Ben Affleck Says His New Studio With Matt Damon Will Do Both “Quality” & “Commercial” Fare, Calls Netflix An “Assembly Line”

More than a year ago, Matt Damon was at the Cannes Film Festival talking to an audience, and the actor shared an embarrassing story. He revealed that James Cameron called him up and offered him the lead in “Avatar,” and the filmmaker even offered him a lucrative deal worth 10% of the film’s profits if he would do it.

Call it the COVID effect: 2022 has been a year of directors returning to their past and reinterrogating it. Alongside prominent works of autofiction like James Gray’s “Armageddon Time” or Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” there’s a less conventional but no less revelatory work that also emerged this year: Mark Pellington’s “Going All the Way: The Director’s Edit.” Note the semantics of the title.

For over a decade, there’s been an exhausting attempt to remake John Carpenter‘s 1981 dystopian flick “Escape From New York,” which had Kurt Russell flexing his action chops for the first time. However, the project has seen its fair share of developmental hiccups over the years, with it now attached to 20th Century Studios instead of New Line Cinema.

Well, it’s been a bombshell night in the world of DC Studios and the DC Universe. After telling fans, “we know we are not going to make every single person happy every step of the way,” in response to rumors that “Wonder Woman 3” was being killed and “Man Of Steel 2” may not happen, DC Studios co-chief James Gunn revealed dropped some of his plans and dropped the hammer.

Swish! Ben Affleck and his son, Samuel, had a ball during a father-son outing at the Tuesday, December 13, Lakers game.

Well, it would appear Ben Affleck is a cheater. Sad news for fans of long term relationships, because new photos reveal the Argo director getting real cozy with… Starbucks?! LOLz!

Ben Affleck visited a Starbucks. This is shocking, unforgivable, and unforgettable.In a snap from Friday, December 9, an all-smiles Affleck is seen exiting a Santa Monica , drink (with a lot of whipped cream) in hand, his wife at his side. For the Starbucks run, Affleck wore a dark blue plaid button-down shirt with jeans and sneakers.

Doug Liman is working hard right now on his “Road House” remake with Jake Gyllenhaal for Amazon. But after that, he enters the world of Apple Original Films for his next feature.

Just last week, Jennifer Lopez gushed about her "real" and "forever" love for her husband Ben Affleck- but now she apparently wants to improve him, by encouraging him to get a little help when it comes to his appearance.The singer is on a mission to hid her actor husband of his 'life lines' and thinks Botox and fillers could be the answer- well, it certainly solves the problem of what to get him for Christmas!"Jen thinks Ben is the most handsome man ever, but she thinks he should have started these procedures years ago, even though she says she's never actually had them done herself," our source says."She thinks he needs a delicate amount of filler to iron out those crow's feet and Botox to soften his lined forehead- and a facelift might be a good idea. She obviously loves him no matter what, but jokes it wouldn't be a bad thing if they both held onto eternal youth."Last year, Jen, 53, denied ever having Botox after images emerged of her with a completely crease-free forehead insisting, "That's just my face!! For the millionth time, I have never done Botox or any injectables or surgery!"But she can see the benefit when it comes to her husband, and wants to inject some Hollywood glam into him."Jen is all about them looking every inch the beautiful power couple and doesn't want her man covered in lines and wrinkles.

and Luciana Barroso, who have been married for 17 years, attended the 45th Annual Kennedy Center Honors together in Washington D.C. on Sunday, December 4. The couple attended the event to support Damon's friend and colleague , who was an honoree, as well as the inspiration behind Damon wore a navy and black tie, while Barroso coordinated in a chic black gown.

, spent her 17th birthday at the White House State Dinner with her movie star mom. I don't know what this new evolution of is but I'm not necessarily opposed. The mother-daughter pair was pictured walking hand-in-hand , all dressed up for the special event, which, per had 400 guests, including French president Emmanuel Macron. The dinner was hosted, of course, by President Biden and First Lady Dr.

Attention, producers! Jennifer Lopez revealed which of her movies she’d most want to make a sequel to — and it’s the one where she met husband Ben Affleck.

Ben Affleck says his newly minted studio Artists Equity, in partnership with Matt Damon, is going for films that are commercial but smart, that acknowledge popular tastes, but that “people remember 20 years later.”