The Golden Globe nominations have just been announced, and Jessica has been shortlisted for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for her work in The Help. The Golden Globes will take place on January 15.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Bérénice Bejo for The Artist (2011)
Jessica Chastain for The Help (2011)
Janet McTeer for Albert Nobbs (2011)
Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011)
Shailene Woodley for The Descendants (2011)

She also got a nomination yesterday at the SAG awards, also for her role at “The Help”. It surely was a great year for Jessica, and we’re really help (and proud) of her. Congratulations, Jessica!

Jessica Chastain has had a remarkably busy 2011.

She has had five breakout performances, playing a maternal goddess, a Southern belle, an Israeli Mossad agent, a wife to a crazy Michael Shannon in “Take Shelter” and a distraught spouse in “Coriolanus.”

Astonishingly, the actress received critical praise from all of her films. But many believe that the sheer number of Chastain’s performances could actually deter her from receiving the Oscar nomination that many believe she is due. (more…)

She will be Princess Diana in a coming film. She has just been named by the New York Film Critics’ Circle as 2011’s Best Supporting Actress for her performances in not one, but three films: “The Help,” “The Tree of Life” and “Take Shelter.” Her name is likely to be heard at nominations announcements during this awards season. The Independent Spirit Award began the momentum by announcing her as a Best Supporting Actress nominee for “Take Shelter.”

Brad Pitt and Sean Penn held her hands on Cannes’ red carpet. She will costar with Tom Cruise in a sci-fi movie. Terrence Malick has cast her again in his next film, and she’ll be seen in several films by interesting directors.

“She” is Jessica Chastain, who gives credit to Al Pacino for all of these projects. Very fair, freckled and blessed with lovely green eyes, the actress has the kind of face that enables her to easily morph into different characters. Jessica as the social-climbing Celia Foote in “The Help” is completely different from her Texan wife and mother, Mrs. O’Brien, in “The Tree of Life,” which won the Palme d’Or in Cannes last May. (more…)

I have added two new promotional stills of Jessica on her new movie “Coriolanus”. The movie will hit theaters tomorrow, December 02, 2011.

I added 1087 high quality screen captures of Jessica as Rachel in the amazing movie “The Debt”. Check it:

Finally I managed to take high quality screen captures of Jessica part as the adorable Celia Foote in the acclaimed movie “The Help”. Check it:

The Help will be out in DVD/Blu-Ray in December 06th, remember to pre-order your copy.

When The Weinstein Company first picked up John Hillcoat’s highly anticipated “The Wettest County” in Cannes this spring the plan at the time was to release the film before the end of the year, which gave the picture an awards season sheen. However, with the end of the year looming just six weeks away, and Harvey busily promoting “The Artist,” “My Week With Marilyn” and “The Iron Lady” as his main contenders this fall, it quickly became apparent that “The Wettest County” was not the cards for 2011. And alas, it now has a release date pegged for next spring, arriving on April 20, 2012.

The move can be construed in a number of ways — perhaps Hillcoat is still finishing the film (though, test screenings have been underway already) or maybe it’s just not that good (doubtful) — but more than likely, its simply not an awards season film and more of a straight genre pic. And that would make sense given the source material. Based on the novel by Matt Bondurant, this true story Prohibition-era tale is led by Tom Hardy, Shia LaBoeuf and Jason Clarke as the Bondurant brothers who run a bootlegging gang but find their moonshine dynasty in Franklin County, Virginia threatened by the authorities wanting a cut. The supporting cast features Jessica Chastain as Hardy’s love interest Maggie; Mia Wasikowska as LaBeouf’s belle; Dane DeHaan as Labeouf’s partner-in-crime; Guy Pearce as a violent deputy with the brothers in his sights, and Gary Oldman as a gangster who employs the boys. Yes, the cast is great and the premise sounds fantastic, but an Oscar player? If the picture is like “The Road” or “The Proposition” it’s likely a great mood/period piece but without the kind of depth Academy types go far. That’s not a slight against “The Wettest County,” it just may not be that sort of movie.

