"Hotel Rwanda" star Don Cheadle got a first-hand view of horror when he traveled to the devastated Darfur region of Sudan in 2005.
Watching the premiere of "The Informant!" -- the Matt Damon movie about a high-level FBI mole at a large multinational company -- was the mole himself, Mark Whitacre.
Seconds, anyone? Eating up $24.6 million worth of tickets, "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" defied box office gravity by falling a minuscule 19 percent to win the top spot yet again.
Most people, if they know of Mark Whitacre at all, remember him as a whistleblower. In the early 1990s, the Archer Daniels Midland vice president turned FBI mole helped bring the company to its knees by wearing a wire for three years to expose its price-fixing scheme.
It could be Matt Damon's most weighty role to date.
The Informant! star's Water.org donates $2 million to Haiti
Punctuation promises comedy in "The Informant!" as if the title subject is a cartoon secret agent -- maybe Agent 86 in "Get Smart."
Elisabetta Canalis makes Clooney happy, says his Oceans Eleven pal
Matt Damon will assume the role as the performer's longtime lover, says director Steven Soderbergh
Still, he says, he loves all the pink and princesses that comes with three daughters
"Hotel Rwanda" star Don Cheadle got a first-hand view of horror when he traveled to the devastated Darfur region of Sudan in 2005.
Watching the premiere of "The Informant!" -- the Matt Damon movie about a high-level FBI mole at a large multinational company -- was the mole himself, Mark Whitacre.
Seconds, anyone? Eating up $24.6 million worth of tickets, "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" defied box office gravity by falling a minuscule 19 percent to win the top spot yet again.
Most people, if they know of Mark Whitacre at all, remember him as a whistleblower. In the early 1990s, the Archer Daniels Midland vice president turned FBI mole helped bring the company to its knees by wearing a wire for three years to expose its price-fixing scheme.
It could be Matt Damon's most weighty role to date.
The Informant! star's Water.org donates $2 million to Haiti
Punctuation promises comedy in "The Informant!" as if the title subject is a cartoon secret agent -- maybe Agent 86 in "Get Smart."
Elisabetta Canalis makes Clooney happy, says his Oceans Eleven pal
Matt Damon will assume the role as the performer's longtime lover, says director Steven Soderbergh
Still, he says, he loves all the pink and princesses that comes with three daughters
The star of The Informant! skipped the gym and "ate everything I could see"
Huge names are expected at this year's Italian film festival - and Buzz Lightyear, too
The star puts in a surprise appearance for his charity, One on One
"Maybe he can be the first to do it back-to-back," says Damon, who gave up the PEOPLE title to the X-Men star
To change his image, the heartthrob will play the lead in an adult thriller
Lisa Kudrow is also honored with special achievement award
In a world of celluloid action stuffed with CGI fights and sci-fi gadgetry, thank heavens for Jason Bourne, the amnesiac assassin who's so lethal that he can turn a hardback book into a weapon.
Plus: He's mastered several daddy duties, such as properly mashing bananas
• Wearing a navy Obama T-shirt and skull cap, Matt Damon picked up crab meat ravioli and chicken Parmigiana at Miami Beach's Cafe Prima Pasta for a quiet dinner at home with wife Luciana. "Even though Matt said he was feeling under the weather, he stopped for a photo with fans," says a source. "What a great guy."
There was a time when action heroes didn't contemplate. They defeated the bad guy and let their bodies do the talking for them. How times have changed.
