Oscar-winner Ben Affleck is set to star in as well as direct the new Netflix movie, Animals. He will also produce the film alongside his frequent collaborator Matt Damon, the streaming service announced Thursday.

Affleck is also set to direct the film, which Damon departed due to shooting conflicts with Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. Oscar-nominated screenwriter Billy Ray (Captain Phillips, Richard Jewell) will co-write the screenplay with Connor McIntyre.

Ben Affleck is moving forward without Matt Damon for his next project, Animals. The film, a Netflix exclusive, is a thriller hinging on a pivotal kidnapping. Who gets kidnapped and when? It won't be Matt Damon,

Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro is set to star in The Whisper Man movie for Netflix. The screen adaptation of Alex North's best-selling book will be written by Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer, and directed by James Ashcroft.

Academy Award winner Robert De Niro has signed on for the leading role in Netflix‘s upcoming crime thriller movie The Whisper Man, based on Alex North’s bestselling 2019 novel of the same name. Production on the project is expected to begin in spring on the East Coast.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and AGBO’s highly-anticipated adaptation of the Alex North novel The Whisper Man is gaining some serious momentum as sources tell Deadline Robert De Niro is set to star in the crime thriller.

Throughout Apple Cider Vinegar, journalists are investigating Belle. One of them, a journalist named Justin (Mark Coles Smith), learns about Belle from his partner Lucy (Tilda Cobham-Hervey), who takes solace in Belle's feed while she’s undergoing breast cancer treatment—and even decides to pause it altogether and try alternative remedies.

Netflix scammer series 'Apple Cider Vinegar', starring Kaitlyn Dever as Australian influencer Belle Gibson, loses valid points in a muddled structure.