Latest news with #ChristopherNolan
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Ben Affleck serves as the third wheel during dinner date with Matt Damon and wife Luciana
Ben Affleck became the 'third wheel' alongside childhood friend Matt Damon and his wife Luciana Barroso over the weekend. The 52-year-old Affleck and 54-year-old Damon were spotted at Steak 48 in Beverly Hills alongside Damon's 48-year-old wife, who he tied the knot with in 2005. They were spotted at the restaurant hours after they appeared at Netflix 's Tudum event at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, where Ben roasted Matt for his grey beard. They were both at the event to present the first footage from their Netflix action film The Rip, and then enjoyed a late dinner in Beverly Hills. Ben was spotted wearing a black t-shirt under a black leather jacket, with blue jeans and black boots for the dinner outing. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the Ben Affleck became the 'third wheel' alongside childhood friend Matt Damon and his wife Luciana Barroso over the weekend. His childhood friend Matt opted for a white button-down short-sleeved shirt, grey pants and white sneakers for his outing. Damon grew out the grey beard to portray Odysseus in director Christopher Nolan's highly-anticipated adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey. Filming started in late February on the film, which also stars, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson and Charlize Theron, though it's unclear if filming has yet to wrap. When they took the stage, Affleck joked, 'I trusted Matt would shave the beard before Tudum. And here we are.' They introduced co-stars Teyana Taylor, Steven Yeun, and Catalina Sandino Moreno. Affleck and Damon portray Miami cops whose team's trust begins to fray upon discovering millions in cash in a derelict stash house in Joe Carnahan's crime drama premiering January 16 on Netflix. 'The Rip came out of a deeply personal experience that my friend went through, both as a father and as head of tactical narcotics for the Miami Dade police department,' Carnahan told Tudum last Saturday. 'It's inspired in part by his life and then, by my enduring love for those classic seventies cop thrillers that really valued the character and interpersonal relationships and became touchstones of that era — films like Serpico and Prince of the City and more recently, Michael Mann's Heat.' Sasha Calle, Néstor Carbonell, Lina Esco, Scott Adkins, and Kyle Chandler will also appear in The Rip. The Boston besties co-produced Bill Condon's $30M-budget remake of West End musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, starring Ben's second ex-wife Jennifer Lopez, which hits US theaters October 10. Matt is currently on break from filming Universal Pictures $250M-budget 'mythic action epic' already scheduled to hit theaters on July 17, 2026. The Odyssey marks Damon's third time being directed by Nolan after his 2023 atomic bomb biopic Oppenheimer, and his 2014 sci-fi epic Interstellar. Principal photography officially began February 25 on the IMAX flick, and filming is also expected to take place in Italy, Greece, Morocco, Scotland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
News.com.au
a day ago
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Matt Damon ditches his usual clean-cut appearance for latest movie role
Matt Damon looked unlike the clean-cut movie star we've all come to know and love at an event over the weekend. The actor headlined the Netflix Tudum 2025: The Live Event rocking a head full of grey hair and an unruly beard to match. The 54-year-old attended the global fan event at The Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, with his best friend and longtime collaborator Ben Affleck, with both giving fans a first look at their upcoming crime-thriller, The Rip. However, before sharing a teaser for their new cop drama set to drop on Netflix in January 2026, Affleck roasted Damon's beard. 'I trusted Matt would shave the beard before Tudum — and here we are,' the 52-year-old actor said on stage alongside their co-stars Teyana Taylor and Sasha Calle. Damon is currently on a break in filming the Christopher Nolan-directed, fantasy film The Odyssey in Italy. In the movie, Damon plays Ancient Greek mythological hero Odysseus, which explains the beard. The blockbuster will also star Zendaya and her fiance Tom Holland, as well as A-listers Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o and Charlize Theron. Filming has been underway since February with the star-studded cast shooting in various locations in Scotland, Ireland, Morocco, Greece and Favignana, situated west of the coast of Sicily. Last month, Damon was photographed in Favignana rocking a ripped physique on a yacht as he enjoyed some time off from filming the blockbuster. As the pics went viral, Affleck joked at the time that he couldn't go anywhere without being asked about Damon's chiselled abs, especially while at the premiere of his new film The Accountant 2. 'God damn! I just went to the premiere and every interviewer, they were like they found the secret of life,' Affleck recalled on Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce's New Heights podcast on April 30, adding that reporters at screenings wouldn't stop showing him photos of Damon's six-pack. 'I was like, 'The one time he got in shape!'' But Affleck also praised his best mate for the transformation. 'It looks good,' he added. 'It ain't easy when you touch 50. You boys will see!' Damon and Affleck's upcoming film The Rip follows a group of Miami cops whose bond unravels after they discover millions in cash in a derelict stash house. As outside forces learn about their pricey discovery, no on can be trusted and they begin to turn on each other. 'This movie takes a look at the things people will do for money,' Affleck said at the Netflix event.
