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The talented Philip Seymour Hoffman has been signed to star in a film called God’s Pocket. The film is set in a working-class neighborhood called God’s Pocket. Hoffman plays a man named Mickey, whose mentally unbalanced stepson, Leon, is killed in what appears to be a construction accident.
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May 13
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While the year 2012 hasn’t exactly ended, we can’t really say its a “year in review”, but seeing that logic sort of doesn’t hold with our colleagues all over the web, we decided to jump into the foray with our picks for Best Performances in 2012 (So Far) in Television and Movies for both male and female actors.
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Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal has a laundry list of actors I’m just dying to see on my TV screen once again. The series, which premieres at midseason on NBC, has been rounding out its cast for quite some time. As the success for Hannibal seems to keep on growing, that meant his other NBC project, Mockingbird Lane looks like it won’t go to series, but it’s costly pilot will air as a Halloween special.
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Hoffman is all over the news lately, first with his raved-about performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, as well as his new film, A Late Quartet, which also comes out later this year. But now Hoffman is set to return behind the camera for the second time, since 2010′s Jack Goes Boating, to direct the supernatural 2011 Black List script, Ezekiel Moss.
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A film about an aging quartet doesn’t seem like a big box-office draw, but when it loads up on talent like A Late Quartet does here, one can see the appeal. Academy Award winning actors Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, and Christopher Walken (as well as fourth quartet member, Mark Ivanir) star in this film about a renowned string quartet, “struggling to stay together in the face of death, competing egos, and insuppressible lust.”
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So the Venice Film Festival likes it’s “scandals”. Two years ago, Quentin Tarantino headed the jury that would award his ex-girlfriend Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere (which honestly did earn the top prize) and now the jury has another problem on their hands with the rules in awarding multiple top prizes to one film: Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master. There’s a new clip from the film to make all this news go down smoothly.
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[UPDATE #8] Jeffrey Wright (Angels in America) has joined Catching Fire as District 3 tribute Beetee, a.k.a. Volts, “an electronics expert, Beetee becomes an ally for Katniss in the 75th Hunger Games.”
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[UPDATE #3] Check out the final theatrical trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master after the jump.
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We seriously didn’t come up with this one, but thanks anyways for this goodie casting duo! Tom Hardy and Michael Shannon, who should be noted as playing DC villains Bane and General Zod in their respective franchises (where Warner Bros. is looking to make a Justice League film) have been cast in The Long Red Road big screen adaptation based on the original stage play that also starred Hardy at the Goodman Theater stage production in Chicago.
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[UPDATE #2] Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction) has joined the cast of Catching Fire as Wiress. “The character’s eccentricity earns her the nickname “Nuts” from fellow tributes, and though she doesn’t communicate traditionally, her observations and contributions prove invaluable.” Welcome to the games!
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[UPDATE #3] yet another teaser for The Master has appeared online. Praise the almighty PT Anderson, after the jump.
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June 11
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So in combination with the long weekend here in Canada and the overly-abundant coverage of Cannes Film Festival, DMC presents to you a special Cannes “Casting Round-Up” edition. See all the new films that have locked new actors and (hopefully) financial funding.
