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 Directed by: George Miller
Writing credits: George Miller, Warren Coleman, Gary Eck, Paul Livingston
Status: on DVD
Elijah Wood .... Mumble Robin Williams .... Noah, Ramone, Adelie, Lovelace Pink .... Gloria Elizabeth Daily .... Erik Sofia Vergara Hugo Weaving .... Noah the Elder Robin Williams .... Ramon/Lovelace Matt Damon .... Krill #1 Brad Pitt .... Krill #2 Hank Azaria Magda Szubanski .... Miss Viola
Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right
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Directed by: Michael Bay
Written by: Ehren Kruger
Country: USA
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Carly |
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Lennox |
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Simmons |
| Tyrese Gibson |
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Epps |
| Patrick Dempsey |
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Dylan |
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Engineer |
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Mearing |
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Bruce Brazos |
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Ron Witwicky |
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Judy Witwicky |
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Dutch |
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Jerry Wang |
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General Morshower |
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Optimus Prime (voice) |
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Megatron (voice) |
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Sentinel Prime (voice) |
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Ironhide (voice) |
| Charles Adler |
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Starscream (voice) (as Charlie Andler) |
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Ratchet (voice) |
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Sideswipe (voice) |
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Dino (voice) |
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Wheelie (voice) |
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Brains (voice) |
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Roadbuster / Amp (voice) |
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The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.
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Executive Producers: Julia De Roeper & Michael Bourchier
Head Writer: David Witt
Animation / 4-8 yrs / 52 x 8 mins
“I’m Brave, I’m Clever, I’m Mr McGee!”
Set under the shade of his apple tree Mr McGee follows a whim in every story. But in Mr McGee’s life things always seem to get a bit out of control! With the help of his animal friends or just dumb luck, he manages to wriggle out of trouble and get back to his tree just in time for tea.
One of Australia’s best loved characters is now making his way to the screen. Over 4 million books have been sold around the world and there is hardly a house in Australia that doesn’t own some of these classic stories from the writer, Pamela Allen. |
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Written and directed by: Peter Butt
Narrated by: Hugo Weaving
Produced by the makers of the documentaries The Prime Minister is Missing and Who Killed Dr Bogle & Mrs Chandler? it is the story of Charles Spry, ASIO’s first master spy.
Set in the 1950s Australia at the time of the Petrov affair, it features Tony Llewellyn-Jones as Director-General of ASIO, Charles Spry and Hugo Weaving as Narrator. It is produced by Blackwattle Films.
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Directed by: Zack Snyder
Screenplay by: John Orloff, John Collee
Country: USA / Australia
Hugo Weaving ... Noctus/Grimble Sam Neill Ryan Kwanten ... Kludd Helen Mirren Jim Sturgess ... Soren David Wenham ... Digger Abbie Cornish Geoffrie Rush Miriam Margolye ... Mrs. Plithiver Jay Laga'aia ... Twilight Emily Barclay
The film follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones. While Soren dreams of someday joining his heroes, his older brother, Kludd, scoffs at the notion, and yearns to hunt, fly and steal his father's favor from his younger sibling. But Kludd's jealousy has terrible consequences--causing both owlets to fall from their treetop home and right into the talons of the Pure Ones. Now it is up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave young owls. Together they soar across the sea and through the mist to find the Great Tree, home of the legendary Guardians of Ga'Hoole--Soren's only hope of defeating the Pure Ones and saving the owl kingdoms.
The film is based on the first three books in the series.
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Written and directed by: Jacob Hickey
Narrated by: Hugo Weaving
On 7th February 2009, Australia suffered its worst peacetime
disaster.
'Black Saturday' claimed 173 lives, left more than 7,000 homeless and
destroyed close to half a million hectares of Victorian bushland.
One year on, Inside the Firestorm tells the story of what happened.
Using never before seen footage, this documentary is a social record, a
film that commemorates a catastrophe as seen through the eyes of those
who were there.
Narrated by Hugo Weaving, this documentary is dedicated to those who
lost their lives on Black Saturday.
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Directed by:
Hannes Schuler, Katharina Von Flotow
Written by: Jan Lorenzen, Katharina Von Flotow
Narrated by: Hugo Weaving
The story of Charles Darwin’s great voyage onboard the Beagle is a story
of initiation and discovery. It remains one of the most significant
scientific expeditions undertaken in history for it was during the
voyage that Darwin developed his theory of evolution.
This is the story of the journey, Darwin’s personal transformation and
the scientific revolution it ignited.
The film investigates the scientific research and thought in the
fields of geology, zoology and biology, which have been inspired by
Darwin’s discoveries. Contemporary scientists illustrate Darwin’s
thought process and research procedures and evaluate them in light
of today’s scientific findings.
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Written, Directed, Produced by: Marc Radomsky
Narrated by: Hugo Weaving
Narrated by Hugo Weaving, Tackling Peace is the inspirational story
of Israeli and Palestinian youths who unite over the game of Australian
Rules football.
Tackling Peace goes behind the scenes as
young men from different sides of a bloody political war set aside a
lifetime of prejudice and hostility to compete as a team in the
Australian Football League’s International Cup. Few of the aspirant
players had ever heard of the game and none imagined befriending
teammates from across the political divide.
