PTA Salutes Amy Adams

“If you ever want a handjob delivered with magnificent efficiency... there’s no expiration date on ole’ Amy Adams.” - Paul Thomas Anderson at the Santa Barbara Film Festival's Salute to Amy Adams (via Hollywood Elsewhere)

Stay tuned. On Monday, we're launching the 2nd installment in our "Making The Master" interview series with PTA's longtime producer JoAnne Sellar.

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PTA Awarded Best Director Prize By LA Film Critics; Phoenix, Adams, Malaimare Jr. Awarded Too

Awards season is rolling on and "The Master" continues to pick up accolades from various critics groups around the country. This past weekend the LA Film Critics awarded the film Best Director (Paul Thomas Anderson), Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix), Best Supporting Actress (Amy Adams) and Best Production Design (Jack Fisk & David Crank). They also named the film as Runner-Up (meaning 2nd place) for Best Film, Best Cinematography and Best Music Score. Four wins and three runner's up = not too shabby. Boston Film Critics picked up the slack by awarding the film for Best Cinematography (Mihai Malaimare Jr.) and PTA as the Runner-Up for Best Director. Well deserved. Shoutout to Awards Daily for all their great coverage.  You can check out all the film's awards & nominations (so far) on this page.

Update: Washington DC Film Critics gave Philip Seymour Hoffman their Best Supporting Actor Award and Jonny Greenwood for Best Score.

In other news, PTA was mentioned yet again on Elvis Mitchell's great podcast The Treatment, this time by "Skyfall" director Sam Mendes.

"We were talking off mic a little earlier about one of the greats, Paul Thomas Anderson, who is a true auteur - and there are very few of those who I would classify as geniuses - who can write their own material and have a particular vision and take that vision from their lonely room where they're writing with their pen onto their typewriter and take it right the way through to the point where they can make the finished article. I am not one of those people and most directors are not and so you are waiting for material to arrive that speaks to you in some unconscious way and you're not always sure why you're led in one particular direction or another. And it's your duty to be open to everything to some degree and to not try and repeat yourself."

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Watch: Philip Seymour Hoffman & Amy Adams Talk ‘The Master'

Quick update for you this morning as the news keeps rolling in. In case the video of PTA discussing the film wasn't enough for you yesterday, you can now watch interviews with both PSH and Amy Adams. Adams speaks to David Poland mostly about "The Master" in this 30 minute interview below. (via @gazzwa)

Interview: Toronto International Film Festival Press Conference

Transcript of the TIFF Press Conference Q&A by Martin Cohen

Paul Gives His First Interview On ‘The Master'; Amy Adams Says She “Kinda Worships Him"

After 2+ years of silence, the dam has finally broken and PTA and co. have begun actually discussing "The Master" in some detail in various publications. Paul gave his first-ever interview on the film to Newsweek which we've archived here but be warned there are some spoilers. A few safe excerpts are below:

Official Trailer For Paul Thomas Anderson's ‘The Master' Released

Fresh off the recent release of the teaser poster and, with the film's release now just a little under 3 months away, the Weinstein Company and Annapurna Films tweeted that the first full length official trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" was going to drop today at 8pm EST. If you follow our Twitter account, you'd have been expecting this as our detective skills are clearly on point. Waste no more time skimming what I have to say, select 1080p then press play. #internalrhymescheme

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Praise For PTA Continues; Amy Adams Talks ‘The Master'

Well the unofficial press tour continues. Collider recently got a chance to sit down with Amy Adams and after their chat about "The Muppets" asked about her collaboration with PTA on 'The Master,' (a title which she did not correct, btw). Watch the clip and you can see her get visibly excited to talk about the experience.

Amy Adams: It was amazing. I have to say it feels like, it almost feels like it didn't happen. I know that sounds very strange to say but you kind of go into this world where you're so invested in the character and Joaquin [Phoenix] and Philip [Seymour Hoffman] are so amazing and you're just in it. It was just an amazing experience, enveloping and really transformative for me personally so I just hope that's on the screen. I mean it's Paul Thomas Anderson.

Collider: He's known for doing really long takes, did you get to do any of those famous long takes?

Amy: Yeah, yeah it was really fun.

Update 11/22: NYMag also spoke to the actress who managed to get another brief quote from Ms. Adams.

NYMag: I have to say, though, the film I'm most excited for is the one you just made with Paul Thomas Anderson ...
... which was an incredible experience.

NYMag: He directs so rarely ... what was that set like?
It's hard to talk about right now, because it was such a surreal experience. I had so many great moments on that set, working with Philip and Joaquin, who are so committed that they just pull you right in. It almost doesn't feel real. It feels like it was a dream, like it didn't really happen. But Paul's a lot funnier than I expected. He is! And I don't know what I expected, but it was a remarkable experience for me. It's my third film with Philip, so it's no secret that I totally love him and would do anything with him, but to get to work with him in this way was really a dream.

