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Best friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck hit the red carpet outside The Paramount Theater for the premiere of their new movie AIR during the 2023 SXSW Conference and Festivals on Saturday (March 18) in Austin, Texas.

Ben Affleck is opening up about his new movie AIR.

Ben Affleck is gushing that his latest film, “Air”, was greatly influenced by his wife, Jennifer Lopez.

EXCLUSIVE: Theo Rossi has been tapped for a key recurring role opposite Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti in the HBO Max original series The Penguin (working title) from Warner Bros Television and DC Studios.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Satellite radio and podcast company SiriusXM extended its relationship with Kevin Hart and his entertainment company, Hartbeat, in a new multiyear deal. Under the agreement, Hartbeat will continue to curate content on Hart’s Laugh Out Loud Radio (SiriusXM channel 96), where all of Hartbeat’s audio programs will premiere exclusively — and the channel will have the exclusive first window on a previously unreleased stand-up album from late comedy legend Bernie Mac. Hart, who first struck a deal with SiriusXM in 2017, will continue to host his show and podcast, the newly renamed “Gold Minds With Kevin Hart” (formerly called “Comedy Gold Minds”), which debuts its new season Wednesday (March 15) at 7 p.m. ET exclusively on SiriusXM. In the season premiere, the comedian-actor-producer-entrepreneur will host filmmaker Ryan Coogler, and the duo will discuss his career journey, working with Michael B. Jordan across multiple projects including “Creed III,” and receiving guidance from the likes of Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Sylvester Stallone and Christopher Nolan along the way.

The Ben Affleck-directed Nike film Air from Amazon Studios, Skydance Sports and Mandalay Pictures is set to close out the SXSW Film Festival in a surprise showing ahead of its global April 5th theatrical release, Deadline can confirm. The screening is expected to take place at Austin, TX’s Paramount Theatre at 6:30 p.m on March 18.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Nike drama “Air” is heading to Austin, Texas. The movie will screen to the public for the first time at SXSW as the festival’s closing night film on March 18. Currently on the SXSW website, there’s a TBA under the Closing Night Special Screening at Paramount Theatre at 6:30 p.m. Amazon is releasing “Air,” which centers on real-life Nike shoe salesman Sonny Vaccaro and his pursuit of basketball phenom Michael Jordan, in theaters on April 5. According to the film’s logline, “this moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows the worth of her son’s immense talent, and the basketball phenom who would become the greatest of all time.”

David Chase has set his next series at FX with Hannah Fidell with Chase and Fidell attached as creators and co-writers.The series, which is in development with a pilot commitment, is based on a previously unproduced script by “The Sopranos” director featuring a contemporary take by Fidell.Fidell is set to direct the pilot with FX Productions producing the pilot. Chase, Fidell and Chase Films’ Nicole Lambert will serve as executive producers.In addition to creating HBO drama series “The Sopranos,” which collected 21 Emmys through its time on air, Chase also created “Rockford Files” and “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” and made his feature film debut with “Not Fade Away.” “The Many Saints of Newark,” the feature film prequel to “The Sopranos” was released in 2021 by Warner Bros.Currently under a first look film and television deal with Warner Bros.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer One of Austin’s hometown filmmakers is bringing his next movie to SXSW. Director Robert Rodriguez will screen a work-in-progress cut of his crime thriller “Hypnotic,” starring Ben Affleck, for fans at the SXSW Film Festival in the Texas capital on March 12. In the film, written by Rodriguez and Max Borenstein (“Godzilla vs. Kong,” HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty”), Affleck plays a detective who is investigating a series of inexplicable crimes while searching for his missing daughter, whose disappearance is somehow involved with a secret government program.

streamer’s YouTube channel at the time of publication, approximately 882,000 people watched the ceremony with both video and audio, while approximately 250,000 people have listened with just audio. The livestream, which is available to rewatch, ran for 2 hours and 14 minutes with no ads.

Jason Bateman is a winner once again!

The stars of Ozark are hitting the red carpet!

29th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best film and TV performances of the past year, were handed out live.For the first time since 1998, the ceremony was not broadcast on TV. Instead, it aired on Netflix's YouTube channel after it was announced that the platform will begin streaming the ceremony live in 2024, as part of a multi-year partnership with SAG-AFTRA. Going into the awards,  and both led with five nominations each, including four individual acting nods and one for ensemble.

