A quick hello from Riikka, the co-founder of the site! I’m currently working on bringing the content of Abbie-Cornish.com up-to-date as it hasn’t been updated in quite a while.

I started by doing updates on the projects section. Film pages have been added for W.E. and The Dark Fields, Abbie’s two new films, and the information on Sucker Punch and Bright Star has been updated.

I also updated the Awards & Nominations page with details on the awards Abbie was nominated in 2010 and 2009 as well as updated the Rumored Projects with some details on Wuthering Heights, the film that Abbie dropped out of last year.

Don’t forget that you can follow the updates of Abbie Cornish Online over at Twitter @abbiecornishcom!

Pictures of Abbie Cornish at the 2010 Vanity Fair After Party hosted by Graydon Carter at Hollywood’s Sunset Tower from Sunday have been added to the gallery.

Abbie wore a halter-style black dress with a snazzy beaded neckline and diamonds and amethysts from Martin Katz Jewelry. She carried a black clutch and wore purple eyeline (which really brings out her stunning eyes if I say so myself.)

Reportedly she caught up with some of Hollywood’s biggest names, including her good friend and Somersault co-star Sam Worthington, Sucker Punch co-star Vanessa Hudgens and Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan as well as Best Director winner Kathryn Bigelow.

Unfortunately, Bright Star did not win Best Costume Design. That award went to The Young Victoria.

Abbie Cornish was surprised as anyone with what’s in the behind-the-scenes footage on Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s Jan. 26 DVD release of Bright Star, the well-received tale about the love affair between 19th century English poet John Keats and his neighbor Fanny Brawne.

The Australian-born actress, who was generating Oscar-buzz for her performance as Brawne, prior to Feb. 2 when she was left out of the nominations, still hasn’t had a chance to see the special features on the DVD.

“When I’m working, I don’t worry about that behind-the-scenes camera,” she said. “The behind-the-scenes camera is behind the scenes, so I wasn’t sure what they put on there. It’s not where my head is at when I’m making a film.”

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Bright Star is now available on Region 1 DVD. You can order a copy via Amazon.com. I will be renting this soon and making caps for the site so stay tuned in a couple days for that update.

DVD Features include:
- 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
- English DD5.1
- English subtitles
- Deleted Scene
- An Inspiring Romance Featurette
- Becoming Keats and Fanny Featurette
- Setting the Scene Featurette

The movie takes place in the mid-19th century. There’s something incredibly of that time about Abbie Cornish. The frankness of the performance though feels very modern. It’s a beautiful combination. It made the movie more complicated because of that conflict in the character — what she wanted versus what her times would allow her. The tenderness that the character had the softness was so completely of her. Abbie Cornish isn’t brazen but she has a certain defiance. From the first time that the camera discovers her Fanny I felt that there was an incredible acceptance on her part of what this love was going to ask. And some of it in some ways was beyond her means. And none of it did Keats seem to require. Fanny’s reading of Milton and Shelley didn’t seem to be a requirement of his. It was something that she took on. I felt it was very naive and charming. This was a desire that she had so much so that she flagrantly lied to Brown about having read everybody in a week. She was a neophyte. She was new at poetry didn’t understand poetry. She couldn’t find a way in. But I loved her.

Source: Variety.com