AVATAR - Final Notes 12.3 - Visual Hollywood

including “True Crime: Streets of LA,” “Driv3r” and “Halo 2,” Rodriguez jumped at theopportunity to take a role in “Resident Evil,” an adaptation of the hit video-game series.Her other feature film credits include “Blue Crush”; the summer blockbuster“S.W.A.T.,” starring opposite Samuel L. Jackson and Colin Farrell; and “Control,” withRay Liotta.In 2005, a new chapter of her career began when she took a starring role in ABC’shugely popular television series “Lost,” playing haunted and hardened ex-cop Ana-LuciaCortez, who was revealed during the show’s second season after making a briefappearance at the end of the first.Rodriguez is launching a clothing line called Ishkadada, from which a portion ofthe profits will benefit various animal and children’s charities.GIOVANNI RIBISI (Carter Selfridge), winner of the 1999 ShoWest Newcomerof the Year award, has since established himself as a popular screen presence capable ofplaying a wide variety of roles.Earlier this year, he appeared in director Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies,”starring opposite Johnny Depp. Upcoming is the independent film “The Rum Diary,”opposite Johnny Depp, based on the Hunter S. Thompson novel.Ribisi recently shot the independent film “Middle Men,” a comedy chroniclingthe early days of the Internet porn business. The story centers on a straight-and-narrowbusinessman brought into a world that would eventually turn into a multibillion-dollarindustry.Ribisi was recently seen in “The Dead Girl” for director Karen Moncrieff. Thefilm, which was nominated for Best Feature at the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards, is aquintet of stories about seemingly unrelated people whose lives converge around themurder of a young woman. Ribisi plays the mysterious Rudy, who forms an unlikelybond with a woman (Toni Collette) who finds the body.Among his best-known films are Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan,” SofiaCoppola’s “The Virgin Suicides” and “Lost in Translation,” Anthony Minghella’s “ColdMountain” and David Lynch’s “Lost Highway.” Other credits include “PerfectStranger,” “Flight of the Phoenix,” “Boiler Room,” “Gone in Sixty Seconds,” “The Other30