Casey Affleck

Because I am. Do you guys remember all that “Bye! Good” business that went down a few years ago when Joaquin took a vacation from sanity and tried to be all avant garde with his acting career, trying out rapping and filming shit-filled mockumentaries with Casey Affleck (the younger brother of Ben Affleck)? Because oh, [...]  

all major television networks, MSN and Yahoo. His feature film producing credits include Disney's TRON: Legacy; Miramax's Gone, Baby, Gone, directed by Ben Affleck and starring Casey Affleck, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman and Amy Ryan; Matchstick Men ...  

BREAKING: David Lowery has written and will direct Aint Them Bodies Saints, an expansion of his short film that has Rooney Mara, Ben Foster and Casey Affleck attached to star. Lowery wrote and directed the short Pioneers, which won the Grand Jury Award at ...  

Discussed for development as a feature film last week at DFW.com, writer/director David Lowery is expanding his award-winning short film Ain't Them Bodies Saints into a feature film. Today, Deadline adds that Casey Affleck, Ben Foster and Rooney ...  

Affleck will next lend his voice to ParaNorman and will star opposite Christian Bale and Zoe Saldana in Out of the Furnace. Foster recently starred in Contraband and just finished production on Kill Your Darlings.  

Since then, major filmmakers have been lining up to work with the fast-rising starlet, including Terrence Malick, Steven Soderbergh, and Spike Jonze. Basically, Mara has her pick of projects for the foreseeable future, so it speaks well of the ...  

If you’re looking for Rooney Mara in the next 12-16 months, odds are she’ll be on a movie set.  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo actress is currently filming Steven Soderbergh’s Bitter Pill, and earlier this week she replaced Carey Mulligan in director Spike Jonze’s next project and signed on to star in the 1950s period piece Brooklyn.  She’s also set to film an untitled Terrence Malick project (formerly Lawless) this summer with Christian Bale...  

David Lowery will write and direct this expansion of his short film about an outlaw trying to reunite with his wife and daughter. [...]  

After a busy week, you'll excuse Rooney Mara's agents if they turn off their cell phones and have much earned nap. In the last few days the actress has signed on to replace Carey Mulligan in Spike Jonze's upcoming film, and taken a lead role in the upcoming adaptation of Colm Toibin's "Brooklyn." And now to close off the week, she's landed another gig that will see her star opposite two of our favorite actors. Deadline reports that Mara...  

We've heard that Christian Bale had circled back around to potentially star in the original thriller Out of the Furnace and Zoe Saldana would join him. Now a press release has confirmed that casting, and also reveals that Casey Affleck has joined the cast along with Sam Shepard (Safe House, Black Hawk Down). Scott Cooper is directing the film which follows a man named Slim (Bale) who, upon release from years in prison for murder, just wants to...  

Confirming some long-rumored casting picks, and even throwing in a surprise or two, Relativity Media has just sent around a press release detailing confirmed casting for Scott Cooper‘s Out of the Furnace. After the critical success of his directorial debut (which was nominated for three Oscars, ultimately winning two, including Jeff Bridges’s long-deserved first Academy Award), Cooper has been attached to a number of projects, but Out of the...  

In 2007, Affleck starred in the Western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, playing Robert Ford opposite Brad Pitt's Jesse James. For his performance, he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a ...  

For Affleck, it is an opportunity to turn the page on the critically lambasted faux-documentary "I'm Still Here," and remind audiences of the prodigious talent he demonstrated in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford."  

The cast also includes Zoe Saldana, Sam Shepard, Woody Harrelson and Forest Whitaker ... "The currently titled 'Out of the Furnace' tells the story about fate, circumstance and justice. Russell (played by Bale) and his younger brother Rodney (played ...  

Edgar) and Jennifer Killoran (The Ides of March) alongside Scott Free’s Ridley Scott (The Grey), Tony Scott (Man on Fire) and Michael Costigan (American Gangster), as well as Relativity’s CEO Ryan Kavanaugh (The Fighter). Relativity Media ...  

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Christian Bale and Casey Affleck are officially on board to star as brothers in the Rust Belt drama film "Out of the Furnace," Relativity Media said Thursday. They will be joined by Zoe Saldana ("Avatar"), who will play Bale's love interest, and Sam Shepard, who will play the two leads' uncle. In the film, Affleck is lured into a dangerous crime ring after his brother ...  

Christian Bale and Casey Affleck are officially on board to star as brothers in the Rust Belt drama "Out of the Furnace," Relativity Media said Thursday. They will be joined by Zoe Saldana ("Avatar"), who will play Bales's love interest, and Sam ...  

From the director of Crazy Heart.  

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 13 (UPI) -- Principal photography began Friday in Pennsylvania on "Out of the Furnace," starring Christian Bale and Casey Affleck, the dramatic thriller's producers said. The film was written and is being directed by ...  

