And even more pictures from the “Great Hope Springs” set, taken today, have been added to the gallery.

Here’s a very first look at Meryl Streep in character on the set of “Great Hope Springs” in Connecticut. Edit: With many thanks to Martine, lots of additional pictures have been added!

According to this source, “Great Hope Springs” begins filming its scenes in Stonington next week, according to borough Warden Paul Burgess, and will continue until the following week. The shooting schedule, which was not finalized by Thursday afternoon, will not be made public, he said, due to security and crowd-control issues. Streep and Jones will be in the borough, but not comedian Carell, who has already shot his scenes inside his movie-set therapist’s office. “All of those office scenes have already been filmed in Norwalk,” said Burgess. Much of the film work will be done inside, but Burgess said it will still be obvious what is going on. This is not the first movie that has been at least partially shot inside Stonington’s borders. “Remains,” a post-apocalyptic zombie flick being produced for the “Chiller” network, was shot in Mystic earlier this year. More famously, “Mystic Pizza,” the movie that launched Julia Roberts’ career and still brings tourists to Mystic, brought Hollywood to Stonington in the late 1980s.

According to the Connecticut Post, scenes for the movie “Great Hope Springs” will be shot in Milford later this month, an employee of the production office said Monday; she declined to say what locations will be used. The movie, which has a December 2012 release date, is using Mystic and Stonington as its principal locations, but has also shot scenes in Norwalk and Darien. Ellen Woolf, the production director of the state Office of Film TV and Digital Media, referred questions to the Norwalk office of GHS Productions. The movie is one of four now filming in Connecticut, according to the state Department of Economic and Community Development which includes the film office.

According to Movieweb, “Outsourced” star Ben Rappaport has joined the cast of Great Hope Springs for Sony Pictures. The story centers around a married couple (Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones) who try and rekindle their relationship by seeking therapy from an unorthodox guru (Steve Carell). Ben Rappaport will play the married couple’s son. David Frankel will direct Great Hope Springs from a screenplay by Vanessa Taylor. Mandate Pictures is financing while Sony will release Great Hope Springs in North America. Lionsgate will handle international sales. A concrete release date has not been determined yet, although the studios are eyeing a fourth quarter 2012 premiere.

Actress Jean Smart has been cast as Meryl’s best friend in the upcoming “Great Hope Springs”, according to an interview with this source. Smart has won praise during her lengthy career, mostly for her television roles on “Designing Women”, “24” and “Samantha Who?”, the latter winning her an Emmy Award in 2008. “Great Hope Springs” is currently shooting.

According to The Daily Fairfield,A certain property on Wilson Avenue is beginning to look like a movie set — and with good reason. “Great Hope Springs” will begin shooting there Monday. The movie stars Connecticut resident Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carell. Carell plays a marriage counselor trying to help Streep and Jones in the comedy. A Norwalk resident noticed Tuesday that trailers were being set up along the waterfront behind 300-310 Wilson Ave., a huge warehouse formerly used by ShowMotion, Inc. He saw equipment being carried in and recognized it as movie equipment. Norwalk Police Lt. Paul Resnick, who said he serves as Norwalk’s liaison to the film industry when they are in town, confirmed that “Great Hope Springs” will begin shooting at the spot Monday. Workers, who said they were from New York, gave the same information, adding that sets were being built inside the warehouse.

According to The Day Connecticut, “Great Hope Springs” has found its locations in Mystique to start filming most probably in late September and early October. The full article has more information courtesy the film’s location manager. “Great Hope Springs” centers around a middle-aged couple, played by Jones and Streep, who attend an intense counseling weekend to decide the fate of their 30-year-old marriage. Carell plays the relationship guru who counsels them. The Sony Pictures film, which is slated for a late 2012 release, is being directed by David Frankel of “The Devil Wears Prada.”

According to this source, in just a few months locals may run into Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones or Steve Carell around the streets of Mystic. The three are the stars of a movie that could begin filming in Mystic at the end August or September. Mandate Pictures is considering Mystic for some of the filming of the feature film Great Hope Springs. On Friday, Mandate Pictures, which is based out of Santa Monica, California said they did not have anything definitive on where the filming would take place. First Selectman Edward Haberek Jr., said he expected a decision to made on the film within the next week or so. According to Haberek studio representatives had looked at locations in Mystic several weeks ago. Great Hope Springs, according to a press release from Mandate Pictures follows Streep who plays a woman named Maeve seeking to spice her marriage up. Maeve and her husband (Jones) go to the town of Great Hope Springs to meet relationship guru (Carell) for “an intense week of marriage and sex therapy.”

Whilte it has been reported before, The Hollywood Reporter is again spreading the news that Tommy Lee Jones will be Meryl’s leading man in the upcoming “Great Hope Springs”. Maybe it’s more of a sum up since the film has been picked by Mandate Pictures at the Cannes Film Festival. Here’s the article: Tommy Lee Jones will star alongside Meryl Streep and Steve Carell in Great Hope Springs, the Mandate comedy being directed by David Frankel. The project, written by Vanessa Taylor, centers on a middle-aged couple (Streep and Jones) who after 30 years of marriage attend an intense counseling weekend to examine the marriage and sex issues that are threatening their marriage. Carell plays the famed relationship guru who tries to help the couple out once they arrive in the town of Great Hope Springs. The movie is eying an August start. Sony Pictures will release the movie domestically in fourth quarter 2012. Guymon Casady of Film 360 and Todd Black of Escape Artists are producing. Mandate president Nathan Kahane, Escape Artists’ Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch will executive produce. Mandate’s Lawrence Grey will co-produce. Escape Artists’ Chris Coggins and Lance Johnson will serve as associate producers. The movie was a hot seller in Cannes, with dozens of territories already sown up. Among the sales were Alliance taking the U.K. and Spain, Wild Bunch picking up Germany and Italy, and Metropolitan taking France.