I just came across this news report from the set of Loft, and while I don’t see Isabel in it, it’s still a very interesting watch. We get a good view of one of the sets, plus some quick shots of the male lead characters, including James Marsden. It is all in Belgian, except the snippet of James Marsden talking and short bit of them filming a scene.
In related news, Wentworth-Miller.net have posted the first still photo of Wentworth in character for the film.
First of all, I hope you’re all enjoying our new layout! A big thanks goes to my lovely friends who commented on it <3 A new layout always equals big updates, so here's today's ... I've updated a few pages in the Isabel section, including the Awards & Nominations, Style Rundown and Press pages. In the Press page I’ve added the recent coral sea article Isabel wrote, plus, as I was sorting through some Young Hollywood Award photos recently I thought it would be nice to have Isabel’s award acceptance speeches transcribed, so I have done just that! We only have videos from 2 of her 3 acceptance speeches (I would love to see her Logie speech!), so I’ve typed them up just for us.
And I just had to do a quick Home & Away screencap update, so you can now find screencaps from 2 more 2005 episodes – #3893 and #3935 – in our gallery for your viewing pleasure 
• Episode – #3893 x33
• Episode – #3935 x102
As you can see, we have a new layout up here at Isabel Lucas Online! After our earthy previous layout, I decided I wanted to go back to a beach-y style, and Mycah came up with this, which I think fits Isabel perfectly, knowing her love of the ocean. Plus, this past Wednesday was World Ocean Day, and we’ve recently been treated to Isabel & Angus’ Coral Sea Love video for the Protect Our Coral Sea campaign … so an ocean/beach layout couldn’t be more fitting in honour of Izzy! The sidebar has also been spruced up a bit to give a bit more focus to Isabel’s charity projects, and I’ve also added some fun quotes – you’ll see a new quote there each time you visit a different page/refresh the page. I hope you all love this layout as much as I do … feel free to leave us a comment if you have something to say, as I love hearing from you
More content and Home & Away screencap updates coming soon, so keep checking back to get your regular dose of Isabel goodness 
We now have screencaps from the gorgeous new ‘Coral Sea Love’ video that Isabel and boyfriend Angus Stone filmed for the Protect Our Coral Sea campaign! I’ve also found a couple of nice photos of Izzy filming the video. This looks like Izzy in her element, she looks so happy and beautiful!
You can watch the video itself further down our updates (here), and of course you can find out more about the cause and sign the petition at protectourcoralsea.org.au. You can even sign it if you live outside Australia.
• Protect Our Coral Sea – ‘Coral Sea Love’ video – screencaptures x77
• Protect Our Coral Sea – ‘Coral Sea Love’ video – Filming x2
Over the last week I’ve been adding various additional 2011 appearance HQs to the site – many are HQ replacements of pictures we previously had, and some are completely new to us. These include another 30 HQs from my favourite look of Isabel’s so far this year, the I Am Number Four premiere!
The albums listed below have been updated in some way:
• Costume Institute Gala x1 replaced with HQ
• Vanity Fair Campaign Hollywood 2011 – Chrysler Celebrates “The Fighter” Benefiting Communities In Schools x1 replaced with HQ
• Chanel & Charles Finch Pre-Oscar Dinner Celebrating Fashion & Film x10 new/replaced with HQ
• WonderCon – Day 2 x5 new/replaced with HQ
• “I Am Number Four” Los Angeles Premiere x32 new/replaced with HQ
Protect Our Coral Sea
By Isabel Lucas for huffingtonpost.comI don’t think I can recall a time when I wasn’t aware of the beauty of the ocean. Growing up in Australia, I had the good fortune of always having the sea at my side, and one of my first memories of the ocean became an important life lesson for me. My parents had taken my sister and I to this really special beach, Halfmoon Bay. I was so little, but when my mum and sister began to swim out into the ocean I tried to follow and keep up. I suddenly had this feeling of not being able to feel the ground with my feet anymore. I started sinking amongst the waves, watching the blue of the sky begin to slip away — like I was a little grain of sand sinking to the bottom of the sea… So my first memories of the ocean were powerful and I was taught an important lesson that would stay with me forever, that the ocean is powerful and is to be respected in every way.
For my 10th birthday, my sister and I were taken out on a big boat to Moore Reef in the Great Barrier Reef. There were fish in stunningly unimaginable colors, caves and layers of coral that looked like underwater flower beds. The beauty of this magical underwater land made such an impression on me. It completely shaped my appreciation for the beauty of this world. When I learned that only 1 percent of Australia’s Coral Sea was protected — I was stunned. Even as a 10-year-old kid, it seemed so obvious to me that this gift to our world must be preserved.
These fantastic coral reefs are often referred to as the “rainforests of the sea” because they contain such a huge diversity of life, and Australian marine life is particularly important because our reefs have more marine species than any other country on earth. But sadly, less than half (45 percent) of the world’s reefs are considered healthy now with all of these reefs threatened by global warming. Our world has lost 19 percent of all coral reefs, which means that one in five reefs have disappeared, and we stand to lose another 15 percent in the next two decades to overfishing, mangrove loss, pollution and disease.
These statistics are disheartening, but unfortunately for many it goes far beyond percentages. About 500 million people around the world have some degree of dependence on healthy coral reefs, so it’s incredibly important for us on a human level — especially the world’s poor — that we do everything we can to protect them.
We are however slowly making improvements. In 2004, the Australian government put in place the world’s largest network of no-fishing zones in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. After several years, the good news is that the reefs that are highly protected have fewer outbreaks of coral eating species like the Crown of Thorns Starfish, and more top predators, like sharks, which are being depleted dramatically all around the world.
The hope that the Coral Sea remains an intact eco-system, has led me to take action and do my part to see that dream realized. I’ve become passionately involved with the Protect Our Coral Sea initiative, which aims to create the largest marine park in the world, free of fishing, oil and gas exploration, and seabed mining. It would protect a huge diversity of habitats from tropical coral reefs, to species living in the open ocean, to a huge pool of biodiversity living in the depths of the ocean that we don’t even know about yet. This marine park would also protect almost one million square kilometers, right next to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. It would serve as a place for inspiration, enjoyment and where the ocean’s species — whales, dolphins, sea turtles, rays — will all have a safe haven forever.
Together, Angus and I created a little video that we hope will inspire people to want to be a part of a movement for positive change for the protection of the magical Coral Sea. Angus also shares many beautiful childhood memories of the ocean as a young boy, growing up sailing, admiring the ocean as it taught him about life and respecting this treasure. We filmed our video with a beautiful old super 8 camera that captured our feeling of first falling in love with the ocean, and all of our childhood memories at the beach. We believe it’s our duty, together.
Totally cute Isabel Lucas video alert. Protect Our Coral Sea have released a new video advert featuring Isabel and her boyfriend Angus Stone, in which the couple ask viewers to sign a petition to create a “very large, world-class, highly protected marine park in the Coral Sea”. It’s a typically Isabel – hippy, 70′s inspired – looking video advert.
Isabel previously discussed the Protect Our Coral Sea campaign in her 2010 Grazia magazine interview.
Find out more at the Protect Our Coral Sea website, and through the caption on the YouTube video:
Protect our Coral Sea gives everyone a ‘don’t it always seem to go ’til you don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone’ opportunity to protect our precious Coral Sea for our children’s children to enjoy. We believe it is our duty, together, to protect & love these beautiful sea creatures and their ecosystems living in this great oceanic garden.
Please sign the petition at www.protectourcoralsea.org.au – it’s quicker than brushing your teeth!
We hope our video inspires you to help make the Coral Sea a safe haven for marine life.
Thanks for your support!
Angus Stone and Isabel LucasJulia Stone’s beautiful song In the City of Lights features on Coral Sea Love.
Help make the Coral Sea a safe haven for marine life. Sign our petition. Tell your friends. Like us on Facebook. Pass on the message.
The Wedding Party producer, Nicole Minchin, says a re-cut version of the film has received a positive response from potential buyers at the Cannes International Film Festival.
The film, which had its premiere at last year’s Melbourne International Film Festival, is now running about 20 minutes shorter than the original version after advice from editor Jill Bilcock.
The Wedding Party director, Amanda Jane, said Bilcock’s expertise and advice added much to the film. “It is the same film, it just has a dynamic new pace,” she said in a statement.
Minchin said the team is excited to be working with Arclight and “are thrilled with the response to the Cannes screening”.
The film stars Josh Lawson as Steve Thompson, who, in a bid to save himself from financial ruin, agrees to marry Ana (Isabel Lucas), a Russian woman seeking residency in exchange for a huge sum of cash.
The film has also picked up several recent awards including Best Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay and Best Ensemble at the 2011 Los Angeles Comedy Festival. It also won Best Film at the 2011 Los Angeles Movie Awards and Best Actor (Josh Lawson), Best Screenplay and Best Production Design.
The Wedding Party will also be screening at the 2011 Waterfront Film Festival in Michigan in June and at the 2011 Manhattan Film Festival in New York in July ahead of an Australian release.
- if.com.au
For today’s update I have some HQ photos for you! I’ve added some new HQs from various more recent appearances, plus replaced pictures we previously had with HQ versions. This includes some pretty new pics from the Somewhere premiere and the Peter Lindburgh Portofino event.
And on top of that, a couple of photoshoots pictures have been replaced with HQ versions.
More HQ photos coming up soon!
• 2007 – Session #002 x3 replaced with HQs
• 2008 – Session #003 x5 replaced with HQs
• Somewhere Premiere x15 more
• The Weinstein Company Exclusive Screening of “Miral” Hosted by Javier Bardem x2 replaced with HQ
• IWC Schaffhausen & Peter Lindberg’s ‘A Night In Portofino’ x8 replaced with HQ versions/5 new
Exclusive: “Transformers” star Rachael Taylor will play one of female leads in “Loft,” the ensemble thriller from Anonymous Content.
Erik Van Looy’s English-language remake of his own 2008 Belgian pic stars Patrick Wilson, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet and Isabel Lucas.
Edgy indie follows five married friends who share a loft where each brings his mistress. When the body of an unknown woman is found there, they begin to suspect one another of murder.
Taylor will play “Ann,” a call girl who Wilson pays to seduce Marsden, who she then ends up falling for.
Wesley Strick (“Doom”) is adapting Bart De Pauw’s original screenplay. Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin, Paul Green, Matt DeRoss and Adam Shulman will produce along with original “Loft” producer Hilde DeLaere of Belgian banner Woestijnvis.
Taylor recently wrapped Summit Entertainment’s Moscow-set alien invasion pic, which stars Emile Hirsch and Olivia Thirlby. Thesp is coming off a recurring gig on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” and will soon be seen as one of the three leads in the network’s revamp of “Charlie’s Angels.”
Taylor is repped by WME and Marquee Management.
