ComingSoon.net live blogged the event yesterday on their website and this is what they reported back on:

Geoff Boucher suggests that the presentation for Sucker Punch could be another “firecracker” that’s been lit in Hall H at Comic-Con and he introduces Zack Snyder who comes out to big cheers, and he’s being asked a few general questions about the movie.

Zack says he’s been working on the movie for eight years or longer, and that he was a fan of fantasy and that he just had this journey he wanted to “torture these girls with” and they agreed. (The girls being the female cast mentioned above.)

They’re bringing out those very same girls before showing the footage. Out comes Carla Gugino, Jamie Chung, Vanessa Hudgens, Jenna Malone and Emily Browning, and they followed with an insane montage of footage we will describe as best we can in a second.

The footage begins with Emily Browning’s character Babydoll’s eyes opening and the title card “Close Your Eyes” and Scott Glenn’s voice asking “What are you looking for?” and then we hear Carla Gugino’s Polish accent telling Babydoll, “push through your fear to find your own paradise.” Gugino’s voiceover does a count-off… “1… 2… 3… 4″ then we hear the opening drums of Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks” and we see Scott Glenn as Babydoll’s stepfather driving a large old car with Babydoll in the passenger seat as the car drives into the Lennox House for the Mentally Insane in Brattleboro, Vermont here he commits his stepdaughter. We then see lots of scenes of Babydoll in the insane asylum being introduced to Gugino’s Madame Gorsky, who says, “What you’re imagining now, you control this own world.” Babydoll closes her eyes again and the insane asylum transforms into a brothel/dancehall where all the female patients are prostitutes. (The original footage is very muted almost black and white, a bit like Sin City, but in the world where it’s a brothel, it’s a lot more bright and colorful.) Gugino says, “Your fight for survival starts right now” and we see a slow-motion snowflake falling on Babydoll’s eyelash and the footage turned into an insane fast-paced montage of some of the different worlds where Babydoll and some of the other girls of the brothel visit in order to get different items. Each of the girls has a dance number and there are four different worlds where they visit, all of which we saw brief glimpses of the footage including samurai battles. They also have a WWI sequence where they’re fighting in the trenches and one of the girls gets to ride a giant manga-inspired Mecha while shooting down biplanes. This really was some insane stuff that went by very fast with so many images that it probably be very hard for any of it to register.

One of the prison officers tells Babydoll, “I’m going to give you freedom, freedom from pain, guilt, regret” and then we see John Hamm, who plays a john at the brothel and he makes a sleezy comment: “Did you see the way she looked at me?”

As the fast footage continued, the title cards came up with the words, “You Will Be Unprepared.”

After the footage, they talked a bit about their characters and the story, which we’ll have to catch up in a bit, and they’re already onto questions from the audience.

Question from the audience about the fight choreography, and Zack is using the same fight choreographer as 300 and Watchmen, Dave Carlo.

As Zack has told us before, he thinks that Sucker Punch has a chance to be PG-13, but they have a lot of creatures being killed, and he hopes the MPAA will remember how creatures got decapitated in The Lord of the Rings movies and they got a PG-13.

He mentioned that the German soldiers in the WWI sequence are zombies.

Zack confirmed that they’re busy writing Xerxes while Frank Miller works on the graphic novel of the same name.

They’re going to show the footage again and all the girls are going to come off the stage to see the footage from the audience. We’ll see if we can catch some more of it. Honestly, having visited the set, we can probably figure out what everything is if the footage were slowed down a bit, but we don’t want to get in trouble with Warner Bros. (and Zack) by breaking the embargo.

On second viewing, we were able to focus on a few more of the images including the dragons the girls fight, as well as the futuristic world where they fight robots. One thing we noticed of interest was that each world has a different color scheme, and the way the footage was cut together, we can see how much they differ, some worlds being muted with very little color and others being lush and colorful.

11:45-1:15 Warner Bros.: Green Lantern, Sucker Punch, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows— Warner Bros. showcases three eagerly awaited upcoming new films in this Hall H presentation!

Sucker Punch — Fasten your seatbelt for a sneak peek at the dark action fantasy Sucker Punch, from director Zack Snyder, who previewed his films 300 and Watchmen at past Comic-Cons. A group of young girls escape the dark reality of their lives through their vivid imagination, which takes them to various fantasy locations in different realms. The ensemble cast features Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Vanessa Hudgens, Carla Gugino, Jena Malone, Jamie Chung, and Jon Hamm.

Goss from E! Online:

Oh no, Vanessa was totally grinding with…

Abbie Cornish! The woman arrived at Staples solo, but she met up with Vanessa and Brittany Snow inside the show.

“Vanessa and Abbie were dancing and holding hands during the concert, having a great time,” onlookers tell us.

