Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate and LD Entertainment have officially picked up North American on the Bill Condon directed, Jennifer Lopez starring feature musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, which was one of the most buzzed about titles at this year’s Sundance. A fall wide theatrical release has been set just in time for awards season.

“The Python Hunt” is that rare case where an indie film easily raises financing, grabs upbeat response from audiences and critics at a film festival, wins a prize, and launches multiple sales bids. After a rousing response at the big Alamo Drafthouse Lamar screening at SXSW, this colorful, populist portrait of a swath of python hunters — and by extension, America — could hit a commercial nerve.

Slithering into SXSW this afternoon at the Alamo Lamar, The Python Hunt is a documentary that might do for the Burmese Python what Jaws did 50 years ago for the Great White Shark.

The acquisition title is the third documentary backed by Artists Equity, the company hatched by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Redbird Capital’s Gerry Cardinale. Directed by Xander Robin from an idea by producer Lance Oppenheim, the doc lays out as a Hands on a Hardbody-type quest as amateurs and pros gather in the Everglades to hunt and kill the Burmese Pythons that local government maintain got into the waterways and has decimated the indigenous creatures that called the swamps home.

The star-studded cast of Ben Affleck’s Netflix thriller “Animals" is bolstering its ranks. Ray Fisher, Mark Kassen and Christopher Woodley have joined the film alongside Affleck, Gillian Anderson, Kerry Washington, Steven Yeun, Luis Gerardo Méndez and Adriana Paz.

Pop quiz: Which two Super Bowl ads were created by Artists Equity Advertising, the commercial creative arm of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s studio Artists Equity?

Hint: It was the two starring… Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

Luis Gerardo Méndez and Adriana Paz are the latest to join the cast of the Netflix crime thriller Animals. Ben Affleck will star and direct with Kerry Washington, Steven Yeun and Gillian Anderson also on board. The plan is for the film to shoot in Los Angeles from a script by Connor McIntyre and Billy Ray.

Director Gavin O’Connor has been trying to make a sequel to The Accountant, the action thriller film starring Ben Affleck as a gifted autistic accountant who cooks the books for criminal organizations, since the first film hit theaters in 2016. “It was brutal,” he tells Vanity Fair. “It just felt like this flower that was ready to bloom, and then it would stop again and start again. It was so frustrating.”

Kerry Washington and Steven Yeun have joined Ben Affleck and Gillian Anderson in Animals, the kidnapping thriller Affleck is directing for Netflix.

Artists Equity, the studio founded by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, announced today that it has elevated Dillon West to the role of chief operating officer and named Andrew Gumpert to the new role of president, business affairs & strategy. Former Artists Equity COO Michael Joe, who started the studio alongside Affleck and Damon, will transition to a strategic advisory role and will remain on the board of directors.

Bill Condon brings Kiss of the Spider Woman to Sundance for the Sunday night Eccles Theater premiere of the festival's most eagerly anticipated acquisition title, starring Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna and newcomer Tonatiuh.

This year's most inspirational story - about NCAA wrestler Anthony Robles, who was born with one leg, and his mom, Judy - will have you crying and cheering.

We've seen efforts to share risk and upside in success, and many times they come and go. Artists Equity, hatched by pals Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and backed by a long term financial commitment from RedBird Capital billionaire Gerry Cardinale, has a real chance to reshape the tenuous pay landscape in a talent-friendly way.

Kyle Chandler will star opposite Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in RIP, a crime thriller Joe Carnahan is directing for Netflix.

Chandler joins a call sheet that, on top of Affleck and Damon, includes Sasha Calle (The Flash), Nestor Carbonell (Shogun), Catalina Sandino Moreno (From), and singer-turned-actress Teyana Taylor.

Teyana Taylor and Sasha Calle have joined the ensemble of the upcoming Netflix crime thriller RIP starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, with Joe Carnahan directing... Carnahan also penned the script, with Affleck, Damon, Luciana Damon and Dani Bernfeld producing for Artists Equity.

In 2003, Anthony Robles finished his freshman year of high school wrestling in last place. "I remember sitting in my bedroom that night just crying and debating whether or not I wanted to wrestle anymore...."

But this September, Robles will attend the world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival of the movie inspired by his life. 'Unstoppable' chronicle Robles's meteoric rise, how he became a top-tier college wrestler despite being born without his right leg. Overcoming physical limitations and a challenging family life, Robles proved those who underestimated him wrong to become a champion wrestler and a national star.

'Small Things Like These,' the Irish drama starring newly-minted Oscar winner Cillian Murphy that opened the Berlinale this year, has a domestic home, Variety has learned, with Lionsgate picking up the film for the U.S., U.K., and Ireland.

Fresh off playing military men in Oppenheimer, Matt Damon and Casey Affleck are teaming up again onscreen for a very different kind of mission: stealing from a corrupt politician.

Co-written by Affleck, The Instigators sees the duo returning to their Boston roots for the upcoming heist flick...Affleck says the Apple TV+ original is inspired by some of his favorites. "The inspiration for this was definitely Midnight Run and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," says the actor, adding that he'd always 'wanted to do a buddy action comedy.'

