'Wolf Creek' season one..
Production has begun in South Australia on the second season of Stan's Wolf Creek, with showrunner Greg McLean once again in the director's chair.
John Jarratt reprises the role of Mick Taylor, and will be joined by Tess Haubrich (Alien: Covenant), Matt Day (Rake, Paper Giants, Underbelly, Kiss or Kill), Ben Oxenbould (Comedy Inc., The Kettering Incident, The Code), Laura Wheelwright (Animal Kingdom), Stephen Hunter (The Hobbit, The Leftovers) and Chris Haywood (Shine, Muriel's Wedding, Dogs in Space).
Of the second season McLean said: "We.ll join an amazing cast on a road trip of a lifetime, as they must draw on their inner strength to outwit the terrifying Mick Taylor. John Jarratt returns to take Mick.s dark arts to a whole new level, showcasing the beautiful and dangerous landscapes of the remote outback..
Joining McLean in directing will be Kieran Darcy-Smith (Wish You Were Here,...
Production has begun in South Australia on the second season of Stan's Wolf Creek, with showrunner Greg McLean once again in the director's chair.
John Jarratt reprises the role of Mick Taylor, and will be joined by Tess Haubrich (Alien: Covenant), Matt Day (Rake, Paper Giants, Underbelly, Kiss or Kill), Ben Oxenbould (Comedy Inc., The Kettering Incident, The Code), Laura Wheelwright (Animal Kingdom), Stephen Hunter (The Hobbit, The Leftovers) and Chris Haywood (Shine, Muriel's Wedding, Dogs in Space).
Of the second season McLean said: "We.ll join an amazing cast on a road trip of a lifetime, as they must draw on their inner strength to outwit the terrifying Mick Taylor. John Jarratt returns to take Mick.s dark arts to a whole new level, showcasing the beautiful and dangerous landscapes of the remote outback..
Joining McLean in directing will be Kieran Darcy-Smith (Wish You Were Here,...
- 7/4/2017
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The Information and Cultural Exchange's Sling Shot program for emerging screenwriters from Western Sydney is facilitated by screenwriter Nick Parsons (The Straits, My Place) and is taking applications until this Sunday..
The Ice program takes the form of three intensive workshops "which will cover the narrative elements needed to communicate strong, compelling stories, and support emerging writers to develop a 1 — 2 page pitch document".
"The writer.s first shot at grabbing the attention of a producer or TV exec is usually through the pitch. In the shortest and most succinct form, the pitch must convey the essence of the story, characters, and dramatic stakes, and hook the audience from the on-set".
Workshops are free, and up to ten participants are selected.
Sessions are three Thursday evenings in a row - March 24, March 31 and April 7 - from 5.30 to 7.30 pm at the Information and Cultural Exchange in Sydney's Parramatta.
Parsons was the script...
The Ice program takes the form of three intensive workshops "which will cover the narrative elements needed to communicate strong, compelling stories, and support emerging writers to develop a 1 — 2 page pitch document".
"The writer.s first shot at grabbing the attention of a producer or TV exec is usually through the pitch. In the shortest and most succinct form, the pitch must convey the essence of the story, characters, and dramatic stakes, and hook the audience from the on-set".
Workshops are free, and up to ten participants are selected.
Sessions are three Thursday evenings in a row - March 24, March 31 and April 7 - from 5.30 to 7.30 pm at the Information and Cultural Exchange in Sydney's Parramatta.
Parsons was the script...
- 3/15/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The Information and Cultural Exchange's Sling Shot program for emerging screenwriters from Western Sydney is facilitated by screenwriter Nick Parsons (The Straits, My Place) and is taking applications until this Sunday..
The Ice program takes the form of three intensive workshops "which will cover the narrative elements needed to communicate strong, compelling stories, and support emerging writers to develop a 1 — 2 page pitch document".
"The writer.s first shot at grabbing the attention of a producer or TV exec is usually through the pitch. In the shortest and most succinct form, the pitch must convey the essence of the story, characters, and dramatic stakes, and hook the audience from the on-set".
Workshops are free, and up to ten participants are selected.
Sessions are three Thursday evenings in a row - March 24, March 31 and April 7 - from 5.30 to 7.30 pm at the Information and Cultural Exchange in Sydney's Parramatta.
Parsons was the script...
The Ice program takes the form of three intensive workshops "which will cover the narrative elements needed to communicate strong, compelling stories, and support emerging writers to develop a 1 — 2 page pitch document".
"The writer.s first shot at grabbing the attention of a producer or TV exec is usually through the pitch. In the shortest and most succinct form, the pitch must convey the essence of the story, characters, and dramatic stakes, and hook the audience from the on-set".
