Philip Seymour Hoffman News

I spent a couple of minutes last night watching 'The Party's Over,' a documentary Philip Seymour Hoffman produced on the 2000 election.

It was the year of 'Slumdog Millionaire' at the Oscars, and the year of 'Transformers' at the box office.

By pitting two of this generation's acting heavyweights against each other, there was no 'doubt' that the result would be anything other than movie gold.

Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in "Invictus." Morgan Freeman is just the latest in a line of distinguished actors to play a famous person on screen.

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Original RENT cast members Jesse L. Martin and Daphne Ruben Vega The Office's John Krasinski with fiancee Emily Blunt Bobby Cannavale with Billy Crudup Artistic Director Philip Seymour Hoffman with John Krasinski, LAB co-founder John Ortiz, Tony nominee Bobby Cannavale , and LAB member David Zayas.

Toronto's extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn't always hold up to scrutiny.

Veteran rocker Bruce Springsteen, acclaimed actor Robert De Niro and comic genius Mel Brooks have been awarded this year's Kennedy Center Honors at a star-studded ceremony in Washington.

Frequent collaborators find a new reason to work together. Paul Thomas Anderson is currently writin g a new project titled The Master that Philip Seymour Hoffman is attached to star in.

This week's Ketchup include news of plans to remake The Amityville Horror and Disney's The Black Hole , a new project for acclaimed director Paul Thomas Anderson and new roles for Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gwyneth Paltrow and one of the stars of The Twilight Saga: New Moon .

Director Paul Thomas Anderson plans on reuniting with frequent collaborator Philip Seymour Hoffman for his next project.

Yesterday we were happy to bring you the Competition Line-Up for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, which we'll be covering in January live from Park City, Utah.

West London's Bush Theatre has this week launched a pioneering social networking website which allows playwrights to post their work online for producers and directors to read and commission.

In response to PEOPLE Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issue , the folks at Moviefone have taken it upon themselves to name the least sexy men alive .

"There Will Be Blood" writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson is working on his next project, a period drama to star Philip Seymour Hoffman as a founder of a new religious organization in the 1950s.

Those meanies over at the movie ticket selling site moviefone.com polled folks to figure out who Hollywood's homeliest dudes are.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, right, accepts his 2008 kudo, shared with the ensemble cast of 'Synecdoche, New York.' Last year's kudofest also drew the cast of 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona,' including, from left, Rebecca Hall, Patricia Clarkson and Penelope Cruz.

"Pirate Radio," the latest British import from Richard Curtis - brought in, renamed and re-edited by Focus Films after a spectacular flop in the UK - is a story about childish offshore DJs putting their motor mouths to use in uptight 1960s Britain.

Sometimes, a good actor can make a bad script tolerable and mediocre script enjoyable.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, and Kenneth Branagh star in a film written and directed by Richard Curtis.