"We need change in this country and now is the time to be sure that happens," the actor says about traveling across Florida in a registration drive
The star says he thinks about taking his girls on charity missions abroad
"I knew I was in trouble when the old guy with the oxygen tank passed me," he jokes
The comedian credits her ex while accepting an award for her salty Matt Damon-inspired song
The pals help storm victims who have been left homeless and hungry
Weeks after the birth of daughter Gia, the actor admits he's "on high alert all the time"
The two pals have been texting each other to and from the convention in Denver
"Everyone's doing great!" the actor's rep tells PEOPLE
His 2006 exploration with his brother brought about awareness – and a fear of bugs
The expectant Hollywood couples turn out for a VIP fundraiser for the Democratic hopeful in Miami
With another baby daughter on the way, "I'm so outnumbered!" jokes the Bourne star
The comedian's duet with the Sexiest Man Alive gets TV Academy recognition
Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman have broken up, their publicists said Monday
"I want to do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like Bourne," he says But in real life, the actor likes low-key
The once-chiseled actor talks about getting "doughy" for his new role in The Informant
The two couples meet at Nobu Malibu on the eve of Ben and Jen's anniversary
The three superstars are campaigning for more humanitarian support in Myanmar
With new limits on checked luggage, how do you catch a wave if you must also catch a plane? Pack your board in your suitcase.
There's a little more to love about PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive in The Informant
Just don't expect marriage any time soon – though adoption may be in their future
The actor and Thandie Newton join others in posing for the symbolic photographs
The Oscar-winner, best known for The English Patient and Cold Mountain, had a new project airing on British TV this weekend
The couple have another baby on the way, their rep tells PEOPLE
They're the hottest new couple in Hollywood, and now Ben Affleck is speaking out about how he hooked up with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for their parody video response to Matt Damon and Sarah Silverman – as well as the secret bathtub scene that got cut.
Jimmy Kimmel really does love Ben Affleck.
As threatened, Jimmy Kimmel has blasted back at girlfriend Sarah Silverman in the wake of her recent revelation – in an hysterical music video – that she and PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive Matt Damon are intimate.
Comedian Larry the Cable Guy, who shed 50 lbs. since last year, jokes he's lost so much weight "I'm down an Olsen!"
Just call it payback time for Matt Damon.
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He's the quarterback and key leader of the SEC champions and the life of the party off the field. Matt Flynn is comfortable in the spotlight, but there is one thing that can turn him a shade of red -- the fact that he is the spitting image of actor Matt Damon.
Angelina Jolie, who was distanced from the espionage game as Matt Damon's wife in last year's The Good Shepherd, plans to jump feet first into the spy ring for an upcoming move.
Brad Pitt has vowed not to film any more nude scenes – because he doesn't want his kids to see them.
Jude Law has a few words of advice for Matt Damon, PEOPLE's 2007 Sexiest Man Alive.
Video courtesy ABC Jessica Simpson is through playing around with boys. These days, she wants a man.
Matt Damon's thriller The Bourne Ultimatum led the nominations for the 34th People's Choice Awards, organizers announced Thursday.
Watch out, Zac Efron - Vanessa Hudgens has a secret crush on Matt Damon.
For Matt Damon, being a family man means having less time to work out.
Matt Damon can't escape the huge publicity blitz for his new movie The Bourne Ultimatum - it's literally all over his home.
The amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne is back, and this time he clobbered Homer Simpson on his way to scoring the biggest film opening ever for the month of August.
It's not easy, being Bourne again. It means a lot of miles, a lot of challenges, and all for uncertain ends. And you never know what you'll have to explain: "My fight is not with you," Matt Damon's amnesiac rogue CIA agent, evading capture in Moscow, says to a local cop in Russian before beating a nonviolent retreat.
When was the last time you were told at work that they wanted "nothing new" of you? For "The Bourne Ultimatum" composer John Powell, it's actually one of the most telling compliments he could have.
Matt Damon proves third time's the charm in a snazzy spy thriller that's both exhausting and exhilarating
Some may call it being unlucky in love, but for Minnie Driver, a failed relationship makes for good songwriting material. And that's exactly the case for her second album, Seastories.
The leading man dresses up as an ear of corn for a new alternative fuel campaign
Fresh from their Father's Day vacation in Hawaii, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reunited in Las Vegas for some grownups-only fun - for a good cause.
Oceans 13, the third installment from Clooney's crew, is limp, by-the-numbers movie-making
Matt Damon and wife Luciana's daughter Isabella isn't walking yet - but she sure is flying.
