Philip Quast and Hermione Norris in ‘Between Two Worlds’.
After creating five of Australia’s most popular dramas – Always Greener, All Saints, Packed to the Rafters, Winners & Losers and A Place to Call Home – in a stellar 37-year career, Bevan Lee felt he had reached a crossroad.
If he followed one path, he would simply rest on his laurels and be content with his legacy. The other, far more attractive and challenging option: Create a drama unlike anything he’d ever done and which breaks the traditional rules of the genre.
Hence was born Between Two Worlds, a 10-part Seven Studios production which premieres on Seven on Sunday.
The first episode depicts two disparate and seemingly disconnected worlds, typified by one family of extreme wealth and privilege, the other middleclass and suburban.
“I decided I wanted to do a twisty, turny narrative which breaks the rules,” says Lee, who created the show last year,...
After creating five of Australia’s most popular dramas – Always Greener, All Saints, Packed to the Rafters, Winners & Losers and A Place to Call Home – in a stellar 37-year career, Bevan Lee felt he had reached a crossroad.
If he followed one path, he would simply rest on his laurels and be content with his legacy. The other, far more attractive and challenging option: Create a drama unlike anything he’d ever done and which breaks the traditional rules of the genre.
Hence was born Between Two Worlds, a 10-part Seven Studios production which premieres on Seven on Sunday.
The first episode depicts two disparate and seemingly disconnected worlds, typified by one family of extreme wealth and privilege, the other middleclass and suburban.
“I decided I wanted to do a twisty, turny narrative which breaks the rules,” says Lee, who created the show last year,...
- 7/24/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Hollywood has been in full party mode ahead of Sunday’s awards-season finale at the Oscars. Here’s a look at tonight’s lineup of festivities from viewing parties to the post-show Governors Ball at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland, and what’s come before it.
Sunday, February 9
92nd Annual Academy Awards
5 Pm
Location: Dolby Theater at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles
Vanity Fair Oscars Academy Awards Party 2020
After Oscars ceremony
Location: Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills
The Governors Ball
After Oscars ceremony
Location: Ray Dolby Ballroom, Hollywood & Highland
Guests expected: Oscar winners and nominees, show presenters and other telecast participants
Elton John AIDS Foundation’s 28th Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party
3:30 Pm
Location: The City of West Hollywood Park
Benefits the Elton John AIDS Foundation
The 28th annual gala will be hosted by Netflix’s Queer Eye‘s Jonathan Van Ness, Tan France,...
Sunday, February 9
92nd Annual Academy Awards
5 Pm
Location: Dolby Theater at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles
Vanity Fair Oscars Academy Awards Party 2020
After Oscars ceremony
Location: Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills
The Governors Ball
After Oscars ceremony
Location: Ray Dolby Ballroom, Hollywood & Highland
Guests expected: Oscar winners and nominees, show presenters and other telecast participants
Elton John AIDS Foundation’s 28th Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party
3:30 Pm
Location: The City of West Hollywood Park
Benefits the Elton John AIDS Foundation
The 28th annual gala will be hosted by Netflix’s Queer Eye‘s Jonathan Van Ness, Tan France,...
- 2/9/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Between Two Worlds’
The international sales campaign for Between Two Worlds, the Seven Studios drama created by Bevan Lee, kicks off this week at the Mipcom market in Cannes.
Entertainment One acquired the distribution rights to the series starring Cold Feet’s Hermione Norris, Philip Quast, Sara Wiseman and Aaron Jeffrey, in its first ever content deal with Seven Studios.
“Seven Studios is thrilled to partner with Entertainment One to take this extraordinary drama to the world,” CEO Therese Hegarty tells If.
“Between Two Worlds is a world class production by master storyteller Bevan Lee and we are looking forward to taking another fantastic Australian production to an international audience.”
The deal was brokered by Noel Hedges, eOne’s executive VP, acquisitions, international distribution, who said: “Between Two Worlds offers us a glimpse into the rare and privileged world of the super-rich and is a fantastically gripping saga presented by...
The international sales campaign for Between Two Worlds, the Seven Studios drama created by Bevan Lee, kicks off this week at the Mipcom market in Cannes.