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Ben Affleck ROASTS longtime BFF Matt Damon over his burly gray beard
Ben Affleck and his childhood BFF Matt Damon reunited at Netflix Tudum 2025: The Live Event in Inglewood, CA last Saturday in order to present the first footage from their upcoming film The Rip. 'I trusted Matt would shave the beard before Tudum,' 52-year-old Ben wisecracked onstage The Kia Forum. 'And here we are.' 54-year-old Matt grew out the burly gray beard for his role as Odysseus, the legendary Greek king of Ithaca, in Christopher Nolan 's big-screen adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey. Damon and Affleck then introduced the roaring crowd to their Rip castmates Teyana Taylor, Steven Yeun, and Catalina Sandino Moreno. The Artists Equity co-founders - who are 10th cousins once removed - originally met as neighbors in Cambridge, MA before co-writing their Oscar-winning screenplay for Gus Van Sant's 1997 drama Good Will Hunting. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop Matt flexed his biceps in a white short-sleeve button-up and grey jeans while Ben rocked a black leather motorcycle jacket with blue jeans. Affleck and Damon portray Miami cops whose team's trust begins to fray upon discovering millions in cash in a derelict stash house in Joe Carnahan's crime drama premiering January 16 on Netflix. 'The Rip came out of a deeply personal experience that my friend went through, both as a father and as head of tactical narcotics for the Miami Dade police department,' Carnahan told Tudum last Saturday. 'It's inspired in part by his life and then, by my enduring love for those classic seventies cop thrillers that really valued the character and interpersonal relationships and became touchstones of that era — films like Serpico and Prince of the City and more recently, Michael Mann's Heat.' Sasha Calle, Néstor Carbonell, Lina Esco, Scott Adkins, and Kyle Chandler will also appear in The Rip. The Boston besties co-produced Bill Condon's $30M-budget remake of West End musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, starring Ben's second ex-wife Jennifer Lopez, which hits US theaters October 10. Matt is currently on break from filming Universal Pictures $250M-budget 'mythic action epic' already scheduled to hit theaters on July 17, 2026. The Odyssey marks Damon's third time being directed by Nolan after his 2023 atomic bomb biopic Oppenheimer, and his 2014 sci-fi epic Interstellar. Principal photography officially began February 25 on the IMAX flick, and filming is also expected to take place in Italy, Greece, Morocco, Scotland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Carnahan told Tudum last Saturday: 'The Rip came out of a deeply personal experience that my friend went through, both as a father and as head of tactical narcotics for the Miami Dade police department. It's inspired in part by his life' The Odyssey ensemble cast also includes Zendaya, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, Lupita Nyong'o, Robert Pattinson, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Elliot Page, Samantha Morton, Will Yun Lee, and Mia Goth. Meanwhile, Affleck has been hard at work on the LA set of his sixth feature directorial effort Animals, which will also be released via Netflix. The Accountant 2 action star co-wrote, produced, directed, and starred as LA Mayoral candidate Milo Bradford in the upcoming hostage thriller.
Geek Feed
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Feed
Dunesday: The Internet's Next Barbenheimer (At Least They're Trying)
The state of movie theaters was at a low ever since the pandemic, but a lot consider the crossover success of 2023's Barbenheimer ( Barbie and Oppenheimer ) to mark a win for the theatrical movie experience, and several films have been trying to recapture that magic with events like Saw Patrol ( Saw X and Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie ) and Glicked ( Gladiator II and Wicked ).Now with Avengers: Doomsday delayed to later in 2026, fans have pointed out that it now has the same release date as Denis Villneuve's Dune: Messiah , and now they're naming December 18, 2026… DUNESDAY. Goodbye Barbenheimer Hello DUNESDAY — Apocalyptic Horseman (@ApocHorseman) May 22, 2025 Admittedly, a lot of people think that it's not going to capture the same magic as Barbenheimer —simply because they're both big-budget sci-fi films that are technically in the same vein of spectacle. The huge appeal of Barbenheimer was the stark contrast between the two products and the auteur status of both directors Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan. Sure, Glicked may have almost ticked the same boxes with the genre differences, but the yin-and-yang element of Barbenheimer was a kind of chemistry that was lightning in a bottle. Plus, a lot of people ended up participating 'for the meme.' No joke, I truly believe that we could get another Barbenheimer movement with Avengers: DunesDay — Ayman ☭ (@GuyWhoConquers) May 22, 2025 Who knows, once all those trailers drop and the hype starts to build, maybe Dunesday could be the next big cinematic event. We don't know what the movie landscape is going to look like in the next year though, but my fingers are crossed it's going to be a fun day at the cinema for movie lovers. Dunesday takes place on Dec. 18, 2026.
