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  • Ben Affleck’s 10-year-old son hits Lamborghini right into a parked BMW

    By ANI

    LOS ANGELES: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s 10-year-old son Samuel acquired right into a minor mishap when he acquired onto the driving force’s seat of a yellow Lamborghini and bumped right into a parked BMW.

    The incident occurred whereas at a automobile dealership in Los Angeles. However, the 10-year-old is at the moment advantageous after the accident, confirmed E! News.

    Much to Affleck’s reduction, there hasn’t been any sort of casualty reported from the incident. “This is no damage. Everyone is fine,” Affleck’s consultant informed E! News.

    According to a video of the accident obtained by TMZ, Samuel was out with Affleck and Jennifer Lopez when he was seen sitting within the driver’s seat. The actor stood outdoors the automobile, which retails for greater than USD 230,000, whereas his fiancee acquired into the backseat. After the incident, Samuel exited the automobile to examine the harm.

    “When (Samuel) got into the car, it jerked back and forth. We have a small lot and the cars are close. Everybody was OK!”, a dealership worker revealed.

    Moment Ben Affleck’s son Samuel, 10, BUMPS his Lamborghini right into a BMW after his dad let him behind the wheel throughout outing with Jennifer Lopez

    The incident occurred at 777 Exotics in Los Angeles on Sunday

    Affleck was seen comforting his son with a hug pic.twitter.com/xrCkCaae5l

    — Lilian Chan (@bestgug) June 27, 2022

    The outing was one other second for Affleck, additionally father to daughters together with his ex-wife Violet, 16, and Seraphina Rose, 13, to affix his son and Jennifer Lopez.

    As per studies from E! News, since reconciling their romance final 12 months, Lopez and Affleck have been effortlessly mixing their households. A supply near the singer informed final August, “J.Lo has made a big effort to get to know Ben’s kids and welcome them into her home and her life. They have spent a lot of time getting to know each other and letting the kids have fun and bond.” 

  • Jason Bateman, Viola Davis be part of solid of Ben Affleck’s Nike drama 

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Actors Jason Bateman, Viola Davis, Chris Tucker, Marlon Wayans and Chris Messina are the newest addition to the solid of Ben Affleck’s untitled Nike drama.

    Affleck will probably be starring in and directing the film for Amazon Studios, Skydance Sports and Mandalay Pictures. According to Deadline, Matthew Maher, Tom Papa and Julius Tennon spherical out the solid.

    The sports activities advertising and marketing movie will narrate the story of Nike, the footwear manufacturing firm.

    Affleck will star as Nike co-founder Phil Knight within the story surrounding the corporate’s longshot effort to signal Michael Jordan within the mid-’80s, an endorsement that appeared unimaginable on the time however which might change into probably the most vital relationship between an athletic model and an athlete and launched the worldwide, multibillion-dollar up to date sneaker business.

    The “Argo” helmer is reuniting along with his longtime buddy and “Good Will Hunting” co-writer Matt Damon for the venture.

    Damon will play Sonny Vaccaro, the legendary sneaker salesman who signed basketball nice Jordan to his first sneaker deal within the preliminary days of Nike.

    The movie is predicated on Alex Convery’s unique script titled ‘Air Jordan’, which was named to the 2021 Black List of the perfect unproduced screenplays. The venture is presently being filmed in Los Angeles.

  • Ben Affleck, Matt Damon to reunite for function on Nike

    By Express News Service

    Hollywood actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon will reteam for a function drama that can inform the story of the favored footwear manufacturing firm Nike.

    Affleck will even direct the movie from an authentic script by Alex Convery. Damon will play Sonny Vaccaro, the legendary sneaker salesman who memorably signed basketball nice Michael Jordan to his first sneaker deal within the preliminary days of Nike.

    Affleck will play Nike co-founder Phil Knight within the story surrounding the corporate’s longshot effort to signal Jordan within the mid-’80s, an endorsement that appeared unimaginable on the time however which might turn out to be probably the most vital relationship between an athletic model and an athlete and launched the worldwide, multibillion-dollar up to date sneaker business.

