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Stars: Russell Crowe, Kelly Greyson, Pacharo Mzembe, Marton Csokas, Tommy Flanagan, Karen Gillan | Written by Adam Cooper, Bill Collage | Directed by Adam Cooper

Based on E.O. Chirovici’s novel The Book of Mirrors, Sleeping Dogs opens with a look at Roy Freeman and his apartment. It’s an apartment with notes taped everywhere, even on the TV Dinner he’s about to cook. They’re reminders, meant to help him cope with his Alzheimer’s while an experimental treatment he opted for starts to work. Neither the operation nor the notes prevented him from microwaving the TV remote, however.

He’s contacted by Emily Dietz from Project Clean Hands, a group devoted to freeing the wrongly convicted. They’re interested in the case of Isaac Samuel a death row inmate Freeman arrested and helped convict for the brutal murder of college professor Joseph Wieder.

I think they missed a great...

There’s no doubt director Stuart McDonald’s “A Perfect Pairing” pairs perfectly with a nice bottle of wine on a lonely night at home. Providing a respite from our hectic reality, this romantic comedy centered on an assured woman who finds love and purpose in the land down under offers delightful entertainment while playing to our most wholesome sensibilities. Charming, cute and fairly satisfying, it follows the formula for Netflix branded content that’s typically reserved for their holiday films, going down smoothly and pleasing the palate.

Lola Alvarez (Victoria Justice) puts her clients’ happiness before her own. Though she loves her job as sales director at a wine distribution company, she despises her cruel, condescending boss Calder (Craig Horner). Her love life’s been on pause after a divorce a few years prior, and she hasn’t felt the need to press play since, using her busy work schedule as an excuse.

New York-based distributor A24 has acquired the worldwide rights to Warwick Thornton’s The Beach, with the docuseries to have its global premiere on the company’s virtual platform later this month.

Set in Jilirr on Western Australia’s Dampier Peninsula, the six-part series follows the Sweet Country and Samson and Delilah writer-director as he hunts and gathers food, prepares dishes, and talks to three chickens, while relating stories from his childhood and adult life.

After being shot by Thornton’s son Dylan River across May and June of 2019 with the support of Screen Australia and Nitv, The Beach premiered on Nitv, Sbs, and Sbs On Demand in May 2020.

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The project, which was produced by Michelle Parker,...

John Schwarz and Tyler Atkins.

Luke Hemsworth is playing the lead opposite teenager Rasmus King in Bosch and Rockit, writer-director Tyler Atkins’ debut feature which follows a father and son who are pursued by crooked cops.

Now shooting in Byron Bay, the privately-financed road movie/drama is a spin-off from Atkins’ 2018 short which starred King and Aaron Jeffery.

Deeper Water Pictures’ John Schwarz, who joined the project several weeks ago at the suggestion of Dop Ben Nott, is producing with Cathy Flannery.

Based on a true story, the plot follows Hemsworth’s Bosch and King’s 13-year-old Rockit as they embark on a late summer trip along the Australian coast.

Rockit believes he is on a magical holiday with his dad until he sees the cops are in pursuit. On the run, they struggle with numerous setbacks with hope, courage and determination.

Michael Sheasby and Martin Sacks play the cops...

‘The Nightingale’.

Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale was honoured as the Best Film at Film Critics Circle of Australia (Fcca) Awards yesterday evening, with the film’s star Aisling Franciosi also awarded Best Actress.

At a ceremony in Sydney hosted by Les Asmussen, David Michôd was presented with the Best Director prize for The King, and Joel Edgerton Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Together, Michôd and Edgerton also won the gong for Best Screenplay (original or adapted) for the Netflix film.

For his work in Judy & Punch, Damon Herriman picked up the award for Best Actor, while Danger Close: The Battle Of Long Tan dominated the craft awards, with Ben Nott winning Best Cinematography, Caitlin Yeo Best Original Score and Veronika Jenet Best Editor.

Best Actress in a Supporting Role went to Ursula Yovich for her performance in Top End Wedding.

The award for Best Feature Documentary was shared by two films,...

(L-r) Dop Ben Nott, Kriv Stenders and Jamie Leslie.