Workshops are free, and up to ten participants are selected.
Sessions are three Thursday evenings in a row - March 24, March 31 and April 7 - from 5.30 to 7.30 pm at the Information and Cultural Exchange in Sydney's Parramatta.
Parsons was the script...
- 3/15/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The Sessions writer-director Ben Lewin is attached to helm Blue Rose, a biopic about the self-described .sex crazed. Australian composer and pianist Percy Grainger.
La-based Jeffrey Walker will return to Oz a to direct Dance Academy: The Comeback., a spin-off of Werner Film Productions. popular TV series, which will follow a young ballerina who dreams of being a star.
Following Ruin and Hail, Amiel Courtin-Wilson is to write, produce and direct Hawkwood, a thriller set in the backwaters of Africa which tells of ageing mercenary.s journey from chaos to grace.
These are among 16 feature projects which are receiving more than $620,000 in development funding from Screen Australia.
Lewin will write Blue Rose with Wain Fimeri for producers Chryssy Tintner, Jan Eymann, Judi Levine and Arclight.s Mark Lazarus and Gary Hamilton. His next film is Us indie romantic drama Purple Hearts, which will star Jane the Virgin's Gina Rodriguez...
La-based Jeffrey Walker will return to Oz a to direct Dance Academy: The Comeback., a spin-off of Werner Film Productions. popular TV series, which will follow a young ballerina who dreams of being a star.
Following Ruin and Hail, Amiel Courtin-Wilson is to write, produce and direct Hawkwood, a thriller set in the backwaters of Africa which tells of ageing mercenary.s journey from chaos to grace.
These are among 16 feature projects which are receiving more than $620,000 in development funding from Screen Australia.
Lewin will write Blue Rose with Wain Fimeri for producers Chryssy Tintner, Jan Eymann, Judi Levine and Arclight.s Mark Lazarus and Gary Hamilton. His next film is Us indie romantic drama Purple Hearts, which will star Jane the Virgin's Gina Rodriguez...
- 4/21/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Morrissey Molloy Entertainment, Garry Charny.s Spotted Turquoise Films and Michael Gudinski.s Mushroom Pictures have unveiled a joint venture which aims to produce at least six films.
The first two projects are Boys in the Trees, a drama starring Harrison Gilbertson and Alice Englert, and Wake Up Dead, which has Alex Russell and Luke Ford attached.
.We each bring different skills and strong national and international contacts to the joint venture,. Charny tells If. The .matchmaker. was Maura Fay casting agent Marianne Jade, who is casting both films.
"She suggested we get together for a cup of coffee and we realised we were each producing a film we liked and respected,. said Molloy, who is developing Boys in the Trees for the co-venture between Mushroom and Morrissey Molloy.
Wake Up Dead is the first Australian film from Spotted Turquoise. Charny produced Ray Lawrence.s Jindabyne in his former role as head of April Films.
The first two projects are Boys in the Trees, a drama starring Harrison Gilbertson and Alice Englert, and Wake Up Dead, which has Alex Russell and Luke Ford attached.
.We each bring different skills and strong national and international contacts to the joint venture,. Charny tells If. The .matchmaker. was Maura Fay casting agent Marianne Jade, who is casting both films.
"She suggested we get together for a cup of coffee and we realised we were each producing a film we liked and respected,. said Molloy, who is developing Boys in the Trees for the co-venture between Mushroom and Morrissey Molloy.
Wake Up Dead is the first Australian film from Spotted Turquoise. Charny produced Ray Lawrence.s Jindabyne in his former role as head of April Films.
- 2/26/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Penelope Keith and Angela Lansbury are among the stars in the Queen's New Year Honours List for 2014.
Pete Tong, Karren Brady and Ruth Jones are also named on the annual list.
For the first time since the Order of the British Empire was founded in 1917, women outnumber men in the overall list.
Keith - perhaps best known for her roles in the sitcoms The Good Life and To the Manor Born - is named a dame. She said: "You know I sort of feel elated, exhausted and thrilled. It's the big one. I had already got an OBE and then a Cbe, so I don't know what is better than the icing on the cake, but this is."
British-born Murder, She Wrote star Lansbury is also named a dame for her successful acting career, charitable work and philanthropy.
Apprentice star Karren Brady, the vice-chair of West Ham Football Club, gets...
Pete Tong, Karren Brady and Ruth Jones are also named on the annual list.
For the first time since the Order of the British Empire was founded in 1917, women outnumber men in the overall list.
Keith - perhaps best known for her roles in the sitcoms The Good Life and To the Manor Born - is named a dame. She said: "You know I sort of feel elated, exhausted and thrilled. It's the big one. I had already got an OBE and then a Cbe, so I don't know what is better than the icing on the cake, but this is."