    Notably, the 2 stars will even write a brand new screenplay draft based mostly on Convery’s authentic draft. The yet-untitled movie is produced by Amazon Studios, Skydance Sports and Mandalay Pictures. This is the primary time Affleck is directing his longtime good friend Damon. The duo co-wrote and starred collectively in Gus Van Sant’s 1997 movie Good Will Hunting.

  • Hollywood star Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck get engaged

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are engaged, the music icon confirmed on her official web site The couple, who rekindled their romance in 2021 practically 18 years after they referred to as off their final engagement, are planning to get married now.

    Lopez, 52, first teased the ‘thrilling and particular’ announcement on her Facebook and Instagram web page, following which she shared an e-mail to her internal circle.

    The message shared on Lopez’s web site for followers included a clip of the singer admiring an enormous, inexperienced diamond on her ring finger.

    Lopez and Affleck, 49, first began relationship after engaged on the film “Gigli”.

    They acquired engaged in November 2002, however Lopez referred to as off the engagement in early 2004, and acquired married to singer Marc Anthony by June of the identical 12 months. The couple went on to have twins Max and Emme in 2008.

    Affleck married actor Jennifer Garner in 2005 and welcomed three kids collectively: daughters Violet and Seraphina, and son Samuel.

    Fondly addressed as ‘Bennifer’ by the followers and media alike, Lopez and Affleck reconciled final 12 months in May following the pop star’s break up with Alex Rodriguez.

  • Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are engaged once more, almost twenty years after calling off their wedding ceremony. See her gorgeous ring

    Hollywood stars Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are engaged, the music icon confirmed on her official web site. The couple, who rekindled their romance in 2021 almost 18 years after they known as off their final engagement, are planning to get married now.

    Lopez, 52, first teased the “exciting and special” announcement on her Facebook and Instagram web page, following which she shared an e-mail to her interior circle. The message shared on Lopez’s web site for followers included a clip of the singer admiring an enormous, inexperienced diamond on her ring finger. In an older e-newsletter, she had written concerning the significance of the color inexperienced in her life. “I always say the color green is my lucky colour. I’ve realized there are many moments in my life where amazing things happened when I was wearing green.”

    Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck rekindled their romance in 2021.

    Lopez and Affleck, 49, first began relationship after engaged on the film Gigli. They acquired engaged in November 2002, however Lopez known as off the engagement in early 2004, and acquired married to singer Marc Anthony by June of the identical 12 months. The couple went on to have twins Max and Emme in 2008.

    Affleck married actor Jennifer Garner in 2005 and welcomed three youngsters collectively: daughters Violet and Seraphina, and son Samuel. Fondly addressed as ‘Bennifer’ by the followers and media alike, Lopez and Affleck reconciled final 12 months in May following the pop star’s break up with Alex Rodriguez.

  • Janhvi Kapoor, Vaani Kapoor, Neha Sharma are Indian members of Raya, the ‘dating app for celebs’ utilized by Ben Affleck, Channing Tatum

    A celeb courting app with a ready listing within the lots of of 1000’s is rising in reputation in India. Raya, described pithily by The New York Times as ‘Illuminati Tinder’, is a members-only platform with an acceptance fee decrease than Harvard Business School. Like an Ivy League faculty, it selects, rejects and wait-lists candidates, with ready time that may stretch into weeks. It counts amongst its worldwide clientele actors reminiscent of Channing Tatum, Demi Lovato, John Mayer, Lizzo, Cara Delevingne, Sharon Stone, and the outed Ben Affleck.
    Having made inroads in India, Raya has attracted celebrities reminiscent of Janhvi Kapoor, Vaani Kapoor, Neha Sharma, Sonal Chauhan, Anushka Ranjan, Lisa Mishra and a serious filmmaker who needs to stay nameless. Invite-only Raya gives exclusivity and privateness that celebrities wouldn’t discover on common courting apps reminiscent of Tinder. The app, famously ‘not for everyone’, follows a inflexible code of silence the place exposing names of different members, taking screenshots of different profiles and even tweeting about it will probably get you thrown out. The app is supposed to facilitate friendship and networking as a lot as courting.

