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Hot Toys is known for high-grade action figures and this time they bring us the Bat. Justice Leagueisn’t the best superhero film out there but Ben Affleck did a perfect job playing Bruce Wayne/Batman. His playboy personality made a great Bruce Wayne and his Batman was older and darker then we have seen before. This Hot Toys […]

Anytime a new Batman casting gets announced, there seems to be two things that happen- a sudden “they’ll be the worst ever!” cry and a revisit to who really was the worst ever to wear the cowl. Former Dark Knight George Clooney has some opinions on this matter, having played the Caped Crusader in 1997’s Batman […]

Beast Kingdom has six more Previews World exclusives up for order now. First, a Knightmare Batman figure from Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice. The figure will stand 8 inches tall, and is made of a mix of plastic and die-cast parts. He will come with 3 interchangeable mouths, 7 interchangeable hands, a machine gun, […]

Showtime is set to take us back to the mean streets of 1990’s Boston next month, when series creator/executive producer Chuck MacLean (Boston Strangler) and showrunner/executive producer/writer Tom Fontana (Homicide: Life on the Street) debut their new crime drama series City on a Hill. Produced by Showtime with a pilot directed by Michael Cuesta and […]

That a**hole from The Fashionable Male apparently hasn’t been asked to return for the upcoming Jay and Silent Bob Reboot film. If you have no idea what we’re talking about, perhaps a rewatch of Kevin Smith‘s Mallrats is in order, where Ben Affleck plays a not-so-nice manager of a store called….The Fashionable Male. Jay and Silent Bob Reboot […]

After updating you today on Matt Reeves ideas for his planned Batman solo outing film for Warner Bros. Pictures The Batman, it would appear WB decided to announce the official release date for the picture, and update everyone on the Ben Affleck situation. The Batfleck will NOT be a part of The Batman, as Affleck will reportedly be “passing […]

Ben Affleck will direct and Matt Damon will star in an adaptation of Jeff Maysh’s How An Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game And Stole Millions, a true crime story about a man who scammed the McDonalds Monopoly game. Deadpool writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese will handle the screenplay, according to punctuality-obsessed Hollywood gossip rag Deadline. Fox […]

Kevin Bacon (The Following, I Love Dick) and Showtime are heading back to the brutal streets of early ’90s Boston in City On A Hill, a 12-episode crime drama series co-starring Underground‘s Aldis Hodge. Written by Chuck MacLean (Boston Strangler) from an original idea by Ben Affleck (Good Will Hunting); and directed by Michael Cuesta […]

Private detectives Kenzie and Gennaro might be getting a little more than two hours to crack the case this time, with Fox announcing a pilot order for an untitled drama series based on Dennis Lehane‘s best-selling 1998 novel Gone Baby Gone. Black Sails‘ Robert Levine will write the pilot; and executive produce the project with […]

A lot of people have strong opinions on the success of Ben Affleck as Batman in Batman v. Superman and Justice League, but the actor who played Batman prior to Affleck hasn’t even watched one of the movies. Christian Bale recently revealed that he hasn’t seen Affleck’s portrayal of Batman because his interest waned after […]

Do we need any more evidence that Marvel is planning a Daredevil reboot than the original Daredevil and Elektra reuniting for the holidays? Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner split up in 2015 and filed for divorce in 2017. Since the split, Affleck and Garner have been famously amicable co-parents of their three children, and a […]

As we look back on the past year of stories we’ve written here at Bleeding Cool, one of the most fascinating and frequent subjects of our journalistic inquiries has been Ben Affleck‘s on-again/off-again/on-again/off-again/on-again/off-again/on-again/off-again/on-again/off-again/on-again/off-again/on-again/off-again affair with playing Batman in the DCEU. We’ve written more than 60 articles about Affleck since last November, most of them having […]

Batman, the Ben Affleck version as he appears in Justice League, is getting a Hot Toys release. No official release date yet, but expect him sometime next year. This is the one most collectors have been anticipating for a long while now, and it looks like it will have been worth it.  “People said the […]

Suicide Squad director David Ayer took to Twitter over the weekend to shoot down pressing rumors about the 2016 film. Asked about a Hot Toys action figure that depicting Jared Leto‘s Joker in a Batman suit, an officially licensed toy tying into the movie, Ayer said that the design was only ever a toy concept and […]

Halt and Catch Fire‘s Mark O’Brien is wasting no time getting back to work, following up his three-season run on the critically acclaimed AMC series with a series regular role opposite Aldis Hodge (Straight Outta Compton, Underground) and Kevin Bacon (The Following, I Love Dick) in Showtime’s drama pilot City on a Hill. Executive produced by Ben […]

The numbers are in, and the numbers don’t lie. Not only is Justice League set to underperform at the box office, but the film has been widely panned, scoring just 39% on Rotten Tomatoes. With Justice League’s release behind him, Batman star Ben Affleck faces a serious career crossroads: how can he salvage his reputation […]

Ben Affleck is best known to moviegoers as the actor desperately trying to escape the role of Batman in the DC Cinematic Universe. But a shocking new report from website ComicBook.com reveals that Affleck has actually been acting in movies for years, right under our noses! In a an in-depth video expose posted to Twitter […]

Last night was Jimmy Kimmel‘s 50th birthday. Now, I’ve known of Kimmel since he debuted as the “Jimmy the Sports Guy” on the L.A. area radio station KROQ with Kevin and Bean along with Adam Carrolla as “Mr. Birchum”. Watching him rise from radio morning show regular to a guy with a few cable shows […]

The past year or so of drama surrounding the question of Ben Affleck’s future as Batman can best be described by a mental image of a man backing very slowly toward a door, hoping nobody notices he’s trying to escape. But with Justice League about to hit theaters, we could finally be seeing the finale […]

As early reviews begin to surface and with less than a week to go before the public gets to render it’s verdict on the highly-anticipated Justice League, Warner Bros. is putting on a full-court press to get fans talking more about the action on screen and less about any real life drama. To that end, […]