The brainchild of
Sydney-based footy mum Tanya Oziel, the Peace Team is an initiative of
the not-for-profit Peres Center for Peace, which works towards peace in
the Middle East.
The team includes 18-year-old Israeli Yonatan
Belik who had never met a Palestinian before he started training with
the side. His prejudices challenged and his endurance tested, he will
forge friendships with his Arab teammates before returning to Israel for
compulsory military service. His close mate on the team is 16-year-old
Leith Jaber who comes from a highly politicised Palestinian family. Then
there’s Naser Gous, a former Palestinian resistance fighter who spent
three years in an Israeli jail after an attack on Israeli soldiers.
While he believes peace is possible, Naser knows any collaboration with
Israel can be seen as a betrayal and Palestinian players may be risking
their lives.
Getting to the International Cup is a logistical
nightmare. It can take hours for Palestinian players to cross
checkpoints into Israel, the training ground does not have AFL goal
posts, players have never seen the game played, they speak different
languages – Hebrew, Arabic and English – and have complicated Kosher or
Halal food requirements.
Featuring legendary footballers Kevin
Sheehan, Ron Barassi and Robert ‘Dipper’ DiPierdomenico, Tackling Peace
follows this group of Israelis and Palestinians in their quest to make
it to Australia and play together against the world.
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Gallipoli: The First Day was created when ABC Innovation producer
Meena Tharmarajah saw the terrain at Anzac Cove and realised that seeing
the terrain gave her a whole new perspective on the battle. She
realised that you could use mapping technologies that are now available
to tell the story of these events in a recreation of that environment,
giving people a far deeper insight. It would be the next best thing to
being there.
This germ of an idea became a reality with the launch of Flash 10
and its ability to support 3D. This site was built in a Flash 10 /Flex
3D environment and overall it runs in a browser. What this means, is
that one simple download of Flash player allows you to experience the
full richness of this site and its contents.
The Map
The 3D Map of the peninsula was built using topographic data taken
from 1916 Turkish maps. Surveys of all the Gallipoli battlefields were
made in 1916 by the Turkish Mapping Directorate under Brigadier General
Mehmet Şevki Paşa and 43 maps were made. As the data is true to the
period our 3D map doesn’t show contemporary building developments and
roads. Sydney University Archaeology Department then supplied the GIS
data used to shape and create the terrain topography.
The Story in 3D
The scenes that tell the story of the day were created in 3D using
Cinema4D software. The models of soldiers and objects that populate
these scenes were meticulously created for Gallipoli by Plastic Wax,
Sydney, based on photographs and descriptions recorded at Gallipoli.
Melbourne based sound designer and composer Roberto Salvatore recorded
authentic artillery preserved by Fort Queenscliff Museum in Victoria to
create a dramatic backdrop against which the story is told by acclaimed
Australian actress Lucy Bell. Throughout the landscape, other voices
permeate: that of those who were there. The men who survived the
horrifying slaughter of the first day record the events they experienced
in diaries, and letters. They are respectfully given voice by a cast of
talented actors, including one of Australia’s finest, Hugo Weaving.
The Experts
Harvey Broadbent is a well known authority on the Gallipoli
campaign. He carefully supervised the collection of information,
strategy and detail about the events of the day to ensure accuracy and
offer an even handed telling of events from both sides. His in depth
understanding of the day’s events allowed us to plot the course of
events and movement of people across the terrain and drawn connections
in an entirely new way. In addition, video interviews conducted for the
ABC by Harvey with Gallipoli veterans in the 1980s form an integral
part of this story and segments are available throughout the site as
video files. This site also uses authentic source photographs, maps and
records from a number of leading institutions including the Australian
War Memorial and the Turkish General Staff Archives in Ankara.
Narrated by: Lucy Bell
Diaries and letters read by:
Hugo Weaving
Quentin McDermott
Vecihi Başarin
Yusuf Nidai
Vocal effects by Dan Andrews, Sam Doust, Tristan Gross, David
Noonan, Robert Salvatore, Dale Smart, Robert Stewart and Zeki Toral
Quick tour narrated by Chris Winter
Video Interviews:
Peter Cosgrove
Chris Masters
Les Carlyon
Gary Oakley
Christopher Pugsley
John Howard
Murat Ersavci
Harvey Broadbent
Editor: Mark Taylor
Radio National Hindsight and Radio National Verbatim audio
produced and presented by Michelle Raynor
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Directed by: Eric 'Giz' Gewirtz
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
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Directed by: Michael Bay
Written by: Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci
Country: USA
Language: English
Shia LaBoeuf .... Sam Witwicky
Megan Fox .... Mikaela Banes
Josh Duhamel .... Captain Lennox
Hugo Weaving ... Megatron (Voice)
Decepticon forces return to Earth on a mission to take Sam Witwicky prisoner, after the young hero learns the truth about the ancient origins of the Transformers. Joining the mission to protect humankind is Optimus Prime, who forms an alliance with international armies for a second epic battle
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Directed by: Michael Bay
Written by: Roberto Orci / Alex Kurtzman
MPAA: PG-13
Runtime: 144 min
Country: USA
Shia LaBoeuf .... Sam Witwicky
Megan Fox .... Mikaela Banes
Josh Duhamel .... Captain Lennox
Jon Voight .... Defense Secretary John Keller
John Turturro .... Agent Simmons
Hugo Weaving ... Megatron (Voice)
For centuries, two
races of robotic aliens –- the Autobots® and the Decepticons® –- have
waged a war, with the fate of the universe at stake. When the battle
comes to Earth, all that stands between the evil Decepticons® and
ultimate power is a clue held by young Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf). An
average teenager, Sam is consumed with everyday worries about school,
friends, cars and girls. Unaware that he alone is mankind's last chance
for survival, Sam and his friend Mikaela (Megan Fox) find themselves in
a tug of war between the Autobots® and Decepticons.® With the world
hanging in the balance, Sam comes to realize the true meaning behind
the Witwicky family motto -– "No sacrifice, no victory!"
