On Saturday, green car-maker Fisker, which was approved for a $529 million taxpayer-funded government loan, announced it is recalling 2,400 Karma plug-in hybrids after one of its vehicles caught fire last week in Woodside, California. The incident marks the second
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Action movie “The Bourne Legacy,” with new star Jeremy Renner, raced to the No. 1 spot on U.S. and Canadian box office charts with an estimated $40.3 million in ticket sales over the weekend. New adult
Last weekend saw “The Dark Knight Rises” reign as predicted. Faced with new competition, will Batman hold the top spot? This weekend’s predictions and revenue results go as follows: 1. “The Bourne Legacy” ($32 million) – Replacing Matt Damon was
Fading franchises never die. They just get a facelift and return good as new. After sitting through “The Bourne Legacy,” Hollywood’s attempt to keep Matt Damon adventure series afloat, it’s clear some franchises deserve a rest, not Botox. “Legacy” isn’t
By SANDY COHENAP Entertainment WriterSAN DIEGOMatt Damon says there’s a sense of fury in the U.S. over banking scandals and financial inequality that neither Democrats nor Republicans are addressing in their presidential campaigns. The 41-year-old actor made his comments at
Step aside, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Mark Wahlberg is quickly becoming my favorite Massachusetts movie star. Wahlberg, the rapper-turned-model-turned-actor, has done some incredible work over the past few years. Whether he was garnering an Oscar nomination for his supporting
It’s not Alec Baldwin’s fault. Honest. The Emmy-winning actor, who allegedly assaulted two separate journalists in just one week, is now blaming his public relation woes on … wait for it … New Media. Oh, and the vast Right Wing
The official synopsis for the upcoming science fiction film “Elysium” has been released online. It’s from “District 9” director Neill Blomkamp and stars Matt Damon and Jodie Foster: In the year 2159 two classes of people exist: the very wealthy
Celebrities like Reese Witherspoon, Ben Affleck, Tobey Maguire and Jennifer Garner don’t seem to care about Elizabeth Warren’s propensity for claiming minority status – even when its not earned. The aforementioned stars opened up their wallets last night to raise
(AP) Obama basks again in Hollywood glory, but at cost? By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer Under a tent on George Clooney’s basketball court, the cheers were loud and warm for President Barack Obama. It can’t feel too shabby to
(AP) NEW YORK – NBC says “30 Rock” will be returning next season for a final, abbreviated run. The network said Thursday the much-acclaimed sitcom will air 13 episodes in its seventh season before calling it quits. The show has
Mass. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren famously claimed intellectual credit for the Occupy Wall Street movement, but now she needs Hollywood One Percent types to boost her chances against incumbent Scott Brown. One percenters like Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, J.J. Abrams
Summer starts early at your local cineplex. The season doesn’t technically begin until June 20, but movie studios long ago decided May marked the start of the sweltering summer months. And when the first film is the hotly anticipated “Avengers,” who
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Universal brought Snow White, Bourne and a battleship to CinemaCon on Thursday in the hopes of astonishing theater owners, but all it really needed to pack was a pot-smoking teddy bear. With a reported budget of
Matt Damon is still on President Barack Obama’s Hope and Change Express. He simply took a detour last week to give props to a leader who took action on an issue dear to the actor’s heart – George W. Bush.
George Clooney must realize the toll President Barack Obama’s economy is having on the little people. So, Clooney’s latest fundraising effort to help Obama’s re-election campaign is asking supporters for a measly $3. That’s the minimum amount it will take
Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld: “So Matt Damon is making an anti-fracking movie. Yay! John Krasinksi will star, no doubt also an expert on this cruel practice that extracts natural gas. Boy, I hope he makes goofy faces like he does
Donald Trump takes issue with Matt Damon’s upcoming anti-fracking film on “Fox & Friends.” Trump contended that celebrities like Damon have “no clue,” “no practical sense” about energy issues.
