Jason Schwartzman is a Total Jerk in Trailer for 'Listen Up Philip'

With the end of the year rapidly approaching, the last few major Sundance films are starting to trickle out into theaters. The latest is Alex Ross Perry's acidic dramedy, Listen Up Philip, which received some of the best reviews of the festival for both director and star Jason Schwartzman. Much like the recent Park City favorite, Frank, the film explores the occasionally twisted, selfish nature of the creatively gifted. Schwartzman plays a successful, arrogant jerk of an author who is dealing with the promotion of his second novel, a crumbling relationship with his photographer girlfriend (Elisabeth Moss), and the presence of his mentor (Jonathan Pryce) who isn't all he's cracked up to be.

Perry seems to be going for a Woody Allen vibe here, and Schwartzman is usually at his best in just this kind of role.  Listen Up Philip opens on October 17th.

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John Goodman Eyes 'Trumbo'; Dakota Johnson Makes 'A Bigger Splash'; Elisabeth Moss is 'Queen of Earth'

 Just as Breaking Bad was coming to a close, Bryan Cranston became attached to a new feature film on blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. Helen Mirren came aboard the film soon after, and now it looks as if John Goodman will be joining them. Goodman is in talks to play Hollywood producer Frank King in the film, currently titled Trumbo, which Jay Roach (Game Change) is directing. Trumbo was once the most sought-after screenwriter in Hollywood until he was targeted by Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch hunt in the House Un-American Activities Committee. [TheWrap]

Dakota Johnson has been piling on one new project after another, capitalizing on that Fifty Shades of Grey fame she's getting. She's now caught the attention of Italian director Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love), who has tapped her for his new thriller, A Bigger Splash. This is the same film we learned about a few months ago that stars Matthias Schoenaerts, Margot Robbie, Tilda Swinton, and Ralph Fiennes. Turns out it's a remake of Jacques Deray's 1969 crime flick, La Piscine, which centered on a vacationing couple and the uneasy love triangle that emerges with a much younger woman. Variety's report fails to mention Schoenearts and Robbie so they may have exited the film.

Elisabeth Moss will star in Queen of Earth, a reunion with her Listen Up Philip director, Alex Ross Perry. Produced by Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies) and penned by Perry, the psychological thriller is described as similar to Rosemary's Baby and Repulsion, centering on "two women who retreat to a beach house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality." Listen Up Philip was one of the most acclaimed movies at Sundance earlier this year, so expect Perry and Moss' follow-up to have a lot of eyes on it. [THR]

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