Ben Affleck and Matt Damon reflected on the first big purchase they made after some success in the industry.
24.03.2023 - 21:41 / theplaylist.net
Screenwriter, filmmaker, and podcaster Brian Koppelman (“Ocean’s Thirteen,” “Rounders,” “Billions”) is a very open guy, and on his The Moment With Brian Koppelman podcast, he does AMAs (ask me anything), where he answers mailbag questions. But, for a while there, the writer/director/showrunner used to add something to the effect of, just don’t ask me questions about “Rounders 2.” READ MORE: Harvey Weinstein Says Matt Damon To Return For ‘Rounders 2,’ Robert De Niro Eyed For Villain The context here is “Rounders” is Koppelman’s 1998 poker movie he co-wrote with creative partner David Levien and directed by John Dahl.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon reflected on the first big purchase they made after some success in the industry.
Hong Chau and Casey Affleck hung out together on the stoop of a Brooklyn home while filming their new movie The Instigators together on Friday (April 7) in New York City.
People Wednesday that Affleck kept him grounded as fame started to “mess” with his head in the early days of his career.“It’s been really helpful to check in with Ben throughout this whole surreal process over the last 25 years,” Damon said. “I think the shock of becoming famous is so … I mean, that messed me up for a couple years,” he added. Affleck, 50, and Damon met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when they were young kids and bonded over a love of baseball and film.
on the “American Idol” winner’s daytime talk show. Damon then explained how he set up a super-intense group in which players compete in Wordle, Quordle and Octordle, before combining their scores.“So there’s Octordle, which is the eight words, and then Quordle, which is the four words, and then Wordle, which is the one. So we play all three and you add up your score,” the “Bourne Identity” actor enthused.
While Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were writing “The Last Duel,” their first screenplay together since their 1997 breakthrough, “Good Will Hunting,” they noticed that something in their winding and usually separate careers had been missing.
Ben Affleck‘s brand new Dunkin’ ad is out!
Following up on his Dunkin’ Super Bowl ad with wife Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck is hitting the donut shop again, this time accompanied by – in spirit anyway – longtime pal and Air co-star Matt Damon.
premiered Ben Affleck's latest commercial for the fast food chain. The spot comes two months after the Oscar winner -- who has been vocal about his love for the chain — appeared in his first Dunkin' ad. In the new spot, Affleck approaches the camera to pitch himself as the leading man to two Dunkin' employees. «I'm here for the Dunkin' run campaign commercial,» Affleck says to the employees as he shares the idea he has for the ad.In a bid to sell himself for the gig, Affleck pulls the Hollywood card.«I don't do commercials, I'm a serious actor,» he says.
Still running on Dunkin’! Ben Affleck proved his lasting love for the coffee chain in a new commercial — despite being mistaken for BFF Matt Damon.
Paul Walter Hauser reps the Boston Bruins while on the set of his new movie, The Instigators, ahead of the weekend in Quincy, Mass.
Ben Affleck knows an impressive amount of Spanish. The actor showed off some of his jokes while on the red carpet for his new film, “Air.” The cameras captured the moment as Affleck talked about the gossip program “El gordo y la flaca,” jokingly requesting them to stop making up lies. Ben Affleck talks about Jennifer Lopez’s love of ‘Yellowstone’Ben Affleck’s sweet tribute to Jennifer Lopez at ‘Air’ premiere: ‘You mean the world to me’The program shared the moment in one of their Instagram stories, showing Affleck’s “rant” and the reporter’s laugh.
Ben Affleck's best efforts, it doesn't seem like the longstanding feud between Jimmy Kimmel and Matt Damon will be ending any time soon.Affleck sat down on Tuesday's, while promoting his new film, which stars himself and Damon.«You have so many great performances in this, so many, I can't even pick who I liked the best,» Kimmel gushed during the chat. «You were great in it, Chris Messina, Chris Tucker… Viola Davis, Julius [Tennon], her husband... We had all the great people from the cast on the show.»«Well, you're leaving someone out,» Affleck said, delicately. «I mean, Matt Damon's the lead.»No, well, I said all the people from the film," Kimmel replied.«I understand you have your feuds and everything, but Matt is a friend of mine,» Affleck implored. «Honest to God, it would mean a lot to me if you just asked him one question about the movie.
Yes, we are making a meal out of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s recent appearance on Bill Simmons’s The Ringer podcast recently to promote Affleck’s new directorial effort “Air” which co-stars Damon (read our review), about Nike and its relationship with Michael Jordan and we fully admit it. Look, it’s just chalked full of good stories, and look; sometimes this is (infinitely) more interesting than the regular news grist mill.
Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana Barroso, looked great on Monday at the premiere of his film, at Regency Village Theatre in West Hollywood — but it was their daughters who stole the show.The 52-year-old actor and his wife of 17 years were joined by their three daughters, Isabella, 16, Gia, 14, and Stella, 12, who posed next to their parents on the red carpet. Damon recently co-founded a production company called Artists Equity with Ben Affleck, who also attended the premiere with his wife, Jennifer Lopez.Air, directed by Affleck, tells the story of the sneaker brand, Nike, and Air Jordan's rise to fame.The new film features an all-star cast, including Chris Tucker, Jason Bateman, and EGOT winner Viola Davis.Also at the premiere, Damon, Affleck, and Davis, all Oscar winners, posed together.The shoes — produced by American corporation Nike, Inc — were created for Hall of Fame former basketball player Michael Jordan during his time with the Chicago Bulls in 1984 and were released on April 1,1985.Although not directly involved with the film, Jordan met with Affleck prior to the start of production and gave the project his blessing. The casting of Davis was his idea.Damon plays sports executive Sonny Vaccaro, who is in charge of improving Nike's sales in their basketball division and works to sign rookie Jordan to a deal to wear their shoes.During the premiere, Damon jokingly spoke with ET's Kevin Frazier about his longstanding bitter rivalry with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, who was also at the event.
Matt Damon and Jimmy Kimmel rages on. Even on a red carpet, it's hard for the pair to keep things civil.Damon walked the carpet at the premiere of his new film , at the Regency Village Theatre in West Hollywood on Monday, and spoke with ET's Kevin Frazier about his long-standing (supposedly) bitter rivalry with the late night talk show host.When asked if he'd ever be interesting in burying the hatchet and just moving on, Damon exclaimed, «No, no, he's an a**hole.
In the fall of 2022, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon started an independent production company called Artists Equity. The idea and ethos behind the company were instead of continuing to work for hire, they would generate their own films and their own projects and agreed to work exclusively for Artists Equity.
We knew Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were friends, but we didn’t know that they were so close that they shared a bank account for years!
Matt Damon and Casey Affleck ham it up for the camera while filming a scene for their new movie The Instigators on Friday (March 24) in Boston, Massachusetts.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's professional collaborations date back to their childhood friendship. But the A-list stars took their bro status a step further than most.On a recent episode of, Affleck and Damon revealed that they shared a bank account when they were in high school and trying to get their careers off the ground.«It was always like, as long as one of us had money, we knew that the power wasn't going to get shut off. After doing Geronimo, f**k, I probably had $35K in the bank in my checking account.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon used to share a bank account in order to fund acting auditions.The Oscar-winning duo have famously been friends for the entirety of their careers and beyond, and that friendship even extended beyond the usual boundaries. Appearing on a recent episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast (as per Variety), the two actors revealed they had one bank account between them starting in the late 1980s.The pair set up the bank account to help make their dreams of making it in Hollywood a reality. “It was unusual, but we needed the money for auditions,” Damon said, before adding the arrangement was “a weird thing in retrospect.”Weighing in, Affleck said: “We were going to help each other and be there for each other.