British-born Murder, She Wrote star Lansbury is also named a dame for her successful acting career, charitable work and philanthropy.
Apprentice star Karren Brady, the vice-chair of West Ham Football Club, gets...
- 12/30/2013
- Digital Spy
Peter Andrikidis is one of Australia's most respected directors. The Straits marks the third series where he has worked with rising talent Aaron Fa.Aoso, and the first to be based on aspects of his life.
.He.s had a pretty hard life . he.s got a lot to say,. Andrikidis says, who first worked with Fa'Aoso on crime series East West 101 and the soon-to-be released bikie telemovie Brothers in Arms.
"Aaron.s grown so much from East West one to East West three . he.s just learnt so much. He.s like a sponge and he just keeps getting better and better. Certainly, with this character [Noel Montebello] there.s a balance of humour and also, he has a heavy touch as well, so getting the tone of the show right was the big thing with all that cast, so it.s not corny stuff and it still has dramatic levels.
.He.s had a pretty hard life . he.s got a lot to say,. Andrikidis says, who first worked with Fa'Aoso on crime series East West 101 and the soon-to-be released bikie telemovie Brothers in Arms.
"Aaron.s grown so much from East West one to East West three . he.s just learnt so much. He.s like a sponge and he just keeps getting better and better. Certainly, with this character [Noel Montebello] there.s a balance of humour and also, he has a heavy touch as well, so getting the tone of the show right was the big thing with all that cast, so it.s not corny stuff and it still has dramatic levels.
- 2/7/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
ABC’s new series The Straits has had a slow ratings start to its ten episode run.
Produced by Matchbox Pictures, producers of last year’s success The Slap, The Straits movie length premiere averaged 599,000, peaking at 696,000 viewers last night, according to preliminary ratings by Oztam.
Matchbox Pictures’ creative director Penny Chapman spoke to Encore in January: “It’s the violence and the black humour that is going to make this pretty special. I’ve not made a show like this – maybe blue murder but the Straits’ humour is quite enjoyable. Young men respond to it strongly. It’s a real blokes show. And for the ABC that’s great because young men don’t watch the ABC.”
The Straits is based on an idea by Aaron Fa’aoso which has been developed by a team of writers, including: AFI winning Louis Nowra (Cosi, K-19: The Widowmaker, Radiance); Blake Ayshford (Crownies,...
Produced by Matchbox Pictures, producers of last year’s success The Slap, The Straits movie length premiere averaged 599,000, peaking at 696,000 viewers last night, according to preliminary ratings by Oztam.
Matchbox Pictures’ creative director Penny Chapman spoke to Encore in January: “It’s the violence and the black humour that is going to make this pretty special. I’ve not made a show like this – maybe blue murder but the Straits’ humour is quite enjoyable. Young men respond to it strongly. It’s a real blokes show. And for the ABC that’s great because young men don’t watch the ABC.”
The Straits is based on an idea by Aaron Fa’aoso which has been developed by a team of writers, including: AFI winning Louis Nowra (Cosi, K-19: The Widowmaker, Radiance); Blake Ayshford (Crownies,...
- 2/3/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead: Rise Of The Governor – Listen up!
In a world where the dead refuse to lay down and die, you’d think zombies were the only bad guys to worry about, but in the post-apocalyptic saga, The Walking Dead, even rotting walkers take second place to the man known as The Governor. However, even the baddest evil has to begin somewhere and The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor shows us how the ruler of Woodbury rose to power.
Macmilan provided us with a great 5-minute excerpt from the audio adaptation of The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor that allows us to share a tense moment with Nick Parsons and brothers Brian and Philip Blake, along with Philip’s daughter, Penny.
Surrounded on all sides by zombies with faces “like spackling compound,” and “eyes like marbles gleaming in the firelight,” it...
In a world where the dead refuse to lay down and die, you’d think zombies were the only bad guys to worry about, but in the post-apocalyptic saga, The Walking Dead, even rotting walkers take second place to the man known as The Governor. However, even the baddest evil has to begin somewhere and The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor shows us how the ruler of Woodbury rose to power.
Macmilan provided us with a great 5-minute excerpt from the audio adaptation of The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor that allows us to share a tense moment with Nick Parsons and brothers Brian and Philip Blake, along with Philip’s daughter, Penny.
Surrounded on all sides by zombies with faces “like spackling compound,” and “eyes like marbles gleaming in the firelight,” it...
- 11/1/2011
- by Marty Shaw
- Boomtron
ABC1′s new 10 hour drama, The Straits, produced by Matchbox Films’ Penny Chapman and Helen Panckhurst begins shooting today. Scottish actor Brian Cox (The Bourne Supremacy, Troy, Braveheart) joins the troupe of Australian actors assembling in Cairns and Torres Strait Islands.
