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  • Ben Affleck’s Argo turns Warner Bros green

    Ben Affleck’s Argo turns Warner Bros green

    MUMBAI: Ben Affleck‘s latest film Argo has become one of the best films this year in India, coming out of the stables of Warner Bros.

    The thriller is based loosely on Tony Mendez‘s account of the historical rescue of six US diplomats from Tehran, Iran during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.

    The film stars Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, and John Goodman, and was released in North America on 12 October.

    The film is co-produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, who previously collaborated on the critically acclaimed Good Night, and Good Luck.

    The box-office collection of Argo jumped 84 per cent from Friday to Saturday and 105 per cent on Sunday.

  • Ben Affleck to star in Warner Bros’ Focus

    Ben Affleck to star in Warner Bros’ Focus

    MUMBAI: In all probability, Ben Affleck will reportedly join the cast of Warner Bros.‘ upcoming film Focus. Unlike his most recent release, Argo, Affleck will only star in the film.
    It was first reported last Tuesday that Affleck was negotiating to star in the film, written by the Crazy, Stupid, Love writer-director team Glenn Ficarra and John Requa.
    Affleck would star as a con man who decides to work with an attractive female partner for his grafting business. Soon a romantic relationship develops between them that complicates the business.
    The writer-director team had originally hoped that the project would reunite them with Crazy, Stupid, Love stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, but both of them dropped out.
    Warner Bros. is still eager to get the project into production.

  • Ben Affleck and Matt Damon making Race to the South Pole

    Ben Affleck and Matt Damon making Race to the South Pole

    Mumbai: Real life friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are producing the 1900s set drama Race to the South Pole under their Pearl Street banner.
    The film depicts the true story of two explorers in the early 1900s and their pursuit to be the first person to reach the South Pole — the last uncharted territory on the planet.
    Englishman Robert Falcon Scott and Norwegian Roald Amundsen were explorers from antithetical countries: one from the era‘s most powerful empire, the other from a country that had just achieved independence.
    Their race, seen as heroic during a golden age of exploration, sparked international interest and galvanized the world to see who would reach Earth‘s southernmost point first.
    Meanwhile, Affleck is gearing up for the release of his latest directorial work Argo which is already creating Oscar buzz. Damon, on the other hand, recently wrapped Promised Land, a Gus Van Sant-directed drama that he co-wrote, stars and produces.

  • Ben Affleck set to star in Warner’s Nathan Decker

    Ben Affleck set to star in Warner’s Nathan Decker

    MUMBAI: Ben Affleck has been signed on to star in Warner Bros Pictures‘ Nathan Decker. In the political comedy will have the 39-year old Affleck play a politician who is caught in an affair and returns home to confront his past.

    Since the Daredevil star will not direct the film because of his current busy schedule doing the post-production stage of Argo, the Studio is currently looking for a director to helm the project.
    His upcoming directorial venture includes a big-budgeted adaptation of Stephen King‘s novel The Stand. Affleck has also been attached for an untitled Terrence Malick project that is said to be a romantic drama also starring Javier Bardem, Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams.

    Affleck was last seen in 2010‘s The Town that he also directed.