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Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby and Kim Mordaunt’s The Rocket lead the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television (Aacta) Award nominations: 14 and 12 respectively, it was announced today.
Luhrmann’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald 1925 novel was made on a Hollywood-sized budget by a very experienced director while festival hit The Rocket, which tells the story of a boy trying to prove he isn’t cursed, was filmed in Laos by a writer/director who had not previously made a dramatic feature.
The Rocket and The Great Gatsby are pitted against each other for the prestigious best film award, for best director and in three of the four acting categories.
The best actor award, for example, could go to Leonardo DiCaprio for his performance in The Great Gatsby or to Sitthiphon Disamoe, a one-time...
Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby and Kim Mordaunt’s The Rocket lead the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television (Aacta) Award nominations: 14 and 12 respectively, it was announced today.
Luhrmann’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald 1925 novel was made on a Hollywood-sized budget by a very experienced director while festival hit The Rocket, which tells the story of a boy trying to prove he isn’t cursed, was filmed in Laos by a writer/director who had not previously made a dramatic feature.
The Rocket and The Great Gatsby are pitted against each other for the prestigious best film award, for best director and in three of the four acting categories.
The best actor award, for example, could go to Leonardo DiCaprio for his performance in The Great Gatsby or to Sitthiphon Disamoe, a one-time...
- 12/3/2013
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
For the majority of this trailer you’ll probably find yourself thinking this film looks like a Syfy knock-off of Piranha 3Dd but with a crocodile terrorizing a water park instead. Except this is no ordinary crocodile - it’s RoboCroc!
When a top-secret unmanned spacecraft disintegrates on re-entry, its mysterious military payload crash-lands in the crocodile habitat of a place called Adventure Land, a combination water park, amusement land and world-famous crocodile exhibit. Following its pre-programmed instructions, the payload – a next-generation nanotech-based combat drone – finds a host in the form of the park’s prize twenty-foot Australian Saltwater crocodile, Stella. She is the largest saltwater croc in captivity. Immediately upon infecting its host, the drone payload’s nanobots begin to transform Stella from an organic, living creature into a lethal killing machine with only a single directive: survival! Before Chief Zoo-keeper Tim Duffy and reptile biologist Jane Spencer are...
When a top-secret unmanned spacecraft disintegrates on re-entry, its mysterious military payload crash-lands in the crocodile habitat of a place called Adventure Land, a combination water park, amusement land and world-famous crocodile exhibit. Following its pre-programmed instructions, the payload – a next-generation nanotech-based combat drone – finds a host in the form of the park’s prize twenty-foot Australian Saltwater crocodile, Stella. She is the largest saltwater croc in captivity. Immediately upon infecting its host, the drone payload’s nanobots begin to transform Stella from an organic, living creature into a lethal killing machine with only a single directive: survival! Before Chief Zoo-keeper Tim Duffy and reptile biologist Jane Spencer are...
- 4/9/2013
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
A movie about a crocodile transformed into a metallic, man-eating war machine is in the works. Of course it’s a new Syfy movie! Who else these days would make a movie about a mutant half-robot/half-reptile? The future of nature gone amok is on its way, and its name is RoboCroc!
UFO International Productions is the company behind RoboCroc. If you follow Syfy Original Movies. you’ve probably already seen a couple of their more recent titles: Triassic Attack, True Bloodthirst, Black Forest, and The Boogeyman. RoboCroc is currently in pre-production; there are no stars or director attached at this time. There is, however, a synopsis – a synopsis that pretty much spoils the entire movie before it’s even been made.
For those of you who don’t actually want to wait a year or two for RoboCroc to become a reality, you can always just read the three-paragraph...
UFO International Productions is the company behind RoboCroc. If you follow Syfy Original Movies. you’ve probably already seen a couple of their more recent titles: Triassic Attack, True Bloodthirst, Black Forest, and The Boogeyman. RoboCroc is currently in pre-production; there are no stars or director attached at this time. There is, however, a synopsis – a synopsis that pretty much spoils the entire movie before it’s even been made.
For those of you who don’t actually want to wait a year or two for RoboCroc to become a reality, you can always just read the three-paragraph...
- 10/17/2012
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
Aussie actor, Sam Worthington, otherwise known as the man with the golden agent, has inexplicably managed to land every major lead role in Hollywood over the past two years, all without any discernible talent or outstanding qualities.
His impressive box office run includes blockbusters “Terminator Salvation,” “Clash of the Titans” and the most profitable movie ever made, “Avatar.”
Whether it’s loyalty to his motherland or his love of surfing, Worthington has decided his next project will be, by his standards, a quaint little indie film — a surfing drama called “Drift” set in Margaret River, Western Australia.
The West Australian newspaper reports that “Drift” has acquired an $11 million budget, and is slated to begin shooting next fall when the biggest waves and prettiest sunsets color the seascape, and if possible, to coincide with the Margaret River Pro surfing event.
“I’m a Wa boy at heart and to go back...
His impressive box office run includes blockbusters “Terminator Salvation,” “Clash of the Titans” and the most profitable movie ever made, “Avatar.”
Whether it’s loyalty to his motherland or his love of surfing, Worthington has decided his next project will be, by his standards, a quaint little indie film — a surfing drama called “Drift” set in Margaret River, Western Australia.
The West Australian newspaper reports that “Drift” has acquired an $11 million budget, and is slated to begin shooting next fall when the biggest waves and prettiest sunsets color the seascape, and if possible, to coincide with the Margaret River Pro surfing event.
“I’m a Wa boy at heart and to go back...
- 8/25/2010
- by Eric M. Armstrong
- The Moving Arts Journal
Sam Worthington will return to his hometown of Perth, Australia to star as the lead in the $11 million surfing drama "Drift" reports The West Australian.
The inspired-by-facts story follows how surfing evolved from a pastime to a global industry. Worthington will play a photographer and journalist instrumental in that revolution.
Shooting will take place around Easter next year to take advantage of Western Australia's big waves, moodier skies and the Margaret River Pro surfing event held around that time.
Tim Duffy and Myles Pollard will produce while Morgan O'Neill will direct.
The inspired-by-facts story follows how surfing evolved from a pastime to a global industry. Worthington will play a photographer and journalist instrumental in that revolution.
Shooting will take place around Easter next year to take advantage of Western Australia's big waves, moodier skies and the Margaret River Pro surfing event held around that time.
Tim Duffy and Myles Pollard will produce while Morgan O'Neill will direct.
- 8/24/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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