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Australian actor Benjamin Rigby to star in Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant

Benjamin Rigby (photo credit: Amelia Dowd).

Melbourne-based actor Benjamin Rigby has a solid list of credits, from Neighbours to Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries to The Secret River, but none of them are quite like his next gig - on Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, currently gearing up to shoot at Fox Studios.

"It's pretty insane", Rigby told If on the line from Melbourne.

"I've known since January, and it has been exceptionally difficult to keep it quiet. My mum and my workplace had to know, but it's been hard" (laughs).

Rigby has worked at Melbourne's Cinema Nova for six years, and "I might still have to go back there after the film and pay my rent. Six years of free movies is pretty good"..

Originally from the Gold Coast, the actor attended boarding school in country Queensland, where his drama class regularly went to see Black Box Theatre productions of Shakespeare at Usq in Toowoomba.
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James Cameron collaborator to direct Oz thriller

One of James Cameron.s Aussie collaborators is to make his directing debut on supernatural thriller Nulla, the debut feature from Red Rock Pictures. producer-writer Gary O.Toole.

Simon Christidis Acs was the lead underwater camera operator on Deep Sea Challenge 3D and underwater cinematographer on Sanctum.

Among his other credits he was underwater Dop on Angelina Jolie.s Unbroken and Jonathan M Shiff.s H2O: Just Add Water and second unit Dop on Kimble Rendall.s Bait.

Black Sails. Rupert Penry-Jones is attached to play the lead, a British soldier and Iraq veteran who sets out to drive from Melbourne to Perth with a buddy, a fellow soldier.

En route there.s a horrific accident. The producer is in talks with an internationally recognized Australian actor to play the co-lead.

Penry-Jones .credits include Silk, Spooks, Whitechapel and the features A Little Chaos, Match Point and Charlotte Gray.

O.Toole said of Christidis,
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Sydney Film Festival unveils new $200,000 short film fellowship

The Sydney Film Festival has launched a new $200,000 cash fellowship to kickstart the careers of four Australian filmmakers.

The Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship will be the largest cash fellowship for short film in Australia.

Up to four annual Fellowship winners will receive $50,000 each to produce their next short film in 2016 and 2017, to premiere at the Sydney Film Festival in 2017 and 2018.

A shortlist of the best Australian entrants to the Lexus Short Films series will be curated by the Producers at The Weinstein Company, and sent to the Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship jury..

This jury, headed by Sydney Film Festival.s Festival Director Nashen Moodley, will then select the four winners of the Fellowships grants.

Moodley said this substantial new investment would open up vital funding to local filmmakers to enable them to tell their stories.

Australian filmmaker Gillian Armstrong, whose films include Oscar and Lucinda, Charlotte Gray, and Little Women,
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Black Sails star cast in Oz thriller

Rupert Penry-Jones is attached to play the lead in supernatural thriller Nulla, the debut feature from Red Rock Pictures. producer-writer Gary O.Toole.

The English actor will play a British soldier, an Iraq veteran, who sets out to drive from Melbourne to Perth with a buddy, a fellow soldier.

En route there.s a horrific accident. Fast & Furious. Paul Walker had been in talks to play the character.

Penry-Jones. credits include Black Sails, Silk, Spooks, Whitechapel and the features A Little Chaos, Match Point and Charlotte Gray.

.We know Rupert will bring that determined, but vulnerable quality needed in our main protagonist,. said O.Toole. .The character of Danny Kaine is a rich, dark, complex and compelling character and who doesn't want to play those types?

