According to Deadline, Dermot Mulroney is set to star as sleazy businessman Steve in the forthcoming film adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play “August: Osage County”. Mulroney joins previously announced Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, as well as Margo Martindale, Abigail Breslin and Juliette Lewis. Adapted by Letts, directed by John Wells and produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, along with Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler and Claire Rudnick Polstein, the film will go before the cameras in September. Meanwhile, a casting agency is looking for extras for the film that will be shot in northeastern Oklahoma starting in late September. Freihofer Casting is holding an open call for extras for “August: Osage County” on Saturday, August 18th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Tulsa. The complete article on the casting can be found here with thanks to everybody for the heads-up!

According to this article, the big box office news is that Sony’s counter programming gamble with Meryl Streep in “Hope Springs” could pay off. The film opened on Wednesday and has almost $10 million in ticket sales. Friday night accounted for about half of that. If it holds up tonight and Sunday, “Hope Springs”–with Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carell–could be a nice little hit. Then Sony will bring it back out for Oscar consideration, with nominations going to Streep and Jones at least. What a pleasant turn of events. Sony’s Amy Pascal can sleep tonight. Streep has a lot of good will built up. And audiences who are depending on that have found an excellent film.

On August 05, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell and director David Frankel participated in the Apple Store SoHo’s “Meet the Filmmakers” series to talk about “Hope Springs”. You can grab the podcast for free at the store’s iTunes. The conversation panel can be now watched in the video archive.

The full interview with Meryl and Tommy Lee Jones on “The View” has been broadcast yesterday and has been added to the video archive, alongside captures from the show in the image library. It’s, as always, a very funny and charming interview, so be sure to check it. Up next is the Apple Store conversation panel, so stay tuned.

Lots of new video bits have been added to the archive. There’s a new compilation video from the New York premiere of “Hope Springs”, including interviews with the cast, the New York junket video has been updated as well (now sporting eleven minutes of interviews), there’s new clip from the film and two additional television spots. Enjoy the new clips.

Article courtesy USA Today: Of Meryl Streep’s abundance of gifts, one stands out in particular: the ability to laugh at herself. Her left hand is bandaged after an avocado-peeling accident that severed nerves and requires physical therapy. She still can’t believe her kitchen debacle, the confluence of foolhardiness and the wrong knife. “From now on, I’m changing everything. I learn something every day. I do. Six months to a year, it will take to heal,” Streep says ruefully. “I shouldn’t cross against the light, and that’s when you get hit by the bike coming the wrong way. You know it. And you think, how can you tell your children anything when you’re the idiot?”

That’s not the word anyone would use to describe her. Streep is one of the most respected, revered actresses working today, and she won an Oscar, her third, this year for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. Yet Streep, effusive, funny and warm, sounds like a giddy drama school graduate when she talks about her day job. “Oh, my God. I can’t believe they’re still letting me do this!” The complete article can be read here.

Today, “Hope Springs” opens in US theaters. If you’re among the happy ones to see it on the big screen, please share your thoughts on the film in the comments as I’m sure many visitors appreciate a fan’s view on the film as well. Please make sure not to include spoilers, or mark your post as spoilers, so people can enjoy the film when they see it themselves. To everyone who has a ticket already, enjoy watching “Hope Springs”.

Yesterday, director David Frankel and his cast – Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carell – were guests on “The Charlie Rose Show” to promote “Hope Springs”. This is yet another fantastic and lengthy (30 minutes) appearance on the show, full of interesting anecdotes on the making of the film. The complete interview can be watched in the video archive.

This morning, Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones have attended “Good Morning America” to promote the theatrical release of “Hope Springs”. The full appearance can be watched in the video archive. Screencaptures from the interview have been added to the image library.

As promised, news clips from the New York press junket for “Hope Springs” have been added to the video archive. Instead of posting them one by one, all clips have been combined to one segment, for better overview ;-) Once more will become available, they will be added to this clip.