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Rest easy, Army. A BTS comeback is officially confirmed, as Hybe announced that the group - who are currently on hiatus as its members complete their mandatory service in the Korean military and their solo activities - have individually renewed their contracts with their label, Bighit Music. Hybe announced the news on Sept. 20 in a statement (via Soompi), sharing, "The board of directors has completed [their decision] on renewing the exclusive contracts of all seven members of Bighit Music's artist BTS." While ARMYs always knew BTS intended to reunite after their hiatus, this news is a welcome confirmation. This marks BTS's second contract renewal with Hybe since their debut in 2013.

BTS first announced their ongoing hiatus in June 2022, four days after they released their anthology album "Proof." On June 14, 2022, they released their final Festa content, a video of the group gathering for dinner and drinks to celebrate their ninth anniversary, and while...

Corey Feldman was charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession in Louisiana over the weekend. It's hard to believe that it's 2017 and people are still arrested for possession of small amounts of marijuana, but that's exactly what happened to the 80s icon and muscian on Saturday. The actor is currently on tour to support his recently released album, Angelic to the Core, and was on his way to Houston to play a Hurricane benefit show when he was pulled over for speeding in his touring recreational vehicle.

When pulled over, police discovered that 46-year old Corey Feldman was driving on a suspended license, which led to Feldman having to go to the station. After taking Feldman and four of his crew to the police station, an officer smelled marijuana and searched Feldman. Five other people in the crew were charged with separate offences. Feldman also claims that the weed was not his,...

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To mark the theatrical release of the upcoming critically acclaimed, Mel Gibson directed, Hacksaw Ridge we have a collection of official movie props to give away. Including the letter used by Tom Doss (Hugo Weaving) during Desmond’s (Andrew Garfield) court martial complete with envelope, as well as a selection of Dog Tags including Lerwin Glover, as played by Sam Worthington.

The winner will receive:

3 x Tom Doss Letters (2 x envelopes)

1 x Vernon Jessop Dog Tag

1 x Hollywood Zane Dog Tag

1 x Lerwin Glover Dog Tag

2 x Hacksaw Ridge Dog Tags

1 x Stamp – (as approved by Us Army Examiner)

Hacksaw Ridge is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss (BAFTA winner and Golden Globe nominee Andrew Garfield) who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon,...

Jocelyn Moorhouse with Sue Maslin and Anne-Katrin Titze, on Grey Gardens: "Definitely. I was inspired by that." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Kate Winslet and Judy Davis working together, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Visit and Jack Nicholson in Sean Penn's The Pledge, Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, Albert Maysles and David Maysles' Grey Gardens - Jocelyn Moorhouse, director of A Thousand Acres (Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jason Robards, Colin Firth), and Proof (Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot, Russell Crowe) and The Dressmaker producer Sue Maslin, who reunited with novelist Rosalie Ham, discuss cinematic links and small-town logistics.

Molly (Judy Davis) and Tilly (Kate Winslet), the Dunnages: "You can just see these two great actresses at the height of their power."

"If the dream, according to the interpretation, represents a wish fulfilled, what is the cause of the peculiar and unfamiliar manner in which this fulfillment is expressed?...

Kate Winslet can do anything ... except save this movie from quirky overkill. The Dressmaker, based on a 2000 novel by Rosalie Ham, gives the actress a hell of a role. She's Tilly Dunnage, a 1950's fashionista who's decided to return home to dusty Dungatar (an apt name), the small Aussie town that spawned her. Tilly got run out of Dungatar 20 years ago, when she was just a 10 year-old, for allegedly murdering her schoolmate Stewart Pettyman. Everyone believes she bashed the kid's skull in – including her snaggle-toothed old mum, Molly (Judy Davis,...

While the summer had a number of gems, our sights are now set on the majorly promising fall slate as we’ve highlighted 75 to keep on your radar. For a more specific breakdown, we now have our monthly rundown, which includes some Tiff and Venice films, and much more. It should also be noted that Michelangelo Antonioni‘s restored masterpiece La Notte will get a theatrical run starting on September 16 at NYC’s Film Forum, and will expand from there. Check out our recommendations below and let us know what you’re looking forward to.

Matinees to See: White Girl (9/2), Max Rose (9/2), The Academy of Muses (9/2), Zoom (9/2), Other People (9/9). Kicks (9/9), Dancer (9/9), London Road (9/9), Come What May (9/9), The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (9/16), My Blind Brother (9/23), Girl Asleep (9/23), Goat (9/23), The Lovers and the Despot (9/23), The Magnificent Seven (9/23), Chronic (9/23), Sand Storm (9/28), Do Not Resist (9/30), Deepwater Horizon (9/30), Miss Peregrine’s...

