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  • Actor Matt Damon reveals he has a personal Instagram account

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: Hollywood actor Matt Damon not too long ago revealed that he does have “a very private Instagram account” he primarily makes use of to maintain up with shut buddies.

    According to People journal, the ‘Stillwater’ actor, who doesn’t have any public social media accounts, revealed he has a personal Instagram account in GQ’s October cowl story.

    “I have 76 followers and I’ve done 40 posts since 2013,” he instructed the outlet.

    He additional shared that his most up-to-date picture was of his 15-year-old daughter Isabella holding up her center fingers.

    “That’s what she’s been doing every time we take a picture of her nowadays,” he added.

    Aside from his non-public Instagram web page, Damon defined that having a giant social media presence is solely not for him.

    “I just never saw the point. And I feel better and better about that decision as time goes on. I understand wanting to be connected to everybody on Facebook, but my life is so full and I’m connected, really, to everybody I need to be connected to,” he defined.

    Continuing about Twitter, he expressed, “And then Twitter, I just reflexively didn’t believe that my first knee-jerk response to something was necessarily something that should go all over the world.”

    Further within the GQ interview, Damon opened up about his enduring friendship with Ben Affleck and a touching second they shared on the primary day of filming their 1997 film, ‘Good Will Hunting’.

    Damon revealed that each he and Affleck cried that day, whereas Robin Williams and Stellan Skarsgard shot a scene collectively. 

  • Spencer, The Last Duel set for Venice Film Festival

    The Venice International Film Festival unveiled a starry lineup of world premieres for September — together with Pablo Larrain’s “Spencer,” starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, and Ridley Scott’s medieval drama “The Last Duel,” that includes Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Adam Driver.
    The oldest movie pageant on this planet is kicking off its 78th version September 1 on the Lido with the premiere of Pedro Almodóvar’s “Madres paralelas,” starring Penelope Cruz. “Spencer” and “Madres paralelas” are amongst 21 options premiering as a part of the official competitors, which has usually helped information eventual Oscar finest image nominees and even winners.
    Other movies competing for the Golden Lion embrace Ana Lily Amirpour’s fantasy “Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon,” with Kate Hudson and Craig Robinson; Maggie Gyllenhaal’s adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s “The Lost Daughter,” starring Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson; Paul Schrader’s crime drama “The Card Counter,” with Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish, and Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God.”

    Edgar Wright’s fashionable psychological thriller “Last Night in Soho,” with Thomasin McKenzie and Anya Taylor-Joy, may also have its premiere in Venice out of the competitors earlier than heading to the Toronto Film Festival.
    Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” with Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons; Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of “Dune,” starring Timothée Chalamet, and “Halloween Kills” have been all beforehand introduced as a part of the slate. Campion’s movie, about brothers in Nineteen Twenties Montana, is one other competitors title, and certainly one of two Netflix movies debuting on the pageant.

    Last 12 months, Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland” premiered on the scaled-down however nonetheless in-person pageant and was awarded the Golden Lion. This 12 months, Zhao will assist determine who will get that prize as a member of the primary jury led by fellow Oscar winner Bong Joon-ho, who directed “Parasite.”
    Following on the heels of the Cannes Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival is anticipated to principally return to its full glamour in September. The pageant runs via Sept. 11.

  • Matt Damon-starrer ‘Stillwater’ to hit theatres on this date

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: Oscar-winning actor Matt Damon’s upcoming outing ‘Stillwater’ will probably be coming to theatres this summer time. The launch date of the thriller has been revealed and it’s set to hit the large screens on July 30, 2021.

    As per Variety, Damon stars within the drama reverse Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin and Cesar Award nominee Camille Cottin.

    Damon will play the position of Bill, an oil rig roughneck from Oklahoma who travels to France to try to exonerate his estranged daughter (Breslin), who’s in jail for a homicide she claims she didn’t commit.

    The forthcoming movie is helmed by Oscar-winning director Tom McCarthy. The highly-anticipated film, produced by Participant Media and Dreamwork Pictures, was written by McCarthy, Marcus Hinchey, Thomas Bidegain and Noe Debre.

    Jonathan King, Liza Chasin, and the late Steve Golin produced the movie alongside McCarthy. However, ‘Stillwater’ isn’t the one highly-anticipated launch for Damon this 12 months.

    The actor co-wrote and stars reverse Ben Affleck, Jodie Comer and Adam Driver in ‘The Last Duel’, directed by Ridley Scott, which is presently set for launch on October 15 this 12 months. 

