Perth, June 16 (Ians) Shooting for the miniseries titled ‘Warnie’, based on legendary Australian cricketer Shane Warne, has come to a halt after the actors, who play the late cricketer and his wife Simone Callahan, were rushed to hospital when a steamy scene they were acting in went wrong.
Alex Williams (33), and Marny Kennedy (29) star as Shane Warne and his wife in the upcoming two-part miniseries.
Marny Kennedy in an interview with The Daily Telegraph said that she and co-star Alex Williams sustained injuries while filming the scene.
She told The Daily Telegraph: “We were going down a corridor and we were meant to push into the bedroom and land on the bed, but we both completely missed the bed and sustained a broken wrist, while her co-star cracked the back of his head open. We ended up sitting in the emergency room together, he with a bandage around his head...
Alex Williams (33), and Marny Kennedy (29) star as Shane Warne and his wife in the upcoming two-part miniseries.
Marny Kennedy in an interview with The Daily Telegraph said that she and co-star Alex Williams sustained injuries while filming the scene.
She told The Daily Telegraph: “We were going down a corridor and we were meant to push into the bedroom and land on the bed, but we both completely missed the bed and sustained a broken wrist, while her co-star cracked the back of his head open. We ended up sitting in the emergency room together, he with a bandage around his head...
- 6/16/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
James Grandison.
Producer/director Robert Connolly’s Arenamedia is making a formal expansion into Western Australia, setting up a new company office in Perth.
James Grandison has been appointed to oversee the production company’s Wa-based operations, as well as the management of production planning and budgeting across Arenamedia’s full slate.
Robert Connolly said: “It’s an exciting time for Arenamedia and I’m delighted that someone of James’ calibre has joined us. A formal presence in Wa is a logical next step in the company’s evolution. Films such as Paper Planes and before that The Turning were both shot in the West and benefitted from the great talent and dynamic industry that exists there”.
Grandison began his career in Western Australia, however has spent the past 10 years in Melbourne working as a line producer and production manager. His recent credits include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Glitch, Nowhere Boys and Hunters.
Producer/director Robert Connolly’s Arenamedia is making a formal expansion into Western Australia, setting up a new company office in Perth.
James Grandison has been appointed to oversee the production company’s Wa-based operations, as well as the management of production planning and budgeting across Arenamedia’s full slate.
Robert Connolly said: “It’s an exciting time for Arenamedia and I’m delighted that someone of James’ calibre has joined us. A formal presence in Wa is a logical next step in the company’s evolution. Films such as Paper Planes and before that The Turning were both shot in the West and benefitted from the great talent and dynamic industry that exists there”.
Grandison began his career in Western Australia, however has spent the past 10 years in Melbourne working as a line producer and production manager. His recent credits include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Glitch, Nowhere Boys and Hunters.
- 4/2/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
A co-founder and former MD of Matchbox Pictures and an ex-FremantleMedia Australia executive have launched a production company
Helen Bowden, who departed NBCUniversal-owned Matchbox last year, and Jason Stephens, who was creative director and director of development at FremantleMedia for 10 years, are partners in Lingo Pictures.
Their Sydney-based outfit will create scripted and unscripted content for both the local and international markets.
.We aim to build strong partnerships and new business models, while putting together an ambitious production slate,. the duo said.
Bowden, whose credits include The Slap, Underground: The Julian Assange Story and Devil.s Playground, is the MD and Stephens (Mr and Mrs Murder, Devil.s Dust, Better Man) is creative director.
The two had not met until last year, realised they had similar goals and began discussing a partnership in February. By July they figured out it was the right fit.
Bowden said they expect to...
Helen Bowden, who departed NBCUniversal-owned Matchbox last year, and Jason Stephens, who was creative director and director of development at FremantleMedia for 10 years, are partners in Lingo Pictures.
Their Sydney-based outfit will create scripted and unscripted content for both the local and international markets.
.We aim to build strong partnerships and new business models, while putting together an ambitious production slate,. the duo said.
Bowden, whose credits include The Slap, Underground: The Julian Assange Story and Devil.s Playground, is the MD and Stephens (Mr and Mrs Murder, Devil.s Dust, Better Man) is creative director.
The two had not met until last year, realised they had similar goals and began discussing a partnership in February. By July they figured out it was the right fit.
Bowden said they expect to...
- 11/16/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
He might not have made major headlines, but Sam Worthington has been in a handful of movies playing the Toronto International Film Festival this year. He antagonized Brit Marling in "The Keeping Room" (review here), comforted Jennifer Aniston in "Cake" (review here) and now helps a kid fly (metaphorically) in the family film "Paper Planes." Directed by Robert Connolly ("Underground: The Julian Assange Story"), the film tells the sweet story of an eleven year-old kid who works to get into the National Paper Plane Championships. All the familiar family movie markers are here, from the chubby sidekick to the shitty mean kid, and this is clearly made for a specific demographic and will probably do the job its supposed to (no surprise, this is screening in the Tiff Kids section of the program). No U.S. distro for this one yet, but the film has its final public screening at...
- 9/12/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Australian writer-director-producer Robert Connolly’s recent projects have ranged from political (Balibo) to topical (Underground: The Julian Assange Story) to literary (The Turning). He ventures off on a new track with Paper Planes, an uplifting family film that taps into a national screen tradition spanning from 1976’s Storm Boy through 2011’s Red Dog, particularly recalling the broad storytelling strokes and disarming corn of the latter. While grownups in search of subtlety and nuance need not apply, the loud cheers of the young audience at the Melbourne International Film Festival’s inaugural Kids Gala suggest that the material connects with its
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- 8/14/2014
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Screen Australia today announced nearly $535,000 in development funding for 18 features including projects set in Canada, inner-city Berlin, Mexico City, Vietnam, the Middle East and medieval England.
The genres range from family and musical to comedy, drama, thriller, sci-fi and action. The funding will support eight new projects as well as further assistance for 10 titles.
Through its Talent Escalator programs, the agency is placing three producers in professional posts to improve their direct industry experience and supporting short film director Nicholas Verso in the next stage of his professional development.
Screen Australia.s Head of Production Sally Caplan said, .In this round it is encouraging to see such a great range of Australian stories receive support from filmmakers at different levels, some with international creative partners and several with international focus.
"We are also pleased to be able to support emerging local talent with international placements that will increase our industry...
The genres range from family and musical to comedy, drama, thriller, sci-fi and action. The funding will support eight new projects as well as further assistance for 10 titles.
Through its Talent Escalator programs, the agency is placing three producers in professional posts to improve their direct industry experience and supporting short film director Nicholas Verso in the next stage of his professional development.
Screen Australia.s Head of Production Sally Caplan said, .In this round it is encouraging to see such a great range of Australian stories receive support from filmmakers at different levels, some with international creative partners and several with international focus.
"We are also pleased to be able to support emerging local talent with international placements that will increase our industry...
- 7/22/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
After Alex Williams graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2012, the actor expected to spend two or three years trying to build his career gradually through stage roles.
How wrong he was. In his first professional audition he won the role of Julian Assange in Robert Connolly.s Network Ten telemovie Underground: The Julian Assange Story opposite Rachael Griffiths and Anthony Lapaglia.
The Perth-born Williams, who now lives in Sydney, has since been back to his hometown twice, to star in John V. Soto.s The Reckoning, which opens on September 4, and in Connolly.s 3D children.s movie Paper Planes, which Roadshow will launch in January.
In between he played Kirk Pengilly in Inxs: Never Tear Us Apart, Shine Australia.s miniseries for the Seven Network. Williams has just finished another TV production, which he.s not allowed to reveal.
Since graduating he hasn.t had...
