The winners of the inaugural Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards were announced at the Sydney Opera House this evening, at a ceremony hosted by AACTA president (and Australian of the Year!) Geoffrey Rush. Unsurprisingly, box office sensation Red Dog nabbed the top prize, though Snowtown put in a good showing and took home four […]
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Archive | January, 2012
Rooney Mara to team with Steven Soderbergh for Side Effects
January 31, 2012 
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The newly Oscar-nominated Rooney Mara has booked her first post-Dragon Tattoo role, and it ain’t shabby. The ingénue will take the lead role in Steven Soderbergh‘s pharmaceutical thriller Side Effects (formerly titled Bitter Pill), Deadline reports. Mara is replacing Blake Lively in the picture, which is also set to star Jude Law, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones. […]
Read moreJoe Carnahan to reboot Death Wish
January 31, 2012 0 Comments
Joe Carnahan – director of Narc, The A-Team, and the new Liam Neeson vs. wolves movie The Grey - has been tapped by MGM and Paramount to helm their reboot of the Charles Bronson classic Death Wish. According to the L.A. Times, Carnahan will both write and direct the picture. The 1974 Death Wish starred Bronson […]
Read moreMatthew Vaughn to direct X-Men: First Class sequel
January 31, 2012 0 Comments
20th Century Fox has closed a deal with X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn to helm the sequel to their hit superhero reboot, Deadline reports. The announcement comes off the back of the news of Fox production president Emma Watts’ having her contract extended until 2015. As previously reported, Simon Kinberg will pen the untitled […]
Read moreTaylor Lautner will Stretch no more
January 31, 2012 0 Comments
Those of you who were looking forward to seeing Taylor Lautner as beloved Hasbro toy Stretch Armstrong on the big screen (*crickets*), well, we’ve got some bad news. According to The Wrap, Lautner has walked away from the project due to “scheduling conflicts”, despite a reported $7.5 million payday. Soon after the news leaked, Universal […]
Read moreMurder capital – Texas Killing Fields review
January 31, 2012 5 Comments
Texas Killing Fields – Starring Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain and Chloë Grace Moretz. Directed by Ami Canaan Mann. Rated MA. By Hilary Simmons. Based on a real-life string of murders that spanned 28 years and were all perpetrated along Interstate 45 – or I.45 as it’s known – Ami Canaan Mann’s Texas Killing Fields is a […]
Read moreCan’t be killed – Underworld: Awakening review
January 30, 2012 0 Comments
Underworld: Awakening– Starring Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea and Theo Davis. Directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. A lot has changed since Underworld hit cinemas in 2003. Though it was a surprise box office hit, that tale of warring vampire and lycan clans would eventually be overshadowed, quite spectacularly, by […]
Read moreIndian audiences denied The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on account of all the sex
January 30, 2012 0 Comments
Sony has decided not to release David Fincher‘s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in India after the director refused to cut five sexually explicit scenes from the pic. According to Variety, India’s Central Board of Film Certification did not appreciate the sequences in question (three sex scenes and two rape scenes, four of which […]
Read moreKeener, Banks and Reubens join Kaufman’s Frank or Francis
January 30, 2012 0 Comments
Update: THR confirms Kate Winslet will not be involved in the film. Elizabeth Banks and Pee Wee Herman himself, Paul Reubens, will however. The original report is as follows. Charlie Kaufman’s Frank or Francis adds Kate Winslet and Catherine Keener to the cast list, according to Vulture. The film, which Kaufman wrote, will be his […]
Read morePoster Debut: What to Expect When You’re Expecting
January 30, 2012 0 Comments
If you weren’t scared off by the trailer for the Kirk Jones directed What to Expect When You’re Expecting, then the six newly released character posters might just do the trick. The film is an adaptation of the bestselling book by Heidi Murkoff and stars Elizabeth Banks, Anna Kendrick, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez and Brooklyn […]
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