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London, Feb 6 : Jennifer Garner says she found divorce a crushing experience and wishes she had known to wait for marriage until she was 30 years old or more.

Fans of Affleck's acclaimed adaptation of local author Chuck Hogan's crime novel "Prince of Thieves" will be among the first to experience the extended cut of the Charlestown heist drama a full month before the "The Town: Ultimate Collector's Edition" hits Blu-ray and DVD on March 6. This new version features more Beantown locations ; a beefier ... (more)

Earlier this week I posted my interview with John Krasinski and Drew Barrymore for Big Miracle , which is due out this Friday.

What's more passionate then owning an Academy Award winning flick on Blu-ray? How about five! That's the premise of the new Lionsgate/Miramax collaboration Blu-ray out Jan 31 containing five best picture flicks including "No Country for Old Men," "Shakespeare in Love," "Crash," "The English Patient" and "Chicago." Check out the review of the "No ... (more)

British broadband and digital TV provider BT Vision has entered a licensing agreement with Miramax to give BT Vision Unlimited customers a selection of movies on demand from the Miramax library.

We've commented on it multiple times here on Cinema Blend, but it's still amazing how Ben Affleck has managed to turn his career around.

Throughout this Oscar season, we are looking back at some of the great moments in Academy Awards history.

This week the Chinese community parties hard to celebrate its Lunar New Year. The Chinese New Year is spread out over a 15-day period and the Houston version is jam packed with traditional merriment .

But it seems even Ben Affleck's muscles were not enough to stop him being dragged along by his pet German Shephard today.

New York Times Magazine's 6th Floor blog recently featured a magazine preview piece on John Mulaney to help promote his upcoming Comedy Central stand-up special New in Town .

Steven Rea: Haywire, the globe-hopping spy vehicle Steven Soderbergh has built around his charismatic new leading lady, is, from start to finish, serious fun.

When an actor's career is stalled or they're not getting the kind of or size of roles they want, some are able to write their way out of the rut.

With the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' official doomsday clock moving one minute closer to midnight last week - we are now at 5 minutes away from catastrophe - and, according to the Mayans, we are 339 days from the apocalypse , Wired has released some of some of scientific ways our world could end.

A "Five Things You Need to Know Today" is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance.

The fight is on among some of Boston's biggest stars to secure the film rights to the story of mob boss James 'Whitey' Bulger.

She reprised her role as Sidney Prescott, who revisits Woodsboro 15 years after the murders in the original "Scream" flick.

Some might argue that Jack Nicholson already has, in "The Departed" . But the news that Dorchester native Mark Wahlberg, whose new film "Contraband" opened yesterday, wants to meet with Southie's own Whitey Bulger at Plymouth House of Correction to get the rights to a Bulger biopic shines a fresh light on the relationship between gangsters and ... (more)

Wahlberg shows up, punches the time clock, and puts in a workman like performance, but director Kormkur and screenwriter Aaron Guzikowski don't give the man much to work with.

MOVE "THE TOWN" to New Orleans and swap Ben Affleck for Mark Wahlberg and you grasp the general drift of "Contraband." Wahlberg's picture isn't in that class , but it's a competent genre movie enlivened by vivid sense of place/culture - shot on location in New Orleans, delving into the world of merchant seaman/dock workers/smugglers. Wahlberg plays ... (more)

"It's got Ben Affleck as a big, dumb mook, and, well, he's pretty good at it. And it's got Jennifer Lopez playing her most interesting character since Out of Sight [...] But those two are the reason that Gigli arrived with such built-in hostility from moviegoers and critics, because this was the film where the duo met and fell into the PDA-heavy ... (more)