Forbes
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
David S. Goyer Says He And Christopher Nolan Continue To Collaborate (Just Unofficially)
David S. Goyer— who co-wrote the scripts for The Dark Knight trilogy with Christopher Nolan — said he and his fellow filmmaker to this day float their work by each other even though they haven't officially collaborated on a film in over a decade. Goyer — who is executive producing the new Apple TV+ sci-fi action comedy Murderbot — first collaborated with Nolan when the two filmmakers co-wrote the script for Batman Begins in 2005. After that, Goyer, Christopher Nolan and his brother, Jonathan Nolan (Fallout), co-wrote the scripts for 2008's The Dark Knight and 2012's The Dark Knight Rises. In addition, Goyer wrote the screenplay — based on his and Christopher Nolan's story — for director Zack Snyder's 2011 Superman movie Man of Steel; and co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Terrio for Snyder's 2016 sequel Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, which Nolan executive produced. So, while it's been 14 years since Goyer and Nolan wrote a film together, Goyer said in a recent Zoom conversation to discuss Murderbot that he and his fellow creative not only keep in touch as friends, they also keep each other informed on the current projects they're working on. 'Chris has sent early drafts of [screenplays of] some of his movies or brought me to early screenings and asked for my input,' Goyer said. 'We have another project that we've been working on together that hasn't been made yet that I'm still hoping for,' Goyer added with a smile. "He doesn't develop a lot of things but this is one of the few. I can't say what it is, but I'm hoping he'll decide he's ready to do it.' Now streaming on Apple TV+, Murderbot stars Alexander Skarsgård as a cyborg in the future who self-hacks its own governing module to become self-aware. Resisting its natural urge to kill the 'stupid f---ing humans' he is assigned to protect, Muderbot — as the cyborg calls itself — eventually takes a liking to the expedition group's members, including Gurathin (David Dastmalchian), an augmented human and tech expert with the crew. Dastmalchian's breakthrough role in showbiz came in 2008's The Dark Knight in a small but pivotal scene the Joker's (Heath Ledger) demented henchman, Thomas Schiff. Taken into custody following an assassination attempt on Gotham Mayor (Nestor Carbonell) during the funeral of Police Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb (Colin McFarlane), District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) threatens to shoot Schiff until Batman (Christian Bale) intervenes. David S. Goyer said during our Zoom conversation that he was on set for Dastmalchian's key scene in The Dark Knight and has tracked his career ever since. Following The Dark Knight, Dastmalchian appeared in nearly 100 screen roles in such films as Marvel's Ant-Man trilogy, director James Gunn's The Suicide Squad and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, as well as the 2024 indie horror hit Late Night with the Devil. David Dastmalchian in "Murderbot." Apple TV+ 'When I went to the set to visit the filming of Murderbot— it was a scene from the last episode that I won't reveal between David and Alexander — David was very excited because we hadn't talked [while he was working on The Dark Knight] Goyer said he's very excited for viewers to see Dastmalchian in Murderbot because it shows his tremendous range as an actor. 'David often plays the heavy or the psycho and Murderbot shows another side of him in the relationship between the two characters he and Alexander play in this show, which I think is really lovely,' Goyer enthused. Based on Martha Wells' best-selling book series The Murderbot Diaries, Murderbot continues with the release of Episode 4 this Friday on Apple TV+, with six more episodes scheduled to debut every Friday through July 11. Also on July 11, the third season of the sci-fi series Foundation — which Goyer co-created with Josh Friedman — premieres on Apple TV+. In addition, another Goyer co-creation — the fantasy series The Sandman – returns for its second and final season on Netflix with six episodes on July 3 and six more episodes on July 24.
