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Just as Ben Affleck gears up to begin production on his thriller Argo , the filmmaker-actor is already targeting his follow-up. Ben Affleck Eyeing Role in Baz Luhrmann's ' Great Gatsby ' Affleck is in negotiations to star in, direct and produce Line of Sight , an action project at Warner Bros. that is being produced by Joel Silver and Andrew Rona. The idea, conceived by Silver Pictures' Alex Heineman (who also exec produces), centers on an elite commando squad transporting cargo while dealing with a global threat. One of the conceits of the movie is that it tells the tale from a point-of-view akin to a first-person shooter game. The script was recently worked on by Peter O’Brien, the man who wrote the game Halo: Reach for Xbox 360. The project was initially picked upby Warner Bros.-based Silver Pictures in March as a spec written by F. Scott Frazier. Affleck has been moving almost non-stop as a filmmaker since his directorial debut, 2007’s Gone Baby Gone . H

Here are new character posters for the upcoming film Contagion . The film is directed by Steven Soderbergh , and stars Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kate Winslet . " Contagion " follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart. See all the posters after the Jump... Please Leave A Comment-

Win a trip for 4 to the opening of Cars Land and a private Jungle Cruise tour skippered by John Lasseter! From late 1977 through spring 1978, John Lasseter , before becoming chief creative officer at Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios and principal creative advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering, worked at Disneyland, and was a skipper on the Jungle Cruise attraction… Recently, a search for a photo of John skippering the Jungle Cruise came up empty. Surely there must be a photo of Skipper John somewhere? To find one, we have created a contest: the first person to submit a verifiable photo of John as the skipper of the Jungle Cruise from 1977 will win a trip for 4 to the grand opening of Cars Land at Disney California Adventure in summer 2012, and a ride on the Jungle Cruise skippered by none other than John himself! What better way to turn a Disney memory of old into a Disney memory of today? For details on how to submit, visit Johnofthejungle.com or the official Disney•Pixar

NBC has bought a wrestling drama from Jerry Bruckheimer . Dwayne Johnson , the wrestler-turned-actor formerly known by his ring name " The Rock ," is also attached as an executive producer on the fictional drama project, which has a put pilot commitment at the network. It is set in the world of wrestling in the 1980s. The one-hour project, which hails from Jerry Bruckheimer Television in association with Warner Bros. Television, counts Brent Fletcher (Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena) and Seamus Kevin Fahey (The Forgotten, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena) as co-executive producers and writers, with KristieAnne Reed (Chase, Dark Blue) on board as a co-EP. Bruckheimer TV's Jonathan Littman will join Bruckheimer and Johnson as an executive producer. Please Leave A Comment- Source- THR

DreamWorks and Participant Media’s The Help continued to overperform in its second weekend, beating a new round of competitors in grossing $20.5 million and coming in No. 1 at the domestic box office. Distributed by Disney, The Help has racked up $71.3 million in its first 10 days of release. The pic fell less than 22% from its opening weekend, when it came in No. 2. To rise to No. 1 is an unusual feat, and reflects the film's great buzz. The Help movie review . Rise of the Planet of the Apes , from 20th Century Fox, also remained a worthy contender in its third weekend, falling only 41% to an estimated $16.3 million for a domestic cume of $133.8 million and coming in No. 2. The Help and Rise of the Apes left the weekend’s four new films struggling. Robert Rodriguez’s Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D , from the Weinstein Co./Dimension, did the best of the bunch, coming in No. 3 and grossing an estimated $12 million. Fright Night movie review . "We were

Robert Downey Jr. has finished most of the heavy lifting needed for his role in “ The Avengers ” and last week, over lunch at his office in Venice, the two-time Oscar nominee felt ready to talk about a different heroic project: “ Iron Man 3 .” “My sense of it is that we need to leave it all on the field — whatever that means in the end,” Downey said of the May 2013 film. “You can pick several different points of departure for that.” Speaking of departures, director Jon Favreau won’t be back for the third installment of a franchise that propelled his career to new heights — even as it established upstart Marvel Studios as a serious Hollywood player and signaled the popcorn redemption of Downey after years of addiction and legal entanglements. ” Iron Man 2 ,” however, was an especially grueling shoot and by the end of it the relationship between the director and the star was pretty frosty. Downey and Favreau are pals again now and even appeared on stage together earlier this summer

Rise Of The Planet of the Apes Movie Review By: Rama Ramascreen is back with another movie review. Next up is Rise Of The Planet of the Apes . Make sure to follow him on Twitter and Like their Facebook page . I’m not gonna lie to you, I think RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES is a pretty decent reboot. I wouldn't call it a powerful film but the effort to gradually show how the apes come to respect the charismatic Caesar is the film’s biggest point. That said, how is it possible that the recent Oscar nominee James Franco suddenly turns into a 2nd rate actor whose performance is bland and unbearable?! I just don’t get it! Franco in this film makes Mark Wahlberg’s role as a science teacher in The Happening look convincing. I think WETA does a good job with the looks for the apes and the man who loves wearing mo-cap suit, Andy Serkis has done it again, if there’s an Oscar category for mo-cap, that man should win it every single time… An origin story in the true sense of the w

Cody Horn has joined the cast of Magic Mike , the male stripper drama based on the experiences of Channing Tatum , who also stars in the Steven Soderbergh-directed film. The actress, recently cast in the Jake Gyllenhaal-starring drama End of Watch , will play the sister of an up-and-coming male dancer played by Alex Pettyfer , whose character is based on Tatum. (He stripped for nearly a year when he was 18 to make ends meet.) Tatum , who is also producing, will appear as the film's titular character -- a mentor to the dancer played by Pettyfer and the love interest of Horn's character. Mike will also feature Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello and Riley Keough . Also producing are Nick Wechsler, Gregory Jacobs and Reid Carolin, who is writing the script. The project is slated to begin production in September in Los Angeles. Horn , the daughter of former Warner Bros. Entertainment president and COO Alan Horn, recently had a three-episode arc on NBC’s The O