Good Will Hunting (movie)

British director Joe Wright to direct 'Fifty Shades'?

2013-05-10 09:41:00

British director Joe Wright has become a known commodity in Hollywood for coaxing stylish yet substantive literary adaptations such as “Atonement,” “Pride & Prejudice” and “Anna Karenina” onto the screen. His next...

Matt Damon lists Florida estate at $20 million

2013-04-12 10:11:00

Leading man Matt Damon has put his mansion in Miami Beach on the market at $20 million. Set on more than an acre with a two-bedroom guesthouse, a swimming pool and a pool house, the 12,705-square-foot house features a courtyard entrance, a theater, a...

Oscars 2013: An 'Argo' night at Academy Awards

2013-02-25 04:00:00

For the second straight year, the movie business fell for itself. "Argo" — in which a Hollywood producer and makeup artist help engineer the rescue of six Americans from Iran — won the top prize at the 85th Academy Awards, one year after the...

Oscars 2013: The best speeches? Daniel Day-Lewis, Ben Affleck

2013-02-24 23:11:00

While female songstresses Adele and Jennifer Hudson delivered the biggest emotional punches during Sunday night's Oscars telecast, it was the award-winning men who gave the best speeches. Between Daniel Day-Lewis, winner of the lead actor award for...

'Argo' producers show confidence in Affleck, even if Oscar didn't

2013-01-24 06:00:00

Producers George Clooney and Grant Heslov had no idea who was going to direct "Argo." "Maybe I was going to, maybe Grant would, maybe somebody else," Clooney said. "We didn't know." But when Ben Affleck called Clooney and Heslov's Detroit hotel in early...

Oscars 2013: At nominees lunch, a relaxed vibe and a surprise DJ

2013-02-04 17:29:00

Ben Affleck shared his tips for how to win an Oscar pool. Steven Spielberg hoisted an elaborate floral centerpiece off his table so he could better see his fellow lunch guests (including the youngest lead actress nominee, Quvenzhan� Wallis). And 66-year-...

'Texas Chainsaw 3D' to get nicked by 'Hobbit' at the box office

2013-01-03 12:58:00

There won't be much buzz at the box office on the first weekend of the new year, as only one new movie -- "Texas Chainsaw 3D" -- hits theaters nationwide. The horror flick starring the serial killer made famous in 1974's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is...

'Argo' writer Chris Terrio on Affleck collaboration

2013-01-17 06:00:00

It's a truism that all Hollywood screenwriters learn, either the easy way or the hard way, that filmmaking is a collaborative art. Still, some personality types struggle with that. Not Chris Terrio. That becomes all the more clear when, intending to...

Matt Damon pays $15 million for Pacific Palisades manse

2013-01-08 13:34:00

Actor Matt Damon may have been a neighbor to "Good Will Hunting" pal Ben Affleck for several months now, but his purchase of an estate in Pacific Palisades for $15 million just appeared on the Multiple Listing Service after the first of the year. Damon's...

'Promised Land': Drilling drama lacks depth, critics say

2012-12-28 13:43:00

In the new eco-drama "Promised Land," co-writers and co-stars Matt Damon and John Krasinski take on the hot-button issue of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," through which chemicals are pumped into the ground to extract natural gas. Damon plays an...

Matt Damon and John Krasinski's zigzag path to 'Promised Land'

2012-12-13 09:00:00

In the 15 years since Matt Damon and Ben Affleck won the Academy Award for their "Good Will Hunting" screenplay, Damon has worked with some of Hollywood's best directors, become a humanitarian in Africa and even parodied himself with the help of Kevin...

At Gotham Awards, money, passion and Bingham Ray

2012-11-27 07:05:00

NEW YORK -- The concept of money--filmmakers' need for it, their freedom without it--infused Monday night's Gotham Independent Film Awards, one of the first major shows of the burgeoning season. Benh Zeitlin, the director of the Southern magical-realist...

a supporting actor nomination). For his latest as director and star, Affleck has turned to recent history to tell the story of six U.S.

2012-01-11 12:38:44