MTV Movie Awards 2007 - Best Summer Movie You Haven't Seen Yet
Megatron's Lines
"You've failed me again, Starscream"
"Prime!"
"No, it's just me, Prime. At the end of the day, one will stand. One will fall."
"Disgusting."
"I am... MEGATRON!"
"No, I want two! [in response to an Autobot character saying "You want a piece of me?"]"
"Give me the Allspark and you may live to be my pet."
"Oh... so unwise."
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Directed by: Aden Young
Written by: Aden Young
Country: Australia
Premiered at the St. Kilda Film Festival on June 5, 2007
Starring: Roy Billing, Loene Carmen, Sam Worrad
Narrated by: Hugo Weaving
The old camel driver knows how came this rose, where nothing else grows, in the silver shifting sands of Ba Zee. He told me the tale one night in Ba Zee and I'll tell it to you as he told it to me.
This charming film is narrated by internationally acclaimed actor Hugo Weaving. Aden Young's first short, The Order, screened on Opening Night St Kilda Film Festival, 1999.
“There is a rose that grows…”
So begins Aden Young’s second short film THE ROSE OF BA ZIZ, adapted from his father’s well loved children’s book of the same name, first published in 1972.
It tells the whimsical tale of The Great Whiz (Roy Billing), the king of Ba Ziz who is stricken with flower fickle fever and is forced to decide between his health or the happiness of his people.
“The touching story is filmed in the fashion of a silent movie and features a series of snapshots and images, reminiscent of a recollection of childhood memories”. - Sydney Morning Herald
Drawing on the magical fables half-remembered from childhood’s chimerical memories, Aden Young’s THE ROSE OF BA ZIZ unfolds through the kind of visual experimental exotica that in part recalls the lavish works of the 60s’ underground. An empty lot and its inhabitants are transformed into the mystical land of Ba Ziz, a world that sparkles with slashes of colour and echoes to haunting, even melancholy, music drawn from violins and accordions. Young melds together this arabesque vision with a fluid narration that emphasises the linguistic pleasures of the children’s book from which this tale was adapted, creating a genuinely luminous work.
Jack Sargeant, author and curate.
Inspired by a looming film festival deadline, Aden carried the film from blank page to screening in four days, delivering the film for a budget of only $700.
"It's basically like a folk-fairytale parable, a series of stills that look like coloured postcards from the turn of the century... It has a very haunting quality to it. Conceptually, it's very unique and very endearing. I think it's got the ability to inspire filmmakers who are suffering from some kind of block about 'How do I go out and make films, how do I go out and compete with the big guys?' If you think just outside of the square you can really surprise and delight audiences.”
Paul Harris, 3RRR
Young explains what he was trying to achieve with the film: “ I wanted it to be distanced from reality, like perhaps it was a document that was lost. Or perhaps it was something that had occurred – and of course that’s absurd, but I wanted it to have that suggestion. There’s romanticism and immediate nostalgia that the story deserves…in it’s themes of sacr
ifice and community.” - Emerald Hill Weekly
The film is narrated by Hugo Weaving and stars Roy Billing (Underbelly), Tony Llewellyn Jones (Picnic at Hanging Rock) and Loene Carmen (The Year My Voice Broke).
The sets were constructed and dressed by three of Sydney’s most acclaimed artists – James Powditch, Gavin Barbey and Louise Sykes.
The music was composed by Jed Kurzel (The Mess Hall) John Gauci (Johnny G & The E Types) Daisy Tulley (Bridezilla) and Loene Carmen.
THE ROSE OF BA ZIZ premiered on June 5th 2007 at the opening of the 24th St Kilda International Film Festival.
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 Written by: Paul McDermott
Directed by: Paul McDermott
Runtime: 9 min
Country: Australia
Starring: Pia Miranda
Narrated by: Hugo Weaving
A young girl consumed by bitterness decides to take drastic and
irredeemable measures to put an end to her continual suffering. After
running through a number of darkly humorous options for her demise she
settles on the terribly romantic "death by swallowing bees". Intent on
her mission, she sets off for the woods where "bees are said to hide".
There, in the shade of an impossibly beautiful oak, she disturbs a hive
only to discover, much to her amazement, the bees have other plans for
her and for her bitter heart.
Developed and produced in association with the Australian Film Commission.
- Nominated at the Berlinale 2007
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By: David Bromley
Narrated by: Hugo Weaving
80-minute film which combines artist David Bromley's distinctive artwork with animation, acting, poetry, short stories and music.
