Sorry I disappeared there for a bit folks, I had some very serious family problems. So I am terribly sorry and I hope you can forgive me. Fortunately, I have some news of Emily to add! She might be in new film soon. Keep your fingers crossed

Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty is inching through pre-production, having secured a lead actress to replace Mia Wasikowska, who is preparing to become an international name playing Alice in Tim Burton’s imminent release, Alice In Wonderland. The Melbourne star of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Emily Browning, will take the lead in the potentially controversial tale about a uni student who becomes a “sleeper” in a Sleeping Beauty chamber. Jessica Brentball, presently having an award-winning run with the short The Cat Piano, is producing the film.

Please remember it is just a rumor until confirmed

As many of you know, today is Emily’s 21st birthday. We here at Emily Browning Online would like to wish Emily a very Happy Birthday, and we hope she has a great day today! Leave your birthday messages in the comments

If you’ve seen “The Uninvited,” you know that it’s one of those intense, mind-tripping horror thrillers best viewed by those who know nothing about it. And you also know that when it came down to what could be revealed and hidden in each scene, stars Emily Browning and Arielle Kebbel needed to be very…um…precious.

“I knew there was some kind of twist coming, but I wasn’t sure how they were going to be able to carry it off in the American version,” Browning recently told us of her creepy remake of the South Korean film “A Tale of Two Sisters,” now on DVD. “It made it tricky, because it felt like we were filming two different movies. There was what the audience thought, and what was actually going on.”

We’ve all seen movies with great twists (“The Sixth Sense,” “Fight Club,” “The Others”) and movies with really bad ones (“Stay,” “Basic,” “The Number 23”), and Browning said that the difference between the two is often just a matter of execution. “You want the film’s twist to be believable enough that people can go back, watch the film again and go ‘Oh, I see what’s happening there.’ It’s tricky to try and do both of those things at the same time.”

It was also tricky to work on the day when the script called for Browning’s boyfriend in the film to descend into a physical malformation — requiring a stuntman practiced in the arts of contortionism.

“On that day, there was a contortionist; so all those shots you see of him coming towards me, I was freaked out,” laughed the actress, who has a special place in the hearts of “Twilight” fans as the Bella Swan that never was. “This guy could do this thing where he’d move his heart in his stomach [and you could see it]; it was terrifying.”

Luckily, in order to help create a great movie twist, Browning was willing to watch some painful twisting by her flexible co-star.

Emily Browning did something that most young actresses wouldn’t after landing a major role in a big studio film. Browning, who portrayed young Violet inLemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, actually took a three-year break from acting in 2005 to finish her schooling. Now she’s getting back to work with the lead role in The Uninvited, which will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 28. I had the chance to speak with Browning over the phone about her new film, and here’s what she had to say.

This is the first film you’ve done in about four years or so, after taking some time off to finish school. What was it about this movie that made it your first film back after your hiatus?

Emily Browning: Well, I really wanted the first film back to be very different from Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. That was a kids film so I wanted something a little bit more mature. I don’t even know if mature is even the right word, just something different and I thought a horror/thriller was the opposite end of the scale. At the time, I thought I would be easing myself in by doing a small role, because I was originally cast as Alex. It was going to be a small role in this horror film and then all of the sudden they told me they wanted me to do the lead, so it just kind of happened really quick like that. I guess that was kind of the logic behind it.

This was based off the earlier Korean film, but some of these Asian horror remakes we see these days, those movies really seem like they’re remakes of Asian horror films and this one really doesn’t. Was that kind of the intention, to really set it apart from the original film?

Emily Browning:I think so, yeah. When I first read the script, I had seen the original film and we weren’t doing an exact remake of it. I think it was just kind of based on the fact that they wanted to re-tell that story. I’m pretty sure that the basic story of the film has been around for a really long time, and I think it was just a re-telling of that story. It was totally different from the original film, for sure.

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Hi Guys! I felt like wipping up a new layout since the last one wasn’t the greatest and plus especially for the dvd release of Em’s movie which will be released the 28th! Man, I can’t wait to watch it and cap it! *Excitement!!*

Anyways, more great Emily news!! She has been nomiated at this years MTV Movie Awards as Best Villian. Villian? I am puzzled b/c from the previews Elizabeth Banks looks like the villian to me not Emily. Oh well, heck at least Emily got nominated and maybe she will make an appearance! So head on over to MTV.Com to cast your vote so Em has a good shot at winning!

An I also have more good news! Now when Emily makes any televised appearances (Only American ones b/c I don’t get any foreign channels) , I will be able to record them and post them here 10x faster! Great right?

Entertainment Weekly reports that Emily Browning (The Uninvited, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events) will replace Amanda Seyfried in director Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch at Warner Bros. Pictures.

Seyfried was set to play the lead role of Babydoll, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with the fourth season of HBO’s “Big Love.” In the film, Babydoll is confined to a mental institution by her stepfather, who intends to have her lobotomized in five days. While there, she imagines an alternative reality to hide her from the pain, and in that world, she begins planning her escape, needing to steal five objects to help get her out before she is deflowered by a vile man.

Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish, Evan Rachel Wood and Emma Stone co-star. Sucker Punch is scheduled for an October 8, 2010 release.

I am here to tell you all that Emily will be appearing in a feature story in the Australian movie magazine, FILMINK that will be on stands April 2009. The magazine will also be available via online at the official site Filmink.Com.Au. So make sure all you Emily fans go out and buy it when it comes out! I would like to thank Amy from the official site for letting me know about this so I can share it with all of you.

The studio just passed on artwork and specs for The Uninvited. The terrifying psychological thriller THE UNINVITED makes a haunting appearance on DVD and Blu-ray April 28, 2009 from Paramount Home Entertainment. Called “creepy and intense” (Shawn Edwards, Fox-TV), the film stars Emily Browning (Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events) as Anna, a girl who is driven by her mother’s ghost to investigate her untimely death.

When her father (David Strathairn, The Spiderwick Chronicles) becomes engaged to Rachel (Elizabeth Banks, Role Models), her mother’s former nurse, Anna and her sister (Arielle Kebbel, The Grudge 2) look into Rachel’s past and begin to suspect that she is not what she seems. As horrifying truths are revealed, Anna becomes locked in a deadly battle with a shocking conclusion.

THE UNINVITED DVD and Blu-ray presentations include the behind-the-scenes featurette “Unlocking THE UNINVITED”, deleted scenes and a chilling alternate ending not shown in theaters.

THE UNINVITED DVD & Blu-ray
THE UNINVITED DVD is presented in widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs with Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround, French 5.1 Surround and Spanish 5.1 Surround and English, French and Spanish subtitles. The Blu-ray disc is presented in 1080p high definition with English 5.1 Dolby TrueHD, French 5.1 Dolby Digital and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital and English, English SDH, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles. The discs include the following special features in high definition as noted:

• Unlocking THE UNINVITED (HD)
• Deleted Scenes (HD)
• Alternate Ending (HD)