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Paging Jacki Weaver! Producers Announce All-Star Aussie Effort Sydney, I Love You

Great news for Team Jacki has just cleared the wires at Movieline HQ — or at least potentially great news, or very likely great news: Two of Australia’s most prominent film figures are moving ahead with Sydney, I Love You , the latest shorts compilation to round up an all-star cast in the service of vast urban appreciation. The goal is, in their words, “a love letter from Australia’s top film talent to one of the great cities of the world” — much in the spirit of the 2006 omnibus Paris Je Taime and its 2009 companion piece New York, I Love You .

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Paging Jacki Weaver! Producers Announce All-Star Aussie Effort Sydney, I Love You

Guillermo del Toro’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark: Too Scary for the MPAA?

Before Sunday night’s L.A. Film Fest premiere of the August horror pic Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark succumbed to an unfortunate series of annoyances — a fire alarm temporarily evacuated the theater midway through, while chaos reigned at the post-screening cell phone check — producer and co-writer Guillermo del Toro emphasized what, hopefully, will make Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark memorable: Its ” pervasive scariness ,” so terrifying that the MPAA deemed it too frightening for its intended rating.

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Guillermo del Toro’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark: Too Scary for the MPAA?