Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana
Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana, have welcomed a baby girl named Isabella, PEOPLE has learned exclusively. "The baby is here. Isabella arrived yesterday," Damon's brother Kyle told PEOPLE on Monday.
"Mother and Isabella are doing fine," Damon's rep Jennifer Allen, confirmed to PEOPLE. "The family is very happy and everyone's healthy."
This is the first child for the couple. Luciana also has a daughter, Alexia, from a previous marriage.
"He's a terrific uncle and he's going to be a wonderful father," Kyle said of his brother, Matt. "Thankfully, Lucy has some experience, so that will help. Alexia is a terrific girl. They're all really close, they'll be an intimate family."
Late last year, Damon said at a press conference that he "longed for" fatherhood."But I've got to learn how to be a good disciplinarian," he said, "'cause I'm a professional uncle right now."
As for getting parenting tips from his best friend – and fellow new dad – Ben Affleck, Damon told PEOPLE last month, "I'm sure I'll be asking him for plenty of diaper advice."
Damon and Luciana, who met in Miami Beach in 2003 while he was filming Stuck on You, married in December in a surprise ceremony at Manhattan's City Hall.
"They were thrilled," said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was one of the few to attend the private nuptials. It was the first marriage for Damon, 35, and the second for Luciana, 30.
"I like Lucy a lot. They make a fantastic couple," Damon's brother Kyle told PEOPLE at the time. Next up for Damon: He'll reprise his role as Linus Caldwell in Ocean's 13.
Production is scheduled to start in July for a summer 2007 release.
Matt Damon with his wife, Luciana, and her daughter Alexia.
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'Cars' Drives Away With Box Office Lead
Paul Newman, left, shakes hands with Larry The Cable Guy before the start of the premiere of the Disney/Pixar film 'Cars' at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., in this May 26, 2006 file photo. The animated comedy raced to first place at the weekend box office with a $62.8 million debut.
The animated comedy "Cars" raced to first place at the weekend box office with a $62.8 million debut, maintaining the Disney-Pixar cartoon brand's undefeated record with a seventh straight hit.
If the numbers hold when final figures come out Monday, "Cars" would have the third-best opening in the Disney-Pixar cartoon series, just ahead of "Monsters, Inc." but behind "The Incredibles" and "Finding Nemo," which both debuted at about $70 million.
Still, it was the first time since the partnership began with 1995's "Toy Story" that a Disney-Pixar film did not gross more than its predecessor over opening weekend.
"I look at $62 million as being an accomplishment of great proportion," said Chuck Viane, Disney's head of distribution. "I think to use the baseball analogy, a home run is a home run in anybody's ballpark, whether it's 398 feet or 460 feet. This is a home run."
The movie features the voices of Owen Wilson and Paul Newman in a story of a hotshot race car that gets a lesson on the value of slowing down when he's sidetracked in a sleepy burgh.
The weekend's other new wide release, 20th Century Fox's horror remake "The Omen," was No. 4 with $15.45 million. Starring Julia Stiles and Liev Schreiber in the tale of a demon child, "The Omen" has grossed $35.7 million since opening on Tuesday to take advantage of the date 6-6-06 a play on the number signifying the anti-Christ.
In narrower release, Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion" premiered solidly at No. 7 with $4.7 million. Playing in 760 cinemas, the film averaged $6,147 a theater, compared to $15,759 in 3,985 theaters for "Cars" and $5,674 in 2,723 cinemas for "The Omen."
Released by Picturehouse, "A Prairie Home Companion" features Garrison Keillor in a fictionalized behind-the-scenes portrait of his venerable radio program. The ensemble cast includes Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Tommy Lee Jones, Lily Tomlin, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly and Virginia Madsen.
The top-12 movies took in $148.8 million, up 8 percent from the same weekend last year, when "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" debuted with $50.2 million.
"Cars" was the first movie directed by Pixar creative mastermind John Lasseter since 1999's "Toy Story 2." Lasseter also directed the original "Toy Story" and "A Bug's Life."
The six prior Disney-Pixar films all opened at No. 1 and have grossed a total of $3.2 billion worldwide.
"They are the closest thing to a sure thing in Hollywood," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations. "They are money in the bank."
The previous weekend's top movie, Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn's romantic comedy "The Break-Up," slipped to second place with $20.5 million. The Universal Pictures' film raised its 10-day total to $74.1 million.
"X-Men: The Last Stand," from 20th Century Fox, became the year's first movie to top $200 million domestically. The superhero saga was No. 3 with $15.55 million, lifting its three-week total to $201.7 million.
Close behind "X-Men" is Sony's "The Da Vinci Code," which came in sixth with $10.3 million, bringing its domestic haul to $189 million. Worldwide, "The Da Vinci Code" has taken in $642 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. Final figures will be released Monday.
1. "Cars," $62.8 million.
2. "The Break-Up," $20.5 million.
3. "X-Men: The Last Stand," $15.55 million.
4. "The Omen," $15.45 million.
5. "Over the Hedge," $10.301 million.
6. "The Da Vinci Code," $10.3 million.
7. "A Prairie Home Companion," $4.7 million.
8. "Mission: Impossible III," $3 million.
9. "RV," $2 million.
10. "Poseidon," $1.8 million.
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J.Lo Attends Puerto Rican Day Parade
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, left, poses with Jennifer Lopez, center, and her husband Marc Anthony before they march up Fifth Avenue at the Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York, Sunday June 11, 2006.
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony lent Hollywood glamour to the Puerto Rican Day Parade on Sunday and attracted such a horde of paparazzi that police officers and Guardian Angels kept them roped off from the crowds as they marched.
"The Puerto Rican parade has been a long-standing tradition in my life. It was always an event that I looked forward to every single year," said Anthony, who led the parade with his wife, Lopez, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Salsa music blared from dozens of floats as the parade made its way up Fifth Avenue past a sea of revelers waving the red, white and blue Puerto Rican flag.
Beauty queens wore Barbie doll dresses and foot-high tiaras. Folk dance troupes wore ruffled skirts and flowers behind their ears.
A contingent of high-stepping show horses was followed by two sanitation workers wheeling garbage bins.
In addition to Bloomberg, politicians marching included New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, and U.S. Sens. Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer.
The Puerto Rican parade, an annual event in New York since 1958, has grown to be one of the city's largest. Although it was impossible to estimate this year's crowd, hundreds of thousands have attended in recent years
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Britney: I'm a Good Mom
Britney Spears defends both her marriage and her parenting skills in an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer set to air Thursday.The singer, 24, denies reports that her relationship with husband Kevin Federline, 28, is on the rocks.
"He helps me. He has to," she says in the interview, which took place at her Los Angeles home. "I'm (an) emotional wreck right now."
She adds that her marriage is "awesome" and says tabloid reports that Federline has been sleeping in the basement are untrue.
Asked whether people are hoping her marriage will fail, she says, "If they are, that's sad. I think everybody should be 'pro love.' "
As for her emotional state, Spears blames the paparazzi, who, she says, have taken photographs of her on her private property.
"They've crossed the line a little bit," she says. "They like to have the person they pick on. I feel like I'm a target."
She also defends her parenting skills, which came under scrutiny when she was photographed driving with 9-month-old son Sean Preston unsecured on her lap.
"I did it with my dad," says Spears, who grew up in Louisiana. "I'd sit on his lap and I drive.
We're country." Asked whether she was upset by the ensuing headlines, she says, "I know I'm a good mom."
Last month Spears announced that she is expecting her second child with Federline.
The interview will air on NBC's Today (7 a.m. ET) and Dateline NBC (9 p.m. ET) on June 15.
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