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Ben Affleck is enjoying a night out with his son!

The 52-year-old Gone Girl actor and his 12-year-old son Samuel sat courtside as they cheered on the Los Angeles Lakers in a their game against the Golden State Warriors on Thursday night (February 6) held at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

For the game, Ben looked sharp in a tan turtleneck, coat, and pants while Samuel sported Lakers jersey with n-james/” title=”Lebron James”>LeBron James‘ #23 on it.

The Lakers ended up defeating the Warriors 120-112.

If you didn’t know, Ben shares Samuel along with Violet, 19, and Seraphina, 15, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner.

Ben and Samuel are big Lakers fans and were spotted at another game back in November.

It was just recently announced that Ben will be replacing longtime friend and collaborator Matt Damon in the upcoming Netflix movie Animals. Find out why.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have done some great work together. That might hold true when Netflix releases Rip later this year. But another project involving Affleck and Damon has gone a bit awry.

The film is called Animals, with a screenplay penned by Billy Ray (who also wrote Captain Phillips and The Hunger Games) and Connor McIntyre, and Damon was set to star while Affleck directed. The start date for filming got pushed back, though, and other projects for each of Affleck and Damon forced a change in roles.

Damon had to bow out of Animals completely as he would soon be filming in Christopher Nolan's new film, The Odyssey, and that made his availability for Animals impossible. Affleck made the decision to not only keep directing the Netflix project, but to take over the featured role vacated by Damon as well.

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The thriller is keeping plot details tightly under wraps for now.

Apple TV+ may have the reputation of attracting the true A-listers in Hollywood to its original movies, but don’t count out Netflix. The world’s largest streaming service has no trouble attracting big-name talent, as evidenced by the casting news for its new original thriller “Animals.” According to Deadline, Netflix has locked up Ben Affleck to direct and star in the movie.

Key Details: Gillian Anderson is also attached to star. Plot details for the movie aren’t being revealed just yet. Previously, Affleck planned only to direct “Animals.” Sign Up $7.99+ / month netflix.com

Affleck will be in front of the camera as well as behind it for “Animals,” much like he was in “Argo” and “The Town.” Considering “Argo” won an Academy Award for Best Picture, Netflix has to be feeling good about Affleck as both a...

Ben Affleck has replaced his friend Matt Damon in 'Animals'. Damon, 54, was due to appear in the Netflix thriller, but he has departed the forthcoming film due to scheduling conflicts with Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'.But sources have told Deadline that Affleck will now star in the movie as well as direct, and Gillian Anderson has also joined the cast. Connor McIntyre and Billy Ray have penned the script for the film, which is about a kidnapping, but precise plot details are yet to be revealed. 'Animals' is due to shoot in Los Angeles, with Affleck, Damon and Dani Bernfeld producing through their Artists Equity banner. It was initially thought Affleck was only planning to direct the movie, but Damon now has commitments via Nolan's 'The Odyssey', so Affleck has decided to star in the film himself.In August, it was revealed Affleck and Damon...

Ben Affleck is to take Matt Damon’s role in Animals, opposite Gillian Anderson. Affleck is still set to direct.

With Christopher Nolan seemingly determined to suck up every last movie star in the Hollywood pantheon for his upcoming epic The Odyssey, film productions all over the world may find themselves bereft of star power. Given that we’ve just emerged from a year where the supply line of films was starved due to 2023’s actors’ strikes, let’s hope that Mr Nolan’s seeming determination to assemble half of Hollywood for his next major production doesn’t cause another dry spell as film productions everywhere realise they have no actors.

Don’t worry though, because Ben Affleck is here to save the day. Well, for one production anyway. Affleck was slated to work with Matt Damon on Animals, which would have repeated the formula the long-time collaborators most recently engineered on 2023’s Air,...

Actor and filmmaker has set up his next big project. Falling upon his talents he has on both sides of the camera, Affleck will be doing double duty on the film.

Per Deadline, it's been revealed that Affleck is set to direct Animals, a kidnapping thriller in the works at Netflix. He is also reportedly on board to star, with Gillian Anderson attached to the movie as well. Connor McIntyre and Billy Ray wrote the script. Additionally, Affleck will produce alongside Matt Damon and Dani Bernfeld of Artists Equity, as well as Brad Weston and Collin Creighton for Makeready. Artists Equity's Michael Joe, Kevin Halloran, and Lucy Damon will executive produce.