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 Documentary written/directed by: Peter Butt
Country: Australia
Language: English
Status: broadcasted on ABC Thursday, Sept. 7th, dvd release Oct. 5, 2006
At last, an answer to one of the greatest unsolved cases in Australian
crime history. When the half-naked bodies of brilliant physicist, Dr Gilbert Bogle,
and his lover, Mrs Margaret Chandler, were found in bizarre circumstances
on a Sydney riverbank in 1963, it sent into play an unprecedented forensic investigation. Autopsies offered little clue as tho how the couple died, only that there were signs of a rapidly acting poison. Despite assistance from the FBI and Scotland Yard, the poison was never identified. At the end of a long and controversial coroner inquest, no cause of death, killer or motive could be identified.
In the ensuing years, scores of tabloid theories have been put forward, from LSD to Cold War assassinations. But in the minds of many, including the police, Margaret Chandler's husband, Geoffrey, was the likely culprit. Foru decades later, this explosive documentary reveals startling new scientific evidence - evidence so poverful the police gave filmaker Peter Butt unprecedented access to their forensic records. It provides stunning solution to one of crime's most baffling riddles: Who killed Dr Bogle & Mrs Chandler?
Narrated by Hugo Weaving.
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 Directed by: George Miller
Writing credits: Warren Coleman, John Collee
Also Known As: The Kingdom
Country: Australia/USA
Language: English
Status: on DVD
Elijah Wood .... Voice of Mumble Robin Williams .... Voice of Noah, Ramone, Adelie, Lovelace Brittany Murphy .... Voice of Gloria Hugh Jackman .... Voice of Memphis Nicole Kidman .... Voice of Norma Jean Hugo Weaving .... Voice Anthony LaPaglia .... Voice Miriam Margolyes .... Voice Carlos Alazraqui .... Voice Denise Blasor .... Voice Khamani Griffin .... Voice Alyssa Shafer .... Voice Savion Glover .... (featuring the tap dancing of)
Noah the Elder: The ageing partriarch of Empearor Land trying to hold his beloved community together through difficult times. Supported by a cadre of Elders, Noah is a forceful leader, but he struggles to withstand the winds of change. Mumbles and his 'happy feet' pose a threat to his authority and the dignity of his proud Emperor Nation
"Happy Feet" is set deep in Antarctica. Into the land of Emperor Penguins, where each needs a heart song to attract a soul mate, a penguin is born who cannot sing. Our hero Mumble, son of Memphis and Norma Jean, is the worst singer in the world...however, as it happens, he is a brilliant tap dancer!
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The Earth Share Australia Foundation is a national initiative of eleven leading environment groups. We are working with the community, business,employees and Government to transform the level of resources available for environmental and community programs. We work cooperatively with our partners to protect the environment and build a stronger more effective community sector. We raise funds that go directly to our members and other environmental organisations.
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Directed by: Michael Butler
Country: Australia
Status: on DVD (order details)
Michael Butler
Michelle White
Samantha Martin
Narrated by: Hugo Weaving and Jack Thompson
‘The Message Stick’ documentary is a travel / adventure journey like
no other. After 10 years of traveling into the heart of the harsh
Outback of Australia. 3 young people discover love, culture, bush
medicine and the mystical powers of the traditional and modern
Aboriginal way of life.
This extraordinary documentary
began in a 1961 Ex-Army Ambulance which was first built for the Vietnam
WAR, now re-painted as a Totem of PEACE and en-acts a 50,000 year old
Aboriginal tradition in our modern world.
The Message Stick Vehicle was painted by over 200
Aboriginal Artist and has been transformed and recognized as a totemic
symbol of Unity and Peace endorsed by Nelson Mandela and Gough Whitlam
(Former Prime Minister of Australia).
Come and explore the rugged Australian outback in the front seat of
‘The Message Stick’ vehicle and discover an ancient culture and its
strength and determination to preserve and share their endurance with
us all.
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Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) was granted $20,000 to adapt a UK
produced animal welfare teaching video to an Australian setting. The
completed DVD, “Farm Animals and Us in Australia” has been offered to
over 1100 secondary schools. Hugo Weaving, Voiceless’ ambassador kindly provided his voice as the ‘voice of compassion’ on the DVD.
A thought-provoking DVD, guaranteed to promote interest and discussion about farm animal welfare, suitable for children aged 10-16.
Targets National Values Education Framework for Australian schools, in particular core values of care and compassion, respect and responsibility, and is suitable for use in S.O.S.E., English, Science/Biology, Civics and Citizenship, Religious Studies and Geography curricula.
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 Writing credits: Nuno Miranda (adaptation), Nuno Miranda (translation)
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Peter Emshwiller .... Axe Thrower Dwarf/Demolisher Dwarf/Elvin King Thanduil (voice)
Christopher Lee .... Saruman (voice)
Ian McKellen .... Gandalf (voice)
Lani Minella .... Galadriel, Spider Rider, Spider Rider Captain, etc
Mark Moseley .... Dwarf Leader, Wildman, Corsair, Orc (voice)
Hugo Weaving .... Elrond (voice)
In The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II, the sequel to the critically acclaimed RTS game The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth you now have the chance to experience all that Middle-earth was meant to be.
