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Fox has dated Ridley Scott’s ‘The Last Duel’ — starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck — for limited release on Dec. 25, 2020. The revenge tale will open wide on Jan. 8, 2021.

Set in 14th century, “The Last Duel” is about a woman who claims she’s been raped by her husband’s best friend. But when no one believes her accusation, her husband challenges his friend to a duel, the last legally sanctioned duel in the country’s history.

Jodi Comer, who recently won the Emmy for Best Actress in a Drama for “Killing Eve,” will play the female lead. Damon and Affleck will portray the dueling friends.

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Damon and Affleck are reuniting to write the script along with Nicole Holofcener, an Oscar nominee for “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” They’ll base the script off of the non-fiction book “The...

In one of the first major greenlights since acquiring Fox, Disney is moving forward with Ridley Scott’s period drama “The Last Duel,” dating the film for Dec. 25, 2020, a prime spot for next year’s award season.

The film stars Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer and Ben Affleck with Scott directing. The script is by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Nicole Holofcener. Jennifer Fox is producing alongside Scott, Kevin Walsh and Nicole Holofcener. Damon and Affleck will executive produce with Drew Vinton and Kevin Halloran.

Set in 14th century France, the movie is an epic tale of betrayal and justice, told from three distinct points of view: two knights (Damon and Driver) whose bond is tested by treachery and a young woman (Comer) forced to navigate the brutal and oppressive culture of the era in order to survive.

The studio has also dated Ben Affleck thriller “Deep Water” for Nov.

This afternoon, Disney reserved a ton of slots for Fox features all the way into 2023. While we haven’t listed the entire Disney/Fox schedule, we’ve listed the notable changes and tallies below.

What’s interesting with all these changes is that the Star Wars films remain on Disney’s calendar, despite the recent departure of Game of Thrones duo David Benioff and D.B. Weiss as the lords of a new trilogy. Those dates remain as December 16, 2022; December 20, 2024, and December 18, 2026.

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Matthew Vaughn’s The King’s Man, which is already being promoted in theaters, is a prequel to his Kingsmen series starring Ralph Fiennes. It moves out of February 14, 2020, and all the way to September 18, 2020 against Paramount’s Michael B. Jordan Tom Clancy movie Without Remorse and Sony’s untitled Lord and Miller animation project.

New Regency/Fox’s Deep Water starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas, directed by Adrian Lyne,...

Disney’s ‘The King’s Man” has been pushed seven months from Feb. 14, 2020 to Sept. 18, 2020. It will still be released under the 20th Century Fox banner.

Matthew Vaughn is returning to direct “The King’s Man,” which is based on Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons’s comic series “The Secret Service and follows the Kingsmen’s fight to end World War I while a team of tyrants and criminal masterminds try to take the lives of millions in the process. Ralph Fiennes, Harris Dickinson, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, Daniel Brühl, Djimon Hounsou and Charles Dance star.

The film is a prequel to “Kingsman: The Secret Service” (2014) and “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” (2017). Collectively, the two movies grossed more than $825 million at the worldwide box office. They starred Colin Firth, Mark Strong and Taron Egerton in both, while other cast members have included Mark Hamill, Sofia Boutella, Julianne Moore, Channing Tatum,...

Peaky Blinders’ Helen McCrory is to play the British Prime Minister alongside Hugh Laurie in British drama Roadkill as PBS Masterpiece boards the four-part BBC series.

McCrory will be joined by Westworld’s Sidse Babett Knudsen and Dublin Murders’ Sarah Greene in the series, which is written by Collaterel’s David Hare and produced by National Treasure producer The Forge.

The cast is rounded out by Saskia Reeves (The Child in Time), Patricia Hodge (A Very English Scandal), Ophelia Lovibond (Hooten & the Lady), Iain De Caestecker (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D), Katie Leung (Chimerica), Olivia Vinall (The Woman in White), Pippa Bennett-Warner (Harlots) Shalom Brune-Franklin (Our Girl), Pip Torrens (Preacher), Millie Brady (The Last Kingdom) and Danny Ashok (Deep Water).

The thriller is about self-made, forceful and charismatic politician Peter Laurence (Laurie). Peter’s public and private life seems to be falling apart – or rather is...

