EXCLUSIVE: After planning plenty of robberies in the Ocean’s Eleven movies, Matt Damon and Casey Affleck are ready to plan another heist as two thieves in The Instigatorsfor Apple Original Films. Apple recently landed the coveted package, which has Doug Liman on board to direct.
Damon and Ben…
The Emersons are modest people. Running a farm, along with raising children to be decent, God-fearing and hard-working, is an all-day, all-week business; there isn't much time for pretension. Even among the rustling pine trees in their little bit of Washington state, however, teenage boys may pick at guitars, noodle…
Casey Affleck heaped praise on Andrew Dominik's forthcoming Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde during a press conference for his latest film Dreamin' Wild at the Venice Film Festival Wednesday.
"I've seen Blonde and it’s incredible," Affleck told press corps. "I've seen a couple of versions of Blonde and it’s taken him…
Stalwart indie filmmaker Bill Pohlad today premeres in VeniceDreamin’ Wild. His directing follow up to the critically acclaimed Brian Wilson film Love & Mercy also follows a music story, though one far less familiar. Casey Affleck, Noah Jupe, Zooey Deschanel, Walton Goggins and Beau Bridges star. When Donnie Emerson…
Cast has been set on sci-fi thriller Slingshot, with Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea), Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix) and Emily Beecham (Little Joe) leading the pic about an astronaut struggling to maintain his grip on reality aboard a possibly fatally compromised mission to Saturn's moon, Titan.
Mikael Håfström…
First off, can somebody please find a romantic comedy for Casey Affleck to do? It seems that with every movie I have seen this fine actor in lately he is experiencing some sort of intense grief. Perhaps it was the impact of his Oscar-winning performance in Manchester By the Sea, but nobody does depression better than…
Norwegian director Mona Fastvold's The World to Come takes her into frontier country, as two put-upon farmers wives—played by Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby—unexpectedly find love in the drudgery of 1850s America, despite their strained relationships with their husbands, played by Casey Affleck and Christopher…
Our Friend is a triangular narrative based on an Esquire article by journalist Matthew Teague about the death of his wife, Nicole. Before Nicole succumbed to cancer at age 36, an unusually intimate bond formed among the couple and mutual friend, Dane. Despite the ravages of fate, Dane offered a preternatural degree of…
When Our Friend premiered at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival, it was simply called The Friend, but the slightly altered new title feels better for this touching true story based on Matthew Teague’s sensational award-winning Esquire magazine article. It was written about his family crisis when his wife, Nicole, was…
“With little pride and less hope, we begin the new year,” Abigail writes in a journal entry dated January 1, 1856. But there is hope for the leads in The World to Come, which explores how isolation is overcome by the intensity of human connection. Watch first trailer above.
Set in the American Northeast and framed by…