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Matt Damon might soon find himself getting roped into Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s divorce drama.

As we previously reported, Ben and Jen did not sign a prenup before they tied the knot in 2022.

And because of that baffling decision, it will not be easy for the exes to simply go their separate ways.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez attend “The Mother” Los Angeles Premiere Event at Westwood Village on May 10, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Netflix)

According to TMZ, very asset these two earned over the past years must now be divided equally.

And that’s no easy feat. We’re talking about houses, cars, millions in earnings, and even a company that Ben started during that time.

How Matt Damon Could Wind Up Involved In Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s Split

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Exclusive: Christopher Landon’s Drop has added British writer/performer Ed Weeks to the Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse’s fast-paced thriller.

Weeks joins a cast that includes Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane and Jacob Robinson. Pic’s logline is under wraps. Universal is releasing the pic.

Weeks starred as “Dr. Jeremy Reed” in Fox’s The Mindy Project. He can currently be seen in Paramount+’s French Girl, opposite Zach Braff, which premiered at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. He most recently starred in the Fox Broadcasting series LA to Vegas opposite Dylan McDermott. Additional feature credits include the HBO feature film The Leisure Class, produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, and Negin Fasad and Jeremy Redleaf’s 3rd Street Blackout. His television credits include Channel 4’s The It Crowd, Dirty Sexy Funny (Comedy Central), and The BBC’s My Family and Not Going Out. Weeks has...

I love HBO’s Project Greenlight because it’s one of the few reality shows designed to document inevitable failure.

Sure, that’s not the spoken aspiration of the series, which launched on the names and star presence of producers Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Project Greenlight was created to give an opportunity for an unproven filmmaker to direct a low-budget feature with guaranteed distribution, and for viewers to learn about the filmmaking process through their behind-the-scenes misadventures. Those things, as audiences immediately learned, have absolutely nothing to do with making a good movie. Like the bear playing the violin, it’s entertaining enough that he’s doing it at all, and complaining about his bow posture is almost petty.

As Issa Rae, executive producer on Max’s new Project Greenlight reboot, diplomatically puts it, “The films of Project Greenlight past have… been Ok? You know? So we want to...

Exclusive: The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities scribe Tom Wolfe is the subject of new documentary Radical Wolfe, an adaptation of a 2015 Vanity Fair article by Moneyball and The Big Short author Michael Lewis who was a longtime personal friend of Wolfe.

Kino Lorber has acquired all North American distribution rights to Richard Dewey’s under-the-radar film, which is currently in post-production and set to be released theatrically later this year.

Talking heads include Michael Lewis, Jann Wenner, Gay Talese, Lynn Nesbit, Terry McDonell, Tom Junod, Christopher Buckley, Niall Ferguson, and Alexandra Wolfe.

From a beat reporter at the Washington Post, to an overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement, Wolfe is one of America’s most celebrated journalist-turned-novelists of the latter 20th Century. His books included The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire Of The Vanities, and A Man in Full.

A life coach with a deadly side and a self-help addict looking for an escape go on a bloody road trip to remember (or dismember) in A Serial Killer's Guide to Life, and following its well-received festival run, it's been announced that the horror comedy is coming to iTunes and Digital HD on January 13th, 2020 in the Us and Canada via Arrow Films:

Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Arrow Films is thrilled to announce that it will be releasing the critically acclaimed jet-black British comedy feature film A Serial Killer’S Guide To Life in the Us and Canada on iTunes and Digital HD on January 13th, 2020.

Described as “Sightseers meets Thelma and Louise”, A Serial Killer’S Guide To Life is the debut feature film from Writer-Director Staten Cousins Roe, produced by Forward Motion Pictures – a multi award-winning production company run by husband-wife duo Staten Cousins Roe and Poppy Roe,...

After Frances McDormand's epic Oscar speech, where she asked her Hollywood cohorts to adopt "inclusion riders" for all future projects, another company has answered the call. After Michael B. Jordan took to social media last week to announce his commitment to inclusion riders, for all projects being developed under his production company Outlier Society, Pearl Street Films, the production company run by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, have also committed to adopting inclusion riders. Here's what Pearl Street Films head of strategic outreach, Fanshen Cox Digiovanni, had to say on Twitter, responding to Michael B. Jordan's original tweet.

"@michaelb4jordan Thank you for always supporting broader representation in the industry. On behalf of Pearl Street Films, Matt Damon, @BenAffleck, Jennifer Todd, Drew Vinton & I will be adopting the #InclusionRider for all of our projects moving forward."

Neither Matt Damon nor Ben Affleck themselves have commented on their company adopting...

Nearly everyone who was involved with the fourth season of “Project Greenlight” might be best classified as a survivor. Amongst their number was Peter Farrelly, who served as a mentor for the first few episodes of the series before quitting somewhat abruptly.

As documented in the reality series, which chronicled the making of a low-budget HBO feature, Farrelly butted heads with producer Effie Brown during pre-production before backing away from the drama of being on a reality show. “I can see that Effie wants drama and I don’t want to engage with it,” he said at the end of the third episode, “Gun to Your Head.”

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Turns out, that wasn’t an exaggerated reaction, because two years later, that has still left an impact on him, as he expressed during a panel for the Audience Network series...

Speaking about what it will take to bring about more diversity in the entertainment industry, indie producer Effie Brown, offering the keynote address Sunday at the 12th annual Film Independent Forum in Los Angeles, said, "There are only two ways we have made change in systemic oppression: shame and money." She continued, "Our weapon is our voice, and our bullets are our dollars. We cannot support financially the people and places and things that are not inclusive, that participate in oppression.” Brown's producing credits include Justin Simeon's Dear White People and The Leisure Class, the film whose making

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Hulu released the mid-season finale of "The Mindy Project" yesterday, and I have thoughts on that episode and season 4 to date coming up just as soon as I sign up for this great new dating website called Ashley Madison... Once upon a time, "The Mindy Project" was going to be called "It's Messy." While that title lacked either part of Mindy Kaling's name in it, and would have invited some easy jokes if critics hadn't liked it, it would have captured not only the messiness of Mindy Lahiri's life, but the intrinsic messiness of the show itself. The series has tried lots of different things in terms of characters and tone, and though the cast more or less settled down midway through the Fox run, there are still pieces that feel mismatched, and characters like Jeremy who have stuck around even though nobody seems to know what to do with him anymore(*). (*) In hindsight,...

Read More: Review: Was 'The Leisure Class' Worth All of the 'Project Greenlight' Drama? Project Greenlight Digital Studios, a project that provides opportunities like competitions, content discovery, and advice from members of the filmmaking community, is allowing viewers to vote on the project that will receive funding and development help for a new digital series. Voting will begin today and ends December 18 at 11:59Pm Pt, and the project with the most votes will be guaranteed a spot in the top five. A panel will then determine the winner, which will be announced on January 8 at 9:01am. Watch the nominees' videos and cast your votes at the Project Greenlight website.  Read More: Effie Brown on the Upside of the 'Project Greenlight' Controversy and Why Diversity is Suddenly a Hot Topic...

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Welcome to today's edition of Nerd Alert, where we have all the quirky, nerdy news that you crave in one convenient spot. What do we have in store for you on this fun-filled Friday? A group of kids react to The Peanuts Movie trailer, one video breaks down huge editing mistakes and Project Greenlight gets a new spoof. But wait, there's more! We have a breakdown of every James Bond gadget used throughout the franchise's history and Adult Swim's Robot Chicken spoofs The CW's Arrow and The Flash! Sit back, relax and check out all that today's Nerd Alert has to offer.

Every James Bond Gadget

With Spectre hitting theaters today, Burger Fiction has put together a comprehensive video that shows every single James Bond gadget, from 1963's Dr. No to 2012's Skyfall. If you have 16 minutes to kill, it's a fascinating video that shows how 007's gadgetry has evolved over the past 50 years.

Throughout the recent reboot of HBO's "Project Greenlight," which wound up Sunday night followed by a Monday airing of the indie film being made on the show, "The Leisure Class," you could count on Ben Affleck being the smartest guy in the room and producer Effie Brown keeping things interesting. Any woman who has ever had a role on a movie set (in my 20s I served as unit publicist on several movies) will see how Brown illustrates the ways women in power are perceived by men. A veteran of some 17 indie productions, several of them at HBO, Brown knows what she is doing. What she doesn't do is defer, couch, soften, or kowtow. She just calls it as she sees it, and you witness how hard that is for the white men around her to handle. They reflexively support each other —and want to tune her out. One...

Stolen Summer, The Battle of Shaker Heights, Feast and, now, The Leisure Class. The ends never have justified the means on Project Greenlight, the HBO/Bravo reality series that details the production of a contest-selected feature film. Executive producers — and perpetual good-will hunters — Matt Damon and Ben Affleck may very well want to pay it forward by giving unproven artists a shot at Hollywood glory. What typically results, however, is more of a gawk-at-this freak show that reduces the varying bumps, triumphs and tedium of the creative process to a manufactured series of hyperdramatic high points. The

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