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Isla attends Star City casino (re-)launch in Sydney

Oct 26, 2011 Public Events No Comments

Sounds like Isla attended a party last night in Sydney, although unfortunately I am yet to find any photos! She’s still in the city filming The Great Gatsby, and her family are with her.

HOW many times can you launch the same venue? As many times as you like if you are a casino and you’ve spent nearly a billion dollars on a facelift.

Last night 800 ”VIPs” descended on the casino formerly known as Star City for what was billed as the official launch party, just a few weeks after the last launch party, which attracted an equally stellar crowd when the joint was renamed the Star.

PS couldn’t help but feel the Star had already blown its dough on the previous party, with last night’s much grander soiree barely raising a blip on the social radar.

Unperturbed, an impressive roll-up of names – including Tobey Maguire, Adrian Grenier, inset, Mel B, Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher – braved the rain to see what all the fuss was about.

Trotting down the red carpet was a veritable Noah’s Ark of celebrities, with Jennifer Hawkins and fiance Jake Wall, Kate Ritchie and Stuart Webb, Wendell Sailor and wife Tara, Ricki-Lee Coulter and Richard Harrison, Damien Leith, Luke Jacobz, and Glenn and Sarah McGrath.

But it was the big guns we had come to see, namely the headline act and music legend Stevie Wonder, who was joined by other Hollywood heavy-hitters including Russell Crowe, pictured with wife Danielle Spencer, and, once again, Leonardo DiCaprio.

Inside the party stars had their own special enclosures, while models adorned the cavernous marble lobby dressed as sexy lamps.

The ”exclusive party” was held in the lobby of new hotel the Darling. Guests nibbled on fare from the the new Japanese restaurant Sokyo, located in the Darling’s lobby.

– smh.com.au

Summit dates string of pics inc. “Now You See Me”

Oct 26, 2011Apr 11, 2012 "Now You See Me" No Comments

Summit Entertainment appears to be moving ahead on a “Red” sequel, setting an Aug. 13, 2013 release date.

The minimajor dated the second installment Tuesday. Sony’s already dated a “Smurfs” sequel for the same slot.

“Red” grossed $90 million domestically last year with Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren starring as former CIA agents who are classified as “Red” — retired, extremely dangerous.

Jon and Erich Hoeber were signed earlier this year to pen a sequel.

Summit also announced release dates for four other films, two for next year and two for 2013.

It’s launching vampire drama “Warm Bodies” on Aug. 10 and Scott Derrickson suspenser “Sinister” on Aug 24. The minimajor has also moved “Step Up 4” forward two weeks from Aug. 10 to July 27, when it will launch against Fox’s comedy “Neighborhood Watch.”

“Bodies” will face competition from Warner’s political comedy “Rivals.” Sinister” will open against Sony’s “Premium Rush.”

Summit will open “Now You See Me,” starring Isla Fisher and Jesse Eisenberg, on Jan. 18, 2013, and Gavin Hood sci-fier “Ender’s Game” two months later on March 15. “Now You See Me” will open against Disney’s “Monsters, Inc.” and Lionsgate’s “The Last Stand” while “Ender’s Game” will face competition from Warner’s “Arthur & Lancelot.”

– variety.com

Tiffany & Co. To Create Jewelry For ‘Great Gatsby’

Oct 15, 2011 "The Great Gatsby" No Comments

When it comes to Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, all that glitters is Tiffany & Co. The New York-based jeweler announced that it inked a deal with Warner Bros. Pictures and Bazmark (Luhrmann’s production company) to be the fine jeweler for the hotly anticipated 3D film.

The retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 literary classic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan (reprising the roles played by Robert Redford and Mia Farrow in 1974), will showcase spectacular platinum-set diamonds and endless strands of pearls to complement the Jazz Age drop-waist dresses and pinstriped three-piece suits by costume designer Catherine Martin. The two-time Academy Award winning costumer designer (2001’s Moulin Rouge!), was drawn to the jeweler because F. Scott Fitzgerald himself was a Tiffany & Co. customer and Louis Comfort Tiffany, the brand’s first design director, ran with the Long Island social circles portrayed in the story.

In addition to jewels, WWD reports that Tiffany & Co. will supply china, sterling flatware and other home accessories for the interior of Jay Gatsby’s lavish Long Island estate. “The Tiffany & Co. archives have proven to be an invaluable resource in looking back at this Golden Era of affluence and fine jewelry,” says Martin. “We have both created and recreated pieces that we hope will do justice to this extraordinary novel.”

DiCaprio and Mulligan recently started shooting the 3D film along with Tobey Maguire and Isla Fisher in Australia. It won’t hit theaters until 2012, but 1920s-inspired styles are already heating up as seen on the spring/summer 2012 runways at Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren and Alberta Ferretti’s Philosophy.

