Ben Affleck To Star In And Direct ‘Argo,’ Won’t Do ‘The Great Gatsby’ After the unexpected success ofThe Town,Ben Affleckfound himself in the unique position of being an extremely hot director. Since then, he’s been circling or offered several different directorial projects includingAmerican Bullshit,ReplayandTales From The Gangster Squadbut had yet to settle on his follow-up. That’s now changed.As was rumored back in February, Affleck’s next directorial effort will beArgo, a spy film based on the true story of how the CIA rescued American citizens from Tehran, Iran by pretending to make a sci-fi movie....

Cardboard Cinema: The Designer Of ‘Ghostbusters: The Board Game’ On How You Adapt A Franchise And The New Sequel Game Cryptozoic’sGhostbusters: The Board Gamewas a gigantic success on Kickstarter,raising over $1.5 millionfrom gamers and movie fans who wanted to relive one of the most beloved franchises of all time. But since the originalGhostbustersfilm went on to inspire a sequel, a reboot, several cartoon spin-offs, a video game, and more than its fair share of toys, a tabletop follow-up was inevitable....

Casting Bits: Emma Stone In ‘He’s F*ckin’ Perfect', Michelle Monaghan In ‘Fast Flash To Bang Time’, Brian Cox In ‘Dog Fight’, Alice Eve In ‘Decoding Annie Parker’ Emma Stonehas been moving into more dramatic territory lately with parts inThe HelpandGangster Squad, but she may be returning to her comedy roots soon. The actress has entered talks to star inHe’s Fuckin' Perfect, a comedy by first time feature writerLauryn Kahn. The film is being produced byWill FerrellandAdam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Productions, where Kahn has worked for the past several years as McKay’s assistant....

Disney’s Sale Of Miramax May Not Be As Final As Previously Thought What’s the saying? It ain’t over ‘till it’s over? Sounds likeDisney’s sale of Miramax to Ron Tutorand a group of investors is far from over. The sale was announced before all the money was firmly in place, and now two of Tutor’s partners have reportedly backed out of the deal. Where does that leave Miramax? At this point, we’re not certain....

Everything We Know About Marvel’s Moon Knight So Far The Marvel Cinematic Universe is ever expanding, with the slew of series already on or coming soon to Disney+. One of those series is “Moon Knight,” a show focused on the Marvel character Marc Spector (AKA Moon Knight), a man with dissociative identity disorder who may (or may not) have superpowers. Here’s what we know so far about the live-action MCU miniseries, “Moon Knight....

Extensive Jurassic World Interview With Director Colin Trevorrow On July 21st 2014, I was lucky to visit the New Orleans set ofJurassic World.(You can read a list of over 50 things I learned on theJurassic Worldset here.) While on set, we got the chance to have an extensive sit-down interview withJurassic WorlddirectorColin Trevorrow, which was conducted during the crew lunch break on a recreation of the famous visitors center fromJurassic Park....

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore Trailer: The Wizarding World Is Back For More Today brings a little bit of magic to the table as a brand new trailer for “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” has been released. Wepreviouslygot a teaser trailer for the third entry in the “Harry Potter” prequel series, but with the movie just a couple of months away, it’s time to offer audiences another look at what is coming for Eddie Redmayne’s Newt Scamander and Jude Law’s sexy Albus Dumbledore....

First Look: Jesse Eisenberg As Lex Luthor In ‘Batman V Superman’ For months we’ve wondered whatJesse Eisenbergwas going to look like as Lex Luthor inBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Would he be bald? Would he show some other distinguishing characteristic? Now, exactly one year until the release of the film, the first official image of Eisenberg in character is out, and he’s pretty much as expected: Bald and mean. The pic also just shows a disembodied head so we don’t learn too much else beyond that....

Gore Verbinski Confirmed To Direct Johnny Depp In ‘The Lone Ranger’ The Lone Rangerhas been slowly picking a path back to movie screens. In September word filtered out thatPirates of the CaribbeandirectorGore Verbinskiwasin talksto direct a new version of the story for producerJerry Bruckheimer, withJohnny Deppin the cast. Now it is official: Disney is moving forward on Gore Verbinski’sThe Lone Ranger. No word yet on who’ll play the Lone Ranger; Johnny Depp is set to play Tonto, the native warrior who finds the wounded ranger and keeps him alive....

HBO’s ‘Westworld’ Will Premiere This Year After All Back in January, HBOtemporarily halted productiononWestworld,a TV series based onMichael Crichton’s 1973 film. The sci-fi western series, produced byJ.J. Abramsand run byJonathan Nolan, was reportedly running behind schedule and in need of reshoots. The ambitious project was speculated to debut this summer, and then there was the rumor that wewouldn’t see the show until 2017. Contradicting early reports, HBO has announced theWestworldpremiere has been scheduled for later this year....

Here We Go Again: ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ Release Date Moves To October Welp, here we go again, I guess.Venom: Let There Be Carnageis moving its release date one more time – which might be a sign of things to come. We all thought we had this COVID-19 thing under control, and then … well, things aren’t great, let’s just say that. Now, with the Delta variant becoming a serious issue, and summer box office returns looking mighty disappointing, Sony has decided to push their upcoming superhero sequel back a month and hope everything works out....

Highlights From The Social Network Press Conference Last weekend, I was given the opportunity to attend the New York press junket forThe Social Network. In addition tointerviewing actor Armie Hammer(The Winklevoss twins), I also sat in on a press conference featuring stars Hammer,Andrew Garfield(Eduardo Saverin),Justin Timberlake(Sean Parker), Jesse Eisenberg(Mark Zuckerberg), and writerAaron Sorkin. Hit the jump to hear them speak about David Fincher’s meticulousness, the verisimilitude of the script, and the character of Mark Zuckerberg....

How Did This Get Made: Kazaam (An Oral History) We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. (Aladdin + Live Action) x Shaq =How Did This Get Made? From a distance, it might be easy to conclude thatKazaammust have been written, produced and directed without vision or heart. That is was nothing more than a cash-grab for all of those involved. In reality, however, that couldn’t be further from the truth....