Tag: Ben Affleck
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Ben Affleck to Direct Matt Damon in Netflix’s Kidnapping Crime Drama ‘Animals’
Ben Affleck will be directing best friend and longtime collaborator Matt Damon once more, this time for Netflix noir film “Animals.”Affleck recently directed (and co-starred alongside) Damon for Nike/Michael Jordan biopic “Air.” Now, the secretive Netflix production which has been known under titles like “The Animals of Los Angeles” and “Be Gentlemen,” is officially announced…
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Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Sets Rerelease in Imax to Promote Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ Sequel
A big screen bromance is afoot.Christopher Nolan’s Tenet will be released for one week in Imax screens later this month in the lead-up to the release of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two, Warner Bros. announced Thursday. The two filmmakers are big fans of one another, and Nolan was eager to help Villeneuve’s upcoming event pic.The…
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Tim Burton Isn’t Happy About How The Flash Used Batman And Superman
Andy Muschietti’s recent superhero flick “The Flash” hoped to lure in audiences with a sprawling story that spans several parallel universes. It was the same approach taken by John Watts in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and Sam Raimi in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” in that all three films assembled multiple versions of…
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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Offered to Pay ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Staff for Two Weeks Amid WGA Strike
Matt Damon was ready to bury the hatchet over his long-standing fake feud with Jimmy Kimmel to support the comedian’s late night talk show staff salaries.According to Kimmel, Damon and Ben Affleck offered to pay the salaries of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” staff writers amid the ongoing WGA strike.“Ben Affleck and the despicable Matt Damon contacted…
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The Dcu Should Have Pattinson and Batfleck, Too
Fans of all things Batman have no shortage of portrayals of their favorite Caped Crusader. Both Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck donned the cowl for this year’s The Flash movie, and 2022 saw Robert Pattinson playing a more serious and gritty version of the character in The Batman. It can all leave fans feeling a…
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A Major Flash Villain Was Going To Be The Dceu’s Thanos, And Then Things Went Wrong
Warner Bros. is preparing to move away from what we once knew as the Dceu, which kicked off with Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel” a decade ago. That whole endeavor was messy, but WB was originally all-in on the filmmaker’s plans. One film that got dragged through the mud the whole way through was “The…
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Ben Affleck’s Scrapped ‘Batman’ Script Included ’80 Years’ of Comic Book Lore
Ben Affleck had packed almost a century-worth of “Batman” mythos into a shelved DC script, according to former storyboard artist Jay Oliva.Oliva, who left DC in 2017, teased in a recent interview with Inverse that Affleck’s take on “Batman” would have been an unprecedented interpretation of the Caped Crusader superhero.“I can’t really say too much…
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Look, ‘Gigli’ Is Terrible, but It’s Not All Terrible
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Gigli, the film that we have collectively decided is the worst movie of all time. One of the biggest box office flops in recent memory, it made only $7 million on its $54 million budget, and was so hated by audiences that it prompted Ben Affleck…
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The Flash Didn’t Include The Grim Reason Michael Keaton’s Batman Is Retired
“The Flash” made the dreams of ’90s kids come true by bringing Michael Keaton back as Batman after the actor put down the cape and cowl following “