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15 Breakout Stars of Fall

Samantha Barks in "Les Miserables"
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It must be Fall! School's finally in session, the weather is getting ever slightly cooler and the offerings at your local movie theater change from big-budget popcorn fare to serious potential award winners.

This autumn the studios have a wide array of noteworthy films to put on your must-see list, from art-house Oscar contenders to teen ensembles and much-anticipated literary and musical adaptations.

We're celebrating the start of Fall with 15 actors who are going to blow audiences away this season. Some have been around for a few years but have yet to break out and others are lucky enough to have their first major roles in buzzworthy movies.

If acclaimed directors like Ang Lee, Paul Thomas Anderson and Peter Jackson saw something in them, we probably will, too. Get More »

Filed Under: Features

Jesse Plemons and David Warshofsky Have Faith in P.T. Anderson

Jesse Plemons
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It's been a full four years since Paul Thomas Anderson wowed us with his double-Oscar-winning drama "There Will Be Blood." If you ask us, that's four years too long.

Which is why we're thrilled to report that Anderson's previously defunct project, once called "The Master," is finally coming together, though it seems to have left that title behind and now is nameless.

Name or no name, it just added two standout names to its cast: "Friday Night Lights" fan-favorite Jesse Plemons and veteran thesp David Warshofsky (whom you'll recognize from both "Taken" and "Unstoppable").

Anderson's script follows a charismatic intellectual (played by Anderson mainstay Philip Seymour Hoffman) who, after witnessing the horrors of WWII, creates a belief system designed to catch on with other lost souls in post-war America—in a faith that closely resembles Scientology. Get More »

Filed Under: Movie News | Source: Variety
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