Angelina Jolie has been the frontrunner for the role but she has passed on it, and hence put Warner Bros in a bind. Besides Abbie, the studio is also interested in Sandra Bullock, Natalie Portman, Naomi Watts, Marion Cotillard, Carey Mulligan, Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Rebecca Hall, Olivia Wilde and Blake Lively.

Scripted by Cuaron and his son Jonas, Gravity is set on a remote space station. While a team leader (Robert Downey Jr.) and a female colleague are traveling outside, the other team members get wiped out by a debris field from an exploding satellite. The film’s central focus is the heroine’s desperate attempt to return home to her child. The intention is to shoot the film next year after Downey completes Sherlock Holmes 2.

Personally, I think this sounds like an interesting and an ambitious project and it would be a truly fantastic opportunity if Abbie did end up getting cast. I think Abbie is a tremendious talent and I have no doubt at all whether or not she could carry a film. However, I suppose it is doubtful that she will end up playing the part since the studio is looking for an actress as famous as Jolie for the $80 million blockbuster movie. At least they do seem to be interested in Abbie since they have tested her so keep your fingers crossed!

Check out the TV spots at ComingSoon.net.

The film, based on Nicholas Sparks’ novel of the same title, follows Efron’s character of a soldier who has survived three tours of duty in Iraq and attributes his good luck to a photograph he carried of a woman, portrayed by Schilling, whom he doesn’t even know. When he returns to the States, he will seek out the girl and later they develop a relationship.

For a list of other celebrities who made the list, check out PEP.

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- Somersault: DVD Screencaptures

All of our pages have been updated and re-done in the process. We have especially made an effort to spruce up the filmography, as we first and foremost admire Abbie’s work as an actress and aim for the site to demonstrate that. The streaming Video Vault is also now back and revamped with plenty of new video additions!

With this update I’ll also announce that I’m officially back as a webmistress here at Abbie Cornish Online. As some of you may have noticed, I’ve been doing a bit of updating here and there these past few months and I have now officially decided to return to the site. This fall will, however, be busy as I head back to the university but Mycah and I will be working together to bring your an often updated and comprehensive fan run source on Miss Cornish.

Happy birthday to Abbie on behalf of Abbie-Cornish.com and all of the fans! May all of your dreams come true on your special day!

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- Bright Star: DVD Screencaptures

Also, thanks to Ann, we have replaced the previous set pictures from back in July with untagged versions.

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- W.E.: On the Set – August 1, 2010

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- Sucker Punch: Teaser Trailer

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- W.E.: On the Set – July 25, 2010

“When we started talking about it, I had a certain idea of how I wanted to move the camera and I had a certain idea of how I wanted the film to feel. I am a fan of 3D. Legends is all 3D. It was conceived in 3D and, if anyone has seen it, I think the 3D is pretty friggin’ awesome. If I do say so myself. We did talk about and, in the press, there was word that we were going to do it in 3D. We really were considering it. But we had seen a bunch of tests and conversion didn’t sit with me that great. Without being baked in, it just felt a little weird. But they also showed me a test of 300 that was pretty awesome. But it didn’t feel right for this movie. It’s in eye-numbing 2D, which is also awesome.”

- Director Zack Snyder at Comic-Con

You can check out the full Sucker Punch panel report from Comic-Con 2010 over at ComingSoon.net.

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.

Set in the 1950s, Sucker Punch follows Babydoll who is confined to a mental institution by her stepfather, who intends to have her lobotomized in five days. While there, she imagines an alternative reality to hide her from the pain, and in that world, she begins planning her escape, needing to steal five objects to help get her out before she is deflowered by a vile man.

You can check out bigger versions of the posters by clicking on them below, and don’t miss the new official site that also went live today.

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- Sucker Punch: Posters & Covers

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- Modeling: Maticevski

Zack Snyder returns to Comic-Con with a film that blends action, rich visuals, and (yes!) scantily clad babes. The film follows Babydoll (Emily Browning), whose abusive stepfather sends her to an insane asylum where she imagines an alternative reality that comes to life, complete with dragons, zombie soldiers, steampunk sci-fi, and monolithic mecha. (Warner Bros.; March 25, 2011)

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- Sucker Punch: Production Stills

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.

W.E tells two parallel love stories separated by more than six decades. Acclaimed actress Abbie Cornish (Sucker Punch, Bright Star, Elizabeth: The Golden Age) has been cast in the role of Wally Winthrop – a young married New Yorker in 1998 who is obsessed with what she perceives as the ultimate romantic love story, King Edward V111’s abdication for his love of Wallis Simpson. Andrea Riseborough has been cast in the role of Wallis Simpson. Riseborough is best known for her outstanding Bafta Nominated performance of Margaret Thatcher in the acclaimed BBC drama The Long Walk to Finchley and will soon be seen in Brighton Rock. British star James D’Arcy (Master and Commander, Secret Diary of a Call Girl) will play the part of Edward VIII. Wally Winthrop”s Russian love interest Evgeni will be played by rising star Oscar Isaac (Robin Hood, Sucker Punch) and her husband William will be played by Richard Coyle (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time). Art imitates life as the revered British acting dynasty provides father and son, James Fox (Sherlock Holmes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Bafta nominated A Passage to India, Bafta winner The Servant) and Laurence Fox (Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Becoming Jane) in the roles of King George V and his son, Bertie.

1936 England – Wallis Simpson, an American woman, captured the heart of King Edward VIII. Already divorced and married to her second husband when she met Edward, then the Prince of Wales in London, the two fell in love. However, once crowned, Edward was told by the Church and the Prime Minister that he could not marry Wallis and remain King… He abdicated, giving up the throne to be with the woman he loved. Once married and known as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, they lived out what many considered to be the romance of the century.

1998 N.Y – Wally Winthrop has a troubled past and moves to New York from the South to work in Sotheby’s Estate department. She gives up her job to marry a successful psychiatrist but the marriage is unhappy and Wally finds herself bored, frustrated and often alone. She seeks refuge in her obsession with what she believes to be the ultimate romantic love story, King Edward VIII ‘s abdication for his love of Wallis Simpson. When Wally discovers that there is going to be an auction of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s Estate at Sotheby’s, she takes the opportunity to return to her old hunting ground to try to understand the nature of the great love affair through the artifacts that once belonged to the couple. While at Sotheby’s, Wally meets Evgeni, a Russian security guard, with a mysterious past. As she immerses herself deeper into the love story of Wallis and Edward, while spending more time away from her marriage, she finds herself falling in love.

We travel back and forth in time with Wally and Wallis, two fragile but determined women whose lives become inextricably linked. However, as the story unravels it becomes apparent that Wallis Simpson’s life was not as perfect as Wally had thought.

The film will be produced by Colin Vaines (producer Coriolanus, exec producer London Boulevard, The Gangs of New York and The Young Victoria) with Executive Producers Kris Thykier (producer The Debt, Kick-Ass, Harry Brown, exec producer Stardust) and Nigel Wooll (exec producer Miss Potter, co-producer GI Jane, White Squall). The production team include Production Designer Martin Childs (Oscar Winner Shakespeare in Love, Oscar Nominated Quills, The Boy in Striped Pyjamas), Director of Photography, Hagen Bogdanski (The Lives of Others, The Young Victoria), Costume Designer, Arianne Phillips (Oscar Nominated Walk the Line, Bafta Nominated A Single Man) and Hair and Make Up Designer – Jenny Shircore (Oscar Winner Elizabeth, Bafta Winner and Oscar Nominated The Young Victoria).

Source: Madonna.com

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