Up next from Wyrmwood writer/director Kiah Roache-Turner is a shark attack survival movie titled Beast of War, and Variety brings news that the shark horror movie has been acquired for distribution by Signature Entertainment for the U.K. and Ireland, and Well Go USA for North America.
The period Wii film is loosely based on real-life events.
Beast of War “follows a warship carrying hundreds of Australian soldiers across the Timor Sea to the frontline of WWII. Suddenly, Japanese fighter jets scream out of the sky, and within minutes the ocean becomes a hell of steel, fire, oil and blood. While a handful of soldiers build a makeshift raft from floating debris as they cling to their lives, their biggest battle is yet to come. In the dark below, the ultimate apex predator — a great white shark — hunts in the wreckage and is drawn to the smell of fresh blood in the water.
The period Wii film is loosely based on real-life events.
Beast of War “follows a warship carrying hundreds of Australian soldiers across the Timor Sea to the frontline of WWII. Suddenly, Japanese fighter jets scream out of the sky, and within minutes the ocean becomes a hell of steel, fire, oil and blood. While a handful of soldiers build a makeshift raft from floating debris as they cling to their lives, their biggest battle is yet to come. In the dark below, the ultimate apex predator — a great white shark — hunts in the wreckage and is drawn to the smell of fresh blood in the water.
- 2/13/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Genre filmmaker Kiah Roache-Turner has reteamed with Cornerstone for his latest pic, Beast Of War, which the company will launch at the upcoming American Film Market.
Described as a “survival action thriller,” the film follows a band of soldiers stranded in the open ocean who must face a heart-pounding battle for survival against the ultimate apex predator — a great white shark.
Beast of War is produced by Bronte Pictures’ Blake Northfield and Pictures in Paradise’s Chris Brown and will begin production in 2024 in Australia and Malta. CreatureNFX’s director, Paul Trefry, will create practical creature effects from his studio in Australia. Trefry is well known for his work with directors such as James Cameron, Ridley Scott, and Baz Luhrmann.
Full synopsis reads: 1942. A warship carries hundreds of Australian soldiers across the Timor Sea to the frontline of WW2. Suddenly,...
Described as a “survival action thriller,” the film follows a band of soldiers stranded in the open ocean who must face a heart-pounding battle for survival against the ultimate apex predator — a great white shark.
Beast of War is produced by Bronte Pictures’ Blake Northfield and Pictures in Paradise’s Chris Brown and will begin production in 2024 in Australia and Malta. CreatureNFX’s director, Paul Trefry, will create practical creature effects from his studio in Australia. Trefry is well known for his work with directors such as James Cameron, Ridley Scott, and Baz Luhrmann.
Full synopsis reads: 1942. A warship carries hundreds of Australian soldiers across the Timor Sea to the frontline of WW2. Suddenly,...
- 10/19/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Rising Aussie actor Cj Bloomfield has signed with Industry Entertainment for management.
Bloomfield recently wrapped filming the anticipated Mad Max: Fury Road sequel Furiosa alongside Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor-Joy. Directed, co-written and produced by George Miller, the standalone movie reveals the origins of Furiosa, played by Taylor-Joy in the title role. The movie tracks the genesis of Furiosa before she teamed up with Max Rockatansky in Fury Road. It’s set to hit theaters on May 24, 2024.
Bloomfield is currently filming the role of Baraka in Mortal Kombat 2, New Line‘s follow-up to its hit 2021 action adventure Mortal Kombat, based on the blockbuster video game franchise.
Bloomfield’s previous credits include a recurring role in Australian series The Secrets She Keeps. He also appeared in the 2021 feature Streamline and shorts Too Many Ethics and Halfway, which he also executive produced.
Bloomfield is managed by Dan Spilo at Industry Entertainment...
Bloomfield recently wrapped filming the anticipated Mad Max: Fury Road sequel Furiosa alongside Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor-Joy. Directed, co-written and produced by George Miller, the standalone movie reveals the origins of Furiosa, played by Taylor-Joy in the title role. The movie tracks the genesis of Furiosa before she teamed up with Max Rockatansky in Fury Road. It’s set to hit theaters on May 24, 2024.
Bloomfield is currently filming the role of Baraka in Mortal Kombat 2, New Line‘s follow-up to its hit 2021 action adventure Mortal Kombat, based on the blockbuster video game franchise.