While we’re quite excited about the current Toronto International Film Festival line-up, there’s still some star-studded features form last year’s festival awaiting a U.S. release. One of the bigger ones is 1950s set romantic drama The Dressmaker, which stars Kate Winslet. Amazon has now picked it up and teaming with Broad Green for a release this fall.

Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse (Proof) the film follows Winslet as a glamorous dressmaker who returns home to her remote Australian country town from which she fled as a child after being accused of murder. Also starring Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving, Sarah Snook, Judy Davis and Caroline Goodall, check out the trailer below, which doesn’t quite measure up to the crazy Italian poster.

A glamorous, worldly dressmaker returns to her small Australian hometown to seek the truth behind her notorious reputation. This dark and quirky comedy stars Academy Award...

Joe Cinque's Consolation.

Melbourne International Film Festival revealed its full program yesterday, with a lineup that boasts over 345 films, including 24 world and 157 Australian premieres.

As previously announced.the festival will open with the world premiere of The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the debut feature of Melbourne filmmaker Cris Jones, starring Xavier Samuel, Matilda Brown and Rachel Ward.

Abe Forsythe.s black comedy Down Under, set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, will screen as the festival.s Centrepiece Gala at the fest's midpoint.

Closing out the festival will be Cannes hit Hell or High Water, a neo-Western directed by David Mackenzie.

Among the Aussie drawcards is Joe Cinque.s Consolation, directed by Sotiris Dounoukos and based on the 2004 award-winning novel by Helen Garner. It will make its world premiere at the festival.

Other Aussie world debuts are.Bad Girl, The Family, Emo the Musical, Servant or Slave,...

The National Film and Sound Archive's (Nfsa) crowdfunding campaign to restore Proof, Jocelyn Moorhouse.s 1991 film, is in its final days..

Written and directed by Moorhouse,.Proof.is the story of Martin (Hugo Weaving), a blind photographer. Andy, played by Russell Crowe, is the only friend Martin trusts to describe his photos to him.

The film launched both Weaving and Crowe.s careers onto the international stage, and was also Moorhouse.s breakout as a director. Proof premiered at Cannes, where it won the Golden Camera award, and has also won a host of AFI awards, including best film, director, screenplay, lead actor and supporting actor.

Since mid-May, the Nfsa has been asking Australians to pitch in $25,000 through a Pozible campaign to help restore the fim into a pristine digital format that can be shown in modern cinemas.

Funds raised by the campaign, now in its final days, will partially...

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From Flushed Away and Hunchback to Titan A.E. and Sky High - the family movies that don't get the love they deserve...

When I sit through a film such as Zootropolis, Rango, Frozen, Wreck-It Ralph, Eddie The Eagle or Coraline, I can’t help but be thankful somebody has bothered. As a parent as well as a movie lover, I’ve grown to really dislike family movies that just turn up to act as a surrogate babysitter for 90 minutes, with no intention of becoming anybody’s favourite film. The films I'm going to talk about are the family movies therefore that I think both try and do something a bit more, yet continue to fly under many people's radar.

A bonus mention before we get going, and number 26 in the list, much to my surprise: Alvin & The Chipmunks 4. I was expecting next to zero from it, courtesy...

Proof 20th anniversary screening and Q&A.

Growing Aacta's year-round member events program is a key pillar of the organisation's five-year plan, CEO Damian Trewhella said at the AFI-Aacta Agm on Tuesday night..

Guests who have participated in Aacta events over the last couple of years include Andrew Knight, Jeremy Sims, Jan Chapman, Tony Ayres, Joel Edgerton, Richard Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman, Penny Chapman, Ariel Kleiman, Megan Riakos and Ryan Griffen.

.Our member events are providing a platform for the public and the industry to come together to watch, discuss and share insights into great Australian productions and the creative process, and we.re pleased to have expanded our program to include television premieres on the big screen, including our upcoming screening of Foxtel.s Secret City", Trewhella said. .

Other upcoming events include next month.s Directing The Dressmaker Vivid Sydney event with Jocelyn Moorhouse in conversation with Gillian Armstrong and Margaret Pomeranz,...

Margaret Pomeranz is on the hustings, trying to raise $25,000 to restore Jocelyn Moorhouse's 1991 film Proof, which launched the careers of Russell Crowe and Hugo Weaving.

Pomeranz, an ambassador for the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (Nfsa), made the first contribution on Pozible.

