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Justin Timberlake – Starring in the movie “In Time”

American pop musician and actor Justin Timberlake stated that he is just an ordinary person in spite of reaching stardom. Cinemas will open for his newest movie entitled “In Time” anytime this week. Timberlake may ride in a new wave of stardom after the release of the movie directed and written by Andrew Niccol and produced by Marc Abraham, Amy Israel, Kristel Laiblim along with Eric Newman. Timberlake will play the character of Will Salas in the movie.

“In Time” is a movie about switching off the aging gene. When individuals reached 25 years old, they will stop in aging but stamped in their arm will determine how long they will stay alive. Instead of money, time became the currency. This is to prevent over population. Time is used in buying luxuries along with necessities so the rich people can live forever. When a poor young man inherited a fortune of time from an upper class individual over a hundred years old before his death, he was charged with murder. Because of that incident, he needed to run away from “Time Keepers” along with “Minutemen” headed by Fortis who is a senior citizen.

Timberlake stated that the movie was challenging making him inquire about much stuff in connection to himself. He also stated to press personnel that he does not discovered the answers of her queries but he like they way the movie revealed it for him. “The Social Network” actor claimed that he admired his character Will Salas for he wanted to fight the way his character does to extend his life. He also said that his role as Salas is the first role that he wanted to be alike.

Before “Sexyback” singer received an award from Grammy and became a heartthrob in Hollywood, he was already performing on stage as a lead singer of the boy band NSync since 1990s. Until now, he described himself as an ordinary boy who was born in Memphis, Tennessee. The actor stated that he was just an ordinary person who is in extraordinary circumstance. However, the word extraordinary is not enough to describe the situation of the actor for he had entered pop music, do well in the fashion circle and now conquering the world of movies.

Timberlake entered in Hollywood in a careful manner. He did not appear in big projects at once but portrayed minor characters in high profile yet low-budget films instead. Some of those movies are “Alpha Dog” where he played the role of Frankie “Nuts” Ballenbacher, “Shrek the Third” where he played the character of Arthur “Artie” Pedragon and “The Social Network” where he played the role of Sean Parker. Recently, he appeared in the comic film entitled “Bad Teacher” as Scott Delacorte along with the movie American romantic movie “Friends with Benefits” as Dylan.

His latest movie is “In Time”. The movie received different reviews even before it opens in cinemas. Peter DeBruge of Variety stated that potential of Timberlake to become an action-hero is maximized in the film. Todd MacCarthy, a reporter in Hollywood stated that proficiency of the actor carries the movie but the sparkle of real disobedience could have pushed his performance into a different level.

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Ken Jeong – To produce and Star in a Movie

TV comedy series “Community” star Ken Jeong who played Mr. Chow in the blockbuster movies The Hangover along with its sequel The Hangover Part II will star and produce a movie entitled “The Chung Factor” for Lions Gate. Personnel from TheWrap obtained the information. Along with Jeong, his manager Brett Carducci will produce the film as well. Last Tuesday, Lions gate bought the script for the movie from the author Andy Selsor. The script for the movie “The Chung Factor” was the first sale of Selsor.

Chung Factor is about a nice man who is unlucky when it comes to love. As the movie unfolds, he will meet the girl that he is dreaming for a long time. Because he does not want their relationship to fail, he will ask for tips from an unusual relationship coach. Jeong played the character of the offbeat coach. Jeong will try to sabotage the relationship of the nice man and his girlfriend because he wanted to win the girl back. More revelations will be unveiled as the movie unfolds.

Selsor wrote the script of the movie “The Chung Factor” and the first title of the script is “The Ex Factor”. The spec script was included to the black list of best-unproduced scripts in the year 2005. Ken Jeong will be playing one of the major characters in the movie.

Apart from being an American actor and comedian, Jeong is a health worker by profession specifically a doctor. He started to have projects in Hollywood after winning the Big Easy Laff-Off. The judges in the big Easy Laff-Off are NBC president Brandon Tartikoff together with the founder of The Improve Budd Friedman. Both judges convinced Jeong to move in Los Angeles. After Jeong moved to Los Angeles, he started in performing at The Improve along with Laugh Factory Comedy Clubs.

