Cate Blanchett News

Weekend Movie Box Office Update: May 21 - May 23, 2010

Weekend Movie Box Office Update: May 14 - May 17, 2010

Building on the success of the program's first two years, Focus Features will accept entries for a third year of its Africa First Program beginning Monday, May 17th and continuing through Monday, August 3rd. Focus CEO James Schamus made the announcement today.

Variety reports today that Cate Blanchett's latest film, Robin Hood, directed by Ridley Scott and co-starring Russell Crowe, will be the opening film at the 2010, 63rd Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 12. The announcement does not come as a surprise to most, as the action-drama had been a top contender for the coveted placement for some time. The film will not play in competition at the festival, though it will mark its world premiere.

Long Day's Journey Into Night is bound to be the 'hot ticket' in the Pacific Northwest this year. This world-class co-production between Portland's Artists Repertory Theatre and Australia's Sydney Theatre Company (STC) stars Oregonians William Hurt and Todd Van Voris, as well as three Australian actors including the legendary Australian actress Robyn Nevin, Luke Mullins and Emily Russell

It was an abundance of family, friends, fashion and philanthropy as celebrated TV and movie Moms Florence Henderson (Brady Bunch), Ilene Graff (Mr. Belvedere) and Kim Rhodes (Suite Life of Zach & Cody), Nancy Dussault (Too Close for Comfort) and Dee Wallace (ET: Extra-Terrestrial) as well as other industry elite gathered for a pre-Mothers Day celebration at the Hollywood Museum for a special evening featuring the world famous Hollywood Graffiti Gown by Randy McLaughlin and Jerry Skeels of JERAN Design.

Queensland Theatre Company presents Will Eno's award-winning solo show Thom Pain (based on nothing) an underground hit in New York, London and Edinburgh. Starring Jason Klarwein as the charismatic and disturbed Thom Pain, Brisbane audiences are set to be both charmed and shocked by his acerbic wit and vulnerability.

The 26th Helen Hayes Awards were presented at the historic Warner Theatre on Monday April 5.

Theatre artists and productions nominated for The 26th Annual Helen Hayes Awards were announced this evening at a press conference hosted by The National Theatre in its Helen Hayes Gallery. The complete list of nominees can be found below.

Vs Macbeth, directed by Sam Haren at Sydney Theatre Company's Wharf 2 from 18 March 2010, is a radical version of Shakespeare's great play of chance and destiny, interrogating both the famous story and the larger anxieties associated with its superstitious history as a work prone to accidents and mistakes.

Variety reports today that Cate Blanchett's latest film, Robin Hood, directed by Ridley Scott and co-starring Russell Crowe, will be the opening film at the 2010, 63rd Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 12. The announcement does not come as a surprise to most, as the action-drama had been a top contender for the coveted placement for some time. The film will not play in competition at the festival, though it will mark its world premiere.

Vs Macbeth, directed by Sam Haren at Sydney Theatre Company's Wharf 2 from 18 March 2010, is a radical version of Shakespeare's great play of chance and destiny, interrogating both the famous story and the larger anxieties associated with its superstitious history as a work prone to accidents and mistakes.

Theatre artists and productions nominated for The 26th Annual Helen Hayes Awards were announced this evening at a press conference hosted by The National Theatre in its Helen Hayes Gallery. The complete list of nominees can be found below.

HOLDING THE MAN, the smash hit Australian production, adapted by Tommy Murphy from Timothy Conigrave's award winning and best selling memoir of the same name, will make its UK debut from 23 April (Press Night 4 May) at Trafalgar Studios 1 in London.

Queensland Theatre Company presents Will Eno's award-winning solo show Thom Pain (based on nothing) an underground hit in New York, London and Edinburgh. Starring Jason Klarwein as the charismatic and disturbed Thom Pain, Brisbane audiences are set to be both charmed and shocked by his acerbic wit and vulnerability.

The adventure thriller Hanna, directed by BAFTA Award winner Joe Wright, begins filming in Europe next week. Focus Features holds worldwide rights to the movie. Focus CEO James Schamus made the announcement today.

Please note due to Earth Hour on Saturday 27 March the following production at the Wharf will have an early starting time: VS MACBETH - Wharf 2, Sydney Theatre Company Saturday 27 March - Matinee at 2:15pm and Evening show (early starting time) at 6:30pm.

Sydney Theatre Company's box office today processed the 20,000th Season Ticket for the 2010 Main Stage Season. This is the highest number of Season Tickets (six-play minimum packages) that the Company has sold since 2005 and is more than 3000 above last year - an 18% increase.

Actress Cate Blanchett delivered a keynote speech to the Australian Performing Arts Market in Adelaide on February 22. In its February 23 edition, The Sydney Herald printed an edited extract of Blanchett's speech.

Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions bring the 2009 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Billy Elliot the Musical to St. Louis from August 10-28, 2011.