AUSTRALIAN Cate Blanchett has been named the greatest actress of all time in a poll of 20,000 readers of the UK’s Empire movie magazine. She has three mentions for each part of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy in the UK poll. Yet Lord of the Rings favourite The Fellowship Of The Ring came third in a list of the greatest movies. [More]
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Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving are teaming up with the Sydney Theatre Company to present the play Hedda Gabler in New York City. Tickets are available here. [More]
The Hollywood Reporter Announced details about the Cate Blanchett starrer “Little Fish,” by Australian production unit Porchlight Films. Penned by Jacqueline Perske and directed by Rowan Woods, “Fish” follows Blanchett as a former drug addict trying to rebuild her life. Nguyen will take on the role of Blanchett’s ex-lover, a onetime druggie-turned-stockbroker. Martin Henderson, Hugo Weaving and Sam Neill also star in the film, set in the Little Saigon section of Sydney’s suburbs.
At last Saturday night’s performance of Hedda Gabler at the Wharf Theatre there were numerous signs and two verbal announcements before the play and after interval warning patrons to check their mobile phones were turned off. But the warnings were not enough. A Spike operative reports that about five minutes into the second half one patron’s phone started to ring. To the tut-tuts of the audience, he reached into his bag to turn it off, but fumbled and the phone went flying onto the stage as the audience gasped. [More]
Movie directors are a lot like politicians. They rarely commit fully to anything that might come back to haunt them.
For instance, a director might say complimentary things about his leading lady, but he’ll stop short of declaring that she is the best actress in the world for fear of alienating other actresses with whom the director might work. [More]
Thanks to Hamish for the tip!
DarkHorizons is reporting that Cate Blanchett (Galadriel) may sign up for the lead role of Veronica Guerin in ‘Chasing the Dragon’. Jerry Bruckheimer will produce and Joel Schumacher is set to direct.