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It’s no secret that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are thick as thieves — the two have starred in several projects together and have even worked together as scribes on movies like Good Will Hunting. Last year it was announced that Affleck would direct Animals, a kidnapping thriller for Netflix with Damon attached to star, but the script was never properly ironed out and Nefflix decided to move on from the project for the time being. Now, a new report from THR revealed that Animals has the green light once more, only this time, Affleck will also star in addition to directing, and he has also tapped Gillian Anderson to star alongside him. The film is reportedly angling to begin production in April later this year in Los Angeles, but it has not yet nailed down an official release date.

Exclusive: Ben Affleck is ramping things up on his upcoming Netflix thriller Animals. He not only will direct the pic but star as well, sources now say. Insiders add that Gillian Anderson also is aboard. The plan is for the film to shoot in Los Angeles from a script by Connor McIntyre and Billy Ray.

Plot details are being kept under wraps other then the film revolving around a kidnapping.

Affleck, Matt Damon and Dani Bernfeld will produce through their Artists Equity banner, the artist-led studio founded by Affleck, Damon and Gerry Cardinale/RedBird Capital Partners. Brad Weston and Collin Creighton are also producing for Makeready, which developed the project in partnership with Fifth Season. Artists Equity’s Michael Joe, Kevin Halloran and Lucy Damon will serve as executive producers alongside Fifth Season.

Affleck was eyeing this film as his next directing outing last year but was only planning to direct,...

Cooper Raiff’s film “Cha Cha Real Smooth” sold to Apple for $15 million in 2022, but his wasn’t the first, nor the last to notch such a deal at a festival. That’s not to say it was easy, but with Raiff’s new project, he doesn’t even have that track record to fall back on.

Raiff’s latest project is “Hal & Harper,” an 8-part dramedy series being presented in Sundance’s Episodic section. The series stars Lili Reinhart, Mark Ruffalo, Betty Gilpin, and Raiff, and is one of the higher profile series to ever play in Park City. The rub is, there’s very little precedent for an Episodic project to find a distributor on the sales market at Sundance. People aren’t coming to Sundance with a pot of money set aside to buy shows the way they are with movies. And for all the idiosyncratic series out there,...

Who ends up who is perhaps the most important question anime fans ask, possibly only second to "who would win?’ The romance genre is one of the most loved, and even though when the show is not exclusively romantic, fans are always interested in the dynamics between different characters. Sometimes, the audience is treated to obvious couple formations between the protagonists, but fans have limitless imaginations when it comes to shipping.

It just so happens that some anime couples don’t get their due share in the limelight because they haven’t been exclusively written into the storyline in that manner. However, usually, when the chemistry between some characters is off the charts or unexpected, it forces the viewers to make sense of that relationship. Whether they are canon or not, the audience has more than a few surprising anime ships that work far better than the original pair.

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Jk Simmons reveals filming for The Accountant 2 will start sooner than expected, with his role likely a shorter one. Development of the sequel has been a long journey, having been in talks since the first movie's 2016 release until being officially greenlit in late 2021. Simmons' filming update also conflicts with recent reports that the sequel wouldn't begin filming until the second half of 2024 while Affleck worked on his and Matt Damon's Netflix thriller, Animals.

Following the surprise confirmation of the sequel, Jk Simmons has revealed when The Accountant 2 will begin filming. Acting as a follow-up to the sleeper hit 2016 action-thriller, the sequel will see Ben Affleck return as the titular autistic protagonist who is pulled out of hiding by Treasury Department agent Marybeth Medina to help her track down the murderer of her former boss. Alongside Affleck, the movie features the return of stars Simmons, Jon Bernthal and Cynthia Addai-Robinson,...

Ben Affleck’s done a lot in Hollywood, you know? He’s been in all sorts of movies, from those big action flicks to the tear-jerker dramas. But when the 51-year-old dipped his toes into horror with Phantoms back in ’98, it didn’t quite hit the mark.

Ben Affleck in Justice League

The movie just couldn’t grab people’s attention, making less than 10 million bucks at the box office. Even though it had a cool idea and Affleck’s star power, Phantoms just didn’t live up to the hype, ending up as one of those forgettable horror flicks. It’s kinda curious why folks didn’t vibe with it and what it says about the actor’s career in movies.

Ben Affleck’s Sole Horror Movie Outing Was a Complete Flop

Ben Affleck tried his hand at horror, and let’s just say it didn’t end well.

