Project is director Welby Ings’ debut feature.
The Yellow Affair has struck a deal for North American rights with Dark Star Pictures to Welby Ings’ debut feature Punch.
Other deals recently closed for the New Zealand drama include to UK & Ireland (Peccadillo), Germany and Austria (Salzgeber) and France (Outplay) with further territories in negotiation.
Punch, which stars Tim Roth, Jordan Oosterhof and Conan Hayes, recently had its international premiere in the First Feature Competition at Tallinn Black Nights.
After a North American premiere at Palm Springs International Film Festival, Dark Star is planning a theatrical release in early 2023.
Robin Murphy...
The Yellow Affair has struck a deal for North American rights with Dark Star Pictures to Welby Ings’ debut feature Punch.
Other deals recently closed for the New Zealand drama include to UK & Ireland (Peccadillo), Germany and Austria (Salzgeber) and France (Outplay) with further territories in negotiation.
Punch, which stars Tim Roth, Jordan Oosterhof and Conan Hayes, recently had its international premiere in the First Feature Competition at Tallinn Black Nights.
After a North American premiere at Palm Springs International Film Festival, Dark Star is planning a theatrical release in early 2023.
Robin Murphy...
- 12/7/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Project is director Welby Ings’ debut feature.
The Yellow Affair has struck a deal for North American rights with Dark Star Pictures to Welby Ings’ debut feature Punch.
Other deals recently closed for the New Zealand drama include to UK & Ireland (Peccadillo), Germany and Austria (Salzgeber) and France (Outplay) with further territories in negotiation.
Punch, which stars Tim Roth, Jordan Oosterhof and Conan Hayes, recently had its international premiere in the First Feature Competition at Tallinn Black Nights.
After a North American premiere at Palm Springs International Film Festival, Dark Star is planning a theatrical release in early 2023.
Robin Murphy...
The Yellow Affair has struck a deal for North American rights with Dark Star Pictures to Welby Ings’ debut feature Punch.
Other deals recently closed for the New Zealand drama include to UK & Ireland (Peccadillo), Germany and Austria (Salzgeber) and France (Outplay) with further territories in negotiation.
Punch, which stars Tim Roth, Jordan Oosterhof and Conan Hayes, recently had its international premiere in the First Feature Competition at Tallinn Black Nights.
After a North American premiere at Palm Springs International Film Festival, Dark Star is planning a theatrical release in early 2023.
Robin Murphy...
- 12/7/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
* Some names have been changed to protect survivors of sexual assault and abuse.
Years before the secret room in the garage behind his place, years before he ran around sickening the souls of untold girls in Putnam County, New York, Howard Gombert had a jones for Rachel R.* From the day he entered her life with sweet talk and presents, Gombert danced attendance on Rachel. He took her fishing on his days off from work. He bought her jewelry and showered her with lingerie. “I had my own drawer [for] slutty clothes,...
Years before the secret room in the garage behind his place, years before he ran around sickening the souls of untold girls in Putnam County, New York, Howard Gombert had a jones for Rachel R.* From the day he entered her life with sweet talk and presents, Gombert danced attendance on Rachel. He took her fishing on his days off from work. He bought her jewelry and showered her with lingerie. “I had my own drawer [for] slutty clothes,...
- 8/22/2021
- by Paul Solotaroff
- Rollingstone.com
Fall River Two-Part Finale Premieres May 30 at 9Pm on E Episode 103 – “Mark of the Beast” Through a prison interview, Robin Murphy’s harrowing account brings everything into question. Her story paints a picture of corruption and neglect that reveals a truth never before considered. An additional murder is revealed, previously thought to be unconnected …
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- 6/10/2021
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
On the evening of February 8th, 1980, 20-year-old sex worker Karen Marsden was sobbing in a police car. The officers who’d picked her up wanted her to take them to the sites of satanic rituals she’d claimed to have attended in the woods near Fall River, Massachusetts, but she was panicked and incoherent. She claimed that her pimp, whom she referred to as Satan, would kill her if he found out she’d been talking to police. She asked them to drop her at St. Mary’s church so...
- 5/28/2021
- by Andrea Marks
- Rollingstone.com
(Some light spoilers ahead for “Fall River,” Episode 1 titled “My Soul To Keep.”)