His performance in The Improve and theatre guided him in numerous appearances on the television. He appeared in The Office of NBC along with Entourage and Curb Your Enthusiasm of HBO. His first movie is entitled Knocked Up by Judd Apatow. He played the role of Dr. Kuni in his debut film that served as his getaway performance. Following his amazing performance in that movie, his projects escalated. He appeared in the movie Pineapple Express as Ken and King Argotron in Role Models along with the movies All About Steve, The Goods: Live Hard Together with Sell Hard and Couples retreat. Recently, he co-starred in the movie Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Zookeeper.

At the 2010 Teen Choice Awards, Jeong was one of the nominees for the category Breakout Star Male for his performance in the TV series “Community”. He played the character of “Slim Chin” together with NBA players Derrick Rose and Dwight Howard in wide-ranging basketball campaign of Adidas last year. He was the host of 2011 Billboard awards in Las Vegas last May. The following month, he was featured in the American Heart Association’s Hands Only CPR PSA campaign.

Aside from the series Community, Jeong also appeared in the programs such as Off Duty, American Dad, Party Down, Men of a Certain Age and a lot more.

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Revelations about the Movie Crystal Skull

American film director, screenwriter, film producer, video game designer and studio entrepreneur Steven Spielberg asked a favor to the supporters of Indiana Jones in connection to “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”.  He asked the supporters not to blame him for the movie. He disclosed that the idea about skulls belonging to aliens belongs to the executive producer George Lucas. It was indeed a big revelation done by Spielberg about the movie.

Spielberg is apologetic to those who did not appreciate the MacGuffin of the movie for he did not like it as well. He stated that he is arguing with his best friend George about it for he does not want it to be aliens or any inter dimensional creature. However, he believed in the idea of his best friend so he respected it.  Every time George created a script, he believed in its quality and being a loyal pal he will film it the way he wrote it, Spielberg added.

Compared to how far Labeouf has about his character in the film, Spielberg did not go farther.  On the other hand, Spielberg stated that he is still contented about the movie. He also stated that if Lucas can come up with a story then there would be another installment in the bullwhip exercise wielding archeologist chronicle. If that will happen, Spielberg hope that the story is still about tomb raiding and interplanetary things from the movie “Star Wars” is retained.

Spielberg asked the people not to blame George about the idea of Jones surviving in a nuclear explosion by way of hiding in a refrigerator being part of the opening sequence of “Kingdom of the Krystal Skull”. He claimed that it was his ridiculous idea so George must not be blamed on that portion. Nevertheless, he is proud about it because people discontinued in saying, “jump the shark” instead they are saying “Nuked the fridge”.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is the fourth movie in the franchise Indiana Jones. It was an American adventure movie created by George Lucas directed by his best friend Steven Spielberg. The casts of the movie includes Harrison Ford who played the character of Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones, Jr. Ford worked hard to assume a body appropriate for his character. He go to the gym at least three hours a day, practiced in using a bullwhip for about two weeks and altered his regular diet as well into a healthier one.

Shia Labeouf played the character of Henry “Mutt Williams” Jones III. He was the son and the sidekick of his father Dr. Henry Jones Jr. Cate Blanchet played the role of Irina Spalko who is a villainous Soviet agent. Ray Winstone played a British agent who collaborated with Jones during the World War II. His name in the movie is George “Mac” McHale. Jim Broadbent played an academic colleague and Jones’ pal. His name in the movie is Dean Chales Stanforth. Igor Jijikine portrayed the character of a Russian Colonel Dovchenko. Both Joel Stoffer along with Neil Flynn played a cameo role being FBI agents. Alan Dale, Andrew Divoff, Ernie Reyes, Jr.  and Pavel Lynchnikoff appeared in the movie.

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Cusack and Akerman work Together in a Movie

Content Film confirmed last Monday that American film actor and screenwriter John Paul Cusack along with Swedish-Canadian actress and model Malin Maria Akerman will star in the upcoming movie “The Number Station”. The whole cast of the movie will start in filming next month. Ethan Hawke produced the thriller of the movie as well as appeared on it.

The content state that Cusack will portray the character of an agent who is obliged to protect the code operator played by Akerman who is an isolated covert CIA agent in Broadcast Station. The mission of Cusack in the movie is to protect the operator whatever happened. He needed to protect the agent and never allow the antagonist to get her alive.

An increasingly hot personality in Hollywood named Fraizer Scott wrote the script of the movie. Actually, he wrote a spec script entitled “Line of Sight” last February that Warner Bros. bought. Joel Silver will produce that project.

