Matt Damon may have once started out as a serious thespian with small parts in films like Courage Under Fire and The Rainmaker, but he really didn't make a name for himself

Lawyers have been around basically as long as the law has been present - even back in Ancient Rome and Greece there were men who would stand up and speak for the laws they made.

ROME (AP) - Even though ''Youth Without Youth'' is his first movie in a decade, Francis Ford Coppola insists he isn't making a comeback to film-making.

ROME (AP) - It is Francis Ford Coppola's first movie in a decade, and the Oscar-winning director said Saturday that audiences should be in no hurry before deciding if Youth Without Youth is good or bad.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Matt Damon's Jason Bourne seemingly never met a man whose neck he couldn't break. As the son of an academic specializing in nonviolent conflict resolution and the father of a year-old girl, Damon's selective about the sort of screen violence in which he'll participate, though.

Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola's first film in 10 years has been slated for release later this year. Coppola has written, directed and produced the epic Youth Without Youth - a decade after his last movie The Rainmaker in 1997.

Movie moguls Francis Ford Coppola and Tom Cruise are set to reunite for the first time since 1983. Cruise and his partners at the revamped United Artists studio are in talks to acquire Coppola's first film since The Rainmaker in 1997.

George Clooney has signed on to bring John Grisham's real-life tale about a man wrongly sentenced to death to the big screen. The star has purchased the rights to Grisham's non-fiction book, "The Innocent Man: Murder And Injustice In A Small Town," which was released in October.

* Francis Ford Coppola is financing his latest movie using profits from his Californian winery. Coppola decided to make “Youth Without Youth” without Hollywood backing, so he could direct it without compromising himself artistically. The movie is due for release next year and is the first Coppola has directed since 1997's The Rainmaker. It stars Tim Roth.