"I'm making the first donation because it was a bit rich to ask you guys to put money into this campaign, and me just sitting back and saying 'Hey, why don't you do it?'", Pomeranz said..

The veteran critic called Proof "an extraordinary debut feature by Jocelyn Moorhouse and producer Lynda House: two young women that took the Australian film industry by storm.".

"It's an intriguing exploration of one man's lack of trust in the world, and how he goes about achieving it. But does he really? Even though it's a story about a man, I don't think it could have been written or made by a man.

Jocelyn Moorhouse and producer Sue Maslin.

Jocelyn Moorhouse has joined this year.s Vivid Ideas program, appearing in an .In Conversation. event presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta).

The event will be held June 16 at Event Cinemas on George Street.

Moorhouse.s most recent film, The Dressmaker, received five Aacta Awards, including the Aacta People's Choice Award for Favourite Australian Film, and quickly became one of the most successful films of all time at the Australian box office.

Moorhouse also directed Proof, starring Hugo Weaving and Russell Crowe, and produced Muriel's Wedding, which made stars of Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths.

Internationally, Moorhouse directed Anne Bancroft and Winona Ryder in How to Make an American Quilt, and Michelle Pfeiffer, Colin Firth, Keith Carradine, Jason Robards, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jessica Lange in A Thousand Acres.

Topics to be discussed during Directing The Dressmaker: In...

Kate Winslet camps it up with a sewing machine, Richard Gere impresses as a vagrant, while Güeros and Flowers offer contrasting Hispanic flavours

No major releases dare battle Game of Thrones in the DVD market this week: the highest-profile title to take on the denizens of Westeros is The Dressmaker (Eiv, 12), and with all the goodwill in the world, Jocelyn Moorhouse’s daffy Aussie oddity doesn’t pose much of a threat to anyone. Moorhouse has been formidable before: her 1991 debut, Proof, was a blade-cut marvel, but her subsequent Hollywood work was blanded-out and deodorised. The Dressmaker, a homecoming story for Moorhouse and protagonist alike, ain’t bland, but it’s manically florid and overdesigned. Earthy outback comedy, film noir and cornball romance are patched together in the tale of glamorous seamstress Tilly (a bemused-looking Kate Winslet), who returns to her scrubby home town in a dust cloud of criminal controversy,...

The last time Vulture talked with Kate Winslet, about her role in the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic, she was drinking rosé while cooking a chicken. We caught up with the actress again last week at the Toronto Film Festival to discuss The Dressmaker, a manic, absurdist Australian comedy-drama from director Jocelyn Moorhouse (Proof, A Thousand Acres) based on the novel by Rosalie Ham. The book and film are about a Paris-trained seamstress who returns to her minuscule hometown in desolate southeast Australia, from which she was exiled as a child for allegedly killing a boy — and winds up outfitting the entire female population in couture. The tone is more menacing than it sounds — Moorhouse has called it “Unforgiven with a sewing machine” — and the juxtaposition of all that 1950s glamour against those gnarled bushes and tumbleweeds is striking. Plus, it involves Winslet spending some quality time with Liam...

Australian filmmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse has had an odd career. After making an auspicious home-turf debut with 1991’s Proof — about a blind photographer, his housekeeper and his best friend (played by Russell Crowe) — she offered up gloppy back-to-back slices of deep-dish Americana: one sweet (the Winona Ryder-led ensemble piece How to Make an American Quilt), one sour (her adaptation of Jane Smiley’s novel A Thousand Acres, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange). Following an 18-year hiatus, Moorhouse is behind the camera — and down under — again, though it would be a stretch

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Hugo Weaving has been named as this year's CinefestOZ 2015 Screen Legend with today's launch of the festival's program.

Weaving will be recognised for his achievements as an Australian actor at the Festival.s Gala Night on 29 August at which Australia.s biggest film prize, the CinéfestOZ $100,000 Film Prize, is also awarded to an outstanding Australian film.

.Hugo Weaving is one of Australia's most celebrated actors and a passionate supporter of Australia film, television and theatre in and outside of his work. .

His credits include Stephan Elliott.s classic The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert; Jocelyn Moorhouse.s Proof and The Dressmaker opposite fellow Australian Judy Davis; Rowan Woods acclaimed drama, Little Fish alongside Cate Blanchett and Sam Neill; .Mystery Road directed by upcoming filmmaker Ivan Sen; Strangerland directed by first time director Kim Farrant opposite Nicole Kidman which screened at Sydney Film Festival and Sundance; Glendyn Ivin.s...