    Actor Sonakshi Sinha in a current interview with Brut was requested what her courting bio could be. She scoffed on the mere concept. “I don’t have a dating app bio,” she laughed. The interviewer swiftly moved on to his subsequent query, however Sonakshi was clearly distracted by the chance. She interrupted, “Imagine that. Imagine what would that be like, even. The amount of DMs I get on Instagram, in thousands. I can’t imagine what my dating app would look like.”
    For celebrities reminiscent of Sonakshi Sinha, who has over 21 million followers on Instagram, sure issues are paradoxically out of attain. For occasion, many actors will typically admit that a part of the satan’s cut price of turning into a star is sacrificing all types of privateness. Once they’ve crossed a sure threshold of fame, their each transfer might be documented with the diligence of a weatherman monitoring an incoming storm.
    But Raya, regardless of primarily being a digital VIP part of the most well liked membership on the town—or, ‘the Soho House of dating apps,’ as one individual informed the NYT in 2018—gives one factor that the wealthy and well-known want greater than the rest. Confidentiality. Launched in 2015 by Daniel Gendelman, the by-invite-only app isn’t marketed, however grows by means of phrase of mouth. As an added layer of exclusivity, it’s obtainable solely on iOS units. Of course.
    Society has largely change into accustomed to the idea of social silos and closed circles. Even non-celebrities, as an illustration, are prepared to attend a few many years to get membership on the Delhi Golf Club. But on Raya, solely about 8 per cent of purposes are accepted. One individual even provided $10,000 in money to be admitted, whereas others, the Times mentioned, introduced elaborate resumes.
    “I tried to solve a big problem for a small amount of people,” Gendelman informed the Times, having emerged from the woodwork after having efficiently maintained secrecy about not simply Raya’s membership, however the app itself. He conceived it, unsurprisingly, after a placing out on Tinder. But his imaginative and prescient, he mentioned, was to create considerably of a digital Davos.
    Not simply film stars and musicians, the app additionally welcomes athletes, journalists, and, as Gendelman insisted, individuals who aren’t well-known in any respect. The app, he informed the Times, is ‘for passionate people anywhere in the world who have something they want to share with other members, and can do it in a respectful way.’ It prices about as a lot as one month’s Netflix subscription within the US, and requires aspiring members to use through their Instagram accounts. Raya even requires members to create a musical montage of images, which it shows, based on a 2021 New Yorker article, in an interface that’s paying homage to iMessage and AirBnb.
    A screenshot of the Raya interface, as displayed on the App Store. (Photo: App Store)
    But that’s the place the connections to common platforms finish. Omertà is what defines, and in the end sustains the app. Every software is vetted by a pool of current members, in a course of that may typically final years. Decisions are made on the idea of digital impressions and referrals, or, as Gendelman informed the Times, even when the applicant occurs to be ‘rad’.

    Misbehaviour of any sort isn’t tolerated, and ends in the applicant being booted out with a tacit response: “Our decision is final.” The lady who outed Affleck suffered an identical destiny, as did an ‘aggressive’ man she matched with, she informed the New Yorker.
    Groucho Marx, on the insistence of his mates, agreed to change into a member of an unique membership. Having determined that it wasn’t for him, he famously wrote in a letter of resignation, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.” Raya is the antithesis of this concept. It stays to be seen the way it’ll work in a rustic the place celebrities spend whole careers attempting to be relatable.

  • Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations: Will Smith, Lady Gaga, Olivia Colman within the working

    Will Smith, Lady Gaga and Ben Affleck landed particular person nominations for the twenty eighth Screen Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday, whereas the casts of Belfast and CODA had been amongst these nominated for the guild’s prime award, greatest ensemble.
    The nominees had been introduced Wednesday by actors Vanessa Hudgens and Rosario Dawson on Instagram Live. While the nominations had been performed just about as a result of surge in COVID-19 circumstances, the streamed announcement nonetheless represented one of the vital significant mornings in an awards season largely snuffed out by the pandemic.
    Don’t Look Up scored a nomination within the ensemble class. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
    Joining Belfast and CODA for greatest ensemble had been the casts for House of Gucci, Don’t Look Up and King Richard. Notably ignored had been the casts of Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story (which did land a supporting nod for Ariana DeBose) and Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog. Campion’s movie, although, landed three particular person SAG noms: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
    The Golden Globes, often the kickoff social gathering within the ultimate stretch main as much as the Academy Awards, made barely a peep. They had been unceremoniously introduced Sunday on Twitter in a personal ceremony as a result of Hollywood’s boycott of the beleaguered Hollywood Foreign Press Association over variety and moral points. The Omicron surge additionally prompted the Critics Choice Awards to postpone its January 9 in-person gala. For the second 12 months, Oscar season has gone digital — and struggled to make a lot noise.
    Will Smith in a nonetheless from King Richard.
    The nominees for greatest male lead actor are: Will Smith (King Richard), Cumberbatch, Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth), Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick … Boom!) and Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos).
    Up for greatest feminine lead are: Lady Gaga (House of Gucci), Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye), Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter), Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos) and Jennifer Hudson (Respect).
    Nicole Kidman performs Lucille Ball in Being the Ricardos.
    The SAG Awards, offered by the actors guild SAG-AFTRA, are among the many most dependable Oscar bellwethers. Seldom does a film or efficiency not nominated by the display screen actors find yourself profitable on the Academy Awards. Actors make up the largest share of the movie academy, so their selections have the most important sway.
    But final 12 months, SAG and the academy diverged greater than normal. Only one in all its performing winners — Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah) — repeated on the Oscars. (The different SAG winners had been Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and Yuh-Jung Youn in Minari.) The Aaron Sorkin courtroom drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 gained greatest ensemble at a digital SAG Awards whereas Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland — which included many nonprofessional actors and went unnominated for ensemble — triumphed on the Oscars.
    The twenty eighth annual SAG Awards are to be held on February 27 and can be broadcast on TNT and TBS. The Oscars are scheduled for March 27.

  • The Tender Bar film assessment: A cliché ridden coming-of-age movie, (considerably) saved by Ben Affleck

    The Tender Bar film director: George ClooneyThe Tender Bar film forged: Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Daniel Ranieri, Lily Rabe, and Christopher LloydThe Tender Bar film score: 2 stars
    The Tender Bar is a coming-of-age movie a few man who, for all intents and functions, grew up in a bar. Based on a 2005 memoir by writer and journalist JR Moehringer, the movie is directed by George Clooney and scripted by William Monahan.
    The man in query, performed as a younger boy by Daniel Ranieri and as an grownup by Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One), grows up with an absentee father. His doting mom Dorothy (Lily Rabe) has to return to her father’s home in Long Island to offer him the monetary assist and an opportunity at a affluent life she by no means had.

    JR doesn’t discover a entire lot of solace among the many prolonged household. There is an excessive amount of chaos. It is the close by titular bar, referred to as The Dickens after the legendary English writer, that turns into JR’s sanctuary. It is run by his beloved uncle Charlie (Ben Affleck). Kind and mild, however not coddling like his mom, he together with just a few regulars on the bar dispense some rough-edged knowledge to the boy, finally moulding him into the person he turns into. Charlie serves as a father stand-in.
    And factor too, as a result of his organic father (Max Martini) is a violent bully with an alcohol drawback that he by no means acknowledges. We are by no means advised what occurred between him and JR’s mom, however we are able to guess.
    His feeble makes an attempt at parenting now and again however delight younger JR, and he cherishes these uncommon conversations. But for many of his life, his father is simply The Voice. It’s a tragic and wry moniker, for he works as a radio disc jockey in a New York station, and JR tunes in every time he’s making an attempt to kind that emotional connection that without end stays elusive.