Friends and colleagues have paid tribute to film and TV first assistant director Jamie Leslie, who died on Friday from cancer. He was 62.

His final film in a distinguished 38-year career was Kriv Stenders’ Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan.

“Not only was he an industry legend but he was an incredible mentor for me and a huge reason that film came to be,” Stenders says.

“Jamie came on early in pre-production when the film was teetering on the edge of an abyss. We weren’t bonded, we lost $2 million two weeks before shooting, we had no tanks, choppers or guns and we were running on fumes longer than I ever thought was humanly possible.

“But never once did he waver. He was my rock and every hour, every day we just worked the problem, until there was the next one.

By turns viscerally exciting and predictably formulaic — and, quite often, both at once — “Danger Close” is .

Working from a sturdily constructed screenplay credited to Stuart Beattie, James Nicholas, Karel Segers, Paul Sullivan and Jack Brislee, director Kriv Stenders does a fine job of ratcheting up suspense and maintaining a propulsive sense of narrative order as he cuts between various locations and perspectives while recounting the Battle of Long Tan, a 1966 Vietnam War clash that pitted a vastly outnumbered Delta Company of inexperienced Australian and New Zealand troops — most of them 19 to 21 years old — against more than 2,000 battle-hardened Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers.

To be sure, not every perspective is given equal weight. But Stenders and his cast do make it relatively easy to discern cause and effect as the battle rages on and near an isolated rubber plantation, and to comprehend the rapid-fire explanation and execution of military tactics...

Travis Fimmel.

Saban Films has snapped up North American rights to Kriv Stenders’ Vietnam War movie Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan.

Travis Fimmel stars as Major Harry Smith, who led a largely inexperienced company of 108 men who held off about 2,500 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers for three and a half hours in torrential rain on August 18 1966.

The drama scripted by Stuart Beattie, based on a story by James Nicholas, Jack Brislee, Karel Segers and Paul Sullivan, co-stars Luke Bracey, Richard Roxburgh, Daniel Webber, Nicholas Hamilton, Aaron Glenane, Anthony Hayes and Stephen Peacocke.

Transmission Films will launch the film produced by Red Dune Productions’ Martin Walsh and Deeper Water Films’ John and Michael Schwarz on August 8. It will premiere at the Sydney Film Festival.

The key crew includes Dop Ben Nott, costume designer Lizzie Gardiner, production designer Sam Hobbs, special effects supervisor Brian Cox, composer Caitlin Yeo and...

Travis Fimmel as Major Harry Smith.

Transmission Films has released two images and the trailer of Kriv Stenders’ Vietnam War movie Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan.

Travis Fimmel plays Major Harry Smith, who led a largely inexperienced company of 108 men who held off about 2,500 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers for three and a half hours in torrential rain on August 18 1966.

The drama scripted by Stuart Beattie, based on a story by James Nicholas, Jack Brislee, Karel Segers and Paul Sullivan, co-stars Luke Bracey, Richard Roxburgh, Daniel Webber, Nicholas Hamilton, Aaron Glenane, Anthony Hayes and Stephen Peacocke.

Transmission Films will launch the film produced by Red Dune Productions’ Martin Walsh and Deeper Water Films’ John and Michael Schwarz on August 8.

“To see the battle portrayed on screen for the first time is a heart pounding and emotional experience for audiences. The passion and expertise of the filmmaking team...

Warwick Thornton.

Director Warwick Thornton will turn his back on the limelight to experience life on an isolated beach in the remote Dampier Peninsula for Nitv series The Beach, one of seven documentary projects recently backed by Screen Australia.

The federal agency today announced that $965,000 of production was recently allocated through its Producer program and $720,000 through the Commissioned program. The agency also supported an additional 11 projects in its recent development round, including two natural history projects, a Vr production and two original format series.

“The Beach is one of the most important projects of my life. It’s about my life. It is my life,” said Thornton.

Other projects to receive production funding include a feature film about shark fanatic and filmmaker Valerie Taylor in The Real Jaws: The Valerie Taylor Story and an online animated series about the untold history of soccer, A Game of Three Halves.