"I'm a massive fan of this guy's work and he's a brilliant addition to the project. I needed the protagonist to be not Australian,
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Tribeca Interview: Billy Crudup's Secret to a Strong, Lasting Career

Tribeca Interview: Billy Crudup's Secret to a Strong, Lasting Career
Billy Crudup has mounted an impressive resume of film and theater roles, currently appearing as an eccentric businessman in "Glass Chin," in competition at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. His characters always have an edge to them, but this is the first time we see him as a straight villain, completely confident in his maliciousness. Crudup relished the role and the opportunity to work with director Noah Buschel, who challenged him with his unconventional, surprising style. Crudup’s alluring glee and slick charm seduce audiences as much as they do the film’s hero, a former boxer (Corey Stoll) to whom he promises to help restore his social status.In addition to winning a Tony Award (out of three nominations), Crudup has garnered extensive critical and public praise for his performances in such films as "Almost Famous," "Charlotte Gray," "Jesus’s Son," and "The Good Shepherd." The articulate, good-humored Crudup spoke to Indiewire about his long,
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Wayne Blair announced as keynote at Sydney Film School Festival

The Sydney Film School will host its festival with The Sapphires director Wayne Blair as keynote speaker for the event. Previous speakers at the event include Bruce Beresford, George Miller and Phillip Noyce.

The announcement:

Sydney Film School announces that the 16th Sydney Film School Festival will take place 11 and 12 July with Wayne Blair, director of ‘The Sapphires’, featuring as the keynote speaker for the event. Blair will speak at the Awards Screening Night taking place on Thursday July 12th (7pm start) at the Chauvel Cinema in Paddington.

Wayne Blair’s debut feature film ‘The Sapphires’ recently had its world premiere at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival receiving a lengthy standing ovation. The Sapphires (screening nationally from August 9th) is about an all-girl Aboriginal singing group who tour Vietnam during the war as Australia’s answer to The Supremes.

Blair is also known for his work on the other side of
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Annette Bening To Star In Gillian Armstrong Comedy 'The Great,' Inspired By Life of Catherine The Great

Annette Bening To Star In Gillian Armstrong Comedy 'The Great,' Inspired By Life of Catherine The Great
Annette Bening has never been the most prolific of actresses. Whenever she's appeared in the last decade or so, she's tended to make a splash, but she's rarely made more than one film every couple of years, preferring, totally understandably, to focus instead on raising her children with Warren Beatty. But her Oscar-nominated turn in "The Kids Are All Right" seems to have revived her interest in acting: she's got as many as four films on the way, including "Imogene," "He Loves Me," "Bomb" and Beatty's gestating Howard Hughes picture. And she's just added one more to her dance card. Screen Daily reports that Bening will star in "The Great," a comedy from Australian filmmaker Gillian Armstrong, the director of "My Brilliant Career," "Little Women," "Oscar & Lucinda" and "Charlotte Gray," among others. The film, set up at British company Bankside Films...
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Bruce Beresford Making "White Mouse" Biopic

Filmmaker Bruce Beresford ("Driving Miss Dairy," "Breaker Morant") has set up the biopic "The White Mouse" on his future schedule with funding being arranged and shooting to begin around this time next year reports Variety.

'Mouse' will explore the true story of Nancy Wake, Australia's most decorated servicewoman who worked with the French Resistance to save downed Allied airmen in France.

Wake, who died this past weekend at the age of 98, already saw her story adapted both into the British TV series "Wish Me Luck", a 1987 Aussie TV movie starring Noni Hazlehurst, and the novel and later Cate Blanchett-led film "Charlotte Gray" which combined elements of both her exploits and British secret service agent Pearl Cornioley.

Peter Glover and Sue Milliken will produce. The news comes as Beresford's immediate next project is "Banjo & Matilda," another Aussie hero biopic - this one about legendary bush poet Banjo Paterson who wrote
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Bruce Beresford to direct The White Mouse

The White Mouse to be directed by Bruce Beresford, a biopic on Australian war hero Nancy Wake Peter Glover and Sue Milliken are producing the The White Mouse while Beresford is arranging funding and casting, reports Variety. Wake died this past weekend at age 98 and was Australia's most decorated servicewoman, having worked with the French Resistance to save fallen Allied airmen in France. Wake has already been the subject of a mini series in the 1980s as well as books and was an inspiration for Charlotte Gray starring Cate Blanchett.
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Bruce Beresford to direct The White Mouse