Bloomfield’s previous credits include a recurring role in Australian series The Secrets She Keeps. He also appeared in the 2021 feature Streamline and shorts Too Many Ethics and Halfway, which he also executive produced.
Bloomfield is managed by Dan Spilo at Industry Entertainment...
- 10/7/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Pan star Levi Miller has rounded out the cast of Sony Pictures’ Marvel movie Kraven the Hunter, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the title role. He joins a cast that includes Ariana DeBose, Russell Crowe, Alessandro Nivola, Christopher Abbott and Fred Hechinger. It is unknown at this time who Miller will be playing.
J.C. Chandor is directing the pic, with Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach producing. Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Richard Wenk penned the screenplay.
Sony had no comment on Miller’s casting.
One of Sony Pictures’ universe of Marvel characters, Kraven is among Marvel’s most iconic and notorious antiheroes. He has encountered Venom, Black Panther and many others as well as being one of Spider-Man’s best-known and most-formidable enemies. The film will be released theatrically January 13.
Miller past credits include Disney’s A Wrinkle In Time and Warner Bros. Pan where he starred as Peter Pan opposite Hugh Jackman.
J.C. Chandor is directing the pic, with Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach producing. Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Richard Wenk penned the screenplay.
Sony had no comment on Miller’s casting.
One of Sony Pictures’ universe of Marvel characters, Kraven is among Marvel’s most iconic and notorious antiheroes. He has encountered Venom, Black Panther and many others as well as being one of Spider-Man’s best-known and most-formidable enemies. The film will be released theatrically January 13.
Miller past credits include Disney’s A Wrinkle In Time and Warner Bros. Pan where he starred as Peter Pan opposite Hugh Jackman.
- 4/14/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Streamline brings us a captivating exploration of self-destruction; Jason Isaacs and Levi Miller team up in this emotionally charged tale of a young boy on the verge of sporting greatness only for his just released from prison father to disturb his equilibrium.
Just as our main character is, we are submerged into the idyllic setting of nature. Grey and green tones consume the screen in a dreamy manner only to be immediately interrupted by the familiar sound of an Apple alarm tone. The harsh reality of a 15-year-old boy trying to make it as a pro swimmer; non-stop early mornings come rain or shine, then a full day of school. The familiar sight of cupping bruises down his back and a toned physique insinuates the fact this boy is dedicated yet; it seems rest is in order before some life changing trails if he is going to fight his body’s state of fatigue.
Just as our main character is, we are submerged into the idyllic setting of nature. Grey and green tones consume the screen in a dreamy manner only to be immediately interrupted by the familiar sound of an Apple alarm tone. The harsh reality of a 15-year-old boy trying to make it as a pro swimmer; non-stop early mornings come rain or shine, then a full day of school. The familiar sight of cupping bruises down his back and a toned physique insinuates the fact this boy is dedicated yet; it seems rest is in order before some life changing trails if he is going to fight his body’s state of fatigue.
- 4/11/2022
- by Gloria Daniels-Moss
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
There have been a number of great sports dramas and documentaries released over the past few years, exploring the pressure associated with competitive potential and the ease with which young athletes can lose control or find themselves controlled by others. Streamline is being sold as such a film, and its twee final credits sequence suggests that is indeed what it aspires to, yet despite the enthusiasm with which it mines the clichés of the genre it manages to say very little about swimming and absolutely nothing new about growing up as a teenage boy in a hypermasculine environment.
The boy in question is Benjamin (Levil Miller), who is known simply as Boy to those close to him, perhaps because he’s the youngest member of his family. His father (Jason Isaacs) is in prison, his mother (Laura Gordon) struggling to parent as she deals with the residual trauma of domestic violence,...
The boy in question is Benjamin (Levil Miller), who is known simply as Boy to those close to him, perhaps because he’s the youngest member of his family. His father (Jason Isaacs) is in prison, his mother (Laura Gordon) struggling to parent as she deals with the residual trauma of domestic violence,...
- 4/10/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In the US, Universal’s Candyman slashed its way to the top of the box office last weekend, with a $US22 million ($30 million) result surpassing expectations and hailed as an encouraging sign for moviegoing.
Here in Australia, where the country’s two largest theatrical markets in Sydney and Melbourne remain closed, results were quite different.
The MA15+ film, produced and written by Jordan Peele and starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, opened on just $148,050 from 103 screens.
That was just behind fellow horror Don’t Breathe 2, which opened on $160,597 from 103 screens for Sony. By contrast, the 2016 original topped the box office, opening on $1.3 million – ultimately finishing just shy of $5 million.
