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Before voting for the Emmy winners (beginning Aug. 18), Television Academy members are encouraged to watch all of the nominees' episode submissions, though it's not a requirement. While the lead and supporting acting episode submissions will be unveiled soon by Gold Derby, the guest stars' choices in comedy and drama were publicly available on the nominating ballots.

Read on for everything to know about the Emmy episode submissions for the Best Comedy Guest Actress and Best Comedy Guest Actor nominees, where last year's two winners, Jamie Lee Curtis and Jon Bernthal from The Bear, are both hoping to prevail again.

Best Comedy Guest Actress

Olivia Colman as Chef Terry in The Bear

Episode: "Forever"

Recap: Chef Terry emotionally closes Ever, prioritizing personal connections and life beyond culinary success.

Emmy history: This is Colman's sixth Primetime Emmy nomination; she previously won for The Crown in Best Drama Actress (2021).

Jamie Lee Curtis as...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers from “The Game Is a Foot” Season 2, Episode 1 of “Poker Face,” now streaming on Peacock.

“Poker Face” writer Laura Deeley came up with the idea of featuring identical quintuplets for an episode of the whodunit series, and creator and director Rian Johnson thought it was “batshit insane in all the best ways.” But he wanted to give it a shot.

Johnson didn’t want to use anything fancy to pull it off. He wanted to dig into what a “Poker Face” episode looks like, and maintain that vintage aesthetic that had been established in Season 1 — but he wanted to use old-school camera trickery when it came to filming. Johnson says, “To me, that meant making sure we’re making every ounce of ‘What’s Up Doc?’ and French farce-like in one door, out the other, near misses and pretending to be different people.”

It...

Poker Face is back and better than ever with the female Columbo efforts of Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne). It’s a drama, it’s a comedy, and honestly just a fun show to watch. You always know Cale is going to solve the case, but Natasha Lyonne has a slick coolness to her topped off with humorous sarcasm along the way. It’s no surprise to anyone why Poker Face season 2 on Peacock of the series holds a strong 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes score. After the success of the first season, creator Rian Johnson has made the second must-watch television.

Charlie is back on the run from the five families. Literally dodging Beatrix Hasps’ bullets at every turn. On the journey in the second season Charlie meets fascinating characters and solves countless mysteries. You’ll see a handful of familiar faces as Poker Face carries a long list of celebrity guest stars like John Mulaney,...

Still on the run from the mob, Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne) finds herself consistently on the move. Even though she tries to lay low, they continue to come for her. Of course, because it’s Charlie Cale, murder finds its way into her life. The Season 2 premiere of Poker Face — “The Game is a Foot” — is directed by Rian Johnson, so we’re excited to see where he takes us.

Related: ‘Poker Face’ Season 2 Cast: 25 Guest Stars and Every Returning Actor Confirmed So Far Poker Face — “The Game is a Foot” — The Recap

On a massive estate, Amber (Cynthia Erivo) works to make clay statues of her mother, Norma (Jasmine Guy). Downstairs, there are dozens of pictures of Amber as she walks upstairs with her statues. In the master bedroom, her mother berates the artist, telling her she’s a subpar artist at best. Norma also accuses her of only...

The overarching plot of Season 1 of Poker Face was largely about Charlie Cale running from Cliff LeGrand, who had been employed by Sterling Frost to catch her, apparently because she was instrumental in the death of his son, Sterling Frost Jr. So, for more than a year, Charlie kept hopping from town to town, solving murder mysteries with her innate ability to detect a lie, with Cliff on her tail. When she was trying to get out of the Colorado Mountains, she was grievously wounded by a murderer named Trey Nelson and subsequently hospitalized. Cliff finally captured her and presented her to Sterling, and that was where the old timer revealed that he didn’t want to kill her; he wanted to bring her into the fold and utilize her skills in a meeting with Beatrix Hasp and the Five Families. However, before that could happen, Cliff killed Sterling, on Beatrix’s orders,...

The participants for Impact Australia 2 have been revealed, with nine emerging creators to be paired with nine mentors.

Following a call-out for submissions in June, the emerging creators that have been selected to work on their projects as part of the program are:

Jessie Hughes (Qld): Head Above Water (TV Series – half hour)

John Kachoyan (Vic): Gaia (Feature)

Drew Macdonald (Qld): Only One Survives (TV Series – hour)

Julia Moriarty (Nsw): Stony Rise (TV Series – hour)

Elena Pavli (Nsw): The Clinic 2200 (TV Series – half hour)

Felicity Price (Nsw): Bird Island (TV Series – hour)

Bradley Slabe (Vic): Owner’s Manual: Operation and Maintenance of the Human Body (Feature)

Ramon Watkins (Vic): Daddies (TV Series – half hour)

Harvey Zielinski (Vic): Sweet Milk Lake (Feature)

Stuart Beattie, Shaun Grant, and Sarah Lambert will join international writers Mark Bianculli, Dana Calvo, Hunter Covington, Eric Pearson, Stacy Traub,...

