Matt Damon Blasts President Obama Again

First Published: December 22, 2011 2:24 PM EST Credit: Getty Images LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Matt Damon steps out at the Contagion premiere at Lincoln Center in NY City on September 7, 2011Academy Award winner Matt Damon was one of Barack Obamas most vocal Hollywood supporters in the 2008 election, but the actor has since changed his tune. After speaking out against Obamas economic decisions to Piers Morgan last year, the We Bought a Zoo star has expressed his disappointment with the Commander-in-Chief yet again. Ive talked to a lot of people who worked for Obama at the grassroots level. One of them said to me, Never again. I will never be fooled again by a politician, Matt, 41, told Elle magazine in a new interview. You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better. Referencing nearby Occupy Vancouver protestors (the interview took place in the British Columbian city), Matt said the President had more than enough of a mandate to make more drastic political decisions. If the Democrats think that they didnt have a mandatepeople are literally without any focus or leadership, just wandering out into the streets to yell right now because they are so pissed off, he told the mag. Imagine if they had a leader. As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, though Matt may have strong political opinions, the actor shot down rumors of possible political aspirations earlier this year. When asked by a paparazzo if hed consider running for President back in August, Matt quickly replied, No, sir. Adding, I think there are probably better choices out there. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Kendall Jenner Dishes On Kardashian Sisters

First Published: December 19, 2011 3:44 PM EST Credit: Access Hollywood Caption The adorable Kendall Jenner chats with Billy Bush and Kit Hoover on Access Hollywood Live on December 19, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- With Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian, Kendall Jenner has three sisters to offer up advice on everything from guys to her career but which ones blunt honesty can sometimes come off as a little mean? I dont have a favorite, I love them all! Kendall told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover on Mondays Access Hollywood Live. So, who does the 16-year-old Kendall and younger sister Kylie, 14, go to when they need guidance on dating? Its so hard right now. Sometimes, we go to Kim, but then when we go to Kim, Khloe is like, Why are you going to Kim? Like, I have the husband! Kendall said with a laugh. Kendall explained to Billy and Kit that Kim is the sister she looks to for guidance on her career as a model, but what about help with friends? I would say Kourtney, but sometimes Kourtney, shes just like, she doesnt care, so she could be like mean about things, she explained. As for Khloe, she just gives good advice about everything, the young reality star told Billy and Kit. In related news, check out the Kardashian/Jenner family Christmas card, HERE! Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Official Expendables 2 Poster Arrives

Your investment fake, here's the actual dealAteaser trailer yesterday, now a poster?Oh Mr.Stallone, you're really ruining us together with your Expendables 2 press announcements...Oddly enough - in comparison towards the original's advertising campaign , a minimum of - there's a smaller amount of the entire "Take a look at our castlist!" position, and much more of "Hey it is the second one!" vibe.Sure, will still be got that ludicrously large listing of names at the very top, however it in some way maintains that distinct Expendables impact, even without all individuals guns we have arrived at expect.Take a look below and let's read your comments within the comment box below. Will the inclusion of JCVDand Chuck Norris - in addition to a new director - presuade you back for any second dose of hyper-masculine action? Click on the image for any hi-res version on AICNExpendables 2 is anticipated to shoot and bang and boom and bang its distance to movie theaters at some stage in August 2012.

Paris Jackson Informs Ellen: It Had Been "Stupid" Our Father Made Us Put on Masks

Paris Jackson Michael Jackson's 13-year-old daughter Paris made an appearance around the Ellen DeGeneres Show Wednesday, on her first-ever solo interview, where she talked about her adoration for acting and her relationship together with her late father."He stated, 'If I die tomorrow, remember things i said.A I required his advice, and that i appreciated everything he explained,Inch Paris stated, when requested about the wedding factor her father ever stated to her.She also addressed her unconventional upbringing - masks and all sorts of. Browse the clip:

