Hey guys Bec here.Sorry I have been a bit MIA but I went on holiday, but I come with news. I have finally added some Sanctum Icons to the site, you can find the links to them below along with a few of the icons I added. All up 31 Sanctum Icons were added which were also made by me.

13 June 2011

After making a name for himself in Aussie soap Home and Away Rhys Wakefield has been establishing himself as a movie actor.

Sanctum was the last time that we saw him on the big screen, which is released on DVD today, a James Cameron produced project.

I caught up with the actor to talk about the movie, the training and preparation he underwent before the camera started rolling and what lies ahead.

- Sanctum is due for release here in the UK so for anyone who hasn’t seen the movie yet can you tell me a bit about it?

I would describe Sanctum as a ride of a film as it is an action adventure film. It’s a film about a group of cave divers and things go a little wrong.

- You take on the role of Josh in the film so what was it about the character and the script that drew you to the project?

I think it was the action involved and the skill training that were involved as we prepared for the movie – it was just such a pleasure. Not to mention that James Cameron was on board with the whole project.

But being trained was such an amazing part of this movie as I got all these crash courses in scuba-diving, rock climbing, rope training and fight training – I just felt like a little kid.

- The movie is obviously a very physically demanding one and requires you to be somewhat of an expert in that field so what sort of preparation did you do before the beginning of the shoot? Had you ever done scuba diving before?

No I hadn’t done any scuba diving before so the preparation was pretty intensive. I was put on this crazy gym regime of just trying to get fit and look like I was a rock climber.

Then we earnt to scuba dive, I was put on this quick course in this technology called rebreathers; which is really advanced breathing aparatus that you only really learn after about a thousand hours of scuba diving.

So we got this crash course in that and I was doing two hours of swim training a day for a bout a month and it was incredibly tough – but I did end up very fit.

- You filmed a lot under water so did you have any panic moments? And how much of the diving shots are you?

I did shoot a lot under water, we did have dive doubles for some of the long shots, and there is a whole portion of the movie where I am down under water with no breathing aparatus and no eye mask so that made it pretty treacherous and scary.

But I started to find it quite meditative and you just have to keep very calm and try not to panic because then it’s not fun for anyone.

- The movie was also shot in real caves off the South of Australia so how did you find that? And just how tough did you find the shoot.

There was an additional shoot, I think for about a week, in Mount Gambier (South Australia) and it was all doubles because the water was sub-zero temperatures.

One of our producers was down there as a double, I think he might have been doubling me actually, and it was freezing cold, I think he collapsed afterwards because he was swimming back and forth and the wetsuits didn’t cover that freezing temperature.

There were many long hours, we were in these sound stages but we were freezing cold because these 3D cameras are temperamental that often break down; especially when we were shooting on location in the heat of Queensland, so they would cool the sound stages to freezing temperatures.

So we were in water in these flimsy little wet suits and being physical while carrying these 40kg rebreathers on your back so it was pretty tiring.

Source

Universal has announced the DVD, Blu-ray, and 3D Blu-ray releases of the thriller, Sanctum. Extras will include a commentary with Director Alister Grierson, a second commentary with Co-Writer/Producer Andrew Wight, a third commentary with Actor Rhys Wakefield, deleted and extended scenes, and a 3-part Sanctum: The Real Story feature (“How It Began”, “Making The Movie”, “In the Aftermath”).

The Blu-ray releases will also include a digital copy of the film.

The film will be released in all formats on June 7th.

Sanctum is number one at the box office in Hong Kong! I´ll let the numbers speak for themselves:

TW LW Movie Studio Weekend Gross Change Screens Change / Avg. Gross-to-Date Week
1 5 Sanctum (3D) EDKO $1,008,465 +216.3% 37 +12 $27,256 $1,327,321 1

By Matthew Shepatin Posted Feb 4th 2011 12:45PM

Australians are taking over Hollywood, and Rhys Wakefield gets it. The 22-year-old Aussie newcomer stars in this weekend’s big release, ‘Sanctum,’ a James Cameron-executive produced underwater thriller. Yet in spite of the stardom that can befall an unknown Australian actor in a James Cameron 3-D project, Wakefield’s not ready to annoint himself the next Sam Worthington.

“Heh. I don’t know,” he tells PopEater. “It’s kind of hard to tell what will happen. Who knows? I really just feel like a kid from the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, and somehow I ended up here in LA. I’m looking at the Hollywood sign right now, actually — I’m at the Four Seasons -– and it’s such a weird thing. So I don’t know what to say to that. Whatever. We’ll see what happens.”

Read our full interview, touching on all the bases — Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, James Cameron — after the jump.

Rhys comes across like a young man with a good head on his shoulders. Can we set up a defensive perimeter around him as part of a Charlie Sheen prevention system? It’s bad enough he’s been in close proximity to fellow Aussie Mel Gibson of late, at a Hollywood house party.

“I didn’t meet him,” Rhys clarifies. “I just saw him at the party. But it’s an interesting thing. I saw Sylvester Stallone the other night out somewhere. He was getting paparazzi’d everywhere, and security guards were all over the place, and he was swatting cameras away, and they were holding back fans and people who all wanted to have a piece of him. It’s weird. But I think it’s just keeping that balance between your private self and your public self.”

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Seems like the news about the release of the Sanctum soundtrack reached me kind of late, as it was released on February 1st! The songs are all composed by David Hirschfelder, and can be ordered from Amazon. There´s a sample of all the tracks at the site, so check it out if you want to have a listen.

Tracklist
1 A Sacred Place
2 Espiritu Esa Ala
3 The Doline
4 The Dive
5 Saint Judes Cathedral
6 Listen! The River Is Returning
7 Flow Stone Falls
8 Luko My Friend
9 Through The Restriction
10 We Re Not Gonna Die
11 The Sacred River
12 I Can See You
13 Push On? You Decide
14 What About Carl?
15 Help Me Into The Water
16 Down To A Sunless Sea
17 Are We Home Yet?
18 Sanctum Suite