Kasper Barfoed will direct the movie “The Numbers Station”. He is also the one who directed the movie “The Candidate”, “The Performance” and “The lost treasure of the Knights Templar” that received awards. Content Film International acquired the project “The Numbers Station” movie for distribution all over the globe at the Cannes Film Festival.

Actor John Paul Cusack starred in a lot of movies. Some of his previous projects are Serendipity, High Fidelity, Say anything…, Grosse Black, Stand by Me, The Thin Red Line, the Ice Harvest along with Igor, 2012, Hot Tub time Machine and many more. He started his acting career after his appearance in teen films during mid 1980s. Some of those teen movies are Better Off Dead, The Sure Thing, One Crazy Summer and Sixteen Candles. In 1988, he played a small part in the movie Trip At The Train. The following year, he starred in Say Anything… as Lloyd Dobler. He became flexible in playing different characters until he reached stardom.

Cusack played the character of an Obsessive puppeteer in the movie High Fidelity that became a blockbuster. One more successful movie of Cusack is entitled the dark comedy Grosse Pointe Blank. He also starred in the horror movie 1408 that is based on a short story written by Stephen King. In the Iraq War-themed drama entitled Grace is Gone, he appeared as a widowed father. In addition, he played the role of an assassin in the dark political satire.

Another star that will play a significant role in the movie is Malin Maria Akerman. She was appearing in commercials when she was young that was before she won a contract in modeling at the age of 16. Her debut movie was entitled Earth: Final Conflict that was released in 1997. That was the time when she formally entered the world of movies. She has various projects in the early 2000s including small and big screens. Some of her movies are the Utopian Society in 2003 and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle in 2004. In 2005, she played a supporting role in the comic series the Comeback. In 2007, she gained her first starring role in the movie The Heart kid.

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Joss Whedon Divulged a Hidden Film

American screenwriter, executive producer, director composer and actor Joseph Hill “Joss” Whedon filmed an adaptation of “Much Ado About Nothing” of Shakespeare. TheWrap disclosed that information last Sunday. Whedon directed, adapted and cast the project as well. Whedon is the genius behind “Buffy Vampire Slayer” along with “Angel”. He also directed the upcoming movie “The Avengers” of marvel. An individual connected to the project disclosed to TheWrap that he also wrote the script of the movie.

The movie of Whedon “Much Ado About Nothing” that is based on a play completed principle photography. That information was announced in a website online last Sunday night. People associated to the project verified that Whedon created the movie without disclosing it in public. Celebrities who partake in the movie are Sean Maher, Franz Kranz, Nathan Fillion, Amy Acker, Spencer treat Clark along with Jillian Morgese. Maher also starred in the Movie “Firefly”, Kranz starred in “the Cabin in the Woods”, Fillion starred in “Castle”, “firefly” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” while Acker starred in “Angel” and “Cabin”. Those movies are some of the masterpieces of Whedon in the past. The Committee behind the creation of an independent film is not distributing the movie up to present.

Some of the celebrities who starred in the movie expressed their excitement about the movie through their twitter accounts. Maher even stated that it is the real deal and he is very excited the time cinemas will open for the movie. In his twitter account, he posted “Surprise! We just wrapped today…” Whedon like “Much Ado About Nothing” of Shakespeare so he enjoyed in filming the project.  The play used habitual misuse of similar sounding words such as “noting” that is supposedly “nothing” and Whedon found it appealing to his style.

“Much Ado About Nothing” is play written by William Shakespeare.  It is a comic story of two couples namely Benedick and Beatrice together with Claudio and Hero. Benedick and Beatrice in contrast to Claudio and Hero talk a mile a minute and   announced their contempt to love, marriage and stuffs about each other. On the other hand, Claudio and Hero are not talking about those concerns so much unlike the previous couple. At the altar, Claudio is tricked into rejecting Hero while Benedick and Beatrice are tricked into confessing their affection to each other as well. Nevertheless, the evil trickery of the felon, Don John discovered Dogberry who is the master of malapropism. Don John is captured in the end everyone danced in celebrating the union of both couples.

Whedon became more famous when he created showrunner in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 1997. The show appeared in small screens until 2003. Other projects that Whedon created are Angel in 1999 to 2004, Firefly in 2002 and Dollhouse in 2009 to 2010 along with the movie Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog in 2008. He wrote the script of the film The Avengers. He also directed that film that will open in cinemas mid next year. He also contributed in the filed of comic books along with online media.