For a festival celebrating its 60th year, the Cannes Film Festival proved mighty frisky. Sure, a handful of the 21 international titles in competition were dolorous arthouse tush-testers - but enough films pleased, entertained and touched a viewer that Cannes 2007 turned out to be memorable.
At the 60th annual Cannes Film Festival a number of films have made an impact on audiences and judges alike.
Start with the romance and allure of the French Riviera, the warm weather of an evening in late May infused with the smell of blooming jasmine, add a lineup of air-kissing international movie stars, directors, and film-makers, and voila! The 60th Cannes Film Festival gets under way.
Sharon Stone put George Clooney on the auction block Wednesday for a good cause: AIDS research.
The superstitious believe bad things happen in threes. Hollywood is counting on the opposite this summer, with the industry's hopes resting on the third installments of some mammoth movie franchises.
Back in 1973, New York's Little Italy district supplied the backdrop to the film "Mean Streets," a mob movie which marked the first step in a long collaboration between two of the city's finest film-makers: director Martin Scorsese and a young actor named Bobby.
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they read about sports: not just what kind of fan they are, but also their view of human history. It all comes down to this: do you read the game recap first, or do you go straight to the box score?
It has become almost meaningless to talk of "the year" in American film. The business is now more seasonal than the climate. No less than three of my top five choices were released within the last two weeks of December; such is the magnetic lock of the Oscar period.
The two movies virtually intersect at one point (in Berlin, 1945), but don't confuse Robert De Niro's lengthy, absorbing spy drama "The Good Shepherd" with Steven Soderbergh's black-and-white throwback "The Good German." The overlap probably won't help either of them at the box office, and neither looks like a surefire hit in that department.
What's the biggest difference between kissing Matt Damon and kissing Brad Pitt? "One's a friend and one's my love," says Angelina Jolie, who co-stars with Damon in the upcoming drama "The Good Shepherd."
Sing to the tune of California: "Dow 12,000 here we come. Right back where we started from." Okay, it makes no sense. Still I guarantee, much like Patrick Ewing promised a championship for the Knicks, that we will reach Dow 12,000 this week! Today!
Following the recent publication of "In the Line of Fire," the autobiography of President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, here's some advice on penning your own life story.
What goes around comes around. No filmmaker is more movie-savvy than Martin Scorsese, and he, in turn, has influenced a whole generation of directors around the world.
Jack.
Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana Bozan, are the parents of a baby girl, Isabella, their first child, the actor's publicist said Monday.
Nothing kills all the extra sleep and relaxation you got on vacation like returning home to fill out a police report and meet with a claims adjuster.
Yes, Stephen Gaghan says, his movie "Syriana" is about oil and politics. But it's also about other things: global interconnectedness. Willful ignorance. Consumerism.
"Syriana" has a lot of big, important things to say about big, important things, and it says them with a sense of urgency.
To the casual moviegoer, the release date of a film is irrelevant. The radio, television and Internet advertisements warn us all a few weeks prior to release what's on the horizon and we plan our weekends accordingly. As a result, the frantic waltz of films around release dates is often lost on the populace. It's a war waged in trenches in Beverly Hills and Burbank, but not in the public eye.
It seems that Hollywood is finally getting the message.
Matt Damon is trained to kill with his bare hands.
Two days after a tribute concert was held for Bruce Springsteen, The Boss showed up to offer an authentic taste of his music.
Some films aren't meant to succeed. Whether too quirky for the mainstream, poorly marketed, or too cheaply made to warrant a major release, these films eventually dissolve away into the world of home video where they are either devoured by the throng of similar titles or revealed to be diamonds in the rough -- otherwise known as cult classics.
Diamonds might be forever but not when embedded in the nose of a Formula One racing car, as the Jaguar team discovered.
The war against reality officially began last month when ABC shelved Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's interactive TV show. Meanwhile, ratings for CBS's Survivor: Africa have slipped in the face of more...
Hey, Ben Affleck! What's your quick take on broadband?
What do Matt Damon and Alanis Morissette have in common with Chase Manhattan Bank? Dana Giachetto. The money manager to Gen-X icons has recently been tapped by Chase to co-manage a $100 million ven...
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