Streep, Hoffman tapped for Doubt

Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman will star in the movie adaptation of John Patrick’s Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning play Doubt for Miramax Films. Shanley wrote the script and will direct the movie. The story is about a principal of a Bronx Catholic School (Streep), a nun who’s a strict disciplinarian, who makes pedophile accusations against a popular priest (Hoffman). Streep just finished work on the Gavin Hood-directed Rendition and the Robert Redford-directed Lions for Lambs, and she is preparing to start shooting on a screen adaptation of the ABBA musical Mamma Mia!. Hoffman just starred in the Sidney Lumet-directed Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead as well as alongside Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts in the Mike Nichols-directed Charlie Wilson’s War. He will next work on the Charlie Kaufman-directed Synecdoche, New York, and he’s currently starring at the Public Theater in Jack Goes Boating. He will next appear on-screen this summer in Savages, which also stars Laura Linney. (Variety)

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Pitt to appear in Coen Brothers’ latest

Brad Pitt will appear alongside costars George Clooney and Frances McDormand in the Coen Brothers’ black comedy Burn After Reading for Working Titles Films. Joel and Ethan Coen wrote the screenplay together, and Joel will direct. The story is about a CIA agent who loses the disc of the book he is writing. It is unclear what role Pitt will play. He’ll start shooting in late August. Pitt recently finished shooting Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Assassination of Jesse James, and he is finishing work on Paramount Pictures’ Benjamin Button. (Hollywood Reporter)