According to Numero, the top 20 titles mustered $2.5 million, down 17 per cent on the previous. That is the lowest result this year, with no title cracking $1 million.
Instead of horror, Australian audiences that could still go to the movies mostly opted for sci-fi action...
Here in Australia, where the country’s two largest theatrical markets in Sydney and Melbourne remain closed, results were quite different.
The MA15+ film, produced and written by Jordan Peele and starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, opened on just $148,050 from 103 screens.
That was just behind fellow horror Don’t Breathe 2, which opened on $160,597 from 103 screens for Sony. By contrast, the 2016 original topped the box office, opening on $1.3 million – ultimately finishing just shy of $5 million.
According to Numero, the top 20 titles mustered $2.5 million, down 17 per cent on the previous. That is the lowest result this year, with no title cracking $1 million.
Instead of horror, Australian audiences that could still go to the movies mostly opted for sci-fi action...
- 8/31/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Director and producer Nadia Tass will chair the jury for this year’s CinefestOZ, which had its full line-up announced in Perth yesterday.
The filmmaker will helm voting on the $100,000 CinefestOZ prize, adjudicating in-competition finalists Here Out West, Nitram, River, and The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson.
Tass is among the directors to have their work showcased at the event, with her documentary, Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story, announced among the Australian premieres in the line-up.
Speaking to If, she said the festival had always been “invigorating”.
“The event is so elegant, but at the same time it is not empty,” she said.
“There is so much about films that is discussed, both in terms of the creative process and films as pieces of entertainment or communication with an audience.
“They have really thought about how they are going to excite people to come to the event.”
Tass...
The filmmaker will helm voting on the $100,000 CinefestOZ prize, adjudicating in-competition finalists Here Out West, Nitram, River, and The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson.
Tass is among the directors to have their work showcased at the event, with her documentary, Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story, announced among the Australian premieres in the line-up.
Speaking to If, she said the festival had always been “invigorating”.
“The event is so elegant, but at the same time it is not empty,” she said.
“There is so much about films that is discussed, both in terms of the creative process and films as pieces of entertainment or communication with an audience.
“They have really thought about how they are going to excite people to come to the event.”
Tass...
- 7/29/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
In writer-director Tyson Wade Johnson’s debut feature Streamline, a prodigious 15-year-old swimmer with the world at his feet (Levi Miller) self-destructs after his father (Jason Isaacs) is released from prison. Inside of the pool he lives a life of rigorous perfectionism and outside of it, his existence is lonely and hollow.
Starring alongside are Laura Gordon, Jake Ryan, Tasia Zalar, Sam Parsonson, Hunter Page-Lochard and Joey Vieira. There is also a small cameo role from Ian Thorpe, one of the film’s executive producers.
Streamline is a Bronte Pictures production, produced by Blake Northfield, Nathan Walker and Jay Douglas, made with with assistance from Screen Queensland, Screen Australia and Pantalon Pictures.
The film will premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival followed by CinefestOz, ahead of a national theatrical release September 2 via Umbrella Entertainment.
The post ‘Streamline’ (Trailer) appeared first on If Magazine.
Starring alongside are Laura Gordon, Jake Ryan, Tasia Zalar, Sam Parsonson, Hunter Page-Lochard and Joey Vieira. There is also a small cameo role from Ian Thorpe, one of the film’s executive producers.
Streamline is a Bronte Pictures production, produced by Blake Northfield, Nathan Walker and Jay Douglas, made with with assistance from Screen Queensland, Screen Australia and Pantalon Pictures.
The film will premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival followed by CinefestOz, ahead of a national theatrical release September 2 via Umbrella Entertainment.
The post ‘Streamline’ (Trailer) appeared first on If Magazine.
- 7/13/2021
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Jen Peedom’s River and Ben Lawrence’s Ithaka add to the already strong contingent of local films bound for August’s Melbourne International Film Festival, which unveiled its full program today.
Miff 2021 will include a hefty 283 titles, including 199 features, 84 shorts and 10 Xr experiences. Among them are 40 world premieres; the most in the festival’s 69 year history.
Some 62 of those films will be available nationally via Miff Play, the festival’s online screening platform, with the festival reimagined this year as a hybrid event.
“This year, Miff continues to evolve — to meet the moment, and to meet audiences where they are,” said artistic director Al Cossar.
