of Damon's screen time is spent in training or on the field, and it's meant as highest praise to say that, if he weren't a recognizable film star, you'd never think he were anything other than a South African rugby player. Beefed up a bit (or, perhaps more accurately, slimmed down somewhat from "The Informant!") and employing, at least to an outsider's ear, an impeccable accent, Damon blends in beautifully with his fellow players.

John Carlin, who wrote the book on which Invictus is based, spoke to the Cape Argus:

Question: Have you been happy with the conversion of your book into a film thus far, through the filming, casting, etc?
Carlin: Could not possibly be more happy. A fine, sensitive script, written by a South African. A magnificent director. The best possible Hollywood actors to play Mandela and Pienaar.

Question: We've heard that the film-shooting process, not just the finished product, was a rich, authentic "1995" rugby environment. Were you happy with all the input?
Carlin: The authenticity derived from the fact that the whole shoot was conducted in SA; 90 percent of the people working on the film production were South Africans.

Question: Is it inevitable that accents and rugby screenplay will be particularly carefully scrutinised by local audiences, possibly detracting from the narrative?
Carlin: South Africans obsess on this point, or, at any rate, white South Africans do, when one of their own is represented in a Hollywood movie. Matt Damon does a great job.

The group Overtone, who perform most of the tracks on the Invictus score, discussed their meeting with cast and crew in South Africa at The Carmel Pine Cone.

Thus, on March 22, a Sunday afternoon, the small theater was packed with tired cast and crew — among them, several of the biggest movie stars in the world. The boys had cut their show in half for the special performance, deciding to go with only their best Queen hits, and they practiced them like crazy. It all paid off.

"Everyone in the crowd loved our show," said Ernie Bates, a tenor and the group's production genius. "Especially Matt Damon. He was smiling all the time.

After the concert, Damon was the first to ask for a CD, and he wouldn't take a free one. "He paid 100 rand (about $13), just like anybody," Bates marveled.

True Grit may be shooting near Austin, according to the Dallas News.

Matt discussed the financial problems which resulted in Torso not being made for the first time at the New Zealand Herald.

Photos of Matt on the set of The Adjustment Bureau last weekend and with Jon Voigt at the Children at Heart gala for victims of Chernobyl on Monday are at Socialite Life, PopSugar, Faded Youth blog, Fotoglif and this site. Lucy was scheduled to be honored with Matt at the gala, but did not attend.

JJ Abrams discussed again his proposal to cast Matt in Star Trek at MTV.

MTV: There was all this talk in terms of when you guys were starting to nail down casting. Everyone from Matt Damon to people we haven't heard of were in the running. How much of that was true? Did you ever consider going with a big name like Mr. Damon?

Abrams: I did, but not for the role of James Kirk. I went to Damon for the role of Kirk's father, and he declined in the most gracious and understandable and logical of reasons. We lucked out with Chris Hemsworth, and he did a great job. Maybe it would have been distracting to have someone as massively famous as Matt Damon in that role. The decision was made very early on to have actors who were not necessarily the most famous but the most right for the role.

Scott Bakula discussed Matt's performance in The Informant at Moviehole. The movie finally opens in Australia and New Zealand next week.

"In all seriousness, I think it's one of the great performances of the year", Bakula says of Damon's immersive turn as Whitacre. "And if you look at the other actors in his out range, I don't know anyone else that could've done what he did in this movie. He handled it so beautifully. He's such a great actor. We spent a lot of time together because there was, not a lot of improv, but a lot of exploring – trying to figure his character out."

Gary White discussed water.org and Matt in an interview at Waterworld.com.

Matt and Lucy are scheduled to attend the Children at Heart gala tonight in New York to benefit Chabad's Childern of the Chernobyl. The organization aims to permanently evacuate kids from the Chernobyl area which was devastated in 1986. Details are at Fox NY and the official site.

The Boston Herald interviewed Matt about his distant links to Ben here. Red carpet interviews from the premiere of The People Speak are here.

"I always felt like we were kin. He always felt like kin," Matt Damon told the Track after a screening in the Apple of his latest project, the History Channel documentary "The People Speak."

As you may know, the New England Genealogical Society announced a few weeks back that they had done a study of the Damon and Affleck family trees and discovered that Matt and Ben are 10th cousins once removed. The Tinseltown titans have a common ancestor - a 10th great-grandfather, William Knowlton of Ipswich, a bricklayer who died in 1655. "I remember when I got that story on my phone, I e-mailed it to him and at the same time he was e-mailing it to me," Damon laughed.

The full quotes from Shakira in EW and Melanie Lynsky in People are below.

EW: You certainly seem to like Matt Damon. On the album you sing, "Is there a prince in this fable/For a small-town girl like me?/The good ones are gone or not able/And Matt Damon's not meant for me." What's up with that?
Shakira: I know Matt and his wife. We have friends in common. I hope she's not mad at this. [Laughs] He's one of those good men. He's really something: a terrific actor, really handsome, and also very intelligent and socially aware. Since I was referring to L.A., I thought Matt is the exception to many of the men who are around, who are very preoccupied with themselves.

EW: Did you warn him about the song?
Shakira: No, no, no. Maybe I should send an apologetic note to the wife and say, "Hey, I'm taken too, don't worry."