‘The Real...

Last month, I had the opportunity to check out the 4Dx in-theater technology for Andy Muschietti’s adaptation of It, and this week, I had a chance to hop into the hot seat once again for Jigsaw, the latest entry of the Saw franchise, which was helmed by Michael and Peter Spierig. As someone who is something of a Saw enthusiast, I was eager to see what the brothers behind such films as Daybreakers and Predestination had in store with their new deadly game of survival and redemption.

**Spoiler Alert: Because I’ll be discussing how the 4Dx technology played into certain specific moments in Jigsaw, there will be some spoilers that follow (plus, I have my own “waxing poetic” moments about this franchise that I’m eager to discuss). I’d recommend seeing the film for yourself first before reading any further.**

First, let’s dig into Jigsaw. It...

Sarah Snook in Jocelyn Moorhouse's 'The Dressmaker'.

Angus Sampson and Sarah Snook have joined the cast of Winchester, currently shooting in Melbourne..

The duo join the already-announced Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke in the film, directed by the Spierig brothers Michael and Peter. Snook starred in the Spierigs' last film, Predestination.

Mirren plays Sarah Winchester, who is convinced she's haunted by the souls killed at the hands of the Winchester repeating rifle. After the sudden deaths of her husband and child, she throws herself into the construction of an enormous mansion to keep the evil spirits at bay..

When a sceptical psychiatrist (Clarke) is dispatched to the estate to evaluate her state of mind, he discovers that her obsession may not be so insane at all.

The shoot is set to take place on location around Melbourne and at Docklands, as well as in San Jose, California.

Sarah Snook in Jocelyn Moorhouse's 'The Dressmaker'.

Angus Sampson and Sarah Snook have joined the cast of Winchester, currently shooting in Melbourne..

The duo join the already-announced Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke in the film, directed by the Spierig brothers Michael and Peter. Snook starred in the directors' last film, Predestination.

Mirren plays Sarah Winchester, who is convinced she's haunted by the souls killed at the hands of the Winchester repeating rifle. After the sudden deaths of her husband and child, she throws herself into the construction of an enormous mansion to keep the evil spirits at bay..

When a sceptical psychiatrist (Clarke) is dispatched to the estate to evaluate her state of mind, he discovers that her obsession may not be so insane at all.

The shoot is set to take place on location around Melbourne and at Docklands, as well as in San Jose, California.

The Railway Man.s Garry Phillips won the Gold Tripod for best feature at the Australian Cinematographers Society (Acs) national awards, an event dedicated to the memory of Andrew Lesnie. Phillips also got the Acs.s highest honour, the Milli Award, for which all Golden Tripod recipients were eligible.

Ben Nott received an award of distinction in the feature category for Predestination. Adam Arkapaw.s True Detectives episode 4 was feted for best telefeature, miniseries, TV drama or comedy, and Andrew Commis got the award. of distinction for Devil's Playground. Best dramatised documentary was Jim Frater.s The War That Changed Us episode 1. Joel Lawrence won the best international news award for Tsunami Anniversary. The audience at the awards, which were presented on Saturday night at Moma, stood for a minute's silence for Oscar-winner Lesnie, 59, who died last Monday. . National president Ron Johanson said, .We need to acknowledge the love and...

After tying for best film with The Water Diviner at the Aacta Awards, Jennifer Kent.s The Babadook has won the major prizes at the Australian Film Critics Association annual film and writing awards.

The horror movie took the awards for best film, director, lead actress Essie Davis and supporting actor Noah Wiseman.

Emulating his Aacta Award, David Gulpilil was named best actor for Charlie.s Country. Sarah Snook (who was recognised as best actress for Predestination at the AACTAs) was the surprise winner for best supporting actress for These Final Hours.

Gulpilil and Rolf de Heer collected the original screenplay award and Charlie.s Country.s Ian Jones was feted as best DoP. Gulpilil received his best actor statue on Friday evening from Aaron Pedersen (last year's Afca best actor winner for Mystery Road) during the BlakNite event at Treasury Gardens. He dedicated the award to .the spirit of the country and his family.

