Soundtracked by a version of Elvis Costello's "She", the first official trailer for Gone Girl released on Entertainment Tonight this evening. Starring chisel-face Ben Affleck and directed by David Fincher, the movie adaptation of Gone Girl releases on October 3 of this year. Thoughts?

With Ben Affleck signing up to play Batman in the Man of Steel sequel and Bryan Cranston heavily rumored to join him as archvillain Lex Luthor, there was no way the Internet was going to wait patiently until next year to catch its first glimpse of what that might look like.

It's in the Internet's nature to rage.

Here's some news that seems to be surprising just about everyone on Twitter: Ben Affleck will play Batman in the sequel to Man of Steel. The news, announced Thursday evening by Warner Brothers, has apparently upset many who still remember his performance in 2003's Daredevil.

Ben Affleck, an actor who's won an Academy Award for pretty much everything but acting, is joining the Live Below The Line challenge, which aims to raise awareness about global poverty. As a part of the challenge, Affleck and other participants will only be allowed to spend $1.50 a day on food and drink from April 29 to May 3. That is not a lot of money!

Ben Affleck's first film, here in two parts, is straight-up atrocious. Also it's called I Killed My Lesbian Wife, so A+.

Today, in movie news, we learn that Johnny Depp will be playing the role of notorious Boston gangster Whitey Bulger in an upcoming film based on Bulger's life. This should not be confused with the other Whitey Bulger Boston gangster movie that Ben Affleck will be making after he makes a movie based on a Dennis Lehane novel that is also about Boston gangsters.

Actress Emma Stone and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane — this year's host — got up nice and early to tell some really atrocious jokes and announce this year's Oscar nominations. If you were smart enough to avoid this stupid ceremony, here's what's totally surprising: neither Zero Dark Thirty's Kathryn Bigelow nor Argo's Ben Affleck received Best Director nominations, even though both directors were considered locks and both movies are nominated for Best Picture.

Much has been made of Ben Affleck's "possible Senate run" over the past 48 hours, mostly from cable news anchors, and mostly sourced to an interview on CBS' Face the Nation in which Affleck said "one never knows" when asked about possible political ambitions.

Argo is Sesame Street for grownups. It's a history lesson that goes down like candy, a recreation of a little-known component of the Iran hostage crisis rendered into a breathless two-hour thriller. It's brilliant and clear, intense and hysterical and its moments of profundity are there for the consuming, should you be interested in that sort of thing. It also offers more of a visceral thrill than anything else I've seen this year or during most years. It's diabolical infotainment.

The new, very well-reviewed Ben Affleck film Argo opens tomorrow. Argo tells the true story of how the C.I.A. cooked up a fake science fiction movie in order to sneak six Americans hiding in the homes of Canadian diplomats out of Tehran during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. Watch the trailer here.

Following a spate of hit-and-runs allegedly perpetrated by celebrity drivers (well, two celebrity drivers to be exact), Ben Affleck has stepped up to show he fellow reckless celebs how to handle a minor vehicular skirmish.

Adapted from a Wired article and based on the true story of a highly classified hostage rescue mission undertaken during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, Argo is Ben Affleck's third directorial effort, and the second of those to star him in the lead role.

People Magazine reports that Jennifer Garner gave birth to a baby boy in Santa Monica on Tuesday. This is the third child and the first son for Garner and husband Ben Affleck; the couple also have two daughters: Violet, 6, and Seraphina, 3.

No, not the shitty old shack in the movie where Ben Affleck goes to pick up Matt Damon each day before work, except in that last scene because Matt Damon leaves to make something of himself. Not that house! Rather this is the house where Matt and Ben lived while they were writing the screenplay.

Ways to judge a crime movie: Box office earnings, critical acclaim, spin-off crimes. Ben Affleck's The Town performed decently by the first two standards, but on that third standard, The Town really knocked it out of the park!

Bennifer 2.0 has a bun in the oven. Will and Jada Smith might be breaking up. Amy Winehouse's toxicology report is complete. Katie Holmes has a "cupcake emergency." Tuesday gossip struggles to avoid the Kardashians.

Counselors at the youth summer camp that we know more commonly as the "House Republican Caucus of the 112th Congress" penciled in time for a movie yesterday! All of the campers were so excited to relax a little bit after pretending to be members of Congress for so long. And better yet, they got to watch an R-rated movie — without their parents' permission! Is that even legal?

Lindsay Lohan screams drunkenly into the void. Kristin Cavallari's fiance dumps her. Leighton Meester sues her mother. Chris Evans is "drowning" in "raging insecurity." Ben Affleck has Bieber hair. Monday gossip is a lost cause.

This weekend a pair of bank robbers in the Chicago area used nun masks to disguise themselves, the same ones that Ben Affleck and his crew wore to rob banks in the 2010 movie The Town.