Joel Edgerton

Den store Gatsby (2013) galapremiär Certificate: 11 - 142 min  -  Drama | Romance  -  17 May 2013 (Sweden) Director:  Baz Luhrmann  Writers:  Baz Luhrmann (screenplay), Craig Pearce(screenplay) Stars:  Leonardo DiCaprio, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire A midwestern war veteran finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor. Swedish galapremiere at Rigoletto, with big galadinner and Party at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden on the 16th of May, 2013. Wonderful and...Read Full Story

(Getty Images, Disney Studios) With The Odd Life of Timothy Green due out this week, we had a chance to sit down with the star of the film and the writer/director. Joel Edgerton isn't exactly the first name you'd think of for a role as a Disney dad, but his sensitive performance in last year's Warrior was about much more than just fighting and he actually compares that film to this latest strictly family affair (2:50).Peter Hedges broke out with his novel What's Eating Gilbert Grape...Read Full Story

Word out of the Cannes Film Festival is that Michelle Williams and Joel Edgerton are pegged to star in a remake of Giuseppe Capotondi’s Italian film, ‘The Double Hour.’ Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) will both write and direct the project, which is being financed and sold in Cannes by Silver Reel Entertainment and Lotus Entertainment. Williams and Edgerton will star in the psychological thriller that tells the story of two lovers who find themselves victims in the midst of a dangerous...Read Full Story

(Columbia Pictures | Pacific Coast News) In December The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty will open in theaters across the U.S. giving audiences the first dramatized portrayal of the U.S. military's clandestine operation to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden. Fittingly, details about the film have been kept highly under wraps with only a teaser trailer released a few weeks back (see below). Joel Edgerton is one of the stars of the film so when we spoke to him about The...Read Full Story

Australia has been mighty kind over the last couple of years to audiences who enjoy a good character-based thriller. Films that Twitch has taken a liking to which fall under this category include The Square, Snowtown, and, of course, the much lauded Animal Kingdom. While never getting a full review here on the site, James Marsh and Ryland Aldrich did have good things to say about Kieran Darcy-Smith’s Asian-vacation-gone-wrong Wish You Were Here during its festival run, making particular note...Read Full Story