Australian director Kieran Darcy-Smith moved to L.A. off the back of his first feature, 2012's 'Wish You Were Here', co-written by his wife, Felicity Price.

This year saw the release of his first film since, 'The Duel', a western starring Liam Hemsworth and Woody Harrelson. He talks to If about living in L.A., the film's development process and a fraught production in Mississippi.

You.ve been living in La since Wish You Were Here, is that right?

We came over for Sundance for Wish You Were Here and the whole experience was a real trip for us. We had the opening night film and there was a massive party afterwards catered by some sort of celebrity chef who had been flown in. And all the top agents had flown up from L.A. specifically for that screening, and we were just being courted. At...

Peter Facinelli, Keir Gilchrist, Aubrey Peeples, Ione Skye, Jimmy Bennett, Felicity Price and Taylor Dearden are cast in Heartthrob, an indie from writer-director Chris Sivertson. The film is described as a teen romance that spirals out of control and becomes a teen thriller, but details of the plot and the characters were not provided. Production is under way on the feature from Citizen Skull Productions, which also features Jimmy Bennett. Mark Myers and Michael Moran…...

To help sift through the increasing number of new releases (independent or otherwise), the Weekly Film Guide is here! Below you’ll find basic plot, personnel and cinema information for all of this week’s fresh offerings.

Starting this month, we’ve also put together a list for the entire month. We’ve included this week’s list here, complete with information on screening locations for films in limited release.

See More: Here Are All the Upcoming Movies in Theaters for June 2016

Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, June 24. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.

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Free State of Jones

Director: Gary Ross

Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Keri Russell, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Jacob Lofland

Synopsis: “In Jones County, Miss., Newt Knight joins forces with other farmers and a group of slaves to lead a rebellion against the Confederacy.”

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Anzac Girls. Sara West and Mystery Road.s Samara Weaving head the cast of Bad Girl, writer-director Fin Edquist.s psychological thriller which starts shooting in Perth on August 31.

West plays 16-year-old Amy, the title character who has to fight for her adoptive parents when her new best friend Chloe (Weaving) tries to supplant her.

Playing the parents are Felicity Price, who stars in Joel Edgerton.s Us thriller The Gift and her partner Kieran Darcy-Smith.s upcoming Western By Way of Helena, and Benjamin Winspear (House of Hancock, Rake, The Babadook).

The film marks a departure in tone for Edquist, who scripted the animated family pics Maya the Bee and Blinky Bill: The Movie, which opens in cinemas on September 10.

The producers are Steve Kearney (Oddball, My Mistress), Bruno Charlesworth (Good Vibrations, The Extra) and Tenille Kennedy. This is the feature producing debut for Kennedy, who co-produced three...

When an Australian tourist disappears in Cambodia, his companions have reason not to tell the whole truth to the authorities. But on returning to Sydney, the unsolved mystery begins to take a deep emotional toll on them all. Abetted by an in-demand Antipodean cast - Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer, Banshee's Antony Starr and co-writer Felicity Price - actor Kieran Darcy-Smith makes an impressive directing debut with this evocative psychological drama.

When an Australian tourist disappears in Cambodia, his companions have reason not to tell the whole truth to the authorities. But on returning to Sydney, the unsolved mystery begins to take a deep emotional toll on them all. Abetted by an in-demand Antipodean cast - Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer, Banshee's Antony Starr and co-writer Felicity Price - actor Kieran Darcy-Smith makes an impressive directing debut with this evocative psychological drama.

Warner Bros. has picked up a very hot potato, and some people are going to be very upset. Producer Jon Peters is backing Blackwater, a new project detailing the real-life privatized military contractor that gained notoriety during America's conflict with the Middle East. Now that there's a director on-board, Blackwater looks like it's about to move ahead with considerable speed. Deadline reports that Warner Bros. has enlisted Kieran Darcy-Smith to direct the project. Darcy-Smith is an Australian actor-turned-director who last year helmed Wish You Were Here, a small thriller he co-wrote with star Felicity Price. Blackwater is expected to focus on Erik Prince, a former Navy Seal who founded the private security firm in 1997. Even through controversy, Prince was the head of Blackwater USA until 2010, when the company was sold, its named changed to Academi. Wish You Were Here also starred Joel Edgerton and Teresa Palmer, and told the story...

