Cinema owners attending the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas today saw extended footage of Angelina Jolie.s Unbroken, and already one pundit is rating it as an Oscars contender with break-out box office potential.
Shot in Nsw and on the Gold Coast, the film is based on the true story of Us Olympic athlete Louis Zamperini, who was captured by the Japanese in WW2 after his plane crashed into the Pacific and he spent 47 days on a life-raft.
Universal plans to launch the film on Christmas Day in the Us and in January in Australia. It stars Jack O.Connell as Zamperini, Garrett Hedlund (Inside Llewyn Davis), Domhnall Gleeson (About Time), Aussies Jai Courtney, Alex Russell and Ross Langley, Finn Wittrock and Japanese singer/guitarist Miyavi.
Deadline.com.s Pete Hammond said Unbroken was the highlight of Universal.s presentation which included Fast & Furious 7, Fifty Shades Of Grey, the Despicable Me sequel Minions,...
Shot in Nsw and on the Gold Coast, the film is based on the true story of Us Olympic athlete Louis Zamperini, who was captured by the Japanese in WW2 after his plane crashed into the Pacific and he spent 47 days on a life-raft.
Universal plans to launch the film on Christmas Day in the Us and in January in Australia. It stars Jack O.Connell as Zamperini, Garrett Hedlund (Inside Llewyn Davis), Domhnall Gleeson (About Time), Aussies Jai Courtney, Alex Russell and Ross Langley, Finn Wittrock and Japanese singer/guitarist Miyavi.
Deadline.com.s Pete Hammond said Unbroken was the highlight of Universal.s presentation which included Fast & Furious 7, Fifty Shades Of Grey, the Despicable Me sequel Minions,...
- 3/26/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Young Aussie actor Ross Langley has scored his first film role - in Angelina Jolie.s Unbroken.
The Nida graduate is spending three weeks on the Gold Coast filming the drama based on the true story of Us Olympic athlete Louis Zamperini, who was captured by the Japanese in WW2.
Langley originally was offered a small role but then snagged the part of Mitchell, a pilot colleague of Zamperini.s.
Like many young actors who.ve been cast in the Universal film, he self-recorded an audition and sent it to the producers. He.s repped in Australia by United Management and in the Us by UTA.
Englishman Jack O.Connell (Harry Brown, TV.s Skins, 300: Rise of an Empire) plays Zamperini, who was a member of the Us track team in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
While serving in the war as a Us Air Force bombardier, he survived a plane...
The Nida graduate is spending three weeks on the Gold Coast filming the drama based on the true story of Us Olympic athlete Louis Zamperini, who was captured by the Japanese in WW2.
Langley originally was offered a small role but then snagged the part of Mitchell, a pilot colleague of Zamperini.s.
Like many young actors who.ve been cast in the Universal film, he self-recorded an audition and sent it to the producers. He.s repped in Australia by United Management and in the Us by UTA.
Englishman Jack O.Connell (Harry Brown, TV.s Skins, 300: Rise of an Empire) plays Zamperini, who was a member of the Us track team in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
While serving in the war as a Us Air Force bombardier, he survived a plane...
- 1/23/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Freelance journalist Don Groves is a Deadline contributor based in Sydney There’s a record number of Aussie actors and directors toiling in Hollywood — and more on deck. One of the reasons: Us and Oz agents are networking more closely than ever. Often, untried talent is being nabbed on tips from agents Down Under. After she appeared in the Australian TV soap Home and Away, UTA signed Abbie Cornish’s 17-year-old sister Isabelle on the recommendation of her Sydney rep, United Management’s Natasha Harrison. Wme nabbed Ben O’Toole and UTA secured Ross Langley after each had graduated from Oz drama schools. “There is definite heat on Australia right now because so many films recently have had a strong, distinctive voice,” UTA literary agent Bec Smith, an Aussie who moved to Los Angeles in 2007, tells Deadline. Those films include Animal Kingdom, Snowtown, Red Dog, Sleeping Beauty and Wish You Were Here,...
- 6/15/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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