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Bradley Cooper’s Past, Present and Upcoming Movies

TheWrap confirmed that the American film, theater and television actor Bradley Cooper along with Warner Bros. is talking about making the movie “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” Warner Bros. wanted the actor to play the character of Napoleon Solo that Robert Vaughn played in the television series. The movie is based in the television series in the 1960s and Steven Soderberg will direct the movie.

Subsequently, Warner Bros. is searching for crime-fighting partner of Solo in the United Network Command for Law Enforcement as well and David McCallum is originating the character. Just like the series on the television, the movie was set in the 1960s.

Cooper became famous for playing one of the major roles in the movie series “The Hangover” under Warner Bros. along with the movie “The A-team” and “Limitless”. He is presently filming “The Silver linings Playbook” under Weinstein Company directed by David O. Russell. One of his future projects includes “Paradise Lost” under Warner Bros. or Legendary Pictures. He will be playing the character of Alex Proyas in that movie.

In 1999, Cooper stated his acting career in the television series Sex and the City as well as become the presenter for globe Trekker. In 2001, he created his first film entitled “Wet Hot American Summer”. Later on, he played the character of Will Tippin over the television entitled Alias. He leaved Alias in 2003 but came back as a guest twice. In the same year, he starred the short-lived movie series Miss Match as well.

Cooper appeared in the series of WB Jack and Bobby together with I want to Marry Ryan Banks in ABC movie. In the comic movie Wedding Crashers, Cooper played the character of a popular felon and a friend of Matthew McConaughey in the movie Failure to Launch. He also played a remarkable role in the sitcom Kitchen Confidential under Fox. The show was based in the chronicle of Anthony Bourdain who is a chef.

Together with Paul Rudd and Julia Roberts, Cooper starred in Three Days Rain at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater in 2006. He starred as Aidan Stone in the fifth season of Nip/Tuck in the year 2007. In 2008, he played the character of Jake in a stage play entitled The Understudy produced by Theresa Rebeck along with Kristen Johnston. Together with Jim Carrey, he appeared in the movie Yes Man and made an appearance in the film The Rocker in 2008.

Cooper was a host as well; he hosted Saturday Night Live along with guest musician. He starred in the movie He’s Just Not that into You, Case 39 in 2009. In the same year, he also played a remarkable character in the box office movie The Hangover. In fact, the success of the movie the Hangover opened a lot of opportunities for him. During the 13th Hollywood film festival and Hollywood awards of 2009, he received the Hollywood Comedy Award.

Cooper starred in the movie Limitless this year and last August, he is on the process of filming for the film The Place Beyond the Pines as a police Officer. He will play as Satan in his upcoming movie Paradise Lost that is an adaptation of an epic poem.

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An Amazing Gross for Paranormal Activity 3

The third series of the film “Paranormal Activity 3” released yesterday was a certified box office hit. The movie moved viewers stealthily in about 3, 300 cinemas on its first weekend. The horror movie generated more than $30 million in the United States and its gross may escalate up to $42 million outside America according to Paramount. The budget of this movie is higher with $5 million compared to the first two paranormal movies. The budgets of the first two paranormal films are $15, 000 and $3 million consecutively.

The 3D movie “The Three Musketeers” along with “Johnny English” and “The Mighty Macs” are new wide releases during the weekend as well that appeared to be a mixed box office bag. The movie of Kevin Spacey “Margin Call opened in about 50 cinemas during the weekend while “Martha Marcy May Marlene” of Fox Searchlight Sundance will only open in just 4 theaters. However, “Paranormal Activity” owned the box office for the past two pre-Halloween weekends.

For the benefit of those who missed the first series of paranormal, Adam Goodman who is the present president of the Paramount Film Group and studio champion caused an industry-wide sensation in 2009. Oren Peli is the genius who wrote the script and directed the first Paranormal Activity movie in 2007. Producers of the first Paranormal Movie spent about $15, 000 but the movie reached a gross amounting to $194 million all over the globe. In addition, its sequel Paranormal Activity 2 made a remarkable record as well for it reached $40.6 million on its debut weekend and total gross of $177.5 million all over America and some other countries worldwide.

Paranormal Activity 3 received positive comments from movie critics. That information was taken from the reviews aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes last Thursday. Actually, movie reviewers gave 78 percent fresh marks for the movie. The screenwriter of “Disturbia” Christopher Landon wrote that chapter. The first series is about young girls Katie and Kristi who befriended an invisible being in their house.