Given a new agreement with The Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Tolkien Enterprises that grants EA the rights to develop games based on the books, in addition to a separate agreement that allows for games based on the New Line Cinema films The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II will introduce players to depths of the fiction never before explored by EA.
With all new content from J.R.R. Tolkien's original fiction, delve deeper than ever before and engage in new battles that go beyond the award-winning movie trilogy. Wage war in the North and assume command of the most storied civilizations in all of Middle-earth history -- the Elven and Dwarven armies -- or fight on the side of Evil with heroes and creatures that have never been seen in The Lord of the Rings films. Defend or overtake never before seen lands such as Dol Guldur, The Misty Mountains, and Mirkwood as you unleash powerful new weapons and abilities - summon dragons, cause volcanoes to erupt, or bring down a cataclysmic lightning strike.
But beware, with greater power comes greater adversity. Your enemies, commanded by a powerful new AI system, possess a greater tactical edge and more powerful spells. Will your armies have the fortitude to persevere? ( from the EA official site )
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Directed by: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Writing credits: Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski
Country: USA
Language: English
Shortly after the Animatrix's "Final Flight Of The Osiris" short, Niobe (Jada Pinkett-Smith) and Ghost (Anthony Wong) must retrieve the package at a post office before the machines do. After succeeding, they call the rest of the Zion fleet to warn the Resistance about the machines digging for Zion. The game then runs a parallel story to Matrix Reloaded which explains what Niobe and Ghost were doing while the movie was focused on Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity.
All of the actors in the Matrix movies did motion-capture to act out the in-game scenes and facial-capture.
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 Directed by: Stavros Kazantzidis
Writing credits: Stavros Kazantzidis, Allanah Zitserman
Runtime: 100 min / Australia:93 min
Country: Australia
Marcus Graham .... Max MacKendrick
Tushka Bergen .... Alicia Coxhead
Jason Donovan .... Henry
Natalie Jackson Mendoza .... Jade (as Natalie Mendoza)
Abbie Cornish .... Becky Wodinski
Amanda Douge .... Grace
Terence Donovan .... Mr. Perlman
Jacek Koman .... Roman
Robert Menzies .... Seamus
Damien Richardson .... Gilles
Bill Hunter .... Barry Coxhead
Hugo Weaving .... Narrator (voice)
Alyssa McClelland .... Cindy Perlman
Valda Bucella .... Helen Laws
Mark Owen-Taylor .... Charles Winterbottom
Lovable rogue Max Mackendrick dreams about winning big on the Melbourne Cup. Set in the colourful world of horseracing, Horseplay follows the chaotic life of a wannabe horse trainer as he deals with the turf, the ladies and everyone else out to get him.
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Written by: Geoffrey Bennet
Directed by: Geoffrey Bennet
Aired on Lifestyle Channel 2/9/2001
The Edge of the World gives a unique insight into the intriguing
work of Tim Winton, one of Australia's finest authors. The "child
prodigy" author won the Vogel Award at 21 for An Open Swimmer; the
Miles Franklin Award at 24 for Shallows; the Deo Gloria Award and the
Miles Franklin again at 32 with Cloudstreet and was shortlisted for the
Booker Prize in 1995 for The Riders. In this film, Winton talks about
his work, his influences and what drives him.
A Film Australia National Interest Program. Developed with the
assistance of the NSW Film & Television Office. Produced with the
assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
The Edge of the World offers a very original view of the intriguing Australian writer Tim Winton. At 36, he is already recognised as one of the country's most gifted authors. After winning the Vogel Award at the age of 21 for An Open Swimmer he went onto win the prestigious Miles Franklin Award for Shallows two years later. At age 32, he won both the Deo Gloria Award and a further Miles Franklin Award for his novel Cloudstreet. His most recent successes include The Riders, which was short listed for the Booker Prize in 1995, and a feature film of his novel In the Winter Dark starring the Oscar nominated British actress, Brenda Blethyn. There are plans fro other feature films of his novels.
This film includes the illumintating interviews with Winton about his work, his influences, and what drives him. He is interested in the way random tragedies beset people, and often draws on events from his childhood as the basis of his works. In The Edge of the World he is seen researching his latest novel, giving the viewer an intriguing insight into a writer at work.
The Edge of the World was shot both in Australia and Canada. It includes stunning locations, most notably the magnificent coast and hinterland of Australia's north-west. It captures Tim Winton speaking about his great loves: his family, his work, the sea and fishing, and the many characters of the remote northern coast of Western Australia who have inspired his writing.
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Hugo Weaving as narrator
An evolutionary detective story from 200,000BC to 20,000 BC, this
series charts the course of human evolution - where did we come from
and how did we develop into the complex species that now dominates the
Earth?