A needle and thread is an unexpected combination that changes lives in the forthcoming "The Dressmaker." Well that, coupled with movie star good looks. And the first trailer has landed for the bittersweet Aussie comedy that pairs up Kate Winslet and Liam Hemsworth. Based on the book by Rosalie Ham, co-written by P.J. Hogan ("Muriel's Wedding") and directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse ("Proof," "A Thousand Acres"), the story follows a woman who returns to her small hometown after years away working in classy fashion houses. And her arrival certainly shakes things up. Here's the official synopsis:  Based on the best-selling novel by Rosalie Ham, The Dressmaker is a bittersweet, comedy-drama set in early 1950s Australia. Tilly Dunnage (Kate Winslet), a beautiful and talented misfit, after many years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, returns home to the tiny middle-of-nowhere town of Dungatar to right the wrongs...

With Triple Nine delayed to next year, this fall brings two new features featuring Kate Winslet, one being Danny Boyle‘s Steve Jobs and the other a leading role in the 1950s set romantic drama The Dressmaker. Hailing from Australia, where it’ll be released there in October, we now have the first international trailer. Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse (Proof) the […]...

Production wraps in Australia on Jocelyn Moorhouse feature.

Production has wrapped in Australia on director Jocelyn Moorhouse’s (Proof) comedy-drama The Dressmaker, starring Kate Winslet.

The first still released from the production spotlights Winslet’s character - a glamorous woman with a penchant for haute couture who returns to her small town in rural Australia to exact revenge on those who previously did her wrong.

Post production is taking place at Soundfirm Melbourne with composer, David Hirschfelder (Elizabeth) and editor, Jill Bilcock (Moulin Rouge).

“We are delighted to be closer to bringing this Australian bittersweet 1950’s comedy (based on the novel by Rosalie Ham) to screens around Australia, October 1, 2015” said the film’s producer Sue Maslin.

When the movie version of My Fair Lady premiered — 50 years ago today — it was an adaptation of a stage show that was a musical remake of a play that was loosely based on an ancient myth. Once again: “originality” is not that big a deal and never has been. Proof has continued in the legacy of all these properties in the half century since. Even now on television there is a sitcom so admittedly based on Pygmalion that the characters are named Eliza Dooley and Henry Higgs. The fact that most people call this show, Selfie, a modern take on the musical rather than George Bernard Shaw‘s earlier drama is not a surprise. Different generations have their reference point. In She’s All That, for instance, Rachel Leigh Cook’s character says, “I feel just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. You know, except for the whole hooker thing.” She...

Kate Winslet and Judy Davis lead cast of the new film from director Jocelyn Moorhouse.

Production has begun on The Dressmaker at Docklands Studios Melbourne, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse (Proof, A Thousand Acres).

As previously announced, the cast includes Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving.

Joining the cast are Caroline Goodall, Shane Bourne, Kerry Fox, Rebecca Gibney, Sacha Horler, Shane Jacobson, Alison Whyte, Genevieve Lemon and Sarah Snook.

Based on the best-selling novel by Rosalie Ham, The Dressmaker is described as “a bittersweet comedy”, set in 1950s Australia.

Winslet plays Tilly Dunnage, who returns to her rural home town after many years working as a dressmaker in Parisian fashion houses. She reconciles with her ailing mother Molly, played by Davis, and goes about transforming the women of the town to get revenge on those who did her wrong.

The Dressmaker is set to release in Australia on Oct 1, 2015.

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• Charlize Theron is reportedly in talks to star in and produce American Express, an indie for director Nash Edgerton. Plot details are being kept under wraps as the film is shopped at Cannes. Theron can be seen next in Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in the West (May 30). [The Wrap]

• Alec Baldwin (30 Rock) has been cast in Warren Beatty’s untitled Howard Hughes pic about the reclusive mogul’s assistant (Alden Erenreich) and his burgeoning relationship with Lily Collins. Baldwin will play Hughes’ lawyer Bob Mayhew. Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, and Matthew Broderick will also star. [Deadline]

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Ja from Mnpp here - have you guys heard about The Dressmaker? It's the new movie from Jocelyn Moorhouse (How To Make An American Quilt, Proof), which she adapted from a 2000 novel by Rosalie Ham, and it's about a woman who returns to her small hometown after being accused or murder; there she sets out to 1) make amends with her eccentric mother, and 2) show the town's ladies the power of excellent haute couture, and 3) get revenge on the people who wrong her, and 4) falls in love with Liam Hemsworth. Okay I am getting a little ahead of myself there with the Hemsworth thing since I haven't mentioned any of the rest of the casting, which is the real meat and potatoes...

