Oh man, that’s HOT! Matt had to put on some weight for this role, and he looks about 10 years older! Maybe he’ll get the Oscar for this one!

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Bourne it’s apparently not. Matt Damon’s latest, The Informant, which he began shooting in Illinois last month, has been long aborning – at least six years.

First announced in 2002, the film is based on New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald’s book of the same name about real-life agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland and how it was brought to justice after one of its employees leaked info about it.

That would be Mark Whitacre (Damon), who revealed the intricacies of the company’s price-fixing scam that ultimately resulted in its being fined $100 million. Ocean’s 11’s Steven Soderbergh is directing, and, from the look of early production snaps, People’s Sexiest Man Alive isn’t his usual sleek self. Guess he needs to shed those secrets.

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Matt Damon has signed up to star as South Africa rugby legend Francois Pienaar in a new film, Variety magazine reports.

Damon will star alongside Morgan Freeman in the Clint Eastwood-directed Human Factor, due to being filming in South Africa next year.

The film will focus on the life of the former South African president Nelson Mandela, played by Freeman, after the fall of the apartheid and during the campaign to host the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

The host nation went on to win the tournament after defeating New Zealand 15-12 in the final.

The World Cup ended with the iconic image of Mr Mandela dressed in a South African rugby shirt and cap handing Pienaar the famous Webb Ellis trophy.

The film will be based on the book, The Human Factor: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Changed the World, written by John Carlin.

And the screenplay for the big screen adaptation is being penned by Anthony Peckham.

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Going once….

Matt Damon is putting his black, messenger-style baby bag on the auction block.

Also up for grabs: The beachwood highchair that Julianne Moore’s daughter Liv calls her “grown-ups” chair and the Adidas track suit outfit worn by Mariska Hargitay’s son August.

The stars are teaming up for the Johnson’s Celebrity Hand Me Down Auction, which benefits the March of Dimes, Save the Children, Zero to Three and Baby Buggy, among other charities.

The online auction begins April 29th and ends May 9th.

Says The View’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck (who donated a car seat): “It is important to pass certain things on from one generation to the next.

“I still have a children’s bracelet that my mother gave to me, which I will pass on to my daughter one day. There is something priceless about having certain things around you which tell a story.”

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Matt Damon, George Clooney, Elle MacPherson, Thandie Newton, Helena Bonham Carter, and Tim Burton leaving the Harpers Bazaar dinner at L’Atelier in London, England, last night.

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Matt Damon arriving at Nobu in London, England, yesterday.

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