‘Angel of Mine.’
Kim Farrant’s psychological thriller Angel of Mine began its theatrical journey in the Us last weekend, opening in 12 key cities and on demand.
The distributor Lionsgate did not share any Bo figures for the movie starring Noomi Rapace, Yvonne Strahovski and Annika Whiteley, which are typically modest for a multi-platform release.
The upside will come from the October 22 release on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital followed in February by the premiere on Hulu, Disney’s streaming platform which has 28 million subscribers in the Us.
Produced by Brian Etting, Josh Etting and Su Armstrong, the movie adapted by Lion’s Luke Davies and David Regal from the 2008 French film L’Empreinte de L’Ange had its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival. It will open here this Thursday on 41 screens via Robert Slaviero and Richard Becker’s R & R Films.
Rapace plays Lizzie, a grieving...
Kim Farrant’s psychological thriller Angel of Mine began its theatrical journey in the Us last weekend, opening in 12 key cities and on demand.
The distributor Lionsgate did not share any Bo figures for the movie starring Noomi Rapace, Yvonne Strahovski and Annika Whiteley, which are typically modest for a multi-platform release.
The upside will come from the October 22 release on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital followed in February by the premiere on Hulu, Disney’s streaming platform which has 28 million subscribers in the Us.
Produced by Brian Etting, Josh Etting and Su Armstrong, the movie adapted by Lion’s Luke Davies and David Regal from the 2008 French film L’Empreinte de L’Ange had its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival. It will open here this Thursday on 41 screens via Robert Slaviero and Richard Becker’s R & R Films.
Rapace plays Lizzie, a grieving...
- 9/1/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Jo Bladen and Marc Wooldridge.
Today marks the end of an era in the Australian screen industry with the departures of Jo Bladen, Disney’s general manager, studios and live entertainment, and Marc Wooldridge, Fox Film Distributors MD for Australasia.
Exhibitors, distributors, filmmakers and former colleagues are lamenting the loss of two highly experienced executives resulting from the Walt Disney Company’s $US71.3 billion takeover of most of 21st Century Fox’s prized assets.
In this area of consolidation and downsizing among majors and independents alike, some question the capacity of studios to release small-to-medium budget movies without the expertise and experience of executives like Wooldridge and Bladen.
Former Paramount Pictures Australia MD Mike Selwyn observes: “The distribution/exhibition industry seems to be going through a period of real uncertainty. At the heart of this is the steady erosion of income from post-theatrical exploitation.
“This is eating away at the...
Today marks the end of an era in the Australian screen industry with the departures of Jo Bladen, Disney’s general manager, studios and live entertainment, and Marc Wooldridge, Fox Film Distributors MD for Australasia.
Exhibitors, distributors, filmmakers and former colleagues are lamenting the loss of two highly experienced executives resulting from the Walt Disney Company’s $US71.3 billion takeover of most of 21st Century Fox’s prized assets.
In this area of consolidation and downsizing among majors and independents alike, some question the capacity of studios to release small-to-medium budget movies without the expertise and experience of executives like Wooldridge and Bladen.
Former Paramount Pictures Australia MD Mike Selwyn observes: “The distribution/exhibition industry seems to be going through a period of real uncertainty. At the heart of this is the steady erosion of income from post-theatrical exploitation.
“This is eating away at the...
- 6/27/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
(L-r) Amali Golden, Luke Mitchell, Jessica McNamee, Benjamin Hoetjes and Anthony Sharpe.
Jessica McNamee and Luke Mitchell are playing an adventure-loving couple who get trapped in a flooded cave and are attacked by killer crocodiles in Andrew Traucki’s survival thriller Black Water: Abyss.
Scripted by Sarah Smith and Ian John Ridley, the sequel to Traucki and David Nerlich’s 2007 horror/thriller Black Water started shooting in South East Queensland today, supported by Screen Queensland.
The Us-based McNamee is Jennifer with Luke Mitchell as Luke.
With close friends Yolanda (Amali Golden) and Viktor (Benjamin Hoetjes) they abseil into newly discovered caves with tour guide Cash (Anthony Sharpe), believing they will be safe from the approaching tropical storm.
