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Joe Manganiello is Deathstroke in Ben Affleck’s Batman Movie!

Holy Hunk, Batman! We’ve been given many gifts by the powers that be at DC Comics. First, they graced us with Khal Drogo (Game of Thrones actor Jason Momoa) as Aquaman, now they are giving us Alcide Herveaux (True Blood actor Joe Manganiello) as Deathstroke. This is, seriously, the best thing I never knew I wanted. Batfleck pleased the geeky world in late August when he posted a video of…

Ben Affleck stars as a mathematician accountant in a new action thriller, The Accountant.

The first official trailer has been released for a film featuring an all star cast including Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor and John Lithgow, Ben Affleck stars as the leading role as an accountant who worked for a rather dangerous organization who also turns out to be a deadly assassin when he gets in to some trouble and has to make some bad choices in life.

The trailer doesn’t give to much away if I’m honest, it looks good though, like there will be a few twists in the story, watch the trailer below and let us know what you think.

Jennifer Garner and Gwyneth Paltrow on Sept. 11 (Getty Images)

All they needed was Jennifer Lopez and it really would have been a party!

Jennifer Garner, 43, attended her first public event since her split with Ben Affleck, appearing at the Think It Up education initiative telecast Friday in L.A. While we weren’t surprised the mom of three was all smiles at the event — she’s had a lot of time to prep for her appearance — we were pretty floored to see who she was hanging out with: Gwyneth Paltrow.

Yes, Garner palled around with another Affleck ex. The Goop goddess, who dated Affleck for three years in between Brad Pitt and Chris Martin (from 1997 to 1999), and Garner looked chummy as they posed for photographers with their arms around each other. Bouncing back after divorce is familiar terrain for Paltrow, who split with Martin in 2014.

This wasn’t the first time Jen and Gwyn, 42, hung out together at a Hollywood event. The women actually go back to their pre-Ben days when they met at ShoWest in March 2004. Their first meeting was captured by a photographer. After shaking hands (so polite!), they happily posed together for photos. However, Garner started dating Affleck just a few months later and the women were not photographed again until more than a decade later — on Friday.

Jen and a pregnant Gwyn met at ShoWest in 2004. (Getty Images)

Making the photo epic would have been Jennifer Lopez wedged between them. Jenny From the Block was with Affleck from 2002 to 2004 — don’t tell us you don’t remember every minute of that Bentley driving, butt rubbing fiasco — before they broke off their engagement. Lucky there are no shortage of events in Hollywood — and those three leading ladies aren’t going anywhere — so maybe we’ll get that photo yet.

As for Garner and Affleck, who are no longer wearing their rings, things between them seem to be pretty civil these days. On Sunday, they took their children on their usual outtings to church and then to the farmer’s market. So there are peaceful, easy feelings all around.

Now here’s a reboot we can get behind: After a decade-long hiatus, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are reviving their pioneering reality series, Project Greenlight, where the two pluck one lucky aspiring filmmaker and give them the resources to realize their dream: making a movie. Greenlight’s original three-season run, from 2001 to 2005, was addictive reality television, not to mention one of the best behind-the-scenes depictions of the various battles and dramas that go down on a movie set. (Just imagine if Fox released a Project Greenlight-stylereality show about the famously troubled production of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four — it would have been this summer’s highest-rated series.)

This new teaser for the show’s overdue fourth season suggests that, ten years later, Greenlight’s still got it; barely 15 seconds in, this year’s chosen director, Jason Mann, approaches Affleck and Damon with an age-old Hollywood request: Fire the writer. “This is the battle,” Mann goes on to say, which means he’s going to be in a fighting mood for most of the season. That’s bad news for Matt and Ben, but great news for Project Greenlight fans. It’s also an illustration of one of the Hollywood lessons this classic series has taught us: The writer almost always gets screwed over. Here are five more key things we’ve learned about Hollywood from Project Greenlight.        

1. Chris Moore and Ben Affleck Are the Real Dynamic Duo Forget Matt Damon: The breakout star of Greenlight’s original run — and Affleck’s natural co-star — was producer Chris Moore, who was a constant presence on set while his more famous friends were off, you know, making their own movies. A garrulous, straight-shooting guy, Moore tried to keep the inexperienced first-time filmmakers on point and on task, and he mostly succeeded. When they strayed from the path, you can bet they felt his wrath. But besides cracking the whip, Moore also kept us cracking up, particularly whenever he and Affleck were sharing the screen, and the new Batman seized the opportunity to mimic his pal. Sadly, Moore apparently isn’t returning for Season 4, so here’s to him nabbing the role of Robin in Affleck’s standalone Batman movie.

2. Never Let Them Make You the Fall Guy By all appearances, Greenlight’s first-season feature Stolen Summer was a troubled production from the get-go, with the combination of an untested writer/director (Pete Jones) and questionable material giving Moore plenty of reasons to worry. The target of his real and imagined fears quickly became co-producer Jeff Balis, who made it easy for his boss to designate him as the scapegoat via his multiple screw-ups. At the end of the eighth episode, Moore memorably kicked Balis to the curb… although he reversed that decision 24 hours later. The novice producer learned his lesson and spent the remaining episodes laying low. Then, when Stolen Summer eventually came and went from theaters, Jones got the blame rather than Balis.  

3. Shia LaBeouf Used to Be Genuinely Cool These days, a LaBeouf-centric reality series would have to be closer in tone to The Surreal Life and/or Intervention. But the actor was still a fresh-faced rising star when he appeared on Season 2 of Project Greenlight, fresh off the set of his Disney Channel series, Even Stevens. LaBeouf had been cast as the lead in that season’s movie, The Battle of Shaker Heights, and his youthful enthusiasm enlivened both that film and the Greenlight set. That Shia LaBeouf was someone we wanted to see more of. The current one is someone we’d like to see get some help.  

4. Horror Is Where the Money Is After disappointing creative and financial results with Stolen Summer and The Battle of Shaker Heights, the Greenlight crew went into Season 3 specifically looking for something commercial… much to the chagrin of Affleck and Damon. That’s how they wound up making the horror flick, Feast, which more than doubled the gross of the previous movies. (Feast also spawned two sequels, both of which went directly to DVD. Still, you never saw any demand for Stolen Summer 2: Stealing Home.) Based on the teaser, it appears that Season 4’s film is going to be a comedy. Maybe they could throw in some zombies?  

5. Bring Your Dad to Set Season 3 director John Gulager proved himself a good son by making room in the film and on set for his father, Clu, a veteran character actor prone to uttering gravelly words of wisdom like the ones we hear in the below clip. Beyond sharing memories of his own Hollywood experience, the elder Gulager always had his kid’s back when the production seemed to be slipping out of his control. Remember aspiring filmmakers: nobody will fight harder to protect your vision that Mom and Dad. Especially if they’re also in the movie.