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- NewsJordan Zakarin
What Can We Learn from a New Hollywood MVP List? Franchises Matter, Not Movie Stars
The most famous — and valuable — people in Hollywood today are fictional characters. Today Vulture released its annual ranking of Hollywood’s Most Valuable Stars. Using a formula that weighs hard data like box office numbers and intangibles like likeability, the site determined an A-list pecking order that — inadvertently or not — reflects the monumental shift that continues to reshape the movie industry as actors become more and more subservient to the franchises they headline.
- NewsGwynne Watkins
Meet the 'Batman v Superman' Shutterbug Who's Staked Out the Movie's Set
Some of the biggest movies of the past decade — including Oz the Great and Powerful, and the third and fourth Transformers films — have been shot in Detroit, where producers can take advantage of Michigan’s generous film incentives, not to mention the city’s abundant empty lots. Along with the movie boom, Motor City has seen the rise of another, more covert industry: amateur photography by people who stake out sets and share their pictures online. When Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice filmed
- NewsGwynne Watkins
Revisiting 'Daredevil': Is the Movie (and Ben Affleck) Really as Bad as We Remember?
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice will bring about a reckoning between two iconic D.C. superheroes — yet the shadow of a lesser Marvel character still hovers over Zack Snyder’s film. Prior to playing Batman, Ben Affleck starred as the blind defender of Hell’s Kitchen in 2003’s Daredevil. “The only movie I actually regret is Daredevil,” Affleck said in his Playboy interview.
- NewsGwynne Watkins
Here Are All the Big Differences Between 'Gone Girl' the Book and 'Gone Girl' the Movie
—Amy’s teenage best friend, Hilary Handy, who had to transfer schools when she was accused of stalking Amy and pushing her down a flight of stairs. —Desi Collings’s patrician mother, who looks like Amy and with whom Desi has an unnervingly close relationship. —Rebecca, the young reporter for a crime blog called Whodunnit, who finds Nick drunk in a bar and gets exclusive video of him gushing about Amy.
- NewsGwynne Watkins
Ben Affleck Talks About 'Gone Girl' Nude Scene
One of the best-kept, least essential secrets about Gone Girl is now out in the open: Ben Affleck gets naked. At one point in the film (out Oct. 3), director David Fincher gives audiences a very brief, full-frontal glimpse of his star. MTV’s Josh Horowitz broached the subject with Affleck in a new interview, asking if he’d ever revealed so much of himself onscreen before.
- NewsGwynne Watkins
'Gone Girl': The First Reviews Are In — and Ben Affleck is Getting a Lot of Love
While Ben Affleck’s reputation as a director is unimpeachable, his acting career never fully recovered from early-‘00s stumbles like Daredevil and Gigli. Based on the bestselling mystery novel by Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl tells the story of writer Nick Dunne (Affleck), who is blamed for the sudden disappearance of his wife Amy (Pike). Fincher has said that he cast Affleck as Nick because of his smile in press photos, which perhaps seemed like he was trying to telegraph something he didn’t reall
- NewsGwynne Watkins
Ben Affleck Relates to Batman's 'Deeply Buried' Anger
Ben Affleck believes that he and Batman share a certain personality trait — or is it a flaw? In a new interview with the Sunday Times, Affleck, who plays the masked superhero in the upcoming Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, reflects on the bottled-up anger that he and Batman have in common. “I think it’s a necessity, historically, in the tradition of these films,” Affleck said of Batman’s temper.