Kieran Darcy-Smith directs Wish You Were Here (2012), an Australian mystery drama starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Price. When Alice (Price) and her husband Dave (Edgerton) decide to get away from it all before the birth of their third child, they invite Alice's sister, Steph (Teresa Palmer), and her new boyfriend, Jeremy (Antony Starr), to join them. A relaxing holiday is not what's in store for the group, however, when a night of excess leads to Jeremy's disappearance. To celebrate the release of Wish You Were Here, we have Three copies of the film to give away on DVD to our valued readers. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.

★★★☆☆After carving out a successful career as an actor, including roles in films such as David Michôd's Animal Kingdom (2010) and The Reef (2010), Kieran Darcy-Smith shifts his focus behind the camera for Wish You Were Here (2012), a directorial debut that explores how one man's split decision can have a detrimental and devastating chain reaction on those around him. Joel Edgerton stars as Dave, a carefree hedonist holidaying in Cambodia with both his pregnant wife, played by co-writer Felicity Price and her younger sister Steph (Teresa Palmer). However, during one wild, drug-fuelled night, Steph's lucrative business-man boyfriend, Jeremy (Anthony Starr) mysteriously disappears without a trace.

Wish You Were Here hit streets last Tuesday on DVD & VOD via the eOne Films folks, and we’ve got a clip of Aussie-born thesp Teresa Palmer (who’ll we will be seeing plenty of next year with Parts Per Billion, Malick’s Knight of Cups, Cut Bank, The Ever After) discussing the carefree character she portrayed in the psychological, tug of the rug type thriller.

Among the extras material on the disc, the clip below is among the set of cast and crew interviews (helmer Kieran Darcy-Smith, Felicity Price, Joel Edgerton, Antony Starr) that took place among what we imagine was the sun-drenched setting found in the film. While we don’t gain any additional insight into the character’s dynamic, we easily get a sense how she might approached her with a playfulness – which is of course how we are first presented to the character before the film switches in tone.

Chicago – The most TV-centric column yet advising What to Watch on DVD, Blu-ray, Netflix, Amazon, On Demand, and more is another nearly random collection of offerings that you can use to guide your way through the new releases shelf at Best Buy, the On Demand section on Vudu, the store on iTunes, and maybe even Netflix and Hulu. Pick your favorites. This is the way we’d rank these new releases if you have a free night this weekend or money to burn next week.

Parade’s End

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“Parade’s End”

Fans of “Star Trek Into Darkness” and “Sherlock” really need to see what the great Benedict Cumberbatch (also appearing in “The Fifth Estate” and “August: Osage County” this week (he’s blowing up) does here in this great adaptation of the novels by Ford Madox Ford. He’s simply great and matched perfectly by Emmy-worthy...

Some of the best films that come out of independent cinema are the ones in which actors and directors write for themselves to create an opportunity. Wish You Were Here, an Australian import that was a favorite at the Sundance Film Festival, is the perfect example. The film tells the story of a husband and wife (Joel Edgerton and Felicity Price, who co-wrote the film) who travel to exotic Cambodia with her younger sister and new boyfriend (Teresa Palmer and Anthony Starr), only to have their carefree getaway derailed when one of them disappears without a trace.

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[My husband/co-writer/director Kieran Darcy-Smith and I] both have been independently and together fascinated by the idea of the people left behind when someone disappears," Price explains to ETonline. "Especially when you just don't know what happened to them. … The story of four people going away [to Southeast Asia and one not returning] is actually inspired by a true story. It happened to a friend of ours."

But rather...

The Joel Edgerton intense psychological thriller Wish You Were Here hits DVD September 10th, and M&C is giving away a Joel Edgerton DVD Prize Pack – which includes Wish You Were Here and The Waiting City. In the film, four friends indulge in a carefree Cambodian holiday, their sun-soaked retreat quickly takes a horrific turn when one of them disappears. Does one of the remaining friends hold the answer to the fate of their lost companion? Screen veteran Kieran Darcy-Smith (Animal Kingdom) makes his feature directorial debut with this ambitious non-linear drama centering on a group of Australian friends whose lives are irreparably changed after one of them goes missing during a spontaneous vacation. Alice (Felicity Price) and...

Whatever sentiments the title Wish You Were Here evokes in you, flush them. Here is no lighthearted vacation comedy but, instead, a well-acted "psychological thriller" with few thrills but much angst.