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. To keep up with our latest features, sign up for the Weekly Edit newsletter and follow us @mubinotebook.NEWSThe Delinquents.The start of the Academy Awards ceremony was delayed by hundreds of protestors obstructing the red carpet to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.Asghar Farhadi has been cleared of plagiarism charges by an Iranian court after allegations were leveled by a former student, who accused him of stealing the idea for A Hero (2021) from her documentary on the same subject, produced in his 2014 filmmaking workshop.Meanwhile, Alexander Payne has been accused of plagiarizing The Holdovers (2023) “line-by-line” from a screenplay by Simon Stephenson he appears to have read on spec.Thailand is planning to reform its national film industry as part of a “soft power” program, which may include increased production funding, more rebates for foreign productions, and a reduction of state censorship domestically.

Exclusive: Over three years after The Black List and the then MGM launched their feature film script writing partnership to find and amplify new voices, the team-up has found their fourth and final recipient.

Audrey Rosenberg will receive a two-step Guild minimum open script deal with Amazon MGM Studios as part of their two-year feature film script writing collaboration with the Black List. “We’re incredibly proud that the Black List has been a part of Audrey’s professional story as it continues to evolve, says Black List founder Franklin Leonard of the Wild Animals scribe. “Very excited to read and see what comes next and everyone else should be too,” added Leonard.

Coming out of the new talent and new perspectives initiative, unveiled back in December 2020, the excitement was clearly contagious.

“We are so excited to be working with Audrey for the final segment of our collaboration with the Black List,...

Ben Affleck's career has had its highs and lows, but his recent success with "Air" has left audiences interested in his next project. Affleck has lined up his next directing gig, "Animals," which will feature Matt Damon in a starring role and serve as a moment of redemption for Affleck following a previous failure. Despite the failure of "Live By Night," all signs point to "Animals" being a success and avoiding the issues of his previous crime thriller.

Ben Affleck has a new movie in development, and it can help redeem him years after a failed genre return. Affleck's career has certainly had its highs and lows, with 2023 proving to be a pivotal moment. He returned to directing with Air after six years with great acclaim, but his DC role as Batman officially came to an end. While The Flash flopped at the box office, Air was a fairly...

Final Trailer Out for “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live”

A month ahead of its premiere, AMC Networks has released the final trailer for “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.”

The newest spinoff series in the Walking Dead Universe will star Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira as they reprise their roles of Rick Grimes and Michonne, respectively, after the events of the original series. Per the logline, “Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead… And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they’ve ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive… or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?”

Watch the trailer for “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” below:

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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are teaming up again for Netflix's Animals, with Affleck directing and Damon starring. The crime thriller revolves around a mayoral candidate and his wife whose son is kidnapped, forcing them to get their hands dirty to save him. Damon and Affleck have a long history of collaborating, starting as childhood friends and working together on films like Field of Dreams, Good Will Hunting and Dogma.

“How you like them apples?” Most fans do, especially when Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are doling them out in their creative collaborations. The Hollywood duo is arguably best known for their Oscar-winning work on Good Will Hunting (1997), and they are teaming up again for Netflix's Animals.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Affleck will direct the crime thriller, while Damon will star in the Netflix project. Damon and Affleck's latest collaboration, which also operated under the title The Animals...

Long-term friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are set to reunite yet again for Netflix thriller ‘Animals.’

Affleck will remain behind the camera at the helm on the project whose plot details are being kept locked up but the story will focus on a kidnapping. Damon will star.

Connor McIntyre and Billy Ray have penned the script. Affleck and Damon are producing the project with Dani Bernfeld through their company Artists Equity.

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Brad Weston and Collin Creighton are producing ‘Animals’ with Fifth Season. Michael Joe and Kevin Halloran from Artists Equity are executive producing.

The pair have most recently paired up for Amazon Studios’ ‘Air,’ in which Damon starred as Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro opposite Affleck in a supporting role as Nike founder Phil Knight. Affleck also directed the picture. The movie was the first time Affleck directed Damon.

The long-awaited sequel to The Accountant is finally being filmed this year, with Ben Affleck returning as the accountant-slash-assassin Christian Wolff. Director Gavin O'Connor plans for Jon Bernthal to have a larger role in The Accountant 2, and has ideas for a potential third installment. The sequel will continue the story following the explosive events of the first film, which was released in 2016.

The long-awaited sequel to the 2016 action thriller The Accountant will finally film this year, according to Deadline. Following reports that star Ben Affleck will reunite with his friend and frequent collaborator Matt Damon, it has been revealed that “Netflix was quick to board in order to meet Affleck’s busy schedule” which includes his return as accountant-slash-assassin Christian Wolff in The Accountant 2.