Russell Crowe's The Water Diviner is in the running for nine awards from the Film Critics Circle of Australia.

The Babadook and Predestination each scored eight nominations for the awards which will be presented on Tuesday 10 March in Sydney.

There are five nominations apiece for Charlie.s Country, Felony, The Rover and Tracks. Some 12 films released in calendar 2014 got nods.

Up for best film are The Babadook (producers Kristina Ceyton and Kristian Moliere), Charlie.s Country (Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr and Nils Erik Nielsen), Predestination (Paddy McDonald, Tim McGahan and Michael Spierig), Tracks (Iain Canning, Emile Sherman) and The Water Diviner ( Troy Lum, Andrew Mason and Keith Rodger).

Unlike the Aacta Awards, Crowe was nominated for best director alongside John Curran, de Heer, Jennifer Kent and the Spierig brothers.

Fcca president and ABC Radio host Rod Quinn said, .This year.s nominees show the diversity of the Australian...

Double win marks the first time two films have shared Australia’s top film prize.Scroll down for full list of winners

Russell Crowe’s The Water Diviner and Jennifer Kent thriller The Babadook have both won the Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts) Award for best film, marking the first time that two titles have shared the country’s top film prize.

The event in Sydney, hosted this year by actresses Cate Blanchett and Deborah Mailman, is only the 4th annual Aacta Awards but they were the result of an overhaul of the AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards, which were established in 1969.

The two winning films could not be more different from each other. Kent’s meticulously crafted low-budget claustrophobic thriller, The Babadook, is about a single mother who battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house.

Gladiator star Crowe’s directorial debut, The Water Diviner, is about...

The first round of Aacta Award winners have been announced today at the 4th Aacta Award Luncheon held at the Star Event Centre in Sydney.

Celebrating screen craft excellence in Australia, 22 awards were presented, recognising the work of screen practitioners working in television, documentary, short fiction film, short animation and feature film.

The Luncheon was hosted by writer/actor/producer/director Adam Zwar, who was also joined throughout the event by a list of distinguished presenters. including Aacta President Geoffrey Rush, David Stratton, Damian Walshe-Howling, Alexandra Schepisi, Charlotte Best and Diana Glenn.

In the feature film category, Predestination took home the most Awards; with Ben Nott Acs taking out the prize for Best Cinematography, Matt Villa Ase winning the award for Best Editing, and Matthew Putland scooping Best Production Design.

Tess Schofield was honoured with the Aacta Award for Best Costume Design for her work on The Water Diviner while...

Predestination

Written for the screen and directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig (credited as The Spierig Brothers)

Australia, 2014

Walking into Predestination clean is perhaps the best advice to offer any cinephile willing to hunt down this likely future cult classic. It would be easy to just describe Predestination as Looper tossed in a blender with Minority Report, but the Spierig Brothers are going in a very different direction here. A direction that may lose a few viewers along the way.

Ethan Hawke plays a temporal agent, a time-traveling arm of the law that travels all through the ages to prevent killers from committing crimes. His next assignment, should it prove successful, will be the agent’s last. Problem with that is the criminal he is tasked with chasing is the one who has eluded him time after time. In his last tangle with the Fizzle Bomber (yes, the name sounds absurd,...

Director Russell Crowe Movie up for Best Film: Australian Academy Awards 2015 nominations (photo: Actor-director Russell Crowe in 'The Water Diviner') Aacta Awards: Feature Film Categories Best Film The Babadook Kristina Ceyton and Kristian Moliere Charlie's Country Nils Erik Nielsen, Peter Djigirr and Rolf de Heer Predestination Paddy McDonald, Tim McGahan, Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig The Railway Man Chris Brown, Andy Paterson and Bill Curbishley Tracks Emile Sherman and Iain Canning The Water Diviner Andrew Mason, Keith Rodger and Troy Lum Best Director The Babadook Jennifer Kent Charlie's Country Rolf de Heer Predestination Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig The Rover David Michôd Best Actress Kate Box The Little Death Essie Davis The Babadook Sarah Snook Predestination Mia Wasikowska Tracks Best Actor Russell Crowe The Water Diviner David Gulpilil Charlie's Country Damon Herriman The Little Death Guy Pearce The Rover Best Supporting Actor Patrick Brammall The Little Death Yilmaz Erdogan...

