Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby”: Joel Edgerton and Luke Evans are candidates for a role

Australia’s Baz Luhrmann 3D adaptation of “The Great Gatsby” might get another Aussie on board: Joel Edgerton (Animal Kingdom, The Waiting City), but he won’t be alone in the run for the new role, because the name of Luke Evans (Clash of the Titans) is also there. Moreover, this is not the first time these actors are were both in contention for a role, it happened  not long time ago for “The Bourne Legacy”, with Jeremy Renner ultimately getting the role.

Both actors are candidates to play the role of Tom Buchanan, who was previously offered to Ben Affleck who had to turned down the offer due to schedule conflicts with his next directional film “Argo”.

Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” so far has an incredible cast confirmed with Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role as Gatsby, Tobey Maguire  as Nick Carraway and Carey Mulligan as Daisy.

There is no official synopsis for the film yet, but if you wanna know more, this is the synopsis of the 1974’s film with Robert Redford on the lead role (via. Imdb):
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby’s circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.

Andrew Dominik’s COGAN’S TRADE – Brad Pitt’s first look

The first image of Brad Pitt in Andrew Dominik’s “COGAN’S TRADE” is now online.

Pitt plays Jackie Cogan, a mob enforcer who is tasked with investigating the heist of a high-stakes card game. Alongside Brad Pitt, the film stars Ray Liotta, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins (The Visitor), Ben Mendelsohn (Animal Kingdom), Scott McNairy (Monsters), rising star Bella Heathcote (Now), and Sam Shepard.

The fil will hit cinemas in 2012 with no official date confirmed yet.

via. Collider

On the Spot: Kodak Inside Film Awards 2010 Red Carpet

The 2010 Kodak Inside Film Awards are like the Australian people’s choice awards. It celebrate the achievements of the Australian film industry over the year, recognising talent in films, short films, animations, music videos and documentaries, as well as for the first time in 2010 in the TV industry as well.

The Kodak Inside Film Awards Red carpet was held on November 14 at Sydney City Recital Hall, Angel Place.

Walking the red carpet: Ryan Kwanten and Director Patrick Hughes, The cast from “Tomorrow when the war began” producers Michael Boughen and Andrew Mason and actors Chris Pang, Lincoln Lewis, Denis Akdeniz and the beautiful Catitlin Stasey. Also, Underbelly’s Sigrid Thornton, Firass Dirani and Vince Colosimo. Moreover, other celebrities join the carpet  such as Jodi Gordon,  David Wenham, Jackie Weaver, Lyndsey Rodrigues,  Ben Mendelsohn, Sullivan Stapleton and Dieter Brummer between others.

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Spotlight Report had the honour to chat with the legendary Jack Thompson about the growing movie industry in Australia, he proudly said “I’m very excited by the movie industry  in Australia, because it’s alive and as well as we kept it alive it’s wonderful!”

Walking through the red carpet David Wenham, known actor that have worked in big blockbuster films, such as Legend of the guardians: the owls of Ga’ Hoole, 300, Australia and Lord of the rings, told to Spotlight Report that “Work in full CGI movies it’s fun, you have to give you imagination to work against a blue or green screen and just imagine what’s there, but it’s fun!” He added  “sometimes you did get to work with the actors, something like 300 I got to work with the actors all the time, but it’s only when you are imagining creatures that the actors are there, but working with the actors is the best thing!”

Firass Dirani also commented to Spotlight Report about his new film “The Killer Elite”, he said:
“a couple of months ago I worked in a movie called “The killer elite” with Robert De Niro, Jason Statham and Clive Owen, it’s a big budget action film and it will come out sometime next year“.

In addition, we asked him how he prepared himself for a film full of action like that:
“How? it’s extremely difficult! because you are working with the best of the best. You Know this guy,  (De Niro) he did Travis Bickle, Jake La Motta from Raging bull  and taxi Driver, so you are much meeting your “maker”, he laughs. So it was quite nerve-wrecking in the beginning but then I  just keep it doing it. He is a gentleman, an extraordinary actor, he makes me  feel very comfortable, you know, we had a conversation, it was brilliant!“

Jackie Weaver, also spoke to us about her film, Animal Kingdom and her impressions about working on it with the director David Michôd:
“I  think it’ s really an excellent film, I got nothing more enormous admiration for David Michôd who wrote and directed the film. He sent me the script years ago, I didn’t know him, but I thought it was such a knockout script. He made a really fun film”. About Academy Award expectations she replied, “Well there is a lot of talking in America because Sonny Classics bought it, and they are such a big art-house distributor, so it has really been pushing it, so who knows what will happen“

 

Kodak Inside Film Awards Sydney 2010 winners!

