Based on the true story of “Australia’s legendary surfwear moguls”, the film is set in the 1970′s, and follows two brothers, Jimmy (Samuel) and Andy (Pollard) who, helped by photographer and friend JB (Worthington) bet on everything they have by opening a surf shop … and end up building an empire. From a script by Morgan O’Neill, the film has been directed by O’Neill (“The Factory”) and first time director Ben Nott.

Set in breathtaking locations and inspired by the true story of Australia’s legendary surfwear moguls, the film chronicles the rise of the world’s premiere action sport and the expansion of the laidback surf attitude as a global lifestyle. A story of passion and corruption, friendship and loyalty, deadly addictions and fractured relationship.

Australia, 1970′s. The Kelly brothers, Andy (28) and Jimmy (22), have one great passion: riding big waves. As kids, their mother escaped from Sydney to Margaret River, a sleepy coastal town with some of the world’s most challenging and dangerous waves. For the next 12 years, the boys perfected their surfing skills, always searching for the perfect ride. Free-spirited Jimmy is a gited surfer and innovator but he starts to slip toward a life of crime to help the family out of debt. Andy makes a big decision. Quitting a stable job, he bets on Jimmy’s surf inventions and his own business skills and launches a backyard surf gear business. They rethink board design, craft homemad wetsuits and sell ther merchandise out of their van. After they get mixed up with a local drug dealer, it looks like everything they built up, will be ruined…

Encouraged by their new friends, travelling bohemian surf photographer and filmmaker JB (Sam Worthington) and his gorgeous Hawaiin surfer companion, Lani, who stirs the two brothers’ hearts, they start to seek ways to expand.

Source: Up and Comers

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November 06, 2011 by Jen • Gallery Update, Movies

While in Berlin last year shooting Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous, Xavier Samuel decided to take advantage of a rare night away from set to hit the clubs with his younger brother, Benedict, who was visiting from the suburbs of Sydney. Samuel, who plays vampire Riley Biers in the galactically popular Twilight saga, wanted to cut loose, unnoticed, among the crowds. “We walked up to the door of one bar, and people started screaming at my brother: ‘Jamie! Jamie! Jamie!’” says the 27-year-old actor.

“So he started posing for pictures and signing autographs.” The throngs had mistaken Benedict for Jamie Campbell Bower, Samuel’s Anonymous costar, both of whom boast long, meticulously tangled heads of hair. “The next morning, there was a photo of Benedict and me in one of the papers over a caption that read, ‘Jamie Campbell Bower and friend in Berlin.’ And friend? Come on!” From the shrub-encased patio at Culina inside the Four Seasons Los Angeles, the Australian shakes his head and lets out a laugh.

It seems mistaken identity was in the air in Germany, where Samuel spent three months perfecting his British accent while channeling the Third Earl of Southampton, the man to whom, according to many Elizabethan scholars, Shakespeare addressed his sonnets. As the film’s tagline, “Was Shakespeare a fraud?,” suggests, Emmerich’s thriller centers on the popular theory that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, played by Rhys Ifans, ghostwrote many of the famed wordsmith’s plays. “It’s a bit elitist to argue that Shakespeare, a man from the working class, couldn’t have done it himself, but there are some strange coincidences that could make you lean toward de Vere as the writer,” says Samuel, who took the stage in productions of Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream during his studies at Rostrevor College and Flinders University Drama Centre in Adelaide. “There are so many theories,” he adds. “I’m sure that if you wanted to, you could find a reason to believe that Muhammad Ali wrote the plays. What’s more interesting to me is the tension between art and politics. Back then you put on a play to overthrow the government. Now you do a movie to get famous.”

A drama about authenticity and authorship set in Shakespearean England doesn’t exactly scream Emmerich, the German special effects enthusiast behind Independence Day, Godzilla, and 2012. But Samuel wasn’t worried about the director trying to arm Ben Jonson with an AK-47. “Sure, he’s a bit of a dark horse, but people seem to forget that the reason Independence Day worked so well was because we cared about those characters—even as everything around them was blowing up,” he says. “Explosions on their own don’t really matter if the audience doesn’t care about the story.”

Source: BlackBook Magazine

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October 26, 2011 by Jen • Photoshoot, Xavier

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October 26, 2011 by Jen • Movies, Videos

Xavier Samuel may be best known as Riley in Eclipse, but the Australian actor takes on a new challenge with a part in this month’s period piece, Anonymous. The movie explores the mystery behind Shakespeare and happens to costar one of Xavier’s Twilight saga cohorts, Jamie Campbell Bower. During our talk, Xavier told a funny story about a case of mistaken identity involving him, his little brother, and Jamie, and also weighed in on what he’s looking forward to seeing on screen in Breaking Dawn. He even admitted to playing one of the female characters in A Midsummer’s Night Dream during his college days. Check out our interview to hear Xavier’s story, and be sure to catch Anonymous when it hits theaters on Oct. 28!

Source: PopSugar

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October 07, 2011 by Jen • Interviews, Videos

Now that’s an eclipse we like to see! Twilight hottie Xavier Samuel goes totally starkers and looks mighty fine in the new Australian comedy from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert director Stephan Elliott.

MovieFIX has the exclusive trailer for your viewing pleasure … and we mean pleasure. Not only do you see Xavier in the buff, but there’s the remarkable spectacle of Olivia Newton-John as a Stifler’s Mom type … yes, you’ve never seen her this bad!

From the producers of Death at a Funeral, the film is about a groom and his three best men who come from the UK to Australia for his wedding. It’s the Aussie answer to The Hangover and Bridesmaids (and happens to feature Bridesmaids scene-stealer Rebel Wilson too).

It’s tipped to be one of 2012′s biggest Aussie hits, and it’s out Australia Day. Get your first cheeky look:

Source: Your Movies

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September 27, 2011 by Jen • Movies, Videos

Xavier gets interviewed on the red carpet of the TIFF premiere of Anonymous. Check it out!

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September 19, 2011 by Jen • Interviews, Videos

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September 13, 2011 by Jen • Interviews, Movies, Videos

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September 13, 2011 by Jen • Movies, Videos

Xavier attended the Toronto International Film Festival with his fellow Anonymous co-stars for the premiere of the movie and I’ve added photos into the gallery.

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September 12, 2011 by Jen • Gallery Update

Larry Richman tweeted about Xavier Samuel’s “Anonymous” which has been selected for the BFI London Film Festival held October 12-27th this year.

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September 08, 2011 by Jen • Movies, Xavier