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Ben Affleck, who looks a bit tired from flying back and forth from his home and his set in Washington DC, is seen arriving at Reagan National Airport. Ben is in the middle of filming his new movie ‘State of Play.’

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I don’t know how many of you caught Sarah Silverman’s video, “I’m F’ng Matt Damon” but it was absolutely hilarious. (If you haven’t watched it, go here!)

Well, Jimmy Kimmel has responded with “I’m F’ng Ben Affleck”.

It’s hilarious! Enjoy!

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Edward Norton is exiting “State of Play,” and talks are under way for Ben Affleck to replace him in the Kevin Macdonald-directed drama for Universal Pictures and Working Title.”State of Play” is expected to begin production in the first week of January.

Norton becomes the second high profile cast member to disembark, following the exit of his “Fight Club” co-star Brad Pitt just before Thanksgiving.

While Universal threatened legal action with Pitt, Norton’s exit has no rancor. His problem: he had committed to follow “State of Play” by playing the dual leads in “Leaves of Grass,” an independent comedy written and to be directed by Tim Blake Nelson. Norton is producing that picture with his Class 5 Films partner Bill Migliore, and Nelson. Barbarian Films is financing.

Pitt’s exit, and the courtship of Russell Crowe to replace him, moved the “State of Play” start date from mid-November into January. That created a clash, and the studio, working with Norton’s and Affleck’s reps at Endeavor, worked out an exit plan.

Now it will be Affleck who plays a fast-rising politician who is caught up in a murder conspiracy. Crowe will play a journalist who leads a newspaper’s investigation into the killing. He’s conflicted in that he once ran the pol’s campaigns, and he is now romancing his estranged wife.

Still in the cast are Helen Mirren, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright Penn and Jason Bateman. Andrew Hauptman and Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing. While Mirren had a stop date so that she could star with Joe Pesci in the Taylor Hackford-directed “Love Ranch,” attempts are being made to work out the dates.

Affleck’s most recent credits include a starring role in last year’s “Hollywoodland” and his directorial debut, “Gone Baby Gone.”

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Hollywood actor Ben Affleck has demanded an apology from U.S. magazine Details for misquoting him in an article. The piece quoted Affleck as saying, “I’ve gone out and directed a movie and made it really f-ing good,” referring to his new movie, Gone Baby Gone.

It also implied Affleck may leave L.A. if the movie does not achieve critical acclaim.

Editor-in-chief Dan Peres now admits, “Affleck never made such a statement.”

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