* Philip Seymour Hoffman isn't just one of the finest actors working today, he's also making inroads as a director. He made his directorial debut a couple of years ago with Jack Goes Boating, which nobody saw but was a nice dramatic character piece. Now he's moving on to his next project, the Depression-era ghost story Ezekiel Moss. Based on a Black List script by Keith Bunim, the film follows an imaginative small town boy who befriends a drifter who may have the ability to speak with the dead. Hoffman is coming off well-deserved praise for his performance in The Master, which opens in more theaters this weekend. [Variety]
* Looks like South Korean director Park Chan-Wook(Oldboy) won't be leaving Hollywood anytime soon. With his English-language debut, Stoker, already wrapped and his stint co-writing Snow Piercer with Bong Joon-Ho, the director is now turning to another project which will keep him in the U.S. for awhile longer. He's set to helm the long-gestating crime drama, Corsica '72. Written by James Bond franchise scribes, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, the story follows two friends living very different lives on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. One lives a life of crime, the other takes a more honest avenue, but they come at odds over their mutual love interest, Lucia. The film will likely shoot before The Brigands of Rattleborge, the western Chan-Wook signed on for last month. [Variety]
* Wow, Rosamund Pike is everywhere all of a sudden. She'll be turning up alongside Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher this December. She's currently filming The World's End with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and she just agreed to join the former in Hector and the Search for Happiness. Now she and veteran actor Sam Neill are joining the cast of A Long Way Down, an adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel and directed by Pacal Chaumeil. Already starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul and Imogen Poots, the story follows four strangers who end up on the same rooftop on New Year's Eve, all with the same plan to commit suicide. [Variety]
