After taking two stabs at making coming-of-age art house movies that barely have drawn flies, "Project Greenlight" has decided that commercial success now trumps artistic integrity on the list of considerations for its indie filmmaker series. With the first two flicks -- "Stolen Summer" and "The Battle of Shaker Heights" -- earning less than $500,000 at the boxoffice combined on their production investment of about $3 million, Miramax now has involved its Dimension Films subsidiary to craft a straight-ahead horror film called "Feast" in the hope it won't be a case of pouring money straight down the drain again. [...] though Damon has something of an ally in fellow producer Wes Craven -- the horror director extraordinaire who was brought on to help steer "Feast" and who finds the script substandard -- in the end it doesn't matter, setting the stage for a juicy merit-vs.-moneymaking joust over the ensuing weeks.

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