How wrong he was. In his first professional audition he won the role of Julian Assange in Robert Connolly.s Network Ten telemovie Underground: The Julian Assange Story opposite Rachael Griffiths and Anthony Lapaglia.
The Perth-born Williams, who now lives in Sydney, has since been back to his hometown twice, to star in John V. Soto.s The Reckoning, which opens on September 4, and in Connolly.s 3D children.s movie Paper Planes, which Roadshow will launch in January.
In between he played Kirk Pengilly in Inxs: Never Tear Us Apart, Shine Australia.s miniseries for the Seven Network. Williams has just finished another TV production, which he.s not allowed to reveal.
Since graduating he hasn.t had...
- 7/20/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
James Mackay with Kim Ledger
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The pool of talented young Australian actors is so vast the judges of the Heath Ledger Scholarship presented by Australians in Film have named 20 finalists this year, up from the usual 15.
That.s a real stamp of approval considering the calibre of the judges: Collin Farrell, Miranda Otto, directors Gregor Jordan and Robert Luketic, casting director Ann Fay (Anzac Girls, Packed to the Rafters) and Randi Hiller, VP of feature casting at Walt Disney Studios.
The winner of the sixth annual scholarship, which fosters the education and career development of young Australian actors in the Us, will be announced in Los Angeles on June 12.
The prizes include $10,000 cash, a two year scholarship at Stella Adler Academy of Acting and Theatre in Los Angeles, two return flights to La. including attendance at the announcement ceremony and a second flight when he or she is ready to break into the market,...
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The pool of talented young Australian actors is so vast the judges of the Heath Ledger Scholarship presented by Australians in Film have named 20 finalists this year, up from the usual 15.
That.s a real stamp of approval considering the calibre of the judges: Collin Farrell, Miranda Otto, directors Gregor Jordan and Robert Luketic, casting director Ann Fay (Anzac Girls, Packed to the Rafters) and Randi Hiller, VP of feature casting at Walt Disney Studios.
The winner of the sixth annual scholarship, which fosters the education and career development of young Australian actors in the Us, will be announced in Los Angeles on June 12.
The prizes include $10,000 cash, a two year scholarship at Stella Adler Academy of Acting and Theatre in Los Angeles, two return flights to La. including attendance at the announcement ceremony and a second flight when he or she is ready to break into the market,...
- 5/6/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Kodi Smit-McPhee, Harry Greenwood, Tom Budge, Lincoln Lewis, Matt Nable, Anthony Hayes, Lachy Hulme and Ashleigh Cummings are among the big ensemble cast announced today for the Endemol Australia/Nine Network miniseries Gallipoli.
A three-month shoot starts in and around Melbourne on March 17 with Glendyn Ivin (Beaconsfield, Puberty Blues) directing. The screenplay by Christopher Lee (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War, Paper Giants, Rush, Police Rescue) is adapted from the best-selling book by Les Carlyon.
The producers are John Edwards (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War, Beaconsfield, Paper Giants, and Offspring), Imogen Banks (Puberty Blues, Offspring) and Robert Connolly (producer of Balibo and The Boys, director of Underground: The Julian Assange Story, The Slap). Nine.s co-Heads of Drama Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan and Endemol Australia CEO Janeen Faithfull are executive producers. .Smit-McPhee plays 17-year-old Thomas .Tolly. Johnson, who lies about his age to enlist with his brother Bevan in the...
A three-month shoot starts in and around Melbourne on March 17 with Glendyn Ivin (Beaconsfield, Puberty Blues) directing. The screenplay by Christopher Lee (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War, Paper Giants, Rush, Police Rescue) is adapted from the best-selling book by Les Carlyon.
The producers are John Edwards (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War, Beaconsfield, Paper Giants, and Offspring), Imogen Banks (Puberty Blues, Offspring) and Robert Connolly (producer of Balibo and The Boys, director of Underground: The Julian Assange Story, The Slap). Nine.s co-Heads of Drama Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan and Endemol Australia CEO Janeen Faithfull are executive producers. .Smit-McPhee plays 17-year-old Thomas .Tolly. Johnson, who lies about his age to enlist with his brother Bevan in the...
- 3/3/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The event screenings concept pioneered in Australia by Rob Connolly.s CinemaPlus with Underground: The Julian Assange Story and Tim Winton.s The Turning is catching on.
Uncharted Waters, a feature-length documentary profiling brilliant but troubled surfer Wayne Lynch, begins a national roll-out on November 15, with Lynch hosting Q&As at most screenings.
Written, directed and produced by Craig Griffin, the docu premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival followed by the Adelaide Film Festival.Distributor Madman Entertainment has booked the film in about 30 cinemas starting in Lorne, Victoria, then Geelong, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Noosa, Hobart, Perth and other cities.
According to the synopsis, .Wayne Lynch burst onto the Australian surfing scene in the 1960s and rode a wave like no one else. He opened up fresh possibilities with a radically new vertical style. He was a champion, a draft dodger, an outsider, a revolutionary, a messiah, an environmentalist,...
Uncharted Waters, a feature-length documentary profiling brilliant but troubled surfer Wayne Lynch, begins a national roll-out on November 15, with Lynch hosting Q&As at most screenings.
Written, directed and produced by Craig Griffin, the docu premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival followed by the Adelaide Film Festival.Distributor Madman Entertainment has booked the film in about 30 cinemas starting in Lorne, Victoria, then Geelong, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Noosa, Hobart, Perth and other cities.
According to the synopsis, .Wayne Lynch burst onto the Australian surfing scene in the 1960s and rode a wave like no one else. He opened up fresh possibilities with a radically new vertical style. He was a champion, a draft dodger, an outsider, a revolutionary, a messiah, an environmentalist,...
- 11/6/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Actors Dan Ewing and Lisa Gormley have signed with Us talent management company Silver Lining Entertainment.
The Los Angeles-based outfit represents Jai Courtney and Laura Wheelwright along with numerous English and American actors including Cat Deeley, David Morrissey, Emile Hirsch, Evangeline Lilly, Ioan Gruffudd, Jason Isaacs, John Leguizamo, Josh Peck, Martin Lawrence, Peter Stormare and Vincent D.Onofrio.
All four Aussies are with Mark Morrissey & Associates in Australia. Mark Morrissey accompanied Ewing and Gormley on a trip to La last week and introduced them to a number of management companies and agents.
Signing with Silver Lining is the first step towards gaining a foothold in Hollywood for Ewing and Gormley, who are regulars in Home and Away. Ewing plays Heath Braxton and Gormley is Bianca Scott.
Morrissey tells If that Gormley will head to the Us after she finishes a three-year stint on the soap in December. Ewing is contracted to the show until March.
The Los Angeles-based outfit represents Jai Courtney and Laura Wheelwright along with numerous English and American actors including Cat Deeley, David Morrissey, Emile Hirsch, Evangeline Lilly, Ioan Gruffudd, Jason Isaacs, John Leguizamo, Josh Peck, Martin Lawrence, Peter Stormare and Vincent D.Onofrio.
All four Aussies are with Mark Morrissey & Associates in Australia. Mark Morrissey accompanied Ewing and Gormley on a trip to La last week and introduced them to a number of management companies and agents.
Signing with Silver Lining is the first step towards gaining a foothold in Hollywood for Ewing and Gormley, who are regulars in Home and Away. Ewing plays Heath Braxton and Gormley is Bianca Scott.
Morrissey tells If that Gormley will head to the Us after she finishes a three-year stint on the soap in December. Ewing is contracted to the show until March.
- 10/10/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Actors Dan Ewing and Lisa Gormley have signed with Us talent management company Silver Lining Entertainment.
