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Jonny Greenwood to Score New P.T. Anderson Film

Jonny Greenwood will again score a film for Paul Thomas Anderson after 2007’s There Will Be Blood. The film is titled The Master and is expected to star Amy Adams and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Although Greenwood’s sparse, haunting work on the There Will Be Blood didn’t receive an Oscar nomination, it was well-received critically.   read more

Amy Adams to Join Cast of Scientology Movie

Amy Adams is formally set to star in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Scientology project....  read more

Joaquin Phoenix May Appear In Paul Thomas Anderson Project

Joaquin Phoenix may be coming out of “retirement,” as the actor is in early talks to appear in a Scientology drama....  read more

Partial Lineup for the Toronto Film Festival Announced

A preliminary list of films to be screened at this year’s Toronto Film Festival have been announced on its official website. Some of the most anticipated screenings include The Conspirator, a Robert Redford drama based on Lincoln’s assassination, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, which features Natalie Portman playing the role of a ballet dancer, and Philip Seymour Hoffman’s feature directorial debut, Jack Goes Boating....  read more

Daniel Johnston Biopic to Star Philip Seymour Hoffman?

Father and son David and Jordan Miller are two busy filmmakers...  read more

Grizzly Bear Featured Prominently at Sundance

Those Grizzly Bear dudes sure are making a name for themselves in Hollywood. According to TwentyFourBit, the Brooklyn indie rockers wrote the score to two films premiering at this year’s Sundance festival: the previously-reported Blue Valentine, starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, and Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut, Jack Goes Boating....  read more

Paul Thomas Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman Reunite for New Movie

Fans of Paul Thomas Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman alike can rejoice. For their fifth film together, Anderson wants to cast Hoffman in the lead role for the first time ever. As Variety reports, the film still awaits a greenlight at Universal with a $35 million budget, pending Anderson’s finished script, but it sounds like a signature Paul Thomas Anderson project: provocative and culturally probing....  read more

Out-of-Competition Films and More Announced for Sundance 2010

News continues to trickle in regarding the lineup at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, taking place in Utah from Jan. 21-31....  read more

The 25 Best Movie Performances of the Decade

Sometimes, a good actor can make a bad script tolerable and mediocre script enjoyable. But occasionally, an actor will stumble upon a role they seemed born to play, and watching them transform themselves is an utter joy.  read more

Pirate Radio

Release Date: Nov. 13 Director/Writer: Richard Curtis Cinematographer: Danny Cohen Starring: Bill Nighy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Sturridge, Kenneth Branagh Studio/Run Time: Focus Features, 135 mins. Raucous ’60s retrospective adrift in simplistic plot Nobody can accuse Richard Curtis’ sophomore directorial effort of being less than a fun time. The writer/director of Love, Actually immerses his work in a sea of floral-lensed escapism, filled with lusty skirt-chasing and fraternal merry-making—and in Pirate Radio, a loose timepiece about a radio ship that broadcasts primitive rock ’n’ roll in international waters to avoid government regulation, the good vibes keep rolling....  read more