Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are seen in Brentwood on June 10, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. The pair, who are parents to Violet, 11, Seraphina, eight, and five-year-old Samuel, announced their split in June 2015 after 10 years of marriage.
Category: Ben Affleck
20 classic movies that were robbed of a best picture Oscar
… but not at all worth canonizing. I like “Argo” as much as the next person. It’s an enjoyable, suspenseful entertainment, crisply directed by Ben Affleck. But look 20 years into the future, and what film are you going to watch again? Steven …
Damien Chazelle Wins Directors Guild Award, – La La Land’…
Damien Chazelle has been named the best feature-film director of 2016 by the Directors Guild of America, a win that reinforces the frontrunner status of his musical “La La Land” at the Oscars. Chazelle was the clear favorite going into the DGA show, where he was competing against his fellow Oscar nominees Barry Jenkins , Kenneth Lonergan and Denis Villeneuve , and against Garth Davis for “Lion.”
Ben Affleck backs out of directing ‘Batman’ film
The actor, who plays Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment’s Batman, will no longer be directing the studio’s standalone film about Gotham City’s Caped Crusader, “The Batman.”
‘Hidden Figures’ keeps orbit at top; Affleck, Scorsese flop
… earning more than $50 million. The surprise success was the supernatural thriller “The Bye Bye Man,” from STX Entertainment. With some help from Friday the 13th on the calendar, the low-budget horror flick made $13.4 million. Peter Berg’s Boston …
‘Live By Night’ is the worst-reviewed film Ben Affleck has ever directed
Ben Affleck has acted in his fair share of critically-drubbed films, from the recent Batman v Superman to the legendary bomb Gigli . But the Cambridge native has had a spectacular track record as a director.
The Ben Affleck Wheel of Fortune
O, FORTUNA! Your capricious wheel of fate brings us mortals to greatest highs and most miserable lows as we rotate, ever onward, through the spinning machinations of time! And none among us has been raised by generous fortune to loftier highs, then brought to cruelest lows, than that mighty chin among men, the Batman-who-would-be-king, Ben Affleck. Affleck the Elder’s career carves the insistent, repetitive arc of a pendulum, with the trough accompanying some of the most irredeemable garbage cinema has ever seen.
Ben Affleck jokes about being left out of brother Casey’s speech
The acclaimed director and film star couldn’t help but notice that Casey Affleck failed to mention him as thanked a bevy of people after winning best actor in a drama at the award show Sunday – an omission that he admits caught him by surprise. “I was a little taken aback,” Affleck joked on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Monday night.