The Los Angeles-based outfit represents Jai Courtney and Laura Wheelwright along with numerous English and American actors including Cat Deeley, David Morrissey, Emile Hirsch, Evangeline Lilly, Ioan Gruffudd, Jason Isaacs, John Leguizamo, Josh Peck, Martin Lawrence, Peter Stormare and Vincent D.Onofrio.
All four Aussies are with Mark Morrissey & Associates in Australia. Mark Morrissey accompanied Ewing and Gormley on a trip to La last week and introduced them to a number of management companies and agents.
Signing with Silver Lining is the first step towards gaining a foothold in Hollywood for Ewing and Gormley, who are regulars in Home and Away.
Ewing plays Heath Braxton and Gormley is Bianca Scott. Morrissey tells If that Gormley will head to the Us in late December after she finishes a three-year stint on the soap in December.
The Los Angeles-based outfit represents Jai Courtney and Laura Wheelwright along with numerous English and American actors including Cat Deeley, David Morrissey, Emile Hirsch, Evangeline Lilly, Ioan Gruffudd, Jason Isaacs, John Leguizamo, Josh Peck, Martin Lawrence, Peter Stormare and Vincent D.Onofrio.
All four Aussies are with Mark Morrissey & Associates in Australia. Mark Morrissey accompanied Ewing and Gormley on a trip to La last week and introduced them to a number of management companies and agents.
Signing with Silver Lining is the first step towards gaining a foothold in Hollywood for Ewing and Gormley, who are regulars in Home and Away.
Ewing plays Heath Braxton and Gormley is Bianca Scott. Morrissey tells If that Gormley will head to the Us in late December after she finishes a three-year stint on the soap in December.
- 10/10/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Eric Bana is teaming up with Robert Connolly.s CinemaPlus to jointly distribute Closed Circuit, a London-set conspiracy thriller that stars Bana and Rebecca Hall, in Australia.
The film will open on December 5, with Bana taking part in Q&A screenings around the country, emulating the successful event cinema concept pioneered by Connolly on Tim Winton.s The Turning and Underground: The Julian Assange Story.
Bana.s Pick Up Truck Pictures will co-distribute the film, in which he and Hall play defence lawyers who represent a terrorist (Denis Moschitto) charged with blowing up London.s Borough Market. The former lovers discover a conspiracy which puts their lives in danger. Jim Broadbent, Julia Stiles and Ciaran Hinds co-star.
Pick Up Truck Pictures co-produced Richard Roxburgh's Romulus, My Father,. which starred Bana and was produced by Connolly and John Maynard; and Bana.s directorial debut Love The Beast. Bana negotiated the...
The film will open on December 5, with Bana taking part in Q&A screenings around the country, emulating the successful event cinema concept pioneered by Connolly on Tim Winton.s The Turning and Underground: The Julian Assange Story.
Bana.s Pick Up Truck Pictures will co-distribute the film, in which he and Hall play defence lawyers who represent a terrorist (Denis Moschitto) charged with blowing up London.s Borough Market. The former lovers discover a conspiracy which puts their lives in danger. Jim Broadbent, Julia Stiles and Ciaran Hinds co-star.
Pick Up Truck Pictures co-produced Richard Roxburgh's Romulus, My Father,. which starred Bana and was produced by Connolly and John Maynard; and Bana.s directorial debut Love The Beast. Bana negotiated the...
- 10/7/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Kim Mordaunt won the Australian Writers. Guild best original screenplay award for his debut film The Rocket and Cate Shortland and Robin Mukherjee got the feature film adaptation prize for Lore at the Awgie awards held in Melbourne on Friday night.
David Roach and Warwick Ross.s Red Obsession took the award for public broadcast documentary screenplay.
Underbelly again won best original mini -series and Robert Connolly.s Underground: The Julian Assange Story was named best telemovie adaptation.
The $25,000 Foxtel prize for a significant and impressive body of work in television went to Jacquelin Perske, whose screenwriting credits include The Secret Life of Us, Love My Way, Spirited and Little Fish.
The Good News Week writing team received a ninth Awgie for the final season of the series.
Playwright Alana Valentine picked up three awards including most outstanding script of 2013 and the inaugural David Williamson Prize.
Australian Writers. Guild president Jan Sardi said,...
David Roach and Warwick Ross.s Red Obsession took the award for public broadcast documentary screenplay.
Underbelly again won best original mini -series and Robert Connolly.s Underground: The Julian Assange Story was named best telemovie adaptation.
The $25,000 Foxtel prize for a significant and impressive body of work in television went to Jacquelin Perske, whose screenwriting credits include The Secret Life of Us, Love My Way, Spirited and Little Fish.
The Good News Week writing team received a ninth Awgie for the final season of the series.
Playwright Alana Valentine picked up three awards including most outstanding script of 2013 and the inaugural David Williamson Prize.
Australian Writers. Guild president Jan Sardi said,...
- 10/4/2013
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Tickets are selling fast for the 46th Annual Awgie Awards, to be held in Melbourne on October 4.
To be hosted by writer, comedian and singer Sammy J, the ceremony will honour the achievements made by Australian writers for performance. The Awgie Awards are the only Australian awards judged solely by writers on the basis of the script . the writer's intention . rather than the finished production.
"The Awgies are the highlight of the year for us and a unique chance to celebrate the oft-unsung but stellar work created by Australian writers of the script," says Awg.s President and Academy Award nominee Jan Sardi..
.It.s a night that really just celebrates the importance of story and storytelling. And that.s what sets us apart from other animals in the end, the ability to tell stories..
Sardi says the slate of nominated work is once again a strong one.
.It.s...
To be hosted by writer, comedian and singer Sammy J, the ceremony will honour the achievements made by Australian writers for performance. The Awgie Awards are the only Australian awards judged solely by writers on the basis of the script . the writer's intention . rather than the finished production.
"The Awgies are the highlight of the year for us and a unique chance to celebrate the oft-unsung but stellar work created by Australian writers of the script," says Awg.s President and Academy Award nominee Jan Sardi..
.It.s a night that really just celebrates the importance of story and storytelling. And that.s what sets us apart from other animals in the end, the ability to tell stories..
Sardi says the slate of nominated work is once again a strong one.
.It.s...
- 10/1/2013
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
On Demand DVD New releases Sept. 30-Oct. 6 Documentary fans and fans of real life stories have a lot to choose from this week: Linsanity and Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O are documentaries, Underground: The Julian Assange Story is technically not a documentary, but more of a biopic and Big Sur is about Jack Kerouac. Start getting in the mood for Halloween with Fright Night 2: New Blood and Apartment 1303. This is the End and Best Man Down should satisfy the itch for comedy. Lastly, make it family night and enjoy The Croods. The Croods This animated adventure follows a […]
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- 9/30/2013
- by Meredith Ennis
- ChannelGuideMag
Despite reportedly rebuffing requests from filmmakers and star Benedict Cumberbatch during the making of The Fifth Estate, Julian Assange’s website has now released a “mature” script from the film accompanied by a lengthy post that refutes point-by-point everything from the film’s depiction of WikiLeaks, down to the idea that Assange’s white-blonde locks might not be natural. It even calls into question the claim that The Fifth Estate is the first WikiLeaks movie: “Underground: The Julian Assange Story, directed by Robert Connolly, and starring Rachel Griffith and Anthony Lapaglia premiered at Toronto Film Festival 2012, twelve months before The Fifth Estate,” says the memo.The whistleblower website calls the movie “irresponsible, counterproductive and harmful,” and the Associated Press reports it probably leaked the not-final script ahead of the Oct. 18 release to harm ticket sales. “Most of the events depicted never happened, or the people shown were not involved in them,...