As the cave begins to flood and oxygen levels fall, the group find themselves lost, disoriented and trapped and are easy prey for a pack of crocodiles.
Staring into the jaws of death,...
Jessica McNamee and Luke Mitchell are playing an adventure-loving couple who get trapped in a flooded cave and are attacked by killer crocodiles in Andrew Traucki’s survival thriller Black Water: Abyss.
Scripted by Sarah Smith and Ian John Ridley, the sequel to Traucki and David Nerlich’s 2007 horror/thriller Black Water started shooting in South East Queensland today, supported by Screen Queensland.
The Us-based McNamee is Jennifer with Luke Mitchell as Luke.
With close friends Yolanda (Amali Golden) and Viktor (Benjamin Hoetjes) they abseil into newly discovered caves with tour guide Cash (Anthony Sharpe), believing they will be safe from the approaching tropical storm.
As the cave begins to flood and oxygen levels fall, the group find themselves lost, disoriented and trapped and are easy prey for a pack of crocodiles.
Staring into the jaws of death,...
- 5/26/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
James Cromwell.
Mark Lamprell’s Never Too Late (formerly The Chain Breakers), a comedy-drama about four heroic Vietnam veterans who plan to break out of their nursing home, will start shooting in South Australia on March 18.
Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Dennis Waterman and Roy Billing play the quartet, who were famous for escaping from a Vietnamese Pow camp.
Now residents of the Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans, each has an unrealised dream he wants to achieve before it’s too late. They devise a plan to escape but the rules of engagement have changed. Indeed, they can’t even remember what the rules were and that’s half the problem.
Jacki Weaver plays Norma, the long-lost love of Cromwell’s character Bronson, formerly a Us soldier. They met when he was in Australia on R&R but he was posted back to Vietnam before he could propose. Norma’s...
Mark Lamprell’s Never Too Late (formerly The Chain Breakers), a comedy-drama about four heroic Vietnam veterans who plan to break out of their nursing home, will start shooting in South Australia on March 18.
Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Dennis Waterman and Roy Billing play the quartet, who were famous for escaping from a Vietnamese Pow camp.
Now residents of the Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans, each has an unrealised dream he wants to achieve before it’s too late. They devise a plan to escape but the rules of engagement have changed. Indeed, they can’t even remember what the rules were and that’s half the problem.
Jacki Weaver plays Norma, the long-lost love of Cromwell’s character Bronson, formerly a Us soldier. They met when he was in Australia on R&R but he was posted back to Vietnam before he could propose. Norma’s...
- 3/6/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Jacki Weaver.
Comedy feature The Chain Breakers, to star Jacki Weaver, Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Denis Waterman and Shane Jacobson, is one of seven projects to have recently received production funding from Screen Australia.
Written by Luke Preston and directed by Mark Lamprell, the film follows four Vietnam vets, famous for escaping a Pow camp, who find themselves in a new hell: The Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans. Each has an unrealised dream they want achieve, and so they band together to escape again. Produced by Antony I. Ginnane and David Lightfoot, the film is billed as a cross between Grumpy Old Men and The Great Escape. It will be distributed via R & R Films, the new venture between Richard Becker and Robert Slaviero.
Among the other projects to have shared in the $7.5 million of funding from the federal agency is Lone Wolf, writer-director Jonathan Ogilvie’s...
Comedy feature The Chain Breakers, to star Jacki Weaver, Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Denis Waterman and Shane Jacobson, is one of seven projects to have recently received production funding from Screen Australia.
Written by Luke Preston and directed by Mark Lamprell, the film follows four Vietnam vets, famous for escaping a Pow camp, who find themselves in a new hell: The Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans. Each has an unrealised dream they want achieve, and so they band together to escape again. Produced by Antony I. Ginnane and David Lightfoot, the film is billed as a cross between Grumpy Old Men and The Great Escape. It will be distributed via R & R Films, the new venture between Richard Becker and Robert Slaviero.
Among the other projects to have shared in the $7.5 million of funding from the federal agency is Lone Wolf, writer-director Jonathan Ogilvie’s...
