Matt Damon

Casey Affleck gives a devastating performance in 'Manchester by the Sea.'

Long-awaited Chinese-Hollywood epic The Great Wall has finally hit screens in China, testing the water for a new period in US-China film cooperation.

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reprised the roles that made them famous onstage in New York on Friday night, with a surprise appearance in a one-off live reading of the screenplay of Good Will Hunting.

How is it possible to explain why Ben Affleck, star of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad, is sitting pretty in sixth place on Forbes’ 2016 list of the highest-paid male stars in Hollywood with a whopping $43m in fees, while Harrison Ford, who headlined Star Wars: The Force Awakens, languishes down in 20th position with just $15m in earnings over the past year?

Matt Damon returns as rogue agent Jason Bourne in a nonstop action thriller.

Here it is: Matt Damon’s fourth and not necessarily final outing as the CIA’s amnesiac super-assassin gone rogue, Jason Bourne. That’s after The Bourne Identity (2002), The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and not counting franchise spinoff The Bourne Legacy (2012) in which Bourne himself did not actually appear.

The British film-maker Paul Greengrass and the Hollywood film star Matt Damon are sitting in a suite at the Corinthia hotel in central London talking about the opening scene of their new film, a bruising fight in the punishingly visceral style for which the pair have become justly celebrated.

The actor Matt Damon has declared himself unconcerned about the prospect of being replaced in the action franchise with which he’s become synonymous.