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Damon: ‘I’ve had movies bomb worse’ than anti-fracking film ‘Promised Land’

Matt Damon addresses a press conference in Berlin February 8, 2013. (AFP)

Matt Damon defended his new anti-fracking feature, Berlin film festival contender “Promised Land”, Friday against poor reviews and ticket sales and said it was getting harder to make “issue movies”. Damon, who co-wrote the script and stars in the picture directed by Gus Van Sant, said he was bewildered by…

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Matt Damon about to start filming ‘anti-fracking blockbuster’

Matt Damon in 2011 via AFP

Hollywood star Matt Damon is hunting for some “great character faces” for a feature film he is making with director Gus Van Sant said to be critical about fracking for natural gas. In a notice seen Friday on the website of the Pittsburgh Film Office in Philadelphia, the casting team…

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Short Bamboo Reviews: The Times of Harvey Milk

On the recommendations of many readers, I checked out “The Times of Harvey Milk“. Obviously, it covers a lot of the same ground as Gus Van Sant’s new biopic “Milk” (please drag your on-the-fence friends to see it so they get closer to getting it), but I think because of…

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Owner of Cinemark gives $9,999 to Prop 8, and now stands to profit from ‘Milk’

How many ways of wrong is this? CEO of Cinemark, Alan Stock, who gave $9999 to Yes on 8, be allowed to earn one dime on the back of Harvey Milk’s legacy by running Gus Van Sant’s “Milk” in his theaters (it opens wide on Nov. 26)? If 1,000 of…

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