Yesterday, Toni has attended the McArthurGlen Designer Outlet Fashion Month Launch Party in London. Pictures from the event have been added to the gallery. Toni is currently in London to shoot “The Long Way Down”.

Toni Collette will be featured in the next instalment of the legal drama series “Rake”, which premieres on September 6, 2012 on ABC. Toni guest stars as the Premier of NSW, a character that has her working opposite Matt Day as the Shadow Attorney General, the first time the pair have shared the screen since “Muriel’s Wedding”. “Rake”, stars Richard Roxburgh, who previously worked with Toni on the 2006 thriller “Like Minds”. Unfortunately there’s no information so far if Toni will appear in only one or more episodes – but I’m sure the following pictures and preview trailer will keep you excited until there’s more information. Also, additional features can be found at the series’ official website.

After its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival (which Toni did not attend), reviews and additional media on “Mental” has found its way online. First of all, a bunch of new production stills have been added to the gallery. You can also find a new promotional still and the Australian poster with thanks to my “Mental”-source Justine for the heads-up.

The Hollywood Reporter has seen the film and has posted an interesting review: If there’s method to writer-director PJ Hogan’s madness, it’s not obvious from the unruly opening frames of Mental, a suburban comedy that celebrates mayhem and mischief-making as the correct responses to societal straightjackets. But, aided and abetted by the rule-defying Toni Collette, whose onscreen powers have only multiplied since the two worked together on the much-loved Muriel’s Wedding in 1994, the equally dissident filmmaker soon makes it clear he’s in control of the crazy. The complete review can be read here. There’s another article by the ABC on the film’s opening at the Australian International Movie Convention.

One June 07, stage and screen legend Shirley MacLaine was lauded with the 40th annual AFI Life Achievement Award – the highest honor for a career in film. Some of Hollywood’s most revered luminaries turned out to pay tribute to one of America’s most beloved artists. The gala was taped at historic Stage 15 at Sony Pictures Studios last evening and will air on TV Land on June 24 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. Among the many guests present to honor MacLaine were Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Toni Collette, Carrie Fisher, Peter Fonda, Marcia Gay Harden and Tom Skerritt. Pictures from the ceremony have been added to the gallery.

The Sydney-based Tropfest, known as the world’s largest short film festival, brought its fun, laid-back embrace of filmmaking to Las Vegas over the weekend in a free, three-day at the Strip’s Cosmopolitan Hotel. The debut Las Vegas event celebrated Tropfest’s 20th anniversary on June 04, 2012. Toni Collette presided over the live jury and Tobey Maguire announced a new 70-seconds-or-less contest. Pictures from the event have been added to the gallery.