Ocean Boy (Bosch & Rockit) is a 2022 movie directed by Tyler Atkins starring Luke Hemsworth and Isabel Lucas. It will be released on February 3
As Rockit grapples to understand why his Mum’s not coming home, he embarks on a magical holiday with his father, Bosch, only to discover they’re actually running from the law. Rockit finds a soulmate and then teenage love with Ash Ash, but it’s the ocean that gives him the security and calm he yearns from his parents. Ultimately Rockit is a boy nurtured and held by nature.
Release Date
February 3, 2023 (United States)
Cast
Luke Hemsworth / Bosch
Isabel Lucas / Deb
Leeanna Walsman / Elizabeth
Heather Mitchell / Wendy
Michael Sheasby
Martin Sacks
Savannah La Rain
Rasmus King
Pearl Spring Voss
Ryan Oliver Gelbart
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As Rockit grapples to understand why his Mum’s not coming home, he embarks on a magical holiday with his father, Bosch, only to discover they’re actually running from the law. Rockit finds a soulmate and then teenage love with Ash Ash, but it’s the ocean that gives him the security and calm he yearns from his parents. Ultimately Rockit is a boy nurtured and held by nature.
Release Date
February 3, 2023 (United States)
Cast
Luke Hemsworth / Bosch
Isabel Lucas / Deb
Leeanna Walsman / Elizabeth
Heather Mitchell / Wendy
Michael Sheasby
Martin Sacks
Savannah La Rain
Rasmus King
Pearl Spring Voss
Ryan Oliver Gelbart
See full credits >>...
- 1/16/2023
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
The Academy announced Kelley Kali and Waad al-Kateeb as domestic and international recipients, respectively, of the 2021 Academy Fellowship for Women — with Kali receiving $35,000 and al-Kateeb receiving the equivalent of £20,000.
Part of the Academy Gold global talent development and inclusion initiative, the fellowship for women is a one-year program that provides direct financial support, mentorship and access to filmmakers. Additionally, fellows will also receive career achievement support through the Alumni Gold Program — which provides professional development and education for alumni of Academy Gold Programs, including Gold Rising, Student Academy Awards and the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting.
Both Kali and al-Kateeb were selected from a group of 11 finalists, including Kimberlee Bassford, Vigil Chime, Shaina Ghuraya, Amy Tofte, Gordon West, Farah Abushwesha, Rienkje Attoh-Wood, Prano Bailey-Bond and Dionne Edwards.
Kali is a graduate of Howard University and USC School of Cinematic Arts. Credits include being selected to work with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer...
Part of the Academy Gold global talent development and inclusion initiative, the fellowship for women is a one-year program that provides direct financial support, mentorship and access to filmmakers. Additionally, fellows will also receive career achievement support through the Alumni Gold Program — which provides professional development and education for alumni of Academy Gold Programs, including Gold Rising, Student Academy Awards and the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting.
Both Kali and al-Kateeb were selected from a group of 11 finalists, including Kimberlee Bassford, Vigil Chime, Shaina Ghuraya, Amy Tofte, Gordon West, Farah Abushwesha, Rienkje Attoh-Wood, Prano Bailey-Bond and Dionne Edwards.
Kali is a graduate of Howard University and USC School of Cinematic Arts. Credits include being selected to work with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer...
- 12/16/2021
- by Jennifer Yuma
- Variety Film + TV
When it comes to filming back-to-back projects, one could do worse than swapping out Byron Bay for the Great Ocean Road.
Such was the scenario for young actress Savannah La Rain, who went from shooting Tyler Atkins’ debut feature Bosch and Rockit with Luke Hemsworth in the second half of 2020 to riding waves in regional Victoria earlier this year for upcoming Netflix young adult series Surviving Summer.
The 16-year-old told If the transition was a case of art imitating life.
“I loved how could just tell the vibe [with Surviving Summer] was so Australian with the surfing and the lingo,” she said.
“Having just come from Byron, where I had been experiencing the surf culture, it was very cool to see it in a television show and it felt very relatable.
“I could just tell it was something so special that I wanted to be a part of.”
The roles signal...
Such was the scenario for young actress Savannah La Rain, who went from shooting Tyler Atkins’ debut feature Bosch and Rockit with Luke Hemsworth in the second half of 2020 to riding waves in regional Victoria earlier this year for upcoming Netflix young adult series Surviving Summer.
The 16-year-old told If the transition was a case of art imitating life.
“I loved how could just tell the vibe [with Surviving Summer] was so Australian with the surfing and the lingo,” she said.
“Having just come from Byron, where I had been experiencing the surf culture, it was very cool to see it in a television show and it felt very relatable.
“I could just tell it was something so special that I wanted to be a part of.”
The roles signal...
- 10/23/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Peter Skinner’s Lost Boy was crowned Best Short Film at the St Kilda Film Festival on Saturday, winning a cash prize of $10,000.
