Warner Bros. lately announced that American actor-producer Ben Affleck will be playing the "Batman" role in the next DC Comics movie, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" in 2016. This made an upsurge in Ben Affleck's current net worth.

Ben Affleck reportedly collected a massive compensation for the forthcoming movie and could have stable work with multiple movies lined up over the next five years. Thus, increasing the actor's grossing net worth.

On August 15, 1972, Ben Affleck, this American film actor, director, screenwriter and producer was born in Berkeley, California. The 40 year old actor has an astoundingly impressive estimated net worth of $75 million.

Early on his career, Ben Affleck's first breakthrough performances were noted in 1993 on Dazed and Confused. In 1997, he gained recognition for his writing and acting skills. He won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Screenplay in a movie which he coauthored and featured alongside childhood buddy Matt Damon called "The Good Will Hunting". He attained global acknowledgment in films such as Armageddon and Shakespeare in Love in 1998, Pearl Harbor in 2001, Changing Lanes and The Sum of All Fears in 2002, Daredevil in 2003, Hollywoodland in 2006 and State of Play in 2009.

Ben Affleck is not only a well-noted actor but a film director as well. He started his directorial breakthrough with Gone Baby Gone in 2007 which won him the National Board of Review Award for Best Directorial Debut. Ben Affleck has been the director-producer-actor in "The Town" in 2010 and in 2012 film "Argo" which had earned him the Academy and the BAFTA recognitions.  

Over his career, Ben Affleck has been nominated and given a lot of recognitions such as the Golden Globe Award, London Film Critics' Circle Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, MTV Movie Award, Academy Award, and the BAFTA Award and has a few Golden Raspberry Award wins as well.

As Ben Affleck continues his highly in demand stature, he is set to star in David Fincher's Gone Girl in late 2014 and will portray Batman in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" in 2016 alongside Brit actor Henry Cavill. The DC Comics film had earned Ben Affleck a huge paycheck adding up to his 2014 earnings of $35 million making him a hefty net worth accumulation of $75 million.

Ben Affleck continually works and excel in all the fields he was known. He has proven himself worthy of the fame and fortune he gains each year. Ben Affleck is also one of Hollywood's in-demand actors thus contributing to his growing net worth yearly.