– hollywoodreporter.com

Dave Franco joins Isla et al in “Now You See Me”

Oct 15, 2011Apr 11, 2012 "Now You See Me" No Comments

Dave Franco has joined the cast of Now You See Me, which is his second straight movie for Summit Entertainment. Franco joins Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Morgan Freeman and Isla Fisher in the Louis Leterrier-directed drama about a team of FBI agents that track a group of illusionists pulling off daring bank heists during their performances. Franco plays one of the Four Horsemen, as the illusionists bill themselves. Franco, the younger brother of 127 Hours star James Franco, is currently shooting Warm Bodies for Summit opposite Nicholas Hoult, John Malkovich and Teresa Palmer. Franco will next be seen starring in 21 Jump Street with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, which Sony releases March 16. Miles Levy and Paradigm made his deal.

– deadline.com

Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ to Open on Christmas in 2012

Oct 14, 2011 "The Great Gatsby" No Comments

Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher and Tobey Maguire star in the Warner Bros. remake, which is being shot in 3D.

Warner Bros. announced Friday it will release Baz Luhrmann’s Leonardo DiCaprio starrer The Great Gatsby on Dec. 25, 2012 — the same day DiCaprio’s Django Unchained is set to open.

It’s unusual to have two films starring the same actor launching on the same date, but since Dec. 25, 2012, is more than a year away, the Christmas Day calendar could change.

Great Gatsby, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, stars DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway. Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke, Amitabh Bachchan and Elizabeth Debicki also star.

Luhrmann is currently shooting the film in Australia; Quentin Tarantino’s Western Django, from Dimension Pictures, hasn’t started production yet.

The 1974 film The Great Gatsby was directed by Jack Clayton and starred Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson and Sam Waterston.

– hollywoodreporter.com

Kirsten Dunst: I love Isla Fisher!

Oct 10, 2011 "Bachelorette" No Comments

Kirsten Dunst: I love Isla Fisher!

Kirsten Dunst has declared she “loves” Isla Fisher after they starred together in Bachelorette.

The Melancholia star teamed up with the funnywoman and Lizzy Caplan in the indie comedy, where they play best friends who are invited to act as bridesmaids at the wedding of a girl they called Pigface in high school.

“I love her, she’s amazing. We had the best time,” she said.

“Also Lizzy Caplan was in the film and us three girls got along so well. We had a great time together.”

Kirsten added: “We just finished last week. We worked really long hours and really hard because it’s an independent film so we didn’t have a lot of time to shoot. It was very quick.”

There may also be a title amendment: “I think we’re going to change the title.”

Next up for the 29-year-old actress is Upside Down opposite British actor Jim Sturgess.

Kirsten has high praise for her leading man, saying: “Jim is lovely, he’s so easy. He’s such a nice guy – very normal, chilled, a very special actor, really good guy.”

:: Melancholia is in cinemas now.

– The Press Association

Joel Edgerton on “The Great Gatsby”

Oct 10, 2011 "The Great Gatsby" No Comments

Here’s advance word from Joel Edgerton, who’s winning raves along with Tom Hardy for their performances in “Warrior”: “I’ll be playing Tom Buchanan. We really went deep into preproduction and rehearsals. We did a really lovely workshop in New York with all of the actors, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan and Isla Fisher. Baz is the perfect person to take this book on. Fitzgerald has such a great descriptive language and then you need a filmmaker who has a visual language that will match that poetry. I think Baz will do that. He cares so much about this book. I hope it will be great, as the book implies.”

– inquirer.net

Woody Harrelson joins “Now You See Me”

Oct 10, 2011Apr 11, 2012 "Now You See Me" No Comments

Woody reunites with Jesse on screen

Woody Harrelson is in talks to join his Zombieland co-star Jesse Eisenberg in magician heist thriller Now You See Me.

The Rampart star would join Jesse, Morgan Freeman, Mark Ruffalo, Isla Fisher and Melanie Laurent in the film about The Four Horsemen, a team of the world’s greatest illusionists who pull off daring bank heists during their performances and shower their audience with the profits.

Woody would play Merritt Osbourne, a mentalist and hypnotist known for his Jedi-style mind tricks, Variety reports.

Merritt won fame performing for the Queen, but was forced to flee to Las Vegas and joined the Four Horsemen after a stunt went horribly wrong.

Jesse will play the arrogant but genius leader of the Four Horsemen and Isla a master technician who builds the contraptions needed to create the illusions.

Mark will play the head of the FBI team investigating the heists, while Morgan will play a former magician who advises the FBI on how the tricks were pulled off and Melanie one of the federal agents.

Louis Leterrier is directing the film.

Woody has already won rave reviews for his portrayal of a corrupt LAPD officer in Rampart, which will be shown at the BFI London Film Festival next month.

– The Press Association