Browsing: Jessica Chastain
Chastain has been in discussions to play Beverly for months, but her team had been waiting to see if she’d receive an Oscar nomination for Molly’s Game, which would’ve upped her quote and likely given her more leverage in any negotiation.
Chronicles two women’s journey as they struggle to get home in time for Christmas.
Universal won the bid for the original pitch and treatment co-written by Chastain, who will produce the film along with Maven Pictures. Crazy Rich Asians writer Peter Chiarelli will write the script.
Chronicles two women’s journey as they struggle to get home in time for Christmas.
Directed by Susanna White (“Our Kind of Traitor”), the movie premiered at last month’s Toronto Film Festival.
In the movie, Chastain plays the real-life Molly Bloom whose high-stakes poker games brought in celebrities and politicians alike, until the FBI pressured Molly to help them take down the Russian mob using her connections.
STXfilms will release the Oscar-winning screenwriter’s first foray behind the camera as director on November 22. Adapted from Molly Bloom’s own memoir, the movie follows the story of the Olympic class skier who started up a high-stakes poker game that ran for a decade before her arrest.
Simon Kinberg will make his directorial debut with the comic book movie, which is bringing back James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence.
As they do every year, CinemaCon has bestowed more than a dozen awards upon actors, directors, producers and other members of the industry, so let’s take you through this year’s honorees, shall we?
Project details are being kept under wraps, but the film will be set in the 1990’s and center around Jean Grey and the Dark Phoenix comic story.
Two-time Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain has her eyes set on space. The actress will step into the role of producer for the first time for a TV event series about a group of women in the early 1960s who were denied a chance to be part of the Mercury space program.
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Academy Award-nominated actress Jessica Chastain is set to play tough New York City street cop with extraordinary powers in Painkiller Jane, an adaptation of the graphic novel series written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Joe Quesada.
The story of a brilliant but ruthless lobbyist who is notorious for her unparalleled talent and her desire to win at all costs, even when it puts her own career at risk. The thriller pulls back the curtain on how Capitol Hill games are played and won as Sloane faces off against the most influential powers in D.C.
The Huntsman: Winter’s War star Jessica Chastain is in talks to join Jake Gyllenhaal in The Division, the adaptation of the best-selling video game Tom Clancy’s The Division from Ubisoft.
Based on the popular video game that is set in a dystopian New York City in the aftermath of a smallpox pandemic.
The first big sale out of Cannes is currently in the works with the Aaron Sorkin-penned drama Molly’s Game. STX Entertainment is closing in on a $9 million deal for the poker drama starring Idris Elba and Jessica Chastain.
Evil Queen Ravenna betrays her good sister Freya with an unforgivable act, freezing Freya’s heart to love and unleashing in her an icy power she never knew she possessed.
Meghann Fahy has been added to the growing cast of the Jessica Chastain vehicle, Miss Sloane. The film follows a top lobbyist in Washington D.C. as she pushes for tighter gun control laws.
Douglas Smith is the latest to sign on to the drama, Miss Sloane. He is set to play as a young lobbyist who joins a coalition in order to pass important legislation in regards to gun control.
As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land; two renegades – Eric the Huntsmen – who previously aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna, and his forbidden lover, Sara set out to stop them.
Jessica Chastain is in talks for the lead role in Woman Walks Ahead. The project is helmed by Susanna White and was written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
Follows a 19th century Brooklyn artist and activist who moved to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sioux chieftan Sitting Bull fight to keep the land for his people.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw has signed on to the EuropaCorp thriller Miss Sloane and will star opposite Jessica Chastain. The Concussion star will play a gun control lobbyist.
Through a bizarre set of circumstances, former world-class skier Molly Bloom made millions running the most exclusive high-stakes poker game in the world. Her life came crashing down when 17 FBI agents armed with automatic weapons rang her doorbell.
Carol‘s Jake Lacy joins Jessica Chastain and Alison Pill in EuropaCorp’s gun control thriller, from director John Madden and first-time screenwriter Jonathan Perera.
After the evil Queen Ravenna is resurrected by her sister, the ice queen Freya, the two wicked sisters plot to overthrow the world of man. Now, their amassing army shall prove undefeatable…unless the banished huntsmen who broke their queen’s cardinal rule can fight their way back to one another.
Stranded on Mars in an accident, an astronaut must figure out how to stay alive long enough to get back home.
Brühl and Chastain will star as the real-life couple who used their zoo to help save Jewish lives in Nazi-occupied Poland.