Baz Luhrmann Hurt: 'Great Gatsby' Director Hurt on Australian Film Set

Having a cast which includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire, Baz Luhrmann can be used to seeing stars around the Australian group of 'The Great Gatsby.' Regrettably, now, the heavens he saw while filming the most recent screen version from the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic were from the cartoon variety. Luhrmann hit his mind on the camera weight while filming a scene, and needed three stitches to shut in the wound. Production was shut lower each day early for Christmas break following a director's injuries. "I was on a significant cramped set and that he was ducking underneath the crane," Anton Monsted, a co-producer around the film, told the Sydney Morning Herald. "He struck his mind around the weights around the finish from the camera crane. He split open his mind, and that we needed to obtain the physician." Warner Bros. didn't react to a request comment from THR. 'Gatsby,' which is among the greatest films to ever shoot in Sydney, arrives in theaters on Xmas Day the coming year. The film continues to be shooting around australia for 83 days so far -- the cast and crew will reconvene following the holidays to complete the shoot. Because if you think about great literary works, additionally you think about extra dimensions, 'The Great Gatsby' come in three dimensional. Luhrmann is better referred to as director of 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Moulin Rouge.' [Sydney Morning Herald via THR] [Photo: WB] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Julianne Moore is Sarah Palin in Game Change trailer

A brand new teaser trailer continues to be launched for Cinemax Films' approaching political drama Game Change, and Julianne Moore creates a frighteningly convincing Sarah Palin.The film, modified in the best-selling book of the identical title by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, follows the storyline from the 2008 election campaign, concentrating on the development of Sarah Palin towards the McCain ticket like a potential "game changer".Have a look in the new trailer below... What we should know without a doubt is the fact that Julianne Moore has Palin's reedy, semi-strangulated voal tones lower pat, as well as looks a defunct ringer for that Republican following a staggeringly convincing transformation.The supporting gamers fit the part too, with Erectile dysfunction Harris searching stodgy and stoic as McCain, and Woodsy Harrelson on slippery form like a senior campaign strategist.Directed by Jay Roach, the film is going to be launched on Cinemax next March. No news of the motion picture release up to now, so expect that one to finish up within the dastardly clutches of Sky Atlantic...

Some Lovers (Old Globe)

'Some Lovers'Credits: An Old Globe presentation of a musical in one act with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Burt Bacharach. Directed by Will Frears. Musical staging, Denis Jones. Music supervisor, Lon Hoyt. Orchestrations, Jonathan Tunick. Vocal design, Annmarie Milazzo. Ben - Jason Danieley Molly - Michelle Duffy Young Ben - Andrew Mueller Young Molly - Jenni Barber"Some Lovers," the new Burt Bacharach-Steven Sater vestpocket tuner, takes its inspiration from the dual irony of O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi": Husband sells watch to buy wife combs, while wife sells tresses to buy spouse watchfob. There's irony at the Old Globe, too, in that octogenarian composer Bacharach brings youthful freshness to the project, while the young guy's work (Sater wrote "Spring Awakening") is lifeless and dull. The show has some sparkle, but it's a meandering romance. Blocked, heavy-drinking tunesmith Ben (Jason Danieley) uses Christmas Eve as an opportunity to attempt to reconnect with ex-g.f. and muse Molly (Michelle Duffy). Maybe they've both caught the Gotham revival of "Follies," because they conjure their younger selves (Andrew Mueller and Jenni Barber) to go down a musical memory lane and sort out what went awry. The cast is sensational. Danieley and Duffy are confident pros for whom, in an earlier theatrical era, original musicals would've been made every season. The youngsters match them step for step in charisma and brio. Bacharach -- in his first stage tuner since "Promises, Promises" in (can it be?) 1968 -- provides sweet, soaring melodies for past and present incarnations of this mismatched pair, while eschewing his once-signature tricky time signatures (understandably, since the characters are so square). But the writing! "Some Lovers" plays like an extended bout of couples therapy, in which the participants sing around their problems while never exactly communicating anything germane or interesting. As near as one can make out, NYU business major Molly falls in love with Ben because of his ability to write fine songs she inspires. But she gets pissed off when his creative mania causes him to miss appointments and get distracted on a vacation. Does she esteem his gift -- his "ghost," she grimly calls it -- or doesn't she? He starts cranking out hits once he hooks up with an unnamed singer. It's strictly professional, but Molly promptly demands he give "that girl" up, at which point his career disintegrates. Then she keeps nattering he should get a "real job," marry her and give her a baby. In short, a fuller portrait of a jealous, controlling, castrating harpy is hard to imagine. Sater leans on strained parallels with the O. Henry story instead of grounding the characters in specificity. When Molly delivers a really pointed laugh line about the Nativity Magi, you can literally see the audience wake up out of its torpor. Meanwhile, his lyrics wallow in past tense expressions of generic pop sentiment, the near-rhyming of "Spring Awakening" utterly out of place among precise thinkers like Ben and Molly. (At one point Sater actually rhymes "summer/other/lover" right in a row. Paging Hal David.) Helmer Will Frears and musical stager Denis Jones can do little with this material except have the cast saunter around the arena stage. In a final irony, Takeshi Kata's messy set is as cluttered with naturalistic detail as Sater's script is bereft of it.Sets, Takeshi Kata; costumes, Jenny Mannis; lighting, Ben Stanton; sound, Leon Rothenberg. Opened Dec. 7, 2011. Reviewed Dec. 13. Running time: 95 MIN. Musical Numbers: "Molly," "Aren't We?" "Some Lovers," "Aren't We?/Another Start," "Love Me for an Hour," "Living With a Ghost," "A Hit for You," "Window Shoppin' and Dreamin' Dreams," "The Only Music I Understand," "The Girl Who Sang My Songs," "Hold Me," "A Thousand Things That Were You," "Welcome to My World," "Ready to Be Done With You/A Thousand Things That Were You (Reprise)," "Every Other Hour," "Just Walk Away," "This Christmas," "Hush," "This Christmas" (Finale). Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

