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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Teaming Up Again

Variety reports that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are in talks over a first look producing deal at Warner Bros.
The thesps -- who haven't yet named their new banner -- previously partnered as producers at Disney-based LivePlanet along with Chris Moore and Sean Bailey, who's now prexy of production for Walt Disney Studios. While at LivePlanet, Affleck, Damon and Moore produced the documentary series "Project Greenlight."

Affleck and Damon first partnered as writers and actors 1997's "Good Will Hunting," winning the Oscar for original screenplay.
It isn't clear what the new project will be called or what it will be about.

Posted on February 17, 2010
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Robinov Declares: No More Women Leads in Warner Bros. Films

This is, hands down, the most irritating and stupid edict ever to come from a major studio head. Jeff Robinov, president of production for Warner Bros., announced that Warner Bros. will not make any more movies that star women. Only men can be the lead in future pictures. Nikki Finke reports:
This Neanderthal thinking comes after both Jodie Foster's The Brave One (even though she's had big recent hits with Flightplan and Panic Room) and Nicole Kidman's The Invasion (as if three different directors didn't have something to do with the awfulness of the gross receipts) under-performed at the box office recently. "Can you imagine when Gloria Allred gets hold of this? It's going to be like World War III," one producer just told me.

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Of course, Warner Bros has always been male-centric in its movies. But now the official policy as expressly articulated by Robinov is that a male has to be the lead of every pic made. I'm told he doesn't even want to see a script with a woman in the primary position (which now is apparently missionary at WB). Oh yeah, the fact that so many Warner Bros movies have been sucking at the box office for the last two years is all the fault of females. (Then again, Robinov's poorly performing Superman Returns was criticized for its girlie-man portrayal of the superhero.) As regular readers of my own box office reports know, chick flicks haven't been doing well at the box office lately.

But Robinov's statements aren't about women's movies as a genre, they're anti Hollywood actresses. Besides, neither The Brave One nor The Invasion were classic chick flicks, either. "It's a phenomenal thing to say. What are we in the 1700s where women are back to being barefoot and pregnant?" a producer railed. "What's next -- fire all the Warner Bros women executives?"
Robinov is an idiot. And women ought to boycott his movies until he changes his misogynistic position.

Posted on October 9, 2007
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