... since the stylish accused-murderess is being played by Kate Winslet and her eccentric mother is being played by Judy Davis. Excuse me I'm sorry you're supposed to always type...

It’s nearly time for Cannes, and the lead-up to one of the industry’s biggest events comes more casting news. Today we’re hearing that Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games) and Isla Fisher (Now You See Me) have signed on to star alongside Kate Winslet and Judy Davis in period drama, The Dressmaker.

While no further details have been released on which roles the pair will tackle, the plot itself sounds like the stuff of awards gold. Based on the novel by Rosalie Ham, the story follows Tilly (Winslet), a woman who returns to her hometown after she and her mother fled (because she was accused of murder) when she was a child. No doubt her return is bound to ruffle the feathers of her detractors – whom she wows with her big city wit and unusual fashion. It’s not long before Tilly’s on a revenge kick to...

Liam Hemsworth has joined the cast of Jocelyn Moorhouse’s Australian-set romantic drama The Dressmaker to star opposite Kate Winslet, and Judy Davis. Isla Fisher and Elizabeth Debicki have also signed up. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire star is set for the project due to begin shootings in Victoria, Australia in October. Photos: 50 Never-Before-Seen Portraits From Cannes Winslet will star as an avenging angel who returns home to the remote country town from which she fled as a child after being accused of murder, to make amends with her eccentric mother. Moorhouse (Proof) will direct her own script adaptation

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Liam Hemsworth, Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Debicki, Kate Winslet and Judy Davis are all set to join "Proof" director Jocelyn Moorhouse's romantic drama "The Dressmaker".

Winslet's character returns home to the remote country town from which she fled as a child after being accused of murder. Trying to make amends with her eccentric mother.

Initially ostracised, she soon liberates and empowers the town's women with her quick wit and beautiful clothing - unexpectedly finding love and exacting sweet revenge on those who wronged her.

Also onboard are director of photography Don McAlpine ("Moulin Rouge"), costume designer Tim Chappel ("The Adventures of Priscilla"), production designer Roger Ford ("Babe") and editor Jill Bilcock ("Elizabeth: The Golden Age").

Sue Maslin produces and filming begins in Victoria, Australia in October.

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Exclusive: Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Debicki also board drama readying for October shoot.

The Hunger Games star Liam Hemsworth, Now You See Me star Isla Fisher and rising talent Elizabeth Debicki are set to join Kate Winslet and Judy Davis in Jocelyn Moorhouse’s romantic drama The Dressmaker, which Embankment Films will be shopping in Cannes.

Principal photography is due to get underway in Victoria, Australia on October 13, 2014. Embankment co-reps Us rights with CAA.

Winslet will play an avenging angel who returns home to the remote country town from which she fled as a child after being accused of murder, to make amends with her eccentric mother.

Although ostracised, as an exponent of the most stunning 1950’s haute couture inspired by Madame Vionnet and Balenciaga, she liberates and empowers the town’s women with her quick wit and beautiful clothing. She unexpectedly finds love and ultimately exacts sweet revenge on those who wronged her.

Jocelyn Moorhouse ([link...

Welcome back to the Nxt reviews, this week’s show starts with a promo video hyping Fandango appearing at tonight’s Nxt taping. Faaaaaan-daaaaaan-goooooo.

We head to ringside as the ring announcer introduces Summer Rae and Fandango for a mixed tag team match. Johnny Curtis is back in Nxt, a fact I’m sure he isn’t exactly giddy about. Emma makes her way out, in new ring attire, with her chosen partner for the night, Santino Marella. Oh dear. The fans, for some reason I can’t put my finger on anymore, pop loud for Santino. Santino speed walks and Emma does it too. The fans, before anything has really happened, chant “this is awesome”. Proof that there’s still some steam in the Santino train yet. Santino poses for the crowd and Fandango retorts with a dance move of two. The match from then on is merely a...

Kate Winslet and Judy Davis are set to team for Jocelyn Moorhouse's bittersweet tragicomedy feature "The Dressmaker".

The story is an adaptation of Rosalie Ham's novel. Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of a talented couture dressmaker who returns home from Europe to a small town in country Australia with revenge on her mind. Davis will play Winslet's estranged mother.

Sue Maslin ("Japanese Story") will produce, and shooting begins in Victoria early next year with the Wimmera and Mallee regions currently being considered.

The project is the first film Moorhouse has directed since 1997's "A Thousand Acres," though she has produced numerous films since then along with helming stage plays like the recent "Sex With Strangers".