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Directed by: Karl Zwicky
Writing credits: Harry Cripps, Greg Haddrick
Runtime: 80 min / Spain: 81 min
Country: Australia
Language: English
Sam Neill .... Sam Sawnoff (voice)
Hugo Weaving .... Bill Barnacle (voice)
John Cleese .... Albert, The Magic Pudding (voice)
Geoffrey Rush .... Bunyip Bluegum (voice)
Dave Gibson .... Uncle Wattleberry/Possum (voice)
John Laws .... Rumpus Bumpus (voice)
Greg Carroll .... Watkin Wombat (voice)
Peter Gwynne .... Benjamin Brandysnap (voice)
Michael Veitch .... Bandicoot (voice)
Robyn Moore .... Henrietta Hedgehog (voice)
Jack Thompson .... Buncle (voice)
Mary Coustas .... Ginger (voice)
Sandy Gore .... Frog on the Log (voice)
Toni Collette .... Meg Bluegum (voice)
Roy Billing .... Tom Bluegum (voice)
The Magic Pudding has been a classic Australian children's story for a long time. This movie is not the story that has been read to generations of Australian children, because the original story was not really one suited to turning into a movie.
It is a new plot, but one patterned around the familiar characters. This new story concerns Bunyip Bluegum's (Geoffrey Rush) search for his parents, after being raised by two uncles (one played by John Laws). As he sets out on his journey he is bowled over by The Pudding (played by John Cleese). He is then assaulted by Sam Sawnoff (Sam Neill) and Bill Barnacle (Hugo Weaving) - the pudding owners - who believe him to be a pudding thief.
"Let go of our puddin'., you large-bellied beached whale!"
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"That's the most bunfoodlin' idea I ever heard"
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"The Noble Society of Puddin' Owners 're sworn to protect the puddin' "
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"Nothin' gives a puddin' thief away like a fruit and nutcake with chocolate sprinkles on top - we'll thump yer heads"
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"Blasted poltroon"
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 Australian Radio/Audio book for the ABC
Hugo Weaving as Neil Davis: acclaimed daredevil war photographer, KIA
For over twenty years journalist Neil Davis covered the conflicts in South-East Asia. Always at the battle front, he brought enduring images of the full horror of modern war to the world. Ironically, in September 1985, having survived so much war, Neil Davis was killed filming an attempted coup in the streets of Bangkok.
Tim Bowden is an experienced and well-known broadcaster and was a personal friend of Neil Davis. As narrator he brings a special intimacy to the reading.
Hugo Weaving reads the role of Neil Davis with passion and insight. This book is a particular favourite of his.
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Hugo Weaving as Narrator of Richard Flanagan's novel.
"In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp that festered like a bad wound in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, Sonja's mother walked into a blizzard never to return.
"Some thirty-five years later, when Sonja visits Tasmania and her drunkard father, the shadows of the past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present - changing forever his living death and her ordered life.
"The Sound of One Hand Clapping is about the underbelly of Australia, the barbarism of Europe, and the destiny of those in the country beyond hope who seek to redeem themselves through love."
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Directed by: Armagan Ballantyne
Writing credits: Anthony Johnsen
Runtime: USA:6 min
Country: Australia
Hugo Weaving .... Echo Man
Alana De Roma
The Echo Man has never questioned his existence. Until one day he witnesses an event that brings into question everything he stands for and believes in.
- Certificate of Merit Student Experimental category, Chicago International Film Festival, USA, 1999
- Finalist Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards, Australia, 1999
- Winner Gold Award, Short Drama section (Andrew Commis), ACS Awards (NSW), Australia, 1999
- Finalist Verna Fields Student Award (Royce Sanderson), Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild Awards, Los Angeles, USA, 2000
- Winner Best Use of Digital Technology Award, St Kilda Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia, 2000
- Winner Short Film of the Year, Nescafé Short Film Awards, Australia, 2000
- Winner Cinestud Award, Cinestud Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (joint) 2000
- Winner Best Cinematography Award (Andrew Commis), NYU International Student Film Festival, New York, USA, 2001
- Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, USA, 1999
- Telluride Film Festival, USA, 1999
- New York Film Festival, USA, 1999
- Chicago International Film Festival, USA, 1999
- International Festival of Documentary & Short Film, Bilbao, Spain, 1999
- Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards, Australia, 1999
- "Profile Intermedia" Conference, Bremen, Germany, 1999
- Flickerfest Film Festival, Australia, 2000
- Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild Awards, Los Angeles, USA, 2000
- Rencontres Internationales Henri Langlois, International Film Schools Festival, Poitiers, France, 2000
- "Australia 2000", Cannes Film Festival, France, 2000
- St Kilda Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia, 2000
- Arcipelago International Festival of Short Films & New Images, Rome, Italy, 2000
- "Down Under" Film Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2000
- Nescafe Short Film Awards, Australia, 2000
- Cinestud Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2000
- NYU International Student Film Festival, New York, USA, 2001
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 Directed by: George Miller
Writing credits: George Miller, Judy Morris
Also Known As:
Babe 2 (USA) (working title)
Babe in Metropolis (USA) (working title)
Runtime: 97 min
Country: Australia / USA / UK
Language: English
Magda Szubanski .... Mrs. Esme Cordelia Hoggett
James Cromwell .... Farmer Arthur Hoggett
Mary Stein .... The Landlady
Mickey Rooney .... Fugly Floom, the Speechless Man in Hotel
Elizabeth Daily .... Babe the Gallant Pig (voice) (as E.G. Daily)
Danny Mann .... Ferdinand the Duck/Tug/Additional Voices (voice)
Glenne Headly .... Zootie (voice)
Steven Wright .... Bob (voice)
James Cosmo .... Thelonius (voice)
Nathan Kress .... Easy/Tough Pup (voice)
Myles Jeffrey .... Easy (voice)
Stanley Ralph Ross .... The Pitbull/The Doberman (voice)
Russi Taylor .... The Pink Poodle/Choir Cat (voice)
Adam Goldberg .... Flealick (voice)
Eddie Barth .... Nigel/Alan (voice)
Miriam Margolyes .... Fly the Female Sheepdog (voice)
Hugo Weaving .... Rex the Male Sheepdog (voice)
Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
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Directed by: Bruce Belsham, Victoria Pitt
Writing credits: Bruce Belsham, Victoria Pitt
Country: Australia
Language: English
Hugo Weaving .... Governor Arthur
Jerome Ehlers .... Captain Watkin Tench
Chris Haywood .... Ward Stephen
Between 1788 and 1938 some 2,000 settlers and 20,000 Aborigines died in
an armed struggle for land. It was a war between the original
inhabitants and the white invaders.