Sex for sale, satanic cults, addiction and a streak of brutal murders of young women too gruesome to fathom are all brought to light in a four-part docuseries “Fall River” from Blumhouse Television and premiering May 16 on Epix.
Almost 90 years after Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her stepmother 40 whacks in Fall River, Massachusetts, another macabre killing spree hit the quaint, historic New England city. It began on Oct. 13, 1979, when the naked body of Doreen Levesque, a homeless 17-year-old girl, was found under the high school bleachers. She was tied up with fishing wire, her head and face were crushed with a rock and, as private investigator Chris Hayes put it, “This girl had a baseball bat shoved inside of her.”
Watch the exclusive trailer above.
In the 1960s, ’70s and early ’80s, drug addiction rates...
Sex for sale, satanic cults, addiction and a streak of brutal murders of young women too gruesome to fathom are all brought to light in a four-part docuseries “Fall River” from Blumhouse Television and premiering May 16 on Epix.
Almost 90 years after Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her stepmother 40 whacks in Fall River, Massachusetts, another macabre killing spree hit the quaint, historic New England city. It began on Oct. 13, 1979, when the naked body of Doreen Levesque, a homeless 17-year-old girl, was found under the high school bleachers. She was tied up with fishing wire, her head and face were crushed with a rock and, as private investigator Chris Hayes put it, “This girl had a baseball bat shoved inside of her.”
Watch the exclusive trailer above.
In the 1960s, ’70s and early ’80s, drug addiction rates...
- 5/15/2021
- by Rosemary Rossi
- The Wrap
Fall River, a four-part docuseries running on Epix, is structured like a rollercoaster. Every episode cranks up the suspense, building to a conclusion, and then drops the viewer into an emotional freefall. Almost 90 years after Lizzie Borden was acquitted of murder, Fall River, Massachusetts, hosted a second trial of the century. But this one was more like the witch hunts held in Salem, just over an hour’s drive away. Three women were killed in 1979, and the police and media blamed a devilish sect. The cult leader, a pimp named Carl Drew, declared himself Satan, and held his flock in scared awe by exacting human sacrifice at demonic rituals in the woods.
Executive produced by Blumhouse Television, Fall River is one of the most graphic documentaries to come out of the recent glut of the televised true crime genre. Most of this comes from the archival footage the series uses...
Executive produced by Blumhouse Television, Fall River is one of the most graphic documentaries to come out of the recent glut of the televised true crime genre. Most of this comes from the archival footage the series uses...
- 5/13/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
When local newspapers complain about traffic jams caused by Nicole Kidman filming (in New South Wales’ picturesque Byron Bay) and Natalie Portman stopping Sydney traffic by wearing revealing shorts, there is a sense that normality has returned to everyday life in Australia. The film industry is back in production high gear.
Indeed, films starring Zac Efron (“Gold”), Chris Hemsworth (“Escape From Spiderhead”), Joel Edgerton and Tom Hanks, are all currently lensing in different parts of Australia. Portman is preparing to shoot Marvel’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” while Kidman and Melissa McCarthy were recently shooting Hulu miniseries “Nine Perfect Strangers.” George Miller is shooting his “Furiosa,” a “Mad Max” spinoff, for Warner Bros.
Neighbor and sometime rival New Zealand is equally busy. Disney’s “Avatar” movie franchise and Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings” TV series are
both moving again after a coronavirus hiatus. A slew of local movies is also now shooting.
Indeed, films starring Zac Efron (“Gold”), Chris Hemsworth (“Escape From Spiderhead”), Joel Edgerton and Tom Hanks, are all currently lensing in different parts of Australia. Portman is preparing to shoot Marvel’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” while Kidman and Melissa McCarthy were recently shooting Hulu miniseries “Nine Perfect Strangers.” George Miller is shooting his “Furiosa,” a “Mad Max” spinoff, for Warner Bros.
Neighbor and sometime rival New Zealand is equally busy. Disney’s “Avatar” movie franchise and Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings” TV series are
both moving again after a coronavirus hiatus. A slew of local movies is also now shooting.
- 12/9/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Oscar-nominee Tim Roth (Rob Roy) is attached to star in New Zealand drama Punch, which European sales firm The Yellow Affair is introducing to world buyers during the Toronto virtual market.