- 9/23/2013
- by Delia Paunescu
- Vulture
Sullivan Stapleton and Alex Russell will play ex-cons in Cut Snake, Matchbox Pictures. crime thriller directed by Tony Ayres, which shoots in Melbourne in late October.
Also attached is Jessica De Gouw, a fast-rising Aussie actress who stars in TV's. Arrow and the upcoming series Dracula, which features Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the vampire who.s brought back to life and poses as an American entrepreneur.
The producers are Trevor Blainey (Noise) and Matchbox Pictures. Michael McMahon (The Home Song Stories, Lou, The Slap).
Written by Blake Ayshford (The Time of Our Lives, The Straits), Cut Snake is described as a tense, psychologically-driven crime thriller in which one man discovers his biggest enemy to putting the past behind him is himself.
It marks a return to the big screen for Ayres who directed a segment of Tim Winton.s The Turning,. episodes of The Slap, executive-produced Underground: The Julian Assange Story...
Also attached is Jessica De Gouw, a fast-rising Aussie actress who stars in TV's. Arrow and the upcoming series Dracula, which features Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the vampire who.s brought back to life and poses as an American entrepreneur.
The producers are Trevor Blainey (Noise) and Matchbox Pictures. Michael McMahon (The Home Song Stories, Lou, The Slap).
Written by Blake Ayshford (The Time of Our Lives, The Straits), Cut Snake is described as a tense, psychologically-driven crime thriller in which one man discovers his biggest enemy to putting the past behind him is himself.
It marks a return to the big screen for Ayres who directed a segment of Tim Winton.s The Turning,. episodes of The Slap, executive-produced Underground: The Julian Assange Story...
- 8/27/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Director Jake Hoffman, son of Dustin, has cast Benedict Samuel as the lead in Asthma, a coming-of-age movie set in the live-fast, die-young New York indie rock scene.
It's the 25-year-old Australian actor's first Us film, scripted by Jake Hoffman who makes his directing debut.
He's co-starring with Krysten Ritter, Christine Lahti and Albert Hammond Jr. of The Strokes, who will play himself. The news broke in Deadline.com, which said filming will start in the northern fall.
Samuel told If his character is "this generation's Holden Caulfield.". Hoffman has likened the film's tone to a cross between Danny Boyle's Trainspotting and Terrence Malick's Badlands.
A Nida graduate, Samuel is represented by United Management's Natasha Harrison, Wme and Management 360. His credits include Underground: The Julian Assange Story, Home and Away and Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo.
It's the 25-year-old Australian actor's first Us film, scripted by Jake Hoffman who makes his directing debut.
He's co-starring with Krysten Ritter, Christine Lahti and Albert Hammond Jr. of The Strokes, who will play himself. The news broke in Deadline.com, which said filming will start in the northern fall.
Samuel told If his character is "this generation's Holden Caulfield.". Hoffman has likened the film's tone to a cross between Danny Boyle's Trainspotting and Terrence Malick's Badlands.
A Nida graduate, Samuel is represented by United Management's Natasha Harrison, Wme and Management 360. His credits include Underground: The Julian Assange Story, Home and Away and Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo.
- 7/11/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Veronica Mars and Don't Trust the B--- in Apartment 23 star Krysten Ritter has joined the drama Asthma.
The film marks the directorial debut of Jake Hoffman, the son of Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man).
Ritter joins the feature in an unknown role alongside Australian actor Benedict Samuel (Underground: The Julian Assange Story), Deadline reports.
Asthma, written by Jake Hoffman, focuses in on the indie rock scene in New York City.
Christine Lahti (Jack & Bobby) and Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr will also star in the film.
Asthma will be produced by Noah C Haeussner, with executive producer Michael Raimondi.
Ritter is currently attached to the Veronica Mars movie, where she will reprise her role as Gia Goodman.
The Breaking Bad actress will also show up in Tim Burton's forthcoming film Big Eyes.
Watch a trailer for Krysten Ritter's Don't Trust the B---- In Apt. 23 below:...
The film marks the directorial debut of Jake Hoffman, the son of Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man).
Ritter joins the feature in an unknown role alongside Australian actor Benedict Samuel (Underground: The Julian Assange Story), Deadline reports.
Asthma, written by Jake Hoffman, focuses in on the indie rock scene in New York City.
Christine Lahti (Jack & Bobby) and Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr will also star in the film.
Asthma will be produced by Noah C Haeussner, with executive producer Michael Raimondi.
Ritter is currently attached to the Veronica Mars movie, where she will reprise her role as Gia Goodman.
The Breaking Bad actress will also show up in Tim Burton's forthcoming film Big Eyes.
Watch a trailer for Krysten Ritter's Don't Trust the B---- In Apt. 23 below:...
- 7/10/2013
- Digital Spy
Never Tear Us Apart: The Untold Story of Inxs tunes up in Melbourne next week with a cast that blends newcomers and seasoned pros.
The four-hour miniseries for the Seven Network is the first drama from Shine Australia. The screenplay by Justin Monjo and Dave Warner is billed as the uncensored story of the iconic band.s rise to the top of the international charts and the aftermath of dealing with frontman Michael Hutchence.s death in 1997.
The band.s manager Cm Murphy is an executive producer and the filmmakers have been granted full access to their archive of music, photography and stories.
Luke Arnold, who stars as Long John Silver in the Michael Bay-produced pirate adventure series Black Sails for the Us network Starz, will play Hutchence. A graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, his credits include McLeod's Daughters, Rush, Rescue: Special Ops, City Homicide...
The four-hour miniseries for the Seven Network is the first drama from Shine Australia. The screenplay by Justin Monjo and Dave Warner is billed as the uncensored story of the iconic band.s rise to the top of the international charts and the aftermath of dealing with frontman Michael Hutchence.s death in 1997.
The band.s manager Cm Murphy is an executive producer and the filmmakers have been granted full access to their archive of music, photography and stories.
Luke Arnold, who stars as Long John Silver in the Michael Bay-produced pirate adventure series Black Sails for the Us network Starz, will play Hutchence. A graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, his credits include McLeod's Daughters, Rush, Rescue: Special Ops, City Homicide...
- 6/21/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Ivan Sen.s new film Mystery Road, which will open the Sydney Film Festival, is bypassing the established theatrical distributors in a rare departure from the usual distribution model.
Producer David Jowsey and writer-director Sen have decided to release the murder mystery on August 15 via Dark Matter, a company they own with Michael Wrenn.
The rationale: If the film turns a profit, that will go to the filmmakers, not the distributor. The producers are paying for the marketing costs, avoiding the standard 25%-30% fee charged by distributors..
They.ve hired the Melbourne-based Backlot Studios to negotiate terms with exhibitors for a flat fee. Distribution veteran Alan Finney is a consultant and Tracey Mair is coordinating the national marketing and publicity campaign.
The film stars Aaron Pedersen as an Aboriginal cop, Detective Jay Swan, who's called on to investigate the murder of a young Indigenous girl and realises a serial killer is at work.
Producer David Jowsey and writer-director Sen have decided to release the murder mystery on August 15 via Dark Matter, a company they own with Michael Wrenn.
The rationale: If the film turns a profit, that will go to the filmmakers, not the distributor. The producers are paying for the marketing costs, avoiding the standard 25%-30% fee charged by distributors..
They.ve hired the Melbourne-based Backlot Studios to negotiate terms with exhibitors for a flat fee. Distribution veteran Alan Finney is a consultant and Tracey Mair is coordinating the national marketing and publicity campaign.
The film stars Aaron Pedersen as an Aboriginal cop, Detective Jay Swan, who's called on to investigate the murder of a young Indigenous girl and realises a serial killer is at work.
