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MAY01

Wish You Were Here Pt. 2

It has been my experience that most, if not all of the Aussie actors who make it in Hollywood, even the most successful ones, are dying to come back home to make local films.

For Joel Edgerton, it helped that his company Blue-Tongue Films was producing WISH YOU WERE HERE with his best mate from drama school Kieran Darcy-Smith writing and directing. The irony being that since Joel was fielding amazing offers from Hollywood, Kieran never thought Joel would be interested in participating in their low-budget project.

Watch Joel describe that even though initially he was slightly dismayed at the casting process, it was all a big misunderstanding that worked out for the best.

Then hear Teresa Palmer reveal how she learned everything about the South-East Asian drug scene from the movies and how Kieran needed to reign in her 'partying' performance.

And both actors, along with Anthony Starr, explain how they hit the ground running and shot from the hip for the montage footage in Cambodia, capturing heaps of film of them mixing it up with the locals and improvising in a very guerilla-style manner of film-making.


LABELS:    Hopscotch
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APR27

The Avengers

For comic book fans, it really doesn't get more exciting than this, an assembly of all their favourite super-heroes from the Marvel Universe! Together. In one film!

While the ground work has been laid over the years with several Hulks, a couple of Ironmen, Captain America and a Thor or two, never before have they been united in battle on screen!

Watch Samuel L. Jackson explain how fanboy director Joss Whedon brought a celestial order to the Marvel Universe, then Joss admit that while he indulged the studios' prerequisite for explosions and heroic action, he wanted to make a film about these peculiar characters who didn't want to be alone.

Hear Scarlett Johannson dismiss the implausibility of finding this group in a single film, and how you need to just get over it. Listen to Chris Evans explain how, despite the potential towering egos of cast and character alike, there was a camaraderie on set because, they may be in it for the long haul together. Then watch Mark Ruffalo reveal how he was determined to be as impressive at 'The Hulk' as he was to give Bruce Banner charm, and how he can't wait to show his 'little Hulk!'


LABELS:    Walt Disney Studios