This major update comes following the recent listing on Productionlist.com, which shows that The Accountant 2 now has a “shoot date” of March...

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are reuniting for kidnapping thriller Animals for Netflix, and here are the details.

Despite both being equally successful as actors, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have built up quite the portfolio of work behind the camera. T

hey won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1998 for their work on the wonderful Good Will Hunting, which was directed by Gus Van Sant. Robin Williams also won Best Supporting Actor that time.

It led to Kevin Smith’s brilliant parody in his 2001 film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, where we glimpse a violent clip from Smith’s made up sequel Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season.

The pair went on to co-write 2021’s The Last Duel with Nicole Holofcener, and most recently scripted acclaimed drama, Air, the story of how Sonny Vaccaro changed the fortune of shoemaker Nike by signing a young Michael Jordan.

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The moviemaking business is alive and well, and somehow giving several talents the greenlight in a 24-hour span. Ranked in order of interest, from best to good-enough:

The Hollywood Reporter reports (from Hollywood) that Lily Gladstone and Martin Scorsese will reunite via Charlie Kaufman: the latter has written The Memory Police, an adaptation of Yoko Ogawa’s acclaimed sci-fi novel which the Best Actress nominee will lead and Scorsese is executive-producing. Reed Morano (I Think We’re Alone Now) is taking directing duties on the film, somehow both Kafkaesque and Orwellian, as the official synopsis suggests:

On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer...

In a devastating (but perhaps none too surprising) blow to Dad Cinema enthusiasts the world over, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's acclaimed true-story Nike drama "Air" was completely ignored by the Academy when Oscar nominations were announced earlier this week. However, if you were expecting the Oscar-winning duo/best buds to spend the immediate future licking their wounds and wallowing in self-pity, guess again. According to The Hollywood Reporter, they've instead gone and lined up their next project together -- an original crime thriller titled "Animals," which now has Netflix backing it.

Having previously gone under working titles like "The Animals of Los Angeles" and "Be Gentlemen," the new Affleck-Damon joint will see Damon starring and Affleck directing from a script by Connor McIntyre with revisions from "Shattered Glass" and "Captain Phillips" scribe Billy Ray. The plot involves (per THR) "a mayoral candidate and his wife whose son is kidnapped.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are set to reunite once again, after recently working together on Air. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Damon will star in Animals, an upcoming Netflix thriller directed by Affleck, about a mayoral candidate who must find his son after he's kidnapped. Once again, the filmmakers who have been best friends for decades, and who together won an Academy Award for Good Will Hunting, are set to put together their creative talent to work on the candidate's quest for the survival of his family.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon got Artists Equity off to a strong start last year with “Air.” Now the duo’s long creative partnership continues with “Animals,” a crime thriller with Affleck set to direct and Damon starring. THR reports that Netflix landed the film, which looks to start shooting in LA this March.

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Written by Connor McIntyre with revisions by Billy Ray, “Animals” follows a mayoral candidate whose son gets kidnapped, forcing him and his wife to get their hands dirty.

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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are collaborating yet again!

Matt will star in the new film Animals, which Ben will direct. They will both also produce the film under their artists-first studio, Artists Equity.

Keep reading to find out more about the brand new movie…

Here’s the synopsis, according to THR: “The crime thriller concerns a mayoral candidate and his wife whose son is kidnapped. Surrounded by plenty of enemies, political and otherwise, the husband and wife have no choice but to get their hands real dirty in order to save their son.”

The site notes that filming could begin as early as March in Los Angeles.

If you didn’t see, we ranked Matt and Ben‘s nine best collaborations together. Find out which is number 1!

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are set to reunite for the tenth time on Netflix's Animals. Damon and Affleck have worked together in a variety of capacities for more than two decades now. While both stars have found success in their own respective acting and filmmaking endeavors, every re-team, including last year's Air for Prime Video, marks an exciting occasion. The duo even started their own production company in November 2022 called Artists Equity.

Netflix now reveals that Damon and Affleck will reunite for Animals, a crime thriller.

Longtime collaborators Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are teaming up once again. Affleck will direct Damon in the kidnapping thriller, Animals, for Netflix. pic.twitter.com/IawZdPbpEa — Netflix (@netflix) January 25, 2024

The movie will see Affleck in the director's chair and Damon starring, with THR revealing additional details about the project. According to the publication, Animals follows a mayoral candidate and his wife...

Ben Affleck will be directing best friend and longtime collaborator Matt Damon once more, this time for Netflix noir film “Animals.”

