By virtually any Hollywood standard, even if another film featuring Jessica Chastain weren’t released in 2011 after this week, she’d have already had a pretty phenomenally successful rookie year in the business.

It’s kind of staggering, really: Months after her vivid if vexingly underseen screen debut in Jolene, there was no missing Chastain on the Croisette as she and The Tree of Life stormed Cannes en route to the Palme d’Or. By the end of summer she was co-starring in America’s number-one film, The Help. And on Wednesday, her spy thriller The Debt finally reaches theaters, featuring Chastain as one-third of a Mossad team dispatched to capture one of WWII’s most notorious Nazi fugitives in ’60s-era East Berlin. (Helen Mirren plays her haunted character, Rachel Singer, in the present day.)

But The Debt commences a grand finale to die for: September brings Take Shelter, arguably the best of the batch, starring Chastain as the wife of a man (Michael Shannon) whose apocalyptic nightmares and visions threaten him and his family. Writer-director Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories) crafts a near-perfect allegory of social and economic storms slowly suffocating the life from an average middle American family; the film succeeds in large part due to Shannon and Chastain’s performances as a couple witnessing the storm from the inside, expertly navigating the terrain between ’70s-tinged drama and timeless psychological horror.

Beyond that, Chastain has Al Pacino’s film adaptation of their stage collaboration Salome finally bowing at the Venice Film Festival, a role as a detective investigating a series of homicides in Texas Killing Fields, and closes out the year as the wife of Ralph Fiennes’s title character in the Shakespeare updating Coriolanus. Next year, look out for her opposite Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf in director John Hillcoat’s long-awaited adaptation of The Wettest County in the World — not to mention wherever awards are handed out, with Tree of Life, Take Shelter, The Help and Coriolanus all in various proximities to the center of the Oscar universe.

Chastain recently phoned up Movieline to talk about her astounding 2011 to date — and the whirlwind yet to come this fall.

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August 30, 2011   Michelle

The second poster has debuted from the upcoming thriller Texas Killing Fields, which hits theaters nationwide on October 14. Take a look at the latest one-sheet below for this drama based on a true story, which stars Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jessica Chastain, and Chloe Moretz.

August 28, 2011   Luciana

As told previously, Jessica has a two-pages spread at October issue of Empire magazine. Thanks to my friend @RobJacko, which scanned it to me, you can find it in the gallery:

August 26, 2011   Luciana

Jessica is featured in a two-paged article at currently issue of Entertainment Weekly. Thanks to Kelly, we have scans up in our gallery.

I also was informed that Jessica has a two pages inside the October issue of Empire magazine. I’m also trying to get scans, but the magazine is out already and you can go and get your own copy!

August 26, 2011   Luciana

Jessica did a great interview to NY Magazine Vulture about The Debt, and she also took the opportunity to talk about the most recent news about Sean Penn lot liking “Tree of Life”.

I feel like that comment might have been taken out of context, or mistranslated (…) I was misquoted as saying my weight gain [for The Help] was torture, and I never said that. I was making a joke about wearing a girdle in the heat. That’s torture! And then they changed it to say that I meant gaining weight, which is not [torture]. So I’m starting to learn now, things sometimes get misinterpreted.

Read the full interview:

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August 23, 2011   Luciana

Jessica attended last night the New York screening for “The Debt”. You can find the first batch of pictures up at the gallery:

Edit: More 44 mq pictures was added.

August 23, 2011   Luciana