Aussie Stars to Light Up

HANNA is the latest film from Joe Wright, director of Pride and Prejudice.

The film, which is distinctly light on bonnets and heavy on the weaponry, will have its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival on June 8.

Star Cate Blanchett will be walking the red carpet at the preview of the film, which also features Eric Bana and Saoirse Ronan, who plays the title character, a teenage girl trained by her father as an assassin.

If that sounds a little heavy, there are a wide range of other films on offer. This year’s festival features 161 films from 42 countries in 47 different languages, including 29 Australian productions.

The children’s program includes the Australian premiere of Kung Fu Panda 2, starring Jack Black, and Africa United, a movie about three Rwandan children hitchhiking to South Africa to watch the World Cup.

The rest of the program has been sorted into themes to make it easier for festival goers. Fire Me Up features action films and thrillers like Mike Takashi’s 13 Assassins, a tale of intrigue set in the twilight of Japan’s feudal era. Love Me offers meditations on love including Old Cats, about a woman hiding her senility from her daughter. Make Me Laugh includes Isabella Rossellini’s new documentary Animals Distract Me, while those looking for a fright should see the Freak Me Out films, which include foxy ladies fighting for the human race in Mutant Girls Squad.

Arts Minister George Souris said at the festival launch that a childhood spent watching Saturday matinees left him with an “indelible love of cinema” and that the festival was important to the state’s economic and artistic life.

“That the Sydney Film Festival and the arts generally are economic drivers and part of our tourism industry should be obvious by now,” he said.

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Cate Blanchett’s HANNA Tops Weekday Box Office

Great news about Hanna! Keep going on :)

Hanna, not Hop, topped the tepid North American box office on both Monday and Tuesday (April 11 and 12), according to Box Office Mojo.

Before Rio arrives next weekend to heat up domestic box-office revenues, Hanna will likely stay on top, as adult-oriented movies tend to hold up better on weekdays than kiddie fare. Directed by Joe Wright, Hanna stars Cate Blanchett, Saoirse Ronan, and Eric Bana.

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April 14, 2011 by Eli • Hanna and Movies


Blanchett’s dark side: Hanna is entertaining but offers few surprises

First reviews from Hanna By Ashley Lindstrom :) I want to watch it so bad!

The most apt cocktail party description of Hanna might be The Bourne Identity meets Blue Velvet — but that makes it sound enticing, doesn’t it? Sixteen-year-old Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is a towheaded Jason Bourne, Jr., the unwitting result of a government program intended to breed super-soldiers. Hanna’s CIA operative creator, Marissa Wiegler (Cate Blanchett), is a David Lynch villain crossbred with Bourne’s chilly CIA deputy Pamela Landy.

Reclusively, rustically raised in the snowy wilderness by her ostensible father, Erik (Eric Bana), Hanna is trained up to hunt, to fight, and to speak tens of languages. (How annoying it must be, never to get a good night’s rest, because your dad’s always planning a sneak attack.) All of this so that one day, when Hanna is ready, Erik can dig up a transmitter that will alert Wiegler as to their location. Wiegler, by the by, wants Hanna dead.

There’s no rhyme or reason to why they have this transmitter or why it must ever be turned on, but when Hanna does flip its switch, Wiegler is awakened with a start, and the global chase begins.
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April 03, 2011 by Eli • Hanna and Movies


Cate Blanchett Yet To Read ‘The Hobbit’ Script

On this site they say Cate is still reading the script for The Hobbit, we will keep our finger crosses to see a glimpse of her at the movies. Also you can see several pics from The Hobbit cast.

Cate Blanchett has admitted that she is yet to see a script for The Hobbit.

Blanchett plays ethereal character Galadriel in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings prequel, but she is unsure how big her role is, or even what she’ll be doing.

The Australian star told Collider.com, “Obviously Galadriel is only a small part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but it was probably the best three weeks I ever had. I haven’t seen a script yet, so I don’t know what I’ll be doing. Obviously Galadriel doesn’t factor very strongly in The Hobbit. I think it’s in the middle of the year that it is happening.”

While most of the original Lord of the Rings cast will be returning for the 3-D epic, one star who won’t be back is Liv Tyler, who recently told Collider.com that, “I haven’t heard from anybody and that makes me kind of sad.”

Part one of The Hobbit is due for release on December 19th, 2012.

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‘Hobbit’ Filming Begins in New Zealand

Gosh! I can’t wait to watch this

The Hobbit cameras roll in New Zealand after painful delays

Despite delays caused by industrial disputes, financial problems and a stomach ulcer, filming of The Hobbit has finally begun in New Zealand.

The long-awaited prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy began filming this week, capping the New Zealand-born producer and director Peter Jackson’s epic struggle to get the US$500 million (Dh1.8 billion) two-part production off the ground.

Since announcing his intention to film The Hobbit, Jackson has clashed with his country’s actors’ union over a collective bargaining agreement, with the producers, Time Warner Inc, threatening to shoot the film in another country. The New Zealand government responded by changing its labour laws last year to keep the production there.

However, this delay led to the departure of the original director, Guillermo Del Toro, who had other film commitments, forcing Jackson to take the reins. The films then became involved in a race dispute when a film extra claimed she was informed she couldn’t play one of the hobbits because her skin was too dark for the role. Jackson also had surgery on a perforated stomach ulcer earlier this year.

Both films will star the British actor Martin Freeman as the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. Joining him are Cate Blanchett, Sir Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom and Andy Serkis.

Adapted from JRR Tolkien’s book, The Hobbit is set in Middle Earth and follows Bilbo in his journey to reclaim the lost Dwarf kingdom of Erebor.

Part one is scheduled to be released in December of next year, with part two due for release in 2013.

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