- 6/3/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The 27th Annual Washington, D.C., International Film Festival opened with a brave choice, Robert Connolly's "Underground: The Julian Assange Story," that depicts the Australian born hacker in his early years escaping from a cult leader father to developing a propensity to uncover diplomatic secrets with two sidekicks. The film is insightful about the motivating factors in Assange's righteous mission of government disclosures. The evening was capped with a most unusual question and answer session as Assange talked by phone from his asylum location of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Assange complimented...
- 4/19/2013
- by Aviva Kempner
- The Wrap
Lovefilm & Warner Bros Strike UK Deal Netflix competitor Lovefilm has entered what it calls a “milestone” deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution for the UK. From today, library content that includes The West Wing, One Tree Hill, Nip Tuck and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will be available to subscribers. The Amazon-owned streaming service has 2M+ subscribers across Europe. Netflix entered the market in January 2012 where Sky also continues to build its business. The three companies each have deals with the major U.S. studios. In November, Netflix signed its own multi-year pact with Wbitd that included shows like The Vampire Diaries and Gossip Girl. Alex Williams In Feature Debut After playing the lead in TV movie Underground: The Julian Assange Story, Alex Williams is set to make his film debut in Australian writer-director John V. Soto’s The Reckoning. Williams, who graduated from the Western Australian Academy of...
- 4/13/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: HBO Films is developing original movie The Man Who Walked Around the World. Robert Connolly (Underground: The Julian Assange Story) is attached to write and direct the project, based on the book of the same name by David Kunst and Clinton Trowbridge. It chronicles the real life adventures of the Kunst brothers. Following the Apollo moon landing, David Kunst was inspired to walk around the world. On June 20, 1970, David and his brother John walked East out of Waseca, Minnesota with a pack mule named Willie Makeit. On October 5, 1974, David walked back into Waseca, Minnesota, from the west, to become the first person confirmed to have circled the land mass of the earth on foot. David started off the journey with his brother John Kunst who was killed by bandits in Afghanistan in 1972. David was then joined by his other brother, Pete, in a show of support, and the two completed the trip together.
- 4/2/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
The $800,000 Hive Production Fund has called for applications with the successful projects set to premiere at the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival and screen on ABC Television.
The initiative - which is funded by the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts - supports screen-based projects from Australian artists and filmmakers and is seeking cross-.platform ideas and strategies.
The inaugural Hive Production Fund supported three films:
Tender, a documentary from director Lynette Wallworth (visual artist) and producer Kath Shelper (Samson and Delilah); I Want to Dance Better at Parties from directors Gideon Obazarnek (ex Chunky Move artistic director) and Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man); The Boy Castaways, a rock musical dramatic feature film from director Michael Kantor (Ex Malthouse Theatre artistic director), producer Jo Dyer (Lucky Miles and Ex Sydney Theatre Company Ep), producer Stephen Armstrong (Ex Malthouse Ep) and executive producer Robert Connolly...
The initiative - which is funded by the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts - supports screen-based projects from Australian artists and filmmakers and is seeking cross-.platform ideas and strategies.
The inaugural Hive Production Fund supported three films:
Tender, a documentary from director Lynette Wallworth (visual artist) and producer Kath Shelper (Samson and Delilah); I Want to Dance Better at Parties from directors Gideon Obazarnek (ex Chunky Move artistic director) and Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man); The Boy Castaways, a rock musical dramatic feature film from director Michael Kantor (Ex Malthouse Theatre artistic director), producer Jo Dyer (Lucky Miles and Ex Sydney Theatre Company Ep), producer Stephen Armstrong (Ex Malthouse Ep) and executive producer Robert Connolly...
- 3/19/2013
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
The $800,000 Hive Production Fund has called for applications with the successful projects set to premiere at the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival and screen on ABC Television.
The initiative - which is funded by the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts - supports screen-based projects from Australian artists and filmmakers and is seeking crossâ€ÂÂ.platform ideas and strategies.
The inaugural Hive Production Fund supported three films:
Tender, a documentary from director Lynette Wallworth (visual artist) and producer Kath Shelper (Samson and Delilah); I Want to Dance Better at Parties from directors Gideon Obazarnek (ex Chunky Move artistic director) and Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man); The Boy Castaways, a rock musical dramatic feature film from director Michael Kantor (Ex Malthouse Theatre artistic director), producer Jo Dyer (Lucky Miles and Ex Sydney Theatre Company Ep), producer Stephen Armstrong (Ex Malthouse Ep) and executive producer...
The initiative - which is funded by the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts - supports screen-based projects from Australian artists and filmmakers and is seeking crossâ€ÂÂ.platform ideas and strategies.
The inaugural Hive Production Fund supported three films:
Tender, a documentary from director Lynette Wallworth (visual artist) and producer Kath Shelper (Samson and Delilah); I Want to Dance Better at Parties from directors Gideon Obazarnek (ex Chunky Move artistic director) and Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man); The Boy Castaways, a rock musical dramatic feature film from director Michael Kantor (Ex Malthouse Theatre artistic director), producer Jo Dyer (Lucky Miles and Ex Sydney Theatre Company Ep), producer Stephen Armstrong (Ex Malthouse Ep) and executive producer...
- 3/19/2013
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
(L-to-r): Julian Assange's mother Christine (portrayed in the film by Rachel Griffiths), lead actor Alex Williams, and director Robert Connolly.
The theatrical event screening of Underground: The Julian Assange Story, which originally screened on the Ten Network last year, sold out Melbourne's Cinema Nova on Sunday night and grossed approximately $3000.
It is a promising start for Robert Connolly's CinemaPlus distribution venture, which plans to broaden traditional theatrical screenings into live events, including director and cast Q&A sessions, live musical performances, and political action forums.
Underground, the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, filled the approximate 250-seat Cinema Nova opening screening, which was followed by a Q&A session with director Robert Connolly, Christine Assange (Julian Assange.s mother), and actor Alex Williams. The audience also received a special CD-rom which contained the screenplay, soundtrack, and a book, as well as a Qr Code which could be scanned,...
The theatrical event screening of Underground: The Julian Assange Story, which originally screened on the Ten Network last year, sold out Melbourne's Cinema Nova on Sunday night and grossed approximately $3000.
It is a promising start for Robert Connolly's CinemaPlus distribution venture, which plans to broaden traditional theatrical screenings into live events, including director and cast Q&A sessions, live musical performances, and political action forums.
Underground, the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, filled the approximate 250-seat Cinema Nova opening screening, which was followed by a Q&A session with director Robert Connolly, Christine Assange (Julian Assange.s mother), and actor Alex Williams. The audience also received a special CD-rom which contained the screenplay, soundtrack, and a book, as well as a Qr Code which could be scanned,...
- 3/18/2013
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
A telemovie about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, which initially screened on Network Ten, will get an event-style theatrical release.
Matchbox Pictures’ produced Underground: The Julian Assange Story will run from 17 March across 11 dates and seven Palace theatres.
Directed by Robert Connolly the film rated 1.3m viewers in October for the network.
The tele-movie also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Connolly’s Footprint Films has picked up the film through the distributor’s CinemaPlus initiative.
Connolly plus cast will attend the screenings for Q&A sessions, live musical performances and political action forums. Attendees will also receive a DVD of the film with special features including featurettes, screenplays and extracts from Suelette Dreyfus’s eBook Underground and music from the soundtrack.
Connolly said: “CinemaPlus is simply a new way at looking at the theatrical release of films. We want to be able to provide a different experience for cinema goers,...