In fact, the scariest aspect about watching Aussie writer/director Kieran Darcy-Smith's feature debut is the sinking feeling that the finale will not be worth the wait -- and when the penultimate scenes start unspooling and you realize you were clairvoyant, you will find yourself, as you mope towards the aisle, crunching any left-behind popcorn on the theater floor with unrepentant anger.

This saga begins rather joyfully with two Australian sisters vacationing in southern Cambodia in 2010. Pregnant Alice (Felicity Price) is accompanied by her rather stolid spouse, Dave (Joel Edgerton), while carefree and unwed Steph (Teresa Palmer) is under the wing of a prepossessing importer of Cambodian goods, jovial Jeremy (Anthony Starr).

The four sightsee, go to a museum featuring skulls,...

Although its title implies either a whimsical journey of self-discovery or an ironic riposte to the vacation from hell, the story of “Wish You Were Here” is, in either context, a disappointingly pedestrian experience. The story of a husband and father trying to return to his normal life after a vacation with his wife and her sister that ends in the disappearance of his sister-in-law’s boyfriend, Kieran Darcy-Smith’s Australian import inspires a deluge of possibilities and provocative thoughts in its audiences’ heads, but languid pacing undermines the too-simple and ultimately too-conventional revelations that wrap up its simmering mysteries. Nevertheless, strong performances from the four leads sustains its unhurried approach far longer than the payoff deserves. Joel Edgerton plays Dave Flannery, an architect who agrees to take his wife Alice (Felicity Price) on a holiday in Cambodia after her sister Steph (Teresa Palmer) gets swept off her feet by a new boyfriend,...

A man and a pregnant woman lay on the beach, soaking in the sun and talking. Alice (Felicity Price) asks Jeremy (Antony Starr) if he could go anywhere where would he go, and he answers simply that he would stay there. The “there” in question is a small town on the southwestern shores of Cambodia, and after a brief montage of two couples enjoying a week free of responsibility we see them celebrating their last night there with some illicit pills. The next morning is a blur as Alice’s husband, Dave (Joel Edgerton), wanders a dawn-lit field, disheveled and bloodied. Jeremy meanwhile, instigator of the trip and brand new boyfriend to Alice’s sister, Steph (Teresa Palmer), has gone missing. Wish You Were Here is a dramatic thriller that explores guilt, doubt and responsibility through its various relationships. Husband to wife, sister to sister, and stranger to stranger are pairings that get tested by way of...

In Wish You Were Here, two couples take a trip from Australia to South-East Asia on holiday – but only three of them return. Dave Flannery (Joel Edgerton) and his wife Alice (Felicity Price) have two children (and one on the way) – so for them, coping is a must. Alice’s younger sister Steph (Teresa Palmer) is left worrying about the fate of her missing beau, Jeremy (Antony Starr), with nary a person to lean on for support.

As the toll of that terrible trip wears on the trio, secrets from the past begin to surface, pointing towards ugly truths that none of them may be ready to face.

Wish You Were Here has a strong cast, an interesting enough premise and competent direction all going for it; however, the script and ...

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Theatergoers this weekend may opt for a hilarious tour of Google's headquarters with The Internship or a night of terror with The Purge; but if a taunt, suspensful drama is what you crave, we recommend checking out Wish You Were Here.  The Movie: Wish You Were Here The Director: Australian Kieran Darcy-Smith, making his feature-length debut. The Cast: All from the Land of Oz: rising stars Joel Edgerton (Zero Dark Thirty, The Great Gatsby) and Teresa Palmer (Warm Bodies, I Am Number Four) are joined by Felicity Price (who cowrote the script) and Antony Starr (Without a Paddle).   The Story:  Marrieds Alice (Price) and Dave (Edgerton) head to Southeast Asia for a vacation with her flaky younger sister Steph (Palmer) and...

