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Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness shocked everyone when they announced in 2023 that they were divorcing after nearly three decades of marriage.

Jackman remained a single man for a bit but then rumors of a new love interest with his Broadway co-star Sutton Foster began to swirl. Some shrugged off the chatter that there was anything going on between them because it was thought that Foster was happily married to Ocean’s Eleven screenwriter Ted Griffin. That is until she surprised fans by filing for divorce on Oct. 22, 2024.

Now, reports that these two are an item and “very much in love” have spread all over the internet. As one insider told Page Six, Jackman and Foster “have fallen in love” and are “100 percent together and in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together.” While another source added: “They are still together. They go out of their way to hide it,...

Australian and New Zealand indie distributor Umbrella Entertainment will launch Brollie, a free of charge, ad-supported streaming service later this month. It will lean on Umbrella’s library of classic content and claims to be the first free streaming platform specializing in Australian film and TV content.

Brollie will launch on Nov. 23 with over 300 titles including: “Babadook”; “Two Hands” (dir. Gregor Jordan, 1999); cult classics “Sweat”; “Erskineville Kings”; and “Cut” starring Kylie Minogue.

Brollie will also have a section for Indigenous Australia, including a collection of films starring Aboriginal screen legend David Gulpilil. These include “Walkabout”; “Storm Boy”; and “The Last Wave”.

A documentary slate includes “Servant or Slave” and “Ablaze”.

Subscribers will be invited to be part of the Brollie Film Club, where Brollie’s in-house team handpicks the best of the catalogue twice a month. Members can terrify themselves with the ‘Australian Nightmares’ collection exploring the best of Aussie...

From the director of…an early Hugh Jackman Aussie pic entitled Erskineville Kings, and the writer of…actually, the novel and screenplay of Heath Ledger’s 2006 romantic drama, Candy, comes…this. Reclaim pairs he-must-be-so-affordable-he’s-in-every-b-action-film-now John Cusack with Aussie actress with terrifying Animal Kingdom matriarch Jacki Weaver as the initially friendly faces behind a relatively simplistic adoption scam that Americans Steven (is that Ryan Phillippe?) and Shannon (Rachel Lefevre, doing her best to bring a modicum of freshness to the film) fall for while trying to adopt a Haitian girl. The real scam, however, is thinking Hollywood is using John Cusack’s considerable talent for anything but trash these days.

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Earlier this week we got the first word on Reclaim, a thriller coming our way from Paradox Entertainment, and now an official press release containing more details has arrived. Read on to learn the latest.

From the Press Release:

Reclaim, a new suspense-thriller inspired by real-life events, with a dynamic and powerful cast that includes John Cusack, Ryan Phillippe, Rachelle Lefevre, Jacki Weaver, and Luis GUZMÁN, is about to make the move from pre-production into production.

“We’re beyond excited to start production on what is shaping up to be a thrilling ride,” said producers Fredrik Malmberg and Silvio Muraglia of Paradox Entertainment.

“We’ve assembled a brilliant cast and have an extremely talented director who will deliver something truly unique and unforgettable,” added producers Brian and Josh Etting.

Written by award-winning Australian writer Luke Davies (Candy), based on an original screenplay by Carmine Gaeta and directed by internationally acclaimed...

John Cusack, Ryan Phillippe, Jacki Weaver, Rachelle Lefevre and Luis Guzman are all set to star in the true story suspense thriller "Reclaim" which just began filming on location in Puerto Rico.

Phillippe and Lefevre play an American couple who head to Puerto Rico to finalize the adoption of their new seven-year-old daughter, a Haitian orphan named Nina.

Taking time to explore the coast to bond as a new family, the husband clashes with an intimidating local (Cusack), soon after Nina disappears from her bed during the night.

Alan White ("Erskineville Kings") helms from a script by Luke Davies and Carmine Gaeta. Fredrik Malmberg, Silvio Muraglia, Brian and Josh Etting are producing.

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Ryan Phillippe and Rachelle Lefevre have joined the cast of Reclaim, Australian director Alan White.s thriller now underway in Puerto Rico.

The film was due to shoot in Australia but the location changed after the producers, who include Ian Sutherland and Australian director Robert Luketic via their company Origin Productions, had their bid for funding rejected by Screen Australia.

Phillippe and Lefevre (The Twilight Saga) play an American couple who are mourning the death of their unborn child in a car accident. They head to Puerto Rico to adopt an orphan from Haiti, who disappears from their hotel room.

Jacki Weaver plays the owner of the international adoption agency, John Cusack is a former Marine and Afghanistan veteran who has an altercation with the couple and Luis Guzmán (We're the Millers) is the local police chief who gets involved in the case.

The script is by Luke Davies (Candy) and Carmine Gaeta.

Ryan Phillippe and Rachelle Lefevre have joined the cast of Reclaim, Australian director Alan White.s thriller now underway in Puerto Rico.

The film was due to shoot in Australia but the location changed after the producers, who include Ian Sutherland and Australian director Robert Luketic via their company Origin Productions, had their bid for funding rejected by Screen Australia.

Phillippe and Lefevre (The Twilight Saga) play an American couple who are mourning the death of their unborn child in a car accident. They head to Puerto Rico to adopt an orphan from Haiti, who disappears from their hotel room.