Matchbox Pictures’ produced Underground: The Julian Assange Story will run from 17 March across 11 dates and seven Palace theatres.
Directed by Robert Connolly the film rated 1.3m viewers in October for the network.
The tele-movie also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Connolly’s Footprint Films has picked up the film through the distributor’s CinemaPlus initiative.
Connolly plus cast will attend the screenings for Q&A sessions, live musical performances and political action forums. Attendees will also receive a DVD of the film with special features including featurettes, screenplays and extracts from Suelette Dreyfus’s eBook Underground and music from the soundtrack.
Connolly said: “CinemaPlus is simply a new way at looking at the theatrical release of films. We want to be able to provide a different experience for cinema goers,...
- 2/7/2013
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Telemovie Underground: The Julian Assange Story will have a brief theatrical run as part of a new distribution initiative run by director Robert Connolly.
Underground was screened on Channel Ten last October and attracted an impressive 1.33 million viewers, winning its prime-time Sunday night slot. It was also screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and the London Film Festival.
The theatrical edition of Underground will be distributed by Footprint Films' new CinemaPlus initiative, which will broaden traditional theatrical screenings into live events, including director and cast Q&A sessions, live musical performances, and political action forums.
"CinemaPlus is simply a new way at looking at the theatrical release of films", Connolly, who is also a director of Footprint Films, said in a statement. "We want to be able to provide a different experience for cinema goers, to support the film with talks, Q&As and take-home content. To not only...
Underground was screened on Channel Ten last October and attracted an impressive 1.33 million viewers, winning its prime-time Sunday night slot. It was also screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and the London Film Festival.
The theatrical edition of Underground will be distributed by Footprint Films' new CinemaPlus initiative, which will broaden traditional theatrical screenings into live events, including director and cast Q&A sessions, live musical performances, and political action forums.
"CinemaPlus is simply a new way at looking at the theatrical release of films", Connolly, who is also a director of Footprint Films, said in a statement. "We want to be able to provide a different experience for cinema goers, to support the film with talks, Q&As and take-home content. To not only...
- 2/7/2013
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
South African filmmaker Ralph Ziman ("Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema") has come onboard to helm the live action remake of Yasuomi Umetsu’s 1998 Japanese anime "Kite".
At the same time, Callan McAuliffe ("Underground: The Julian Assange Story") and India Eisley ("Maleficent") have joined the cast which includes the previously announced Samuel L. Jackson.
The story is a character-driven actioneer about a young woman living in a failed state, post-financial collapse, where the corrupt security force profits in human trafficking.
When her police father is slain, she vows to track the murderer down with the help of her father's ex-partner - unaware he is the man who had her father killed.
Ziman replaces the late David R. Ellis, and filming aims to begin in Johannesburg later this month.
Moisés Cosio, Alejandro Saevich, Anant Singh and Brian Cox are producing.
Source: Deadline...
At the same time, Callan McAuliffe ("Underground: The Julian Assange Story") and India Eisley ("Maleficent") have joined the cast which includes the previously announced Samuel L. Jackson.
The story is a character-driven actioneer about a young woman living in a failed state, post-financial collapse, where the corrupt security force profits in human trafficking.
When her police father is slain, she vows to track the murderer down with the help of her father's ex-partner - unaware he is the man who had her father killed.
Ziman replaces the late David R. Ellis, and filming aims to begin in Johannesburg later this month.
Moisés Cosio, Alejandro Saevich, Anant Singh and Brian Cox are producing.
Source: Deadline...
- 2/4/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
There’s no doubt that the whole WikiLeaks scandal and the fallout from their major information releases ever since has been nothing short of fascinating. Well, Hollywood seems to think so anyway, and they’re seeing a whole load of storytelling potential in it, with both dramatic features and documentaries on their way. Among them, there’s the Australian TV movie “Underground: The Julian Assange Story,” which played at Tiff (our review here); Bill Condon’s as-yet-untitled movie that will star Benedict Cumberbatch as Assange; a delayed project at HBO; a possible drama from Mark Boal (“Zero Dark Thirty”) based on a New York Times article; and a documentary titled “We Steal Secrets” all at various stages of development. The final project in that list, “We Steal Secrets,” is directed by the prolific documentarian Alex Gibney (“Taxi to the Dark Side,” “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,”...
- 12/21/2012
- by Joe Cunningham
- The Playlist
Production on a television drama about the 1915 Gallipoli landing will begin next year.
Channel Nine has announced its commitment to the production, which will screen in 2015 in honour of the 100th anniversary of the battle.
The network has stated the series will be the .most ambitious television drama in Australian history..
By the time it hits Australian screens, Gallipoli will have been three years in the making and will be over eight hours in length.
Channel Nine has described the series as being, .the definitive dramatization of the battle that shaped the Anzac legend..
Gallipoli is set to look at not only the experiences of the Australian diggers in the trenches, but the Turkish soldiers, the wives and families back at home, the journalists who reported on the battle and the political intrigue in Australia and London.
The series will be directed by Glendyn Ivin (Beaconsfield, Puberty Blues) and produced by John Edwards (Howzat!
Channel Nine has announced its commitment to the production, which will screen in 2015 in honour of the 100th anniversary of the battle.
The network has stated the series will be the .most ambitious television drama in Australian history..
By the time it hits Australian screens, Gallipoli will have been three years in the making and will be over eight hours in length.
Channel Nine has described the series as being, .the definitive dramatization of the battle that shaped the Anzac legend..
Gallipoli is set to look at not only the experiences of the Australian diggers in the trenches, but the Turkish soldiers, the wives and families back at home, the journalists who reported on the battle and the political intrigue in Australia and London.
The series will be directed by Glendyn Ivin (Beaconsfield, Puberty Blues) and produced by John Edwards (Howzat!
- 11/29/2012
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
The Real Housewives format will launch in Australia next year. Foxtel has confirmed that Real Housewives of Australia will launch in 2013, and will be produced by Matchbox Pictures, the production company behind Underground: The Julian Assange Story, The Slap and The Straits. "The Real Housewives franchise has enthralled, bemused and dazzled millions internationally, and we are thrilled to be commissioning a local version," said Foxtel's executive director of television Brian Walsh. "The Real Housewives of Australia will tap into the qualities and idiosyncrasies that are uniquely Australian whilst embracing all the drama, antics and extravagance we have come to love when observing these pampered wives of the uber riche."
[Left: Camille Grammer / Right: Michaele Salahi] There are six versions (more)...
[Left: Camille Grammer / Right: Michaele Salahi] There are six versions (more)...
- 11/9/2012
- by By Kate Goodacre
- Digital Spy
Cinematographer Don McAlpine, documentary director Jennifer Peedom, producer Helen Bowden and actor/director Damian Walshe-Howling are among the members of the jury announced for the Cockatoo Island Film Festival.
The announcement:
A number of Australia’s award-winning movie heavyweights have been confirmed for the three juries of the Cockatoo Island International Film Festival starting next week.
The juries will be for the Dramatic Feature competition, Documentary section and for Short Films.
The Golden Feather Awards, in six categories, will be presented at a major red carpet event on the island on Saturday night, 27 October. The Festival opens with acclaimed Us film The Master, on Wednesday 24 October.
Veteran cinematographer, Don McAlpine (Predator, Wolverine, Moulin Rouge) will chair the feature jury, award winning documentary film-maker Jennifer Peedom (Miracle on Everest and Solo) the documentary section and actor/director/producer Jeremy Hartley Sims will head the Shorts jury.
Other members of the juries...
The announcement:
A number of Australia’s award-winning movie heavyweights have been confirmed for the three juries of the Cockatoo Island International Film Festival starting next week.