This is their story.
Letters,
diaries, official records, artworks and historical photographs provide
gripping first hand accounts of battles, massacres and betrayals.
With
readings by some of Australia's acting elite including Geoffrey Rush
and Hugo Weaving, the story is one of passionate debate, of decency and
missed opportunity.
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Australian TV
With Wings on their Fingers
Producer Mark Lamble ACS
Editor David Luffman
Narration Hugo Weaving
Script Jonathan Holmes
Music Tom Fitzgerald
Dur 28mins 13secs
Hidden away in Australia's tropical north, up to 10 million Little Red
Flying Foxes inhabit a monsoon vine thicket. "With Wings on their
Fingers" journeys inside this crowded city, exploring the day to day
lives of its residents, over the seasonal cycle of wet and dry.
Mother's Little Helpers
Producer Annette Cooper
Editor David Luffman
Narration Hugo Weaving
Script Jonathan Holmes
Music Tom Fitzgerald
Dur
Cooperative breeding is one of the hottest topics in science at the
moment. It's a phenomenon where animals relinquish the chance to breed
in order to stay at home to help raise their younger brothers and
sisters. It seems to fly in the face of everything we've been taught
about Natural Selection and the spreading of one's genes. But it's
exactly what many Australian animals do - from marsupials to birds and
bees.
Our
native bees help to defend the vulnerable young in the hive from
predators by blocking the nest entrance with their shield-like abdomens
and spitting fluid in the face of any intruders that manage to get past.
Natural Born Cheats
Producer Klaus Toft
Editor David Luffman
Narration Hugo Weaving
Script Jonathan Holmes
Music Tom Fitzgerald
Dur 28 mins 7 secs
Do animals cheat? This film explores this interesting question and
comes up with some fascinating evidence to suggest that indeed,
cheating is rife in the natural world.
Rather
than doing their own fishing, Whistling kites steal the catches of Sea
eagles and Brahminy kites on the wing in spectacular aerial combats. A
spider called Portia pretends to be a struggling fly caught in
another's web, luring the resident spider to its death. Cosmophasis
spiders blend into the ranks of fierce Green tree-ant battalions, and
when the ants aren't looking, promptly devour their young.
In
the Great Victorian Desert, tiny marsupial Dunnarts gate-crash the
burrows of the prehistoric-looking Thorny Devil lizards, and use the
lizards as 'accidental' baby-sitters of their young.
Cheating
by creatures of different species is not unusual in the wild, but the
less well known and perhaps more surprising examples are found in
interactions between animals of the same kind.
The film
exposes honeybees - long thought of as the most cooperative and
selfless of creatures in the insect group - to be not only anarchists,
but insurgents constantly looking for ways to topple the queen.
Birds
come under the spotlight also. Male Satin bowerbirds build and decorate
spectacular bowers to impress the females, but spend just as much
energy stealing and tearing each other's "love nests" to shreds.
Generally, sex seems to bring out the worst in animals. Cattle egret
couples build nests together, raise chicks together and generally show
all the trappings of monogamy, but in fact constantly keep a lookout
for 'a little on the side'. Transvestite-like Cotesia wasps mate with a
female, then "make" like a female, letting other males mount them while
the real female slips quietly away.
Even that most sacred of
relationships, that between family members, is not safe. Mother and
young Eastern grey kangaroos bicker over when is the best time for joey
to vacate the pouch, while Laughing Kookaburra chicks do their best to
kill one another only three days after hatching.
Cheats do
prosper, and this film reveals the true dangers of entering into
natural relationships. Creatures have to be very careful with the
company they keep, and should not be surprised to discover their
partners are really the most natural of cheats.
Bobby and Banded Stilts
Producer David Luffman, Jeremy Hogarth
Editor David Luffman
Narration Hugo Weaving
Script Jonathan Holmes
Music Tom Fitzgerald
Dur 28 mins
Banded Stilts - they have been called the flamingos of the Australian
inland. Because of the vastness of Australia, the breeding habits of
the Banded Stilt have remained one of the great riddles of Australian
Natural History.
Banded Stilts are wading birds of the coast, but can only breed when conditions are exactly right in the Australian desert.
In
the hot summer month of February 1995 a cyclone built up in the Indian
Ocean, it increased in intensity and was given the name Bobby.
Cyclone
Bobby hurled itself upon Western Australian where it dumped 380mm of
rain in four days of continuous downpour into salt lakes of the desert.