The White Mouse to be directed by Bruce Beresford, a biopic on Australian war hero Nancy Wake Peter Glover and Sue Milliken are producing the The White Mouse while Beresford is arranging funding and casting, reports Variety. Wake died this past weekend at age 98 and was Australia's most decorated servicewoman, having worked with the French Resistance to save fallen Allied airmen in France. Wake has already been the subject of a mini series in the 1980s as well as books and was an inspiration for Charlotte Gray starring Cate Blanchett.
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Bruce Beresford to direct The White Mouse

The White Mouse to be directed by Bruce Beresford, a biopic on Australian war hero Nancy Wake Peter Glover and Sue Milliken are producing the The White Mouse while Beresford is arranging funding and casting, reports Variety. Wake died this past weekend at age 98 and was Australia's most decorated servicewoman, having worked with the French Resistance to save fallen Allied airmen in France. Wake has already been the subject of a mini series in the 1980s as well as books and was an inspiration for Charlotte Gray starring Cate Blanchett.
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Cate Blanchett to present at the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony

HollywoodNews.com: Academy Award®-winning actress Cate Blanchett will be a presenter at the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced today.

Blanchett is a five-time Academy Award nominee, who took home the Supporting Actress Oscar® in 2004 for her performance as Katharine Hepburn in “The Aviator.” She also received supporting actress nominations for “Notes on a Scandal” and “I’m Not There” in 2006 and 2007, respectively. Blanchett received lead actress nominations for her performances as Queen Elizabeth I in “Elizabeth” (1998) and “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (2007).

Her other film credits include “Robin Hood,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “The Good German,” “Babel,” “Veronica Guerin,” “Charlotte Gray,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. She will next be seen in “Hanna,” due out in April.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2010 will be presented on Sunday, February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre at
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Cate Blanchett Added As Oscar Presenter

Cate Blanchett Added As Oscar Presenter
Beverly Hills, CA – Academy Award®-winning actress Cate Blanchett will be a presenter at the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced today. Blanchett is a five-time Academy Award nominee, who took home the Supporting Actress Oscar® in 2004 for her performance as Katharine Hepburn in “The Aviator.” She also received supporting actress nominations for “Notes on a Scandal” and “I’m Not There” in 2006 and 2007, respectively. Blanchett received lead actress nominations for her performances as Queen Elizabeth I in “Elizabeth” (1998) and “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (2007). Her other film credits include “Robin Hood,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “The Good German,” “Babel,” “Veronica Guerin,” “Charlotte Gray,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. She will next be seen in “Hanna,” due out in April.
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Ecosse and Silverwood Films Involved in 'On Green Dolphin Street' Love Triangle

U.K based Ecosse Films' Douglas Rae and Robert Bernstein are teaming with Silverwood Films's Lynette Howell (Blue Valentine) on the book-to-film, 20-million dollar adaptation of Sebastian Faulks' On Green Dolphin Street.  Written by Becoming Jane scribe Kevin Hood, Faulk's tale is set in New York, Washington and a brief spell in Moscow, follows the love affair of Mary, an English rose, and Frank a Chicago journalist. Mary, who is married to diplomat Charlie, soon becomes torn between the love of these two men. A marriage drama with adultery set in the 1950's reminds of Revolutionary Road, but this sounds slightly more ambitious - paralleling the conflicts of a love triangle with the inner (JFK vs. Nixon battle) and outer (Cold War) issues faced in the U.S. Faulks saw his Charlotte Gray made into a film, and the author recently penned a James Bond Ian Fleming
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Ecosse Head Down To "Dolphin Street"

Ecosse Films is developing a $20 million film adaptation of Sebastian Faulks' novel "On Green Dolphin Street" says Variety.

Set in 1959 against the backdrop of the Cold War, the story follows the love affair of Mary, the wife of a diplomat, and a Chicago journalist named Frank. The story moves between New York, Washington and Moscow as Mary becomes torn between the love of Frank and her husband Charlie.

Kevin Hood ("Becoming Jane") has already penned the script and three directors are in talks to potentially helm, but no casting is yet confirmed. Filming kicks off in Canada next year.

