The Debt

Actress Jessica Chastain Has The Help to Get Her Award Noms

Brad Balfour | Posted 04.28.2012

When actress Jessica Chastain attended the Sundance Film Festival more than a year ago, making the rounds for the film Take Shelter, she spoke on a pa...

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DVD: Woody Allen Back on Top, Ready for Oscar Love

Michael Giltz | Posted 03.01.2012

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Oh the DVDs are piling up, and these are the dog days of late December and early January when DVD releases slow to a trickle. Let's get to it.

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Emotion vs. Structure: What Is More Important?

Jen Grisanti | Posted 11.14.2011

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Is it more important to structure your story in a way that gives your audience a clear, concise view of what it is you're trying to say? Or, is it more productive to focus on what you say and how it's going to make your audience feel?

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Go Big or Go Home: Why the Mainstream Successes of The Debt and Our Idiot Brother Matter

Scott Mendelson | Posted 11.07.2011

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While there are many reasons to praise the $14 million six-day opening of The Debt, the most surprising thing about it is that Focus Features debuted the film wide enough to achieve that kind of opening in the first place.

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Weekend Box Office: Adult Films Trash Cheap Exploitation Fare and Dominate Labor Day Weekend, as The Help and The Debt Defeat Shark Night and Apollo 18

Scott Mendelson | Posted 11.06.2011

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Summer must be over, as grownups are seemingly returning to the marketplace.

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BeLabor Day

Abe Gurko | Posted 11.04.2011

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No one really celebrates Labor Day. Sure, we take off that Monday, but since Labor Day represents the end of summer and the return to school, who is c...

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HuffPost Review: The Debt

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.29.2011

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Set in two different eras, with two different trios playing the same characters, The Debt is gripping and gritty, a thriller that breeds genuine excitement in both of the time periods in which it is set.

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Helen Mirren Voted Hottest Body

Vulture | By: | Posted 10.29.2011

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You beat out Elle MacPherson, Kelly Brook, Jennifer Lopez, Cheryl Cole. Who would you have chosen? Oh, I would probably choose J.Lo. It's ridiculou...

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Cashing 'Debt': The Subtle Drama Of Jessica Chastain & Sam Worthington

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Zakarin | Posted 10.17.2011

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It is counter-intuitive, at this point in modern cinema, for perhaps the most tension-filled moment in an action-packed thriller to come during the sp...

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This Year's Hottest New Actress

Posted 10.13.2011

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Attention, moviegoers: Here is the preemptive answer to the question each one of you will, inevitably, ask at some point over the next six months: ...

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X-Men: First Class: Reviewing Magneto and the Super Jews

Omer Rosen | Posted 08.15.2011

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Strong, athletic, violent, handsome -- something separate from the bookish, weak, nerdish, neurotic construct that shaped me -- they are Super Jews.

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Jessica Chastain Talks Spontaneous Fight With Brad Pitt

Posted 07.25.2011

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Life is good for Jessica Chastain. She had three films presented at Cannes, two of which, "The Tree of Life," and "Take Shelter" won prizes at the fes...

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Brad Pitt's On Screen Wife, Hollywood's Secret Star: Who Is She?

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 07.23.2011

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CANNES, France — Jessica Chastain may be the busiest actress in Hollywood people haven't heard of yet. With as many as half a dozen films rollin...

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Live From the Toronto Film Festival: Last Day

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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My last full day at the Toronto International Film Festival was a day of hits and misses.

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