Matilda Hatcher receives funding from an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship. At 20, Peter Weir’s 2003 masterpiece Master and Commander remains a captivating historical ...

Russell Crowe in "", 2003.Courtesy 20th Century Fox It’s a bit of cheating to characterize Peter Weir’s 2003 high-seas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Image Credit: 20th Century Studios) A Master and Commander prequel may be in the works, according to 20th Century Studios ...

Considering that Russell Crowe was coming off a run that includes his Oscar-winning turn in Gladiator, and his star-making role in L.A. Confidential, it’s truly impressive that his performance as ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...

Moviegoers will soon find out what happened when Captain Jack Aubrey met Dr. Stephen Maturin. 20th Century has tapped screenwriter Patrick Ness to cook up another “Master and Commander” film, one that ...

Meyer Gottlieb, who headed Samuel Goldwyn Films and produced films including “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 86. Tom Rothman, Chairman and CEO of ...

The Treatment Peter Weir: Master and Commander An encore presentation of an interview with Peter Weir, whose many films include The Year of Living Dangerously, Witness, Dead Poets Society and The ...

I like to think that I first saw Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World under near ideal circumstances—ideal to both appreciate the film’s numerous qualities as entertainment and ...

Based on the seafaring novels of Patrick O’Brian, this big-budget adventure by Peter Weir (The Truman Show) persuasively re-creates the experience of sailing aboard a British man-o’-war during the ...