Affleck recently directed (and co-starred alongside) Damon for Nike/Michael Jordan biopic “Air.” Now, the secretive Netflix production which has been known under titles like “The Animals of Los Angeles” and “Be Gentlemen,” is officially announced as “Animals.”

Affleck and Damon’s joint Artists Equity production company is behind the film, which is set to begin filming in March 2024 in Los Angeles.

“Animals” is written by Connor McIntyre, with revisions by Billy Ray. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the thriller centers around a mayoral candidate whose son is kidnapped. The candidate and his wife opt to find out the truth for themselves.

“Animals” will be produced by Affleck, Damon, and Dani Bernfeld of Artists Equity, the artist-led studio founded by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Gerry Cardinale/RedBird Capital Partners.

The Dream Team is back! Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are teaming up again for Animals, a kidnapping thriller for Netflix. Affleck will direct Animals from a script written by Connor McIntyre with revisions by Billy Ray. In addition to his directorial duties, Affleck will produce alongside Damon, Dani Bernfeld of Artists Equity, Brad Weston, and Collin Creighton of MakeReady, who set the project up with Fifth Season.

Plot details remain a mystery, though we know it focuses on a kidnapping. Michael Joe of Artists Equity and Kevin Halloran executive produce with Fifth Season.

Last year, Affleck and Damon delighted audiences with Air, a sports drama following the history of sports marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro and how he led Nike in its pursuit of the greatest athlete in the history of basketball, Michael Jordan. The emotionally charged film performed like gangbusters for Amazon and banked $90 million at the global box office.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are teaming up once again for “Animals,” a new crime thriller that Netflix has just acquired. Affleck will direct, with Damon starring, from a script by Connor McIntyre and Billy Ray.

Affleck will remain behind the camera for “Animals” — unlike his previous collaboration with Damon, Amazon Studios’ “Air,” in which Damon starred as Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro opposite Affleck in a supporting role as Nike founder Phil Knight. Like “Air,” Affleck and Damon are producing the project with Dani Bernfeld through their company Artists Equity, which they founded in 2022 with the intention of sharing profits with not just fellow actors, but below-the-line crew as well.

Plot details are scarce for “Animals,” but the story will focus on a kidnapping.

Affleck and Damon famously became friends in high school and collaborated as screenwriters for the 1997 indie sensation “Good Will Hunting,” which won them an Oscar for best original screenplay.

Longtime friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are getting back together again for an upcoming Netflix movie titled Animals, with Affleck directing and Damon on board to star.

Deadline is describing the film as a kidnapping thriller. The website notes in today’s report, “Plot details are vague at this time outside of it revolving around a kidnapping.”

Connor McIntyre wrote the script with revisions by Billy Ray.

Affleck, Damon and Dani Bernfeld of Artists Equity will produce the film.

Brad Weston and Collin Creighton of MakeReady are also on board as producers of Animals, with Michael Joe, Kevin Halloran, and Fifth Season executive producing.

Affleck and Damon most recently worked together on Air, which Affleck directed.

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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are reteaming once again, this time for a new crime thriller that just landed at Netflix.

Affleck will direct Animals, which will star Damon. It could be shooting in Los Angeles by March, if all the pieces come together.

The secretive project was operating under several titles — The Animals of Los Angeles and Be Gentlemen — before landing on simply Animals.

Written by Connor McIntyre with revisions by Billy Ray, the crime thriller concerns a mayoral candidate and his wife whose son is kidnapped. Surrounded by plenty of enemies, political and otherwise, the husband and wife have no choice but to get their hands dirty in order to save their son.

Affleck and Damon will produce via their Artists Equity, along with the company’s Dani Bernfeld. Also producing are Brad Weston and Collin Creighton via their MakeReady banner. Fifth Season, the production, sales and distribution...

Following the success of Air, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are reuniting again on the kidnapping thriller Animals, with Damon starring and Affleck directing. Connor McIntyre penned the script with revisions by Billy Ray. The film will be produced by Affleck, Damon and Dani Bernfeld of Artists Equity and Brad Weston and Collin Creighton of MakeReady, who developed the project in partnership with Fifth Season.

Plot details are vague outside of it revolving around a kidnapping. Artists Equity’s Michael Joe and Kevin Halloran will serve as executive producers alongside Fifth Season. Damon, Affleck and Artists Equity most recently worked together on Air, which earned rave reviews and is one of Amazon’s biggest theatrical hits in the studio’s history with $90 million at the global box office.

