Jessica Chastain attended last night a dinner to honor Al Pacino, held at Centurion Palace in Venice, Italy. The dinner was hosted by Venetian designer Angelo Galasso. Jessica was wearing a Moschino black ruffled cocktail dress trimmed with white lace. Gorgeous!

September 4, 2011   Luciana

I added the first MQ pictures of Jessica attending the “Wilde Salome” Screening today at Venice Festival. She looks stunning!

September 4, 2011   Luciana

Jessica is currently in Venice promoting some of her movies, and today was the Wilde Salome screening. I added the first batch of HQ pictures from the photocall. Check it:

September 4, 2011   Luciana

Jessica is everywhere, and this is a true statement. While I was wondering why she didn’t attended “The Help” screening today at Deauville festival in Paris, she was in Italy attending the 2011 Gucci Award For Women In Cinema Awards Ceremony, in Venice. I have found only two pictures so far, but I hope more will be available soon.

September 3, 2011   Luciana

A few months ago, she was unknown. Now she’s ubiquitous.

Jessica Chastain isn’t yet a household name, but the 30-year-old California native and Julliard graduate has turned 2011 into a remarkable cinematic coming-out party.

It started with Terrence Malick’s adventurous “The Tree of Life,” in which she played Brad Pitt’s wife and the ultimate nurturing mother figure.

She’s currently on screens in the hit “The Help,” as the ditzy but open-minded black sheep of a racist Mississippi town.

Still to come: Jeff Nichols’ festival favorite “Take Shelter,” in which she plays a long-suffering wife whose husband (played by Michael Shannon) has disturbing visions of ecological catastrophe. And “Coriolanus,” director/star Ralph Fiennes visceral Shakespeare adaptation, in which she’s the title character’s wife. And Al Pacino’s daring documentary “Wilde Salome,” the unconventional chronicle of a Pacino staging of Oscar Wilde’s “Salome,” in which Chastain plays the title character.

More? There’s “Texas Killing Fields,” a murder drama from Ami Canaan Mann, the daughter of director Michael Mann. And “The Wettest County in the World,” a Depression-era crime drama bought by the Weinstein Co. at Cannes.

Before those last five movies hit theaters, though, Chastain will show up in “Shakespeare in Love” director John Madden’s “The Debt” which opens on Wednesday. Read More

September 1, 2011   Luciana

DreamWorks’ “The Help” helped itself to the $100 million mark at the domestic box office, the studio announced Wednesday.

The $25 million period drama has been one of the summer’s surprise breakout hits, winning the domestic box office during its second and third weekends of release.

“We went from opening not No. 1 to being No. 1, which is unusual in itself,” Dave Hollis, Disney’s executive VP of distribution, told TheWrap. Disney handles distribution for DreamWorks.

Three weeks into its run, “The Help” is actually adding locations: It opened with 2,534 theaters in the U.S. and Canada, expanded by 156 in its second week, by another 88 in its third and is going up by some 65 more this weekend, Hollis said. The movie opens in its first international territory, Australia, this weekend.

Source: Reuters

September 1, 2011   Luciana