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Teresa Palmer, Game of Thrones. Michiel Huisman and The Railway Man.s Sam Reid head the cast of 2.22, director Paul Currie.s romantic thriller which starts shooting in Sydney on Monday.

The Dutch-born Huisman plays Dylan, an air traffic controller in New York who nearly causes a fatal mid- air collision at the strike of 2:22.

Forced to go on leave, he meets and falls in love with Palmer.s character Sarah, who coincidentally was one of the passengers on the plane. To his horror Dyan realizes the same patterns in his life are happening every day.

Reid plays Jonas, a high profile New York-based artist who is an ex-boyfriend of Sarah.s. The cast includes Richard Davies as a fellow air traffic controller, John Waters as Dylan.s boss, Maeve Dermody as his ex-girlfriend, Kerry Armstrong and Remy Hii.

.We.re creating a smart, stylized romantic thriller,. Currie tells If.

Check out this great collection of poster art created by several artists for Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim. The posters come from Blurppy, who previously brought us poster art for films such as Star Trek Into Darkness and World War Z. 

The posters included here come from artists such as Richard Davies, Doaly, Sharm Murugiah, Paul Ainsworth, Joe Vetoe, Ben Mcleod, Berkay Daglar, Johnny Dombrowski, Linda Hordijk, Luke Butland, and Mat Weller.

The film hits theaters on July 12th. Some of these are actually cooler than the official posters.

We had actors. So many actors. But what do we do with them? Did I mention… Argh?!

With our cast of 50 locked in we were looking straight down that ol’ filming gun-barrel. The novice wannabe director had to hitch up his pants and face the actors. And it seems that all of that panic, and waking from thespian-zombie nightmares was for naught.

Turns out that they are actually human beings. Who would’ve thought?

The rehearsal process for Bound By Blue was an eclectic one. Each of the main characters have very different perspectives of the world, and for three of our four cast this was rather distant from their own experience.; thus the acting.

Frank Magree played a being from another world; Richard Davies was a man with a phobia of being touched; and Debbie Zukerman, a woman bearing guilt over the death of her best friend. And it...

Cardinal once was a big fish in a small corner of the indie-rock pond, thanks to Richard Davies and Eric Matthews being pegged as innovators of modern-day orch-pop. The group’s 1994 debut received the kind of reverential accolades—from, among others, The Flaming Lips, who later acted as Davies’ backing band—that would make many artists just want to leave well enough alone. Davies and Matthews, who parted ways in the mid-’90s to explore uneven solo careers, also didn’t get along, and their improbable reunion seemed doomed a few years ago when the old artistic struggles that ...

Best director Stenders

Australian box office hit Red Dog dominated tonight’s If Awards picking up seven trophies, including the major categories of best feature, best director for Kriv Stenders and best actor for Josh Lucas.

The winners:

Best Feature Film

Red Dog

Director: Kriv Stenders

Best Direction

Red Dog

Kriv Stenders

Producer: Nelson Woss & Julie Ryan

Best Actor

Josh Lucas

Red Dog

Best Actress

Emily Watson Oranges and Sunshine

Best Script

Red Dog

Daniel Taplitz

Best Cinematography

Red Dog

Geoff Hall

Best Box Office Achievement

Red Dog

Best Music

Red Dog

Cezary Skubiszewski

Best Music Video

Magic by Olivia Newton-John and Wacci

Director: Dan Murphy

Producer: Wacci

Best Short Documentary

Umoja: No Men Allowed

Director: Elizabeth Tadic

Producer: Elizabeth Tadic & Selene Alcock

Best Sound

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole

Wayne Pashley, Polly McKimm, Derryn Pasquill, Fabian Sanjurjo

Best Short Film

Whenthe Wind Changes

Director: Alethea Jones...

Here’s one way to stir up interest in a long-out-of-print book: do a cover story on it. Vanity Fair’s October article by contributing editor Sam Kashner on the making of The Death of a President, William Manchester’s bestselling 1967 account of the Kennedy assassination, has produced a surge in sales of the book, which Jackie Kennedy—after originally commissioning it—fought to have killed before its publication because it contained uncomfortable details about her husband and family. The book, which was published by Harper & Row but went out of print just years after it was published (Manchester’s son claims the Kennedy family has prevented new printings), was the No. 1 best-seller on AbeBooks.com during the month of September, according to spokesman Richard Davies, and continues to sell well. The most expensive copy—at an asking price of $1,603.81—is one Manchester inscribed to historian and former Kennedy aide Arthur Schlesinger.