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Daybreakers
A vampire thriller film set in the year 2019.
Just grossed $32,175,979 with the
$29,975,979 (5 February 2010) being in the US.
Daybreakers was filmed on the Gold Coast Queensland at Warner Bros. Movie World studios. Staring an array of locally grown talent, and some big international names as well. It seems that the Australian [...]

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Anne Hathaway and Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak announced the nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards Feb. 2 playbill.com

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Acadamy Awards, Film, 2010, Oscars, TVI, TVI Actors Studio

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The Australian production of MARY POPPINS will premiere in July 2010 at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne.

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Mary Poppins

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Rising Sun Pictures closed its new Sydney office after the expected influx of big offshore productions failed to materialise.Several major productions, including Warner Bros’ big budget
Green Lantern, pulled out of Sydney last year as the value of the Australian dollar climbed above 90 US cents. Martin ****bell Green Director of Lantern stated [...]

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Australian of the Year

by Olivia Taylor on 25/01/2010

in Australian Artist, General, Industry News

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will announce the nation’s Australian of the Year later today

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Nicole Kidman has been added to the list of presenters at the 2010 Golden Globes Awards.
Nicole joins presenters Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry, Colin Farrell, Matthew Fox, Julia Roberts and Mickey Rourke.
Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio will present the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Cecil B. DeMille Award to Martin Scorsese for his “outstanding contribution to [...]

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For the past 3 years, actresses giving Oscar Award acceptance speeches have been sprinkled foreign accents. And what does this trend mean for American actresses? See the article in today’s Variety.

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Academy Award Winning Actors, australian actresses, canadian actresses, variety newspaper, Oscars

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Sydney Theater Company Breaks Record
The drawing power of Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and Richard Roxburgh in “Uncle Vanya” pushed the Sydney Theater Company to an all-time single-day box office sales record Tuesday, with some 5,000 tickets snapped up.
…STC’s production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” starring Blanchett and directed by Liv Ullmann, opened Tuesday at the [...]

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Christian Jeune, Deputy General Delegate and Australian preselector for Festival de Cannes Official Selection (In Competition, Out of Competition and Un Certain Regard) will return to Australia in early December 2009.
Mr. Jeune will be in Australia to view new features and short films that meet the criteria for potential preselection for the 2010 Cannes [...]

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TAFTA’s National Actors Intensive in Melbourne
An exhausting, but incredibly rewarding week.
In five days and one evening (58 hours) this intensive course will give you what no other course in Australia can do. You will spend 5 x 4 hr sessions with some of Australia’s most respected currently working Film & TV Producers and [...]

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