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Title: Wish You Were Here Director: Kieran Darcy-Smith Starring: Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer, Felicity Price and Antony Starr While people often strive to live as carefree and happy of a lifestyle as they can the stark realization that one person’s seemingly meaningless actions can drastically change the lives of many others can ultimately lead people to question their decisions. This is certainly the case in the new mystery drama ‘Wish You Were,’ which was helmed by first-time feature film director Kieran Darcy-Smith. The filmmaker, who co-wrote the movie’s script with his wife, actress Felicity Price, courageously explored the physical and emotional consequences even one careless night can have on several [ Read More ]

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On the sun-kissed coast of Cambodia, four young Australians party, explore and kick back and relax, soaking up the sun during the day, and sweating it out at night. But this idyllic backdrop holds something far more sinister in store and when only three of the four return home, so begins a mystery crossing national borders, and poised to fundamentally change the lives of everyone involved. So begins "Wish You Were Here," a lean thriller from director Kieran-Darcy Smith, from a script he co-wrote with one of the film's stars (and his wife), Felicity Price, in a picture that features two of Australia's hottest exports at the moment, Joel Edgerton and Teresa Palmer. And it's the actress we caught up with on the phone last week to talk about the movie, made under the Blue Tongue Films banner, a production house of like-minded collaborators that has put its stamp on movies like "Animal Kingdom,...

Do You Think You Can Tell?: Darcy-Smith’s Debut Promising, if Ultimately Contrived

Establishing an effective and potentially chilling set-up during its first few frames, Kieran Darcy-Smith’s Wish You Were Here evocatively recalls the Pink Floyd tune with which it shares a name for what promises to be a poetically charged mystery. Too bad that a stodgy and predictable finale will leave you cold, and potentially mars the film’s initial charms. Co-written with actress and star of the film, Felicity Price, Darcy-Smith builds an effective scenario to feverish foreboding, releasing its tension in a twinned lashing of shocking violence. But once the fury subsides and all has been revealed, it ends with the thud of a nicely packaged cliché.

Plopped into the midst of Dave (Joel Edgerton) and the very pregnant Alice’s (Felicity Price) strained domestic situation, we learn that they have recently returned from a...

Kieran Darcy-Smith’s Wish You Were Here was formerly titled “Say Nothing” – a perhaps more fitting description for several sequences in this relationship busting, mystery drama that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in 2012 (we were there for the premiere). In this exclusive clip provided by the eOne Films folks, we find actress-scribe Felicity Price’s character as not the root cause, but an unexpected burden on Joel Edgerton’s character continued state of distress and anxiety. Also starring Teresa Palmer, Antony Starr and a beautiful Cambodian backdrop, this receives a limited release in select theatres next Friday, June 7th.

Here’s the synopsis: Four friends indulge in a carefree Cambodian holiday, but their sun-soaked retreat quickly takes a horrific turn when one of the travelers disappears. As the search ensues, the others return home, racked with guilt and struggling to return to their daily lives. Does one of...

Australia has been mighty kind over the last couple of years to audiences who enjoy a good character-based thriller. Films that Twitch has taken a liking to which fall under this category include The Square, Snowtown, and, of course, the much lauded Animal Kingdom. While never getting a full review here on the site, James Marsh and Ryland Aldrich did have good things to say about Kieran Darcy-Smith's Asian-vacation-gone-wrong Wish You Were Here during its festival run, making particular note of the performances by Joel Edgerton, Felicity Price, and Teresa Palmer. As more than luck would have it, we've got ten double passes to give away to a June 4th screening of the movie in New York City. If you'd like a chance to win...

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We're happy to debut an exclusive look at a new poster from co-writer/director Kieran Darcy-Smith's debut feature Wish You Were Here.  The mystery follows four friends on a vacation to Southeast Asia after which only three return.  Over the course of the film, the the truth of what really happened is revealed, along with the revelation that one of them knew more than they were letting on.  Be sure to check out Steve's Sundance interviews with stars Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer and star/co-writer Felicity Price. Wish You Were Here, also starring Antony Starr, will be in theaters June 7th.  Hit the jump to check out the new poster.   Click on the poster for high-res Here's the trailer if you missed it:...

Watch the trailer for eONE's Wish You Were Here, starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Price, Teresa Palmer and Antony Starr. Kieran Darcy-Smith directs the mystery drama, as well as scripting with star Price, with a June 7th, 2013 release date. Darcy-Smith's feature debut is a calmly devastating exploration of how one misjudged moment in life has the potential to cause everything to fall to pieces. Dave (Edgerton) reluctantly travels to Cambodia with his pregnant wife (Price) and her younger sister and new boyfriend, and after a night of partying the boyfriend disappears without a trace. The others are left to return to their lives, each bearing differing degrees of knowledge about what happened. Delivering doses of information bit by bit, the film's meticulously edited, nonlinear disclosure of events is transfixing-as are the superb performances.

