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The cast of ‘The Great Gatsby’ has been in Sydney for the last few weeks preparing for production to start on Baz Luhrmann’s next project and today we receive confirmation that shooting is now underway. I’m quite the Luhrmann fan with his past films including ‘Australia’, ‘Moulin Rouge’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’ will be quite interesting to ...

Daniel Netthiem Director of the upcoming film ‘The Hunter’ Starring Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor and Sam Neill will be heading to Perth to a special Talking Pictures Event on the 30th September at Luna Cinemas in Leederville.   THE HUNTER is a powerful psychological drama that tells the story of Martin (Willem Dafoe), a mercenary sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech co...

Actress Gillian Anderson has travelled to Sydney, Australia for the premiere of the new film “Johnny English Reborn” where she plays the head of a fictional espionage organisation, acting opposite comedian Rowan Atkinson. The new film is released Australia wide from Thursday 15 September. Talking to various press outlets in Australia questions naturally turned to the current status of ...

The First Teaser Poster has been released for the upcoming Australian Film ‘Burning Man’ directed by Jonathan Teplitzky starring Matthew Goode, Bojana Novakovic, Essie Davis, Kerry Fox and Rachel Griffiths. BURNING MAN is the reckless, sexy, funny, moving and ultimately life-affirming story of Tom, a British chef in a Bondi restaurant, who seems to have decided there are no longer any ...

Fans of English spy novelist John le Carré can rejoice. His 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is being made into a feature film. The novel is one of several that has the character of George Smiley at the centre. The role was memorably portrayed by Alec Guinness in the 1979 BBC television adaptation. Now Gary Oldman is taking on le Carré’s most famous creation. George Smiley ...

As if he didn’t have enough happening between his new film ‘Red State’, the talked about film ‘Hit Somebody’ and everything going on with Smodcast Internet Radio (SIR) Kevin Smith is involved with yet another project on the way, this time involving the network AMC. It has been recently announced that AMC and Kevin Smith will be working together on the production of a ...

Australian-born James McTeigue (V FOR VENDETTA) has directed a new film based on the writings of American author Edgar Allan Poe and titled after his most famous work THE RAVEN. It’s a fictionalised account of the last days of Poe’s life, in which the writer is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in Poe’s stories. Director McTeigue has joined forces with writ...

Maybe it’s because I’m from Western Australia and we don’t really have theme park rides here but I’m a little behind on this ‘basing an entire movie premise around a theme park ride’ thing. Surely the producers could simply say that they came up with the idea independently and save the film some dignity, however the movie goers don’t seem to care when the ...

Various news items have been floating around about another possible ‘Die Hard’ film since ‘Die Hard 4.0’ (Live Free or Die Hard) was released in cinemas, so it’s no real surprise that the project is still moving along and appears to now have officially appointed a director for the sequel. The last ‘Die Hard’ sequel was released in 2007, and really took it ...

Nurse 3D is still a film we don’t know too much about, but the cast is slowly starting to build and its getting extremely interesting. I am very much looking forward to this psycho-sexual 3D thriller.. The film is going to be distributed by Lionsgate, I think everyone should read on. First on the cast list was Katrina Bowen from TV’s 30 Rock, then we had High School Muscials Corbin Ble...