The film, which was produced by Susannah Wolff and David Shyegun, stars Michael Sheasby as a volatile bartender who shows up to work with a fresh black eye and is subsequently challenged by his boss to drop his macho persona.
Skinner previously earned an Australian Director’s Guild (Adg) Award nomination for the project.
Other winners included Jaina Kalifa and Amelia Paxman’s Lost Contact, which was awarded Best Documentary, and Gabriel Morrison’s Joy, for which Morrison received Best Director and Best Screenplay, which she shared with co-writer Serena Siow.
Fresh from its win at March’s SXSW, Jon Bell’s The Moogai won the award for Best Achievement in Indigenous Filmmaking.
Of the acting categories, Ben Mortley won Best Actor for Antony Webb’s Carmentis,...
The film, which was produced by Susannah Wolff and David Shyegun, stars Michael Sheasby as a volatile bartender who shows up to work with a fresh black eye and is subsequently challenged by his boss to drop his macho persona.
Skinner previously earned an Australian Director’s Guild (Adg) Award nomination for the project.
Other winners included Jaina Kalifa and Amelia Paxman’s Lost Contact, which was awarded Best Documentary, and Gabriel Morrison’s Joy, for which Morrison received Best Director and Best Screenplay, which she shared with co-writer Serena Siow.
Fresh from its win at March’s SXSW, Jon Bell’s The Moogai won the award for Best Achievement in Indigenous Filmmaking.
Of the acting categories, Ben Mortley won Best Actor for Antony Webb’s Carmentis,...
- 5/31/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Stars: Aisling Franciosi, Baykali Ganambarr, Sam Claflin, Damon Herriman, Harry Greenwood, Ewen Leslie, Charlie Shotwell, Michael Sheasby, Charlie Jampijinpa Brown, Magnolia Maymuru | Written and Directed by Jennifer Kent
Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent’s follow-up to The Babadook is this brutal, uncompromising revenge tale set in the Tasmanian Outback. As such, it is most assuredly not for everyone, but those who can stomach the horrific opening are in for a stunningly realised revenge thriller that sears itself into your brain with its white hot rage.
Set in the British colony of Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) in 1825, the film stars Aisling Franciosi as Clare, a young convict who’s served her time and is waiting for Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Clafin) to sign her papers, so she can begin a new life of freedom with her husband (Michael Sheasby) and newborn baby. However, Hawkins shows no intention of granting her freedom...
Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent’s follow-up to The Babadook is this brutal, uncompromising revenge tale set in the Tasmanian Outback. As such, it is most assuredly not for everyone, but those who can stomach the horrific opening are in for a stunningly realised revenge thriller that sears itself into your brain with its white hot rage.
Set in the British colony of Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) in 1825, the film stars Aisling Franciosi as Clare, a young convict who’s served her time and is waiting for Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Clafin) to sign her papers, so she can begin a new life of freedom with her husband (Michael Sheasby) and newborn baby. However, Hawkins shows no intention of granting her freedom...
- 2/4/2021
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
The Luminaries Trailers — BBC and Starz‘s The Luminaries (2020) TV mini-series trailers has been released. The Luminaries trailers stars Eve Hewson, Eva Green, Himesh Patel, Ewen Leslie, Marton Csokas, Callan Mulvey, and Michael Sheasby. Crew Claire McCarthy directed The Luminaries. Eleanor Catton wrote the screenplays for the TV mini-series. David Long created the [...]
Continue reading: The Luminaries Trailers: Eve Hewson & Himesh Patel’s Fates are Linked During a Gold Rush in Starz’s 2020 TV Mini-series...
Continue reading: The Luminaries Trailers: Eve Hewson & Himesh Patel’s Fates are Linked During a Gold Rush in Starz’s 2020 TV Mini-series...
- 1/22/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
The burgeoning creative partnership between director Peter Skinner (Stranger) and actor Michael Sheasby will be showcased at this month’s Flickerfest, with the pair collaborating on two short films to be featured at the event.
2020’s Lost Boy, which earned Skinner an Australian Director’s Guild (Adg) Award nomination, will screen alongside Staring Contest.
The former has Sheasby as volatile bartender who shows up to work with a fresh black eye and is subsequently challenged by his boss to drop his macho persona.
In Staring Contest, which was made by Skinner during the lockdown, the Aacta-nominated actor plays one half of a former couple whose tea-drinking reunion ends up spanning their entire relationship.
The films form part of a trilogy of projects between the director and actor, who first met in 2015 after Skinner came across one of Sheasby’s audition tapes while casting his short film Brother.
The director told...
2020’s Lost Boy, which earned Skinner an Australian Director’s Guild (Adg) Award nomination, will screen alongside Staring Contest.
The former has Sheasby as volatile bartender who shows up to work with a fresh black eye and is subsequently challenged by his boss to drop his macho persona.
In Staring Contest, which was made by Skinner during the lockdown, the Aacta-nominated actor plays one half of a former couple whose tea-drinking reunion ends up spanning their entire relationship.