Box Office Mojo has updated its list of the top-grossing films released in the Us this year, which includes seven Australian titles.

Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby is the stand-out, raking in $US144.8 million in the Us and a worldwide total of $348.8 million.

Wayne Blair's The Sapphires fetched $2.5 million in the Us and $20.5 million globally, according to Box Office Mojo.

Cate Shortland.s Lore earned $970,000 in the Us, an impressive total for a German-language title.

Adore, French director Anne Fontaine.s first English-language film, took a disappointing $302,000. Hopscotch eOne will launch the romantic drama starring Naomi Watts and Robin Wright as lifelong friends who fall in love with each other.s sons in November, retitled Adoration.

Justin McMillan and Christopher Nelius' Storm Surfers 3D collected $117,000 and Kieran Darcy-Smith's Wish You Were Here made $46,000.

Several Aussie films had a limited theatrical release as a platform for DVD and Video-on-Demand so their B.

Sam Worthington may be a big star in Hollywood action-adventures but Drift, the Australian surfing- set drama in which he co-stars with Myles Pollard and Xavier Samuel, has had a limited release in the Us.

Wrekin Hill Entertainment, which bought North American rights last September, launched the film at 11 cinemas on August 2, a month after the title debuted on Video-on-Demand platforms.

The Us critics gave the film featuring Pollard and Samuel as brothers who build a surfboard/surfwear business in the 1970s, with Worthington as their hippie photographer mate, a cool reception.

As of today, the distributor had not reported any figures to Rentrak, Box Office Mojo, The Numbers or other web sites which track the Us box-office.

Australian films released in Us cinemas and on VoD platforms have not fared well this year. Mental earned just $18,000 in ticket sales and 100 Bloody Acres made $6,000, according to Box Office Mojo.

Expectations...

Festival accolades have translated to a significant commercial deal for first-time director Kim Mordaunt.s Laos-set feature The Rocket, which will be released in Us cinemas nationwide in the northern autumn.

The deal was negotiated at the Cannes Film Market last week with Us distributor Kino Lorber by Tine Klint of Danish-based international sales agent LevelK. That.s the fifth Australian film to secure theatrical release in the Us this year, or six if The Great Gatsby is included. The Sapphires has raked in $US2 million after nine weeks, now playing on 102 screens, for The Weinstein Co..

Dada Films gave P. J. Hogan.s Mental a token exposure at 12 screens in key cities in March, released on the same day on Video-On-Demand platforms. Kieran Darcy-Smith.s Wish You Were Here premieres on June 7 via eOne and Wrekin Hill Entertainment will launch Ben Nott and Morgan O.Neill.s Drift in August.

Written and Directed by: Stuart Beattie

Starring: Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Lincoln Lewis, Phoebe Tonkin and Deniz Akdeniz

Based on the first of a series of young adult novels by John Marsden, Tomorrow When the War Began is a character-driven survival drama similar in premise to the ’84 film Red Dawn. While comparisons to that teen hit are inevitable, the two narratives are ultimately very different, both tonally and thematically. Tomorrow emphasizes character and group dynamics while relegating the military threat (the Soviet Union in Red Dawn) to an ambiguous Asian collective left mostly unseen. If Red Dawn wanted to be a crowd-pleasing comic book action film, Tomorrow When the War Began certainly has a different set of priorities.

In the small Australian port town of Wirrawee, seven teenagers decide to go camping for the weekend. Ellie (a captivating Caitlin Stasey), her best friend Corrie (Rachel Hurd-Wood) and Corrie’s boyfriend...

Ben Nott was crowned Australian cinematographer of the year for his work on director Stuart Beattie.s local hit Tomorrow When The War Began at the annual national awards of the Australian Cinematographers Society (Acs).

Among the 15 other cinematographers also presented with Golden Tripods at the presentation at Sydney.s Manly Pacific Hotel were Mark Wareham for Cloudstreet in the television drama section, Nick Matthews for The Palace in the section for fictional drama shorts and Brad Dillon for episode 13 of the dramatized documentary series Fatal Attractions.

