SYDNEYSYDNEY — Feel-good musical drama “The Sapphires” sparkled at Australia’s premier film awards. The tale of an Aboriginal family singing group entertaining American troops in the Vietnam War won ...

“The Sapphires,” which opens Friday, is the crowd-pleasing, based-on-actual-people story of four young Aboriginal women who team up with a male Irish manager and perform for American troops in Vietnam ...

After seeing The Sapphires win audience awards at film festivals on several continents, Wayne Blair knows that his directorial debut pleases crowds. More than laughs, romance and soul classics, ...

I get the marketing tactic – put the most well-known figure on the cover, in an effort to sell the DVD. It makes good marketing sense. But when the lead characters are Aboriginal Australian women – to ...

Nominated for 12 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, The Sapphires won six gongs at a ceremony hosted by Russell Crowe in Sydney on Wednesday night. The musical drama about four ...

The recent, terrible Dwayne Johnson vehicle “Snitch” was “inspired by a true story,” which merely meant the U.S. has controversial drug enforcement policies and the movie was something that ...

Hit Australian musical drama, “The Sapphires” is to be given a new polish as an animated series. Goalpost Pictures and children’s and comedy production house Sticky Pictures are in advanced ...

The film about four Australian women who are sent to sing for troops in Vietnam will be released on DVD August 6. By Jeremy Bergman In a making-of featurette for The Sapphires DVD, debuting ...

Wayne Blair’s Cannes crowd pleaser The Sapphires leads the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts feature film nominations for 2012 with 12 nods including picture, director, actor and ...

Feel-good musical drama "The Sapphires" sparkled at Australia's premier film awards. The tale of an Aboriginal family singing group entertaining American troops in the Vietnam War won best film and ...

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2012 file photo, Deborah Mailman, from left, Jessica Mauboy, Chris O'Dowd, Shari Sebbens and Miranda Tapsell pose for a photo on the red carpet at the Elgin Theatre for the ...