Actor Ben Affleck has reportedly been roped in to direct the big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s novel The Stand. According to Deadline.com, The Stand is a story about good versus evil. It focuses on a group of survivors fighting the Anti-christ-like Randall Flagg, and features dozens of characters and overlapping storylines running over many [...]

Ben Affleck is in talks to direct and star in a thriller Line of Sight. The 39-year-old actor is set to join the Warner Bros. action project, being produced by Joel Silver and Andrew Rona, The Hollywood Reporter said. The idea, conceived by Silver Pictures’ Alex Heineman , centers on an elite commando squad transporting [...]

Actor Ben Affleck has established a new aid foundation to help women and children affected by rape and sexual violence in the troubled region of eastern Congo. Affleck, 37, spent five days in the Central African nation last week meeting with former child sex slaves and rape survivors, as well as male prisoners convicted of [...]