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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Warner Bros./The Weinstein CompanyMatt Damon and Ben Affleck were the Tinseltown dynamic duo of the late '90s. Childhood friends hailing from Cambridge MA, they came independently to Hollywood to seek fame and fortune. When that wasn't forthcoming, they wrote and starred in "Good Will Hunting," which won a Best Screenplay Oscar for the pair. And overnight, they became household names.

Though the two remain tied together in popular imagination, their respective careers have taken very different courses. But they are both still two of Hollywood's top leading men.  This weekend, Matt headlines Clint Eastwood's latest directorial effort, "Hereafter," and in December, Ben stars in "The Company Men" opposite Tommy Lee Jones.  So a dozen years after winning Oscar gold, who comes out on top? We crunched the numbers:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 20th Century Fox/Everette CollectionFor a movie that came out during the Gerald Ford

administration, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" has been getting a

lot of press lately. There was the much ballyhooed "Rocky Horror"

episode of "Glee" this week.

There was a star-studded tribute to the camp rock opera in Los Angeles on Thursday that featured the

likes of Jack Nicholson, Jorge Garcia, Evan Rachel Wood, and George Lopez along

with Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele of "Glee" fame. And most

surprisingly, someone posted some footage of a young, svelte Russell Crowe

hamming it up in a Melbourne

stage production of "Rocky Horror" from the 1980s.

Of course, "Rocky Horror" has never really been

out of the press. The flick is the longest-running theatrical release ever.

That's right; it's been playing continuously since 1975. And chances are it's

playing in a theater near you, especially if you live near a college with a

strong theater department.

So why has this movie proved to be so successful while

other arguably better movies

For "Avatar" fans and Na'Vi enthusiasts
yearning for another glimpse at Pandora, you're in luck.

James Cameron releases the "Extended Collector's
Edition" of his mega-blockbuster opus this week — that's the third DVD
iteration in seven month for those keeping count. This version features a
deleted, and still unfinished, scene that puts a slightly different light on
the movie and may or may not give a clue about the upcoming sequels. See it
exclusively here on Yahoo! Movies:

The scene, which comes right at the end of the flick,
shows the Na'Vi herding the human interlopers back onto their ship. As it
rockets back to earth and the Toruk, that orange dragon-like creature, flies
off into the distance, Jake intones that the "The Time of great sorrow was
over." Cut to somewhat jerky animation of blue children gamboling in a
pond.

New, underwater details of 'Avatar' sequel >>

"The forest
will heal," continues the narrator. "And so will the hearts of the
people. New life keeps the energy

Clint EastwoodDirty Harry in tights? How about 'The Man With No Name' in a tux sipping a vodka martini?

That's what could have happened, according to L.A. Times journalist Geoff Boucher. During a three-hour interview with the reporter, Clint Eastwood let it slip that he could have played both Superman and 007, but turned the roles down.

In the early 1970s fresh off of his success with "Dirty Harry," Eastwood was approached by the president of Warner Bros. Frank Wells to play the Man of Steel. "I was like, 'Superman? Nah, nah, that's not for me.' Not that there's anything wrong with it. It's for somebody, but not me."

Video: Watch the original trailer for 'Dirty Harry' >>

Unlike today, where every third flick seems to have been culled from the pages of comic books, superhero movies were then seen as box-office poison. Eastwood was concerned of being typecast as a caped crime fighter. "I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality," he said.

When "Superman" did eventually hit the

%photo13% Joaquin Phoenix has been absent from the silver screen for almost two years, but now he's set to make a comeback ... of sorts.

"I'm Still Here," details the actor's unlikely transition from actor to rapper. Since the project was first announced, many assumed the whole thing is some sort of elaborate prank. While the movie comes out in September, a teaser trailer of the flick has just been released exclusively on Yahoo! It answers few questions but, at the very least, shows that since the actor's now-legendary awkward appearance on Letterman, he's been up to all kinds of crazy. Watch it below.

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The documentary -- directed by Phoenix's brother-in-law Casey Affleck -- appears to be an intimate portrait of the bearded, bloated, and bedraggled actor as he appears to goes through a professional and emotional collapse: He's rapping, he's fighting, he's hugging P. Diddy, he's fighting again as a voice-over intones on water drops and divinity.

%photo13% In 1969, John Wayne played Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit" -- a grizzled, drunken U.S. Marshal hired by a 14-year-old girl to track down her father's killer. The role ended up winning the aging Western star his first and only Oscar, prompting him to make a rare sequel -- "Rooster Cogburn" -- opposite Katherine Hepburn in 1975. The image of Wayne's craggy, eye-patched visage from "True Grit" has become a cinematic icon.

So film mavens everywhere were taken aback when it was announced last year that Joel and Ethan Coen would been making their own version of "True Grit." But don't expect a straight remake; this movie is based more closely on the Charles Portis novel. And Jeff Bridges, fresh off his Oscar win, was tapped to play Cogburn; that's right, the Duke has been replaced by the Dude.

The movie will also star another Coens alum, Josh Brolin, along with Barry Pepper and Matt Damon.

"I've never even seen the original John Wayne movie" Matt Damon, who