Tag: Live by Night
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Air Review: Ben Affleck Gives Nike And Air Jordan The Moneyball Treatment [SXSW 2023]
Ben Affleck has been a mainstay of the screen for three decades, dating back to his days in “Dazed and Confused,” all the way up through his recent acclaimed turns in films like “The Last Duel.” But while Affleck has continued to work as an actor very consistently, it has been a full seven years…
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‘Air’ Poster Shows Off the Film’s Star-Studded Cast
Amazon Studios has released a new poster for Air, starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, merely days after launching the first trailer for the upcoming film. The biopic will explore the story of Sonny Vaccaro (Damon), a shoe salesman at Nike who works to sign rookie Michael Jordan to a deal to wear their shoes.…
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Ben Affleck Quoted His Own Film During Wedding Speech to Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez may have taken a page out of her film “Marry Me” by saying “I do” to longtime love Ben Affleck, but the Grammy winner revealed Oscar winner Affleck also had a past movie quote up his sleeve. During their September 20 wedding reception, Affleck apparently quoted his own 2016 film “Live by Night,”…
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Ben Affleck to Direct Paramount Film About the Iconic Making of ‘Chinatown’
Ben Affleck is returning to the director’s chair for the first time since his 2016 bomb “Live by Night” with “The Big Goodbye,” a dramatic retelling of the behind-the-scenes drama that went into making Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown.” Affleck will helm the movie for Paramount Pictures. The project was first announced by Deadline as an adaptation…
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Ben Affleck Says ‘The Accountant’ Sequel Could Be A TV Show… Or A Movie… Or Nothing
The last several years of Ben Affleck’s filmography have had some ups and downs, to say the least. Taking the whole Batman thing out of the equation, the actor has enjoyed some acclaim (“Gone Girl”), but he’s also had some pretty low lows (“Live By Night”). But there are a few projects, including the film…
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Jennifer Todd Beats Jason Blum in Academy Board Runoff
The total number of women on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors is now 22, one more than last year. That’s because producer Jennifer Todd not only beat her Oscar show co-producer Michael De Luca as a finalist to represent the producers branch, but in a run-off election to resolve…