Here’s a fantastic new production still of “Mental”, from an article by the Hollywood Reporter on recent movie projects coming from Australia. You can view the new picture in the gallery.

Arclight Films has published three hilarious production stills from the upcoming Australian comedy “Mental”, directed by P.J. Hogen. You can view the pictures in the gallery – with many thanks to Justine for guiding them to me!

The Daily Telegraph has the very first picture of Toni in character on the Australian “Mental” set: It’s the new movie that reunites director P.J. Hogan with his old Muriel’s Wedding star and it looks like Mental will be as eccentric as Hogan’s previous classic. Collette went on set dressed in character as Shaz, the working-class nanny. The flick co-stars Liev Schrieber and Anthony La Paglia and is Rebecca Gibney’s first big silver-screen foray. Hogan gave an insight into Collette’s character recently, describing Shaz as “hilarious, outrageous, dangerous, courageous, inspiring, heart-breaking and totally, totally mad”. The film, being shot in Queensland, is due next year.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Liev Schreiber has joined Toni Collette in P.J. Hogan’s new comedy “Mental”, his first local production since Muriel’s Wedding in 1994, which thrust both location and leading lady into the international spotlight. Mental sees Schreiber as a philandering politician who employs Collette, a “crazy hothead hitchhiker”, to nanny his five daughters following the breakdown and hospitalisation of his wife. Anthony LaPaglia, Deborah Mailman and Rebecca Gibney feature alongside Collette and Schreiber for the joint Australian and American production, along with Cloudstreet’s Kerry Fox, Dorian Gray’s Caroline Goodall and Sam Clark from Neighbours.

With yesterday’s series finale of “United States of Tara”, Toni Collette won’t be a weekly regular on television anymore, at least not for now. For all wondering what will be next, Toni has wrapped three films already and another one in the making – so even if “Tara” has ended, Miss Collette’s career will not :-) First in line is the anticipated remake of “Fright Night”, which will premiere in US theaters on August 19, 2011. Then, there are two independent drama comedies with no release date as of now – “Jesus Henry Christ”, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, and “Foster”. This Summer, Toni will also reunite with her “Muriel’s Wedding” director, P.J. Hogan, for the dark Australian comedy “Mental”, in which Toni will play the lead role of Shaz, a nanny hired to look after five sisters after their mother is committed to a mental institution.