She is best known for 1995's "How to Make an American Quilt" and one of Russell Crowe's early breakout works - 1991's "Proof". She was to shoot the project...

You can count on one thing when a period drama is announced. It’ll likely star one of the English K’s. Keira Knightley or Kate Winslet. Having turned her hand to nigh on every on-screen profession, Kate Winslet has signed on to star in and as The Dressmaker.

Based on the novel by Rosalie Ham, the English Rose will take the lead in the 1950s-set period thriller. She will play Tilly, a woman once ostracised by her community. After being accused of murder she returns home to exact her revenge. Here’s the book’s official blurb from publisher Duffy and Snellsgrove:

Dungatar is a small country town, where the townspeople’s eccentricities are many and varied – from Sergeant Farrat’s predilection for cross-dressing, to pharmacist Almanac’s retributive scheme of potion dispensing, not to forget the affairs and assorted dark secrets. But none of these can compare to...

Kate Winslet has signed on to star in Jocelyn Moorhouse’s 1950s-set revenge-romance "The Dressmaker".

Winslet will play Tilly, an avenging angel who returns home to the remote Australian country town from which she fled as a child after being accused of murder.

Although ostracised, she liberates and empowers the town’s women with her wit and her stunning 1940s haute couture designs.

She eventually finds unexpected love and is able to exact revenge on those who wronged her.

Moorhouse ("Proof") directs from an adaptation of the novel by Rosalie Ham. Shooting begins this Fall.

Source: Screen...

Cannes starts next week, which means producers and buyers are flocking to the market, which means a bunch of projects are being announced, so let's just dive in... Kate Winslet has signed on to star in "The Dressmaker," revenge-romance movie set to be directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse ("Proof," "A Thousand Acres"), who adapted the novel by Rosalie Ham for the big screen. The movie will follow "Tilly (Winslet), an avenging angel who returns home to the remote Australian country town from which she fled as a child after being accused of murder. Although ostracised, Tilly, an exponent of stunning ’40s haute couture, liberates and empowers the town’s women with her wit and her fashionable designs. She eventually finds unexpected love and is able to exact revenge on those who wronged her." Pre-production begins this fall. [Screen Daily] Geek fave David Tennant, Rosamund Pike and Billy Connolly are teaming up for "What We Did On Our Holiday.

Proof can be a powerful weapon. And a sweet poster singed by Marky Mark can definitely prove that you are not to be messed with!

In a city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart (Mark Walhberg) seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure: Mayor Nicholas Hostetler (Russell Crowe). Billy's relentless pusuit of justice, matched only by his streetwise toughness, make him an unstoppable force and the mayor's worst nightmare.

To celebrate the April 30 release of the "Broken City" Blu-ray, NextMovie is pleased to present a Marky Mark-tastic giveaway.

One prize winner will receive a "Broken City" movie poster signed by Mark Wahlberg and director Allen Hughes, as well as a "Broken City" Blu-ray.

To enter for your chance to win, just shoot us an email at NextMovie@MTV.com and include your name, address, and birthdate and be sure to copy and...

Man of Steel unveiled an extended three-minute trailer yesterday, ramping up the excitement for Henry Cavill's big screen debut as Superman. Director Zack Snyder rattled through the superhero's origin story - heading from Krypton to Smallville all the way through to Metropolis - with plenty of new footage on show.

Digital Spy went through the Man of Steel trailer with a finger over the pause button to pick out ten noteworthy moments from the preview...

1. The icy, sterile Krypton of Superman: The Movie looks to be a thing of the past in the opening moments of the trailer. Nevertheless, the prospects for the planet are still bleak as Russell Crowe's Jor-El witnesses his utopia crumble with explosions roaring and ships falling out of the sky.

2. "He'll be an outcast. They'll kill him," says Kal-El's mother Lara. "No, he'll be a God to them," replies Jor-El as they ready...

Here’s another look at Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones, who all star in the upcoming crime-thriller Broken City! Set to open this month, the movie will center on an ex-cop who begins to follow the wife of the New York City mayor, only to uncover a much bigger scandal. Proof can be a powerful weapon? We’ll see about that…

Written by Brian Tucker, and directed by Allen Hughes, Broken City stars Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Barry Pepper, Kyle Chandler and is set to open on January 18th, 2013.

In case you’ve missed it – here’s the trailer for the movie, as well as the second clip from the whole thing.

Billy Taggart has a promising career as a New York City cop until the night he is involved in a controversial shooting. Stripped of his badge, but kept out of jail by New York’s popular Mayor,...

