FINAL UPDATE, TUESDAY, 4:23 PM: This morning saw director Ted Melfi’s Hidden Figures get a nice boost on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with this wisely timed rollout of what is now being seen nationwide by both sides of the equation as a patriotic film. 2oth Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment’s Hidden Figures…

Five-time Oscar-nominated editor William Goldenberg, who won the Academy Award for editing Ben Affleck’s Argo, has returned to work with the actor-director in his latest film Live By Night, which opens in wide release today. Goldenberg, who also worked with Affleck on his first directorial effort Gone Baby…

Without a major four-quad tentpole release in place over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend — the first in some time — a trio of wide releases and a trio of wide expansions are crowding the box office marketplace. The glut is making a No. 1 winner unclear, especially following the surprise win last weekend for…

With three solid successes behind him as a director, Ben Affleck continues to forge a career — behind the camera at least — that strives for the kind of quality that only dribbles out of major studios once or twice a year. With The Town, his Oscar-winning Best Picture Argo, and his first helming effort Gone Baby Gone, …

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Live By Night producer Jennifer Todd stopped by the pre-screening reception Warner Bros threw Wednesday night in the DGA Atrium and not only was she talking about the period gangster movie her production partner Ben Affleck directed and stars in, but…

“If that’s who you think we are, you’re making a fatal calculation. We’re clerks and bankers and police officers and we even got a judge. And if you’re dim enough to fight us, I’m gonna rain bloody hellfire down on you and all you love.” Sounds like a pretty heavy threat. But is Ben Affleck fazed? Watch the new…

Florida's film and TV industry is in a free-fall after the state scrapped its film incentives program earlier this year. Productions are leaving, vendors are fleeing, and workers are moving to Georgia in the wake of a concerted and well-financed campaign by the billionaire Koch brothers and their conservative allies in…

Live By Night, the period crime drama from Ben Affleck will get a limited release from Warner Bros. on Christmas Day, clearly for Oscar consideration. The film will continue in wide release on Jan. 13, 2017. The film, which was written, directed and co-produced by Affleck is based on the novel of  the same name by…

“Powerful men don’t have to be cruel.” Here’s the first teaser trailer for Live by Night, which Ben Affleck directed and stars in as Joe Coughlin, the black-sheep son of a police captain who gets involved in Prohibition Era organized crime in Boston. But when he crosses a boss, things go south — all the way to Tampa…

Warner Bros has shifted release dates for four of its upcoming films, including The Lego Movie 2, which moves almost a year back from 05/18/18 to 02/08/19. No word on why the sequel to 2014’s huge hit has been moved, but it now is slated to come out nearly five years to the day after The Lego Movie, and just under two…

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Warner Bros. announced this morning four additions to its 2017 slate. Ben Affleck’s fourth feature as director Live By Night is getting a prime fall spot of October 20. Affleck directs, adapted and stars in Dennis Lehane’s Prohibition-era set novel about a Boston petty thief who rises to become the Gulf Coast's most…