- 1/14/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Upcoming Noomi Rapace-starring psychological thriller “Angel of Mine” is set as the first acquisition by R & R Films, a new Australian distributor. The company was recently established by industry veterans Richard Becker and Robert Slaviero.
The film goes into production this month in Melbourne, Australia. It is the story of intuition and obsession featuring a couple coming to terms with the untimely death of their daughter. The woman becomes convinced that another girl is her own. The script is adapted by Luke Davies (“Lion”) and David Regal from the French film “L’Empreinte,” by Safy Nebbou.
Alongside Rapace, the film stars Yvonne Strahovski (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Dexter”) and Luke Evans. Other cast includes Richard Roxburgh, Finn Little (“Storm Boy”) and Rob Collins (“Cleverman”), alongside Tracy Mann, Pip Miller and Rachel Gordon.
Richard Becker is a veteran who for years headed the sales, production and distribution group Becker Film.
The film goes into production this month in Melbourne, Australia. It is the story of intuition and obsession featuring a couple coming to terms with the untimely death of their daughter. The woman becomes convinced that another girl is her own. The script is adapted by Luke Davies (“Lion”) and David Regal from the French film “L’Empreinte,” by Safy Nebbou.
Alongside Rapace, the film stars Yvonne Strahovski (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Dexter”) and Luke Evans. Other cast includes Richard Roxburgh, Finn Little (“Storm Boy”) and Rob Collins (“Cleverman”), alongside Tracy Mann, Pip Miller and Rachel Gordon.
Richard Becker is a veteran who for years headed the sales, production and distribution group Becker Film.
- 5/8/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce and.Neighbours co-star.Craig McLachlan.
Kylie Minogue will join Guy Pearce and Radha Mitchell in Stephan Elliott's Flammable Children, produced by Al Clark (Priscilla, Chopper, Red Hill) and Jamie Hilton (Breath, The Waiting City, Backtrack).
The 1975-set comedy-drama marks the first time Pearce and Minogue have worked together since Neighbours.
Since leaving that show and becoming a pop star, Minogue has appeared onscreen only intermittently, though she seems to be ramping up her acting slate, with recent roles in Cannes-darling Holy Motors, the Dwayne Johnson action film San Andreas and upcoming series Galavant, created by Dan Fogelman (Tangled, Crazy, Stupid, Love).
.We are so excited to be able to support Flammable Children", Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason said..
"In Kylie, Guy and Radha, the team has been able to secure some of Australia.s most established and iconic talents. The powerhouses in front of the...
Kylie Minogue will join Guy Pearce and Radha Mitchell in Stephan Elliott's Flammable Children, produced by Al Clark (Priscilla, Chopper, Red Hill) and Jamie Hilton (Breath, The Waiting City, Backtrack).
The 1975-set comedy-drama marks the first time Pearce and Minogue have worked together since Neighbours.
Since leaving that show and becoming a pop star, Minogue has appeared onscreen only intermittently, though she seems to be ramping up her acting slate, with recent roles in Cannes-darling Holy Motors, the Dwayne Johnson action film San Andreas and upcoming series Galavant, created by Dan Fogelman (Tangled, Crazy, Stupid, Love).
.We are so excited to be able to support Flammable Children", Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason said..
"In Kylie, Guy and Radha, the team has been able to secure some of Australia.s most established and iconic talents. The powerhouses in front of the...
- 4/11/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Becker Film Group have struck a distribution agreement covering Australian and New Zealand for physical disc, electric sell-through and video on-demand. .
From October 1, Tcfhe will distribute Becker Film Group.s line-up of new releases, and manage the back catalogue library.
The Becker Family founded Australia.s first independent film and television distribution business in 1965.
The first release under the new agreement will be comedy, 5 Flights Up, starring Academy Award winners Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton. .
Tcfhe will also handle the distribution of their back catalogue including notable Becker titles Margin Call, The Last Station and Diana..
Tcfhe managing director, Flavio Paoli, said he was thrilled with the opportunity to represent Becker Film Group in the Australia and New Zealand markets. .
"Becker Film Group is a leading independent film distribution company and through this partnership will deliver quality film product to complement the Fox product portfolio,...