Jacki Weaver plays the owner of the international adoption agency, John Cusack is a former Marine and Afghanistan veteran who has an altercation with the couple and Luis Guzman is the local cop who gets involved in the case.

The script is by Luke Davies (Candy) and Carmine Gaeta. The...

Exclusive: John Cusack, Ryan Phillippe, Rachelle Lefevre, Jacki Weaver and Luis Guzman are starring in Reclaim, a suspense thriller inspired by true events. The film is just getting underway in Puerto Rico, directed by Alan White (Erskineville Kings). The most recent script draft is by Luke Davies, from an original script by Carmine Gaeta. Phillippe and Lefevre (The Twilight Saga) play an American couple who head to Puerto Rico to finalize the adoption of their new 7-year-old daughter, a Haitian orphan named Nina. When take the time to explore the idyllic coast to bond as a new family, Steven clashes with an intimidating local (Cusack), and Nina disappears from her bed one night. The film is being produced by Paradox Entertainment’s Fredrik Malmberg and Silvio Muraglia, and Brian and Josh Etting of Paradox Entertainment. Arclight Films is handling international sales and Paradox will make the domestic deal.

The producers of thriller Reclaim have shifted the location from Australia to Puerto Rico after Screen Australia turned down their pitch for investment.

Erskineville Kings director Alan White is set to direct the film written by Luke Davies (Candy) and Carmine Gaeta. The plot follows an American couple, Steven and Shannon, who are mourning the death of their unborn child in a car accident.

The screenplay originally had the couple visiting Australia to adopt an Afghan child, who mysteriously vanishes from their hotel room, but the location has changed to Puerto Rico and the girl they.re adopting is an orphan from Haiti.

Casting is yet to be finalised but Jacki Weaver and John Cusack are attached. Shooting is due to start in Puerto Rico in mid-October.

.We.re disappointed we have to move offshore,. one of the producers, Ian Sutherland, told If. Screen Australia rejected the project despite a...

Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal as Keller Dover and Detective Loki in Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners. Hugh Jackman will receive a Donostia Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The actor - whose diverse career includes everything from muscial Les Misérables to comic book adaptation Wolverine - will receive the Award on September 27 prior to the special screening of his latest film, Prisoners.

The Australian actor is an Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe and Tony award-winning performer, who has forged a career on both stage and screen, and even turned his hand to presenting at the 2009 Academy Awards.

Jackman's career began in Australia in the independent films Paperback Hero and Erskineville Kings. His performance in the latter earned him an Australian Film Critics' Circle Best Actor award and The Australian Film Institute Best Actor nomination. In 1999, he was named Australian Star of the Year at the Australian Movie Convention.

His additional film...

The Square (2008) was one of the top crime films to come out in the last few years, according to this Criminal Complex uber-fan. Written by Joel Edgerton and directed by his brother, Nash, the film was a delicious blend of slow-burn noir and tension, carried by a weird kind of “emotional realism” (as the Edgerton brothers and their Blue Tongue Films brethren refer to it).

Aside from being my hero, and occasionally being in cafés that I’m in (where I have to pretend to be cool and that I totally don’t care that he’s there) Joel Edgerton has kept his hot streak going, starring in Animal Kingdom (easily one of the top films of the decade). I’ve been waiting since the The Square came out for Edgerton to write another crime flick, and it seems like my secret diary entries have finally been answered (I knew you were reading them,...

Hugh Jackman has signed on to host Tropfest’s New York City event.

The announcement:

Tropfest, the world’s largest short film festival, announced today that Hugh Jackman will host the main event when Tropfest takes over New York City June 21-23.

Tropfest began twenty years ago when Director John Polson (Hide & Seek, Tenderness) showed a six-minute film he made for under $100 at his local café in Sydney, Australia, for 200 guests. Today the annual free festival in Sydney receives thousands of submissions, is attended by more than 150,000 people and watched live via satellite by hundreds of thousands more. This summer Tropfest arrives in the U.S. beginning with a weekend of activities at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, June 1-3, celebrating Tropfest’s 20th birthday and featuring an “All Star Competition” hosted by Rob Corddry.

Three weeks later, Tropfest New York will present a short film competition as the centerpiece for a weekend long event.

NEW YORK -- Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban's Truly Indie distribution program will handle the theatrical release of Broken, a drug addiction drama starring Heather Graham, Jeremy Sisto, Jake Busey, Tess Harper and Linda Hamilton.

Graham plays Hope, an aspiring musician who moves to Hollywood to find success but ends up working the overnight shift at a run-down diner. She develops with junkie boyfriend (Sisto) a relationship as addictive as the heroin they share. Busey, Harper and Hamilton play some of the seedy Los Angeles denizens she encounters along the way.

Australian director Alan White's first American film premiered at November's AFI Film Fest. The producers on Broken are Brian R. Etting and Walk on the Beach Prods.' Jerry Wayne, who also financed the project. White's feature credits include Risk and Erskineville Kings.

Truly Indie will release Broken on Oct. 5 in New York, followed by distribution in Los Angeles and three other cities during the month.

The deal was negotiated by Wayne with Truly Indie executive director Kelly Sanders and head of business and legal affairs Jason Janego.