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Extract

The new film from Mike Judge is a welcome addition to...  read more

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Gossip Girl Star to Join Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner in Ben Affleck's The Town

Gossip Girl starlet Blake Lively has been cast opposite Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall (Vicki Cristina Barcelona), Chris Cooper and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) in The Town, a crime thriller that will also mark Affleck’s second feature as a director....  read more

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10 Memorable Oscar Acceptance Speeches

You've just walked up to the podium in a daze. After bracing yourself for the disappointment that you've been trying to convince yourself you shouldn't feel, some movie star in a bejeweled dress tears open an envelope and calls your name. Now all eyes in the room—and in millions of living rooms—are on you, and you have to say something funny and something poignant and thank all of the people who need to be thanked, and the giant clock that only you can see is counting down, just like Charlie Kauffman said it would. It takes a special talent to...  read more

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He's Just Not That Into You

He’s Just Not That Into You is a fiction film based on...  read more

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Ben Affleck in talks to direct film about slain reporter

Ben Affleck’s full reinvention as a film director hasn’t quite happened yet, even though we retain fond memories of Gone Baby Gone from last year. He’s slowly begun to work back into ensembles roles in new movies like the American version of State of Play and He’s Just Not That Into You, but now Variety reports that he’s in talks to direct Arizona, a film about the slain Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles....  read more

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Pretenders in Chief: Paste Casts the Presidents

When we learned Josh Brolin would be playing George W. Bush...  read more

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Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman to star in Extract

Maybe it's due to his practiced penchant for oration (sometimes successful, sometimes not), but Ben Affleck has been tapped to play an ambulance-chasing lawyer in Mike Judge's upcoming live-action flick, Extract....  read more

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Ben Affleck films report on Congo humanitarian crisis

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Ben Affleck says he's filmed a TV report on the mounting central African humanitarian crisis to raise awareness about a conflict that has claimed the lives of four million people, with most deaths resulting from either starvation or pestilence. The crisis began in 1994 with an influx of refugees from neighboring countries....  read more

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Gone Baby Gone

Gone Baby Gone—much like Good Will Hunting—is a story about Boston...  read more

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