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Quite a few big possible projects have already come out of the American Film Market (AFM) over the past week, and here’s one more: Jessica Chastain, who has made quite a mark in 2011 thanks to The Tree of Life, Take Shelter, The Help and The Debt, is set to play the late Princess Diana in Caught in Flight. The film would be directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall, The Invasion) if it goes forward based on the script by Steven Jeffreys (The Libertine).

But this is not to be a run of the mill portrait of the Princess, but a story of a secret affair she had with a surgeon. Caught in Flight isn’t going to be the most flattering Diana tribute.

Thompson on Hollywood says the film is about Diana’s post-divorce affair with Dr. Hasnat Khan, a respected Pakistani surgeon who was called the “love of her life” by Diana’s friends.

Diana met the doctor in 1995 and their relationship lasted for two years; he broke it off. The secrecy of their affair was based more in his own personal life than her public one: he is a private man who reportedly did not want to suffer the media exposure that would be the result of a public relationship with Diana, and was pressured by his family to marry a Muslim woman.

The TOH piece says that those who have read the script “say that the late Princess is not cast in a particularly favorable light; she is shown as a damaged person who stalks the doctor after he ends the affair.”

As Anne Thompson mentions in her report on the film, a lot of the stuff announced at AFM doesn’t get made; announcements like this are essentially a statement of intent, but financing still has to come together. If things do work out, Caught in Flight would shoot in March 2012 in Pakistan, Angola, the South of France and Paris.

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LA Times has more details on the plot of the still untitled Terrence Malick project with Rachel and Ben Affleck, in which Jessica co-star. Several distributors were interested in but Terrence Malick declined. The movie is expected to release in 2012. Be sure to read the article below:

But there’s a movie that will be ready before either of those, an untitled film (formerly called “The Burial”) starring Ben Affleck (who actually replaced Bale) that Malick shot right after he finished editing “The Tree of Life.” He’s tweaking the movie in the editing room now, and it’s expected to be finished by next year (though that doesn’t mean a distributor that buys it will bring out then).

The company selling rights to the movie, FilmNation, has been secretive, to say the least, about the details (think executives reading the script in locked offices, and the “Men in Black” amnesia-laser administered afterward). Malick’s been protective, too. Several U.S. distributors made offers just on the basis of the script and some footage, said a person familiar with negotiations. So far, he’s declined to sell it.

So what’s the movie really about?

There have been scattered reports about it, but according to a person who read the script, it’s a love triangle with an international subtext. It’s also the only film Malick has ever done that’s set in the same time as the period in which he’s making it.

Here’s the breakdown, with the caveat that things could change drastically from script to screen (on “Tree,” Malick would sometimes rewrite scenes on the day of the shoot).

Basically, it concerns a philanderer (Affleck) who, feeling at loose ends, travels to Paris, where he enters a hot-and-heavy affair with a European woman (Olga Kurylenko). Said Lothario returns home to Oklahoma, where he marries the European woman (in part for visa reasons). When the relationship founders, he rekindles a romance with a hometown girl (Rachel McAdams) with whom he’s had a long history.

According to the person who read the script, there’s a bit of a happier ending than some other Malick movies (or at least a less ambiguous one than at the end of “Tree”). And a person who saw the footage said there’s also the trademark visual showiness–shots of Affleck and McAdams in Malick’s trademark man-in-nature style–as well as intriguing supporting actors: Javier Bardem, for instance, plays a priest whom Affleck’s Lothario visits for advice.

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Jessica Chastain will make a great mum some day, her Take Shelter co-star Michael Shannon has said.

The US actor plays a paranoid man experiencing apocalyptic visions in the drama, with Jessica starring as his wife and mother to their young daughter, played by Tova Stewart.

Michael said of Jessica: “She has a big, big heart. She’s so compassionate and I think that’s what makes her work so powerful. Working with her and in things I have seen her in, she always brings so much love and sensitivity to what she does.

“And she really pays attention to other people, she’s not consumed by herself or her own situation, she’s always looking out for other people. Especially with kids, she’s always so sweet with them.

“On Take Shelter she was always keeping an eye on Tova who plays our daughter. I think not only is she a great actress, I think she’ll be a great mother some day.”

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