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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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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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.

I, for one, would hate to get on Blanchett’s bad side. (My, my, what large cheekbones she has! All the better to show you she means business.) The Academy Award-winning actress is so rarely cast against type as “the bad guy;” it’s a pity that the style of the director, Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice), is too controlled to really let her get her Frank Booth on. By the way Wiegler relishes sucking the blood from her overly-brushed gums, it’s clear that she could.

Hanna’s unkemptness and youth polarize her from her meticulous, mature pursuer, for whose creepy mob of goons she is a worthy adversary, as evidenced by the elaborate fight sequences one can always see coming a mile away thanks to the placement of the Chemical Brothers’ score. The action is choreographed well enough and punctuates the blandness of Ronan’s character.

In his part-homage to Lynch, Wright exploits the script’s nods to freaks and fetishes and fairytales, but his tone is yet too glossy from period-picture-making to synthesize the grittiness of Lynch and the Bourne trilogy. Hanna is a safe-feeling imitation, an entertainment that is moderately exciting and visually interesting, if one doesn’t mind treading again down a well-traveled path.

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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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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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The Chemical Brothers are getting into the celebrity-composer act, which has become increasingly popular thanks to high sales of Daft Punk’s awesome soundtrack for TRON: Legacy and Trent Reznor’s equally awesome, Oscar-winning score for The Social Network. Now the recent Grammy nominees have put the entire score for Hanna up on Myspace for fans to listen to — and, in addition to some appropriately moody cinematic stuff, there are also plenty of reminders that this was composed by guys who will be owning Coachella this year. Head over to Myspace for a listen or watch the Hanna trailer (featuring the track “Container Park”) below.

The film, which stars Cate Blanchett and Eric Bana, looks promising, in large part thanks to the energetic thrill of the soundtrack (check out “Escape 700” and “The Devil Is In The Beats” for a couple of the dancier tracks). Even if it was basically just a two-hour music video featuring a young girl running and kicking ass set to Chemical Brothers music, we’d probably be okay with that. [...]

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There is still time to find the replacements.

JustJared.com reported actors James Franco and Cate Blanchett dropped out of “While We’re Young” film before it starts filming in mid-June in New York City.

Franco dropped out due to the scheduling conflict with Sam Raimi’s “Oz: The Great and Powerful,” in which he plays the lead role.

Blanchett pulled out of the project after Franco’s departure, but it is not known for what reason. Maybe it has something to do with the production of “The Hobbit” films?

Comedian-actor Ben Stiller is still attached to the project despite these departures.

The film is about a free-spirited Booklynite twenty-something couple who inspires an uptight documentarian and his wife to loosen up – with comedic consequences.

Director Noah Baumbach will helm the project. Baumbach and Stiller worked together previously in “Greenberg.”

Baumbach has a unique comedic approach towards his movies. The writer-director has a long list of movies in his filmography including “Kicking and Screaming,” “Highball,” “Mr. Jealousy,” “The Squid and the Whale,” “Margot at the Wedding,” and “Greenberg.”

He also wrote the script for “While We’re Young.” His long-time film collaborator Scott Rudin (“Greenberg, “Fantastic Mr. Fox”) will be producing the project and Focus Features will handle the distribution.

Greta Gerwig was previously set to play the young wife, but she left earlier from the project due to scheduling issues.

So with three out of four departed from the project—hopefully they could still save this film. Time for a casting call for new actors!

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Raised by her father (Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna’s upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own (Blanchett). As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.

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