George Lucas's Indianapolis 5 MacGuffin Problem, and 5 Other Tales You will be Speaking About Today

Happy Tuesday! Also in today’s edition from the Broadsheet: The plug is drawn on Paradise Lost (for the time being)… A set of Weinstein award horses sniff the backlash… Universal will get in the Julia Roberts business… and much more. · I suppose that George Lucas being from ideas barely counts as news, as well as the record: There’s still no real peg to hold Indiana Johnson 5’s story on. Or, in Lucas’s words: “I told [Steven Spielberg] concerning the story, however i really haven’t found the MacGuffin yet. I am talking about, I understand what it really’s about, however i have to look for a MacGuffin that matches in to the arena we’re employed in.” Poor George is stumped! Can anybody available help old Stumpy MacGuffin? [Vulture] · “STUNNER! Legendary Pictures Postpones The month of january Oncoming Of Alex Proyas-Directed Paradise Lost,” shouts the headline at our sister site Deadline. I am talking about, totally! Why would anybody think hard about letting Alex Proyas go a reported 15 % on the $120 million budget to evolve John Milton’s poem with **Bradley Cooper **within the lead? Seriously! Be stunned, already. [Deadline] · I’m no conspiracy theorist, but… Oh, who the hell shall we be held kidding: The timing of the slur campaign against My Week With Marilyn — where the boy of Marilyn Monroe’s former manager calls the film’s source material “a complete lie” as well as prompts skepticism from lead actress Michelle Williams herself — is a touch strange as experts honours and also the Golden Globes hammer out their faves of 2011. Obviously, The Weinstein Company has both this film and also the Best Actress leader The Iron Lady. Harvey wouldn’t sabotage one for that other’s sake, would he? [LAT via Moviefone] · Also going through the first stages of backlash: The Artist. Here’s Glenn Kenny: “[T]he proven fact that this movie has been announced the very best Film of 2011 by various experts’ groups generally is — there’s not one other word for this — insane.” Worth a read, and don’t worry: No Uggies were injured within the writing of the review. [Some Came Running] · Universal, that has ridden the Julia Roberts express to both box-office glory (Wanted) and Oscar-evening recognition (Changeling), is in business using the celebrity and director Luc Besson. The studio will distribute the duo’s untitled “large-scale dramatic thriller” — with sci-fi elements — which commences shooting next spring. [Deadline] · This tribute to Charles Grodin’s late-evening TV legend is the greatest possible stalling device I'm able to provide you with today. The Johnny Carson exchange alone —”I’m just searching for warm physiques!” — will brighten your entire day immeasurably. [Splitsider]