“What will not change is the extraordinary lineup of cinematic adventures, from home and afar, waiting for them. These are anticipated festival blockbusters, experimentations, breakthrough discoveries, and a huge lineup of incredible Australian talent. We will again share a world of cinema, reignited, to...
Miff 2021 will include a hefty 283 titles, including 199 features, 84 shorts and 10 Xr experiences. Among them are 40 world premieres; the most in the festival’s 69 year history.
Some 62 of those films will be available nationally via Miff Play, the festival’s online screening platform, with the festival reimagined this year as a hybrid event.
“This year, Miff continues to evolve — to meet the moment, and to meet audiences where they are,” said artistic director Al Cossar.
“What will not change is the extraordinary lineup of cinematic adventures, from home and afar, waiting for them. These are anticipated festival blockbusters, experimentations, breakthrough discoveries, and a huge lineup of incredible Australian talent. We will again share a world of cinema, reignited, to...
- 7/12/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Sam Neill, Christoph Waltz and Patrick Gibson will head the cast of “The Portable Door,” a fantasy adventure film adapted from the series of novels by Patrick Holt.
The film is now shooting in Queensland, Australia, with Jeffrey Walker directing from a script by Leon Ford (“Griff the Invisible”).
The story sees two lowly, put-upon interns at a mysterious London firm, J.W. Wells & Co., become steadily aware that their employers are anything but conventional. The charismatic villains who run the company are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical practices.
The film is a Jim Henson Company and Story Bridge Films production and is produced by Blanca Lista from Henson and Todd Fellman from Story Bridge.
Sales agent Arclight Films is handling worldwide rights for all territories outside of North America, Australia and New Zealand. Sky will release the film as a Sky Original in the U.
The film is now shooting in Queensland, Australia, with Jeffrey Walker directing from a script by Leon Ford (“Griff the Invisible”).
The story sees two lowly, put-upon interns at a mysterious London firm, J.W. Wells & Co., become steadily aware that their employers are anything but conventional. The charismatic villains who run the company are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical practices.
The film is a Jim Henson Company and Story Bridge Films production and is produced by Blanca Lista from Henson and Todd Fellman from Story Bridge.
Sales agent Arclight Films is handling worldwide rights for all territories outside of North America, Australia and New Zealand. Sky will release the film as a Sky Original in the U.
- 6/24/2021
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
Gary Hamilton among executive producers.
Arclight Films has acquired worldwide sales rights to the completed post-apocalyptic zombie thriller Wyrmwood: Apocalypse from Bronte Picture and Guerilla Films and launches talks today (June 21) at the virtual Cannes market.
Jake Ryan from The Great Gatsby, Luke McKenzie from BBC Films’ Perfect Sense, Bianca Bradey from The Osiris Child, and Jay Gallagher from Nekrotronic star in the sequel to 2014 Fantastic Fest selection and 2015 Trieste Science+Fiction Festival award winner Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead.
The sequel picks up the action in a zombie-infested Australian wasteland where soldier Rhys has dedicated his life to tracking...
Arclight Films has acquired worldwide sales rights to the completed post-apocalyptic zombie thriller Wyrmwood: Apocalypse from Bronte Picture and Guerilla Films and launches talks today (June 21) at the virtual Cannes market.
Jake Ryan from The Great Gatsby, Luke McKenzie from BBC Films’ Perfect Sense, Bianca Bradey from The Osiris Child, and Jay Gallagher from Nekrotronic star in the sequel to 2014 Fantastic Fest selection and 2015 Trieste Science+Fiction Festival award winner Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead.
The sequel picks up the action in a zombie-infested Australian wasteland where soldier Rhys has dedicated his life to tracking...
- 6/21/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
"We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." Check out this new short film set in a post-apocalyptic future about a father and his daughter. This short is titled In Extremis, and it's the latest short made by filmmaker Dan Marcus, who also happens to write for this site (read his work here). Dan previously directed the sci-fi thriller short Streamline and the relationship short Closure. This time he tells a two-part story about a father trying to survive and raise his daughter. The short is an official selection of the 2021 Chicago Indie Film Awards. The film stars Alejandra Cruz, Will Skrip, Zoe Baker, Kaleb Alexander Roberts, Leticia Perez, and Joelian Sanchez. It's a brisk 9 minutes - watch below. Thanks to Dan for the tip on this launching online. Short description from Vimeo: "A father and daughter traverse a hellish landscape at different parts of their lives.