Entertainment One acquired the distribution rights to the series starring Cold Feet’s Hermione Norris, Philip Quast, Sara Wiseman and Aaron Jeffrey, in its first ever content deal with Seven Studios.
“Seven Studios is thrilled to partner with Entertainment One to take this extraordinary drama to the world,” CEO Therese Hegarty tells If.
“Between Two Worlds is a world class production by master storyteller Bevan Lee and we are looking forward to taking another fantastic Australian production to an international audience.”
The deal was brokered by Noel Hedges, eOne’s executive VP, acquisitions, international distribution, who said: “Between Two Worlds offers us a glimpse into the rare and privileged world of the super-rich and is a fantastically gripping saga presented by...
- 10/7/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Therese Hegarty
Seven Studios has promoted Therese Hegarty to CEO and hired former Nine Network executive Andrew Backwell as director of production, responsible for non-scripted content.
As part of the reshuffle head of content sales Richard Henson moves up to director of content sales.
Formerly director, content distribution and rights, Hegarty’s promotion is a reward for the production division’s expansion, this year delivering the seventh consecutive growth in earnings before interest and tax.
Australia’s largest producer of long form premium content, Seven Studios last year produced more than 1,000 hours of content all genres, with 14 new commissions and more than 20 hit series returning or in production.
In the second half of last year, the division’s revenues from third-party sales jumped by 20 per cent to $45.7 million.
In March Seven launched non-scripted unit Seven Studios UK, strengthening its presence in that market and complementing its investment in London-based scripted specialists Slim Film + Television.
Seven Studios has promoted Therese Hegarty to CEO and hired former Nine Network executive Andrew Backwell as director of production, responsible for non-scripted content.
As part of the reshuffle head of content sales Richard Henson moves up to director of content sales.
Formerly director, content distribution and rights, Hegarty’s promotion is a reward for the production division’s expansion, this year delivering the seventh consecutive growth in earnings before interest and tax.
Australia’s largest producer of long form premium content, Seven Studios last year produced more than 1,000 hours of content all genres, with 14 new commissions and more than 20 hit series returning or in production.
In the second half of last year, the division’s revenues from third-party sales jumped by 20 per cent to $45.7 million.
In March Seven launched non-scripted unit Seven Studios UK, strengthening its presence in that market and complementing its investment in London-based scripted specialists Slim Film + Television.
- 5/2/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Megan Hajjar in ‘M4M’
Since graduating from Waapa in 2016 Megan Hajjar has built an impressive resume with roles in Breath, Love Child, The Secret Daughter, Harrow and the upcoming movies M4M and The Naked Wanderer.
You may not recognise the name because, until recently, she was known as Megan Smart. The actor has decided to use Hajjar, her mother’s maiden name, to more closely identify with her Lebanese heritage.
“I wasn’t being considered for some Middle Eastern roles because the producers did not recognise my heritage,” she tells If.
While she does play a Lebanese woman in Paul Ireland’s M4M, she mostly portrays characters whose nationality is incidental. For example, she had fun playing a serial killer named Charlotte in the ABC/Hoodlum Entertainment’s Harrow and troublemaker Anna Hennessy in Screentime/Seven’s The Secret Daughter.
In Alan Lindsay’s romantic comedy The Naked Wanderer...
Since graduating from Waapa in 2016 Megan Hajjar has built an impressive resume with roles in Breath, Love Child, The Secret Daughter, Harrow and the upcoming movies M4M and The Naked Wanderer.
You may not recognise the name because, until recently, she was known as Megan Smart. The actor has decided to use Hajjar, her mother’s maiden name, to more closely identify with her Lebanese heritage.
“I wasn’t being considered for some Middle Eastern roles because the producers did not recognise my heritage,” she tells If.
While she does play a Lebanese woman in Paul Ireland’s M4M, she mostly portrays characters whose nationality is incidental. For example, she had fun playing a serial killer named Charlotte in the ABC/Hoodlum Entertainment’s Harrow and troublemaker Anna Hennessy in Screentime/Seven’s The Secret Daughter.
In Alan Lindsay’s romantic comedy The Naked Wanderer...
- 4/23/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Hermione Norris.
Best known for her roles in Cold Feet and Luther, Hermione Norris is playing the lead in Seven Studios’ drama Between Two Worlds.
