Casey Affleck Articles

Bradley Cooper, whose The Crow bit the dust not too long ago, has just seen another big-budget project go down the drain. According to Deadline.com, Legendary Pictures' Paradise Lost, which was put on hold a few weeks ago, has now been totally scrapped. Inspired by John Milton's poem, Paradise Lost was to have been directed by Alex Proyas, with Cooper as Lucifer, Benjamin Walker as [...]

Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick, Michael Peña, Casey Affleck, Eddie Murphy, Tower Heist Eddie Murphy's film career has been in the doldrums lately. Aside from the animated Shrek movies, Murphy's live action films have been flopping badly. His last two, Imagine That and Meet Dave figure among the worst box-office debuts ever. The announcement that Murphy will be hosting the 2012 Academy Awards ceremony lifted his [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXZftTgZl3g[/youtube] I'm Still Here, Casey Affleck’s directorial debut about a year in the life of Joaquin Phoenix — it's unclear whether that's a documentary or a mockumentary or both — has been acquired by Magnolia Pictures. I'm Still Here follows Oscar-nominee Phoenix after he announced his retirement from films in the fall of 2008 and decided to pursue a new career as a bearded, bizarre [...]

Shirley Henderson in Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime (top); Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson in Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me (bottom) The 57th annual Sydney Film Festival, which kicks off in two days, has announced the complete list of its Official Competition Jury members. British documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker, whose Countdown to Zero was screened at Cannes earlier this year, will be joining jury president [...]