While Affleck is expected to reprise his role in the sequel to his hit movie The Accountant, the multihyphenate had been weighing...

Mark Duplass and producing partner Mel Eslyn are continuing their Sundance reign with the debut of series “Penelope.”

The entirely independently financed and produced series follows the titular Penelope (Megan Stott), a teen who feels more connected with nature than she does her own family. As Penelope escapes into the wilderness, she seeks to find herself in the coming-of-age indie drama.

Duplass and Eslyn co-created and co-wrote the series, which is seeking a distributor at the festival. CAA is handling sales. The Duplass Brothers formerly debuted adult animated series “Animals,” which premiered at 2016 Sundance in the early days of the festival expanding to include episodics.

The official synopsis reads: Feeling out of place in the modern world, 16-year-old Penelope (Stott) finds herself almost cosmically drawn to nature. With no plan in place, she leaves her family behind for the beguiling wilderness where she begins to establish a different kind of life for herself.

321 films are in contention for this year’s Academy Awards, while 265 features are eligible in the best picture category, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday as it released its annual “reminder list” for members.

To be eligible in the general categories, films (meaning a runtime of more than 40 minutes) must open in a commercial theater in at least one of the following areas: Los Angeles County; the city of New York; the Bay Area; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; and Atlanta, Georgia, between Jan. 1, 2023 and Dec. 31, 2023. Additionally, it must complete a minimum qualifying run of seven consecutive days in the same venue.

To be eligible for the best picture category specifically, the movies must be eligible for the general entry and have “submitted a confidential Academy Representation and Inclusion Standards entry form.” Additionally, the film must meet two of the four standards required, in addition to the theatrical component.

Big Thief have shared a remastered reissue of their 2016 debut album Masterpiece, out now via 4Ad.

When Big Thief released Masterpiece in 2016, they seemingly became indie rock royalty overnight. The Brooklyn-based band recorded the album in July 2015 at a makeshift studio in an old lakehouse with producer Andrew Sarlo and engineer James Krivchenia, the latter of whom would go on to become Big Thief’s full-time drummer.

Though its title could be used to describe the quality of the record itself, vocalist Adrianne Lenker says Masterpiece refers to “the masterpiece of existence, which is always folding into itself, people attempting to connect, to both shake themselves awake and to shake off the numbness of certain points in their life. The interpretations might be impressionistic or surrealistic, but they’re grounded in simple things.”

In additional Big Thief news, the band has also unveiled an official karaoke YouTube channel so that...

Back in late 2016, Roger Waters delivered some bad news to his firstborn son Harry: He was firing him from his touring band.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Harry recalled the day shortly before Christmas of that year when his father made a visit to his Santa Monica home to inform him that after 14 years of playing keyboards in the band, he would not be onboard for the impending “Us + Them” tour.

“I was fired,” Harry said. “It was pretty miserable.”

Roger was apparently cleaning house with his live lineup, axing everyone except keyboardist Jon Carin and guitarist Dave Kilminster. There were no exceptions for immediate family.

“I think he just wanted a change of blood, something new, something fresh,” said Harry, who still doesn’t know exactly why he was let go. “I’m not sure of his exact reasoning, but everyone except two people got fired. But...

Chicago – David Dastmalchian’s star is rising rapidly. The actor, who studied locally at DePaul University, brought his new role on film – “Late Night with the Devil” – to the 59th Chicago International Film Festival. A reprise screening will take place on October 19th, 2023. Click Late Night for info and tickets.

David Dastmalchian for ‘Late Night with the Devil’ at the 59th Ciff

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Dastmalchian is Jack Delroy, a fictional 1970s talk show host who is in trouble. Jack and his show “Night Owls,” once one of the biggest shows in late night, is now struggling. So now, with his personal life marred by tragedy and his ratings in free fall, he’s desperate to keep his show. Jack and his producers cook up a controversial plan for their 1977 Halloween special … a live demonic possession, as performed by parapsychologist Dr. June Ross-Mitchell (Laura Gordon) and...

Upcoming titles handled by Embankment, Protagonist, Goodfellas and Studiocanal to receive a share of production funding.

Screen Australia is to allocate more than Aud$10m ($6.4m) of production funding to a raft of upcoming film and TV projects.

The national screen body will support six features including Sophie Hyde’s An Ideal Woman, starring Emilia Clarke; Dario Russo’s The Fox, starring Jai Courtney and from the producers of horror hit Talk to Me; and Charles Williams’ Inside, starring Guy Pearce. Further films to receive a share of the funding include David Vincent Smith drama He Ain’t Heavy, John Sheedy...

