Philip Seymour Hoffman

The Devil and Daniel Johnston may not have been enough to appease moviegoers looking for a fix of extremely talented dysfunctional singer-songwriters. Filmmaker Daniel Miller is planning a biopic of Daniel Johnston, and is claiming it will differ wildly from the material in Jeff Feuerzeig's acclaimed documentary. "It's going to be an epic super hero story and it's going to be a narrative biopic so it doesn't really cover any of the same stuff," said Miller, who is producing the film, which will be direc

It's going to be an epic super hero story and it's going to be a narrative biopic so it doesn't really cover any of the same stuff   -Daniel Miller

 

It's pretty much dream casting at this point, but consider us officially stoked at even the possibility. How are you going to portray older Daniel Johnston? That's a really good question.  

Deadline's Mike Fleming says that Paul Thomas Anderson is scrounging for $35 million to fund his upcoming Scientology movie (possible title: The Master ) after Universal passed on it — not because they feared Xenu's wrath, but because the studio got spooked by the price tag (especially after Green Zone put them further into the red over the weekend). But don't worry! The film's moving ahead, with The Hurt Locker 's Jeremy Renner in talks to star with Philip Seymour Hoffman (confirming earlier rumors ), an  

Ewan McGregor wants to be Philip Seymour Hoffman's boyfriend. The actor – who has three daughters, Clara, 14, Esther, eight, and seven-year-old Jamiyan with wife Eve Mavrakis – plays the lover of Jim Carrey's character in new movie I Love You Philip Morris but admits he would rather get close to the Capote star. He quipped: "I'd like to be Philip Seymour Hoffman's boyfriend. I think we'd make a good couple.

It's just not an issue. As an actor you're stepping into the shoes of people in life and people in life are gay or straight or both or whatever.   -Ewan McGregor

 

Ewan McGregor has declared that he thinks he and Philip Seymour Hoffman would make a good couple. The actor - who shares three daughters, Clara, 14, Esther, 8, Jamiyan, 7, with wife Eve Mavrakis - plays the object of Jim Carrey's affections in new movie I Love You Phillip Morris , but admitted that he is more interested in the Capote star. He quipped to The Scotsman : "I'd like to be Philip Seymour Hoffman's boyfriend. I think we'd make a good couple. We'd look good, we'd look slightly odd and we'd go  

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Liev Schreiber, Sam Waterston, Gloria Reuben, Jay O. Sanders, Laura Benanti, Michael Cerveris, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Audra McDonald, Will Swenson, and Suzan-Lori Parks — crammed into the lobby of New York's Public Theater, in hopes of destroying it. Lest you think that wild actors were rioting in the city streets, the destruction was simply ceremonial: The downtown institution is now in the final phase of a ten-year, $35 million renovation that will not only restore the building's

You're setting the bar very low   -Oskar Eustis

 

After a long time paying her dues, Amy Ryan had a great decade. After all, anytime you're nominated for an Academy Award ( Gone Baby Gone ) and have a great part on one of the best shows in the history of television ( The Wire ), you've had a good run. But she's not sitting back and resting on past glory, as she plays a reporter in Paul Greengrass' new film Green Zone , and she's also in Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut Jack Goes Boating - which premiered at Sundance a few months ago.  

File this under rumor if you like, but the buzz and noise about this has become too deafening to ignore. It all started in the comments section of our script review of Paul Thomas Anderson 's gestating and untitled Scientology project, though called the " The Master " in some circles for shorthand. We posited that Paul Dano might be a good fit for the Freddie, a young, naive, misguided and semi-alcoholic youth in his '20s who slowly becomes mentored by The Master ( Philip Seymour Hoffman has this role a