Exclusive: Filming is underway on Deep Water, the first movie from Indecent Proposal and Fatal Attraction director Adrian Lyne in almost two decades. Among cast joining Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas, Tracy Letts and Rachel Blanchard are Dash Mihok (Ray Donovan), Lil Rel Howery (Get Out), Jacob Elordi (The Kissing Booth), Kristen Connolly (House Of Cards), and Jade Fernandez (Little).

This is Lyne’s first movie since 2002’s Unfaithful. New Regency fully financing. Zack Helm (Stranger Than Fiction) and Sam Levinson (Euphoria) have adapted from the Patricia Highsmith novel, and Garrett Basch and Steven Zaillian are producing with Entertainment 360’s Guymon Casady and Ben Forkner, and Anthony Katagas (12 Years A Slave). Arnon Milchan is also producing.

Pic is an erotic thriller, right in Lyne’s wheelhouse. Affleck and de Armas play Vic and Melinda Van Allen, an attractive young married couple whose mind games with each other take a...

Ben Affleck is a troubled man on an unlikely path to redemption in the emotional first look at his new film, The Way Back.

The two minute trailer opens with an introductory montage about Affleck’s character Jack, who is a seemingly lost soul, suffering from depression and alcohol addiction.

“I’m fine,” he says to a woman checking in on him, but is clearly not. Later in the trailer, Jack’s daily schedule of showering and drinking before work, going to work, drinking at work and drinking at home, is interrupted when he’s asked to coach the high...

Ben Affleck is returning to the big screen for an action thriller.

The 47-year-old actor is starring in the mind-bending film, Hypnotic, from director Robert Rodriguez, which is currently in production.

Rodriguez, who also directed Sin City and Alita: Battle Angel, will co-write and the film with Max Borenstein (Godzilla, Kong: Skull Island). He is also producing for Studio 8 and Solstice Studios.

The Argo actor is set to play a detective responsible for investigating high-end heists when he gets caught in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program.

“Working with Ben on his award-winning projects, including Argo and The Town,...

Ben Affleck is set to star in the next film from director Robert Rodriguez, a mind-bending action thriller called “Hypnotic,” producers Studio 8 and Solstice Studios announced Wednesday.

Rodriguez and Max Borenstein wrote the film that will star Affleck as a detective who becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program while investigating a string of impossible high-end heists.

Rodriguez, Studio 8 CEO Jeff Robinov and his colleagues Guy Danella and John Graham will produce the film with Solstice. Solstice will handle U.S. distribution and international sales beginning at the American Film Market this week. “Hypnotic” is the first film green lit between Studio 8 and Solstice Studios.

Ben Affleck has been cast in “Hypnotic,” an action thriller written and directed by Robert Rodriguez.

Affleck will play a detective who becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program, while investigating a string of impossible high-end heists.

Solstice Studios and Studio 8 unveiled a strategic partnership for the film prior to this year’s American Film Market and plan to sign off on the co-production at this week’s Afm. The two companies will produce the movie, with Solstice spearheading U.S. distribution and international sales, while Studio 8 retains the option to co-finance.

Sources tell Variety that Rodriguez and the producers are trying to change production dates to accommodate Affleck’s busy schedule, with plans to start filming in April.

The Oscar winner has a hectic six months ahead. His New Regency thriller “Deep Water,” co-starring Ana de Armas, goes into production this month,...

Lady Bird star Tracy Letts and Fargo actress Rachel Blanchard are set to join Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas in Adrian Lyne’s erotic thriller Deep Water over at New Regency, Collider has exclusively learned. As we reported back in August, Deep Water finds Affleck and rising star de Armas playing a married couple who open up their marriage in the hopes of saving their relationship, only to see things take a dark and deadly turn. Details on Letts and Blanchard's characters are under wraps, but it's believed that Blanchard is either playing a woman who has …...

Adam Driver is in early talks to co-star opposite Matt Damon in Disney-Fox’s “The Last Duel,” a period drama from director Ridley Scott.

Sources tell Variety that Ben Affleck, who originally eyed what would be Driver’s leading role, will now appear in a supporting part along with “Killing Eve” actress Jodie Comer.

Set in 14th century France, the movie is an epic tale of betrayal and justice, told from three distinct points of view: two knights (Damon and Driver) whose bond is tested by treachery and a young woman (Comer) forced to navigate the brutal and oppressive culture of the era in order to survive.

When news first broke that Damon and Affleck would be appearing in a film together for the first time since “Good Will Hunting,” many assumed Affleck would take on the role of Damon’s friend, though neither the studio nor reps for either actor would confirm.