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Santa Barbara International Film Festival to open with Disconnect

  Jason Bateman, Hope Davis and Haley Ramm in Henry-Alex Rubin's "DISCONNECT" Courtesy of LD Entertainment   The 28th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (January 24-February 3), presented by lynda.com, will open the 2013 Festival with the U.S.  Premiere of LD Entertainment’s Disconnect, directed by Henry-Alex Rubin and starring Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist, Andrea Riseborough, Alexander Skarsgård ...

Actor Hugh Jackman will be honored by Museum of the Moving Image

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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 ...

The Great Gatsby: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Edgerton and Baz Do White Bay Power Station

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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...

Warrior Sydney Premiere Rough And Ready, by Eva Rinaldi

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 Warrior Sydney Premiere Rough And Ready : by Eva Rinaldi Warrior enjoyed it's Sydney, Australia premiere tonight in what was a rough and ready affair at Sydney's Event Cinemas, George Street.     The movie plot goes like this... The youngest son (Tom Hardy) of an alcoholic former boxer (Nick Nolte) returns home, where he's trained up by his old man for competition in a MMA tourney...a journey that puts the fighter on a collision with his older brother (Joel Edgerton). ...

Black Balloon winner at Film Critics Circle in Australia

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THE BLACK BALLOON from ICON FILMS beat off stiff competition from Baz Luhrmann’s Australia to win the accolade of Best Film at last night’s FCCA Award ceremony in Sydney. The film’s director and co-writer Elissa Down also picked up the prestigious Best Director award for the uplifting and compelling story of growing up, fitting in and discovering love. The films cast were also recognised at the awards where Toni Collette scooped Best Supporting Actress for her moving performance.Last nig...

Samuel L Jackson and Baz Luhrmann to receive Capri Hollywood Legend Award

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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, Baz Luhrmann and Tarantino honored in Capri

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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...

Stockholm Fest full line up

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The program for the 19th Stockholm International Film Festival is revealed. On-line ticket sales begin today. The Stockholm film festival is devoted to promoting up-and-coming debutantes, but also presents a world-class selection of established directors. The festival boasts over 170 films from 40 countries."This year´s program keeps up the momentum. Out of the 175 films at the festival a third are made by first time directors. This is where the exciting directors are introduced," says Festival...

Little Oscar Buzz At Toronto This Year

 Friday, September 12--------This year, Oscar didn't come to Toronto. Since the Academy Awards calendar was shortened in 2003, Toronto loomed large as the place to premiere Oscar contenders for the end-of-year awards season.In the past few years, films such as Atonement, No Country For Old Men and Last King of Scotland began their Oscar trajectories in Toronto.  Many of the Galas here, which have contained some past awards successes, have been poorly received (including The Burning Plain, T...

“Australia” on-line competition

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“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...

“Australia” on-line competition at the Stockholm Film Fest

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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 different aspects of moviemaking. These pod casts will be the basis for the creative challenge. Based on thes...

Baz Luhrmann´s Australia to close Stockholm

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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...

Nicole Kidman honored at Palm Springs

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The 16th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will honor Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman with the distinguished Chairman’s Award and Academy Award winner Howard Shore with the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing at the Festival’s Annual Awards Gala, announced Chairman Earl Greenburg. Alejandro Amenábar (director of The Sea Inside), who directed Kidman in The Others, will present the award to her, Shore’s presenter will be announced at a later date. The Awards ...

Annette Bening & Di Caprio Awarded at Hollywood Fest

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ANNETTE BENING AND LEONARDO DiCAPRIO TO RECEIVE ACTING AWARDS FROM THE HOLLYWOOD FESTOscar(r) nominated actress Annette Bening will get the "Hollywood Actress ofthe Year Award" and Academy Award-nominated actor Leonardo DiCapriowill receive the "Hollywood Actor of the Year Award."The Hollywood Film Festival's Board of Advisors is proud to announce that this year's festival will honor Oscar(r)-nominated actress ANNETTE BENING with its "Hollywood Actress of the Year Award" and Academy Award nomina...

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