Kiss the Future, the documentary about U2's landmark 1997 concert in Sarajevo, is coming to Paramount+. The Berlin Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival selection will arrive exclusively on the platform in the U.S. and Canada on May 7.

Artists Equity has come on to Kiss of the Spider Woman, serving as the main studio and producer of the feature adaptation of the 1998 Broadway musical based on Manuel Puig's landmark 1976 novel. Diego Luna and Tonatiuh will star in the adaptation as Valentin Arregui and Luis Molina, respectively. They join Jennifer Lopez, who was previously announced in the titular role.

Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, J.K. Simmons, and Cynthia Addai-Robinson have locked deals to return for The Accountant 2, the sequel to the Gavin O'Connor-directed action thriller The Accountant, on which Amazon MGM Studios has teamed with Affleck and Matt Damon's Artists Equity.

With his unexpectedly intimated chronicle of her $20 million passion project "This is Me...Now: A Love Story," documentarian Jason Bergh chips away at the blocks on which Lopez' pop superstardom was built.

Passing the time between OPPENHEIMER takes in a New Mexico bunker one morning at about 4 a.m., Cillian Murphy and Matt Damon sowed the seeds of a future collaboration. Fast-forward to today, and SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE is opening the Berlin Film Festival.

Murphy stars in and produced SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE alongside his Big Things Films partner Alan Moloney. Damon is also a producer -- his and Ben Affleck's Artists Equity financed the film that's based on Claire Keegan's acclaimed novel and was adapted for the screen by Edna Walsh. Tim Mielants directs.

"Kiss The Future" is a documentary that follows the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War and how the Irish band U2 rallied around the people there. Matt Damon co-produced the film and spoke to Christiane Amanpour about the extraordinary story.

AMC Theatres will be the exclusive cinematic home to KISS THE FUTURE, the award-winning documentary about the siege of Sarajevo and how its people and artistic community drew inspiration from the music of U2.

Under a deal between AMC and Fifth Season, select AMC locations will debut the film on February 23 for what is described as a full theatrical run. Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Christiane Amanpour, and former Pres. Bill Clinton are among those who appear in the film directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain and produced by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Sarah Anthony. KISS THE FUTURE will become available to stream later this year exclusively on Paramount+.

Following the success of AIR, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are reuniting again on the kidnapping thriller ANIMALS, with Damon starring and Affleck directing. Connor McIntyre penned the script with revisions by Billy Ray. The film will be produced by Affleck, Damon and Dani Bernfeld of Artists Equity and Brad Weston and Collin Creighton of MakeReady, who developed the project in partnership with Fifth Season.

Cillian Murphy movie "Small Things Like These" will open this year's Berlinale.

Artists Equity, founded by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Gerry Cardinale of RedBird Capital Partners, has announced a new strategic partnership with Chris Hemsworth and Wild State, the burgeoning production company founded by Hemsworth and longtime producing partner Ben Grayson.

Ben Affleck's Dunkin' cinematic universe continues to grow.

On Tuesday night during the MTV Video Music Awards, the coffee and donuts chain debuted a new commercial, direct by and starring Affleck, and produced by the actor's Artists Equity production label.

The new sport stars Affleck and rap star Ice Spice, who conceptualized a new drink: The Ice Spice Munchkins Drink.

AIR's Director of Photography Bob Richardson interviewed by Film and Digital Times.

Oppenehimer, A Quiet Place Part II and Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy is embarking on his next project with the feature adaptation of Claire Keegan's acclaimed novel "Small Things Like These". Murphy will star in and produce the film that's been greenlighted by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's Artists Equity, which will finance the project. Principal photography is underway in Ireland.

Jharrel Jerome, the Emmy Winner, Moonlight actor and EP/star of the upcoming Prime Video series "I'm a Virgo" that just premiered at SXSW, has signed on to star in UNSTOPPABLE, the movie starting Jennifer Lopez and directed by Billy Goldenberg...

The actor, filmmaker and budding mogul on the disruptive production company he launched with Matt Damon, why he’s done with D.C., getting Michael Jordan’s blessing for his new film and the advice wife Jennifer Lopez gave him for this interview.

The coffee brand’s ad has the actor handing out $1 donuts, but gets J-Lo involved before he wears out his welcome

Dunkin’ might not have made an appearance in the Super Bowl this year if not for the influence of its best-known fan.

The Inspire Brands Inc. restaurant chain decided to make its Super Bowl debut only after seeing the results of actor-director Ben Affleck’s push to film himself working a drive-through shift at a location near his hometown of Boston, said Dunkin’ Chief Marketing Officer Jill McVicar Nelson.

Hollywood’s most powerful stars, directors and writers have been increasingly vocal about their dissatisfaction with streaming-era paychecks, namely the refusal of entertainment companies to share the money generated from breakout hits, as was more common in decades past. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon announced on Sunday that they had decided to take action. Instead of continuing to work for hire, they plan to start an independent production company, called Artists Equity, and have obtained a minimum of $100 million in financing from the investment firm RedBird Capital Partners.