The films form part of a trilogy of projects between the director and actor, who first met in 2015 after Skinner came across one of Sheasby’s audition tapes while casting his short film Brother.
The director told...
- 1/13/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
John Schwarz and Tyler Atkins.
Luke Hemsworth is playing the lead opposite teenager Rasmus King in Bosch and Rockit, writer-director Tyler Atkins’ debut feature which follows a father and son who are pursued by crooked cops.
Now shooting in Byron Bay, the privately-financed road movie/drama is a spin-off from Atkins’ 2018 short which starred King and Aaron Jeffery.
Deeper Water Pictures’ John Schwarz, who joined the project several weeks ago at the suggestion of Dop Ben Nott, is producing with Cathy Flannery.
Based on a true story, the plot follows Hemsworth’s Bosch and King’s 13-year-old Rockit as they embark on a late summer trip along the Australian coast.
Rockit believes he is on a magical holiday with his dad until he sees the cops are in pursuit. On the run, they struggle with numerous setbacks with hope, courage and determination.
Michael Sheasby and Martin Sacks play the cops...
Luke Hemsworth is playing the lead opposite teenager Rasmus King in Bosch and Rockit, writer-director Tyler Atkins’ debut feature which follows a father and son who are pursued by crooked cops.
Now shooting in Byron Bay, the privately-financed road movie/drama is a spin-off from Atkins’ 2018 short which starred King and Aaron Jeffery.
Deeper Water Pictures’ John Schwarz, who joined the project several weeks ago at the suggestion of Dop Ben Nott, is producing with Cathy Flannery.
Based on a true story, the plot follows Hemsworth’s Bosch and King’s 13-year-old Rockit as they embark on a late summer trip along the Australian coast.
Rockit believes he is on a magical holiday with his dad until he sees the cops are in pursuit. On the run, they struggle with numerous setbacks with hope, courage and determination.
Michael Sheasby and Martin Sacks play the cops...
- 8/18/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
To mark the release of The Secrets She Keeps on 10th August, we’ve been given 2 copies to give away on DVD.
Successful mummy-blogger Meghan meets shelf-stacker Agatha in the supermarket of her affluent Sydney suburb. The pair are both pregnant, bonding over the similar due dates of their babies, but as they grow closer, Agatha becomes more and more obsessed with Meghan’s “perfect” life. However under the surface, problems with her high-flying TV exec husband Jack and tension with his best friend Simon mean Meghan is keeping plenty of secrets of her own…
Meanwhile, the father of Agatha’s child, Hayden is away on duty and might not be as excited about the baby as Agatha is, forcing her to confront the question: when the life you want isn’t yours, how far will you go to get it?
A fascinating exploration of female friendship, urban class divide,...
Successful mummy-blogger Meghan meets shelf-stacker Agatha in the supermarket of her affluent Sydney suburb. The pair are both pregnant, bonding over the similar due dates of their babies, but as they grow closer, Agatha becomes more and more obsessed with Meghan’s “perfect” life. However under the surface, problems with her high-flying TV exec husband Jack and tension with his best friend Simon mean Meghan is keeping plenty of secrets of her own…
Meanwhile, the father of Agatha’s child, Hayden is away on duty and might not be as excited about the baby as Agatha is, forcing her to confront the question: when the life you want isn’t yours, how far will you go to get it?
A fascinating exploration of female friendship, urban class divide,...
- 7/11/2020
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Jessica de Gouw and Laura Carmichael in ‘The Secrets She Keeps.’
AMC Networks’ Us streaming service Sundance Now has bought Lingo Pictures’ The Secrets She Keeps, the psychological thriller starring Laura Carmichael, Jessica de Gouw, Michael Dorman and Ryan Corr.
That follows the BBC’s acquisition of the six-part series adapted by Sarah Walker and Jono Gavin from the Michael Robotham novel.
In other deals negotiated by Dcd Rights, the show has been sold to France, New Zealand, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Russia, Cis, the Baltics and Israel, with further sales to be announced.
Network 10 commissioned the series produced by Lingo Pictures’ Helen Bowden and Paul Watters, co-funded by Screen Australia and Screen Nsw. Catherine Millar directed four episodes and Jennifer Leacey helmed two.
Loosely based on true events, the plot follows two heavily pregnant women who have a chance encounter in a Sydney supermarket. De Gouw is Meghan, a...
AMC Networks’ Us streaming service Sundance Now has bought Lingo Pictures’ The Secrets She Keeps, the psychological thriller starring Laura Carmichael, Jessica de Gouw, Michael Dorman and Ryan Corr.
That follows the BBC’s acquisition of the six-part series adapted by Sarah Walker and Jono Gavin from the Michael Robotham novel.
In other deals negotiated by Dcd Rights, the show has been sold to France, New Zealand, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Russia, Cis, the Baltics and Israel, with further sales to be announced.