About 92 percent of male individuals below 25 years old are aware that “Paranormal 3” will be in cinemas. That was the result of the research conducted by the research company NRG. Fifty one percent of that number express great interest in viewing the film and about 23 percent alleged that it would be their first choice whenever they will be going to see a movie in cinemas.

One more widely released movie during the weekend is “The Three Musketeers”. It is a movie influenced by the novel with the same title written by Alexandre Dumas. Representatives of Summit Entertainment films stated that they did not produced the movie but they will be releasing the film in 2, 017 cinemas in North America. The producer of the movie Constantine spent $75 million. However, it only grossed about $48 million in America.

On the Other hand, Universal Studios is not expecting much for Rowan Atkinson’s “Johnny English Reborn”. The movie was rated PG so it had an international audience. The movie done well in some countries in September and this month, it is expected to reach a gross of $100 million.

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Jolie Unveiled the Trailer of Her Debut Movie as a Director

Academy Awardee Best Actress Angelina Jolie gave a glimpse in the movie that she directed entitled “In the Land of Blood and Honey”. Jolie disclosed that the movie that she directed is about love and violence during the war that tattered Bosnia. Jolie’s Blood and Honey’s promotional trailer was released in theaters Friday that made her supporters excited in watching the full version of the movie that she directed.

The trailer revealed a love story of a Serbian man into a Bosnia-Muslim woman who forced to leave each other because of Bosnian disputes in 1992. However, romantic scenes in between the lovers are evident in the movie in spite of combat events. Statements about the power of love along with the capabilities of war emerged as the movie is about to end.

While Jolie was shooting scenes in Bosnia October last year, a controversy in connection to her movie sparked. A group of female war victims expressed their objection towards the movie because it is about a woman falling in love to an enemy. Because of that complain, a government minister revoked the permit of the movie to shoot. Jolie requested the group of women as well as other people to stop judging the movie and wait until the movie is done before they throw their comments. The award-winning actress also revealed that there are lots of twists with regard to the relationship of the major characters and it will be unveiled further the time when the movie is released.

The movie was Jolie’s very first craft with regard to directing. She is the one who wrote the script as well. The stars who will play major roles are newcomers namely Goran Kostic along with Zana Marjanovic. Jolie chooses newcomers instead of famous celebrities in Hollywood to make the movie more authentic. She also opted to shoot scenes not only in English but also in local Serbo-Croat languages to have two versions of the movie. The movie will open in cinemas on the 23rd day of December this year.

Jolie achieved an international career in the year 2001 after creating the movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider that is an adaptation of the famous video game Tomb Raider. Jolie was praised for her performance in that movie. However, her movie itself generated untoward reviews from the critics. In spite of the reviews, the movie generated an amazing gross worldwide reaching $275 million. She starred in the sequel of the movie in 2003 entitled Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life. She was cited as the Hollywood highest paid actress for that film. She created some more amazing projects after that sequel.

Last year, she starred in Salt that became an international success generating about $294 million around the globe. Unlike her first box office hit, this movie received mix reviews from movie critics. In the same year, he starred in the movie The Tourist along with Johnny Depp. The movie does not generate good gross in its early days but eventually it became a domestic box office grossing about $278 million worldwide. Those box office hits molded Jolie to become a famous personality that pushes her to make her own films nowadays.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger and His Come Back Movie

Australian-American, former body builder, actor, director, entrepreneur, investor and the 38th Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger is now back in filmmaking. Lionsgate announced last Monday that Schwarzenegger is now filming a movie entitled “The Last Stand” under the Lions Gate entertainment Corporation.

Schwarzenegger is with “Jackass” star Johnny Knoxville along with Academy Award recipient Forest Whitaker. Some other stars that are included in the cast of “The Last Stand” are Harry Dean Stanton, Rodrigo Santoro, Eduardo Noriega and Jaimie Alexander. Korean director Kim Jee-Woon will direct the movie. He is also the director of the movies “A Tale of Two Sisters” and “The Good, The Bad, The Weird”.

Representatives of Lionsgate Corporation stated that “The Last Stand” is one of the most challenging films in the history of movies. It is about an ex police officer at Los Angeles who turned out to be a sheriff at a border town. The sheriff discovered that he was in the middle of the border and cruel drug interest group. Andrew Knauer’s spec script was the basis of the movie. Jeffrey Nachmanoff rewrote the script. Nachmanoff was also the one who wrote the script of the movie “The Day After Tomorrow”.

Schwarzenegger started as a body builder before establishing an acting career in Hollywood. He achieved the title Mr. Universe at the age of 20 and won Mr. Olympia seven times. He remained in the sports arena for about some time and then wrote various books and articles about sports. A lot of people may recall him on his nickname “Austrian Oak” and “Styrian Oak”. People use to call him that way when he was still in body building industry.

Upon his decision to establish his career in Hollywood, he agreed to portray the role of Hercules in New York in 1970s. After playing the character of Hercules, he starred as a deaf-mute hit man in the movie The Long Goodbye in 1973 directed by Robert Altman. Following that movie, he again starred in the movie “Stay Hungry” in 1976. He received his first acting award in that film being the New Male Star of the Year given by the Golden Globe Award committee. Schwarzenegger faced a lot of difficulties when he is establishing his career. Other people stated that his name was too long and others claimed that his body is very weird to be a Hollywood actor but eventually he made it to stardom.

The moment Schwarzenegger entered the world of politics; he did not mange to make movies temporarily so people did not see him appearing in cinemas for quite a long time. However, in January 2011, he admitted that he is considering going back in filmmaking. He even disclosed that he is reading a script about World War II action drama during that time. The script was entitled “With Wings as Eagles” written by Randal Wallace.

Schwarzenegger divulged that some filmmakers are offering him projects like sequels of “the Terminator”, a remake of the movie “Predator” as well as “The Running Man”. He divulged the idea during a seminar that he attended. However, on May 2011, he announced that the developments of his projects are stopped because of personal matters. Recently, he announced that he would make a comeback movie in spite of legal concerns.

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Matt Damon and his Team in Creating Debut Film

Matt Damon’s contribution in the entertainment industry is undeniably remarkable specifically in making box office hit. He already worked with talented directors in Hollywood from Martin Scorsese to Steven Spielberg. Recently, He made the decision to direct a legal drama “The Office” that he and the actor John Krasinski wrote.

The project was on its early phase for Damon and Krasinski do not have a written agreement about it yet. Both celebrities are stars of Warner Bros. Film in the past. Krasinski was the one who come up of the script and then the novelist Dave Eggers co developed the project. Krasinski informed Damon about the script and the actor extended his eagerness to direct the movie.

On the other hand, the schedule of Damon is full. In December, he will be starring the upcoming movie of Cameron Crowe “We Bought a Zoo”. Following that project is “Elysium” for Neill Blomkamp that is a science fiction drama with a bid-budget. One more project of Damon is under HBO movie “Liberace” opposite of Michael Douglas.

Furthermore, Krasinski has a role to play in “The Muppets” that will be hitting the cinemas next month but will still headline their project with Damon at NBC. Krasinski along with Damon and Chris Moore will produce the film under his Sunday Night banner.

Damon was known for his movies being an American actor and screenwriter. Aside from being a Hollywood celebrity, he is a philanthropist as well. His attained stardom after the success of the film that he wrote with his pal Ben Affleck “Good Will Hunting” in 1997. Damon and Affleck received academy award for Best Screenplay along with Golden Globe award for the same category for their craft. In addition, Damon received a number of nominations for best actor for his performance in the movie.

After the success of his 1997 film, he again starred in another successful movie “Saving Private Ryan” and “Ocean’s Trilogy” along with Bourne series the following year. He received a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1999 for playing the major role in “The Talented Mr. Ripley”. In 2005 to 2006, he received commendations for his movies “Syriana”, “The Gold Shepherd” and “The Departed”. He became a Hollywood hall of famer in 2007 and addressed as the sexiest man alive by a magazine in the same year. In 2009, he was nominated for Academy Award for his character in “Invictus” for the Best Supporting Actor category.

As a philanthropist, he is active in participating good deeds including H2O Africa Foundation, ONE Campaign together with Water.org. He was the founder of H2O foundation which is a charitable group that soon merged with WaterPartners to form Water.org in 2009. Some other Hollywood stars who accompanied Damon for his advocacy are George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Jerry Weintraub and Don Cheadle.

Going back to his producing career, Damon along with his friend Ben Affleck and producers Chris Moore and Stanley Bailey founded a production firm LivePlanet. The group created the project Greenlight that is a documentary series to search and fund promising amateur filmmakers. In 2002, 2004 and 2005, their Project Greenlight was a nominee for the Emmy Awards for outstanding Reality Program category.

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