  • Matt Damon’s ‘Thor: Love And Thunder’ casting confirmed, actor reaches Australia for filming

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Matt Damon’s return to Marvel Cinematic Universe is confirmed because the actor has reached Australia to movie “Thor: Love and Thunder”.

    The 50-year-old actor, who had a cameo in “Thor: Ragnarok”, and his household not too long ago reached Australia and have begun 14 days of privately-arranged quarantine in New South Wales.

    According to Deadline, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison shared the information of the actor’s arrival in within the nation.

    “Hollywood superstar Matt Damon joining our homegrown talent to film such a major movie in NSW is a big win creating thousands of jobs for locals,” he stated.

    The “Good Will Hunting” star was quoted in native media as saying he can be in Australia for “the next few months”.

    “Australian movie crews are world famend for his or her professionalism and are a pleasure to work with so the 14 days of quarantine might be nicely price it.

    “I’d like to thank the enormous support provided by the NSW government and Australian government, without which this would not have been possible,” Damon stated.

    In “Thor: Ragnarok”, the third movie within the Marvel Studios franchise, Damon portrayed an Asgardian actor taking part in Loki in a play about his “noble sacrifice”.

    The actor’s lawyer issued an announcement to the native media saying his shopper’s “relocation and quarantine” has been privately organized.

    “Every aspect of the Damon family’s relocation and quarantine has been privately arranged and funded. ..Their entry will in no way impact or reduce the number of spaces for Australians overseas waiting to return home nor create any burden to the Australian taxpayer whatsoever,” the assertion learn.

    Filmmaker Taika Waititi is directing the upcoming fourth installment, which marks Australian star Chris Hemsworth’s return because the titular superhero.

    Actors Natalie Portman and Tessa Thompson are reprising their roles of Jane Foster and Valkyrie, respectively.

    Hollywood star Christian Bale and Jaimie Alexander are additionally a part of the solid.

    “Thor: Love and Thunder” is scheduled to be launched on May 6, 2022.

  • Matt Damon joins Thor Love and Thunder forged

    Matt Damon is formally part of Thor: Love and Thunder’s forged, CNN experiences. He is at the moment in Sydney, the place he will probably be quarantining for the following two weeks earlier than starting filming for his position, which isn’t disclosed to this point.
    Damon had a comedic cameo in Thor: Ragnarok, although this time it seems he’s going to have a extra vital position. He appeared alongside Sam Neill in a humorous drama being carried out for Odin (Loki in disguise).
    Love and Thunder is the fourth Thor film that brings again Taika Waititi as director.
    Natalie Portman returns within the position of Jane Foster from the primary two installments within the sequence. She can even don the position of feminine Thor within the film.

    Chris Hemsworth will reprise the position of Thor and Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie, the reigning queen of Asgard is coming again too. Jaimie Alexander was confirmed to reprise the position of Lady Sif as properly.

    Christian Bale will play the primary antagonist, Gorr the God Butcher, in Thor: Love and Thunder.
    Thor is the one franchise inside the MCU to get a fourth movie. Thor: Love and Thunder is scheduled for launch on May 6, 2022.

  • ‘Contagion’ sequel within the works from director Steven Soderbergh

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Director Steven Soderbergh has revealed that he’s engaged on a “philosophical” sequel to his pandemic thriller, “Contagion”.

    The 2011 film, which depicts the outbreak of a lethal and fast-spreading viral illness, obtained renewed recognition this 12 months amid the coronavirus pandemic.

    Soderbergh stated screenwriter Scott Z Burns, who wrote the unique, will return for the follow-up.

    “I’ve got a project in development that Scott Burns is working with me on, that’s a kind of philosophical sequel to ‘Contagion’, but in a different context “You’ll sort of have a look at the 2 of them as sort of paired, however very totally different hair colors.

    So, Scott and I had been speaking about, ‘So, what is the subsequent iteration of a ‘Contagion’-type story?’ We have been engaged on that; we must always in all probability hot-foot it somewhat bit,” Soderbergh stated throughout ‘Happy Sad Confused’ podcast.

    In March, the movie’s stars — Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet and Jennifer Ehle — appeared in a sequence of public service movies to unfold consciousness concerning the methods to cope with coronavirus.

    Created in partnership with scientists from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, the movies have been directed by Soderbergh and produced by Burns.

    “Contagion” additionally featured Marion Cotillard, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Bryan Cranston, and Sanaa Lathan.