Matt Damon's past as Jason Bourne worked as an unexpected advantage when casting him in Stillwater.

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made is already vying for the Best Movie Title of 2020. The upcoming Disney+ movie is an adaptation of Stephan Pastis's children's book series, which started with a title by the same name, first published back in 2013. Timmy Failure sees Oscar-winner Tom McCarthy (Spotlight) in the director's chair and penning the story alongside Pastis. It centers on the title character (Winslow Fegley), a one-kid (and one polar bear) detective agency set in the very quirky and very fitting setting of Portland, Oregon. The first trailer for the streaming feature is …

Oscar-winning filmmaker Tom McCarthy (Spotlight) has a new project on the horizon, and while it may no longer have an official title, it does have a release date. Focus Features will release Participant Media’s Untitled Tom McCarthy Project, directed by McCarthy and starring Academy Award-winner Matt Damon, domestically on Friday, November 6, 2020 (Limited) and will expand on both November 13, 2020 and November 20, 2020. Universal Pictures International will release in select international markets. Previously known as Stillwater, the awards-contender sees Damon playing a blue-collar oil-worker navigating the foreign soil and culture of …

Matt Damon is gunning for another Oscar, as he has signed on to star in Tom McCarthy's drama Stillwater, which is heating up at Participant Media. Damon will play Bill, an American oil rig worker from Oklahoma who travels to Marseille, France to visit his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter. In the process, he develops a friendship with a local woman and her young daughter, and embarks on …