Created by Bevan Lee, the series follows the English actress as Cate Walford, whose husband Phillip is a vicious, philandering business tycoon. With her marriage on the ropes, she is caught in a tangled web of lies and manipulation.
Through a shocking twist of fate, her world collides with the seemingly disparate and disconnected, warm and loving world of a widow and her footy star son and musical daughter.
Philip Quast plays Phillip with A Place to Call Home’s Sara Wiseman as the widow Sophia Grey. The cast includes Wentworth’s Aaron Jeffery as a football coach, Megan Hajjar as Sophia’s daughter Bella, Alex Cubis as her brother Danny, Tom Dalzell as the Walford’s son Bart and Melanie Jarnson as Bart’s girlfriend.
Best known for her roles in Cold Feet and Luther, Hermione Norris is playing the lead in Seven Studios’ drama Between Two Worlds.
Created by Bevan Lee, the series follows the English actress as Cate Walford, whose husband Phillip is a vicious, philandering business tycoon. With her marriage on the ropes, she is caught in a tangled web of lies and manipulation.
Through a shocking twist of fate, her world collides with the seemingly disparate and disconnected, warm and loving world of a widow and her footy star son and musical daughter.
Philip Quast plays Phillip with A Place to Call Home’s Sara Wiseman as the widow Sophia Grey. The cast includes Wentworth’s Aaron Jeffery as a football coach, Megan Hajjar as Sophia’s daughter Bella, Alex Cubis as her brother Danny, Tom Dalzell as the Walford’s son Bart and Melanie Jarnson as Bart’s girlfriend.
- 4/16/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
There's more to being a successful entertainment writer than drinking Starbucks and finding your center, but if you ask the protagonist of Unverified, that's all there is to it. Alex Cubis' new web series is a mockumentary about a self-absorbed creative type who heads to Los Angeles in search of the career he believes he is due.
In Unverified, Cubis stars as a young man named Andrew who documents his arrival in La and his ensuing creative process. Rather than focusing on his writing, Andrew is more interested in being seen among his fellow coffee shop dreamers, taking inspiration from Aaron Sorkin (by carrying napkins wherever he goes, in case he needs to scribble down any ideas), and eating all the organic food he can get his hands on. In Unverified's first episode, we learn of Andrew's home life (at an AirBNB) and get plenty of opportunities to...
In Unverified, Cubis stars as a young man named Andrew who documents his arrival in La and his ensuing creative process. Rather than focusing on his writing, Andrew is more interested in being seen among his fellow coffee shop dreamers, taking inspiration from Aaron Sorkin (by carrying napkins wherever he goes, in case he needs to scribble down any ideas), and eating all the organic food he can get his hands on. In Unverified's first episode, we learn of Andrew's home life (at an AirBNB) and get plenty of opportunities to...
- 7/14/2017
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Friday night saw the Australian premiere of Looking for Grace at the St.George OpenAir Cinema.
Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Odessa Young, Kenya Pearson and Harry Richardson joined director Sue Brooks on the red carpet.
The cast were joined at the opening-night party by Simon Baker, Rebecca Rigg, Miranda Tapsell, Matt Day, April Rose Pengilly, Brenna Harding, Henry Nixon, Raechelle Banno, Alex Cubis, Tessa de Josselin, and Sean Keenan..
St.George OpenAir
Radha Mitchell, Sue Brooks, Harry Richardson, Odessa Young, Richard Roxburgh, Kenya Pearson.
Simon Baker and Rebecca Rigg
Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Kenya Pearson
Harry Richardson and Odessa Young...
Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Odessa Young, Kenya Pearson and Harry Richardson joined director Sue Brooks on the red carpet.
The cast were joined at the opening-night party by Simon Baker, Rebecca Rigg, Miranda Tapsell, Matt Day, April Rose Pengilly, Brenna Harding, Henry Nixon, Raechelle Banno, Alex Cubis, Tessa de Josselin, and Sean Keenan..
St.George OpenAir
Radha Mitchell, Sue Brooks, Harry Richardson, Odessa Young, Richard Roxburgh, Kenya Pearson.
Simon Baker and Rebecca Rigg
Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Kenya Pearson
Harry Richardson and Odessa Young...
- 1/12/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
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