From October 1, Tcfhe will distribute Becker Film Group.s line-up of new releases, and manage the back catalogue library.
The Becker Family founded Australia.s first independent film and television distribution business in 1965.
The first release under the new agreement will be comedy, 5 Flights Up, starring Academy Award winners Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton. .
Tcfhe will also handle the distribution of their back catalogue including notable Becker titles Margin Call, The Last Station and Diana..
Tcfhe managing director, Flavio Paoli, said he was thrilled with the opportunity to represent Becker Film Group in the Australia and New Zealand markets. .
"Becker Film Group is a leading independent film distribution company and through this partnership will deliver quality film product to complement the Fox product portfolio,...
- 9/2/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
This article orginally appeared in If Magazine #149 (October-November 2012).
Richard Becker
We.re a family business . multigenerational at that. I went to law school in the early .70s and discovered that the last thing I wanted to be was a lawyer. I joined my father in 1976. He was such an easy, understanding fellow. Anyone who knew Russel knows just what a nice guy he was. I wish I could live up to that. The business was largely TV distribution and I did a little bit of work on some very small films that we bought. One of them was the Dairying Dobermans; a story of Doberman dogs trained to rob a bank. In the .80s we ramped it up and we started buying a considerable number of films. Eventually, I sold out of that company which was then publicly listed. My father was very ill so I was able to spend some time with him.
Richard Becker
We.re a family business . multigenerational at that. I went to law school in the early .70s and discovered that the last thing I wanted to be was a lawyer. I joined my father in 1976. He was such an easy, understanding fellow. Anyone who knew Russel knows just what a nice guy he was. I wish I could live up to that. The business was largely TV distribution and I did a little bit of work on some very small films that we bought. One of them was the Dairying Dobermans; a story of Doberman dogs trained to rob a bank. In the .80s we ramped it up and we started buying a considerable number of films. Eventually, I sold out of that company which was then publicly listed. My father was very ill so I was able to spend some time with him.
- 11/20/2012
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
The Becker Film Group has just acquired Australian and New Zealand rights to Caught in Flight, the film in which Naomi Watts is to play Princess Diana.
The UK film is scheduled to go into production in July and is the first to be represented internationally by sales and financing company Embankment Films, which has already made sales to more than 40 territories.
.From my perspective, Princess Diana is one of the great stories of our time, and Naomi Watts has a great profile in Australia and I hope she will come out and support the release,. said Richard Becker.
The film is a love story between Princess Diana and heart surgeon Dr Hasnat Khan to be directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, who made Downfall. The producers are Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae of Ecosse Films, and the script has been written by Stephen Jeffreys.
Becker said Caught in Flight and his...
The UK film is scheduled to go into production in July and is the first to be represented internationally by sales and financing company Embankment Films, which has already made sales to more than 40 territories.
.From my perspective, Princess Diana is one of the great stories of our time, and Naomi Watts has a great profile in Australia and I hope she will come out and support the release,. said Richard Becker.
The film is a love story between Princess Diana and heart surgeon Dr Hasnat Khan to be directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, who made Downfall. The producers are Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae of Ecosse Films, and the script has been written by Stephen Jeffreys.
Becker said Caught in Flight and his...
- 5/4/2012
- by Sandy George
- IF.com.au
SYDNEY -- Australia's principal funding agency, Film Finance Corporation Australia, said Wednesday that it is backing two new feature films. The first, December Boys, based on Michael Noonan's book of the same name, is described as a poignant tale of four young orphan boys in the 1960s. Rod Hardy will direct, with Richard Becker producing. Sales and distribution are being handled by REP, MBM and Aura Entertainment. The second approval is for a low-budget thriller, Wolf Creek, which will be shot digitally by first-time feature writer-director Greg McLean and produced by David Lightfoot. The story is loosely based on real-life events of two years ago that saw British backpacker Peter Falconio killed in the Australian outback while his girlfriend managed a narrow escape. The film will be produced in association with Mushroom Pictures and Arclight Films. The two companies also will oversee sales and distribution.
- 3/25/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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