First Matt Damon’s “Green Zone” Poster
The first poster for the upcoming war film “Green Zone,” based on Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s nonfiction book “Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone,” has been released.
“Green Zone” Plot: “During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission.
Spun by operatives with intersecting agendas, Miller must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil for answers that will either clear a rogue regime or escalate a war in an unstable region. And at this blistering time and in this combustible place, he will find the most elusive weapon of all is the truth.”
The film is directed by Paul Greengass (Bourne Supremacy, United 93, Bourne Ultimatum). The script was written by Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential, Conspiracy Theory, Mystic River, Man on Fire).
Matt Damon and Josh Brolin Join Coen Brothers’ True Grit
Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are in discussions to join the next Coen brothers film – remake of the 1969 western classic “True Grit.”
Jeff Bridges is already a member of the cast as Marshall “Rooster” Cogburn, originally played by John Wayne who won an Oscar for this role.
The original “True Grit,” based on the Charles Portis novel, tells the story of U.S. marshal Rooster Cogburn and another man in uniform tracking the killer of a 14 year-old girl’s father.
The Coens are planning a more faithful adaptation of the novel so the story is told from the point-of-view of the young girl, and not of Rooster Cogburn (Bridges’ character).
Damon will play the Texas Ranger (originally played by Glen Campbell) that works with Cogburn and Brolin will fill the villain part – the murderous man they’re chasing.
Green Zone Trailer Released
The trailer for Iraq War film “Green Zone” has debuted.
“Green Zone” synopsis: During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission.
Spun by operatives with intersecting agendas, Miller must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil for answers that will either clear a rogue regime or escalate a war in an unstable region. And at this blistering time and in this combustible place, he will find the most elusive weapon of all is the truth.
Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus” Poster
The first poster for director Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus” (formerly titled The Human Factor), starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman has been released.
The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa’s underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
The Informant Review
“The Informant” is a true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in US history, with Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre, a rising star at an agri-industry giant who imagined himself to be some kind of secret agent by exposing his company’s price-fixing to the FBI in the 90s. Only Whitacre wasn’t all that he seemed, neglecting to mention to the FBI the $9.5 million he’d siphoned off from the corporate coffers.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh, The Informant! stars Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre, an employee at Illinois-based ADM (Archer Daniels Midland), a company that produces food additives, among other things. Whitacre, a Ph.D. from an Ivy League school, works in biochemistry, but eventually climbs the corporate ladder and finds himself working behind a desk making a very comfortable living. That is until one day, he finds himself in a mess of trouble when the company’s lysine production is threatened by a virus in the bugs used to produce the lysine. It is Whitacre’s job to make the problem go away, lest the company continue to lose millions of dollars each and every month…read more [Empire Movies]
Steven Soderbergh’s new film, The Informant, takes a serious issue and plays it for laughs. This is a strange choice, given the current economic climate and the greediness of the higher ups in corporate America, and it only occasionally works. The film’s tone is constantly being shifted from one extreme (goofy comedy) to another (serious drama), and one has to wonder if the film believes in its subject, or even cares for him. That man in question is Mark Whitacre, employee of the food producing Archer Daniels Midland, a company that was suspected of price fixing in the mid 1990s. Whitacre, suspecting illegal activity, went undercover for the FBI for two and a half years, and wound up doing more harm to himself than the company he was trying to report; he was guilty of as much stuff as they were. Was he naïve, mentally ill, or just plain dumb? Confusingly, the film implies all three…read more [411mania.com]
Matt Damon to Star in Clint Eastwood’s “Hereafter”
Matt Damon will star in supernatural thriller “Hereafter,” Clint Eastwood’s next producing-directing project for Warner Bros. Pictures, set to begin shooting this fall.
Peter Morgan, who got an Oscar nomination for “Frost/Nixon,” wrote the script. Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Morgan and Tim Moore are executive producing. Spielberg previously worked as producer on Eastwood’s “Flags Of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima.”
Not much has been said about what Damon’s role will be in the film. All we know, is that he’ll star as the lead character.
New Matt Damon’s “The Informant!” Image
Here’s a brand new and Hi-Res image of Matt Damon from comedy/thriller “The Informant!,” directed by Oscar winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh. Don’t forget to enlarge it.
The film is based on a 2000 best-seller “The Informant: A True Story” a nonfiction thriller written by journalist Kurt Eichenwald. Scott Z. Burns (”The Bourne Ultimatum”) wrote the screenplay.
Check out the trailer for the movie if you haven’t seen it yet.
In the movie, the US government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), who is the highest-level whistle-blower the FBI ever managed to flip.
Soderbergh’s new film which also stars Frank Welker, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Bakula, Patton Oswalt, Tony Hale, Thomas F. Wilson, Joel McHale and Eddie Jemison will hit theaters on October 9th, 2009.
For more movie info, photos, posters go ti “The Informant” FilmoFilia Movie Page
Steven Soderbergh’s “The Informant!” Poster
Yahoo Movies has premiered a new poster for Matt Damon comedy/thriller “The Informant!,” directed by Oscar winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh. He is best known for directing the films “Sex, Lies, and Videotape”, “Erin Brockovich”, “Traffic”, the Ocean’s Eleven franchise, and biopic “Che.”
Based on Kurt Eichenwald’s 2000 book, “The Informant!” is the tale of Mark Whitacre (played by Matt Damon), an Ivy League Ph.D. who was a rising star at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s. The bipolar hero wound up blowing the whistle on the company’s price fixing tactics and became the highest-ranked executive to ever turn whistleblower in US history. Whitacre secretly gathered hundreds of hours of video and audio tapes over several years to present to the FBI which became one of the largest price fixing cases in history. In the story Whitacre’s good deed dovetails with his own major infractions and struggle with severe bipolar disorder.
Soderbergh’s new film, starring Matt Damon, Frank Welker, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Bakula, Patton Oswalt, Tony Hale, Thomas F. Wilson, Joel McHale and Eddie Jemison, will hit theaters on October 9th, 2009.
First Matt Damon’s “The Informant” Poster
Here’s the first poster for the upcoming Matt Damon’s “The Informant” directed by Oscar winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh.
In the movie, the US government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), who is the highest-level whistle-blower the FBI ever managed to flip.
“The Informant” is based on Kurt Eichenwald’s 2000 best-seller “The Informant: A True Story.” The screenplay was adapted by Scott Z. Burns.
Soderbergh’s new film, starring Matt Damon, Frank Welker, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Bakula, Patton Oswalt, Tony Hale, Thomas F. Wilson, Joel McHale and Eddie Jemison will hit theaters on October 9th, 2009.
If you haven’t seen “The Informant” trailer, check it out now!
First Matt Damon’s “The Informant” Trailer!
Warner Bros. Pictures has released the trailer for “The Informant,” Steven Soderbergh’s new film, starring Matt Damon, Frank Welker, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Bakula, Patton Oswalt, Tony Hale, Thomas F. Wilson, Joel McHale, and Eddie Jemison.
Matt Damon | The Informant
In the movie, the US government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), who is the highest-level whistle-blower the FBI ever managed to flip. The film is based on Kurt Eichenwald’s 2000 best-seller “The Informant: A True Story.”
The film is made based on a nonfiction thriller book written by journalist Kurt Eichenwald. Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum) penned the screenplay.
“The Informant” is scheduled to open on October 9th, 2009, after debuting at the Toronto Film Festival.