"Kindness and generosity are very sexy, and Matt is warm and welcoming. He loves his job so much, is so prepared and having such a good time, that it's impossible to not feel happy working with him." --MELANIE LYNSKEY, his The Informant! costar

The official site for Invictus is now promoting links to USA Rugby, One and Amnesty International. A quote from Matt about Invictus at the Chicago Sun-Times is here.

Damon isn't worried about the success of the film. "The great thing about working with Clint is he's so sure and has so much experience," says Damon. "It was one of the best scripts I've ever read -- and one word: Morgan."

More photos and reports from the premiere of The People Speak are at I Need My Fix, here, PopSugar, here, here and here.

At PopSugar Josh Brolin discussed working with Matt. A review of the True Grit script, which confirms that Matt's role will be small, is at The Playlist.

Josh Brolin: I love Matt. We've been inter-connected for many, many, many years. And, you know we're going to work together after this too, we're doing to do True Grit together. And maybe we'll do future projects together, we'll see.

At this site Matt gave a shout-out to PopSugar creator Lisa (a long-time fan of Matt), and her daughters.

In a story at Us magazine Matt was asked about his Thanksgiving plans and Howard Zinn discussed Lucy. Matt was also asked about his family and fatherhood at In Touch.

Matt and wife Luciana, who celebrate their fourth anniversary in December, rely on "good communication" to keep the magic in their marriage. For Luciana, who has a daughter Alexia, 11, from a previous relationship, keeping Matt happy is simple.

"She just has to get out of bed in the morning," he says.

For the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, Matt and his brood are heading south to spend time with her family.

"We're getting out of town for a few days, and going down to Florida."

The People Speak writer Howard Zinn has known Matt since he was 5. What makes him a great father?

"He hasn’t been Hollywoodized," he tells me. "He's a very straight, honest, intelligent, thoughtful, socially-conscious person. I've known him for a very long time. I love him."

He adds, "I remember seeing him with kids before he had kids. He was always good with kids. Maybe it was because his mother was always good with him. He was raised by a single mother. She did a great job with him and his brother."

Why is Luciana perfect for him?

"She's not a Hollywood type, either. Not at all. She's just a human being, and she's very unassuming, modest. They're both regular people, so they’re great together."

There's a long article about the making of Invictus at Rugby magazine, and it includes quotes from Matt and Francois Pieanaar and a new still.



When Matt Damon attended Harvard University, some of his college buddies played rugby so he knew a little bit about the game before signing on to play François Pienaar in Invictus. He also knew he had to get into perhaps the best shape of his life.

"If you talk to François, South Africa won that '95 World Cup because of their players' fitness, among other things," Damon says. "It was a sheer act of will and discipline that gave them the edge. François talked me through their training regimen and it was incredible the shape those guys were in."
Prior to going on location, Damon spent months sprinting and lifting weights in order to bulk up and look somewhat like the 6-foot-3, 235-pound Pienaar in his playing days.

Damon performed a lot of the action sequences, but knew when the free play started he had to let his stunt double, Jonathan Smith, step in.

"If you're in a ruck or a maul, there's no way to predict where anybody is going to go," Damon says. "It really is a chaotic event. We couldn’t guarantee that my nose wouldn't get broken, which would shut the film down." The actor remembers how his college roommate broke his nose almost every week. "When he’d walk in the door," Damon says laughing, "my first question was, 'What minute?'"

Matt attended the premiere of The People Speak on Thursday in New York and was photographed with fellow cast members Viggo Mortensen and Josh Brolin. Lucy did not attend. Photos are at Getty, Fotoglif and PopSugar.

The Coen brothers discussed their plans for True Grit here. The film may be shot in Oklahoma, but there are disputes over tax incentives.

Question: What's next for you?

Joel: "We're doing an adaptation of a Charles Portis novel called True Grit, which was made into a movie in the late 1960s with the late John Wayne. It's a Western and it's going to star Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin. I don't know if we’ve always wanted to make a Western. This was just a novel we both really liked, and the opportunity was there to do it."

Matt received the top spot on a new program at VH1: Top 20 Celebs Done Good.

A report and photos from the OneXOne photo shoot at the Toronto Film Festival is here. Matt's photographed and quoted in the article, and more interesting photos of Matt from the shoot are at the site of the photographer here.

Clint Eastwood discusses Invictus in his new GQ interview here.

Shakira discusses her song which references Matt again at EW:

Shakira fears she'll have to write to Matt Damon's wife and apologise for namechecking her man on her new album. The Colombian pop star pines for the movie star in the lyrics of Men In This Town and can only hope his wife isn't upset with her.

She tells Entertainment Weekly, "I know Matt and his wife. We have friends in common. I hope she's not mad at this. He's one of those good men. He's really something. Maybe I should send an apologetic note to the wife and say, 'Hey, I'm taken too, don't worry'."

Matt is in People magazine's sexiest men alive list - from the Boston Herald:

Local boys-gone-Hollywood Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and John Krasinski also got shout-outs in People maggie’s annual Sexiest Man Alive issue.

As for Matt, his "The Informant" co-star Melanie Lynskey gushed to People that Damon is sexy because he's a "warm and welcoming" kinda guy.

"He loves his job so much, is so prepared and having such a good time, that it's impossible to not feel happy working with him," she said.