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- Public Events: Activision E3 2010 Preview

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- Public Events: Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2010 Costume Institute Ball

On April 28, she dressed up for the Chanel Dinner and the following day attended the awards night. Abbie looked stunning at both events!

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- Public Events: The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival – Chanel Dinner
- Public Events: The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival – Awards Night Show

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- Public Events: The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival Women’s Filmmaker Brunch
- Public Events: The 2010l Tribeca Film Festival – The Killer Inside Me Premiere

Cornish debuted a new straight, mid-neck bob hairstyle which she looks amazing with. She dawned a red belted Dior dress and black peeptoes for the event and sported think eyeliner and nude lips. She looks absolutely incredible!

E! News reports:

Cornish showed up around 7:30 p.m and avoided all interviews on the carpet while staying glued to her rep’s side the entire night—but she certainly didn’t avoid attention!

She was constantly smiling, laughing, sipping from a wine glass, posing for pics for a guest’s digital camera and showing off jewelry to her pals. She stayed until the party ended shortly after 9 p.m.

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- Events: 2009 E3 Expo – XBOX Day 1
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On Friday night the 26-year-old looked every bit the movie star as she stepped onto the red carpet for the opening of the world’s most prestigious film festival, on the French Riviera.

Wearing a lavender gown by Australian designer Toni Maticevski, Cornish lived up to her promise as the leader of Australia’s next generation of film stars.

Standing alongside her co-stars and the director of Bright Star, Jane Campion, Cornish showed the confidence and poise of a future Oscar winner.

Cornish’s boyfriend, actor Ryan Phillippe, is believed to be with her, but he didn’t walk the red carpet on Friday night.

It was a very different story in 2001 when her first feature – low-budget Aussie flick The Monkey’s Mask – was being sold in the market section of the festival. Back then, Cornish paid her own way to Cannes.

“I remember being by myself at the airport, and thinking, ‘wow, the world is a wonderful, amazing place, but I’m going on this six-month journey through the Far East and Africa and Europe, and who knows if I’ll be dead or alive at the end of it’,” she said.

In 2004, she returned to the Riviera, this time as the star of Somersault, which screened in the Un Certain Regard competition. She was earmarked as one of the faces to watch.

Cornish made her acting start on ABC TV series Wildside, for which she won an Australian Film Institute Award in 1999.

She has since begun to make a name for herself in Hollywood with roles in films including Stop-Loss, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and A Good Year.

At the Bright Star premiere she was flanked by co-stars Ben Wishaw and Thomas Sangster.

At a photo call for the film earlier in the day, Cornish was radiant in a sleeveless white dress, by Chloe, with matching open toe heels.

Bright Star, an English period drama, is one of 20 movies vying for the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or competition. It depicts the love affair between 19th century poet John Keats (Wishaw) – who died of tuberculosis in 1821 aged 25 – and his young neighbour, Fanny Brawne (Cornish).

“Cornish has the acting skill to match her striking beauty and she makes the small, loving gestures that the British might call soppy both real and touching,” wrote Hollywood Reporter reviewer Ray Bennett.

For Campion, 55, the premiere also marked a return to Cannes.

Campion is the only woman to win the Palme d’Or – for The Piano in 1993 – in the festival’s 62-year history. She used her time in the spotlight to highlight the lack of opportunities for female directors at the top level.

Campion said she admired the passion and dedication Cornish brought to the role of Brawne.

“I so loved what Abbie gave to the character,” she said.

Source: The Daily Telegraph

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- Events: 2009 Cannes Film Festival – Bright Star Premiere

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- Events: 2009 Cannes Film Festival – Bright Star Photocall

The festival runs May 13-24 and hopefully Abbie will be in attendance at the film’s premieres and photocalls!

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- Events: “Watchmen” Los Angeles Premiere

She’s billed as one of Hollywood’s hottest but a recent photo shoot became a little too smokin’ for Abbie Cornish.

The LA-based actress was caught out when fire crews arrived at the penthouse suite of Justin Hemmes’ The Ivy as she was shooting for a photo spread for this month’s Harper’s Bazaar.

An overzealous smoke machine wheeled into the bathroom for a steamy shower scene set alarms off and fire engines to arrive at the George St complex.

When firemen burst into the bathroom to attack the blaze they were greeted by Cornish dressed in just black Prada underwear and Gucci sunglasses.

The 26-year-old actress has also revealed that she’s not about to return home soon, with her growing relationship with US actor Ryan Phillippe keeping her in LA.

“If I wasn’t in love with him I’d be on the road travelling,” she said.

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- Photoshoots: Harper’s Bazaar (2009)

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- Events: 2009 Vanity Fair Oscar Party

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- Events: 4th Annual “Oscar Wilde: Honoring The Irish In Film” Awards
- Events: 2009 Australian Academy Awards Nominee Party