    The spotlight of The Tender Bar is Ben Affleck as Uncle Charlie. Affleck has beforehand expressed disillusionment with massive IP roles like Batman, the preparation concerned and unreasonable fan expectations that include it. In The Tender Bar, he appears to be again doing what he does, and is clearly having fun with himself. It’s a reasonably meaty position for any individual who will not be a lead. The finest scenes within the film are invariably people who embody him. The performances are total good, as properly, though Sheridan seems curiously indifferent from the proceedings. It is difficult to inform whether or not that’s him or the script required a poker face.
    Sadly, the remainder of the movie doesn’t make as a lot of an influence. It’s not it’s fully unwatchable, however that you must decrease your expectations down a notch, after which some extra.
    Even then, you is perhaps stunned at how the movie doesn’t have an effect on you. Despite its (probably) heavy themes, the scripts treats most of what’s occurring as insubstantial. It is as if Clooney was on the fence as to the place to maintain the movie — steer it in the direction of totally feel-good ​territory, or embody darker parts that may have made it a bit extra compelling. The result’s a tonal mess.
    This scribe admits ignorance concerning the supply materials, however judging purely by the script, the story itself feels too light-weight to warrant a movie adaptation. Even moments that needs to be life-altering for JR are handled with a dispassionate air. These are supposedly true occasions, however there may be nothing in there we now have not seen earlier than in coming-of-age tales. An honest script would have lent some heft.
    As it’s, the movie is difficult to suggest.

  • Michael Keaton confirmed to play Batman in upcoming Leslie Grace-led Batgirl movie

    By Express News Service

    Actor Michael Keaton is all set to play Batman within the upcoming Batgirl movie, which has Leslie Grace taking part in the titular caped crusader. Keaton reprises the function he portrayed in Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman movie. Notably, the actor may even reprise the function within the upcoming The Flash movie, which options Ben Affleck as Batman, and Ezra Miller because the titular hero. The Flash is about for a launch on November 4, 2022.

    Though plot particulars are saved underneath wraps, the movie centres on the heroine whose actual identification is Barbara Gordon, the daughter of Gotham police commissioner Jim Gordon. While Grace portrays Barbara, JK Simmons will reprise his function as Jim Gordon. In October it was introduced that actor Brendan Fraser will play the villain Firefly.

    Batgirl is directed by Arbi and Bilall Fallah. The movie has a script written by Christina Hodson, who beforehand wrote Birds of Prey and has additionally written the script for the upcoming The Flash film. Batgirl is about to premiere on HBO Max someday in 2022. The movie is at present in manufacturing in London. Notably, the movie would be the first DCEU movie that’s being created for HBO Max.

  • Ben Affleck says he began ingesting as he felt trapped in marriage with Jennifer Garner

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Ben Affleck says he struggled with ingesting throughout his marriage to Jennifer Garner, with whom he shares three youngsters.

    During an look on the Howard Stern Show on Monday, Affleck, 49, who’s again with former girlfriend Jennifer Lopez now, mentioned he’d began to really feel trapped within the marriage with Garner.

    The former couple raises Violet, 16, Seraphina, 12, and Samuel, 9, reported People journal.

    “I’d probably still be drinking. It’s part of why I started drinking, because I was trapped,” the ‘Argo’ director admitted to Howard Stern of feeling sad in his marriage to Garner, 49.

    “I was like ‘I can’t leave ’cause of my kids, but I’m not happy, what do I do?’ What I did was drink a bottle of scotch and fall asleep on the couch, which turned out not to be the solution.”

    Affleck has been out and in of rehab a number of instances for alcohol dependancy, together with in 2001, 2017 and 2018, when he and Garner finalized their divorce.

    The “Gone Girl” star, who wed Garner in 2005 and later separated in 2015, additionally mentioned that he and Garner tried their greatest to avoid wasting the wedding however it didn’t work out.

    “The truth was, we took our time, we made the decision, we grew apart,” Affleck defined.

    “We had a marriage that didn’t work, this happens, with somebody that I love and respect, but to whom I shouldn’t be married any longer. Ultimately, we tried. We tried, we tried because we had kids. Both of us felt like we don’t want this to be the model that our kids see of marriage.”

    Affleck is now again with Lopez, with whom the actor rekindled his romance after calling off their engagement in 2004.