QuarXX’s “This Thing Inside of Me,” Caye Casas’ “Malamuerte” and maybe the biggest buzz title in the whole selection, Sean Wainsteim’s “Idaho Winter,” a multi-media mashup, feature in a robust, variegated lineup at Sitges FanPitch, which is quickly establishing itself as a key early fall global genre project platform drawing on titles from not only Spain but Europe, Latin and North America and Asia.

Unspooling Oct. 6-7, the FanPitch ranks as one industry centrepiece at the Sitges, International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, a hallowed genre fest Mecca and one of the most important in Europe.

Projects range widely from multiple psychological thrillers, often driving deep into protagonists’ deep trauma, to black horror-comedy, stylish scarefests, near-future allegories, the allegedly true-event paranormal, and vampire actioners.

One title, “Idaho Winter,” is billed as “YA meta-fiction.” Another, fantastical series “The Lost Gods of Memphis,” surely the biggest budgeted of all projects at this year’s FanPitch,...

Pedro Pascal and Chris Hemsworth are teaming up for the crime thriller Crime 101, and both Netflix and Amazon Studios are vying for the rights to the project. Bart Layton, known for American Animals and The Imposter, will be directing Crime 101. Crime 101 is based on a novella by Don Winslow and has been compared to the acclaimed film Heat.

The Mandalorian and The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal will team up with Thor and Extraction star Chris Hemsworth for the Heat-style crime thriller Crime 101. And the idea of the two A-listers uniting for an action outing clearly has studios in a frenzy, as reports have revealed that both Netflix and Amazon Studios are currently fighting for the rights to the project.

As per a report by Deadline, Netflix and Amazon are now doing battle for Crime 101 in a deal that the publication describes as “whopping,” with Amazon reportedly having “the edge.

Roger Waters has shared a new version of “Time” from his forthcoming solo LP, The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux.

Instead of commenting on the track, Waters offered up a series of lines that reflect the song’s lyrics as a statement: “Ticking away……./ The voice had been there all along/ Hidden in the stones in the rivers/ Hidden in all the books/ Hidden in plain sight/ It was the voice of reason/ Thought I’d something more to say………”

“Time” is the second single to emerge from The...

Somebody get Chad Kroeger a lozenge!

During a recent Nickelback show in Maryland Heights, Missouri, Kroeger was in the midst of performing “Animals” when he stopped the band in its tracks.

“I can’t do this,” he told the audience in a decidedly raspy voice.

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“I cannot sit here with a f**king absolutely destroyed throat and try to make it through this show and pretend like there’s nothing f**king wrong and take your f**king money, ’cause that is wrong. I’m having a hard time hittin’ f**kin’ notes,” he admitted.

“The doctor just jabbed me in the hip with some prednisone, and we all crossed our fingers backstage hoping this was gonna work. But I cannot, in good conscience, stand up here and sing these f**kin’ songs and...

Los Angeles, Aug 8 (Ians) The singer of Canadian hard rock band Nickelback, Chad Kroeger, was forced to stop the band’s Mississippi tour after he developed throat problems that rendered him unable to sing.

A footage of the band went online when Kroeger stopped singing while in Missouri after he complained about throat problems, but people were only quick to mock him.

The band is on a North American tour, heading off from Columbia to Mississippi, Tennessee and then Texas.

Stopping the track ‘Animals’ midway, Kroeger could be heard saying in the video, “I can’t do this. I cannot sit here with a f***** absolutely destroyed throat and try to make it through this show and pretend like there’s nothing f***** wrong and take your f***** money, ’cause that is wrong.”

He added, “I’m having a hard time hittin’ f***** notes. The doctor just jabbed me in the hip with some prednisone,...

Nickelback are currently on the road touring North America, though the band encountered a hiccup during a show last Thursday (August 3rd) in Maryland Heights, Missouri.

The concert seemed to be going off without a hitch until Chad Kroeger and company began the song “Animals.” Apparently, Kroeger wasn’t confident in his vocal performance up until that point, because the singer-guitarist stopped the band mid-song to address the issue and apologize.

“I can’t do this,” he said. “I cannot sit here with a fucking absolutely destroyed throat and try to make it through this show and pretend like there’s nothing fucking wrong and take your fucking money, ’cause that is wrong. I’m having a hard time hittin’ fuckin’ notes.”

He continued: “The doctor just jabbed me in the hip with some prednisone, and we all crossed our fingers backstage hoping this was gonna work. But I cannot,...