The other winners were Iain Mackenzie and Aron Leong (commercials), Mark Lamble (wildlife/nature), Campbell Munro (non-fiction television), Peter Barta, Daniel Soekov and Tarryn Southcombe (news and current affairs), Callan Green (music clips), Andrew Deubel (promos), Daniel Graetz (experimental) and Boris Vymenets (student).

Television personality Ray Martin was master of ceremonies at the awards, held at Sydney's Manly Pacific Hotel, and actor Rebecca Gibney was a special guest.

The Spierig brothers have completed preliminary filming in Bolivia for their next feature film, Jungle, which is expected to roll into full production later this year. The brothers, who directed last year.s vampire sci-fi Daybreakers, spent a week in La Paz with cinematographer Ben Nott Acs filming the annual Gran Poder Festival. Jungle is based on the true story of adventurer Yossi Ghinsberg, who survived a 20-day ordeal lost in the Amazon jungle. Producer Chris Brown said the team shot approximately three-an-a-half hours of footage. .In the movie there.s a carnival against which part of the first act takes place,. Brown said. .We tightened our belts and we went and shot it.. The chaotic festival has a religious, carnival feel with dancing,...

After a break out role as villain Riley in the 'Twilight' franchise, rising thespian Xavier Samuel is looking to establish himself: he already has a leading role in Roland Emmerich's period-conspiracy-drama "Anonymous" in the works but has now also joined the cast of Morgan O'Neill and Ben Nott's Australian '70's surfing drama "Drift." The film will follow the true story of the Fisher brothers as they battle "suspicious locals, killer waves and ruthless bikers as they struggle to kick-start a business from their greatest passion - surfing" in what has been described as "the first character-driven action movie set in…...

Screen Australia has given the green light to "Drift", the 70's-set Sam Worthington-led surfing drama to be shot in Worthington's hometown of Perth reports The ABC.

The story follows the Fisher brothers who "escape their brutal past to start a new life in a remote Australian coastal town". The pair soon battle "suspicious locals, killer waves and ruthless bikers as they struggle to kick-start a business from their greatest passion - surfing,"

Actor turned filmmaker Morgan O'Neill ("The Factory," "Solo") directs the $11 million project while Ben Nott ("Tomorrow When the War Began," "Daybreakers") will serve as the director of photography. Tim Duffy and Myles Pollard will produce

Screen's acting CEO Fiona Cameron calls it "the first character-driven action movie set in the surfing world since Kathryn Bigelow's Point Break."

Also today Screen greenlit Catriona McKenzie's indigenous coming-of-age story "Satellite Boy" which is set in the Kimberley region.

The Film Critics Circle of Australia has announced the nominees for its 2010 Awards, and Animal Kingdom leads the pack with 10 nominations.

Beneath Hill 60 and The Waiting City follow behind with eight nominations each; Tomorrow, When the War Began has five, and Bran Nue Dae and South Solitary have four each.

It’s the first awards ceremony to recognise the previosly ignored Lou and The Waiting City as two of the best films of the year in the main categories; it’s also the first official recognition for South Solitary, which its producers did not even submit for consideration at last December’s AFI Awards.

The ceremony will be held on March 13 at the North Sydney Leagues Club in Cammeray.

The nominees are:

• Best Film

Animal Kingdom Producer: Liz Watts

Beneath Hill 60 Producer: Bill Leimbach

Bran Nue Dae Producers: Robyn Kershaw, Graeme Isaac

Tomorrow When The War Began Producers: Andrew Mason,...

For Tomorrow, When the War Began, post-production/VFX vendor The Lab conceived and invented a colour calibration process called the Digital Print System (Dps). Its creator, head of digital intermediate Al Hansen, tells the story behind this innovation.

Tomorrow, When the War Began was the perfect project to utilise this colour calibration process, because it was a big feature film with an experienced cinematographer and production team.