Matt Damon isn’t shy about his political leanings, witness projects like “Green Zone” and his ties to late radical historian Howard Zinn. But the “Bourne” star is keeping mum about his latest project, “Promised Land,” a movie filmmaker Phelim McAleer
There will be no HomeVideodrome podcast this week, we shall return next week. Normally films that have the premise of a bond between a person and an animal make me wretch. I loved Disney’s “Old Yeller” as a kid, and cried every
Reading Jason Mattera’s book, “Hollywood Hypocrites,” made me feel like I was back in grad school, except I was sober this time. The last week has been a graduate seminar in Hollywood Hypocrisy, and reading Mattera’s book while paying attention to the
The New York Times bestselling author of the explosive new book, Hollywood Hypocrites: The Devastating Truth About Obama’s Biggest Backers, Jason Mattera, had his crew’s camera snatched and hurled by comedian Chris Rock when he asked the star why he has called the
In case you haven’t noticed from the endless barrage of TV commercials touting how many Golden Globes various films have won or been nominated for – or boasting about how many more-obscure awards films have won – we’re in the
For years, actors have been essentially insulting half their potential audience by trashing the right in press interviews and talk show appearances. Just ask Kate Beckinsale, who told Entertainment Weekly regarding the 2008 elections – “And I was so shocked
If Matt Damon is disillusioned with The One, Harry Belafonte is downright dismayed with President Barack Obama’s first term. The Calypso crooner didn’t hold back during a recent radio chat on “Smiley & West,” co-hosted by Tavis Smiley and Cornel
Oscar winner George Clooney doesn’t think it makes sense for actors to campaign for their favorite politician. Then why does everyone with access to a TV or web platform know of his undying affection for President Barack Obama? Clooney, currently
I highly recommend the documentary “His Way” as a testament to one man’s persistence, the value of being optimistic and looking for opportunities when others see problems. In covering a man, Jerry Weintraub, for whom the Bush family helped end
“Tree of Life” grossed a pretty pathetic $13 million, “Happy Feet Two” grossed an abysmal $60 million, and “Moneyball” grossed only an okay $75 million. But in this market, where the concept of the movie star is all but dead,
With the new year just around the corner, Reason.tv is looking back at some of our favorite videos of 2011. Here is a five-video playlist of the most watched videos of the the past year, including Remy’s Debt-Ceiling Rap, Peter
1. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol: $26.5M — The only real bright spot, the only unqualified hit of the season. Cruise’s 4th outing with impossible missions should exceed the take of the last one. You can’t ask for more than
The new film “We Bought a Zoo” focuses on a widower who buys a new home for his two young children. The house has one amenity that didn’t make it to the brochure; it has a zoo in the backyard.
Actor Matt Damon got swept up in Obama-mania like 97 percent of the film industry. Many of Damon’s peers have since bent over backwards – and then some – to explain away the president’s less than stellar tenure in the
THE PROBLEM WITH KEVIN SMITH Yep: So it pains me to have to say that ‘Real Life’ Kevin Smith is anything but “silent” in our sphere of reality. Instead, Smith has become more and more adept at alerting everyone in
Kyle Smith: Perplexingly, things take a turn for the gay: Damon’s krill says he wants to raise kids together, at which point Pitt’s notes that they’re both males, yet Damon thinks this is no big deal and (I’m not making
Director George Miller’s “Happy Feet Two” is neither happy nor as hip as his original Oscar-winning predecessor. Without the strong presence of a few add-on side characters, “Two” would have been one slippery mess. [youtube twYq5QkNPKw nolink] —– “Two” welcomes
On this week’s episode of the HomeVideodrome podcast, we discuss Ozzy and Dio in Black Sabbath, wonder why Julia Roberts ever became America’s sweetheart and dedicate “Hell Awaits” by Slayer to Joe Paterno and Jerry Sandusky. So go listen, and
—– Politico: The video stars Kevin Spacey, Matt Damon, Sean Penn, Kristen Wiig, Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen as part of the foundation’s celebrity division, pumping out ideas like not breathing to save the environment. There’s
Lots of good movies were released in 1997, and hardly any great ones. On the other hand, Will Shortz celebrates 1997 for “Ulee’s Gold.” The Nominees: “Titanic” – This may mark the only time that I’ve ever completely agreed with
The last thing I want for my dear readers is to burden them with the human filth that confronts me daily. But periodically, one of the voices in the comments section of our times comes to life right in front
There are several ways one can go about making an “epidemic thriller” like “Contagion.” The 1995 thriller “Outbreak” starring Dustin Hoffman served as a race against time; last year’s “Never Let Me Go” pulled at our heartstrings through the emotional