Watch the trailer for eONE's Wish You Were Here, starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Price, Teresa Palmer and Antony Starr. Kieran Darcy-Smith directs the mystery drama, as well as scripting with star Price, with a June 7th, 2013 release date. Darcy-Smith's feature debut is a calmly devastating exploration of how one misjudged moment in life has the potential to cause everything to fall to pieces. Dave (Edgerton) reluctantly travels to Cambodia with his pregnant wife (Price) and her younger sister and new boyfriend, and after a night of partying the boyfriend disappears without a trace. The others are left to return to their lives, each bearing differing degrees of knowledge about what happened. Delivering doses of information bit by bit, the film's meticulously edited, nonlinear disclosure of events is transfixing-as are the superb performances.

A new trailer has been released for Joel Edgerton's drama thriller Wish You Were Here. The trailer makes us wonder what in the hell his character is up to. It looks like a solidly intense psychological thriller. Edgerton is an amazing actor who's been in films such as Animal, Warrior, The Thing, and Zero Dark Thirty. I'm sure he gives yet another great performance in this. 

The story follows four friends who lose themselves in the fun of a carefree South East Asian holiday. "Only three return home. Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in Cambodia?"

The movie was shown up at Sundance last year, and also stars Teresa Palmer, Felicity Price, and Antony Starr. It was co-written and directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith. The movie will get a limited release on June 7th.

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Okay, movies, we get it now. We shouldn’t go on vacation anymore, it only seems to lead to sex, drugs, criminal trouble, and death. What’s that, you say? That was only Spring Breakers? There are plenty of wholesome vacation-based films to enjoy out there? Fine, why don’t you go ahead and just book my ticket straight to Kieran Darcy-Smith‘s Wish You Were Here then? Ah, gotcha! Looks like there is nothing but sex, drugs, criminal trouble, and death in that one, too! Of course, the new film from Blue-Tongue Films members Darcy-Smith (who co-wrote the film with star Felicity Price) is very, very different than Harmony Korine’s latest opus, but it still will keep us away from beach vacations for quite awhile. The film features rising star Joel Edgerton as Price’s husband, Teresa Palmer as her sister, and Antony Starr as Palmer’s new boyfriend, with...

After premiering over a year ago at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, the release of the Australian thriller Wish You Were Here is finally upon us with a limited release planned this summer and a new trailer online. Joel Edgerton stars in the film that slowly unravels a vacation gone awry where one of the travelers has gone missing in Cambodia. Teresa Palmer also stars in the film along with her native accent from Down Under and she's joined by Antony Starr and Felicity Price. It might seem like the trailer is giving too much away, but there's more than meets the eye, even though the film itself is a little bit bland. Watch it? Here's the new trailer for Kieran Darcy-Smith's Wish You Were Here, found by The Playlist: Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South-East Asian holiday. Only three come back. Who amongst them knows what happened...

With a membership that includes Joel Edgerton, Nash Edgerton, David Michôd, Spencer Susser and more, it's safe to say that the Blue Tongue Films collective isn't lacking in talent. And while the name Kieran Darcy-Smith might not be the most familiar of the group, he more than matches the talent his colleagues have shown across their projects, and his feature debut "Wish You Were Here" shows another strong filmmaking voice emerging from Blue Tongue. Starring fellow collective pal Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer, Antony Starr and Felicity Price, the film follows four friends who go on vacation in Cambodia, but whose lives are thrown into turmoil when one of them goes missing on a fateful night during the trip. And soon, drama and suspense rise as the secrets of the event come to the fore. "Wish You Were Here" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012, and earned a brace of...

Screen Australia has granted more than $276,000 in funding to support the development of 10 feature films, including projects by the co-writer of local smash The Sapphires and the team behind Wish You Were Here.

It is a small financial lifeline for the industry which is no longer receiving drama production investment from the national government agency after it spent its entire annual $42 million budget in just six months.

Among the new feature film projects to receive funding is comedy-drama The Grip, written by Tony Briggs (The Sapphires). It follows five young Australian businessmen who discover the secret to winning the pokies and develop Robin Hood-like reputations. David Field (The Combination) will direct.

Writer Felicity Price and director Kieran Darcy-Smith (Wish You Were Here) have also received funding to develop a new (as yet) untitled thriller. It follows social misfit Vincent, who holds a flame for 17-year-old Amber, but when his hopes are crushed he acts impulsively,...

Sydney — Feel-good musical drama "The Sapphires" sparkled at Australia's premier film awards.

The tale of an Aboriginal family singing group entertaining American troops in the Vietnam War won best film and five other awards at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts ceremony Wednesday night.

Best Lead Actress Deborah Mailman and Best Supporting Actress Jessica Mauboy won for playing sisters in the group. The award for lead actor went to Chris O'Dowd, who played "The Sapphires" talent manager and is perhaps best known for his role as a police officer in the smash comedy "Bridesmaids."

