Los Angeles-based Australians in Film (AiF), the preeminent organization for expatriate Australians in the entertainment industry, is holding its fourth annual Breakthrough Awards to honor up-and-coming Australian actresses Abbie Cornish (Stop Loss) and Mia Wasikowska (In Treatment) on June 5, 2008, it was announced today by Susie Dobson, president of AiF. As part of the organization’s program to support emerging talent from Australia, Dobson also announced that AiF has established the Heath Ledger Scholarship Fund which will be presented annually to a young Australia-based actor to help them pursue their dream in Hollywood. The first Scholarship recipient to receive a financial contribution from AiF will be announced in 2009.

The Heath Ledger Scholarship is named in honor of Ledger who was an Ambassador for AiF before his untimely death in January 2008 and has the full support of the Heath Ledger family.

According to Amazon. Stop-Loss will be released on Region 1 DVD on July 8, 2008. There is no cover art or features details as of now. We’ll keep you posted.

Update:
Extras will include: “Commentary by Director Kimberly Peirce and Co-Writer Mark Richard,” “The Making Of Stop-Loss,” “A Day In Boot Camp” featurette, and 11 “Additional Scenes.”

Source: DVDTown.com

Here is a little blurb from The Guardian about Bright Star and more importantly Abbie! There is a lot of high hopes for the film which is being helmed by Jane Campion who is the only woman to have won the Palme d’Or Cannes Award.

Great things are expected of Jane Campion (the only woman to have won the Palme d’Or), who is shooting Bright Star in the UK, the story of poet John Keats’s love affair with Fanny Brawne, starring Ben Whishaw and Australia’s Abbie Cornish. I heard a couple of executives discussing it after a trip to the set, where the word is that Ben is superb but that “everyone will be bowled over when they see Abbie’s Fanny.”

I personally can’t wait!

Abbie Cornish has been nominated as one of PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities for 2008. The poll runs through 16 June. For more information and to cast your votes, please visit PETA.org.uk.

Being “green”, living healthy, embracing compassion and looking fabulous are all the rage in Tinseltown right now, with more and more celebrities finally figuring out that the best way to make all these things a part of their daily lives is by going vegetarian.

Whether they chose to go veg to improve their health, to help end global warming, or to avoid contributing to the inexcusable cruelty to animals on factory farms and in slaughterhouses, one thing is for sure – all these vegetarian celebrities have won our hearts and the hearts of animals.

We think they’re all sexy and couldn’t possibly pick just one favourite compassionate Hollywood hottie. We need your help! Cast your vote today for the World’s Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity, and stay tuned for the winners.

I’ve added a handful of new movie pictures of Abbie. Ranging from such titles Somersault, Horse Play, Everything Goes, One Perfect Day and The Golden Age. Some of my favorites are below. I’d like to thank everyone who contributed these rare stills! I also capped the US DVD Menus for Somersault a while back and never posted about them.

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