solo superhero movie starring Ben Affleck as the Dark Knight, EW has learned. The Batmanappears to have found a new director in Matt Reeves. Affleck had been slated to direct the movie himself butrelinquished his behind-the-camera dutieslast month to focus on acting. Credit: Joe Scarnici/FilmMagic; Inset: Warner Bros Performing this role demands focus, passion and the very best performance I can give. It has become clear that I cannot do both jobs to the level they require....

Its been five years sinceThe Dark Knight Risesended Christopher Nolans Batman trilogy. Those films constituted a single coherent story, from Batmans beginning to his explosive end. Affleck reappeared inSuicide Squadand is one of the headlining heroes of NovembersJustice League. Matt Reeves.Roy Rochlin/FilmMagic But the studio has promised another solo Batman film. What that film willbe, precisely, isnt clear. Affleck worked on a version ofThe Batmanbutstepped back from directingthe film. Thestudio hired Matt Reeves, director of the last couplePlanet of the Apesmovies....

Matthew Brodericks six degrees of Kevin Bacon just got a whole lot closer. Their history was revealed during a round of High School Whoperlatives? This is good for our careers. Credit: Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images But dont expect any scandalous details to be leaked for these two. Never before I got married! Sedgwick has been married to Kevin Bacon since 1988, and Broderick married Sarah Jessica Parker in 1997....

Im thrilled, and I dont know anything, Davis said. He added, I would love to see where the writers think Warner is at this point. And her opponent is another candidate, and the person running the campaign is Elle Woods. Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images; David Livingston/Getty Images So its Elle Woods driving this campaign against the wife of Warner. (EWhas some more ideas for the third film.) Bottom line, Davis would like to see Warner return....

The ‘Criminal Minds’ actor puts it all out there on Twitter Matthew Gray Gubler has Halloween on lock. TheCriminal Mindsactor tweets about the holiday all year round, and every October, he truly goes all out. This deep love for All Hollows Eve is also inspiring, and you cant help but share his excitement. Credit: @GUBLERNATION via Twitter When he opened up about his feelings 2. When he wore a homemade costume...

WhenGoldhits movie theaters this January, viewers will be treated to a whole lot of McConaughey. Thats cheeseburgers and beers for eight months, whenever I wanted them, he told DeGeneres happily. I never got tired. Credit: Michael Rozman/Warner Bros. I had great energy. My nickname in the household was Captain Fun. (Though he did add that the kids didnt eat quite as much as him.) But there was a flip side to all the fun....

Attention,True Detectivefans: Matthew McConaugheys days of hunting serial killers may not be over quite yet. You essentially said you wanted to play Rust Cohle when you saw the script, Eisen said. I hear that all the time now, said McConaughey. Credit: Michele K. Short/HBO You said you were going to do season 3. When is it coming? He went on to add that the balls not advanced at all. Ive talked to the creator Nic Pizzolatto whos taking a little break from it....

He can wear what he wants. Final words of wisdom from the king? Shirtlessness is never out of the question: Its appropriate wherever you say its appropriate; its your shirt. There you have it, Biebs. That being said, we do hope that Bieber can learn from McConaugheys many years of topless experience. If youre going to flaunt your body, it has to be worth flaunting. Also,shirtless babiesare a fool-proof excuse....

She gave him that name for a reason People often deliberately shorten their long names. Matthew McConaughey is not one of those people. On Tuesday night, McConaughey explained to Jimmy Kimmel why he never goes by “Matt.” Credit: ABC It was established from an early age by his mother, who also doubled as his kindergarten teacher. “My friend John says, Hey Matt, wanna go play on the monkey bars?' I said, I’m gonna play on the monkey bars with John....

Matthew McConaugheyhas said Alright, alright, alright to working with Guy Ritchie. The movie concerns the collision of old-money European wealth and the modern marijuana industrial complex. Toff is British slang for a wealthy, upper-class person. Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images; Robin Marchant/Getty Images; Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Ritchies directing credits includeSnatch,Sherlock Holmes,The Man From U.N.C.L.E, and Disneys upcoming live-action take onAladdin. The filmmaker wrote the script forToff Guyswith Marn Davies and Ivan Atkinson....

‘We can’t beat it.’ One obstacle still keeping that revival from reality is original cast member Matthew Perry. I have this recurring nightmare. Credit: Jon Ragel/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Im not kidding about this. We do a whole series, we come back, and nobody cares about it. So if anybody asks me, Im gonna say no. The thing is: We ended on such a high. We cant beat it....

Showrunner Matthew Weiner unsurprisingly derived that from how the business truly operated. Weiner recalls how the treatment of Peggy and Joan inspired backlash. People were like, This is awful. It makes me angry. Your shows so sexist,' he says in a clip from episode 2, exclusive to EW. No one said it wasnt like that. In fact, people started coming out with stories of, like, its worse. Jane Maas, a former ad exec and author ofMad Women, adds....

A modest biographical drama in quaint 1930s period dressings,Maudiestars Sally Hawkins as Maud Lewis, Canadas premier folk artist whose simplistic portraits of unassuming subjects like cats, dogs, and flowers garnered the arthritic painter both high praise and criminally low-ball offers from public patrons before her untimely death in 1970. Whether you consider her work crude or delightfully regressive thanks to its juvenile, escapist flair, Lewis success story is an inherently fascinating chronicle of unexpected talent sparking accidental genius....