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Ben Affleck eyes next directorial project, ‘Live By Night’ [roundup]

In this morning’s batch of movie news, we have yet another Ben Affleck related story, as he is eyeing his next directorial feature in the form of a Live By Night, from the author of Gone Baby Gone; James Franco, Glenn Close, and Brit Marling are lined up to star in The Grace That Keeps This World, and more.

Watch: Trailer for Roman Polanski’s star-studded ‘Carnage’

Starring John C. Reilly (Chicago, The Hours), Kate Winslet (Titanic, The Reader), Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) and Jodie Foster (Silence of the Lambs), Carnage follows the story of a meeting  between two sets of parents to discuss their children’s schoolyard scuffle.