Casino City Times – Gaming leaders are looking at leveraging the release of a feature film that depicts the seedier side of illegal Internet poker to raise awareness of the need for proper regulation of online wagering. American Gaming Association (AGA) President Geoff Freeman, in an e-mail to the organization’s board of directors last week, said the October 4 release of “Runner Runner” presents the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group an opportunity to state its case for Congress to pass regulations governing Internet gaming in the U.S. The movie, which stars Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake, centers on illegal offshore Internet…

From Gambling 911 Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake will star in the September 2013 release of Runner, Runner, a film about an offshore Internet gambling operator (Affleck) and his student gambler (played by Timberlake). The film is directed by Brad Furman with Leonardo DiCaprio as producer. Gambling911.com had alerted its readers last summer that filming was taking place throughout San Juan, Puerto Rico with the stars regularly frequenting the Marriott Resort. Affleck runs the online gambling site, Timberlake’s character looses his Princeton tuition to the online gambling site, and the rest is history… FULL STORY