Bright Star News

12/15/09 It's not often that a costume designer gets to design costumes for a character who's also a costume designer.  |  Variety

12/15/09 Though Cooper doesn't shy away from the downbeat qualities of Cobb's novel (concerning the twilight years of an alcoholic, washed-up country crooner named Bad Blake), his screenplay refocuses on Bad's decency, resilience and newfound May-December passion without the usual heart-tugging.  |  Variety

12/14/09 Director Floria Sigismondi's Sundance 2010 feature "The Runaways" has been picked up by Apparition in a pact that was anticipated.  |  indieWIRE

12/14/09 Academy Awards organizers have shaken up their show by doubling the best-picture category to 10 nominees in hopes of a broader range of films, mainstream movies mixing with the sober dramas that Oscar voters often favour.  |  JAM! Showbiz

12/11/09 Look past the corsets and the candles, the horses and the hallowed halls, and really, the only common element in the cinematography of this year's notable period films is the filmmakers' attempts to avoid the conventions and cliches of the genre.  |  Variety

12/11/09 Melbourne native Greig Fraser, 34, was early in his career as a commercial and editorial photographer when he decided to trade the "simple, one-man game" of photography for life as a d.p. "It's a growing, organic process," he says of filmmaking.  |  Variety

12/09/09 For a creative medium, cinema has had a deeply troubled relationship with creativity -- at least when it comes to putting it onscreen.  |  Variety

12/08/09 Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem were spotted just the other night checking out a movie at the Mann Chinese 6 theaters in Hollywood.  |  E! Online

12/04/09 After watching Abbie Cornish in "Bright Star," in which she plays proper British gal Fanny Brawne, and in the previous "Stop Loss" and "A Good Year," in which she portrays a Texan and a Napa Valley oenophile, respectively, it's almost startling to hear the 27-year-old actress speak in her native Australian accent.  |  Variety

12/04/09 For the past three years, actresses giving Academy Award acceptance speeches have been sprinkled with a smorgasbord of foreign accents.  |  Variety