Ecosse previously adapted Faulks' "Charlotte Gray" into a film starring Cate Blanchett back in 2001.
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Cate, Posterized

We did this with Streisand last month and wasn't it a neat way to snapshot an entire career? For Cate Blanchett, currently "Maid Marion Loxley" in Robin Hood, this overview wasn't as simple. She works so frequently that it had to be narrowed down. This career overview is restricted to films wherein she has a leading role or practically dominates in a barely-not-leading supporting role.

The Wedding Party (1997) | Oscar and Lucinda (1997) | Elizabeth (1998)

An Ideal Husband (1999) | The Gift (2000) | Bandits (2001)

Charlotte Gray (2001) | Heaven (2002) | Veronica Guerin (2003)

The Missing (2003) | The Aviator (2004) | Little Fish (2005)

The Good German (2006) | Notes on a Scandal (2006) | I'm Not There (2007)

Elizabeth the Golden Age (2007) | Benjamin Button (2008) | Robin Hood (2010)

ShareQuestions for you

1. Didn't you immediately miss Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) and The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) while looking at those? Kinda makes you wonder if she was meant to glitter from the ensemble rather than go for the floating head star vehicle
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'Death of a President' Director Works With 'Last King of Scotland' Writer

'Death of a President' Director Works With 'Last King of Scotland' Writer
In spite of all its controversy and its Emmy and Toronto Film Festival awards, the faux documentary Death of a President was not worth all the hype it received four years ago. I won't say it was terrible, because I've come around to respect some of the positive things said about its purpose, but I certainly did not enjoy watching the film, which depicted the hypothetical assassination of George W. Bush using real footage of the former U.S. president.

However, I'm willing to give director Gabriel Range another shot, especially now that I've learned his next film comes from a script by one of the writers of The Last King of Scotland, Jeremy Brock. Though Peter Morgan may have been the better screenwriter involved in that adaptation, Brock's involvement with other decent British films, such as Charlotte Gray and Driving Lessons, which he also directed, are indicative of his talent.
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Sebastian Faulks for BBC 'Novel' series

Sebastian Faulks has signed up to front a new BBC Two series called The Secret Life Of The Novel. The four-part documentary, which looks at the history of the novel through its characters, is expected to arrive in spring 2010, with production slated to begin later this year. Throughout the series, Faulks, whose novels include 'A Fool's Alphabet' and 'Charlotte Gray', will journey around the country, offering his personal knowledge of characterisation (more)
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What is Next for State of Play Director Kevin Macdonald?

Those of you who have seen State of Play know that it's a great film for many reasons, but one of them is because Kevin Macdonald's direction is top notch and it adds a lot to the experience. So therefore I'm naturally interested in following him and his projects, since this isn't his first great film (he also directed The Last King of Scotland). Variety announced today that Macdonald will develop and direct an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's 1955 novel "The End of Eternity". But that's not his very next project. He's also set to direct a project called Eagle of the Ninth, a second-century Roman military drama for Focus Features. Eagle of the Ninth is based on a novel of the same name written by Rosemary Sutcliff. The adaptation was written by Jeremy Brock (Mrs Brown, Charlotte Gray, The Last King of Scotland, Brideshead Revisited). It sounds pretty
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Opening This Week: Dot-com days, period magicians, Eddie (sigh) Murphy

  • 15 July 2008
  • by Neil Pedley
  • IFC
By Neil Pedley

This week finds the U.S. Army bringing war games to a whole other level, a '60s sex icon getting an exposé, Ron Perlman returning as the defender of small fluffy kittens everywhere and Eddie Murphy taking cinema egotism to new heights.

"August"

After the warm reception his first feature "Xx/Xy" received at Sundance in 2002, director Austin Chick returned to the snowy slopes of Park City to debut his sophomore effort, which seemed to impress our own Matt Singer when he saw it in January. Assembling an noteworthy ensemble that includes the likes of Robin Tunney, Naomie Harris, Rip Torn and David Bowie, Chick follows Tom and Josh Sterling (Josh Hartnett and Adam Scott, respectively), two brothers desperately trying to right the sinking ship of their failing dot-com company in the weeks leading up to the devastating September 11th attacks.

Opens in New York.

"Days
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