We demonstrated the Dps calibration technique by showing test results to the film’s producers, Michael Boughen and Andrew Mason, and executive producer Christopher Mapp, during pre-production. With the support of the cinematographer, Ben Nott, Acs, we embarked on a method to completely colour-calibrate all levels of the production, ensuring that the images – from rushes to post – maintained the characteristics of the final 35mm film deliverables.

Nott understood the process and saw the advantages of viewing all images to the final film print,...

Enjoying some downtime in Sydney, Australia, Sam Worthington was spotted heading to load up on drink-ables at a liquor store on Wednesday (September 1).

The “Avatar” star and some friends casually walked down the street, paying little attention to the on-hand photogs before checking out the store's stock of booze.

In other news, Mr Worthington recently signed on to star in an indie surfing drama called “Drift.”

The film has a budget of just $11 million and will be directed by Morgan O’Neill and Ben Nott on the beautiful beaches in Perth, Australia.

Australian actor Sam Worthington was virtually unknown in America until his appearance in Terminator Salvation, in which he practicaly stole the show from Christian Bale. Worthington’s subsequent roles in the box office sensation Avatar and the reboot of Clash of the Titans firmly cemented him as Hollywood’s go-to actor for big budgeted action spectacles. In spite of this, or perhaps because of this, Worthington has decided to buck the trend by signing on to star in an indie surfing drama with a micro-budget called Drift, set to be shot in his own backyard of Perth, Australia.

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Sam Worthington | Ben Nott | Morgan O'Neill...

He’s a busy guy, but that’s exactly the thing! Already tied to a number of films currently in development like Dracula Year Zero, Quatermain, This Means War and Dan Dare as well, Avatar star, Sam Worthington has signed on to star in a new movie, titled Drift, which is already being described as a “surfing drama.”

The movie was “inspired-by-facts story of how surfing evolved from a pastime to a global industry, spawning household names such as Billabong and Rip Curl.”

Worthington will play a photographer and journalist instrumental in that revolution.

Worthington looks pretty excited about this new project, and one of the reasons is – Australia for sure, because that’s exactly where the shooting will begin next autumn.

Here’s what he had to say about the whole thing in an interview with the West Australian newspaper:

“I’m a Western Australian boy at heart and...

Surf's up for Sam Worthington as he announces that he's heading back to his home in Western Australia to film a surfing movie called Drift.

Talking to the Western Australian newspaper (and no we don't subscribe; the news has come to us via The Playlist), Worthington said the film will focus on the evolution of surfing from its beginnings as a laid-back pastime to a worldwide and highly competitive sport.

"I'm a Wa boy at heart and to go back there and put something back into my home town is something I am really looking forward to," says Worthington. "There's something pure and true about surfing, and there is something pure and true about this script."

Morgan O'Neill and Ben Nott are both directing, with filming scheduled to start early 2011.

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>> Real the whole article | on Screenrush - Wednesday 25 August 2010...

Aussie actor, Sam Worthington, otherwise known as the man with the golden agent, has inexplicably managed to land every major lead role in Hollywood over the past two years, all without any discernible talent or outstanding qualities.

His impressive box office run includes blockbusters “Terminator Salvation,” “Clash of the Titans” and the most profitable movie ever made, “Avatar.”

Whether it’s loyalty to his motherland or his love of surfing, Worthington has decided his next project will be, by his standards, a quaint little indie film — a surfing drama called “Drift” set in Margaret River, Western Australia.

The West Australian newspaper reports that “Drift” has acquired an $11 million budget, and is slated to begin shooting next fall when the biggest waves and prettiest sunsets color the seascape, and if possible, to coincide with the Margaret River Pro surfing event.

“I’m a Wa boy at heart and to go back...

If you’re one of those people who just can’t stand that Sam Worthington is mentioned as a likely lead for every possible film out there, and wish that he’d just pack his bags and go home: good news! He’s packing his bags and going home. For a film. About surfing. Called Drift. In which he, er, will play the lead.Worthington told the West Australian newspaper (dug up by The Playlist) that he’s headed back to the area to shoot the film, which will track the evolution of surfing from laidback pastime to world-spanning industry sport."I'm a Wa boy at heart and to go back there and put something back into my home town is something I am really looking forward to," says Worthington. "There's something pure and true about surfing, and there is something pure and true about this script."The paper says...