Stars of both the big and small screen as well as top filmmakers came together to celebrate the 12th Annual Kodak Inside Film Awards Sydney.The ceremony was hosted by actor Angus Sampson, with Ryan Kwanten, Asher Keddie, Matt Day, Kat Stewart, Sacha Horler, Sigrid Thornton, Jacki Weaver and Jodi Gordon among the celebrity presenters.

TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN and ANIMAL KINGDOM dominated the IF awards, the first, takes home four awards including IF Award for Best Feature Film and Best Actress, also was awarded the Jameson IF Award for Best Script and the Dinosaur Designs IF Award for Best Music. While, Animal Kingdom received Best Actor and Best Director.

In one of the finest moments in the Inside Film Awards twelve year history, Jack Thompson presented the Living Legend IF Award to his close friend Bryan Brown. He proudly received the award with an emotional speech with some jokes included at the end, followed for a huge applause by the audience.

Check below the complete list of winners:

The SHOWTIME MOVIE CHANNELS IF Award for Best Feature Film: Tomorrow When The War Began – Stuart Beattie (Director), Andrew Mason and Michael Boughen (Producers)

The AFTRS IF Award for Best Director: David Michôd – Animal Kingdom

The Events New South Wales IF Award for Best Actor: Ben Mendelsohn – Animal Kingdom

The IF Award for Best Actress: Caitlin Stasey – Tomorrow When The War Began

The Jameson IF Award for Best Script: Tomorrow When The War Began – Stuart Beattie

The Dinosaur Design IF Award for Best Music: Tomorrow When The War Began – Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil

The SA Film IF Award for Best Sound: Beneath Hill 60 – Robert Sullivan, Liam Egan, Mark Cornish, Tony Murtagh

The AVID IF Award for Best Editing: The Waiting City – Veronika Jenet

The Dyson IF Award for Best Production Design: Bright Star – Janet Patterson

The CineAlta by SONY IF Award for Best Cinematography:The Waiting City – Denson Baker

The NSFA Independent Spirit IF Award: Caught Inside – Adam Blaiklock (Director), Paul S Friedmann (Producer)

The EFilm IF Award for Rising Talent: Ariel Kleiman

The Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film: Celestial Avenue – Colin and Cameron Cairnes (Directors), Scott Alexander (Producer)

The Autodesk IF Award for Best Short Animation: The Lost Thing – Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann (Directors), Sophie Byrne (Producer)

The FACB IF Award for Best Short Documentary: From Dope to Dalai Lama – Jason Raftopoulos (Director and Producer)

The SBS IF Award for Best Documentary: Strange Birds in Paradise – Charlie Hill-Smith (Director), Jamie Nicolai and John Cherry (Producers)

The SAE IF Award for Best Music Video: Big Jet Plane – Angus and Julia Stone – Kiku Ohe (Director), Richard Halsted (Producer)

The Resolution IF Award for Box Office Achievement

• Mao’s Last Dancer
• Producer Jane Scott
• Director Bruce Beresford
• Writer Jan Sardi

The Kodak Living Legend IF Award: Bryan Brown

The Four Cows & Otto Empire IF Award for Best Film Festival: Mardi Gras Film Festival, My Queer Career

The Media Super Out of the Box IF Award: Ryan Corr

The Docklands Studios Melbourne IF Award for Contribution to TV: Penny Chapman

Congratulations to all the winners!!!

Here some images of the winners by Belinda Roland

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And stay tuned with Spotlight Report to see exclusive red carpets  photos and our interviews with Aussie Legend Jack Thompson, David Wenham, Firass Dirani and Jacki Weaver.

