Just wanted to let you know that I did some minor changes to the gallery theme. I played a little around with the coding and I think it looks more professional now than before. Hope you like the change :) I also made the corners of tables on the main site here rounded :P

I’ve found some photos that I’ve added to the gallery :) Some are just bigger versions of already uploaded pictures.

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You can now watch Lewis Johns, a short film which Rhys features in.

[EDIT] Added screencaps to the gallery

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Christine Sams Entertainment Reporter
February 21, 2010

THIS is the cave at the heart of a $30 million 3D film epic being made by an Australian team hand-picked by the lauded director James Cameron.

Using the same cameras from Cameron’s record-breaking film Avatar, Australian director and former Tropfest winner Alister Grierson is creating an underwater world for actors including Richard Roxburgh and Welsh star Ioan Gruffudd.

”It’s been really challenging for those guys,” Grierson said.

”We’ve got this amazing set that we’ve built, we’ve been shooting in jungles, we’ve been shooting in caves, we’ve been shooting underwater. It’s very physically challenging – they’ve been training really hard.”

Grierson spent time on the Avatar set watching Cameron’s directorial methods before making this film in Queensland.

”We’re using literally the same cameras he used on Avatar,” Grierson said. ”But he was working in a virtual world as well as a real world … whereas we are completely 100 per cent live action.”

Sanctum is the first 3D film to be made in Australia, with Cameron its executive producer.

”We’ve got another month underwater now,” Grierson said. ”There’s still a long way to go on this shoot and I’ve got a big post-production path ahead.”

The film has been made on location on the Gold Coast and inside the sound stage at Warner Bros studio, where a $2.1 million water tank has been built for the project.

”This is a big-budget film on Australian terms,” Grierson said. ”We’re trying to deliver a big film, with a big punch, with a broad appeal at the box office.”

Grierson, 40, was chosen by Cameron for the project, after the Hollywood director saw footage of his work on the film Kokoda.

”Getting the phone call – it all seemed too good to be true, then of course reality kicked in and a couple of years later, here we are,” said Grierson, who grew up in Canberra.

The director also won Tropfest five years ago and he is using many of the same crew members on Sanctum as he did for his short film.

Sanctum’s plot is based on a disastrous diving expedition experienced by the film’s Australian producer Andrew Wight. He developed the story with Cameron, to create the 3D film.

Source:  Sydney Morning Herald

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

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