Ben Affleck

The Town

I have two problems with this trailer and then the gushing will begin. First off "the studio that brought you the departed"? Don't remind me I've seen this movie before, at least let me choose my memories. Secondly the last third of the trailer seems to give away quite a bit of what happens, although the writing was on the wall for anyone paying attention.  

Now, for the other stuff, this movie looks awesome. Skeletor masks, check; hot chicks, check; explosions, check; Jeremy Renner looking like a badass, check; Don Draper being someone else, check. It really is like the perfect storm of awesome, like The Expendables for guys that don't like going to the gym. Affleck's directorial debut Gone Baby Gone was fantastic and it seems like he's upped the ante a bit here with his sophomore effort. What are your thoughts on The Town?

Synopsis: 
Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) is an unrepentant criminal, the de facto leader of a group of ruthless bank robbers who pride themselves in stealing what they want and getting out clean. With no real attachments, Doug never has to fear losing anyone close to him. But that all changed on the gang's latest job, when they briefly took a hostage--bank manager, Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall). Though they let her go unharmed, Claire is nervously aware that the robbers know her name... and where she lives. But she lets her guard down when she meets an unassuming and rather charming man named Doug....not realizing that he is the same man who only days earlier had terrorized her. The instant attraction between them gradually turns into a passionate romance that threatens to take them both down a dangerous, and potentially deadly, path.
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Affleck And Damon To Trade Wives, Play Yankees

There's been a lot of buzz lately about the possibility of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck getting a first-look production deal from Warner Brothers, and now it seems like they might even have a project to kick things off.  Both are devout Red Sox fans so of course it only makes sense that they want to make a movie about Yankees.  Say what?  *record scratch*

The Trade, a film that tells the true tale of two New York Yankees pitchers who caused a national scandal by swapping wives in the sexually-free 1970s, has finally hit the big leagues.

Ben Affleck has become attached to direct and potentially star in the Warner Bros film. Teammates Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich stunned the country when they disclosed in spring training 1973 that they were trading wives. Peterson had fallen in love with Susanne Kekich and his teammate fell in love with Marilyn Peterson. Fritz and Susanne remain a couple till this day, while Mike and Marilyn drifted apart.

Affleck and his former Live Planet partners Matt Damon and Sean Bailey have long been intrigued with the project, with Affleck eyeing the role of Peterson and Damon the role of Kekich.  [via deadline hollywood]

Affleck's directorial debut Gone Baby Gone was pretty great for a first timer, and he just finished up The Town starring The Sax Curse star Jon Hamm and Gossip Girl's Blake Lively.  If this all comes to fruition with Damon in tow and Affleck handling director duties it seems like a can't miss project.  Unless of course they cast Ashton Kutcher, then I think it could miss.

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Jon Hamm , Rebecca Hall Sign On For Ben Affleck's Town

I'm pretty sure Ben Affleck was born to be a director. I've never met the guy or anything but he just seems like his skillset is best served behind the camera. Don't get me wrong, I don't think Affleck is a horrible actor or anything, I just would have a hard time calling him great. My favorite appearances by him, aside from the incendiary [amazon 0788814664], are when he tries to bring the funny, and that's usually associated with a Kevin Smith movie. All that being said, Affleck's directorial debut Gone Baby Gone was really good. I'm very excited to see where he goes from there, and now we have some details.

Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall are starring opposite Ben Affleck in "The Town," Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures' romantic crime thriller that Affleck also is directing. Graham King is producing.

An adaptation of the Chuck Hogan novel "Prince of Thieves," the story follows the relationship between a bank manager, the career criminal (Affleck) who stole more than her heart and the dedicated FBI agent trying to bust the crook and his gang.

Hamm is playing the FBI agent. Hall is the reason the criminal wants to clean up his act but also is the agent's golden ticket to catching the man.

Sounds interesting enough. As one would expect, the film is to be shot in Affleck's beloved Boston this September after Hamm finishes shooting Season 3 of Mad Men.

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