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He has just signed on to voice the co lead role of Max in Icon’s Aussie stopmotion clay model feature titled Mary and Max.

The film looks at the unlikely pen pal friendship between Mary, a chubby lonely 8 year old girl in Melbourne, Australia, and Max, a 44 year old severely obese, Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in New York.

The film is the first debut feature of director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Combs, whose animated short Harvie Krumpet won the 2004 Oscar for animated short.

The film is being sold internationally by Icon Entertainment International. “That one of the most ‘in demand’ actors in the world would agree to voice an independent Australian animation speaks volumes for the creative integrity of this project,” commented Mark Gooder, CEO of Icon Film Distribution.

So Philip Seymour Hoffman will be joined by a stellar cast of Toni Collette and Eric Bana. The film will be narrated by Barry Humphries. This is really going to be another interesting project for PSH. He is surely going to have couple of good years now that he has been noticed for his great work.