Network 10 commissioned the series produced by Lingo Pictures’ Helen Bowden and Paul Watters, co-funded by Screen Australia and Screen Nsw. Catherine Millar directed four episodes and Jennifer Leacey helmed two.
Loosely based on true events, the plot follows two heavily pregnant women who have a chance encounter in a Sydney supermarket. De Gouw is Meghan, a...
- 2/19/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Laura Carmichael and Jessica de Gouw in ‘The Secrets She Keeps.’
The BBC has bought the UK rights to Lingo Pictures’ The Secrets She Keeps, the psychological thriller starring Laura Carmichael (Downton Abbey), Jessica de Gouw (The Crown) and Michael Dorman (Patriot).
Adapted by Sarah Walker and Jono Gavin from the Michael Robotham novel, the six-part series is expected to premiere in the northern spring.
Carmichael plays Agatha Fyfle, a battler who works in a supermarket as a shelf stacker. She’s ecstatic to be pregnant, pinning her hopes and dreams on a much longed-for ‘miracle baby,’ although the father Hayden (Michael Sheasby), a sailor, is oblivious to her condition.
DeGouw is Meghan Shaughnessy, an upper middle class mother-of-two who is married to Jack (Dorman), an ambitious TV sports reporter. Meghan runs a popular “mummy” blog, which masks her less than perfect home life.
When Agatha discovers Meghan is pregnant...
The BBC has bought the UK rights to Lingo Pictures’ The Secrets She Keeps, the psychological thriller starring Laura Carmichael (Downton Abbey), Jessica de Gouw (The Crown) and Michael Dorman (Patriot).
Adapted by Sarah Walker and Jono Gavin from the Michael Robotham novel, the six-part series is expected to premiere in the northern spring.
Carmichael plays Agatha Fyfle, a battler who works in a supermarket as a shelf stacker. She’s ecstatic to be pregnant, pinning her hopes and dreams on a much longed-for ‘miracle baby,’ although the father Hayden (Michael Sheasby), a sailor, is oblivious to her condition.
DeGouw is Meghan Shaughnessy, an upper middle class mother-of-two who is married to Jack (Dorman), an ambitious TV sports reporter. Meghan runs a popular “mummy” blog, which masks her less than perfect home life.
When Agatha discovers Meghan is pregnant...
- 2/16/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Stars: Aisling Franciosi, Baykali Ganambarr, Sam Claflin, Damon Herriman, Harry Greenwood, Ewen Leslie, Charlie Shotwell, Michael Sheasby, Charlie Jampijinpa Brown, Magnolia Maymuru | Written and Directed by Jennifer Kent
The Nightingale is the eagerly anticipated follow up to Jennifer Kent’s horror debut The Babadook. Set in 1825 Australia, only half a century or so after Captain James Cook claimed it for the British, Kent unapologetically presents you with the gloomy reality of invading colonialists brutally expanding their empire off the backs of indentured convicts and knee deep in the genocidal blood of indigenous, Aboriginal Australians.
Bullish Lt. Hawkins is an ambitious pragmatist who’s lost interest in the soldiers he commands at a remote outpost of the British Empire he’s established. Played by Sam Claflin (Oswald Moseley in Peaky Blinders), he was once motivated by the promise of the Captain’s job in a bigger town up north if he knuckled down for twelve months.
The Nightingale is the eagerly anticipated follow up to Jennifer Kent’s horror debut The Babadook. Set in 1825 Australia, only half a century or so after Captain James Cook claimed it for the British, Kent unapologetically presents you with the gloomy reality of invading colonialists brutally expanding their empire off the backs of indentured convicts and knee deep in the genocidal blood of indigenous, Aboriginal Australians.
Bullish Lt. Hawkins is an ambitious pragmatist who’s lost interest in the soldiers he commands at a remote outpost of the British Empire he’s established. Played by Sam Claflin (Oswald Moseley in Peaky Blinders), he was once motivated by the promise of the Captain’s job in a bigger town up north if he knuckled down for twelve months.
- 11/25/2019
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
Nominations for the 9th annual Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) Awards were unveiled in Sydney on Oct. 23, with Jennifer Kent‘s “The Nightingale” sweeping the film nominations with 15 nominations. The period thriller follow-up to Kent’s horror directorial debut “The Babadook” was followed closely by Anthony Maras‘ true story thriller “Hotel Mumbai” and Oscar nominee David Michod‘s Netflix period picture “The King,” with 13 bids apiece. On the TV side, gothic period drama “Lambs of God” shattered Aacta records with 14 nominations across TV categories, with an additional four subscription television award nominations. Winners will be revealed at a luncheon on Dec. 2 and a ceremony two days later.
Other nominees this year include Timothee Chalamet (“The King”), Dev Patel (“Hotel Mumbai”), Ben Mendelsohn (“The King”), Hilary Swank (“I Am Mother”), Ann Dowd (“Lambs of God”), Rachel Griffiths (“Total Control”) and Jacki Weaver (“Bloom”). Previous Aacta Award winner Damon Herriman...