Sam Worthington has been cast in the lead role of a new surfing drama shooting in Perth Australia called Drift. The movie will track the rise of surfing in Australia and globally.

I love surfing! I go out and surf the waves of Southern Cal as much as I can. I am also very interested in the history of the sport, and I know a lot about it. I'm not sure how far back in history they will go but surfing was introduced to Australia in the year 1915 by Hawaiian surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku.

In an interview with West Australia Worthington said,

I'm a [Western Australian] boy at heart and to go back there and put something back into my home town is something I am really looking forward to. There's something pure and true about surfing, and there is something pure and true about this script.

I'm always up for a good surfing flick,...

In terms of allegory, the ravenous antics of the undead have found steady employment standing in for everything from soulless consumerism (Dawn of the Dead) to insurgency (28 Weeks Later), but almost always in the form of zombies. Vampires on the other hand, with all that repressed emotion, are all about making the sex (or, more often, not). Taking their 2003 idea of a sleepy Australian fishing berg overrun by flesh eaters and expanding it to encompass the whole world, German helmers, The Brothers Spierig, have turned the established order upside down and taken the vampire movie political.

Set in an alternate future Daybreakers posits a world where vampires are now the dominant race, and humans, hunted and herded into farms for their blood supply, are on the verge of extinction. Blood is running out, and without blood the vampire population, pale-faced and red eyed, degenerate into winged beasts. Aside from a crackdown on these dangerous,...

Those complaining about the practically de-fanged, glittery vampires in Twilight may find their bloodsucking saviors in Daybreakers. Of course, the irony is that those same redeemers would immediately drain the blood from the horror fans' bodies, leaving their heads if they're feeling friendly (which they're probably not). These creatures aren’t sweet, conflicted objects of affection for teen girls; they’re violent, heartless monsters who see humans as sources of food, not love interests. Bram Stoker can now rest easy in his grave again.

This sci-fi horror film takes the traditional vampire narrative of inhuman, blood-hungry creatures and adds a futuristic twist. Rather than positioning the undead as the other a la True Blood, Interview with the Vampire, and numerous other vampire tales, Daybreakers is set in a world where the vampires have won. Small groups of humans have survived a plague that turned most of Earth's population into vampires,...

“Life’s a bitch, and then you don’t die,” so says Bromley Marks Pharmaceutical’s hematologist Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke) after a long night of work developing a new blood substitute. If this sounds off the beaten path for a typical horror movie, you’d be right. Especially considering that our hero Dalton, his co-workers and the rest of the public are, as suggested by the previous quip, vampires. Vampires that have literally engulfed the world, leaving the last remaining humans in hiding for fear of being captured and their remaining pure blood harvested.

That may be the set up to Daybreakers, co-director’s Michael and Peter Spierig follow-up to the 2004 cult zombie flick Undead, but it’s only the beginning of this elaborate yarn. In an even more unique twist, the worst of the starving vampires are rapidly devolving into ferocious, flesh-winged, bat-like “Subsiders”, terrorizing the otherwise well-adjusted population of undead.

Ten cinematographers will vie for television honors in the American Society of Cinematographers' 22nd annual Outstanding Achievement Awards competition.

The nominees in the TV movie-miniseries-pilot category are Oliver Bokelberg for NBC's "Raines" pilot; David Franco, HBO's telefilm "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"; Ben Nott, TNT's miniseries "The Company"; Rene Ohashi, CBS' telefilm "Jesse Stone: Sea Change"; and Michael Weaver, ABC's "Pushing Daisies" pilot.

Nominees in the episodic television category were chosen for one episode of a regular series. They are James L. Carter for "Ending Happy" from CBS' "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"; Eagle Egilsson, "Inside Out" from CBS' "CSI: Miami"; Russell Lee Fine, "All of Us are in the Gutter" from NBC's "The Black Donnellys"; John Fleckenstein, "Welcome to the Club" from ABC's "Women's Murder Club"; and Glen Winter, "Noir" from CW's "Smallville".

The awards will be held Jan. 26 at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.