James Cameron’s “SANCTUM”: Trailer and Images

Trailer and images for the 3D thriller “Sanctum” with James Cameron as Executive Produced.

The film stars Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge!), Rhys Wakefield (Broken Hill), Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four), Alice Parkinson (The Pacific), and Dan Wyllie (Animal Kingdom).

The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them deep into the caverns, they must fight raging water, deadly terrain and creeping panic as they search for an unknown escape route to the sea. Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific’s Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank’s team–including 17-year-old son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd)–are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out. Soon, they are confronted with the unavoidable question: Can they survive, or will they be trapped forever?

Sanctum will be in cinemas the next  February 4, 2011.

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Inside Film awards 2010: Nominations

The last Tuesday October, 12 at The Pavilion at the Botanical Gardens provided the backdrop to the announcement of the contenders for the 2010 Inside Film Awards. At the event hosted by Rhys Muldoon, Australian Screen legend Jack Thompson and rising star Morgan Griffin announced the nominees for Australia’s only people’s choice film awards.

In a Samson and Goliath tale, the gritty crime drama Animal Kingdom shares the lead in nominations with box-office hit Mao’s Last Dancer despite the latter pulling in almost three times the box office numbers making over $15 million locally. Both films are up for seven awards at the IF Awards ceremony in November.

Animal Kingdom, which has received international critical acclaim and received the prestigious World Cinema Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, is nominated in the Best Film, Best Sound and Best Editing categories. David Michôd is nominated for Best Director and Best Script for the film, while Ben Mendelsohn and Jacki Weaver are up for Best Actor and Best Actress respectively.

Box Office giant, Mao’s Last Dancer is nominated in the Best Film, Best Music, Best Script and Best Cinematography categories with Bruce Beresford nominated for Best Director and Best Actor and Actress nominations have gone to Chi Cao and Joan Chen.

Joining these in the Best Film Category are Tomorrow When the War Began and Beneath Hill 60. Fellow Best Director nominees include Jeremy Hartley Sims for Beneath Hill 60 and Rachel Perkins for Bran Nue Day.

Acclaimed actor and former IF Award host Joel Edgerton, is also up for Best Actor for The Waiting City alongside Tomorrow When the War Began newcomer Deniz Akdeniz. Edgerton’s The Waiting City co-star Radha Mitchell is nominated in the Best Actress category as is Tomorrow When The War Began’s Caitlin Stasey.

Jane Campion’s tale of the life of romantic poet John Keats, Bright Star, is nominated in four categories including Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Editing and Best Cinematography.

The Best Music Video category sees the return of Angus and Julia Stone whose Just A Boy video took the prize in 2008. Their video for Big Jet Plane directed by Kiku Ohe is nominated alongside Gyroscope’s Baby I’m Getting Better directed by Nick Pollack and Philadelphia Grand Jury’s The Good News directed by Luke Tierney.

The three films nominated in the Short Film category are The Wake – the story of a misfit’s unexpected arrival at the funeral of his friend’s father, the tale of finding love in unexpected places in Celestial Avenue and the dark tale of Daniel’s 21st. Best Short Animation nominees include the story of thirty-something Evelyn’s online Second Life in Evelyn Everyone, The Lost Thing based on Shaun Tan’s prize-winning children’s book and the story of Zero’s determination and courage. The nominees for Best Short Documentary are Big Fella about the effects of obesity and diabetes in indigenous communities, the story of one man’s journey to enlightenment From Dope to Dalai Lama and Little Ripper which explores the curious world of pigeon fancying.  The Best Documentary category sees nominees Lani’s Story – an exploration of a woman’s survival of an abusive relationship, Boxing for Palm Island –about Palm Island natives taking the future into their own hands through boxing and Strange Birds in Paradise – a revealing story of exiled West Papuans protesting Indonesian oppression through song.

Rising Talent Nominees for 2010 are Ariel Kleiman whose graduating film from the VCA Deeper Than Yesterday has screened at festivals throughout Australia, Craig Boreham who has received funding to develop his short film Drowning into a feature and Adrian Wills who has written and directed IF nominated short Daniel’s 21st and documentary Boxing for Palm Island. Nominated in the Independent Spirit category are surf thriller Caught Inside, tribute to cult Sydney art space and performance venue Lanfranchi’s Memorial Discotheque and the story of three sisters whose mother is dying of cancer Little Sparrows.