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Hugo Weaving serves up some tough love for son Tom Russell in Last Ride.

Hugo Weaving (The Matrix, Lord of the Rings trilogy) stars in the 2009 Australian road movie drama Last Ride, the feature film by director Glendyn Ivin, winner of the Palme D’Or at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for his short film Cracker Bag.

Weaving stars as troubled father Kev, a fugitive from the law who one night snatches up his 10-year-old son Chook (newcomer Tom Russell) and drives off into the rugged Australian outback. On the run for committing a crime of violence, Kev and Chook spiral into an increasingly complex relationship as they head deeper and deeper into the outback where the only guarantee is danger. Loyalty, love and betrayal all rear their heads as the father and son’s journey finds the two battling the elements,...

Mahler's Symphony No. 3 in D minor is his longest, a six-movement ode to Nature and the World. It includes a children's choir and a contralto soloist but is largely instrumental, using a quite large orchestra complete with posthorn, harps, English horn, bass clarinet, contrabassoon, bass trombones, and a lot more brass than usual. Mahler's nature is not exclusively a calm pastoral scene -- it's stormy, uneasy, sometimes threatening, with mysterious rustling and twittering, yet with rays of sunlight cutting through the shadows at times.

This work had a long and confusing path from conception to completion. Mahler wrote movements II through VI in the summer of 1895. The following year, he worked on a first movement, weaving in elements of the movements he’d written in '95. That movement kept growing and growing -- at least a half an hour long, by itself it as long as all of Beethoven's First Symphony.

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It’s our seventh favourite movie of 2011. Here’s Mark to explain why Captain America: The First Avenger was such a great superhero film…

Over the past few weeks, Den Of Geek writers have been voting for the films of the year. It's a democratic vote, which inevitably means that things end up in a slightly funny order that not one individual writer is likely to fully agree with. But it's still a fine list. Here's entry number seven…

7th place:

Captain America: The First Avenger

In the run-up to next summer's long-touted superhero group-hug extravaganza, The Avengers, Marvel Studios has really learnt its lessons. After the sense of disappointment left by Iron Man 2, the next two pieces of the puzzle put far less emphasis on advertising the team-up, and much more into the establishment of the protagonists, and superhero stories that were interesting in their own right.

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The Australian Film Institute (AFI) have launched a new festival to showcase the local films of the past year vying for an Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award).

The Festival will run from 6 October to 14 November in Sydney and 11 October to 14 November in Melbourne and showcase the 21 feature films, as well as 12 non feature nominees including best short fiction film, Best short animation and Best feature length documentary in lead up for the inaugural Aacta Awards held in January 2012.

“Through Aacta,” Damian Trewhella, AFI Aacta CEO said, “we not only celebrate Australia’s best screen practitioners, but also engage audiences with our great stories; the Samsung AFI І Aacta Festival of Film provides a perfect platform for this at an exciting time for our screen industry.”

The festival aims to showcase the films to generate greater audience reach and engagement. “Having increased awareness of our screen industry...

Screen Nsw has announced the 2011 participants for the script development workshop Aurora: Dust, Dog Eat Dog, On the Jellicoe Road, Falls Creek and One Hundred and Fifteen.

The selected filmmakers include a new project from Melena Marchetta (writer, Looking for Alibrandi), Michael Robertson (producer, Black Water/Road Train/The Reef) and the debut of editor Veronika Jenet as a producer.

The 2011 edition of Aurora includes a project from South Australia. The advisors will be Us producer Anne Carey (The American, Towelhead and The Savages); writer Andrew Bovell ( Lantana, Blessed, Head On and Edge of Darkness; producer/director/writer Jocelyn Moorhouse (How to Make an American Quilt, Peter Pan, A Thousand Acres, Proof and Muriel’s Wedding); and British producer Olivia Stewart (Brassed Off and Velvet Goldmine).

Former Aurora projects include Animal Kingdom, Somersault, Little Fish, Black Balloon, Prime Mover and Accidents Happen, and the upcoming Burning Man and Say Nothing.

Margaret Pomeranz delivered a powerful keynote speech at the opening of the Spaa Conference yesterday in Sydney, and Encore has the full transcript of her meditation on the state of Australian film and television – and why Government and audiences should appreciate the arts a little more.