Online music site sues Universal Music Group

Online storage service Megaupload filed suit against Universal Music Group, claiming that the music giant abused copyright law in an effort to get a promotional video removed from YouTube in which artists like Kanye West, Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys and Chris Brown appear to endorse the company. The lawsuit is being used by critics of anti-piracy legislation in Congress to show the overzealousness of content companies even when it comes to existing copyright laws. Megaupload is a frequent target of studios and record labels, and appeared on an MPAA list of "notorious" foreign websites that routinely host pirated movies and music for download. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, claims that after Megaupload unveiled its promotional video, called "Megasong," UMG issued a takedown notice to YouTube, claiming copyright infringement and asking it to remove the video. Under the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, user-generated sites like YouTube can gain "safe harbor" from infringement claims if they take down the material quickly when getting a notice from a copyright holder. Megaupload claims that all of the performers and industry figures in its video -- which also included Will.i.am, Sean Combs, Jamie Foxx and Brett Ratner -- executed "full releases of any intellectual property rights" to the video, including the use of their likeness. UMG disputes this claim and said it had complaints from some of its artists. UMG's "acts in filing improper DMCA notices to materially cause Internet intermediaries such as YouTube to take down the Megaupload song video has cause Megaupload substantial injury and money damages," the company said in its suit. "Indeed, it appears as though UMG permits recording artists to exercise their views and free speech only when UMG agrees with such speech." A spokesman for UMG said the case is "an on-going dispute that surfaced several weeks ago with respect to the unauthorized use of a performance from one of our artists. We heard from a number of other artists, and their representatives, who told us that they never consented to being portrayed in this video. As a result, at least one of them has already sent a takedown notice for the unauthorized use." A source said that the artist was Will.i.am. Attorney Ira Rothken, who filed the suit on behalf of Megaupload, said that the company "stands by the notion that they got breathtakingly broad releases from each of the folks who appear in the music video. We believe that UMG's argument is demonstrably false." Rothken added that the company had "a very broad agreement with Will.i.am to use his statements in the context of that music video." Meanwhile, supporters and opponents continued their flurry of lobbying activity in advance of a Thursday vote by the House Judiciary Committee on a controversial anti-piracy bill. Even though one of its key supporters, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) unveiled a series of changes on Monday designed to win over skeptics to some of its provisions, the Internet lobby again came out against it. The NetCoalition, which includes Google, Facebook and Twitter, said that the changes "create new problems in other places and fails to correct some of the original concerns we have raised since the start of the debate," in the words of the coalition's executive director, Markham Erickson. A more dramatic protest against the legislation could come from Wikipedia. Its founder, Jimmy Wales, posted a message on the site asking users whether they should stage a "blackout" to send a message in opposition to the legislation. But MPAA chairman Chris Dodd, appearing at an event at the Center for American Progress, compared the debate over the legislation to the "misinformation" that surrounded the debate over healthcare reform and Wall Street reform. He said that "misinformation -- spread both knowingly by those who have a financial interest in the status quo and by those who are well-intentioned and misled -- threatens to derail much needed reform." "Hollywood is pro-Internet," he said. "We stand with those who strongly oppose foreign governments that would unilaterally block websites, and thus deny the free flow of information and speech. So I want to make it clear right at the outset that our fight against content theft is not a fight against technology. It is a fight against criminals." Contact Ted Johnson at ted.johnson@variety.com