- 1/12/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Expenditure on screen production in Australia plunged by 18% in the financial year to June 2020, reflecting a near total shutdown of large-scale drama filming from March, due to the impact of the coronavirus and work from home regulations. But, until the virus struck in the fourth (April to June) quarter much of the industry had been on course for a record year.
“If you think that we lost more than a quarter of our year, three and a half months, but ended down only 18%, that’s a good result. It is only half the downturn you might have thought,” Screen Australia CEO, Graeme Mason told Variety.
The July 2019-June 20202 period saw total production spending of A$990 million ($693 million) coming from production of local and foreign feature, television and online drama titles, as well as post, digital and visual effects, according to Screen Australia’s annual Drama Report. The report counts spending...
“If you think that we lost more than a quarter of our year, three and a half months, but ended down only 18%, that’s a good result. It is only half the downturn you might have thought,” Screen Australia CEO, Graeme Mason told Variety.
The July 2019-June 20202 period saw total production spending of A$990 million ($693 million) coming from production of local and foreign feature, television and online drama titles, as well as post, digital and visual effects, according to Screen Australia’s annual Drama Report. The report counts spending...
- 11/26/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Despite the pandemic, there was still almost $1 billion spent on drama production in Australia in the last financial year, indicating the sector had been on track for a potential recordbreaker before it was interrupted.
That’s according Screen Australia’s annual Drama Report, released today, which details expenditure on all local and foreign drama production in 2019-20, across film, TV, and online, as well in post-production, digital and visual effects (Pdv).
The topline figure of $991 million in total drama expenditure is just 18 per cent down on 2018-19. Notably, that number does include projects that began principal photography but entered into hiatus mid-March.
Not included are the 26 drama titles meant to shoot in 2019-20 that were delayed or postponed due to the pandemic, with budgets that exceeded $325 million.
Indeed, if those those had gone ahead, total expenditure would likely have neared or surpassed 2016-17’s record $1.3 billion.
The impact of Covid...
That’s according Screen Australia’s annual Drama Report, released today, which details expenditure on all local and foreign drama production in 2019-20, across film, TV, and online, as well in post-production, digital and visual effects (Pdv).
The topline figure of $991 million in total drama expenditure is just 18 per cent down on 2018-19. Notably, that number does include projects that began principal photography but entered into hiatus mid-March.
Not included are the 26 drama titles meant to shoot in 2019-20 that were delayed or postponed due to the pandemic, with budgets that exceeded $325 million.
Indeed, if those those had gone ahead, total expenditure would likely have neared or surpassed 2016-17’s record $1.3 billion.
The impact of Covid...
- 11/24/2020
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Australian actor Levi Miller channels his inner Ian Thorpe — quite literally — in this exclusive first-look still from upcoming swimming drama Streamline.
Being sold at the virtual American Film Market by Arclight Films, Streamline centers on a 15-year-old swimming prodigy with the world at his feet. But when his long-absent father is released from prison and shows up unannounced, it triggers a childhood trauma and he self-destructs, derailing a promising career.
Miller, who starred opposite Hugh Jackman in Joe Wright’s Peter Pan reimagining Pan and more recently appeared in A Wrinkle in Time, plays the central role, and worked alongside five-time Olympic gold medalist and ...
Being sold at the virtual American Film Market by Arclight Films, Streamline centers on a 15-year-old swimming prodigy with the world at his feet. But when his long-absent father is released from prison and shows up unannounced, it triggers a childhood trauma and he self-destructs, derailing a promising career.
Miller, who starred opposite Hugh Jackman in Joe Wright’s Peter Pan reimagining Pan and more recently appeared in A Wrinkle in Time, plays the central role, and worked alongside five-time Olympic gold medalist and ...
- 11/10/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Australian actor Levi Miller channels his inner Ian Thorpe — quite literally — in this exclusive first-look still from upcoming swimming drama Streamline.
Being sold at the virtual American Film Market by Arclight Films, Streamline centers on a 15-year-old swimming prodigy with the world at his feet. But when his long-absent father is released from prison and shows up unannounced, it triggers a childhood trauma and he self-destructs, derailing a promising career.
Miller, who starred opposite Hugh Jackman in Joe Wright’s Peter Pan reimagining Pan and more recently appeared in A Wrinkle in Time, plays the central role, and worked alongside five-time Olympic gold medalist and ...
