Rhys’ role in Sanctum

I just found some info on Rhys’ role in the upcomming movie Sanctum.
Sanctum is set underwater and tells the story of a cave-diving team, made up of a billionaire and a father and son, who become trapped during an expedition to the unexplored and least accessible cave system in the world. It is based on the real-life experience of the film’s producer and writer Andrew Wight, who was trapped underwater with 14 other Aussies for around 30 hours when the entrance to a cave they were exploring under the Nullarbor’s Pannikin Plains collapsed during a freak storm. The drama happened in 1988 and Wight made a documentary about the ordeal before managing to convince his mate `Jim’ to make a movie. Wight and Cameron have a close working relationship and have collaborated on a number of projects including Ghosts of the Abyss.

The stars of the film are Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd (above) as the billionaire underwriting the diving expedition, the perpetual villain Richard Roxburgh as `the dad’ character and up and comer Rhys Wakefield (below) as his teenage son. The Home & Away alumni was very impressive in The Black Balloon and this is likely to be Wakefield’s breakthrough into mainstream Hollywood.

Source: Movie Mazzup

An alert action-thriller about a team of divers in a magnificent expedition to the most beautiful, unexplored and least accessible underwater cave system in the world. In the expedition is Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) – an individualist explorer and his son of 17 years, Josh, who came in protest, and billionaire Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd), whose purpose is to undermine the expedition. When a sudden tropical storm makes its appearance, their only escape is to get out of the cave, which may come only after everything is flooded with water. All you have to do is find an air reservoir and leave the location in time, because the cave does not allow mistakes. Immersive 3D Sanctum promises a delightful experience. A film produced by James Cameron.

Source: Confessions of a Rabid Ioanite

Posted by Ida in Sanctum on February 26th, 2010 | No Comments
Avatar director James Cameron visits Gold Coast

Geoff Shearer
February 27, 2010 12:00am

HIS 3D extravaganza Avatar dominates the box office, but director James Cameron is adamant it won’t dominate next month’s Academy Awards.

On the Gold Coast yesterday promoting the still-in-production Sanctum which he is executive producing with Australian director Alister Grierson, Cameron instead points to Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker.

“This is not our season with Avatar,” he said in relation to the March 8 awards ceremony. The Hurt Locker has already triumphed over Avatar with BAFTAs for best film and best direction, and a Director’s Guild of America gong for direction.

“There is a very small part of me emotionally that is a little bit disappointed on behalf of my crew – who worked so hard,” Cameron said.

“Personally, individually? No I’m very, very happy for Kathryn. I think we are all going to be cheering for her this year.”

While Sanctum is not in the same budget league as Avatar – it comes in around $30 million, compared with the latter’s more than $230 million – the 3D film about an underwater cave diving expedition gone wrong is one of Australian filmmaking’s largest undertakings. By comparison, Grierson’s first feature film, Kokoda, had a $3 million budget.

Sanctum – being filmed on the Gold Coast and at the Warner Roadshow Studios at Oxenford – stars Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge ), Rhys Wakefield (Home And Away) and Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four) and utilises the same Cameron/Pace Fusion 3D camera system used on Avatar.

“It’s great that we’re being a bit more ambitious about filmmaking and tackling these kind of things,” Grierson said yesterday.

“Sanctum is very fortunate, for a lot of reasons – (producer) Andrew Wight’s relationship with Jim (Cameron), giving us access to American finance sources; very fortunate the Australian Government’s rebate system was around at the same time; we almost got whacked by the global financial crisis as the Aussie dollar kind of went north – but we somehow struggled through that and survived.”

Cameron, for his part, left his Aussie director well alone on the project. Yesterday was only Cameron’s second day on the Gold Coast – principal photography started last November.

“I’m like the fairy godmother producer – I just add the money and stand back because I’m not going to produce a director that isn’t grown up and can’t make a film.”

Source:  The Courier Mail

Posted by Ida in Sanctum on February 26th, 2010 | No Comments
I’m back

Sorry for leaving without saying anything, but the time ran out. I have been in Africa for the past 5 weeks, as some of you might have known. I had a fanastic time, but I’m glad to be home now. I’ll make a new update as soon as I find news or pictures ;)

Posted by Ida in Site stuff on February 26th, 2010 | No Comments
Broken Hill footage

Just thought I’d tell you that I’ve found a behind the scenes video and a interview with Rhys at the official Broken Hill website. Screencaps have been added to the gallery :)

Gallery links
Movies » Broken Hill (2009) » Character B Roll
Movies » Broken Hill (2009) » Interview

Posted by Ida in Broken Hill, Images on January 23rd, 2010 | No Comments
The Black Balloon on DVD in the US

I know a lot of you have been waiting for this… The Black Balloon will finally be released on DVD in the US March 23, 2010 :)   Pre-order!

Posted by Ida in The Black Balloon on January 22nd, 2010 | No Comments
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