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Multi-talented Oscar winner Ben Affleck is writing, directing and starring in his next movie project – about a career thief who falls in love with a bank manager. will play a robber who falls in love with a female bank manager in his next movie, The Town.

The movie is based on Chuck Hogan’s novel The Prince of Thieves – but Affleck has taken control of the script and is busy working on a re-write.

According to Daily Variety, it will be based in Affleck’s native Boston, Massachusetts – the setting for his last directorial project, Gone Baby Gone.

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It’s been a week since the birth of his new daughter Gia and what is Matt Damon doing when he’s not on diaper duty?

He’s working his thumbs to the bone to keep his old buddy Ben Affleck up to date on all of the details.

“I’ve kind of been texting him back and forth, and he’s doing great and [wife] Lucy is doing great,” Affleck, 36, told People on Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention.

Affleck is in Denver supporting a variety of political and charitable causes, including playing poker on Tuesday with the likes of Sarah Silverman – on behalf of paralyzed veterans.

Still, Affleck’s mind was not far from his old Cambridge pal, who is fast becoming odd man out in his Miami home, what with the addition of little Gia to his strictly female brood of wife Luciana and their daughters Isabella, 2, and Alexia, 10.

Not that Damon – People’s Sexiest Man Alive – has any problem with that.

“Anybody who has a child is excited, I think, no matter what the gender is. They are thrilled,” says Affleck. “The thing that people really want, when you get down to it, is a healthy child.”

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Ben Affleck is heading to Denver for the Democratic National Convention next week, but instead of giving a speech at the main event, the actor will play poker to highlight a political cause.

Affleck will take part in a poker tournament on Tuesday to benefit disabled veterans, playing hands against fellow celebs Sarah Silverman and Seth Myers.

While in Denver, the actor will also participate in an event by America’s Second Harvest, which packs lunches for local food banks, and will sit on a panel discussion on world poverty.

Affleck has traveled to remote areas of the world to call attention to poverty and other global issues.

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