Affleck: McGregor fighting style is seeping into movies
While promoting his latest film, Live By Night, Affleck says McGregor’s impact on the world of mixed martial arts over the course of the last few years is also being felt in Hollywood. Previously, Affleck has said that his fighting in Batman vs Superman was influenced by McGregor.
MMA is taking over in terms of the style that people use stunt-wise for fighting. People now recognise that as the most pure form of combat and it’s now seeping into movies. It can be seen in all kinds of movies. I’m a big Conor McGregor fan. I think he’s very impressive. I’d love to see… someone was saying he was going to fight Mayweather. It think that would be an amazing fight. I guess they would have to work a deal out or whatever, but that would be cool.
Batman vs Superman: Dawn Of Justice trailer
The trailer for Batman vs Superman: Dawn Of Justice is released to a standing ovation during the film’s Comic-Con panel. The trailer shows Cavill as Superman and Affleck as Batman. Adams is Lois Lane, Eisenberg is Lex Luthor and Gadot plays Wonderwoman. The film is directed by Snyder.
Black and blue. God versus man. Day versus night.
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Garner, Affleck divorce
Garner and Affleck divorce after 10 years of marriage. They intend to seek mediation. They have three children: Violet, nine, Seraphina, six, and Samuel, three.
After much thought and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce. We go forward with love and friendship for one another and a commitment to co-parenting our children whose privacy we ask to be respected during this difficult time. This will be our only comment on this private, family matter. Thank you for understanding.
Third season cancelled
PBS cancels the third season of Finding Your Roots after an investigation reveals Affleck pressured producers to violate network standards by letting him have “improper influence” in leaving out details about an ancestor of his who owned slaves. PBS will not run the show’s third season until staffing changes are made, including hiring a fact checker. Gates:
I sincerely regret not discussing my editing rationale with our partners at PBS and WNET and I apologize for putting PBS and its member stations in the position of having to defend the integrity of their programming.
Slavery censorship apology
Affleck apologizes for trying to conceal his slave-owning ancestors from the PBS documentary Finding Your Roots.
After an exhaustive search of my ancestry for Finding Your Roots, it was discovered that one of my distant relatives was an owner of slaves. I didn’t want any television show about my family to include a guy who owned slaves. I was embarrassed. The very thought left a bad taste in my mouth. Skip [Gates] decided what went into the show. I lobbied him the same way I lobby directors about what takes of mine I think they should use. This is the collaborative creative process. Skip agreed with me on the slave owner but made other choices I disagreed with. In the end, it’s his show and I knew that going in. I’m proud to be his friend and proud to have participated…I regret my initial thoughts that the issue of slavery not be included in the story. We deserve neither credit nor blame for our ancestors and the degree of interest in this story suggests that we are, as a nation, still grappling with the terrible legacy of slavery. It is an examination well worth continuing. I am glad that my story, however indirectly, will contribute to that discussion. While I don’t like that the guy is an ancestor, I am happy that aspect of our country’s history is being talked about.
Batman vs Superman trailer
A few hours after a leaked release, Affleck and Cavill appear in the official trailer for Batman vs Superman:. Superman’s boundless powers have earned him the public’s distrust, and Batman has to take on the role of protecting the public. Batman:
Tell me, do you bleed?…You will.
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Wins People’s Choice Award
Affleck wins the People’s Choice Award for favorite humanitarian.
I’ve been called a lot of things in my life, but I’m not sure humanitarian, until recently, has been one of them
Loaded cover
Affleck appears on the cover of the January 2015 issue of Loaded magazine. He talks about his wife and his career getting better.
Getting to know Jennifer, falling in love with her and being connected with her gave me a foundation to reach out and say, okay, I’m going to do Hollywoodland.
Ben Affleck interview
Affleck and Fallon discuss the best of Jimmy Fallon DVD’s on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
I’m just gonna be here like evidence.
Debate with Maher
A debate between Maher, Affleck and a panel of guests on Real Time With Bill Maher gets heated as Maher says that liberals have failed by not criticizing homophobia and sexism in Islamic countries. Affleck responds that more than a billion Muslims worldwide are mostly moderate. Maher:
Why are you so hostile about this concept?
