Ben Affleck Movie Updates

Warner Bros has set Scott Cooper to re-write and direct The Stand, the seminal post-apocalyptic Stephen King novel.

Ben Affleck is stepping back in front of the camera to play Batman in Warner Bros‘ untitled sequel to Man Of Steel, which will bring the crimefighter together with Superman in a feature for the first time.

Ben Affleck is in negotiations to play the lead role in David Fincher‘s Gone Girl, a development that will seal the Fox project pic as Fincher’s next film to direct.

Warner Bros has just closed a high six-figure against seven-figure deal for screen rights to Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution, a book by Nathaniel Philbrick that will be published April 30 by Viking.

Ben Affleck has dropped out of Focus, a Warner Bros project that would have teamed the hot actor-filmmaker with Kristen Stewart.

Warner Bros. has hired Black List writer Brooks McLaren to rewrite Line of Sight.

Warner Bros. has brought its female lead into Focus, as Kristen Stewart is in talks to co-star with Ben Affleck in the con artist movie.

As Warner Bros prepares to open Ben Affleck’s Oscar-season entry Argo, the studio is in early talks with Affleck to star in Focus.

Just as he prepares to open Argo, Ben Affleck has zeroed in on his next directorial project.

Will Ben Affleck star in the long-gestating sci-fi project, Replay? Part of that depends on a re-write that director Greg Berlanti is now doing on the project, Affleck has told TheWrap.

Warner Bros. has picked up Race to the South Pole, a drama pitch from Peter Glanz with Casey Affleck attached.

New Regency has set Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck to star in Runner Runner, a drama that will be directed by Lincoln Lawyer helmer Brad Furman.

Warner Bros confirms Ben Affleck is now in talks to replace Tom Cruise in the Dan Fogelman-scripted Nathan Decker.

David O. Russell is attached to direct American Bullshit for Sony Pictures and Atlas Entertainment.

Warner Bros. is reuniting the Good Will Hunting team, tapping Ben Affleck to direct and star in a Whitey Bulger bio-pic in which Matt Damon will play the Boston mobster.

Warner Bros has chosen Ben Affleck to adapt and direct The Stand, Stephen King’s apocalyptic mammoth book.

Affleck is in negotiations to star in, direct and produce Line of Sight, an action project at Warner Bros. that is being produced by Joel Silver and Andrew Rona.

Scoot McNairy has joined the cast of Warner Bros.' Argo, directed by and starring Ben Affleck.

Finding a leading man can be difficult these days, but director Ben Affleck has found the perfect one for "Argo": He cast himself. Affleck is set to star as Tony Mendez, the CIA exfiltration expert who created a fake Hollywood production to get six Americans who were hiding out at the Canadian ambassador's out of Ir ...

Harlan Coben, one of the biggest-selling mystery writers in America, is finally in line to have one of his books made into a major Hollywood film. And all he had to do was make a detour through France.

Warner Bros is in talks to acquire Matthew Aldrich's spec script Father Daughter Time: A Tale of Armed Robbery and Eskimo Kisses and set it up with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck via their studio-based Pearl Street shingle.

Our spies tell us that Robert Zemeckis — who directed all three movies in the franchise that made Michael J. Fox a star — is now in serious talks with Warner Bros. Pictures to direct Replay, a project based on the bestselling 1987 novel by Ken Grimwood, about a man who moves around in time, granted without the help of a DeLorean ...

Though director Baz Luhrmann wanted Ben Affleck to play Tom Buchanan in his 3D update of The Great Gatsby, the actor won't be taking part in the movie adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald literary classic. Luhrmann offered Affleck the role in early April and courted him hard.

Isla Fisher is in negotiations to join Baz Luhrmann's all-star adaptation of The Great Gatsby, which the Australian director is making for Warner Bros.

Ben Affleck is in talks to play the role of Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, the Baz Luhrmann-directed 3D adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald literary classic at Warner Bros. Now, Affleck will have to work to fit this in.

Ben Affleck is in negotiations to direct Warner Bros.' political thriller Argo, set up with George Clooney and Grant Heslov.

The project’s titled American Bullshit, an Eric Warren Singer-script. According to the Black List description, the drama's described as "the true story of Abscam, the FBI's 1980 undercover sting operation of Congress to root out corruption which was the brainchild of the world's greatest con man." American Bullshit is ...

Warner Bros has begun negotiations with Zombieland's Ruben Fleischer to direct Gangster Squad, the 40s crime drama that is regarded as one of the hotter scripts in the studio's arsenal.