The academy also recognized "The Sapphires" director Wayne Blair and writers, Keith Thompson and Tony Briggs, who adapted the screenplay from Briggs' stage production inspired by his mother's experiences.

"The Sapphires" won 11 awards in all, including technical categories announced earlier. Backstage, Blair said he never thought such a result would be possible, "not in my wildest dreams.

It was a glorious evening for The Sapphires at the 2nd Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Ceremony last night, with the feature film bagging six Aacta awards, including Best Film and Best Director.

The awards top off what has been a sparkling year for the Sapphires team, who have already won a host of international audience choice awards and enjoyed great box office success in Australia.

Other than Best Film and Best Director (Wayne Blair), the musical drama took home the Aacta award for Best Lead Actress (Deborah Mailman), Best Lead Actor (Chris O'Dowd), Best Supporting Actress (Jessica Mauboy) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Keith Thompson, Tony Briggs), bringing their Aacta award total to eleven. (The film picked up a further five awards at the Aacta luncheon held on Monday.)

The film also bagged the news.com.au Audience Choice Award for Most Memorable Screen Moment.

The...

Vietnam war period movie The Sapphires dominated the Aacta’s last night, winning best film, best director (Wayne Blair), best actress (Deborah Mailman), best actor (Chris O'Dowd) and best supporting actress (Jessica Mauboy).

The film about an aboriginal troupe of entertainers who performed for American – and not Australian – soldiers swept the awards, and also won the best screenplay (Keith Thompson and Tony Briggs).

The event staged at Sydney’s Star casino and hosted by Russell Crowe was televised on delay by the Ten Network, but failed to make a dent in OzTam ratings.

It had just 318,000 viewers. But Ten claimed to be was happy as it was a 9.3% increase on the broadcast in 2012 on rival Nine.

The complete list of winners announced at the second AACTAs.

Byron Kennedy Award

Sarah Watt

Aacta Award For Best Young Actor

Saskia Rosendahl. Lore.

Television

Aacta Award For Best Television Drama Series

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Don Groves is a Deadline contributor based in Sydney Nominated for 12 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, The Sapphires won six gongs at a ceremony hosted by Russell Crowe in Sydney on Wednesday night. The musical drama about four Aboriginal girls who formed a singing group in the 1960s won best director (Wayne Blair), lead actress (Deborah Mailman), lead actor (Chris O’Dowd), supporting actress (Jessica Mauboy) and adapted screenplay (Keith Thompson, Tony Briggs). That’s in addition to five craft awards presented on Monday. The Weinstein Co. will release the film in the U.S. on March 22. Thriller Wish You Were Here took the Aacta original screenplay award for husband-and-wife creative team Kieran Darcy-Smith and Felicity Price, and supporting actor for Antony Starr. German actress Saskia Rosendahl received the best young actor trophy for Cate Shortland’s Lore, which was Australia’s entry for the foreign language Oscar.

The first round of Aacta award winners were announced yesterday in Sydney at the 2nd Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Luncheon. Held at the Sydney.s The Star Event Centre and hosted by Adam Elliot, the luncheon drew a host of industry representatives including actors Damon Herriman, Daniel Henshall and Felicity Price. The Sapphires was a favourite of the day, taking home five coveted gongs in total for cinematography (Warwick Thornton), editing (Dany Cooper Ase), sound (Andrew Plain, Bry Jones, Pete Smith, Ben Osmo and John Simpson), costume design (Tess Schofield) and production design in a feature film (Melinda Doring.) A jovial Thornton told media working with Sapphires director Wayne Blair wasn.t exactly a walk in the park. .He.s an incredibly hard task master,. he said. .You can.t pull the wool over his eyes when you feel like being lazy.. Cooper spoke of the...

Australian actress Teresa Palmer has annouced via her Twitter page that she is set to star in and produce a film titled The Fun Is Forever, which will be directed and co-star Mark Webber.

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Russell Crowe has been announced as the new Aacta host after a conflicting La schedule forced original host Hugh Sheridan to pull out.

The second annual Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards will see Crowe headline an impressive line-up of presenters, including Aacta president Geoffery Rush and Aacta ambassador Cate Blanchett.

The awards, to be held on January 30 at The Star Event Centre, will see more than 1000 Australian film and television performers and practitioners in attendance.

In addition to the Aacta Awards in Sydney, Crowe will also host the Aacta International Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday, which Sheridan will now also attend.