The juries will be for the Dramatic Feature competition, Documentary section and for Short Films.
The Golden Feather Awards, in six categories, will be presented at a major red carpet event on the island on Saturday night, 27 October. The Festival opens with acclaimed Us film The Master, on Wednesday 24 October.
Veteran cinematographer, Don McAlpine (Predator, Wolverine, Moulin Rouge) will chair the feature jury, award winning documentary film-maker Jennifer Peedom (Miracle on Everest and Solo) the documentary section and actor/director/producer Jeremy Hartley Sims will head the Shorts jury.
Other members of the juries...
- 10/16/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia has chipped in $200,000 to lift this year.s Hive Production Fund to $800,000.
The funding announcement - which adds to equal installments by the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, and ABC Television - was made last night by South Australian Minister for the Arts, John Hill, at the Melbourne Festival. Screen Australia previously supported the initiaitive through development funding for script workshops.
The Hive Production Fund was inspired by the Hive Lab, which brings filmmakers and artists together in a creative environment. The artists at this year.s lab include Bill Henson, Dr Brenda Croft, Eddie Perfect, Sam Haren, Daniel Koerner, Rachael Swain, Cat Jones, Lally Katz and Sean Riley; filmmakers Samantha Lang, Sophie Raymond, Sascha Ettinger Epstein, Paola Morabito, Nassiem Valamanesh, Eddie White, Natasha Pincus and Lucinda Clutterbuck; and artist and filmmaker John Gillies.
Last year.s inaugural $600,000 Hive Production Fund supported three projects...
The funding announcement - which adds to equal installments by the Adelaide Film Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts, and ABC Television - was made last night by South Australian Minister for the Arts, John Hill, at the Melbourne Festival. Screen Australia previously supported the initiaitive through development funding for script workshops.
The Hive Production Fund was inspired by the Hive Lab, which brings filmmakers and artists together in a creative environment. The artists at this year.s lab include Bill Henson, Dr Brenda Croft, Eddie Perfect, Sam Haren, Daniel Koerner, Rachael Swain, Cat Jones, Lally Katz and Sean Riley; filmmakers Samantha Lang, Sophie Raymond, Sascha Ettinger Epstein, Paola Morabito, Nassiem Valamanesh, Eddie White, Natasha Pincus and Lucinda Clutterbuck; and artist and filmmaker John Gillies.
Last year.s inaugural $600,000 Hive Production Fund supported three projects...
- 10/10/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Network Ten will screen the highly-anticipated movie event Underground – The Julian Assange Story on Sunday, October 7th, 2012 at 8.30pm.
The TV movie directed by Robert Connolly focuses on Assange’s early life as a teenage computer hacker in Melbourne.
Right from screening at the Toronto International Film Festival where Variety called it “one of the small screen events of the year”, Underground stars Perth Newcomer and Australian freshly graduated actor, Alex Williams as Assange. Golden Globe winners Rachel Griffiths and Anthony Lapaglia star as his mother Christine Assange and Detective Ken Roberts respectively.
Immediately before Underground, award-winning Ten news reporter Hamish Macdonald will present a special on Julian Assange, examining the man behind the WikiLeaks phenomenon and what the future holds for one of the (former?) world’s most wanted men.
I risk hate comments, but I sincerely hope that there will be some kind of public apology following afterwards...
The TV movie directed by Robert Connolly focuses on Assange’s early life as a teenage computer hacker in Melbourne.
Right from screening at the Toronto International Film Festival where Variety called it “one of the small screen events of the year”, Underground stars Perth Newcomer and Australian freshly graduated actor, Alex Williams as Assange. Golden Globe winners Rachel Griffiths and Anthony Lapaglia star as his mother Christine Assange and Detective Ken Roberts respectively.
Immediately before Underground, award-winning Ten news reporter Hamish Macdonald will present a special on Julian Assange, examining the man behind the WikiLeaks phenomenon and what the future holds for one of the (former?) world’s most wanted men.
I risk hate comments, but I sincerely hope that there will be some kind of public apology following afterwards...
- 9/25/2012
- by Sunrider
- Filmofilia
Part of understanding Julian Assange is knowing that he's spent nearly his entire life on the run. While he's currently holed up in Ecuador's embassy in the U.K., this latest roadblock for the hacker/activist is just another bump in a lifetime that has seen him constantly on the move. What many folks don't know is that when Assange was eight years old, his mother married a man who belonged to Australia's white supremacist group/cult The Family, who "recruited" (read: kidnapped) children with Aryan features to bring them into the fold. Leaving the organization in 1990, Assange, his mother and brother changed their addresses and kept an eye over their shoulder as The Family was never too far behind, and that's where Robert Connolly's solidly built "Underground" begins. Played by Alex Williams (who bears a pretty striking resemblance), the teenaged Assange is obsessed with hacking, but is also interested in something other boys.
- 9/16/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Australian director-producer Robert Connolly is on a roll. He's just premiered Underground in Toronto, his controversial telling of Julian Assange's teenage years as a hacker on the run from the law, and the anthology project he's producing, The Turning, is currently underway in Australia. Plus, Zak Hilditch's apocalyptic thriller These Final Hours, which Connolly is executive producing, is about to start shooting in Perth. Now comes news that Connolly will helm his first Us project, The Shipkiller, an adaption of Justin Scott's epic 1978 novel. Billed as one of the best maritime thrillers ever written, The Shipkiller tells an epic revenge story: When the world's largest supertanker collides with Peter Hardin's small yacht and kills his wife, he vows to avenge her death by destroying the colossal Leviathan.Connolly's producing partners are...
- 9/12/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Australian film-maker Robert Connolly will direct and co-produce an adaptation of a book by Justin Scott.
The director has partnered with Gale Anne Hurd, producer of The Walking Dead and The Hulk, under her company Valhalla Entertainment to adapt Scott’s The Shipkiller.
The Bourne trilogy’s Henry Morrison and Andrew Myer will executive produce the film.
Connolly’s Arenamedia has had the rights to the novel for a few months.
The announcement was made while Connolly was at the Toronto International Film Festival supporting his latest directorial effort Underground – The Julian Assange Story, produced by Matchbox Films, about the Wikileaks founder’s time as a teen hacker in Melbourne, which is scheduled to air on Ten.
First published in 1978, The Shipkiller is the story of a man’s revenge across the world’s oceans after his wife is killed when their sailboat collides with a supertanker.
The director has partnered with Gale Anne Hurd, producer of The Walking Dead and The Hulk, under her company Valhalla Entertainment to adapt Scott’s The Shipkiller.
The Bourne trilogy’s Henry Morrison and Andrew Myer will executive produce the film.
Connolly’s Arenamedia has had the rights to the novel for a few months.
The announcement was made while Connolly was at the Toronto International Film Festival supporting his latest directorial effort Underground – The Julian Assange Story, produced by Matchbox Films, about the Wikileaks founder’s time as a teen hacker in Melbourne, which is scheduled to air on Ten.
First published in 1978, The Shipkiller is the story of a man’s revenge across the world’s oceans after his wife is killed when their sailboat collides with a supertanker.
- 9/12/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Australian filmmaker Robert Connolly ("Balibo," "The Bank") is attached to both direct and produce a film adaptation of Justin Scott’s 1978 high seas revenge thriller novel "The Shipkiller" for Valhalla Entertainment and Arenamedia says The Hollywood Reporter.
Stretching from the stormy waters of the South Atlantic to the oil-slicked reaches of the Persian Gulf, the story follows one man determined to win at sea the justice he has been denied on land.
