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		<title>Mark reviews STATE OF PLAY, possibly the last of it&#8217;s kind&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there’s a hard sell in our day to day lives it’s the concept of the heroic journalist, the character State of Play director Kevin MacDonald calls his ‘truth-teller’. The common snap judgement is journos equal sleaze, bombarded as we are with tabloids, weekly mags, blogs that seem less concerned with getting the facts straight than with cause célèbre. Somehow though, when we’re confronted with a journalist on screen, especially a die-hard newspaper man, there’s a tacit acceptance, even a desire, that this one is here to do the right thing.

The ultimate example of this is the godfather of filmic investigative journalism All The President’s Men, something to which State of Play aspires, but MacDonald and his talented, albeit partially last minute team muddy the waters with a murky layer of conflict of interest between friendship and getting to the truth.



Based on the BBC series of the same name the film transplants the action from Britain to the political corridors, and the common or garden streets, of Washington DC. Cal McCaffrey (Russell Crowe) is the senior metro reporter at the Washington Globe, an old school newspaper veteran, who investigates the murder of a young Washington aide in the office of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mike Judge&#8217;s EXTRACT trailer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butthead became victim of studio politics when his two written and directed movies to date Office Space and Idiocracy weren't given huge wide releases when the men with power didn't really get them, but both became cult classics.

Ten years on, Office Space is now deemed a 90's classic. 

Judge's third movie Extract from the looks of things could be his first theatrical success. 



He's got a martekable cast thats should see his movie through ok and he's clearly back to his Office Space everyday humor tone and well the whole idea that we have been given a trailer to showcase in early April and this movie doesn't open till September, has to be a good sign for how Miramax feel about this particular Judge film. 

Jason Bateman stars as the owner of a flower extract plant and the movie focuses on the tribulations of his life, including his difficulty in getting laid with his wife played by Kristen Wiig and his new eye candy temp played by Mila Kunis. A

The funniest part of the trailer if J.K. Simmons forgetting the name of the other temp because he's had Kunis on his mind...



And yes, Ben Affleck's in there too. 

Extract is ...]]></description>
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		<title>Two promo pics for STATE OF PLAY!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OWF'S Mark Clark has given me the heads-up on some promo pics from next month's thriller, STATE OF PLAY which he found over at Image.net.

It's the first movie from Scottish helmer Kevin Macdonald since his brilliant THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND and is based on the rather excellent British mini-series that aired a few years ago. 

In this remake, Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck play two old college room-mates, one a congressman (Affleck) whose mistress has been murdered, and the other (Crowe) an investigate reporter who works alongside the police to solve the case. 

The original series is really gripping but the very mediocre trailer and the huge mis-casting of Crowe and Affleck, made the trailer seem rather mediocre. 

Simply put, we liked this project much better when it was a FIGHT CLUB reunion with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. 




Rachel McAdams, Viola Davis, Jason Bateman, Helen Mirren, Jeff Daniels, Robin Wright Penn make up what is a stellar cast. 

And Tony Gilroy (MICHAEL CLAYTON, THE BOURNE SERIES) wrote the screenplay, so I'm dumbfounded why this looks so, blah. 

STATE OF PLAY is out in the U.S. on April 17th and a week later in the U.K. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The newspapers can slant this any which way they want this&#8221; &#8211; STATE OF PLAY trailer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The whole shape of the crime thriller STATE OF PLAY changed when the FIGHT CLUB duo Edward Norton and Brad Pitt bailed out at the 11th hour just before filming was to begin and the juicy hook of a movie about two former best friends who are on the opposite ends of a hideous crime no longer had that initial spark of seeing two actors who we know have great chemistry back together on screen again.

Now we have Ben Affleck and Russell Crowe, who are both damn fine actors but that Norton/Pitt duo was what sold this movie for me for such a long time. Affleck and Crowe don't quite have the same chemistry.



Based on the excellent BBC T.V. mini-series from 2003, Universal Pictures adaptation of STATE OF PLAY has been co-written by two screenwriting heavyweights Matthew Michael Carnahan (THE KINGDOM, LIONS FOR LAMBS) and Tony Gilroy (MICHAEL CLAYTON, THE BOURNE series) and it follows a team of investigative reporters who work alongside a police detective to try to solve the murder of a congressman’s mistress.

