Matt Damon’s “Promised Land,” a film pitting a rural Pennsylvania community against a greedy natural gas company, hit theaters in limited release over the weekend. Turns out there’s little pent-up demand for a Hollywood tale trashing the process of fracking.
Knee-jerk ideology has poisoned the creative wells of two of Hollywood’s more talented stars. “Promised Land,” an anti-fracking propaganda film dressed up as Oscar-season fare, re-teams “Good Will Hunting” star Matt Damon with director Gus Van Sant. Neither can salvage
The Huffington Post published a stern rebuke to celebrities attacking the process of fracking one day before the release of Hollywood’s most strident anti-fracking feature. “Promised Land,” starring and co-written by Matt Damon, pits a small Pennsylvania town against a
Matt Damon is one of Hollywood’s more outspoken celebrities, and he’s not afraid of using his film projects to further his progressive agenda. Just watch – if you can – his 2010 bomb “Green Zone” which rewrites recent history to
The intense battle over hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is now taking place on screen. Two films that take opposing sides on the issue are going to war. The first is the anti-fracking film “Promised Land,” opening nationwide Friday.
Mark Cuban’s AXS TV has picked up the rights to “FrackNation,” a documentary that pushes back against the Hollywood-HBO anti-fracking complex that demonizes the technology that can potentially help economically depressed parts of the country in addition to making America
Months before “The Bourne Legacy” hit theaters, the superhero smash “The Avengers” told us Jeremy Renner is a first-rate action hero. So when “Legacy” arrived in theaters late summer with the erstwhile Hawkeye taking over for Matt Damon, we knew
Matt Damon’s new movie has some friends in very high places. Apple teamed up with Damon to promote the actor’s new movie “Promised Land,” a film attacking both oil and gas companies as well as the process of fracking. The
Phelim McAleer asked Matt Damon a question recently that no other professional journalist will likely ask the actor during the star’s current publicity tour. Damon’s new film, “Promised Land,” is by all early accounts an assault on the practice of
Matt Damon, who thought President Barack Obama didn’t veer as far left in his first-term as he would have wanted, revealed a real shocker: he voted for Obama in 2012. Damon said sheepishly, “I voted for him. Absolutely, I voted
After NBC’s “The Today Show.” Host Matt Lauer asked how a man should deal with a girlfriend who “tosses salads” with unclean hands actor Matt Damon answered “That’s not what they told me about tossing salad!” Damon joked
HBO is home to not just fine programming like “The Sopranos” and “Boardwalk Empire,” but to some of the most liberally charged content on the small screen. Consider “The Newsroom,” “Real Time with Bill Maher” and “Game Change” as exhibits
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“Promised Land” features lead performances by Matt Damon and John Krasinski and is directed by Gus Van Sant. Damon and Krasinski are also credited with writing the script. A trailer has just hit the web, and guess who the bad
The movie “Won’t Back Down,” which stars Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis as reformers trying to battle education bureaucrats and teachers unions to help children, has irked progressive movie critics. Reviewers have been dismissing the film as “propaganda,” trying to
Matt Damon’s new movie, “Promised Land,” is a propaganda piece that trashes fracking techniques used by American oil companies. The movie presents American oil companies as greedy corporations that trash and pollute small-town America in attempts to extract oil and gas from
Another day, another Mensa Joe Biden whopping lie – and this time there were two. Speaking at a high school in Detroit, Mensa Joe blustered Whopper #1: My dad used to say you measure a man or woman – it wasn’t whether
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