Pulp Fiction and The Hateful Eight actor Roth, who is currently starring in Sky and Amazon series Tin Star, will play Stan, the demanding coach and notorious alcoholic father of Jim, a seventeen year-old boxer in a small town. Golden boy Jim is preparing for his first professional fight but begins to rethink his life’s trajectory and his sexuality after tangling with Whetu, a razor-tongued, gay Maori boy who spends his days in an old shack down by the beach.
The roles of Jim and Whetu are being cast at the moment ahead of a scheduled November 9 start date.
The film marks the feature debut of writer-director Welby Ings whose previous shorts have played at dozens of festivals.
Pulp Fiction and The Hateful Eight actor Roth, who is currently starring in Sky and Amazon series Tin Star, will play Stan, the demanding coach and notorious alcoholic father of Jim, a seventeen year-old boxer in a small town. Golden boy Jim is preparing for his first professional fight but begins to rethink his life’s trajectory and his sexuality after tangling with Whetu, a razor-tongued, gay Maori boy who spends his days in an old shack down by the beach.
The roles of Jim and Whetu are being cast at the moment ahead of a scheduled November 9 start date.
The film marks the feature debut of writer-director Welby Ings whose previous shorts have played at dozens of festivals.
- 9/15/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
(L-r) Scott Wills, Cohen Holloway, Robbie Magasiva, Rebecca Gibney, James Rolleston, Min Kim and Samuel Austin (Photo credit: Sam Norman)
Director Paul Murphy’s Lowdown Dirty Criminals, a comedy crime caper about two naïve young men searching for a better life, is shooting in Wellington.
Scripted by David Brechin-Smith, the plot follows James Rolleston as Freddy and Toi Whakaari graduate Samuel Austin as Marvin, who believe a life of crime will provide them with the future they are seeking, or in their own words, setting them up with “monies and honeys.”
The ensemble cast includes Robbie Magasiva, Rebecca Gibney and Cohen Holloway (Hunt for the Wilderpeople.)
Robin Murphy and Sadie Wilson are producing for Lowdown Productions, with investment from the New Zealand Film Commission, Avalon Studios, Global Film Solutions and Hells Pizza. Catherine Fitzgerald is the Ep.
Monster Pictures will distribute in Australia and New Zealand. Mpi Media Group is handling international sales.
Director Paul Murphy’s Lowdown Dirty Criminals, a comedy crime caper about two naïve young men searching for a better life, is shooting in Wellington.
Scripted by David Brechin-Smith, the plot follows James Rolleston as Freddy and Toi Whakaari graduate Samuel Austin as Marvin, who believe a life of crime will provide them with the future they are seeking, or in their own words, setting them up with “monies and honeys.”
The ensemble cast includes Robbie Magasiva, Rebecca Gibney and Cohen Holloway (Hunt for the Wilderpeople.)
Robin Murphy and Sadie Wilson are producing for Lowdown Productions, with investment from the New Zealand Film Commission, Avalon Studios, Global Film Solutions and Hells Pizza. Catherine Fitzgerald is the Ep.
Monster Pictures will distribute in Australia and New Zealand. Mpi Media Group is handling international sales.
- 3/12/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress — at the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Sparrow
Logline: “Sparrow” is the beautiful story of a small boy who is teased because he thinks he can fly. When a family myth about his war veteran grandfather is exploded, he discovers strength to stand up to the school bullies in a very unusual way.
Elevator Pitch:
“Sparrow” is a distinctive New Zealand story located in the beautiful, slightly surreal world of blasted quarries, gravel roads, abandoned psychiatric hospitals and wooden schools. Here, hypnotic and graceful camera movement seduces us into the almost magical realism of the narrative.
Welby Ings is an award-winning artist, educator and filmmaker whose unique visual...
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Sparrow
Logline: “Sparrow” is the beautiful story of a small boy who is teased because he thinks he can fly. When a family myth about his war veteran grandfather is exploded, he discovers strength to stand up to the school bullies in a very unusual way.
Elevator Pitch:
“Sparrow” is a distinctive New Zealand story located in the beautiful, slightly surreal world of blasted quarries, gravel roads, abandoned psychiatric hospitals and wooden schools. Here, hypnotic and graceful camera movement seduces us into the almost magical realism of the narrative.
Welby Ings is an award-winning artist, educator and filmmaker whose unique visual...
- 7/19/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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