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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck Divorce: What's Next For the Exes? Future Projects Explored
Bennifer rekindled their relationship after two decades and tied the knot for the second time two years ago, on August 20, 2022, before filing for divorce on August 20, 2024.
Actor and filmmaker Ben Affleck and pop sensation Jennifer Lopez have reportedly been dealing with the slow-motion breaking down of their marriage for a few months now. In the process, the two seemed to have channeled their heartbreak through work and several upcoming projects.
Affleck and Lopez first met in 2001 while shooting for the film Gigli and by November 2002, they were engaged. However, they split in 2003, moved on to other relationships, and eventually got married. Dubbed "Bennifer" by the tabloids when they first started dating in the early 2000s, the couple rekindled their relationship after two whole decades and tied the knot in July 2022 in Las Vegas. Exactly two years ago, on August 20, 2022, at a grandiose ceremony in Georgia, the couple remarried following their nuptials in Las Vegas.
However, merely two years after their marriage, Lopez filed for divorce on August 20, 2024, in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, as reported by BBC. A few months prior to their divorce, the pair sold their Beverly Hills home.
Now, the actors have seemed to focus on their respective future projects more than anything.
Ben Affleck’s future projects
One of the most-talked-about ventures is Affleck reuniting with Matt Damon for not just one but two Netflix movies. It is exciting to see how long Affleck and Damon have come from being friends since elementary school to soaring high in Hollywood. After working together in the 2023 movie Air, the two are now working on a crime thriller titled RIP and another thriller titled Animals.
In RIP, the duo will co-star as well as produce the film under Artists Equity, the artist-led studio that Damon and Affleck founded in 2022 while Damon is set to star in Animals, directed by Affleck. The plot for none of the films has been revealed yet. Besides these two, Affleck and Damon’s Artists Equity has also acquired the sequel rights from Warner Bros. to The Accountant and is set to bring the movie to Amazon MGM.
Back in May, the 52-year-old was filming to return to his role in the sequel to his popular 2016 action movie The Accountant, in which he plays Christian Wolff, a math prodigy employed by nefarious customers. The sequel is described as: “When her former boss is killed by unknown assassins, Treasury Agent Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) is forced to contact Christian Wolff to solve the murder.”
Lastly, Affleck is also serving as the producer of two more movies– The Instigators, directed by Doug Liman, starring Damon and his brother Casey Affleck and Unstoppable starring Lopez, Bobby Cannavale, and Emmy winner Jharrel Jerome. Both movies are scheduled for release later this year.
Jennifer Lopez’s future projects
Coming to Lopez, made quite a buzz among fans in February when she released her film, or rather a visual album musical film, This Is Me … Now: A Love Story, a companion to her ninth studio album This Is Me … Now, her first solo record in 10 years. It was accompanied by a documentary titled The Greatest Love Story Never Told, chronicling the making of the movie and album. However, in May, Lopez announced the cancellation of her This Is Me … Live summer tour, her first tour in five years, amidst the rumors of their separation at the time and later kicked it off in June.
However, the 55-year-old is back focusing on her career and is set to star in a new adaptation of the popular Broadway musical Kiss of the Spider Woman. Directed by Bill Condon and featuring stars Diego Luna, the upcoming movie is produced by Affleck and Damon through Artists Equity. She is also working with Affleck for Unstoppable.
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