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Is Matt Damon getting ready to be Bourne again...and again...and again?

Universal has just inked a deal with Robert Ludlum's estate for exclusive rights to the Jason Bourne character and first look at his other novels.

The agreement allows the studio to forge ahead with three more Bourne movies and continue a franchise that has so far spawned more than $1 billion in worldwide grosses and is widely considered to be kicking the crap out of a certain martini-mad rival spy guy.

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Jason Bourne can't be caught. Not by James Bond.

When final weekend box-office numbers were released Monday, Quantum of Solace's whopping $70.4 million debut had been revised—and downsized—to $67.5 million.

The sum is still whopping, and still a record opening for a Bond film. But it's not a record for a Bourne film. With the weekend's final numbers, Matt Damon's The Bourne Ultimatum remains Hollywood's top-opening spy adventure with a $69.3 million debut.

Bond can still beat Bourne, provided Quantum keeps doing business until it surpasses Ultimatum's $227.5 million overall domestic gross. One problem: No Bond film has ever come close to even hitting $200 million.

Stop smirking, Bourne.

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Sarah Silverman came to terms with Jimmy Kimmel. Kathy Griffin called a truce with Jesus.

Such were the overtures made at last night's Creative Arts Emmy Awards, where Silverman won her first career statuette for her, um, emphatic Jimmy Kimmel Live contribution, "I'm F--king Matt Damon," and Griffin scored her second straight win for My Life on the D-List.

The victorious Silverman thanked her cowriters and her A-list costar, even though Damon, she said, "had very little to do with this being popular."

Silverman also paid tribute to Kimmel, with whom she uncoupled in July.

"I'd like thank Jimmy Kimmel, who broke my heart…" she said, before reversing course for punchline purposes, and restating, "who will always have a place in my heart."

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How's this for a Behind the Music?

Steven Soderbergh has begun developing a biopic of Liberace that he plans to direct with Michael Douglas as the ivory tickler, according to Variety ; Matt Damon is in talks as his litigious ex-lover.

With a screenplay by Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King, The Horse Whisperer), the film would focus on the legendary entertainer's flamboyant yet closeted life, including his showdown with onetime paramour Scot Thorson, who successfully sued for palimony shortly before Liberace died of AIDS in 1987.

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Matt Damon is obviously not hunting for any goodwill from Sarah Palin.

During an interview with the Associated Press, the Oscar winner doesn't hesitate to express his negative feelings about the Republican V.P. hopeful, saying that the idea of her running the country is not only a "terrifying possiblity," but is like "a really bad Disney movie."

"The hockey mom, you know, 'Oh, I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska,' and she's the president and facing down Vladimir Putin using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It's absurd. I don't understand why more people aren't talking about how absurd it is."

But tell us how you really feel, Matt.

In its latest effort to raise public awareness about the need to assist those around the world who are suffering from poverty and disease, the ONE campaign has just come up with a creative new ad titled "Voices."

In the clip, Matt Damon begins to speak, only to have his voice replaced by those of others, including potential first ladies Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain as well as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The truly bipartisan spot will run on TV beginning Aug. 24.

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Matt Damon has that girl group he's always wanted.

The 37-year-old actor welcomed his second daughter with wife Luciana today, Damon's publicist confirms to E! News.

"Matt and Lucy Damon had a baby girl named Gia Zavala on Wednesday, Aug. 20. Everyone's doing great," rep Jennifer Allen said.

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We've been keeping our eye on Matt Damon, and not just because he's the Sexiest Man Alive. For quite some time, Damon had seemed to be plumping up like Ball Park Frank.

While some had speculated he was wearing a fat suit, Damon now admits to People his flab is 100 percent all-natural man meat.

Yep, there's now more Matt Damon to f--k love. The one-time action hero packed on between 20 and 30 pounds for his role in the upcoming thriller The Informant, which we’re guessing is about a whistler blower at a pretzel, beer and doughnut factory.

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Everyone was all in for a good cause.

Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle were among the Hollywood types who gathered Wednesday at the Rio Pavilion in Las Vegas for a no-limit Texas Hold' em tournament benefiting victims of the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Also forking over the $5,000 entrance fee were Adam Sandler, George Lopez, Ray Romano and Jason Alexander, who optimistically said, "When there's no actual money for me, I'm very good."

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They're some of the sexiest men on the planet, for certain. They're also some of the do-goodingest.

George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon are directing their collective goodwill toward Myanmar, asking the country's political powers that be to allow foreign-aid workers into the cyclone-ravaged region and urging neighboring nations to send any help they can.

Not On Our Watch, the activist group of which the trio are founding fathers (along with Ocean's abettor Don Cheadle), has already donated $500,000 to the relief effort. The organization has now launched a campaign asking others to do the same, beginning with a full-page advertisement in the English-language Jakarta Post newspaper.

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Now that he's done with Sarah Silverman, Matt Damon's ready to shack up with Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman.

The Bourne Ultimatum star will be suiting up for the Eastwood-helmed Human Factor, per Variety, a drama based on the true story of a South African rugby team that became an unlikely source of national pride when President Nelson Mandela lobbied for the country to host the 1995 World Rugby Cup.

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In the wake of the horrifying cyclone that hit Myanmar, which is estimated to have killed between 100,000 and 200,000 people and displaced as many as 1.5 million more, celebrities have responded in different ways.

Ben Stiller, Téa Leoni, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden have recorded PSAs for UNICEF, while Not on Our Watch, the nonprofit cofounded by George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon and others, has already pledged half a million dollars to Save the Children.

Even Sylvester Stallone used a Japanese press conference for the DVD release of the latest Rambo installment, which features the character battling it out in Myanmar, to speak out. "I think what's going to come out of this devastating cyclone—and the fact that our film has made it much more apparent of the violence that these people live under—I think there's going to be great social change in that country, because they can't hide anymore," said the actor, who also showed off his bow-hunting technique.

For more information about how to help, go to UNICEF, the Red Cross, Save the Children, Oxfam or other aid agencies.