Here’s the first official look at Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, currently shooting in Sydney Australia.  The pics below also give us new looks at Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carroway as they shoot scenes in Sydney’s Centennial Park. She looks like the quintessential flapper. Perfect Daisy!

Director Baz Luhrmann, with whom DiCaprio made Romeo + Juliet back in 1996 (although my favorite will always be Strictly Ballroom), is shooting the film in 3D which made absolutely no sense to me (yes yes I know you know how I feel about 3D), until DiCaprio gave this explanation to Access Hollywood, “ {the 3D is} being used for drama,” Leo told Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush, while promoting his latest movie, J. Edgar, in Los Angeles over the weekend.

“Most of the time, you associate 3-D with the spectacle of it, but he really wants to use 3-D to create emotional impact with the characters and almost use it like what it would be like to immerse yourself in a theater production,” Leo explained. “So I’m having a good time with that. Plus, it’s the great American novel.”

Well, I can understand what he means by an immersive theater experience. If Luhrmann’s able to pull this off, I may rethink my stance on this issue. I certainly hope it will enhance the material and not detract from it.

The Great Gatsby costars Joel Edgerton as Daisy’s husband Tom Buchanan,  Isla Fisher as his lover Myrtle Wilson and Jason Clarke as her husband George. The film opens in the US on December 25, 2012 but will probably have its premiere in Australia before that. Enjoy the pics!

Have you heard about this new heist slash magic movie, Now You See Me? Love the cool new poster. We haven’t had a good movie about magic and magicians since the one two punch of The Prestige and The Illusionist back in 2006. Both of those were set in the past when it took far less to dazzle an audience. Now You  See Me is set in the here and now and makes use of all sorts of modern technology.

Synopsis: “The Four Horsemen, a magic super-group led by the charismatic ATLAS (Jesse Eisenberg), perform a pair of high-tech magic shows, first astonishing audiences by robbing a bank on another continent, and then exposing a white-collar criminal and funneling his millions into the audience members’ bank accounts.

FBI Special Agent DYLAN (Mark Ruffalo) is determined to make the magicians pay for their crimes—and to stop them before they pull off what promises to be an even more audacious heist. But he’s forced to partner with ALMA (Melanie Laurent), an Interpol detective about whom he is instantly suspicious. Out of desperation he turns to THADDEUS (Morgan Freeman), a famed magic debunker, who claims the bank heist was accomplished using disguises and video trickery. One thing Dylan and Alma agree on is that the Horsemen must have an outside point person, and that finding him (or her) is key to ending the magicians’ crime spree. Could it be Thaddeus? Or Alma? Or could it really be…magic?

As pressure mounts and the world awaits the Horsemen’s spectacular final trick, Dylan and Alma race to find an answer. But it soon becomes painfully clear that staying one step ahead of these masters of illusion is beyond the skills of any one man—or woman.”

Now You See Me sports a really fine cast. In addition to the marquee names above, it also includes Isla Fisher (We love her), Woody Harrelson, Michael Caine and Dave Franco. It’s directed by Louis Leterriere which some are seeing as a positive sign but I’m not so sure. He’s got the action cred but he made such a mess out of the Clash of the Titans reboot that I can’t get excited about how he’ll handle the plot (especially considering there are about six writers credited with the script.) We’ll see. Now You See Me is scheduled to open January 2013. 

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This is what I’ve been waiting for! Finally, we get a look at Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby! He’s down in Sydney Australia on the set of Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel, The Great Gatsby.

We also have a look at Isla Fisher as Myrtle Wilson and Jason Clarke as her husband George. Last week we saw first pics of Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan. They appear in these as well. Now we just need pics of Carey Mulligan as Daisy!

The film’s synopsis: Naive midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

I’m looking  forward to this because I think Luhrmann will do more justice to the material than did Jack Clayton’s 1974 version starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. Sure the production values were sumptuous but there was no ‘there’ there. Ya know?  The Great Gatsby starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan will open December 25, 2012.

In need of a little Johnny Depp fix? I need one daily, so don’t feel bad.  We’ve got the Super Bowl spot for this Sunday’s big game of Johnny’s new movie, Rango.

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Sadly you don’t get to see him in the trailer, it’s animated.  But he is the voice of Rango and totally adorable.  The cast is fantastic! Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Bill Nighy, Stephen Root, Ray Winstone, Beth Grant, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton and Alfred Molina.

A chameleon that aspires to be a swashbuckling hero finds himself in a Western town plagued by bandits and is forced to literally play the role in order to protect it.

Now check out the trailer:

What do you think?  Will you see this one in theaters?

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I do not know Isla Fisher, or her husband Sacha Baron Cohen.  And I’m not her doctor.  But I have fairly good vision and I think we can all safely conclude she is in fact pregnant.

Either that or she ate one bad ass burrito last night and is bloated. Really badly.

Here she is with her daughter Olive leaving a dance studio in Toluca Lake.

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Well it’s about time!  Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen married in a private ceremony in Paris (how romantic!) on Monday, March 15, 2010.  Isla tells Australia’s Women’s Day Magazine:

We did it – we’re married! It was the absolute best day of my life and in so many beautiful moments I missed you all so much. I thought of you as everything was happening, but Sacha and I wanted no fuss – just us!”

The ceremony is believed to have been a traditional Jewish ceremony at sunset attended by only close family with friends receiving word via email.

The couple have been together for eight years and have a two year old daughter together named Olive.  Congratulations  to the happy couple.

Photo: Dimitri Halkidis/ WENN