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Casey Affleck Has 'No Idea' What 'Paradise Lost' Will Look Like

Posted 11/2/11 2:10 pm EST by in Interviews, News, Video


Director Alex Proyas is undertaking a pretty gargantuan feat in his attempt to adapt John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost" for the big screen. In fact, it's so gargantuan that even its stars can't wrap their mind about what it's going to look like.

The project has gathered an impressive cast to play some of the most famous Biblical characters of all time. Bradley Cooper will play Lucifer, Camilla Belle and Diego Boneta will play Eve and Adam, and Casey Affleck will play the archangel Gabriel. It will be interesting to see how Proyas manages to bring the classic to the big screen using modern inventions like CGI. We're assuming that the angels in this film will look a bit more impressive than the one's in Kevin Smith's "Dogma," for instance. (No disrespect intended, Matt and Ben!)

So what exactly will "Paradise Lost" look like? When MTV caught up with Casey Affleck while he was promoting "Tower Heist," he admitted that he has no idea.

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'ParaNorman' Fights Zombies And Ghouls In New Trailer

Posted 10/31/11 12:12 pm EST by in Trailers


What's a boy to do if he has the special ability to speak to the dead and his town becomes infested by zombies? According to the new teaser trailer for "ParaNorman," the answer is to apparently take it with a grain of salt.

The upcoming 3D stop-motion animated film, due out in August, comes from "Coraline" director Chris Butler and "The Tale of Despereaux" helmer Seth Fell. "ParaNorman" definitely aligns itself thematically with "Coraline," especially with Donovan's "Season of the Witch" being played in the background of the trailer. The teaser focuses more on the creepy, impressive stop-motion animation in the movie than on any sort of plot line, but it is better-served by that. The next trailer released can spend its time showing off "ParaNorman's" impressive voice cast.

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'Tower Heist' Trailer: Ben Stiller And Eddie Murphy Seek Revenge

Posted 7/28/11 12:52 pm EST by in Trailers


Lock up your vaults: a "Tower Heist" is upon us!

Maybe it's the return of Casey Affleck's deadpan humor that I'm feeling, or maybe it's the excitement about Eddie Murphy returning to the buddy-crime genre, but there's something about the new trailer that Yahoo! premiered that I can totally get behind. The cast, which includes Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda and Gabourey Sidibe, certainly helps.

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Brad Pitt To Play A Mob Enforcer In Andrew Dominik's Heist Comedy 'Cogan's Trade'

Posted 11/3/10 11:51 am EST by in Casting Call, News


Brad PittBrad Pitt is getting hitched to the mob -- and his "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" director Andrew Dominik -- for a new heist comedy titled "Cogan's Trade."

Pitt has pulled off quite a few capers in his cinematic day as a member of George Clooney's "Ocean's Eleven," "Twelve" and "Thirteen" crews, but this time he'll find himself on the other side of the coin. Based on the novel by George V. Higgins, "Cogan's Trade" casts Pitt as a professional enforcer for the mafia who's investigating a heist during a mob-run high-stakes poker game.

Sounds serious, but The Hollywood Reporter describes it as a "comedic crime story"... which is right in Pitt's wheelhouse. The actor is always at his best when he's mixing laughs with physicality, as he has in "Fight Club," "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and "Inglorious Basterds." Read More...

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'Tower Heist' Adds Casey Affleck And Matthew Broderick: Is It The Next 'Ocean's Eleven'?

Posted 10/27/10 12:00 pm EST by in News


Casey Affleck Tower HeistCasey Affleck pulled off one big trick this year with his staged Joaquin Phoenix documentary "I'm Still Here," and it looks he'll be doing the same for his next big role in "Rush Hour" director Brett Ratner's "Ocean's Eleven"-meets-Bernie Madoff flick "Tower Heist."

The film already has big acting guns signed on in the form of Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Tea Leoni, Gabourey Sidibe, Judd Hirsch, Alan Alda and Michael Pena... so Affleck will be playing off some big star power. He'll portray Stiller's friend and a potential traitor in a plot to rob a rich penthouse tenant played by Alda, according to a Hollywood Reporter story.

Affleck held his own just fine in 2001's "Ocean's Eleven" and its two sequels, so he should be suitably prepped to share the spotlight with this cast. It may make for a fine revenge fantasy for everyone who got swindled by the real-life Bernie Madoff and his ponzi scheme. Read More...