Erectile dysfunction Asner to Reprise Original Hawaii Five- Role for Reboot

Erectile dysfunction Asner Erectile dysfunction Asner will reprise his guest-starring role in the original Hawaii Five- to have an approaching episode from the CBS reboot, the network introduced Thursday. The seven-time Emmy champion, 82, first guest-starred on the 1975 episode from the crime series like a rising first class smuggler named August March. August, now a cool guy after investing 3 decades in jail, returns once the Five- team asks him to help on the smuggling situation. Inside a first for that show, footage from Asner's 1975 appearance is going to be proven throughout the episode. Mega Buzz: Prepare to satisfy Danny's old partner on Hawaii Five- "It's thrilling to, the very first time, merge the initial Hawaii Five- and our new show by getting the classic, versatile and award-winning actor Erectile dysfunction Asner reprise his role of August March," executive producer Peter Lenkov stated inside a statement. "There's no better way to create a bridge between our reboot and also the original series." Asner is better noted for his focus on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant. He most lately made an appearance on Royal Pains as Hank and Evan's grandfather and performed Warren Buffett within the Cinemax movie Too Large to Fail. Asner's return is slated for sometime this spring. Hawaii Five- airs Mondays at 10/9c on CBS.

Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol: Film Review

It may not be The Incredibles, but there is some fairly incredible stuff to be found in Mission: Impossible -Ghost Protocol, animation ace Brad Bird's first live-action film and a good continuation of the now-16-year-old series. The impact of spectacular action on striking international locales is moderated somewhat by the repetitive nature of the challenges faced by this rebooted team of American agents trying to thwart a villain who believes that a nuclear winter would be in the natural order of things. With Tom Cruise in top form here and IMAX presentation enhancing some of the key sequences, this Paramount release should add substantially to the grand total of a franchise that has hauled in $1.4 billion to date.our editor recommends'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' Dubai Premiere Red Carpet Arrivals'Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol' Dubai Premiere Delayed Two Hours, But Worth the Wait'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' Full Trailer Debuts (Video)Why Tom Cruise Still Matters in the Film Industry (Analysis) PHOTOS: 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' Dubai Premiere Red Carpet Arrivals At least two different constituencies will be curious about this fourth installment of a series which, if not taken to heart by the masses on the level of Bond, Harry Potter or even Indiana Jones, has reliably supplied enough lavish, high-voltage excitement to keep international audiences coming back for more about twice a decade. First will be the mainstream action and Cruise fans, who will get their money's worth from the eye-popping set pieces staged in Moscow, Dubai (with the star dangling from and traversing the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building) and Mumbai, for starters. Then there are those who will be curious about how Bird, the force behind three superb, unusually smart animated features, Iron Giant, The Incredibles and Ratatouille, fares behind the camera of a big live-action feature. Given the demands of working within a strict and narrowly defined format that encourages imagination but allows for little deviation, he's done a fine job, perhaps nowhere better than in the first protracted set piece. Accomplished with very little dialogue and unexpected humor under the circumstances, it's an escape from a Russian prison by Cruise's Ethan Hunt (first seen throwing a ball against a wall, in likely homage to Steve McQueen in The Great Escape) orchestrated electronically from the outside by the one other holdover from the last film's team, Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg). Conceived entirely visually, the sequence boasts perfect timing, framing and movement, with some brutal action offset by the inspired musical overlay of Dean Martin singing "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" and the general perspective of not really understanding what's going on, as Ethan and a Russian cohort outmaneuver the authorities and other prisoners to make the break. Q&A: 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol 's' Anil Kapoor on Balancing Bollywood and Hollywood Another tense but, for contrast, quiet scene quickly follows, in which disguised Ethan and Benji must do no less than penetrate the innermost sanctum of the Kremlin to retrieve the file Kurt Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist), who they know is getting very close to being able to trigger a nuclear holocaust that would oblige the world to start over again from scratch. The moment they get out, a huge explosion blows up an entire corner of the