The 29th annual SAG Awards take place Sunday beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The ceremony will be livestreamed on Netflix’s YouTube channel.

75th Directors Guild of America AwardsThe Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly HillsThe 75th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards celebrating directing in film, television and more rolled into Beverly Hills this week and brought out many of the biggest auteurs in the industry. Steven Spielberg, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Helen Shaver, Jason Bateman and Ben Stiller were just some of the nominees who attended the ceremony hosted by Judd Apatow.Ben Stiller chatted with TheWrap, telling us what it meant to be nominated and recognized by his peers.

So many stars showed up for the 75th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday (February 18).

Charna Flam SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the fourth and final season of “Ozark.” At the final “Ozark” panel, the series creator and cast finally brought some clarity to the show’s final minutes and the demise of a fan-favorite character. Speaking at the Netflix-hosted Q&A panel in Hollywood on Friday, the Emmy Award-nominated creator Bill Dubuque divulged with his SAG-nominated actors, Jason Bateman and Julia Garner, exactly how and why the series ended with two surprise deaths in the final scenes.  Dubuque explained that finalizing the last 14 episodes brought upon loads of creative strife, as he understood the need to stick to a thematic intention of exploring the Byrdes’ motivation of “building a myth” and how, as a result, they were ultimately “creating a curse.” 

show’s landing page, the last day to watch on the streamer will be on March 14. The Emmy-winning comedy series, which was initially canceled in 2006 after three seasons on Fox, was revived by the streamer in 2012.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are set to reunite for AIR: Courting A Legend – check out a new trailer above.Affleck is set to direct AIR: Courting A Legend, which is based on the true story of how Nike creating its iconic sneaker the Air Jordan and the company’s relationship with basketball great Michael Jordan.“Sonny Vaccaro (Damon) and Nike pursue basketball rookie Michael Jordan, creating a partnership that revolutionises the world of sports and contemporary culture,” reads the synopsis for AIR: Courting A Legend, with Affleck set to star as Nike’s CEO Phil Knight.“This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows the worth of her son’s immense talent, and the basketball phenom who would become the greatest of all time.”The first trailer was premiered earlier this week while a new, Big Game Spot was shared during the 2023 Super Bowl. AIR: Courting A Legend is set to release April 5 and will star Viola Davis, Marlon Wayans, Chris Tucker, Jason Bateman, Matthew Maher and Chris Messina.Last year, Ben Affleck said that Matt Damon helped him quit portraying Batman, though he is set to appear as the caped crusader in The Flash.The pair recently co-starred and wrote Ridley Scott’s medieval epic The Last Duel, which they proudly declared to be a feminist film.Based on the 2004 book of the same name by Eric Jager, the film is based on the true story of the last medieval trial by combat.

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off an Independent Spirit Award nom for his supporting role in the hit crime thriller Emily the Criminal, Theo Rossi has signed on for The Getback, a new Tubi-bound indie from Mutiny Films.

Beware of the full moon! Werewolves don’t have the glamorous reputation that their vampire counterparts do, but that hasn’t stopped Hollywood from making tons of movies and TV series about the shapeshifting creatures.

EXCLUSIVE: Roadside Attractions, Grindstone Entertainment, and Lionsgate have picked up North American distribution for Charlie Day’s feature directorial debut Fool’s Paradise.

Netflix has released the trailer for Reese Witherspoon’s latest rom com, “Your Place Or Mine”Debbie (Witherspoon) and Peter (Ashton Kutcher) have been best friends for 20 years since that fateful night they met — and slept together. The pair are total opposites.

Family night at the Golden Globes! Austin Butler, Selena Gomez, Laura Dern and more stars have brought their loved ones as their plus-ones to the awards show over the years.

A new introduction. Sigourney Weaver revealed that her only child, Charlotte, identifies as nonbinary.

Emily Blunt is recalling her time with Tom Cruise on the set of Edge of Tomorrow in 2014 and the bold words he used after she cried over the heavy costume she had to use.

Emily’s not the only one who’s Blunt! The A Quiet Place actress recalled Tom Cruise’s alleged no-holds-barred directive to her on set of the 2014 action-thriller Edge of Tomorrow.

Gaumont Lands Debut Channel 5 Drama ‘Under Her Skin’

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Wachtel’s Future Shack Entertainment has acquired Kevin Wilson’s short story Grand Stand-In to develop as a limited series, with Gretchen Enders (WandaVision, Queen America) attached to adapt and produce the project.