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From bricklaying to blockbusters, Australia's latest action hero, Sam Worthington, talks about how he made it big ahead of his new James Cameron movie, Avatar You used to be a bricklayer.

It was only five years ago when the Australian Film Institute Awards reached their most sad and pathetic moment.

Indigenous species Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana were transformed digitally to look like extraterrestrials.

Sam Worthington worked 18-hour days for 14 months on the $300-million Avatar. December 11, 2009 Avatar is set to take Sam Worthington out of this world.

ICA and Verve Pictures have announced the UK Blu-ray Disc release of three titles that will be available exclusively from HMV from 25th January 2010.

MOVIE tough guy Sam Worthington got plenty of stick from director James Cameron on the set of his latest film.

SAM Worthington, Baz Luhrmann and Megan Gale were among the celebrities to walk the red carpet at the Inside Film Awards in Sydney.

I woke up one day and there was this whole new thing I had to deal with. Grace under fire ... Abbie Cornish is now being recognised for the right reasons.

An Icon Film Distribution release of an Icon Entertainment Intl., Framestore, U.K. Film Council presentation, in association with Pacific Film and TV Commission, of a Dan Films /Pictures in Paradise production.

Sam Worthington joins IF Awards [Tue 03/11/2009 02:09:25] Press release from 6dc Sydney, Tuesday 3rd November 2009: It was announced today that one of Australia's most acclaimed young actor Sam Worthington has returned to Australia and will be supporting the Australian film industry by presenting an award at the 2009 Kodak Inside Film Awards in ...

Ciaran Carty meets Abbie Cornish, co-star of Jane Campion's latest film about Romantic poet John Keats Abbie Cornish Women knew their place in polite society in early 19th century England, or were supposed to.

The Slap to hit TV screens [Wed 14/10/2009 11:48:55] Press release from ABC-TV The award-winning novel by Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, will be developed into a television series by ABC TV and Matchbox Pictures.

" Bright Star " just opened with luminous reviews, scoring 81 at Metacritic . The L.A. Times calls this dramatization of poet John Keats' tragic love affair with the girl next door "one of the most moving, most transporting love stories in memory," adding, "'Bright Star' is masterfully put-together, made with confidence, intelligence and command." ...

The 19th-century gentlewoman Fanny Brawne might have been lost to history were it not for her love affair with the great romantic poet John Keats.

Sometimes, it's the more subdued role that requires the most stamina from an actor.

The brief but deep love affair between Fanny Brawne and legendary romantic poet John Keats was complicated by Keats' status as a starving artist and the strict social standards of the early 19th Century.

THE television adaptation of Tim Winton's Cloudstreet will begin filming in Western Australia early next year.

Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish in "Bright Star." Sept. 18, 2009 Poetry gets a bad rap almost everywhere: In school, where many of us read it because we have to; in life, where most of us don't read it at all; and in the movies, where it's often quoted by the most pompous character or, worse yet, in a self-serious voice-over. Even people who like ...

Looks like Meryl Streep finally has some Best Actress competition. Australian up-and-comer Abbie Cornish, a standout from past indies like Somersault and Candy , is now having her international breakthrough moment with Bright Star , Jane Campion's love story about poet John Keats and his 18-year-old A neighbor, Fanny Brawne.

SHOOTING: Australian actress Abbie Cornish poses during a photocall for the Jane Campion film Bright Star at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.