How the hell did this happen?!
09.06.2022 - 00:41 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: While Ben Affleck just started Monday directing the untitled drama about maverick sneaker salesman Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon)’s dogged pursuit to get Michael Jordan to lace up in Nike shoes, Affleck and Damon are getting traction on their own groundbreaking endeavor.
They are negotiating to launch a new monied production company that is in talks to be funded by RedBird Capital’s Gerry Cardinale. Deadline hears that Studio 8 CEO Jeff Robinov is circling a potential role. Robinov has long history with both Affleck (Argo and The Town) and Damon (Ocean’s Eleven franchise) during his days running Warner Bros. The intention is to generate big time content.
The untitled Nike movie is being done for Amazon Studios, Skydance Sports and Mandalay Pictures, but sources said that the new company will likely have a producing role on the film as well. It’s based on a Black List script called Air Jordan by Alex Convery, and Good Will Hunting scribes Affleck and Damon took a pass on that script about how Nike co-founder Phil Knight (played by Affleck) sent Vaccaro in a quest to sign Jordan in what became the most important athlete product intertwining ever. It turned Nike, and Jordan, into billion dollar global enterprises.
The production company might take a while to coalesce, and it isn’t done because the principals are busy making this movie, but it is one of the more promising-sounding entrepreneurial ventures to come along in a bit. Damon and Affleck won Oscars for Good Will Hunting and Affleck directed the Best Picture winner Argo. They most recently teamed on the Ridley Scott-directed The Last Duel.
Cardinale’s RedBird Capital manages over $6 billion in assets across multiple sectors including sports, media and
How the hell did this happen?!
Jennifer Lopez is paying fiance Ben Affleck a visit on set of his new project!
Jennifer Lopez is sending love to her fiance, Ben Affleck, on Father's Day. The «Marry Me» actress put «Bennifer» on full display in a video posted to social media on Sunday that was full of smiles, laughs, and PDA. Praising Affleck, Lopez wrote, «Happy Father’s Day to the most caring, loving, affectionate, consistent and selfless Daddy ever. #HappyFathersDay my love.» The video, which had her song, “Dear Ben,” from her 2003 album «playing in the background, showed the fan-favorite couple as they walked red carpets, had fun on a car ride and cuddled on a yacht!A post shared by Jennifer Lopez (@jlo)The video tribute also included a recent interview, where Lopez gushed about building a blended family with Affleck. “This is the best time of my life,” she said.
Jennifer Lopez is sending love to her fiance, Ben Affleck, on Father's Day. The «Marry Me» actress put «Bennifer» on full display in a video posted to social media Sunday that was full of smiles, laughs, and PDA. Praising Affleck, J.Lo wrote, «Happy Father’s Day to the most caring, loving, affectionate, consistent and selfless Daddy ever. #HappyFathersDay my love.» A post shared by Jennifer Lopez (@jlo)The video, which had her song, “Dear Ben,” from her 2003 album «playing in the background, showed the fan-favorite couple as they walked red carpets, had fun on a car ride and cuddled on a yacht!The video tribute also included a recent interview, where Lopez gushed about building a blended family with Affleck. “This is the best time of my life,” she said.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck hold hands on the set of his new Nike movie on Friday (June 17) in Los Angeles.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorJust a few short months ago, Matt Damon exhorted us to fearlessly buy into cryptocurrencies — in a slick CGI ad for Crypto.com hyping the tagline, “Fortune Favors the Brave.”Now, with cryptocurrencies in freefall and cratering to new lows, the Oscar-winning star of “Good Will Hunting” and “The Martian” is getting mercilessly dragged again for his gig as the face of Crypto.com in a new round of online jeering.Users across social media are pointing out that if you had taken Damon’s advice to buy into cryptocurrencies last fall, the value of your holdings would have dropped roughly two-thirds today.If you bought $1,000 of bitcoin the day Matt Damon's "Fortune favors the brave!" commercial came out, it would now be worth $375 pic.twitter.com/rp5IdjBD3m— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) June 13, 2022Damon is one of a slew of celebs who have touted cryptocurrencies, alongside bold-face names like Kim Kardashian, Steph Curry, Larry David, DJ Khaled, Floyd Mayweather and Tom Brady.In the Crypto.com ad, Damon takes viewers on a historical journey of brave men and women who have made a difference in the world, inspiring people to “be their bravest selves.” The ad, directed by Wally Pfister, began airing in October and also ran during NBC’s Super Bowl LVI telecast.
Viola Davis has higher hopes for Hollywood.
Ben Affleck’s tenure as the Batman may be over or ending, but maybe it’ll never end in the mind of wishful-thinking fans. Affleck is set to make his final appearance as Batman in “The Flash,” which will set up Michael Keaton’s Batman as the new version of the character in the DCEU going forward.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are teaming up again for a new movie that Ben is going to direct and the star-studded supporting cast was just announced.
More casting details are emerging about the new project that will once again team up Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
Angelique Jackson Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s upcoming movie about the sports marketing executive who relentlessly pursued basketball legend Michael Jordan in the mid-’80s has added a troupe of all-star actors to its line-up.Emmy-winner Jason Bateman, Academy Award-winner Viola Davis, Chris Tucker and Marlon Wayans have signed on to star opposite Affleck and Damon in Prime Video’s untitled film, along with Matthew Maher, Chris Messina, Tom Papa and Julius Tennon.Damon plays maverick sneaker salesman and former Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro, and Affleck plays Nike co-founder Phil Knight in the film, from Amazon Studios, Skydance Sports and Mandalay Pictures. The movie tells the story of Nike’s long-shot effort to sign Jordan to the shoe company, an endorsement that seemed impossible at the time, but would become the most significant relationship between an athletic brand and an athlete.
ahead of Michael Jordan in the 1984 NBA Draft.Affleck and Damon are also producing alongside Peter Guber, Jason Michael Berman, Jeff Robinov, Madison Ainley, and David Ellison. Executive producers include Jon Weinbach, Jesse Sisgold, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger, Kevin Halloran, Michael Joe, John Graham, Drew Vinton, Jordan Moldo and Peter E.
EXCLUSIVE: Ben Affleck’s untitled Nike drama for Amazon Studios, Skydance Sports and Mandalay Pictures has assembled a stellar cast, with Jason Bateman (Ozark), Viola Davis (The Woman King), Chris Tucker (Rush Hour franchise), Marlon Wayans (Respect) and Chris Messina (Sharp Objects) signing on for roles, along with Matthew Maher (Our Flag Means Death), Tom Papa (Behind the Candelabra) and Julius Tennon (The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar). In addition to directing, Affleck is starring in the pic which entered production in Los Angeles on Monday, alongside his fellow Good Will Hunting Oscar winner, Matt Damon.