Gale Anne Hurd ("The Walking Dead," "Terminator 2") will produce alongside Connolly who cites Phil Noyce's 1989 Hitchcock-esque classic "Dead Calm" as a major influence. An attempt to adapt the property was previously made at the time of the book's release with Sean Connery and David Niven slated to star.
Connolly is currently at the Toronto International Film Festival promoting his Julian Assange telemovie "Underground".
Stretching from the stormy waters of the South Atlantic to the oil-slicked reaches of the Persian Gulf, the story follows one man determined to win at sea the justice he has been denied on land.
Gale Anne Hurd ("The Walking Dead," "Terminator 2") will produce alongside Connolly who cites Phil Noyce's 1989 Hitchcock-esque classic "Dead Calm" as a major influence. An attempt to adapt the property was previously made at the time of the book's release with Sean Connery and David Niven slated to star.
Connolly is currently at the Toronto International Film Festival promoting his Julian Assange telemovie "Underground".
- 9/12/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Toronto -- Aussie filmmaker Robert Connolly, who is making a splash at the Toronto International Film Festival with his Julian Assange film Underground, is set to take on another true-life story. The Balibo helmer is attached to direct and produce The Shipkiller, based on New York Times best-selling author Justin Scott’s epic 1978 novel. Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead, The Hulk) is producing through her Valhalla Entertainment shingle. Connolly will produce via his Arenamedia banner. Henry Morrison (the Bourne trilogy) and Andrew Myer are executive producing. The revenge thriller is set on the high seas, stretching from the titanic storms of
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- 9/11/2012
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Entertainment and Australian-based film company Arenamedia will produce The Shipkiller, an adaptation of the Justin Scott epic revenge thriller novel. Australian filmmaker Robert Connolly (Balibo) is attached to direct and Hurd will produce for Valhalla with Connolly producing via Arenamedia. Henry Morrison and Andrew Myer are executive producing. The highly regarded high seas novel is described as “an odyssey of revenge that embraces the distant waters of the world, from the titanic storms of the South Atlantic to the oil-slicked reaches of the Persian Gulf.” One man is determined to win at sea the justice he has been denied on land. “This is an extraordinary novel that was almost made in 1979 with Sean Connery and David Niven, and I am ecstatic to be working with the remarkably talented Gale Anne Hurd to finally bring this brilliant novel and tale to life,” said Connolly. “Ever since...
- 9/11/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Underground Trailer. Robert Connolly’s Underground (2012) TV movie trailer stars Callan McAuliffe, Rachel Griffiths, Anthony Lapaglia, Alex Williams, and Carissa McAllen. Underground‘s plot synopsis: “Underground is the first movie out of the gates that chronicles some of the life and times of notorious Wikileaks founder Julian Assange – although this movie focuses on his real life exploits [...]
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- 9/10/2012
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"Underground: The Julian Assange Story," an Australian television movie slated to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, tells the story of the WikiLeaks founder as a teenage hacker in Melbourne during the late '80s. Newcomer (and Hanson-doppelganger) Alex Williams plays Assange, who is currently staying in the Ecuador Embassy in London to avoid arrest for alleged sexual assault in Sweden. Related Articles: 'Inside Job' Director Charles Ferguson Tapped...
- 9/7/2012
- by Danielle Paquette
- The Wrap
Silver-haired fugitive Julian Assange is currently enjoying the fast-paced lifestyle inside of Ecuador’s London Embassy, so he probably won’t be able to make it to the Toronto debut of Underground: The Julian Assange Story, the new Australian telefilm about the early years of the WikiLeaks founder. Newcomer Alex Williams plays Assange, when he was just a callow young fellow hacking into government mainframes. Anthony Lapaglia and Rachel Griffiths throw off their fake American TV accents, playing the lawman tracking Assange and Assange’s mother, respectively. Watch the trailer:
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- 9/6/2012
- by Darren Franich
- EW - Inside Movies
One of the unorthodox selections at the Toronto International Film Festival this year is Underground, as it's a made for TV movie that - if it wasn't for Tiff - would have had its world premiere on a major Australian commercial TV network later this year. However three key things elevate this movie. First it's being directed by one of Australia's greatest directors Robert Connolly, who has already been producer or director on such iconic films as The Boys, Romulus My Father and Balibo, and who more than any other Australian director has the potential to have a Peter Weir-like career over the next 20 years. Second, the cast: stalwarts Anthony Lapaglia, Rachel Griffiths star alongside rising stars Callan McAuliffe, Laura Wheelwright, TV comedian Jordan Paskopoulos and newcomer Alex Williams. And...
- 9/6/2012
- Screen Anarchy
The first trailer for "Underground: The Julian Assange Story" (better known as "the Julian Assange movie") has debuted. The film stars Alex Williams as the well-coiffed rogue, with Anthony Lapaglia as the detective on his case. Laura Wheelwright plays his girlfriend and Rachel Griffiths plays his mother, Christine.
"Underground" is a made-for-Australian-tv movie, but it is nonetheless screening this weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival. Deadline.com reports that the movie is based on the 1997 book Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier by Suelette Dreyfus. NBCUniversal will distribute the film worldwide.
The real-life Assange is currently stuck in Ecuador's embassy in London, where he is hiding from authorities. Assange is evading being shipped to Sweden to face rape and sexual assault charges. His decision to remain in London has become a diplomatic nightmare for England, who has said it is legally obligated to deliver the suspect to Sweden.
"Underground" is a made-for-Australian-tv movie, but it is nonetheless screening this weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival. Deadline.com reports that the movie is based on the 1997 book Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier by Suelette Dreyfus. NBCUniversal will distribute the film worldwide.
The real-life Assange is currently stuck in Ecuador's embassy in London, where he is hiding from authorities. Assange is evading being shipped to Sweden to face rape and sexual assault charges. His decision to remain in London has become a diplomatic nightmare for England, who has said it is legally obligated to deliver the suspect to Sweden.
- 9/6/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
An Australian TV movie that chronicles the WikiLeaks founder’s years as a teenage computer hacker in Melbourne in the late 1980s screens Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival. Newcomer Alex Williams plays Assange, with Rachel Griffiths as his activist mother Christine, Laura Wheelwright as his girlfriend, and Anthony Lapaglia as the cop who investigates the case. Written and directed by Robert Connolly and based on the 1997 novel Underground: Tales Of Hacking, Madness And Obsession On The Electronic Frontier by Suelette Dreyfus, the telepic was commissioned by Australia’s Network Ten, which will air it next month. NBCUniversal International is distributing worldwide. Assange is currently holed up inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to avoid being arrested and extradited to Sweden for questioning about alleged sexual misconduct or to the U.S. over Wikileaks’ release of confidential diplomatic information.
- 9/6/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Ten has released its first look of the story of Julian Assange’s beginnings as a wanted computer hacker.
Produced by Matchbox Films, the production company behind The Slap, and directed by Robert Connolly, Underground – The Julian Assange Story tells the true story of Assange’s life as a teenage computer hacker, on the run from American government officials in Melbourne.
The tele-movie stars Rachel Griffiths as Christine Assange, Julian’s mother, Anthony Lapaglia as detective Ken Roberts and Alex Williams as the young Assange.
The film is set to have its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday 8 September.
The film was financed by Ten and Screen Australia.
Produced by Matchbox Films, the production company behind The Slap, and directed by Robert Connolly, Underground – The Julian Assange Story tells the true story of Assange’s life as a teenage computer hacker, on the run from American government officials in Melbourne.
The tele-movie stars Rachel Griffiths as Christine Assange, Julian’s mother, Anthony Lapaglia as detective Ken Roberts and Alex Williams as the young Assange.
The film is set to have its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday 8 September.
The film was financed by Ten and Screen Australia.
- 9/5/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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