Philip Seymour Hoffman Movie Updates

Gwendoline Christie is replacing actress Lily Rabe as the Commander Lyme character in Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2.”

Park Pictures Features signed Philip Seymour Hoffman to star in God’s Pocket, the upcoming film directorial debut from John Slattery.

Natalie Portman and Michael Fassbender are attached to star in a big-screen adaptation of Macbeth being developed with backing from Film4.

Philip Seymour Hoffman is set to direct the supernatural drama Ezekiel Moss for Mandalay Pictures and Likely Story.

Sony Pictures Entertainment and Escape Artists are developing a bigscreen adaptation of 1980s television series The Equalizer with Denzel Washington attached to star.

After a prolonged casting search, Summit Entertainment and director Louis Leterrier ("Clash of the Titans") have finally found a leading man for their magician heist pic "Now You See Me," as Jesse Eisenberg has agreed in principal to star and is in early negotiations to work his movie-star magic.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Jeremy Northam and Christopher Walken are in tune for indie drama "A Late Quartet," from writer-director Yaron Zilberman.

Columbia just sent out a press release announcing Emma Stone joining the "Spider-Man" movie. The move was expected since the Internet was abuzz with Stone on the list of female finalists, then about to get an offer, then receiving an actual offer.

Vulture hears that Meryl Streep may team up with James Gandolfini and Philip Seymour Hoffman in the Mike Nichols–directed drama Great Hope Springs. Written by Tell Me You Love Me scribe Vanessa Taylor (apparently a big fan of tortured couples), Springs is about a husband and wife (Gandolfini and Streep) undergoing an intense wee ...

Three years ago, George Clooney announced his intention to direct a big-screen adaptation of the off-Broadway play Farragut North, a political drama about campaign dirty tricks written by former Democratic political operative Beau Willimon. Now it seems like Clooney is finally electing to do it: Vulture hears that he plans to st ...

Stephen Bishop will suit up as slugger David Justice in Columbia's "Moneyball." Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman star in the Bennett Miller-directed baseball project, which begins shooting in two weeks in Los Angeles. Scott Rudin and Michael De Luca are producing.

Kevin Spacey has come aboard "Horrible Bosses," filling in the final piece of New Line's movie's casting puzzle as the workplace murder comedy chugs toward a July 6 start in Los Angeles.

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright are in early talks to join Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill in Columbia Pictures' "Moneyball."

"There Will Be Blood" writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson is working on his next project, a period drama to star Philip Seymour Hoffman as a founder of a new religious organization in the 1950s. The project is set up at Universal, which will make a decision about whether to greenlight the pic, with a $35 million budge ...