I just came across these 2 videos from the Melbourne Film Festival last year, and noticed I hadn’t posted them before! So, better late than never, watch some footage – including Izzy being interviewed briefly – of Isabel walking the red carpet at the Melbourne Film Festival premiere of The Wedding Party last year:
Before I start work on some Filmography updates, I’ve added some new candids of Izzy out and about in Los Feliz on Wednesday. She looks pretty in blue, and seems to be having a great time – we rarely see her laughing like this!
• March 16th, Los Feliz x22
I have more Home & Away caps for you today, but this time I have gone back to the beginning. I managed to find episode #3610, which is another of Isabel’s early episodes, so have added caps from that.
And seeing as how I found the video on YouTube, I can easily share it with you, so scroll on further down this post to watch the episode.
This is the last episode I can find from 2003 (Isabel’s first year/season on the show), unfortunately. I’ll be on the lookout for more though, and still have a zillion more from later seasons to add.
You may also notice that I’ve re-organised our Home & Away episode screencaps category, so the albums are sorted by season. It makes it a bit more organised seeing as how we are now collecting quite a large number of eps!
Isabel’s new film, A Heartbeat Away, is released in Australian cinemas today! If you’re looking to spend a few hours in the cinema then why not go and see this movie. While it hasn’t received the best reviews so far, there is no doubt watching it to see Isabel sing and dance is worth it, and it definitely looks like a fun, feel-good movie.
If you do go and see the movie then feel free to pay us a visit here afterwards and tell us what you thought of the movie, and of Isabel’s performance in it. Leave a comment here with your review, or send me an email. We’d love to hear about it!
Find out more about the film by reading through our Filmography Information page and browsing through our News Archives for it. Browse through our Gallery for the movie here. And of course visit the official website and Facebook page for A Heartbeat Away.
In the past couple of days I’ve been working on more Home & Away screencaps, and I have now added screencaps from another 5 episodes! There are some super cute expressions in there, and if you watched the show then you may remember the super cute Tasha moments in them! I love those early episodes of hers when she was quite mischevious and very fun!
I’m in the mood for making Home & Away caps at the moment, so as and when I get time in the coming days I will probably be adding lots more of them…
• Episode – #3847 x104
• Episode – #3848 x72
• Episode – #3850 x113
• Episode – #3860 x72
• Episode – #3862 x107
Entertainment One will release the 2009 cross-cultural drama The Waiting City, starring Radha Mitchell (The Crazies) and Joel Edgerton (Animal Kingdom), on DVD on May 31.
In the movie, Mitchell and Edgerton star as Fiona and Ben Simmons, a well-to-do Australian couple who head to Calcutta to pick up their newly adopted daughter Lakshmi. Being a lawyer, Fiona has no choice but to take her work with her on the trip, while Ben, a once-successful musician, is obviously more excited about the future that awaits them. The young couple’s journey begins to be overtaken by the allure and mystique of India as the pair start to rediscover themselves and learn the meaning of true happiness.
The film looks to us to have the kind of appeal for the exotic that we saw in Wes Anderson’s 2007 travelogue The Darjeeling Limited.
Written and directed by Claire McCarthy, The Waiting City made a theatrical pit stop in Los Angeles last August, but it is essentially premiering in the U.S. on DVD, where it will carry a list price of $24.98.
Bonus features on the DVD include the following:
* commentary by director Claire McCarthy and actors Radha Mitchell and Joel Edgerton
* featurette
* cast and crew interviews
AdelaideNow.com.au have posted a new interview with Isabel to promote A Heartbeat Away. As well as that new film, Isabel also talks about Immortals, her life in LA, making movies in LA and Australia, and travelling. Read it in our Press section!
Isabel Lucas is singing a new tune
SHE has a key role in the new Australian musical A Heartbeat Away and recently popped up on YouTube performing a duet with US actor-musician Lukas Haas, but Isabel Lucas says the closest she has come to live singing is an occasional lounge-room jam session with her boyfriend Angus Stone.
“At this stage, I am focused on my acting career,” says the LA-based actor, who got her first big overseas break as a sexually voracious alien in 2009′s Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen.
Such single-mindedness goes some way to explaining why Lucas doesn’t actually sing, as is implied, on Lucas and Lukas’s Made For You – the clip is in fact an unorthodox viral marketing campaign, launched by European band The Gift.
The pair were hired to generate a bit of buzz before the outfit’s upcoming album release.
And although the former Home And Away star took singing lessons growing up, and learnt to play guitar for a small role opposite Joel Edgerton in The Waiting City, neither talent was required by her character in A Heartbeat Away.
Read the full interview
A Heartbeat Away is being released in Australia tomorrow, and a few articles and reviews about it have popped up online in the last few days.
Various links and reviews are posted below. None of them really mention Isabel, but maybe we’ll get some more press from her for the film in the next few days. To see more reviews just do a search on Google … but unfortunately the reviews I’ve read are not good at all.
• Fresh start blows Gale’s way – interview with director Gale Edwards
• Review: Moviehole.net
Much like a newly polished guitar with broken strings, new Aussie musical ”A Heartbeat Away” looks okay (With Isabel Lucas in the cast, how could it not!?) but is otherwise fairly useless.
• Review: MindFood
His mission, aided by the lovely Isabel Lucas, is to get the band on his side, rearrange an iconic rock song for brass and totally overhaul their dated routine without his father finding out and in time for the annual regional championships.
Charming and light this feel-good flick is a nice anecdote to the string of heart-wrenching Australian-made films of recent years.
Looks like Red Dawn is undergoing some big changes. Here’s hoping the studio will be happy after this and release the film…
China has become such an important market for U.S. entertainment companies that one studio has taken the extraordinary step of digitally altering a film to excise bad guys from the Communist nation lest the leadership in Beijing be offended.
When MGM decided a few years ago to remake “Red Dawn,” a 1984 Cold War drama about a bunch of American farm kids repelling a Soviet invasion, the studio needed new villains, since the U.S.S.R. had collapsed in 1991. The producers substituted Chinese aggressors for the Soviets and filmed the movie in Michigan in 2009.
But potential distributors are nervous about becoming associated with the finished film, concerned that doing so would harm their ability to do business with the rising Asian superpower, one of the fastest-growing and potentially most lucrative markets for American movies, not to mention other U.S. products.
As a result, the filmmakers now are digitally erasing Chinese flags and military symbols from “Red Dawn,” substituting dialogue and altering the film to depict much of the invading force as being from North Korea, an isolated country where American media companies have no dollars at stake.
The changes illustrate just how much sway China’s government has in the global entertainment industry, even without uttering a word of official protest. Although it’s unclear if anyone in China has seen “Red Dawn,” a leaked version of the script last year resulted in critical editorials in the Global Times, a communist party-controlled paper.
That followed postings of pictures on China’s popular Web portals Sina and Tiexue in late 2009 of the “Red Dawn” set showing actors posing as Chinese troops and mock propaganda posters of the U.S. Capitol building smashed by a hammer. The posts received tens of the thousands of views. “When does it come out?” read one Chinese comment. “There is no hope for theatrical screening [censorship], wait for pirated version.”
As I mentioned in our previous update below, I have a lot of Home & Away screencap updates coming up for you, so to kick that off I have just added 130+ screencaps from episode #3861. This was a cute episode in which Tasha, Robbie, Matilda and Henry formulate a plan to stop Beth getting together with their much-hated principal! The video wasn’t the best quality but anything is better than nothing 
• Episode – #3861 x133
