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Written by David Morgan

The honeymoon is over. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck (along with their partner Sean Bailey) have dissolved their production company, the inexplicably named LivePlanet multimedia company. The eight year old troupe had a deal with Disney that expired on December 31st. Variety says that Bailey will continue alone with all of the projects that LivePlanet had been working on under his new shingle Idealogy Inc. (at least LivePlanet wasn't a pun).

The given reasons for the split have to do with Damon's busy acting schedule and Affleck's budding directorial career. Bailey says that he's determined to "continue to grow a production company" and has a number of projects on his slate, including the Tron remake, an action film called Liberty, and the Jennifer Garner-starring Sabbatical

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PGL Fan on 01/31/2008 9:54pm
word is that Affleck and Damon dumped him as a producing partner back in December after he got no films made in 5 years of overseeing the disney deal. This was an attempt to spin it favorably. I know someone over at Liveplanet and the company didnt actually shut down though it did scale back.
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