Being sold at the virtual American Film Market by Arclight Films, Streamline centers on a 15-year-old swimming prodigy with the world at his feet. But when his long-absent father is released from prison and shows up unannounced, it triggers a childhood trauma and he self-destructs, derailing a promising career.
Miller, who starred opposite Hugh Jackman in Joe Wright’s Peter Pan reimagining Pan and more recently appeared in A Wrinkle in Time, plays the central role, and worked alongside five-time Olympic gold medalist and ...
- 11/10/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Arclight Films is launching international sales on the horror-thriller “The Devil to Pay,” starring Danielle Deadwyler, Catherine Dyer and Jayson Warner Smith.
Arclight chairman Gary Hamilton made the announcement Monday, coinciding with the launch of the online American Film Market.
The story centers on a struggling farmer in an isolated Appalachian community, who fights to save her son when the cold-hearted matriarch of the oldest family on the mountain demands payment of a debt that could destroy a decades-old truce. Lane Skye and Ruckus Skye wrote and directed the film, and produced alongside Deadwyler, Martin L. Kelley, Allison Maier and Gabriel Olson.
“Danielle is a formidable talent, leading this gripping tale of familial defense through its pulse-racing twists and turns, as excellently plotted by Lane and Ruckus,” said Hamilton. “Our buyers have shown a consistent appetite for this kind of cerebral, elevated horror-thriller that both entertains and enlightens. We could...
Arclight chairman Gary Hamilton made the announcement Monday, coinciding with the launch of the online American Film Market.
The story centers on a struggling farmer in an isolated Appalachian community, who fights to save her son when the cold-hearted matriarch of the oldest family on the mountain demands payment of a debt that could destroy a decades-old truce. Lane Skye and Ruckus Skye wrote and directed the film, and produced alongside Deadwyler, Martin L. Kelley, Allison Maier and Gabriel Olson.
“Danielle is a formidable talent, leading this gripping tale of familial defense through its pulse-racing twists and turns, as excellently plotted by Lane and Ruckus,” said Hamilton. “Our buyers have shown a consistent appetite for this kind of cerebral, elevated horror-thriller that both entertains and enlightens. We could...
- 11/9/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
‘High Ground’.
With Melbourne cinemas closed and most of those still in operation averaging capacities of 10 – 20 per cent, Madman Entertainment sensibly has decided to release Stephen Johnson’s High Ground next year.
The 1930s-set drama, which stars Simon Baker, Jacob Junior Nayinggul, Jack Thompson, Callan Mulvey, Aaron Pedersen, Caren Pistorius and Ryan Corr, was originally slated to open on July 9.
It will join a number of other Aussie titles dated for 2021, including Glendyn Ivin’s Penguin Bloom (January 1) and Robert Connolly’s The Dry (April 8), both Roadshow releases.
Inspired by true events, scripted by Chris Anastassiades and produced by Maggie Miles, Yothu Yindi co-founder Witiyana Marika, Johnson, David Jowsey and Greer Simpkin, High Ground has its world premiere in the Berlinale Special screenings section of the Berlin International Film Festival.
“High Ground obviously has had its trajectory post-Berlinale world premiere impacted by Covid-19,” Madman MD Paul Wiegard tells If.
“With...
With Melbourne cinemas closed and most of those still in operation averaging capacities of 10 – 20 per cent, Madman Entertainment sensibly has decided to release Stephen Johnson’s High Ground next year.
The 1930s-set drama, which stars Simon Baker, Jacob Junior Nayinggul, Jack Thompson, Callan Mulvey, Aaron Pedersen, Caren Pistorius and Ryan Corr, was originally slated to open on July 9.
It will join a number of other Aussie titles dated for 2021, including Glendyn Ivin’s Penguin Bloom (January 1) and Robert Connolly’s The Dry (April 8), both Roadshow releases.
Inspired by true events, scripted by Chris Anastassiades and produced by Maggie Miles, Yothu Yindi co-founder Witiyana Marika, Johnson, David Jowsey and Greer Simpkin, High Ground has its world premiere in the Berlinale Special screenings section of the Berlin International Film Festival.
“High Ground obviously has had its trajectory post-Berlinale world premiere impacted by Covid-19,” Madman MD Paul Wiegard tells If.
“With...
- 7/22/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Relic’
While some distributors are cutting back, Umbrella Entertainment plans to release approximately 18 titles in cinemas this year, up from 14 in 2019.