Other nominees this year include Timothee Chalamet (“The King”), Dev Patel (“Hotel Mumbai”), Ben Mendelsohn (“The King”), Hilary Swank (“I Am Mother”), Ann Dowd (“Lambs of God”), Rachel Griffiths (“Total Control”) and Jacki Weaver (“Bloom”). Previous Aacta Award winner Damon Herriman...
- 10/23/2019
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale tops the nominations pool for film at this year’s Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (Aacta).
The thriller, which debuted at Venice last year where it won a special jury prize, picked up 15 nods including best film and best direction.
Australian actor Damon Herriman is up for supporting actor for his role in The Nightingale, and also lead actor for his performance in Mirrah Foulkes’ Judy & Punch, which picked up a total of nine nominations including best film.
Herriman is also nominated twice on the TV side for roles in Lambs Of God and Mr Inbetween and has now become the Aacta record holder for the most nominations across performance categories. The actor is having a banner 2019, having also played Charles Manson in both Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and the Netflix series Mindhunter this year.
Tied...
The thriller, which debuted at Venice last year where it won a special jury prize, picked up 15 nods including best film and best direction.
Australian actor Damon Herriman is up for supporting actor for his role in The Nightingale, and also lead actor for his performance in Mirrah Foulkes’ Judy & Punch, which picked up a total of nine nominations including best film.
Herriman is also nominated twice on the TV side for roles in Lambs Of God and Mr Inbetween and has now become the Aacta record holder for the most nominations across performance categories. The actor is having a banner 2019, having also played Charles Manson in both Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and the Netflix series Mindhunter this year.
Tied...
- 10/23/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Lambs of God’.
Lingo Pictures’ four-part TV drama Lambs of God has collected an unprecedented 18 Aacta Award nominations, while Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale leads in film with 15 nods.
The Australian Academy revealed the full list of nominees for the annual awards today, with almost 60 to be presented across two events in Sydney in six weeks time.
Some 15 films are up for awards, though four dominate almost every category: Kent’s revenge tale, Anthony Maras’ debut feature Hotel Mumbai and David Michôd’s Netflix-backed The King, which each received 13 nominations, and Mirrah Foulkes’ dark comedy Judy & Punch, which earned nine. Each is nominated for Best Film alongside Rachel Griffiths’ Ride Like A Girl and Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding.
Up in the Best Indie Film category (budgeted under $2 million) are Thomas M. Wright’s Acute Misfortune, Heath Davis’ Book Week, Rodd Rathjen’s Buoyancy, Imogen Thomas’ Emu...
Lingo Pictures’ four-part TV drama Lambs of God has collected an unprecedented 18 Aacta Award nominations, while Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale leads in film with 15 nods.
The Australian Academy revealed the full list of nominees for the annual awards today, with almost 60 to be presented across two events in Sydney in six weeks time.
Some 15 films are up for awards, though four dominate almost every category: Kent’s revenge tale, Anthony Maras’ debut feature Hotel Mumbai and David Michôd’s Netflix-backed The King, which each received 13 nominations, and Mirrah Foulkes’ dark comedy Judy & Punch, which earned nine. Each is nominated for Best Film alongside Rachel Griffiths’ Ride Like A Girl and Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding.
Up in the Best Indie Film category (budgeted under $2 million) are Thomas M. Wright’s Acute Misfortune, Heath Davis’ Book Week, Rodd Rathjen’s Buoyancy, Imogen Thomas’ Emu...
- 10/22/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
‘Playing For Keeps’ cast (L-r) Cece Peters, Isabella Giovinazzo, Olympia Valance, Madeleine West and Annie Maynard.
Unveiling its 2020 schedule today, Network 10 is betting heavily on renewals of Australian dramas, reality and light entertainment shows.
While there are no new drama commissions, there will be second seasons of Hoodlum Entertainment’s Five Bedrooms, Pablo Pictures and Princess Pictures’ comedy How to Stay Married and, as flagged last November, Screentime’s Playing for Keeps.
The line-up also includes Lingo Pictures’ previously announced psychological thriller The Secrets She Keeps, which stars Downton Abbey‘s Laura Carmichael, Jessica De Gouw, Michael Dorman, Ryan Corr and Michael Sheasby.
The network tells If no decisions have been made on the future of Cjz’s Mr Black and My Life Is Murder or Screentime’s The Secret Life of Four Year Olds.
Not returning are ITV Studios Australia’s Chris & Julia’s Sunday Night Takeaway or Endemol Shine Australia’s Changing Rooms.
Unveiling its 2020 schedule today, Network 10 is betting heavily on renewals of Australian dramas, reality and light entertainment shows.