Rachel McAdams, Jason Bateman, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Viola Davis and Jeff Daniels make up the rest of what is an impressive cast.

And if ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Affleck goes to TOWN</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And welcome back Ben Affleck!

He is back to being a worthy player in this crazy business we call film, finally he is dodging (mostly) those God awful rom-coms, ditching them for serious works of cinema like his impressive directing debut GONE BABY GONE last year and his brilliant performance in HOLLYWOODLAND in 2006.

Variety today inform us he has been hired by Warner Bros. to adapt Chuck Hogan's novel Prince of Thieves (nothing to do with Robin Hood and a dodgy English accented Kevin Costner) and then direct it under the title THE TOWN.



The movie will be set in Charlestown, Boston - the same setting as GONE BABY GONE but this time Affleck will star in the movie himself. He will play a career thief who becomes smitten by the manager of a bank, a woman of affection also for the detective closing in on him after every heist.

FATAL ATTRACTION and JACOB'S LADDER director Adrian Lyne was attached to helm originally but he has since dropped out.

This project sounds like it has real potential. Now let's see if Affleck can direct as well as he can when he is also playing the lead role! ]]></description>
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		<title>DAREDEVIL Begins?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt here…

Unsurprisingly 20th Century Fox and Marvel are mulling over a revival of Daredevil, the character that they thought would easily join the high ranks of Spider-Man and X-Men as a third big "comic book to film money maker" back in 2003 but when they hired the wrong director (Mark Steven Johnson), it barely crossed the $100 million mark domestically (it was made for $78 million) and was more disliked than loved.

Though I will forever contend that Johnson's director's cut makes for at least an interesting watch. I would say he got more of the character right than wrong, and it wasn't so terrible like Ang Lee's Hulk or his own  later mis-fire of Ghost Rider that a reboot is needed.


I still think the way to go is to put Ben Affleck back in the suit (as he made a good Matt Murdock, and he is older and wiser a performer now) and give Kevin Smith the reigns on it. I know those guys could save this franchise. It doesn't have to be a reboot, just make a sequel that stands-alone.

Talk of a Daredevil revamp has been on the agenda recently after the sometimes insane Frank Miller suggested he ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Affleck finds a Judge who likes him!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Affleck whose on screen comeback is well under-way with big roles in State of Play and He's Just Not That Into You next year, has landed another Hollywood role to his schedule.

Variety say Mike Judge has cast him for Extract, his upcoming Miramax comedy where Affleck will play an ambulance-chasing lawyer. Jason Bateman was previously cast as the flower extract factory owner who is having a tough time at life and home (his wife is having an affair with a gigolo!).


Also newly cast is upcoming Star Trek villain Clifton Collins Jr. who will play a factory worker in the film who loses a body part in a freak accident. Mila Kunis and Kristen Wig also star in the film which begins shooting Monday in L.A.

Judge (Office Space, Idiocracy, Beavis &#38; Butthead) has written and will direct the film which should be his first real mainstream movie, and ironically after Office Space, it centers on the boss rather than the employee's. ]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Miller/Jason Statham want DAREDEVIL reimanging?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always thought Daredevil was the one that really got away from Marvel. Here's a superhero, not to disimilar to Batman, who fights justice because of a childhood incident - but actually maybe goes one further than Batman by studying and putting away criminals behind bars with his work as a lawyer by day.

Matt Murdock never rests.

They got a terrific actor to play him in Ben Affleck five years ago but sadly they didn't choose the right director, though I'm of the opinion that Mark Steven Johnson's director's cut of the film was not without it's merits.


I can't believe at this point that Kevin Smith hasn't pitched for a sequel. Having wrote the character for the comic books, played a cameo in the original film and of course being tight friends with Affleck - I'm so surprised they haven't got this character back on the big screen where he deserves.