There you have it. Drips and drabs. So far we've gotten very tight lipped responses from about half the cast: Laura Dern, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rami Malek and now, Adams. Just think, it can't be too much longer before we get our first look at an actual frame of film. In the meantime you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook for the latest news and updates.

Here Is Your ‘The Master' Cast

With tons of casting news going on recently we thought it might be interesting to see how the cast was shaping up. So here, for easy reference, is your cast of Paul Thomas Anderson's 6th film, "The Master."

Synopsis: A man who returns after witnessing the horrors of WWII and tries to rediscover who he is in post-war America. He creates a belief system, something that catches on with other lost souls.



Philip Seymour Hoffman: Lancaster Dodd a.k.a. The Master, a charismatic intellectual who, after witnessing the horrors of WWII, creates a belief system designed to catch on with other lost souls in post-war America.

Joaquin Phoenix: Freddie Sutton, an alcoholic drifter who becomes The Master's right-hand man and disciple.



Amy Adams: Mary-Sue Dodd, Lancaster's wife.
Laura Dern: Helen



Lena Endre: Mrs. Solstad
David Warshofski: A detective.



Jesse Plemons: Val Dodd, Lancaster's son.
Rami Malek: Clark, son-in-law of Lancaster Dodd, married to their sassy 19 year old daughter Elizabeth.



Madisen Beaty: Doris Solstad
Josh Close: Wayne, a leading disciple of Lancaster Dodd, a.k.a. The Master.



Fiona Dourif: (unknown)
Ambyr Childers: Elizabeth, Lancaster's daughter

additional cast:

Kevin J. O'Connor ... Bill White
W. Earl Brown ... Bus
Darren Le Gallo ... Master's dinner guest
Jillian Bell ... Susan
Katie Boland ... Young Woman
Josh Fadem ... Young Man
Mimi Cozzens ... Poppy
Bill Blair ... Man At the Bar
Jennifer Neala Page ... Winn Manchester
Martin Dew ... Norman Conrad
Dan Brown ... Navy Buddy
Matthew Skomo ... Navy XO
Barlow Jacobs ... James Sullivan
Jill Andre ... Beatrice
Franklin Ruehl ... Follower
Aaron Farb ... unknown
Kevin J. Walsh ... unknown
Brian Fong ... Filipino Farm Laborer
James Barbour ... Master's Cadet
Lourdes Nadres ... Filipino
Mike Howard ... VA Doc
Frank Bettag ... Sick Old Man (as Dr. Frank Bettag)
Jesse Soares ... US Army Veteran
Joe Foley ... Phoenix Follower
Harold Rudolph ... Follower
Terry Lane ... Hiring Hall Dispatcher
Nicholas Cederlind ... Sailor
Paul Yeatman ... Follower

We'll try to keep this page updated as additional casting announcements and details are released for easy reference.

Writer/Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Executive Producers: Ted Schipper
Producers: Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison, Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar
Cinematographer: Mihai Malaimare Jr.
Production Design: Jack Fisk, David Crank
Editing: Peter McNulty
Casting: Cassandra Kulukundis
Set Decoration: Amy Wells
Costume Design: Mark Bridges

Check out the full credits on IMDB.

The film will be released on October 12, 2012.

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Yep, Amy Adams Also Joins ‘The Master'

They really are starting to fall just like dominoes. Oscar nominated actress (and future Lois Lane) Amy Adams has joined the cast of (the project usually referred to as) 'The Master.' Can Madisen Beaty be far behind? From Deadline...

EXCLUSIVE: Amy Adams has formally been set to star in Paul Thomas Anderson's untitled film, which begins production later this month. She will play the wife of the character played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. He plays a man who returns from witnessing the horrors of WWII, and in an attempt to find himself, he forms a belief system that catches on in the 1950s. Deadline revealed in early May that Adams was being courted. Joaquin Phoenix has also been set to play the faith leader's right-hand man, and I've heard there have been conversations with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo's Lena Endre and Laura Dern for other roles. The Weinstein Company acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film last month just before the Cannes Film Festival. Megan Ellison is producing through her Annapurna Productions banner, along with JoAnne Sellar and Daniel Lupi, with Ted Schipper exec producing.
Adams is coming off her Oscar-nominated turn in The Fighter, and she will do this film before starting production on Man of Steel, playing Lois Lane in the Zack Snyder-directed Superman franchise reboot. Adams will next be seen in the Walter Salles-directed On The Road, which is being shopped for domestic distribution, and Disney's Muppets. She's repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and WME.

Adams will play the wife of Philip Seymour Hoffman's character, Lancaster Dodd (which was the part that had been speculated for both Dern and Endre, so there's no telling what roles they are filling.) Either Deadline is a day behind the news or they just refuse to acknowledge another source as Dern and Endre have already been confirmed by Variety and The Playlist. But they've been right so far on their initial casting speculation.

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