The Montebello family are Far North Queensland’s Corleones, running drugs into Australia and guns and exotic animals out with ambitious bikies in Australia and Papau New Guinean raskols across the Strait also wanting a piece of the action. Cox plays Patriach Harry Montebello, with actress Rena Owen playing his part Torres Strait Island, part Maori wife, Kitty.
Joining Cox and Owen in the cast will be AFI Nominated Aaron Fa’aoso (East West 101, Ran), Logie winner Firass Dirani (Underbelly, Pitch Black) as well as new Australian talent; Jimi Bani (Ran, The Sapphires) and Suzannah Bayes-Morton (All Saints, The Tumbler), who together play the Montebello’s children.
In a statement,...
The Montebello family are Far North Queensland’s Corleones, running drugs into Australia and guns and exotic animals out with ambitious bikies in Australia and Papau New Guinean raskols across the Strait also wanting a piece of the action. Cox plays Patriach Harry Montebello, with actress Rena Owen playing his part Torres Strait Island, part Maori wife, Kitty.
Joining Cox and Owen in the cast will be AFI Nominated Aaron Fa’aoso (East West 101, Ran), Logie winner Firass Dirani (Underbelly, Pitch Black) as well as new Australian talent; Jimi Bani (Ran, The Sapphires) and Suzannah Bayes-Morton (All Saints, The Tumbler), who together play the Montebello’s children.
In a statement,...
- 6/14/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Nsw Government has used almost a quarter of its recently announced $25m budget for the film industry to fund five features, four TV series, one telemovie, 12 docos and one cross-platform project.
The projects include Mei Mei, an Australia/China co-production starring Guy Pearce, and The Hunter, with American actor Willem Dafoe.
The biggest winner is Joanna Werner’s children’s drama Dance Academy, with $500,000 towards production of season two.
Vincent Sheehan’s production The Hunter will be shot in Tasmania and China, with a majority of crew from Nsw and post-production also taking place in this state – it will receive $400,000 from the Government.
The production expenditure of these projects is expected to reach $62m.
These are the projects receiving funds from the Nsw Government in this round:
Features
Mei-mei
Production Company: Portal Pictures Finance: $200,000 Writers: Martin Edmond, Pauline Chan, Philip Dalkin. Producers: Penny Carl-Nelson, Pauline Chan, Lesley Stevens,...
The projects include Mei Mei, an Australia/China co-production starring Guy Pearce, and The Hunter, with American actor Willem Dafoe.
The biggest winner is Joanna Werner’s children’s drama Dance Academy, with $500,000 towards production of season two.
Vincent Sheehan’s production The Hunter will be shot in Tasmania and China, with a majority of crew from Nsw and post-production also taking place in this state – it will receive $400,000 from the Government.
The production expenditure of these projects is expected to reach $62m.
These are the projects receiving funds from the Nsw Government in this round:
Features
Mei-mei
Production Company: Portal Pictures Finance: $200,000 Writers: Martin Edmond, Pauline Chan, Philip Dalkin. Producers: Penny Carl-Nelson, Pauline Chan, Lesley Stevens,...
- 8/4/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Ira Hunter of The 13 Flames Empire and Nick Parsons of Monster Media sent along the eye-catching trailer for their in-the-works feature project Corpus Delecti (The Passion Of The Zombie Christ), which promises to put a spin on the story of Jesus that Mel Gibson never dreamed of. You can check out the clip below.
Parsons, who’s serving as a producer on the movie, provides some background: “Ira is the creator of the cult underground comic books Champions Of Hell and Zombie Jesus,” he tells Fango. “About 12 years ago, he entered a local filmmaking contest in Victoria, Canada called Scrapshots. The criteria were that the movies had to be done entirely in one shot, with no postproduction whatsoever. Ira entered one called Corpus Delecti (The Passion Of Zombie Jesus), and surprised everyone by taking first place! [You can check it out at YouTube here.] Ira won the following year’s event as well with his film Unearthed.” Both of these,...
Parsons, who’s serving as a producer on the movie, provides some background: “Ira is the creator of the cult underground comic books Champions Of Hell and Zombie Jesus,” he tells Fango. “About 12 years ago, he entered a local filmmaking contest in Victoria, Canada called Scrapshots. The criteria were that the movies had to be done entirely in one shot, with no postproduction whatsoever. Ira entered one called Corpus Delecti (The Passion Of Zombie Jesus), and surprised everyone by taking first place! [You can check it out at YouTube here.] Ira won the following year’s event as well with his film Unearthed.” Both of these,...
- 6/19/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
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