I’m extremely grateful to Spaa for inviting me to give this keynote speech today. It is the Hector Crawford Memorial Lecture and I want to honour the man today. Hector put Australian television on the map, he made Australian accents acceptable in the media. Do you remember when we could only stomach New Zealanders reading our news because they sounded more English than us? Brian Henderson was a prime example. But more than that Hector validated Australian writers, Australian actors, directors, designers, a whole Australian infrastructure, Some of those people are still working today. In a very significant way Hector created an industry,...

Have you ever loved a performance so much that your subsequent disinterest in the same actor is actually hard to wrap your head around? That's me when it comes to Russell Crowe.

I love everything about him in L.A. Confidential... but in particular the way he looks at Kim Basinger. God, the way he looks at her. It's just riveting. He easily made my Best Actor shortlist in 1997. For the record it went like so...

Russell Crowe, La ConfidentialJohnny Depp, Donnie BrascoChristopher Guest, Waiting for GuffmanIan Holm, The Sweet Hereafter *winner*Mark Wahlberg, Boogie NightsI'd probably rejigger to make Christopher Guest the winner now that it's been 13 years (yes, Guffman arrived in '97 even though it's listed as '96 everywhere) and that performance is still the most hilarious I think I've ever seen.

But I'm veering off topic. Damnit.

Back on. I watched a few key Confidential scenes after...

Australian director Phillip Noyce says he’s happy to be back in the Hollywood “selling machine” with his latest spy action thriller Salt, instead of having to find an audience for his films.

“After 10 years, I was feeling bruised and battered by having to work to find audiences for those [independent] films. It was almost like finding each audience member one by one, at each cinema, around Australia and the rest of the world,” Noyce told Encore.

Noyce said that it wasn’t the making of Rabbit Proof Fence, The Quiet American and Catch a Fire that left him bruised, but convincing people to see them.

“That’s Hollywood’s greatest achievement; getting people to see the movies they make. I was happy to be back in that selling machine; the chance to jump on a moving rollercoaster was irresistible.

“I’m not getting any younger, and I’ve been out...

If you like your films full of over the top ultra violence then look no further then Ninja Assassin. Slashing it’s way into your home from the 17th of May Ninja Assassin is the most intense modern martial arts picture ever made.

Telling the story of a young assassin named Raizo who turns his back on the Ozunu clan that raised him in order to seek revenge for the heartless murders they committed there is no doubting that Ninja Assassin is the most insanely violent, brutal and psychotically gory film to ever see the light of day.

As Raizo teams up with a savvy Europol investigator he inches ever closer to a magnificent final confrontation with his former master.

Starring popular Korean musician Rain with British actors Naomie Harris and Ben Miles not to mention being produced by creative geniuses the Wachowski Brothers and Hollywood hot-shot Joel Silver make...

I've been a fan of Russell Crowe since I first saw him in a couple of little films. The first was Proof, the second, Romper Stomper. The dude was intense all the way back then. In fact, when I found that I was going to interview him for Robin Hood I got a little nervous. But since I spent one interview with Ridley Scott and Russell chatted it up [Ed. note: look for that interview tomorrow], I began to lose the anxiety. After all, he is just a guy right? Well, you know what? Yeah, he...

Hugo Weaving is simply one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood. I remember first seeing him, along with Russell Crowe, in the cool little flick called Proof. And since then, he has done a couple of movies you may have heard of. From The Matrix trilogy, to V For Vendetta and yes, of course The Lord Of The Rings, he has managed to be a part of some of the biggest films in history. I.d never met him before, but I was certainly excited to do so. He is a wonderful actor and he is an...

A Prophet

Opens: February 12th 2010

Cast: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb

Director: Jacques Audiard

Summary: Sent to prison, Malik El Djebena falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins their confidence but uses his intelligence to discreetly develop his own network.

Analysis: Finally scoring a limited release in the Us in February, Jacques Audiard's violent and hard-edged prison drama won the Grand Prix at Cannes, scored Best Film at the London Film Festival, and is already the hotly tipped favourite to take the Oscar for Best Foreign Film late next month.

Reviews have been stellar around the world for the film which quickly became the most universally admired entry in the often hotly contentious first week of Cannes back in May. From a breakout performance by Tahar Rahim,...

Exhausted the classic canon? Fed up with the current cinema of remakes, reboots and reimaginings? This week The Cold Case exhumes an early, underappreciated work by one of Australia's best-known acting exports.

Long before he voiced the rumbling Megatron in two Transformers outings, put male hair braidists back in business as Elrond in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy and tortured poor Keanu Reeves on behalf of the machines across three Matrix films, Hugo Weaving electrified discerning audiences with his breakout role in 1991's Proof, a little Australian film that was also an early calling card for a slender young chap named Russell Crowe.