David Dastmalchian is confident that Count Crowley can be adapted into a movie or TV show, possibly in an animated format. Dastmalchian's acting history in comic book adaptations and his connections in the industry make him a suitable candidate to helm a Count Crowley adaptation. The current success and audience demand for independent and unique comic book stories, as well as the popularity of the horror genre, increase the chances of Count Crowley becoming a successful adaptation.

With his own celebrated history in the genre, David Dastmalchian feels confident in Count Crowley getting a movie or TV adaptation. First published in 2019, the horror comic book series centers on rising TV journalist Jerri Bartman as she returns to her hometown news station after failing to convince her bosses she was assaulted by a fellow reporter. Feeling at her lowest as she is demoted to hosting the late-night horror block, Bartman learns...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the July 25 episode of Jeopardy!] Two-day Jeopardy! champion and marketing director Taylor Clagett had to defend his $31,800 winnings against library circulation assistant Julie Sission and psychologist resident Andrew Knowles. And although the Final Jeopardy can come across as easy to viewers, some more obvious clues left our cast of contestants completely stumped. In the first round, the “Denmark” category took some casualties, with every contestant getting the same question wrong for $200. “Animals” for $600 produced another triple stumper, as did “Animals” for $400. “Even Rhyme the Time” for $200 made everyone clam up. However, when the game shifted to Double Jeopardy, Julie found the second Daily Double almost immediately but was unable to answer correctly. She dropped $4,000 from her third-place total of $4,200 against Taylor’s lead of $6,200. This ruined her chance of jumping from third to first place, as host Ken Jennings pointed out, especially since Taylor correctly answered the final Daily Double soon after for ...

In 2014, an independent feature film came along that quietly showed off the writing and acting skills of David Dastmalchian. This movie was Animals.

The name may not be immediately recognizable, but fans will know him from many different films. However, Animals was a chance for him to truly show off his many talents.

Who Is David Dastmalchian?

There are a slew of actors who have “that guy” status. We see them in supporting roles in various films and can point them out, but we may not actually know their names. Even when their names are mentioned, it may not ring a bell. David Dastmalchian is, for now, one of those actors.

Dastmalchian had his first appearance in a major motion picture in the 2008 Christopher Nolan film The Dark Knight, where he played a minor role as a criminal nearly murdered by Harvey Dent. He then went on to a larger role in the film Prisoners,...

Roger Waters has re-recorded Pink Floyd’s seminal album, The Dark Side of the Moon, and will release it as a solo LP, The Dark Side of the Moon Redux, on Oct. 6 via Sgb Music. The reimagined album coincides with the 50th anniversary of the original, but will arrive without the participation of Waters’ formative band. To preview the release, Waters has shared its debut single, “Money.”

Waters produced the LP along with Gus Seyffert, and recorded the tracks with a studio band that includes Seyffert, Joey Waronker, Jonathan Wilson,...

Due to the expansive nature of Red Dead Redemption 2, players will inevitably find themselves straying off the beaten track and seeking rewards from the tantalizing white markers that signpost side quests. These side quests can often come to nothing - simple fetch quests that give scarce rewards, but there are some gems that pay off in a big way.

These rewards can range from unique weapons, won through climatic duels with notorious gunslingers, or custom outfits obtained from obscure starting points. Red Dead Redemption aficionados will want the best rewards for their efforts and by doing these side quests, players can ensure they get the best rewards.

Geology For Beginners

Unlike the dreaded dinosaur bones hunt, 'Geology For Beginners' is a short fetch quest that involves traveling to far more interesting sites in Red Dead Redemption 2. Francis Sinclair, a geologist, and potential time traveler, can be found near Strawberry. He...

Mark Ruffalo in ‘I Know This Much is True’ (Photo by Atsushi Nishijima / HBO)

Mark Ruffalo is teaming up with Brad Ingelsby (Mare of Easttown) and HBO for what’s currently known as the Untitled Brad Ingelsby Task Force Project. The network announced they’re given the untitled project a series order and pointed out Ruffalo’s involvement as star and executive producer of the limited series was set into place prior to the WGA strike on May 2, 2023.

HBO also confirmed no work is currently being done on the project as the strike continues.

Three-time Oscar nominee Mark Ruffalo is playing a character named Tom who, per the incredibly short synopsis, is somehow involved with “a task force of law enforcement officers and the criminals they are trying to apprehend.”

Brad Ingelsby’s Mare of Easttown won four Emmys and two Critics Choice Awards, as well as Writers Guild, Producers Guild,...