While there are no new drama commissions, there will be second seasons of Hoodlum Entertainment’s Five Bedrooms, Pablo Pictures and Princess Pictures’ comedy How to Stay Married and, as flagged last November, Screentime’s Playing for Keeps.
The line-up also includes Lingo Pictures’ previously announced psychological thriller The Secrets She Keeps, which stars Downton Abbey‘s Laura Carmichael, Jessica De Gouw, Michael Dorman, Ryan Corr and Michael Sheasby.
The network tells If no decisions have been made on the future of Cjz’s Mr Black and My Life Is Murder or Screentime’s The Secret Life of Four Year Olds.
Not returning are ITV Studios Australia’s Chris & Julia’s Sunday Night Takeaway or Endemol Shine Australia’s Changing Rooms.
- 10/9/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Film will be released day-and-date in November.
Distribution outfit Vertigo Releasing has picked up UK and Ireland rights to Jennifer Kent’s thriller The Nightingale, an award winner at Venice last year, from FilmNation.
Vertigo is planning to release the title day-and-date in cinemas and online on November 29.
Set during the colonisation of Australia in 1825, the film follows a 21-year-old Irish convict, played by Aisling Franciosi. Having served her seven-year sentence, she is desperate to be free of her abusive master, played by Sam Claflin who refuses to release her. Michael Sheasby and Baykali Ganambarr also star.
The project was...
Distribution outfit Vertigo Releasing has picked up UK and Ireland rights to Jennifer Kent’s thriller The Nightingale, an award winner at Venice last year, from FilmNation.
Vertigo is planning to release the title day-and-date in cinemas and online on November 29.
Set during the colonisation of Australia in 1825, the film follows a 21-year-old Irish convict, played by Aisling Franciosi. Having served her seven-year sentence, she is desperate to be free of her abusive master, played by Sam Claflin who refuses to release her. Michael Sheasby and Baykali Ganambarr also star.
The project was...
- 9/11/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
‘The Nightingale.’
While Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale has achieved an 86 per cent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes since the world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, many critics have described the tale of rape, murder and revenge as harrowing and bleak.
So in that context the film’s opening in Australia last weekend via Transmission Films was quite respectable – and some exhibitors expect it will have a leggy run.
Meanwhile Madman Entertainment’s The Australian Dream had a buoyant second weekend, helped by word-of-mouth and the two-for-one ticket offer to Afl members.
Rachel Ward’s Palm Beach advanced to $3.8 million after nabbing $305,000 in its fourth weekend, easing by 31 per cent for Universal Pictures. Kriv Stenders’ Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan dipped by just 16 per cent to $250,000 in its fourth, delivering $2.5 million for Transmission Films.
The Nightingale grossed $98,000 on 32 screens, bringing the total including festival screenings to...
While Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale has achieved an 86 per cent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes since the world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, many critics have described the tale of rape, murder and revenge as harrowing and bleak.
So in that context the film’s opening in Australia last weekend via Transmission Films was quite respectable – and some exhibitors expect it will have a leggy run.
Meanwhile Madman Entertainment’s The Australian Dream had a buoyant second weekend, helped by word-of-mouth and the two-for-one ticket offer to Afl members.
Rachel Ward’s Palm Beach advanced to $3.8 million after nabbing $305,000 in its fourth weekend, easing by 31 per cent for Universal Pictures. Kriv Stenders’ Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan dipped by just 16 per cent to $250,000 in its fourth, delivering $2.5 million for Transmission Films.
The Nightingale grossed $98,000 on 32 screens, bringing the total including festival screenings to...
- 9/2/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
by Ben Miller
In the world of Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, no one is safe unless they've won the lottery. If you lucked into being born as a white English male in 19th century Tasmania, you can rest easy in the knowledge you are powerful. If you are a woman, of another race, or from another country, that same luxury is not afforded to you. Death and misery looms around every corner.
The titular Nightingale comes in the form of Clare (Game of Thrones Aisling Franciosi) as she serves as a maid and singer for a group of British officers. She is held there as penance for her crimes of thievery, being Irish and being a woman. She is overseen by Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Claflin), who is procrastinating processing her release, due to his infatuation with her. Clare’s husband Aidan (a wonderfully warm Michael Sheasby) tries to persuade Hawkins to release her,...
In the world of Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, no one is safe unless they've won the lottery. If you lucked into being born as a white English male in 19th century Tasmania, you can rest easy in the knowledge you are powerful. If you are a woman, of another race, or from another country, that same luxury is not afforded to you. Death and misery looms around every corner.
The titular Nightingale comes in the form of Clare (Game of Thrones Aisling Franciosi) as she serves as a maid and singer for a group of British officers. She is held there as penance for her crimes of thievery, being Irish and being a woman. She is overseen by Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Claflin), who is procrastinating processing her release, due to his infatuation with her. Clare’s husband Aidan (a wonderfully warm Michael Sheasby) tries to persuade Hawkins to release her,...