edifice. Ethan's boss (an unbilled Tom Wilkinson) shortly informs him that, as the incident will eventually be blamed on the United States, the president has declared "ghost protocol," meaning that the IMF team, which also includes tough babe Jane Carter (Paula Patton) and will soon add agent William Brandt (Jeremy Renner), is being disowned and hung out to dry. Which is exactly where Ethan finds himself at his next stop, clinging with suction gloves to the windows 123 floors up on the Burj Khalifa, which, approached from a desert road, is first seen rising like Oz on the horizon. For no doubt excellent reasons, this is the spot where the team hopes to nail Hendricks and, in the bargain, a crafty and sexy assassin (Lea Seydoux) Jane gets to fight hand-to-hand. Ethan spends quite a bit of time making like Spider-Man on the side of the building and much has been made of how Cruise insisted upon doing this himself. It's riveting, with some shots shortening the breath and likely to induce vertigo in the susceptible. But a question arises: Since CGI has now become so convincing that it's often impossible to know if what's onscreen is real or artificial (as the Kremlin exterior during and after the explosion obviously is), how necessary was it for Cruise to actually get outside more than a thousand feet up? Are there, in fact, some computer-generated images mixed into this fine, thoroughly concocted sequence? VIDEO: Tom Cruise Defies Gravity in 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' Clip By this time, and as the action moves along to India, the patterns in the script by veteran Alias writers Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec become all to familiar, as Ethan sets the objectives and does the lion's share of the heavy lifting, Jane and William do their things and Benji races his fingers over his keyboard and amongst ridiculously complicated wiring systems so as to break into the most impenetrable computer files within seconds. At a lavish Mumbai bash, Jane does get to go glam in order to distract a local gazillionaire (Anil Kapoor, from Slumdog Millionaire), but the main action here is Ethan battling Hendricks for a crucial metal briefcase in a high rise car park, with elevators and cars rising up and down creating an ever-changing set of levels and opportunities. Mild encroaching signs of physical maturity are becoming to Cruise (he'll turn 50 next year), who's obviously in great shape but doesn't strut and preen at all in this film. He's quite appealing, in fact, without asking to be admired or liked. While continuing to be able to do films like this, he might be on the verge of entering a new phase of his career by taking on some quite different sorts of roles. VIDEO: 'Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol': New Clip Features Girl Fight Between Paula Patton, Lea Seydoux As for Renner's character, he starts as a suit-and-tie functionary. But it turns out he and Ethan have a history, one that comes home to roost at the end but doesn't open up as much personal exchange between the two or ultimate meaning as might have been. Renner's potential for danger, intensity and violence, so evident in The Hurt Locker and The Town, goes largely untapped, which is a shame in that there are momentary hints he and Cruise could have cooked with some material tailored to their strengths. Pegg and Patton are fine as far as they go but just a couple of personal shadings should not have been out of the question even in a film as straight-ahead and streamlined as this. Unquestionably, the film moves like crazy but could have used some variations of rhythm and some different moves in the second half, especially as the Mumbai material is not as impressive or enticing as what went on at points west. Technically, the film is immaculate, with incredible photographic clarity, at least as presented in IMAX (full top-to-bottom images account for a reported 27 minutes of the running time). Michael Giacchino's active, imaginative, nearly ever-present score nicely incorporates Lalo Schifrin's original TV theme, as the previous films also did. Venue: Dubai Film Festival Opens: December 16 (IMAX), 21 (wide) (Paramount) Production: Paramount, Skydance Pictures, Tom Cruise, Bad Robot Cast: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton, Michel Nyqvist, Vladimir Mashkov, Josh Holloway, Anil Kapoor, Lea Seydoux Director: Brad Bird Screenwriters: Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, based on the television series created by Bruce Geller Producers: Tom Cruise, J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk Executive producers: Jeffrey chernov, David Ellison, Paul Schwake, Dana Goldberg Director of photography: Robert Elswit Production designer: Jim Bissell Costume designer: Michael Kaplan Visual effects supervisor: John Knoll Editor: Paul Hirsch Music: Michael Giacchino PG-13 rating, 133 minutes PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' Dubai Premiere Red Carpet Arrivals Jeremy Renner Paula Patton Tom Cruise Paramount Pictures Brad Bird Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol