Spielberg, Affleck, J.Lo at Democratic convention
Spielberg! Affleck! J.Lo! They were among the Hollywood celebrities attending events in Denver as the Democratic National Convention nominated Barack Obama as the party’s presidential candidate.
Steven Spielberg, who directed a short film on veterans that shown Wednesday at the convention, was spotted entering the Pepsi Center.
Jennifer Lopez spoke at a reception honoring children’s rights activist Marian Wright Edelman. Ben Affleck read excerpts from a Howard Zinn book and made an appearance at the city’s food bank for America’s Second Harvest.
Affleck was joined by his wife, Jennifer Garner, at the book reading at the Starz Green Room across the street from the Pepsi Center. Also participating: Rosario Dawson, Kerry Washington, Taye Diggs, Hill Harper and Josh Brolin.
- from Yahoo
Ben Affleck’s unconventional DNC agenda
Ben Affleck will be in Denver next week for the Democratic National Convention, but his schedule there will be anything but conventional. “He won’t be delivering speeches,” a friend of the actor told us. “Instead, he’ll be anteing up for a disabled veterans’ poker tournament, as well as participating in America’s Second Harvest events -packing lunches for local food banks. And he’ll be sitting in on a panel discussion on combating global poverty.”
- from NYDailynews
Mike Judge Extract’s Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck is ready to suit up for Miramax’s Mike Judge comedy “Extract.”
Actor is in negotiations to play the best buddy of Jason Batemen’s character, a flower extract factory owner dealing with workplace problems and a streak of bad luck, including his wife’s affair with a gigolo.
Clifton Collins Jr. is also joining the cast as a factory worker who loses a body part in a freak accident and is now due for a huge settlement. Mila Kunis and Kristen Wiig have already boarded the project, which begins lensing Monday in Los Angeles.
Judge penned the screenplay and is producing with John Altschuler and Mike Rotenberg via the trio’s Ternion Prods. shingle.
- from Variety
The Afflecks and Damons Go on Double Date
From People:
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck met up with Matt Damon and his heavily pregnant wife, Luciana Barroso, at Nobu Malibu on Saturday night for a two-hour dinner on the patio that included cooked fish and sushi rolls.
“Ben and Matt were entertaining the girls with stories, and they were all laughing a lot,” says an observer of the couples.
When dessert came, the celebratory group toasted – after all, Garner and Affleck’s third wedding anniversary was the following day.
Harrison Ford gives Ben Affleck the boot, return as Jack Ryan?
Harrison Ford would consider reprising another of his big-screen action heroes, his role as special agent Jack Ryan.
Ford followed in the footsteps of Alec Baldwin in the 1990 film, Hunt For The Red October, by playing the CIA analyst in 1992’s Patriot Games.
The 65-year-old returned to the role two years later for Clear and Present Danger, but Ryan, novelist Tom Clancy’s most famous creation, has since been played by Ben Affleck, who stepped up for 2002’s The Sum of All Fears.
Ryan Gosling is the latest actor to have been linked to the role.
But Ford insists he would definitely consider making a third Jack Ryan movie, because he would love to play a mature version of the legendary character.
He says, “The Ryan films, the Tom Clancy films were, I thought, worth re-exploring again, but I wasn’t a huge fan of the book on which the last one was based. I think they made a cracking good shot at it and I think Ben Affleck is a very, very talented.
“That’s a character that I think you could revisit acknowledging the passage of time and his increasing age. It wasn’t age dependent; that character and his experiences were chockablock full of recipes for good engaging movies, so that’s a character I wouldn’t mind revisiting.”
- From ABCNews
When Actors Direct…
Miramax has acquired the rights to Marcus Sakey’s debut novel “The Blade Itself,” which will be produced by Ben Affleck and Sean Bailey via his new shingle Idealogy.