"The Australian Academy is making its mark in the States, and I'm equally as honoured to represent the Australian industry in L.A. as host of Aacta's International Awards, as I am to return home to celebrate the success of my peers at the 2nd Aacta Awards Ceremony in Sydney,...

Digital Spy presents a list of nominees for the second annual Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) Awards, to be held in Sydney on January 30, 2013. The awards celebrate achievement in film, television, short film and documentary filmmaking during 2012. Film

['The Sapphires' still] Best Film

Burning Man

Lore

The Sapphires

Wish You Were Here Best Direction

Jonathan Teplitzky (Burning Man)

Cate Shortland (Lore)

Wayne Blair (The Sapphires)

Kieran Darcy-Smith (Wish You Were Here) Best Original Screenplay

Jonathan Teplitzky (Burning Man)

Pj Hogan (Mental)

Michael Lucas (Not Suitable for Children)

Kieran Darcy-Smith, Felicity Price (Wish You Were Here) Best Adapted Screenplay

Cate Shortland, Robin Mukherjee (Lore)

Keith Thompson, (more)...

Hit musical drama The Sapphires has scored 12 nominations at the 2012 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) Awards including in the coveted best feature film category.

The Sapphires, which follows four indigenous singers during the Vietnam war, has grossed more than $14 million in Australia to become the biggest local film of the year.

Three other films will be also be vying for the best feature film award: Burning Man (10 nominations in total), Lore (eight nominations in total) and Wish You Were Here (eight nominations in total) at the main Aacta ceremony, which will be held on January 30, 2013, at The Star Event Centre. Last year's event was held at the iconic Sydney Opera House.

P.J. Hogan's Mental also scored eight nominations including Best Lead Actress (Toni Collette), Best Supporting Actor (Liev Schreiber) Best Young Actor (Lily Sullivan) and Best Supporting Actress for Rebecca Gibney and Deborah Mailman.

Not Suitable for Children...

The Sapphires has led the Academy of Australian Cinema and Television Arts Awards nominations being nominated in 12 categories.

Awards will be handed out over two events, with an awards luncheon, focused on craft categories on Monday January 28 and the main event on January 30. Both events will be held at the Star Event Centre, the first public events for the venue.

The Sapphires, distributed by Hopscotch/eOne has been nominated for Best Film, Best Direction and best adapted screenplay as well as Best Lead Actor and Actress for Chris O’Dowd and Deborah Mailman, and Best Supporting Actress for Jessica Mauboy.

Burning Man was not far behind on 10 nominations including best film and best direction as well as best lead actor for Matthre Goode and Best Supporting Actress for Essie Davis.

Three more films, Lore, Mental and Wish You Were Here received eight nominations while Not Suitable For Children received four.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Kieran Darcy-Smith’s Wish You Were Here is a film that pulls the rug from under our feet right at the outset; a hedonistic montage of all the boozing, pill-popping and reckless abandon that takes place on a holiday to Cambodia is abruptly halted by a jolting cut to Dave (Joel Edgerton), walking shirtless through a desolate field, making the ironic meaning of the film’s title abundantly clear. When Dave and his wife Alice (Felicity Price) return home, it’s obvious that something isn’t right. Alice’s sister Steph (Teresa Palmer) also went on the trip, along with her new husband Jeremy (Antony Starr), who went missing one night and still hasn’t surfaced.

The anxiety-wracked face of Joel Edgerton’s Dave makes us instantly suspicious; did he kill Jeremy? His clandestine behaviour and eventual revelation that he drunkenly slept with Steph in Cambodia...

Kieran Darcy-Smith made his feature directorial debut this year with Wish You Were Here, the Joel Edgerton-starring drama which will soon be screening at the BFI London Film Festival next month.

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The 56th BFI London Film Festival kicks off October 10th and runs through October 21st. Like any good festival, this means a panoply of new marketing materials, in this case in the form of pictures. First up is a new pic from "Wish You Were Here" featuring Aussie stars Joel Edgerton and Teresa Palmer. Directed by Edgerton's fellow Blue Tongue Films cohort Kieran Darcy-Smith, the film, which debuted at Sundance earlier this year, also co-stars Felicity Price and Antony Starr. The synopsis: Expectant parents Alice and Dave join Alice’s younger sister, Steph, and her new boyfriend, Jeremy, on an impromptu tropical getaway in Cambodia. But following Jeremy’s abrupt disappearance, the others must attempt to return to their normal lives in Sydney. The shell-shocked survivors' recovery begins to fall apart when a stinging truth about their time in Cambodia is revealed. The three must contend with the fallout, along with the looming.