- 8/26/2019
- by Ben Miller
- FilmExperience
Baykali Ganambarr as “Billy” and Aisling Franciosi as “Clare” in Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale. Courtesy of IFC Films. An IFC Films release. Photo by Matt Nettheim
The writer/director of The Babadook, Jennifer Kent, follows up the chilling horror film with a gripping drama set in 1825 Australia, a tale of violence and revenge that is almost Shakespearean. The Nightingale is a tale of vengeance but it is also a story of self-discovery, and of finding a common human bond with someone who appears at first quite different.
“Nightingale” is the nickname given to a beautiful Irish convict, Clare (Aisling Franciosi), for her golden singing voice, by the British troops at the remote Tasmanian outpost where she has served out her sentence. Clare is in the custody of British officer Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Claflin), but she has served her sentence, and with both a husband and baby now, she wants to be released.
The writer/director of The Babadook, Jennifer Kent, follows up the chilling horror film with a gripping drama set in 1825 Australia, a tale of violence and revenge that is almost Shakespearean. The Nightingale is a tale of vengeance but it is also a story of self-discovery, and of finding a common human bond with someone who appears at first quite different.
“Nightingale” is the nickname given to a beautiful Irish convict, Clare (Aisling Franciosi), for her golden singing voice, by the British troops at the remote Tasmanian outpost where she has served out her sentence. Clare is in the custody of British officer Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Claflin), but she has served her sentence, and with both a husband and baby now, she wants to be released.
- 8/16/2019
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – The “star is born” expression is not to be used lightly, yet it absolutely applies to the performance of Aisling Franciosi (Lyanna Stark in “Game of Thrones”) in the role of Clare for “The Nightingale.” As a late 19th Century woman with nothing to lose, she suffers an emotional death, a survival rebirth and humanist hope.
Aisling Franciosi at the 7th Chicago Critics Film Festival
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
“The Nightingale” is a meditation on the consequences of violence and the price of seeking vengeance. Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, the film focuses on 21-year-old Irish convict Clare (Franciosi). Having served her sentence, she is desperate to be free of her abusive master, Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Clafin), who refuses to release her from his charge. Clare’s husband Aidan (Michael Sheasby) retaliates and she then becomes the victim of a unspeakable...
Aisling Franciosi at the 7th Chicago Critics Film Festival
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
“The Nightingale” is a meditation on the consequences of violence and the price of seeking vengeance. Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, the film focuses on 21-year-old Irish convict Clare (Franciosi). Having served her sentence, she is desperate to be free of her abusive master, Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Clafin), who refuses to release her from his charge. Clare’s husband Aidan (Michael Sheasby) retaliates and she then becomes the victim of a unspeakable...
- 8/13/2019
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
‘Nekrotronic.’
Kiah Roache-Turner’s Nekrotronic opened in the Us last weekend as a multi-platform release.
Momentum Pictures launched the sci-fi horror comedy starring Monica Bellucci, Ben O’Toole, David Wenham, Caroline Ford, Tess Haubrich and Bob Epine Savea in cinemas in 10 cities and on VOD and digital HD.
The eOne-owned distributor did not share box office figures, which are typically modest for day-and-date releases. The benefit of the theatrical exposure is that the reviews and publicity give the film a profile which pays off in ancillary revenues.
The director trimmed five minutes of exposition scenes after the world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, resulting in more favourable reviews, particularly from genre websites.
For example, We Are Movie Geek’s Marc Butterfield hailed the film as “hilarious, fun, action packed, and full of gross, splashy, gooey moments; in other words, fantastic.”
Butterfield observed: “The movie has a nice amalgamation of story elements from Ghostbusters,...
Kiah Roache-Turner’s Nekrotronic opened in the Us last weekend as a multi-platform release.
Momentum Pictures launched the sci-fi horror comedy starring Monica Bellucci, Ben O’Toole, David Wenham, Caroline Ford, Tess Haubrich and Bob Epine Savea in cinemas in 10 cities and on VOD and digital HD.
The eOne-owned distributor did not share box office figures, which are typically modest for day-and-date releases. The benefit of the theatrical exposure is that the reviews and publicity give the film a profile which pays off in ancillary revenues.
The director trimmed five minutes of exposition scenes after the world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, resulting in more favourable reviews, particularly from genre websites.
For example, We Are Movie Geek’s Marc Butterfield hailed the film as “hilarious, fun, action packed, and full of gross, splashy, gooey moments; in other words, fantastic.”
Butterfield observed: “The movie has a nice amalgamation of story elements from Ghostbusters,...
- 8/13/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘The Nightingale.’
Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale platformed in Los Angeles and New York last weekend, drawing sizable audiences and largely positive reviews from Us critics.
Us distributor IFC Films launched the female-driven revenge thriller at Arclight Hollywood and New York’s IFC Centre, grossing $US40,000, with sold-out shows on Friday and Saturday.
The 1825-set tale starring Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, newcomer Baykali Ganambarr, Michael Sheasby, Damon Herriman, Harry Greenwood and Ewen Leslie will expand in both cities and open in Austin, Texas, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Boston on August 9.