Niche Box Office: December 10-11

Carrying out a solid $22.6M European opening, Focus Features’ Mess, Tailor, Soldier, Spy began its U . s . States run in 4 theaters (2 in New you are able to city, 2 in LA) by getting a remarkable per screen average of $75+K. Everywhere again experienced become not possible or close to become not possible conditions from late matinee using the 9PM shows. The weekend results make Mess Tailor the #3 greatest opening average of niche films this season, behind #1 Woodsy Allen’s Evening amount of time in Paris and #2 Terence Malick’s Tree Of Existence and #3rd film opening on 4 screens on record. Vital’s Youthful Adult platformed in 8 theaters with $40K per screen earnings. Vital highlights it-made the expansions of both Artist and Shame on half the screens. Vital gets the Adventures Of Tintin for domestic, and also the new the new sony for overseas. The Steven Spielberg/Healing For Healing For Peter Jackson collaboration gets a great come from The U . s . States’s Quebec following an effective European run. (Tintin Passes $200M Worldwide Will U.S. Audiences Board The Bandwagon?) Tintin made an thought $8.1M on 6,000 screens in 51 areas in the last weekend, obtaining the cume to $233.7M now. Company breakdown may be the following: The brand new the new sony $170.5M cume, Vital $52.7M cume, others $10.5M cume: Mess, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Focus Features) NEW [4 Theaters] Weekend $300K, Per Screen Average $75,184 Youthful Adult (Vital) NEW [8 Theaters] Weekend $320K, Per Screen $40,000 The Adventures Of Tintin (Vital) NEW [70 Theaters] Weekend $1.3M, Per Screen $19,113, Cume $1.4M Ladies Versus Ough Bahl (Yash Raj Films) NEW [80 Theaters] Weekend $211K, Per Screen $2,640 I Melt Together With You (Magnolia) NEW [2 Theaters] Weekend $3K, Per Screen $1,293 Panjaa (India) NEW [31 Theaters] Weekend $194K, Per Screen $6,274, Cume $194K Osthe (India) NEW [16 Theaters] Weekend $60K, Per Screen $3,800, Cume $60K Cent Pinchers (CJE) NEW (1 Theater) Weekend $5K, Per Screen $5,878, Cume $5K Eye In The Storm (EONE) NEW [3 Theaters] Weekend $5K, Per Screen $1,874, Cume $5K Miracle To Win (China) NEW [5 Theaters] Weekend $5K, Per Screen $1,049, Cume $5K Shame (Fox Searchlight) Week 2 [21 Theaters] Weekend $276K, Per Screen $13,146, Cume $774K My Week With Marilyn (Weinstein Co) Week 3 [244 Theaters] Weekend $784K, Per Screen $3,213, Cume $5.1M The Artist (The Weinstein Co) Week 3 [16 Theaters] Weekend $292K, Per Screen $18,258, Cume $885K A Dangerous Method (The brand new the new sony Classics) Week 3 [4 Theaters) Weekend $80K, Per Screen $20,031, Cume $539K Melancholia (Magnolia) Week 5 [135 Theaters] Weekend $222K, Per Screen $1,644, Cume $1.9M Constantly (Vital Vantage) Week 7 [162 Theaters] Weekend $170K, Per Screen $1,049, Cume $3.1M Margin Call (Kerbside Sights) Week 8 [146 Theaters] Weekend $184K, Per Screen $1,265, Cume $5M Martha Marcy May Marlene (Fox Searchlight) Week 8 [64 Theaters] Weekend $48K, Per Screen $751, Cume $2.8M The Skin Home Is (The brand new the new sony Classics) Week 9 [109 Theaters] Weekend $111K, Per Screen $1,029, Cume $2.8M Take Shelter (The brand new the new sony Classics) Week 11 [63 Theaters] Weekend $47K, Per Screen $747, Cume $1.5M, Evening amount of time in Paris (The brand new the new sony Classics) Week 30 [195 Theaters] Weekend $128K, Per Screen $657, Cume $56.1M

25 Things You Didn't Know About 'Ocean's 11'

Proving that even passion projects for high-grossing directors cost a pound of flesh, Vulture reports that Michael Bay may come back for a fourth 'Transformers' film -- provided the studio lets him make 'Pain and Gain.' "Without 'Pain & Gain,' there's not tit for tat," said a source to Vulture. "That's Paramount's leverage." Bay has been looking to make 'Pain and Gain,' based on a series of articles in the Miami New Times, since 1999. (The film -- described as 'Fargo'-esque -- follows two bodybuilders who wind up embroiled in a kidnapping and extortion plot to increasingly terrible results.) Per Vulture, if the deals for 'Pain and Gain' and 'Transformers 4' are reached, things could move very quickly; 'Gain' could shoot in the spring, with 'Transformers' headed to cameras by winter of 2012. While nothing is official yet, apparently Bay and the studio are "not far" from an agreement. During the press for 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon,' it was thought that Bay was done with the series (Shia LaBeouf, who is done with the franchise, said as much), but it appears that isn't the case. What plot 'Transformers 4' will use remains to be seen, but it likely won't be a prequel. Vulture thinks this could all become official in the coming week; considering what happened with Benicio Del Toro, however, don't hold your breath for too long. [via Vulture] [Photo: Paramount] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Judge Allows Sheens Ex-Wife To Return Home

First Launched: December 6, 2011 12:12 PM EST Credit: WireImage Caption Charlie Sheen, Brooke Mueller in addition to their kids Lola and Mike at the ability of Elysium Benefit on August 25, 2007ASPEN, Colo. -- A Colorado judge will let actor Charlie Sheens ex-wife, Brooke Mueller, revisit California following her arrest in Aspen on assault and drug charges. A Pitkin County judge on Monday approved a request by Muellers attorney allowing Mueller to come back home so she'll take proper care of her children. In line with the Aspen Daily News, authorities arrested Mueller Saturday inside a nightclub carrying out a lady reported being assault by Mueller. Government physiques released Mueller after she released $11,000 bond. She's due in the court 12 ,. 19. Sheen and Mueller divorced taken, stating Christmas Day 2009 since the day's their breakup. Sheen was arrested in Aspen tomorrow on suspicion of attacking Mueller. He completed his probation because situation last November. Copyright 2011 with the Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Are Movie Titles Too Literal?