The 2010 Inside Film Awards, Sydney will take place at City Recital Hall Angel Place on Sunday 14th November.Tickets are on sale now at www.cityrecitalhall.com and are for over 18 years only.

AND THE NOMINEES ARE:

AWARD	NOMINEE
The SHOWTIME MOVIE CHANNELS IF Award for Best Feature Film	· Animal Kingdom · Beneath Hill 60 · Mao’s Last Dancer · Tomorrow When The War Began
The Events NSW IF Award for Best Actor	· Ben Mendelsohn – Animal Kingdom · Chi Cao – Mao’s Last Dancer · Deniz Akdeniz – Tomorrow When The War Began · Joel Edgerton – The Waiting City
The IF Award for Best Actress	· Caitlin Stasey – Tomorrow When The War Began · Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom · Joan Chen – Mao’s Last Dancer · Radha Mitchell – The Waiting City
The Jameson IF Award for Best Script	· Animal Kingdom – David Michôd · Mao’s Last Dancer – Jan Sardi · Tomorrow When The War Began – Stuart Beattie
The Dinosaur Designs IF Award for Best Music	· Bran Nue Dae – Cezary Skubiszewski, Jimmy Chi and Kuckles · Mao’s Last Dancer – Christopher Gordon · Tomorrow When The War Began – Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil
The AFTRS IF Award for Best Direction	· Animal Kingdom – David Michôd · Bran Nue Dae – Rachel Perkins · Beneath Hill 60 – Jeremy Hartley Sims · Mao’s Last Dancer – Bruce Beresford
The SA FILM IF Award for Best Sound	· Animal Kingdom – Sam Petty, Rob Mackenzie, Phillippe Decrausaz · Beneath Hill 60 – Robert Sullivan, Liam Egan, Mark Cornish, Tony Murtagh · Bright Star – John Dennison, Tony Vaccher, Craig Butters
The AVID IF Award for Best Editing	· Animal Kingdom – Luke Doolan · Bright Star – Alexandre De Franceschi · The Waiting City – Veronika Jenet
The Dyson IF Award for Best Production Design	· Beneath Hill 60 – Clayton Jauncey · Bran Nue Dae – Felicity Abbott · Bright Star – Janet Patterson
The CineAlta by SONY IF Award for Best Cinematography	· Bright Star – Greig Fraser · Mao’s Last Dancer – Peter James · The Waiting City – Denson Baker
The National Film & Sound Archive Independent Spirit IF Award	· Caught Inside · Lanfranchi’s Memorial Discotheque · Little Sparrows
The EFilm IF Award for Rising Talent	· Adrian Wills · Ariel Kleiman · Craig Boreham
The Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film	· Celestial Avenue · Daniel’s 21st · The Wake
The AUTODESK IF Award for Best Short Animation	· Evelyn Everyone · The Lost Thing · Zero
The FACB IF Award for Best Short Documentary	· Big Fella · From Dope to Dalai Lama · Little Ripper
The IF Award for Best Documentary	· Boxing for Palm Island · Lani’s Story · Strange Birds in Paradise
The SAE INSTITUTE IF Award for Best Music Video	· Kiku Ohe for Big Jet Plane by Angus & Julia Stone · Luke Tierney and Cameron D’Arcy for Baby I’m Getting Better by Gyroscope · Nick Pollack and Anne Robinson for The Good News by Philadelphia Grand Jury
The IF Award for Best Film Festival	· Dungog Film Festival · Flickerfest International Film Festival · Melbourne International Film Festival · Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival · My Queer Career · Popcorn Taxi · Revelation Perth International Film Festival · St Kilda Film Festival · Sydney International Film Festival · Tropfest

 

The Pavilion at the Botanical Gardens provided the backdrop to the announcement of the contenders for the 2010 Inside Film Awards. At the event hosted by Rhys Muldoon, Australian Screen legend Jack Thompson and rising star Morgan Griffin announced the nominees for Australia’s only people’s choice film awards.