Maybe it's something they have in the pipeline for the future but by the sounds of things they are going to have to be quick. Fans at the Comic Con at the end of last month might have given Frank Miller the idea to reinvent the character himself, something he did ...]]></description>
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		<title>GONE BABY GONE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oliver Pfeiffer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directed by: Ben Affleck

Written by: Ben Affleck, Aaron Stockard

Based on the novel by Dennis Lehane 

Starring: Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Ed Harris, Amy Ryan, Morgan Freeman, John Ashton, Amy Madigan, Titus Welliver, Michael K. Williams, Edi Gathegi, Mark Margolis, Madeline O'Brien

Film is released on June 6th 2008 in the U.K.

Review by Oliver Pfeiffer

[rating: 4]

Untimely and unfortunate similarities to the Madeleine McCain case deemed Ben Affleck’s directorial debut Gone Baby Gone too sensitive to under go its original intended premiere screening at last year’s BFI London film festival. Now 12 months after Madeleine’s tragic disappearance Affleck’s film gets its premiere release in UK cinemas.

But the film is more than just a routine Hollywood thriller; it’s a hardened nut of a detective mystery that proves Affleck’s got what it takes to make the successful transition from average acting player of sometime lacksure Hollywood efforts (Pearl Harbor, Daredevil, The Sum of All Fears) to sensitive helmer of intelligent and meaningful movies.

  Gone Baby Gone revolves around the esteemed efforts of two romantically linked inexperienced private investigations who attempt to track down the whereabouts of a missing four year old girl, in the midst of the toughest slums of downtown Boston. Initially reluctant ...]]></description>
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		<title>Harrison Ford wouldn&#8217;t mind revisiting Jack Ryan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 07:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last we heard, Sam Raimi had been chosen as the new figurehead of the Jack Ryan series of Tom Clancy novels which has so far seen four movies made in 15 years, and 3 different actors playing the C.I.A. agent, those being Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin and Ben Affleck.

It's expected that Raimi will move into work on the series late Summer when he is fully completed with his upcoming horror movie Drag Me to Hell and Paramount want the film due out in the Summer of 2010.

Now I can almost guarantee you that Paramount are desperate to get Harrison Ford back as Jack Ryan and doing it right now when his name is hot again.

Ford reveals his interest to The Sun...
"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."
Now I'm much happier to see Ford return as Ryan than I was Indy because as he says, it's not fully dependent on a young guy. However I have to say, I thought Ben Affleck did a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Miramax, Aaron Stockard and Ben Affleck making THE BLADE ITSELF</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gone Baby Gone was an incredible directorial debut from the multi-talented Ben Affleck who in the past two years has finally started to put those terrible low brow comedies behind him and has really stepped up his game as an interesting voice in the industry once again.

Smartly, the news today is that Affleck is teaming once again with Gone Baby Gone screenwriter Aaron Stockard and Miramax Studio's to produce (and possibly direct but the trades don't say that) another film noir/crime novel in The Blade Itself, a well reviewed first time novel from Marcus Sakey.


"Blade" revolves around two Chicago childhood friends who made their reputation committing petty crimes as kids before choosing different paths in life. When they are reunited years later, one is forced to decide how far he will go to protect the secrets of his past. Esquire magazine named the novel one of the five best of 2007.
Affleck currently has no directing projects in the works so I guess with him producing that it's his flick if he wants to direct it.

I would love to see Affleck become the crime novelist specialist, adapting dark and grim books that your never likely to read and transforming them into ...]]></description>
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		<title>CLERKS II</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written &#38; Directed by: Kevin Smith

Starring: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Trevor Fehrman, Kevin Weisman, Jason Lee, Ben Affleck

Distributed by Paramount Pictures, MGM &#38; The Weinstein Company

Film was released July 21st, 2006

Review by Matt Holmes

[rating: 4]

Clerks II is the sequel to the 1994 cult independent movie Clerks which made Kevin Smith famous and started the whole View Askew universe which has now spawned six movies in 12 years. This time Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) work behind the counter of Mooby's fast food restaurant instead of the "Pit Stop" which we hear has been burned down in a fire. We find out that Dante is on the verge of leaving New Jersey for a new life in Florida with his rather dominating new fiancee Emma (Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, the director's real life partner).

Dante's pending move means the splitting of not only the life long friendship he has shared with Randal but also the complicated (and predictable) relationship he has with his manager Becky (star of the show performance from Rosario Dawson). On the outset they are exactly the same people they were 12 years ago, still barely managing to get ...]]></description>
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