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Another hot American Film Market package being unveiled today: Jessica Chastain will play a troubled artist in comedy-drama Losing Clementine. Argentine filmmaker Lucía Puenzo has been enlisted to helm the feature, which Sierra/Affinity will be shopping at the Santa Monica market this week. As we revealed last year…

Jessica Chastain is to make her West End theater debut in a new production of A Doll's House. The Zero Dark Thirty star will star as Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's play, adapted by Frank McGuiness. In the play, Helmer, confronts her husband Torvald with her own brutal realization that by marrying she has moved from her…

When your movie makes $700 million, it inevitably is going to trigger a sequel. In the case of the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel It, the second film is not a sequel by definition but rather the final chapter of a two-part movie. At least that is what Warner Bros says. It makes sense because only about…

Universal has set a January 15, 2021 release date for 355, the ensemble spy thriller that came together during last year’s Cannes Film Festival. The pic directed and co-written by Simon Kinberg stars Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong'o, Penélope Cruz, Diane Kruger and Fan Bingbing. The hope is to launch a franchise based…

EXCLUSIVE: One day into production in Europe on the global spy thriller 355 that he hatched with Jessica Chastain for Universal, FilmNation and Freckle Films, Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films is quietly exiting his overall film deal at Fox this month. That brings to an end a 20-year run where he has worked steadily, pretty…

Netflix has snatched up The Division, Ubisoft Motion Pictures’ film adaption based on the popular Tom Clancy online-only, role-playing video game, which was released in 2016 and currently has more than 20 million players. The follow-up game, The Division 2, was just released in March. The announcement of Netflix’s…

After 12 films in 20 years including sequels, prequels and spinoffs, we are now told this is the end of the road for the enormously successful, sometimes good, sometimes not-so-good X-Men franchise. Of course, in the Marvel world you should learn to never say never, but following the Avengers: Endgame finale and now…

The international spy thriller 355, which was the biggest deal at last year’s Cannes, has added Avengers: Endgame‘s Sebastian Stan and Edgar Ramirez, and set a July 8 production start in Paris, London and Morocco. Scripted by Simon Kinberg and scripted by Theresa Rebeck, the film is a global espionage thriller that…

Andrew Garfield is set to star opposite Jessica Chastain in biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye, which is set up at Fox Searchlight and has Michael Showalter attached to direct. Chastain had been developing the project and will produce the project alongside Kelly Carmichael through their Freckle Films banner with Gigi…

Jessica Chastain and Ava DuVernay are taking HBO to task for what they say is the premium cabler’s insensitivity to rape and race on the blockbuster Game of Thrones. Following Sunday’s “The Last of the Starks” episode, Chastain on Monday criticized the show for using the rape and torture that Sophie Turner's…

The Golden Globes will be handed out Sunday, and Jessica Chastain and Sam Rockwell are set as the first presenters. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the announcement on the pair, who appeared together in 2017’s Woman Walks Ahead, on Twitter this morning: EXCLUSIVE: The HFPA is proud to announce that Sam…

The Accidental Tourist Oscar winner Geena Davis and Joan Chen are boarding Tate Taylor’s Eve from Voltage Pictures and Freckle Films. The plot and a majority of character roles are being kept under wraps, but in the movie, Jessica Chastain's title character works for the leader of a black ops organization played by…