I. In which I introduce the premise. Ever since 'Snakes on a Plane,' goes the argument in this essay at Slate, movie and TV titles have become too literal, serving as spoilers for the content. Other current and recent examples: 'Tower Heist,' 'Bridesmaids,' 'Cowboys and Aliens,' 'The Social Network,' 'Step Brothers,' 'Wedding Crashers,' and 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin.' (The author might also have mentioned 'Drive,' 'The Muppets,' 'The Smurfs,' and 'A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas.') Such titles, the article argues, are a triumph of marketing over content and indicate a severe lack of creativity on the part of our filmmakers. To which I have to respond with a giant, "Yes, but..." For one thing, this isn't exactly a new phenomenon. Now, as in decades past, movie marquees offer a variety of titles, some simplified for marketing reasons, some still ambiguous and literary. Also, without meaning to, the Slate author has hit upon a particular genre of comedy, spearheaded by Judd Apatow, in which the bluntness of the title ('40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Bridesmaids,' as well as 'Knocked Up') is part of the joke. It actually echoes the content of the movie, as if to promise that the humor contained within will be equally blunt and frank. So let's leave those out of the discussion. OK? Let's continue. II. In which I note that 'twas ever thus. The Slate piece implies some golden age of more creative movie titles, but Hollywood started simplifying titles to make them more market-friendly decades ago. In 1957, Warner Bros. changed 'The Sleeping Prince' (as Terence Rattigan's play was called) to 'The Prince and the Showgirl' to emphasize box-office draw Marilyn Monroe's presence. There are plenty of classic movies with blunt, ordinary titles: 'The Gold Rush,' 'The Champ,' 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,' 'The Ten Commandments,' 'An American in Paris,' 'The Killing,' 'Judgment at Nuremberg,' 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.' Many directors made films with both kinds of titles. Western king John Ford did 'Stagecoach' (duh) and 'My Darling Clementine' (which gives no hint that it's about the shootout at the OK Corral). Alfred Hitchcock made 'Psycho,' 'The Birds,' 'To Catch a Thief,' and 'Lifeboat,' but he also made 'Shadow of a Doubt,' 'Strangers on a Train,' 'Vertigo,' and 'North by Northwest.' Conversely, there are plenty of contemporary titles that are more evocative than informative: 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,' 'In the Land of Blood and Honey,' 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' 'The Interrupters,' 'The Tree of Life,' 'Crazy, Stupid, Love.' Granted, most of these are art-house movies, meant for audiences with a taste for ambiguity. Nonetheless, you could argue that some titles can be too reductive, to the point where they're unmemorable. 'Warrior' might have done better with a less generic title. Same with 'Shark Night,' 'Our Idiot Brother,' 'Abduction,' and 'In Time.' Still, Slate has a point when even art films go the simplified title route. How is 'Carnage' a better title than the original 'God of Carnage,' except for its brevity? Why else shorten 'The Invention of Hugo Cabret' to 'Hugo'? (Too French, maybe?) And 'J. Edgar'? Was Clint Eastwood worried there wouldn't be room on the marquee for Hoover's last name? III. In which I do an about-face and try to blame the Internet. Slate suggests that movie titlers have been influenced by YouTube, where the titles are purely descriptive and user-friendly, but perhaps we should take this idea one step further. Doesn't it seem like these utilitarian movie titles were designed not just by marketers but by SEO experts? (Search Engine Optimization.) It's like they have to make sure they get the keywords in there so that the movie titles will get picked up by search engines. (After all, that's how you find videos on YouTube of piano-playing cats or smoking Indonesian babies.) This even applies to the non-spoiler-y titles. The only way an incomprehensible title like 'Quantum of Solace' makes marketing sense is that there's no other event on the Internet likely to put those two nouns together in the same phrase. Oh, also, the Internet has helped ruin our attention spans, so we don't have the patience for long, poetic titles. Plus, the short ones are easier to text. IV. In which I ponder the notion that the movies themselves are so forgettable these days that it's much more interesting to analyze their marketing than their content. Well, yeah, there's that. V. In which I try to make some current movie titles more oblique and mysterious by using Babelfish to translate them into Japanese and then back into English. Wouldn't you be more intrigued by a multiplex marquee listing the following movies: Damage of Dawn Immortal Person Burglar of Tower Lass of Boots Like Insanity Ram Liquor Diary Steel Iron of Substance My Week of the Mali Phosphorus Alas, this trick didn't work on 'Drive,' 'The Artist,' 'Shame,' or even 'Happy Feet Two,' all of which came back unaltered. VI. In which I poll the readers. Do You Prefer Blunt, Spoiler-y Movie Titles?Yes. They help me decide whether or not to see the movie.No. They signal a lack of creativity on the part of the filmmakers.Vote [Photos: FilmDistrict, Disney, Lionsgate] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook Follow Gary Susman on Twitter: @garysusman