Affleck:
Because it’s gross, it’s racist, it’s disgusting
NPR interview
Affleck gives an interview to NPR about going back in front of the camera after directing his own films. On Gone Girl:
The really liberating thing was … usually when you play a protagonist and you’re a lead in the movie there are sort of some unspoken rules. You know, you have to be a good person … And in this case, we weren’t encumbered by that at all. The whole idea of likability was sort of thrown out of the window.
Batman vs. Superman:
If I thought we were remaking Daredevil, I’d be out there picketing myself
Details cover
Affleck appears on the cover of the October 2014 issue of Details magazine. He talks about why he wanted to play in Gone Girl, rumours about his wife, and counting cards in casinos.
That is a true story. I mean, that took place. I took some time to learn the game and became a decent blackjack player. And once I became decent, the casinos asked me not to play blackjack. I mean, the fact that being good at the game is against the rules at the casinos should tell you something about casinos. There’s a lot of hospitality, backslapping, when they think you’re gonna come in and dump money, and if they think you might leave with some money, it’s like, ‘You know what? Why don’t you try craps or roulette?’
Ben Affleck interview
Affleck and Fallon discuss children on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
I am your father Jimmy Fallon is not the man, I’m the man.
Gone Girl
In the thriller based on the novel written by Gillian Flynn and directed by David Fincher, Affleck plays the role of Nick Dunne, a man with questionable morals accused of murdering his wife. Co-starring Rosamund Pike and Neil Patrick Harris.
There’s nothing really about this guy or character that I feel connected to personally, except that I have definitely felt as though I was looking at a version of my life that I didn’t recognize through the prism of the media.
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Ice Bucket Challenge: Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner
Affleck accepts the challenge from Tyler Perry, and his wife Jennifer Garner goes for a swim. Affleck challenges Jimmy Kimmel, Neil Patrick Harris and Matt Damon.
‘He made my dreams come true’
Affleck thanks Williams for his friendship and his role in Goodwill Hunting, which won Affleck and Matt Damon the Academy Award for Best Writing and launched their film careers:
Heartbroken. Thanks chief—for your friendship and for what you gave the world. Robin had a ton of love in him. He personally did so much for so many people. He made Matt and my dreams come true.
What do you owe a guy who does that? Everything.
May you find peace my friend. #RobinWilliams
Expecting fourth child
Affleck and Garner are expecting baby number four. The pregnancy comes as a shock to both parents. Garner is four months along.
Ben has been going above and beyond lately. He’s checking up on Jen all the time and surprising her with flowers. Jen thinks this baby could be the key to making her marriage strong again.
Wins Oscar
Producers Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney win the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2012 for Argo. Jack Nicholson, and Michelle Obama, via satellite link from Washington, D.C., present the award. Affleck:
You can’t hold grudges. It’s hard but you can’t hold grudges. And it doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, because that’s gonna happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up. Violet, Sam and Sera, I love you; this is for you.
Vanity Fair cover
Stone, Affleck, and Cooper appear on the cover of the March 2013 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. They were chosen for the cover because of their accomplishments over the past year. Vanity Fair says:
[The photos are taken in] the house where Robert Duvall, the consigliere to the Corleone family, arranges to have the recalcitrant movie producer who lives there wake up with his prize horse’s head in his bed.
Argo
0 CommentsBen Afflec directs this movie and plays Mendez. He chronicles the life or death covert operation to rescue six Americans which unfolds behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis, the truth of which was unknown to the public for decades. Co-starring Allan Arkin, Victor Garber, Taylor Schilling, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman. About the movie:
Well, the movie is about kind of a sub-story in the larger drama of all the hostages and the whole takeover—Argo is just one small piece of that. The story itself was in Time magazine and is actually pretty well documented, but overall, it got kind of upstaged by the larger issue of the hostages. This incident in Argo happened on, like, Day 78 (The diplomats ultimately left Iran on Day 86), but it was on Day 444 that the hostages were released, so the events that we focus on in the movie were like this glimmer of hope that quickly subsided into the general malaise and depression about the fact that we had these people stuck over there and we couldn’t do anything about it
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