Relativity Media has closed deals with Christian Bale ( The Fighter , upcoming The Dark Knight Rises ), Casey Affleck ( The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford ), Zoe Saldana ( Avatar ) and Sam Shepard ( Safe House ) to star as the lead roles in the upcoming gripping and gritty drama currently titled Out of the Furnace , written and directed by Scott Cooper ( Crazy Heart ), it was announced today by Relativity’s Co...  

"Out Of The Furnace," from Relativity and Red Granite, has lined up Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana and Sam Shepard to star. Written and directed by Scott Cooper, whose debut "Crazy Heart" earned Jeff Bridges his Oscar in 2010, "Out Of The Furnace" is a gritty drama about two brothers (Bale, Affleck) who dream of escaping the economically depressed Rust Belt... ...a cruel twist of fate lands Russell (Bale) in prison, his brother...  

It's very sincerely beginning to look like Scott Cooper's directorial follow-up to Crazy Heart will just cast and cast and cast until all the actors are taken, then maybe film something. Now Woody Harrelson is considering joining Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana, and Sam Shepard in the Christian Bale-starring revenge tale. Harrelson's role would be Curtis DeGroat, the villain who kills a newly unjailed Christian Bale's brother (Affleck). PS...  

Christian - who has filmed two films, Lawless and Knight Of Cups, with acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick - is set to start work on Out Of The Furnace alongside Forest Whitaker, Casey Affleck and Zoe Saldana. Bradley, who is shooting Serena with Jennifer ...  

Christian Bale is starring as a man stuck in prison when his brother (Casey Affleck) dies at the hands of a violent crime ring. Swearing revenge, Bale goes after those he holds responsible, including Woody Harrelson’s gangster boss. Forest Whitaker ...  

Worked pretty well for a while, though some of us got suspicious when it turned out his brother-in-law, Casey Affleck, was making a “documentary” about the whole personality transplant, or whatever it was. Casey eventually confirmed, in the New York ...  

Starring Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller and Casey Affleck, "Tower Heist" was originally released in theaters in November 2011. Following "Tower Heist" in Machesney Park were "Immortals" and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." "Tower Heist" was the most rented ...  

Check out the photos. Summer Phoenix, left, and Cambridge native Casey Affleck arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, celebrating Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, Monday, May 7, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan ...  

The cast is led by Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Sam Shepard, Woody Harrelson and Forest Whitaker – an eclectic but potentially electrifying combination of talent. It's likely the gritty dramatic thriller will change its name to avoid ...  

Payne also looked at Tommy Lee Jones and in recent weeks met with Jon Voight as well as Dern. Casey Affleck was the top choice for the role of the son in 2011. Payne has let the studio know of his acting picks although no offers have gone out. The script ...  

For example, here's one from a guy who kind of looks and sounds like Casey Affleck. He whipped his up for $25 and apparently did it while drinking a Sierra Nevada: While I'd like to use Arqball's technology, the reason I didn't pledge for one of their ...  

Starring Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller and Casey Affleck, "Tower Heist" was originally released in theaters in November 2011. Following "Tower Heist" in Machesney Park were "Immortals" and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." "Tower Heist" was the most rented ...  

CHRISTIAN BALE AND Casey Affleck are officially on board to star as brothers in the Rust Belt drama film Out of the Furnace. They will be joined by Zoe Saldana (Avatar), who will play Bale’s love interest, and Sam Shepard, who will play the two leads’ uncle.  

Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana and Sam Shepard will star in "Dust to Dust" being filmed in Braddock and elsewhere in Western Pennsylvania. At least one more Oscar winner has been mentioned as joining the cast but he's not yet confirmed.  

He wants to live a quiet life and marry his long-term girlfriend, but his plans change when his brother (Casey Affleck) is lured into Curtis’ crime ring and tragedy strikes, with Slim vowing to seek revenge on those involved in his sibling’s death.  

Billy Bob Thornton is to play a villain in 'Out of the Furnace'. The actor will join Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana and Casey Affleck for the movie, about a man who tracks down his brother's killer after he is released from prison. Forest Whitaker ...  

Norman is the only one who can defend his town against a curse that causes zombies, ghosts, and other creatures to attack. It stars voices of Tucker Albrizzi, Casey Affleck and Anna Kendrick. ParaNorman is set to hit Dallas theaters on August 17.  

And, as a result, Gone Baby Gone(starring his brother, Casey Affleck) feels potently authentic, and, when all’s said and done, it’s a grade-A thriller. Not to mention, a grade-A thriller with a tightly concealed twist. All along, detectives ...  

The Black List’s Cut Bank just picked up Armie Hammer, Sir Ben Kingsley, John Malkovich, Michael Sheen and Teresa Palmer to star while the feature version of the short film Pioneer got Casey Affleck, Ben Foster and Rooney Mara. We’ve also ...