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Ben Affleck To Direct 'Replay' Before He Makes 'The Trade'?

Posted 10/20/10 3:28 pm EST by in News


Ben AffleckHmm, what could possibly come between good ole Boston boys Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and a movie about the New York Yankees ("The Trade," on which the two are set to collaborate)? Only another NYC-based project that has been stuck in development since 1988. According to The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog, Affleck is considering following up his critically acclaimed sophomore directorial effort "The Town" by directing an adaptation of Ken Grimwood's '88 fantasy novel "Replay."

In addition to moving beyond the Boston setting of both "Gone Baby Gone" and "The Town," Affleck is ditching the crime drama genre for dramatic fantasy. "Replay" follows a 45-year-old Brooklyn man who suffers from a fatal heart attack while trying to prevent the murder of a jogger in Central Park. Instead of dying in the traditional sense, the man is stuck in a "Groundhog Day"-esque "replay" of his life beginning at age 18, where he uses his knowledge of the future to build a financial empire. But money can't buy him a long life, and he dies again at age 45, forced once again to replay his life. Finally, he and the murdered jogger fall in love and struggle to stop the literally vicious cycle. Read More...

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Clint Eastwood Denies Joaquin Phoenix's Involvement In 'Hoover,' Asks 'Didn't He Become A Rapper?'

Posted 10/12/10 2:52 pm EST by in News


Clint EastwoodWould playing Leonardo DiCaprio's on-screen lover in Clint Eastwood's "Hoover" have been enough to resurrectJoaquin Phoenix's still-tarnished film career? Maybe... but unfortunately we'll never know.

During an interview with Reuters, Eastwood emphatically denied Phoenix was in contention for the role of Clyde Tolson in the biopic on J. Edgar Hoover.

"No. I don't know where that came from," Eastwood said. "Didn't he become a rapper?"

Sort of... but not really, as we all discovered when Casey Affleck revealed that "I'm Still Here" was a hoax. But it still is a bit of a disappointment that Phoenix's mutilation of his own career for the sake of Affleck's doc potentially contributed to his not getting what would have been a great role. Read More...

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Ben Affleck: Matt Damon May Direct Yankees Movie 'The Trade'

Posted 10/7/10 12:43 pm EST by in Interviews, News


Matt Damon and Ben Affleck"Good Will Hunting" reunion, baby! How would you like them apples?

Hopefully, you wouldn't mind 'em... because it looks like "Hunting" co-stars and real-life best buds Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, along with Ben's younger bro Casey Affleck, are indeed reteaming to make "The Trade," a based-on-real-life tale of Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich, two 1970s Yankees pitchers who swapped wives (classy, fellas).

News that Damon and Affleck might join forces for the film first broke back in February, when Deadline revealed that the pals would potentially don the pinstripes to star as the two pitchers, with Affleck directing from a script by "Curb Your Enthusiasm" exec producer David Mandel.

When MTV News caught up with the elder Affleck at the junket for his stellar heist thriller "The Town," however, Ben imparted that while all three are most definitely still involved in the project, some of the specifics have changed. For instance? The Affleck brothers are currently collaborating on a rewrite of the script, they're not sure who'll be playing the spouse-swapping hurlers, and, perhaps most interestingly, Damon might direct the thing. Read More...

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Joaquin Phoenix Doc 'I'm Still Here' Gets A Trailer

Posted 8/17/10 9:21 am EST by in Trailers


I truly hope that Joaquin Phoenix comes out to do press for "I'm Still Here," Casey Affleck's doc about him, completely fresh-faced and clean-cut. Because the Joaquin on display in the below trailer for the film is anything but. Rather, it's the scraggly, wild-haired, sunglasses-wearing loon we've come to know over the past year-plus. The doc is supposed to be pretty bizarre; we'll all find out when it hits theaters in September.

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EXCLUSIVE: 'The Killer Inside Me' Clip Shows Us That Even Brutal Killers Can Be Loved

Posted 6/18/10 2:35 pm EST by in Video


Seeing the below clip from Michael Winterbottom's "The Killer Inside Me," you'd never know that Casey Affleck is playing a deranged sociopath. His lovely sweetheart, Amy Stanton (Kate Hudson), certainly doesn't. But that's exactly what Affleck's quiet, baby-faced lawman Lou Ford is. Really, the less you know the better. If you really must pull away the veil, read Kurt Loder's glowing review and then check it out in theaters beginning today.

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