Jessica Chastain News

Al Pacino's 'Wild Salome' debuted today at the Venice Film Festival; the actor will also receive the Jaeger-Le Coultre Glory to the Filmmaker 2011 Award.

The espionage thriller The Debt will be distributed for Miramax by Focus Features and Universal Pictures International (UPI).

Talk show listings for Friday, September 2.

Talk show listings for Thursday, August 25.

The Debt, a crowd-pleasing thriller, will begin previews in Great Neck - August 22nd

Talk show listings for Thursday, August 25.

Focus Features and LAIKA, the two companies behind the Academy Award-nominated animated feature Coraline are reteaming for LAIKA's next two projects.

Talk show listings for Wednesday, August 17.

Talk show listings for Wednesday, August 17.

The Debt, a crowd-pleasing thriller, will begin previews in Great Neck - August 22nd

'Coriolanus,' a contemporary staging of Shakespeare's classic play about the titular Roman warrior, stars Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox, Jessica Chastain and James Nesbitt. The film marks Fiennes' directorial debut. CORIOLANUS made its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year and will play at the Toronto International Film Festival before hitting theaters in the US on December 2nd.

Production begins this week on Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, written and directed by Lorene Scafaria. The pre-apocalyptic comedy stars Golden Globe Award winner Steve Carell and Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley.

Focus Features will accept entries for its Africa First Program - entering its fourth year - beginning Monday, May 16th and continuing through Monday, August 22nd. Focus CEO James Schamus made the announcement today.

The Hamptons International Film Festival will host its 11th annual Screenwriters' Lab co-sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation April 15 - 17 in East Hampton, NY.

The Hamptons International Film Festival will host its 11th annual Screenwriters' Lab co-sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation April 15 - 17 in East Hampton, NY.

Production has begun, on East Coast locations, on a Focus Features drama from Academy Award-nominated writer/director Paul Weitz.

Original costumes from The Kids Are All Right, the Focus Features movie that is Academy Award-nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress (Annette Bening), Best Supporting Actor (Mark Ruffalo), and Best Original Screenplay (Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg), will be auctioned off online through the Clothes Off Our Back Foundation, with the proceeds to benefit children's charities.

Host Natash Leggero speaks onstage at the 2010 Hollywood Style Awards at the Hammer Museum on December 12, 2010 in Westwood, California.

Beginning Saturday, July 3, L.A. Theatre Works Radio Theatre Series will air Moving Bodies by Arthur Giron, starring Emily Bergl, Jessica Chastain, Jill Gascoine, Matthew Gaydos, Harry Groener, Arye Gross, Kathryn Hahn, Mark Harelick, Katharine Leonard, Mary McGowan, Alec Medlock, Alfred Molina, Jenny O'Hara, Raphael Sbarge, Joe Spano and John Vickery.

According to reports from the Hollywood Reporter, actress Jessica Chastain has joined the cast of the upcoming DreamWorks film 'The Help,' based on the best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett.