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Who Has ‘Divergent’ Chemistry With Shailene Woodley?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 14, 2012 @ 7:30am PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Brenton Thwaites, Divergent, Jack Reynor, Lucas Till, Luke Bracey, Summit Entertainment
Mike Fleming

Summit Entertainment is bearing down on the male lead in Divergent, the adaptation of the Neil Burger-directed adaptation of the Veronica Roth novel that will star Shailene Woodley. She’s the next hot gal after a breakout performance in The Descendants, followed by scoring the Mary Jane role in The Amazing Spider-Man sequel. I’m told that Summit held Divergent “chemistry” readings yesterday that paired Woodley with four young actors: Luke Bracey, Brenton Thwaites, Lucas Till and Jack Reynor.

Since I barely got my high school Regent’s diploma with a 65 in chemistry (at the time it was a jump shot at the buzzer following the 32 I scored in trigonometry), I am the wrong person to ask about who emerged with a leg up by acing this chemistry test. But I think it means we should have a winner shortly, and it likely will be one of these up and comers. READ MORE »

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DreamWorks Testing Newcomers For ‘Need For Speed’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 27, 2012 @ 10:21am PDTTags: Brenton Thwaites, DreamWorks, Luke Bracey, Need For Speed
Mike Fleming

While DreamWorks initially flirted with the idea of The Hunger Games hunk Liam Hemsworth for the lead in its video-game adaptation Need For Speed. Now, they favor a discovery, and they are testing young actors Brenton … Read More »

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Disney Crowns Young Prince In ‘Maleficent’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 30, 2012 @ 3:52pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Brenton Thwaites, Disney, Maleficent
Mike Fleming

Brenton Thwaites MaleficientEXCLUSIVE: Brenton Thwaites has been set as the prince in Maleficent, the Robert Stromberg-directed Disney film that stars Angelina Jolie as the title character and Elle Fanning as Princess Aurora. Who is Thwaites? He’s here … Read More »

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WME Signs ‘Blue Lagoon’s Brenton Thwaites And ‘Hatfields & McCoys’ Matt Barr

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday April 30, 2012 @ 2:27pm PDTTags: Brenton Thwaites, WME

EXCLUSIVE:  Brenton Thwaites and Matt Barr have signed with WME in all areas. Thwaites, best known as Stu Henderson on Home And Away in his … Read More »

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Lifetime’s ‘Blue Lagoon’ Reboot Casts Leads

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday February 6, 2012 @ 2:02pm PSTTags: Brenton Thwaites, Lifetime, The Blue Lagoon
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Young Australian actors Brenton Thwaites and Indiana Evans are following in the footsteps of Christopher Atkins & Brooke Shields and Brian Krause & Milla Jovovich as the leads of The Blue Lagoon, Lifetime’s contemporary remake of the 1980 romance/adventure movie starring Shields and Atkins. (Jovovich and Krause toplined the 1991 sequel.) In the story, which echoes the biblical tale of Adam and Eve and is based on the novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Thwaites and Evans will play Dane and Emma, a boy and a girl marooned on a tropical island where they grow up together, fall in love and discover sexuality. The Sony TV-distributed project has been in the works at Lifetime since 2004 with Heather Rutman and Matt Heller as writers. Filming is slated to begin this month in Puerto Rico. Read More »

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