Lakes that had been dry for a decade became instant seas, and before
the rain had even stopped, the first Banded Stilts had arrived from the
coast over 1000 kilometres away.
The specific requirements that
Banded Stilts need for breeding had been met. Shallow and warm water
with an abundance of brine shrimp, and a low island in the middle of
the lake where the birds can nest.
Within days, 5000 nests had
been scraped out of the sand, and more birds were arriving all the
time. The first eggs were laid in early March, less than 12 days after
the rain had started. As soon as the chicks hatch they are taken to the
water by one of their parents.
The first chicks were met with
incredible hostility from other adults, who pecked at them and jumped
on them while their parent tried to shield them. Once at the water, the
chicks form crêches, feeding themselves on the billions of brine shrimp
that have also reacted to the rain, for without these minute shrimps
the Banded Stilts could not survive.
The eggs of the brine
shrimp, Paratemia, lie for decades in the dry salt of the lake. It is
only when rain falls that the eggs hatch. The shrimps rapidly multiply,
for like the Stilt, this is their one chance of breeding. Rain is such
a rare event in the Australian deserts that Banded Stilts have only
been recorded nesting twenty times in the two hundred years of European
settlement, and has never before been filmed.
'Bobby and the
Banded Stilts' tells the story for the first time of this remarkable
dependence between the shrimp, the Banded Stilts and the year when
Cyclone Bobby for a brief moment made a dry salt lake an inland sea.
International Wildlife Film Festival (Missoula, Montana USA)
Best Narration, Tied winner: Hugo Weaving, Narrator, Jonathan Holmes, Writer
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Directed by: John Weiley
Writing credits: John Weiley
Runtime: 38 min / Australia:40 min
Country: Australia
Language: English
Jan Allen .... Herself
Mark Baker .... Himself
John Green .... Himself
Victor Hookey .... Himself
Wyn Jones .... Himself
Honor McGregor .... Herself
Joseph Miles .... Himself
David Noble .... Himself
Hayley Pero .... Herself
Michael Sharp .... Himself
Pia Shenstone .... Herself
Hugo Weaving .... Narrator
This Imax film explores the relationship between humans and their
environment. The Blue Mountains sharply define the edge of the true
wilderness hard up against the city of Sydney. Through the unique power
of the Imax large screen format the audience participates in an
extraordinary journey through this breathtaking environment.
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 Directed by: Chris Noonan
Writing credits: Dick King-Smith (novel), George Miller (screenplay)
Also Known As:
Babe, the Gallant Pig
Runtime: 89 min
Country: Australia / USA
Language: English
Christine Cavanaugh .... Babe the Gallant Pig (voice)
Miriam Margolyes .... Fly the Female Sheepdog (voice)
Danny Mann .... Ferdinand the Duck (voice)
Hugo Weaving .... Rex the Male Sheepdog (voice)
Miriam Flynn .... Maa the Very Old Ewe (voice)
Russi Taylor .... Dutchess the Cat (voice) (as Russie Taylor)
Evelyn Krape .... Old Ewe (voice)
Michael Edward-Stevens .... Horse (voice)
Charles Bartlett .... Cow (voice)
Paul Livingston .... Rooster in Stall (voice)
Roscoe Lee Browne .... Narrator (voice)
James Cromwell .... Farmer Arthur Hoggett
Magda Szubanski .... Mrs. Esme Hoggett
Zoe Burton .... Daughter
Paul Goddard .... Son-in-Law
Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdianad the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mom, Babe realizes that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hogget Knows it. Babe with the help of the sheep dogs and the sheep babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.
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Directed by: Raymond Quint
Written by: Julian Leatherdale, Raymond Quint
TV Series: "True Stories" (1994)
Original Air Date: 31 July 1994
1994, 55 Minutes
Between 1946 and 1952, the British Commonwealth Occupation Force had
the job of policing the starving population of Hiroshima and destroying
the vast Japanese war-machine. Rare footage, photos and eyewitness
accounts vividly recreate the atmosphere of post-war Japan and the
situation where two former enemies must meet face to face. The program
also reveals how many veterans fear they too may be victims of atomic
radiation and how successive governments have overlooked the
contribution of the 36,000 Australians who served in the force.
A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced with the
assistance of The Japan Foundation and the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation.
After the atomic obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, over 36'000 Australian men and wome, part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF), marched onto Japanese soil. They were assigned the toughest and most dangerous area of Japan: Hiroshima Prefecture, which included the atom-bombed city.
The Forgotten Force tells for the first time the story ofAustralia's role in Japan. Rare archival and private footage, photographs and eyewitness accounts from both sides vividly recreate the atmosphere of post-war Japan - the horror of Hiroshima and its aftermath; the struggle to build a new "democratic" society while under the heel of military rule; the growth from suspicion and fear to friendship and trust between foes.
The Forgotten Force also reveals that today many veterans of the occupation force live with a more sinister legacy of their time in Japan. Many are dying of cancers they believe to be caused by exposure to radiation while on duty in Japan.
Fifty years on, the serivece of these men and women in the occupation of Japan is forgotten - missing from the pages of history and unacknowledged by successive Australian governments. This film finally argues that now the time has come for the work of the BCOF to be remembered and awarded.
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