Tony and Emmy Award Winning Actor Hugh Jackman will be honored by Museum of the Moving Image at its 27th annual Salute on December 11, 2012 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. The news was announced today by Carl Goodman, the Museum’s Executive Director.   Goodman stated, “We are thrilled to be honoring one of the world’s most beloved and talented performers.”   Hugh Jackman is perhaps best known around the world as Wolverine in the X-Men series, and has starred in films ...

Dannii Minogue launches book Dannii: My Style at Dymocks, Sydney, Australia Earlier this evening famous Australian singer and model plus Dannii Mingoue launched her new book, Dannii: My Style. Dannii drew a crowd of hundreds to Dymocks' George St for a book-signing and photograph session. Minogue, all over Aussie TV at the moment in her role as Australia's Got Talent judge braved the wet weather to do the store appearance, whilst juggling a n...

AACTA Awards Results From Sydney, Australia David Parer ABC1 (Out of Ashes) The highly anticipated inaugural Samsung Australian Academy of Cinema and Televisions Arts (AACTA) Awards commenced with the AACTA Awards Luncheon, presented by Digital Pictures at the prestigious Westin Hotel in the heart of Sydney. Today’s ceremony is for the Documentary, Short Film, Television and technical awards in Feature Film, with the writing, acting, di...

  ARIA Awards In Sydney's Olympic Park: Gotye, Kimbra, Boy & Bear roaring Success - 28th November 2011 It was that time of the year again - the night of night's for Australia's music industry. What a night it was for the the 25th anniversary ARIA awards at Sydney's Olympic Park last night. There were so many highlights. How about Gotye (one of my favorites) winning three gongs, and then of course Prime Minister Julia Gil...

The Great Gatsby: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Edgerton And Baz Do White Bay Power Station What fun and excitement us locals have been having on our modest sightseeing tours of Baz Lurmann's set of 'The Great Gatsby'. We've been playing our own little game of 'Catch Me If You Can', and if your a Leo Dicaprio fan, you will have a bit of an idea of what we've been talking about. There was no escaping our camera lens and local information networ...

 Real Steel Premiere With Hugh Jackman In Sydney: Eva Rinaldi Photography Jackman's new flick 'Real Steel' enjoyed its red carpet premiere in Sydney, Australia tonight, in front of a crowd of about 500 screaming fans.   Jackman says he's finally made a film that gets the stamp of approval from his two children.   The actor might be best known for playing “X-Men’s” Wolverine but Hugh’s kids are right into giant boxing robots and the underdog spirit.   �...

Who would be a media mogul ey? The last few weeks and months has seen the likes of Simon Cowell and Rupert Murdoch become the story for the wrong reasons. For months, the press were told who was in and who was out in the game of musical chairs regarding this year’s X Factor judges. Eventually we said goodbye to Danni Minogue and Cheryl Cole and hello to Kelly Rowland and Tulisa Contostavlos (Peter Dickson, the voice of X-Factor will certainly have his hands full announcing her name in full e...

Sold at Imagekind.com - The Boomerang. It's pretty amazing: when you throw a boomerang, it actually does come back to you - if you throw it properly. Might you'll get what you've lost.The Boomerang by Manuel Seixas" mce_src="...

 AFI AWARD FOR BEST TELEFEATURE, MINI SERIES OR SHORT RUN SERIES * 3 Acts of Murder. Sue Taylor. ABC1 * False Witness. Greg Haddrick, Peter Andrikidis. UKTV * The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce. Nial Fulton. ABC1 * Saved. Michael McMahon, Tony Ayres. SBS   http://www.afi.org.au/AM/ContentManagerNet/MembersOnly.aspx?NavMenuID=1156&ContentID=8951&DirectListComboInd=D&Section=Television_Nominees2   http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/m...

Acclaimed screen composer Roger Mason has received the Screen Music Award for Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie for The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce, the ABC telemovie that follows the final days of Irish convict Alexander Pearce as he awaits execution. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26297139-5013575,00.html http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/ScreenAwards/Winners.aspx ...

The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce NOMINATED for the 2009 SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS! Huge congratulations to composer ROGER MASON!  http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/ScreenAwards/Nominations.aspx#Mini_Series_Telemovie     ...

This high-quality BBC/ABC historical drama tells the gruesome but true story of Irish convict turned cannibal, Alexander Pearce. Launching nationwide with event screenings and being shown on the ABC in March 2009. This fascinating tale boasts some of Australia's finest young talent (both in front and behind the camera) and will shock and enthral. Starring Adrian Dunbar, Ciaran McMenamin, Dan Wyllie, Don Hany, Chris Haywood, Bob Franklin, Richard Green http://shop.abc.net.au/bro...

The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce director Michael James Rowland has been nominated at the Australian Directors Guild Awards. Press release from the ADG The Australian Directors Guild today announced the nominees for its 2009 peer-assessed awards, celebrating the creative achievement of directors in film, television and new media platforms. ADG President, Ray Argall, said: “We congratulate all the nominees on the great work they have produced this year and look forward to seein...

Samuel L Jackson will join Baz Luhrmann and Quentin Tarantino to receive the Capri Legend Award at the 13th Capri, Hollywood – Honda International Film Festival. Festival chairman and producer Mark Canton and festival director Pascal Vicedomini made the announcement : Luhrmann and Jackson will attend screenings of their latest projects – Australia and The Spirit, respectively. "As with his current film Australia, Baz Lurhmann continues to carve out his own unique path in the fi...

Samuel L Jackson will join Baz Luhrmann and Quentin Tarantino to receive the Capri Legend Award at the 13th Capri, Hollywood – Honda International Film Festival.Festival chairman and producer Mark Canton and festival director Pascal Vicedomini made the announcement :Luhrmann and Jackson will attend screenings of their latest projects – Australia and The Spirit, respectively."As with his current film Australia, Baz Lurhmann continues to carve out his own unique path in the film industry, maki...

“Australia” on-line competition rolls out world-wide at the Stockholm International Film Festival Baz Luhrmann´s epic romantic action adventure “Australia” has joined forces with the Stockholm International Film Festival to create an on-line film competition culminating with four finalists attending the Swedish premiere during the festival in November.During the filming of “Australia”, Baz Luhrmann and his production team produced a series of pod cast episodes explaining the differe...

Stockholm International Film Festival 19th edition will run November 20 to 30.Baz Luhrmann´s epic romantic action adventure Australia, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, will join this year’s line-up of 170 films from over 40 countries slated to screen at the Stockholm International Film Festival in November. Luhrmann's film is set in northern Australia during World War II and centers on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a cattle station the size of Belgium. When English cattl...

FLAKE BY THE LAKE AWARD WINNING OUTDOOR SHORT FILM FESTIVAL AT EASTERThe award winning "Flake Film Festival" and AntFarm Productions present "FLAKE by the LAKE", Jindabyne's first outdoor cinema by holding a short film festival featuring the "BEST" 15 films entered into Australia's highest short film festival over the past 3 years (including some new films). "The films we selected are the very best from a pool of films entered by talented local and international filmmakers. We are also screening...

THREE NEW APPOINTMENTS TO THE ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL BOARD Adelaide Film Festival Chairman Cheryl Bart announced today that the Premier of South Australia, the Hon Mike Rann has appointed three dynamic new members to the Board of the Adelaide Film Festival - Sue Maslin, Vivienne Skinner & Wayne Lewis.Mr Wayne Lewis, founding member and director of Rising Sun Pictures, has been at the forefront, internationally, in the field of film visual effects and computer-generated animation. Ms Sue Maslin...