The distributor has high hopes for its Australian acquisitions which run the gamut of genres from drama, horror and Western to sci-fi.
“We’re passionate about overcoming the cultural cringe that Australian audiences still have a tendency to display and are dedicated to fostering new Australian talent,” Umbrella head of acquisitions Ari Harrison tells If.
“As a small, close-knit team, we aim to concentrate our efforts on films that we love and can support from the ground up. We want to work hand-in-hand with the filmmakers with the goal of getting their film ‘out there’ so that it finds its audience.
“Essentially we aim to ensure that the films we acquire have the capacity for national theatrical success in Australia and New Zealand, with potential for continued growth via their ancillary platforms.
While some distributors are cutting back, Umbrella Entertainment plans to release approximately 18 titles in cinemas this year, up from 14 in 2019.
The distributor has high hopes for its Australian acquisitions which run the gamut of genres from drama, horror and Western to sci-fi.
“We’re passionate about overcoming the cultural cringe that Australian audiences still have a tendency to display and are dedicated to fostering new Australian talent,” Umbrella head of acquisitions Ari Harrison tells If.
“As a small, close-knit team, we aim to concentrate our efforts on films that we love and can support from the ground up. We want to work hand-in-hand with the filmmakers with the goal of getting their film ‘out there’ so that it finds its audience.
“Essentially we aim to ensure that the films we acquire have the capacity for national theatrical success in Australia and New Zealand, with potential for continued growth via their ancillary platforms.
- 2/16/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Blake Northfield and Heath Davis.
Writer-director Heath Davis and Bronte Pictures’ Blake Northfield are teaming up for Blood Red Sky, a feature inspired by the Australian bushfire crisis.
The pair intends to donate 25 per cent of the film’s profits to the rural fire services in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland.
Due to shoot in Nsw and Queensland late this year, the narrative will follow a motley crew of volunteer firefighters and courageous locals who must overcome their personal and political differences when a bushfire threatens their picturesque country town.
Northfield aims to raise the budget from government agencies and international partners. Greg Apps will come on board as casting director. “We have very high expectations on cast,” says the producer, whose credits include Storm Ashwood’s thrillers The School and Escape and Evasion.
Rejecting any suggestion that the public has witnessed more than enough devastation either in person or on television,...
Writer-director Heath Davis and Bronte Pictures’ Blake Northfield are teaming up for Blood Red Sky, a feature inspired by the Australian bushfire crisis.
The pair intends to donate 25 per cent of the film’s profits to the rural fire services in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland.
Due to shoot in Nsw and Queensland late this year, the narrative will follow a motley crew of volunteer firefighters and courageous locals who must overcome their personal and political differences when a bushfire threatens their picturesque country town.
Northfield aims to raise the budget from government agencies and international partners. Greg Apps will come on board as casting director. “We have very high expectations on cast,” says the producer, whose credits include Storm Ashwood’s thrillers The School and Escape and Evasion.
Rejecting any suggestion that the public has witnessed more than enough devastation either in person or on television,...
- 1/16/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
The classic noir film “Union Station” (1950) showed the 1939 train depot in its heyday as the last of America’s great railway stations, even if L.A. subbed for Chicago in typical Hollywood fashion.
But “Blade Runner” (1982), another one of the hundreds of productions shot there, may be a more appropriate model for today’s jumble of uses that includes Amtrak trains, the Metro Rail subway, buses, filming and events that often take over the serene Spanish-tiled courtyards.
Some of the most significant architectural features of the Mission Revival building with Dutch Colonial Revival touches are hidden from travelers: The pristinely preserved Fred Harvey restaurant (he of “The Harvey Girls” fame), with its Streamline Moderne features and the soaring trussed ceilings of the main ticketing hall can only be seen by location crews or those attending private events.
But Union Station is prepping for a new era with a master plan...
But “Blade Runner” (1982), another one of the hundreds of productions shot there, may be a more appropriate model for today’s jumble of uses that includes Amtrak trains, the Metro Rail subway, buses, filming and events that often take over the serene Spanish-tiled courtyards.
Some of the most significant architectural features of the Mission Revival building with Dutch Colonial Revival touches are hidden from travelers: The pristinely preserved Fred Harvey restaurant (he of “The Harvey Girls” fame), with its Streamline Moderne features and the soaring trussed ceilings of the main ticketing hall can only be seen by location crews or those attending private events.
But Union Station is prepping for a new era with a master plan...
- 8/2/2013
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
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