In a Samson and Goliath tale, the gritty crime drama Animal Kingdom shares the lead in nominations with box-office hit Mao’s Last Dancer despite the latter pulling in almost three times the box office numbers making over $15 million locally. Both films are up for seven awards at the IF Awards ceremony in November.

Animal Kingdom, which has received international critical acclaim and received the prestigious World Cinema Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, is nominated in the Best Film, Best Sound and Best Editing categories. David Michôd is nominated for Best Director and Best Script for the film, while Ben Mendelsohn and Jacki Weaver are up for Best Actor and Best Actress respectively.

Box Office giant, Mao’s Last Dancer is nominated in the Best Film, Best Music, Best Script and Best Cinematography categories with Bruce Beresford nominated for Best Director and Best Actor and Actress nominations have gone to Chi Cao and Joan Chen.

Joining these in the Best Film Category are Tomorrow When the War Began and Beneath Hill 60. Fellow Best Director nominees include Jeremy Hartley Sims for Beneath Hill 60 and Rachel Perkins for Bran Nue Day.

Acclaimed actor and former IF Award host Joel Edgerton, is also up for Best Actor for The Waiting City alongside Tomorrow When the War Began newcomer Deniz Akdeniz. Edgerton’s The Waiting City co-star Radha Mitchell is nominated in the Best Actress category as is Tomorrow When The War Began’s Caitlin Stasey.

Jane Campion’s tale of the life of romantic poet John Keats, Bright Star, is nominated in four categories including Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Editing and Best Cinematography.

The Best Music Video category sees the return of Angus and Julia Stone whose Just A Boy video took the prize in 2008. Their video for Big Jet Plane directed by Kiku Ohe is nominated alongside Gyroscope’s Baby I’m Getting Better directed by Nick Pollack and Philadelphia Grand Jury’s The Good News directed by Luke Tierney.

The three films nominated in the Short Film category are The Wake – the story of a misfit’s unexpected arrival at the funeral of his friend’s father, the tale of finding love in unexpected places in Celestial Avenue and the dark tale of Daniel’s 21st. Best Short Animation nominees include the story of thirty-something Evelyn’s online Second Life in Evelyn Everyone, The Lost Thing based on Shaun Tan’s prize-winning children’s book and the story of Zero’s determination and courage. The nominees for Best Short Documentary are Big Fella about the effects of obesity and diabetes in indigenous communities, the story of one man’s journey to enlightenment From Dope to Dalai Lama and Little Ripper which explores the curious world of pigeon fancying.  The Best Documentary category sees nominees Lani’s Story – an exploration of a woman’s survival of an abusive relationship, Boxing for Palm Island –about Palm Island natives taking the future into their own hands through boxing and Strange Birds in Paradise – a revealing story of exiled West Papuans protesting Indonesian oppression through song.

Rising Talent Nominees for 2010 are Ariel Kleiman whose graduating film from the VCA Deeper Than Yesterday has screened at festivals throughout Australia, Craig Boreham who has received funding to develop his short film Drowning into a feature and Adrian Wills who has written and directed IF nominated short Daniel’s 21^st and documentary Boxing for Palm Island. Nominated in the Independent Spirit category are surf thriller Caught Inside, tribute to cult Sydney art space and performance venue Lanfranchi’s Memorial Discotheque and the story of three sisters whose mother is dying of cancer Little Sparrows.

Nominees were also announced for the IF Awards two new TV based categories, Contribution to Television and the IF Out of the Box Awards. Please see separate media release for nominees.

ANIMAL KINGDOM`s Sydney Premiere + Cast and Crew Q&A Live On Stage!

“Welcome to the Melbourne underworld, where tensions are building between dangerous criminals and equally dangerous police. It’s the Wild West, played out on the city’s streets.”

See the jaw-dropping crime thriller first – then meet the filmmakers and cast live on stage!
Plus: Q&A live on stage with cast and crew including:

DAVID MICHÔD (director),  LUKE DOOLAN (editor and Academy Award nominee for Miracle Fish),  JAMES FRECHEVILLE (‘J’) and BEN MENDELSOHN (‘Pope’)

The details of the venue are:
7:00pm
Wed 26 May, 2010
Greater Union Bondi

For More info click here