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[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Going into the theater to watch The Great Wall, with Matt Damon being the great white savior of all of China, I was rather predisposed to not care for it Imagine my surprise when leaving the theater a few hours later when I had to admit, I'd had a great time. The story turns out[...]

The Great Wall might have amazing armor designs and decent cinematography but it can’t escape the 90’s era CGI or the basic story. Director: Yimou Zhang

The film stars Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Pedro Pascal and Willem Dafoe. The Great Wall opens February 17th. https://youtu.be/uUiCBFV34jIVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Great Wall – A look inside (Universal Pictures) HD (https://youtu.be/uUiCBFV34jI) https://youtu.be/raLujJgjqTw https://youtu.be/nhe-OZgcwbc Universal Pictures has released three new behind-the-scenes videos for The Great Wall[...]

Since the very first poster for The Great Wall starring Matt Damon was first released, the film has been criticized as yet another example of "whitewashing," the process of casting white actors in non-white roles Other recent examples of the practice include Marvel casting Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One in Doctor Strange, though some reports claimed that[...]

It has a distinct feel as a desperation play for attention since thus far the majority of focus around the film has been on the casting of Matt Damon (helped by none other than Willem Dafoe) as the Savior of Imperial China (and the world) While strictly speaking it's not whitewashing of any pre-existing character, it's still[...]

The new series from executive producers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck is the story about a man (Sean Teale) trying to thwart a giant corporation to find his lost love, all in 2074 when corporations rule everything  You can watch the first episode tomorrow night… or you can just watch it now Syfy has released[...]

Moderator Dave Carter introduced birthday boy Matt Damon (in his first New York Comic Con appearance) and led the audience in a round of Happy Birthday. Damon spoke briefly about his enthusiasm for the project, noting that Yimou had tapped his experience as an Oscar-winning screenwriter for input on character dialogue, before co-star Jing Tian (Police[...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avF6GHyyk5cVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Great Wall – Official Trailer #2 – In Theaters This February (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avF6GHyyk5c) Matt Damon + some breathtaking visuals in this new trailer from Legendary's The Great Wall. Also stars Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe and Andy Lau, and in theaters February 2017. UPDATE: Here's the UK version of[...]

Affleck would also produce with Jennifer Todd, Matt Damon and the Christie Estate while Christopher Keyser will write the script. A 1957 adaptation directed by Billy Wilder pulled in 6 Oscar Nominations including Best Picture, Actor, Actress and Director The film starred Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton The film synopsis reads: The affable Leonard Vole[...]

The show is from executive producers Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Jennifer Todd and is set in a future where companies have seemingly unlimited power, Incorporated centers around Ben Larson (Sean Teale), a young executive who risks everything to infiltrate the all-controlling corporate world and save the woman he loves In the process, he will take[...]

As part of filming the new Jason Bourne movie staring Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones and Alicia Vikander, director Paul Greengrass got permission to shut down the Vegas Strip to film a chase scene between a cop car and a SWAT van The feauterette below looks at the filming of the scene and talks with[...]

Starring Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander and Julia Stiles, this is the fifth film in the Universal Pictures franchise and the fourth to star Damon In the clips below we see a quite moment as Bourne speaks to the agency that created him and then we get a ton of action in the[...]

But take a moment and realize that the majority of his time on screen, Matt Damon is alone No one to interact with, joke with or even to work off of What he does here is absolutely amazing We have a role in the film, we're the cameras that he is talking to We are[...]

Superman on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Ben Affleck snuck Matt Damon onto the show in his coat claiming that he had gained a few pounds since his superhero role The result was a very angry Kimmel. For those of you who are unaware, Damon is not allowed as a guest on the show as part of a long-running fake feud[...]

In it Matt Damon plays an astronaut that gets left behind Home Alone style on Mars and must use all his knowledge (and some he shouldn't have) to survive just in case someone comes back for him The trailer below reminds us just how often Damon needs rescuing… [youtube]https://youtu.be/JRQlji3bCZI[/youtube] [...]

The Martian director Ridley Scott and star Matt Damon sat down with NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to do a Q&A about the film Also on hand was astronaut Drew Feustel to talk about what the original book meant to him and his co-worker and author Andy Weir talking about the amazing journey from sitting down[...]

This clip gives us more of a sense of what the people other than Matt Damon's stranded character Mark Watney are up to including an intense looking discussion between Jeff Daniels and Sean Bean… since Bean is on Earth in this film, it will be interesting to see how his character dies Perhaps the return[...]

Michael Pena has some pretty good lines about feeling 15 again, Sebastian Stan is pretty aggressive for a doctor and Jessica Chastain is just a bad ass… but Matt Damon poses the question that DC Entertainment has never answered: How can Aquaman control whales? Whales are mammals and Aquaman can control fish… The Martian opens September[...]

The film is directed by Ridley Scott and stars Matt Damon and an all-start cast. During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet With only meager[...]

Move aside Jeremy Renner, according to Deadline, Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass are teaming up again to make a Jason Bourne movie Universal Pictures is said to be so big on this idea that it's pushing Renner's Bourne Legacy spin-off out of the July 16th, 2016 slot for it. This all comes as a bit of[...]

Rumors that Matt Damon would return to reprise his role as Jason Bourne have plagued him ever since he handed the franchise over to Jeremy Renner's Aaron Cross, but he's always maintained that the only instance in which he could see himself returning was with Bourne Supremacy and Bourne Ultimatum director Paul Greengrasss at the[...]

That cast (Clooney, Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman, Bill Murray and more)? Taking on Nazis? No brainer The Monuments Men will now be released in February 2014 (7th for the US, 14th for the UK). It's hard to believe that in an alternate universe, we would all be talking about the Oscar chances of[...]

is ramping up development of "Sleeper," a long-in-development DC Entertainment property that's set up with producers Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Jennifer Todd. The studio has brought on the writing team of  Shawn Ryan and David Wiener to pen the adaptation of "Sleeper," based on the series from DC Entertainment's Vertigo imprint, written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean[...]

While he might not be a master of stone-cold filmmaking technique, I do think he's a great storyteller with enough skill to frame his metaphorical worlds in exciting cinema. Here is the third trailer for his sophomore effort, starring Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwOJW9GFTs0[/youtube] Nothing terribly new there, but it does seem more District 9-y[...]

Linda Ge writes for Bleeding Cool. This is an anti-fracking movie. To Promised Land's detriment and perhaps even the detriment of their cause, there's no subtlety in the way Matt Damon and John Krasinski present their very pointed views on this politically charged environmental topic. Damon and Krasinski co-wrote the film, which is clearly a passion project, and[...]

Copley is the first actor to be confirmed for Elysium and Deadline today have Matt Damon in talks for a role. Copley, who has recently starred in The A Team is set to appear in the much anticipated Men in Black III is 2012 prior to Elysium which currently has no production or release date[...]