Kristina Ceyton, who produced with Kent and Made Up Stories’ Bruna Papandrea and Steve Hutensky, tells If the roll-out will encompass at least 100 screens over the next few weeks.
“The upcoming support we have from the exhibition community has been outstanding, with Landmark, AMC, Regal and Alamo all on board for this release, as well as top art...
Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale platformed in Los Angeles and New York last weekend, drawing sizable audiences and largely positive reviews from Us critics.
Us distributor IFC Films launched the female-driven revenge thriller at Arclight Hollywood and New York’s IFC Centre, grossing $US40,000, with sold-out shows on Friday and Saturday.
The 1825-set tale starring Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, newcomer Baykali Ganambarr, Michael Sheasby, Damon Herriman, Harry Greenwood and Ewen Leslie will expand in both cities and open in Austin, Texas, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Boston on August 9.
Kristina Ceyton, who produced with Kent and Made Up Stories’ Bruna Papandrea and Steve Hutensky, tells If the roll-out will encompass at least 100 screens over the next few weeks.
“The upcoming support we have from the exhibition community has been outstanding, with Landmark, AMC, Regal and Alamo all on board for this release, as well as top art...
- 8/4/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
It’s instructive to point out that The Nightingale is not for the faint of heart. There’s horrific violence abound; at one point early on, a rapist violates his victim while her baby screams in his ear. But in no way is this powerhouse another treatment of male violence filtered through an exploitaive male gaze. In her second film, after 2014’s haunting The Babadook, Australian writer-director Jennifer Kent creates a woman’s revenge tale fueled by a righteous anger at the evil men do. There’s not a whit of audience coddling.
- 7/30/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
It’s a shame that female filmmakers are held to a different standard than men. When a woman makes a disturbing or violent movie, the response is far different than to that of her male counterparts. The takes are hotter and there’s a sense of almost questioning why she would mount this project. That’s not fair and a real shame. All throughout its time on the festival, that sort of discussion has surrounded Jennifer Kent’s follow up to The Babadook, the revenge tale The Nightingale. Though the flick is decidedly disturbing and violent, it’s also about something, so it’s hardly pointless bloodshed. In fact, one might say that Kent has found a way to make the brutality essential. It’s upsetting, but that’s the point. The film is a period drama, set in 1825 during the time of British colonization. 21 year old Irish servant Clare...
- 7/30/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Stars: Aisling Franciosi, Baykali Ganambarr, Sam Claflin, Damon Herriman, Harry Greenwood, Ewen Leslie, Charlie Shotwell, Michael Sheasby, Charlie Jampijinpa Brown, Magnolia Maymuru | Written and Directed by Jennifer Kent
Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent’s follow-up to The Babadook is this brutal, uncompromising revenge tale set in the Tasmanian Outback. As such, it is most assuredly not for everyone, but those who can stomach the horrific opening are in for a stunningly realised revenge thriller that sears itself into your brain with its white hot rage.
Set in the British colony of Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) in 1825, the film stars Aisling Franciosi as Clare, a young convict who’s served her time and is waiting for Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Clafin) to sign her papers, so she can begin a new life of freedom with her husband (Michael Sheasby) and newborn baby. However, Hawkins shows no intention of granting her freedom...
Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent’s follow-up to The Babadook is this brutal, uncompromising revenge tale set in the Tasmanian Outback. As such, it is most assuredly not for everyone, but those who can stomach the horrific opening are in for a stunningly realised revenge thriller that sears itself into your brain with its white hot rage.
Set in the British colony of Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) in 1825, the film stars Aisling Franciosi as Clare, a young convict who’s served her time and is waiting for Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Clafin) to sign her papers, so she can begin a new life of freedom with her husband (Michael Sheasby) and newborn baby. However, Hawkins shows no intention of granting her freedom...
- 6/4/2019
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
Ever since her first feature film, The Babadook, shook viewers to their cores in 2014, many viewers have been eagerly awaiting Jennifer Kent's second feature, and the wait is nearly over, as IFC Films has revealed the trailer for The Nightingale ahead of its release this August.
Written and directed by Jennifer Kent, The Nightingale stars Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, Baykali Ganambarr, Damon Herriman, and Ewen Leslie. Keep an eye out for The Nightingale when IFC releases it in theaters on August 2nd, and in case you missed it, check out Heather Wixson's Sundance review of the film.
"The Nightingale is a meditation on the consequences of violence and the price of seeking vengeance. Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, the film follows Clare (Aisling Franciosi), a 21-year-old Irish convict. Having served her 7-year sentence, she is desperate to be free of her abusive master, Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Claflin...
Written and directed by Jennifer Kent, The Nightingale stars Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, Baykali Ganambarr, Damon Herriman, and Ewen Leslie. Keep an eye out for The Nightingale when IFC releases it in theaters on August 2nd, and in case you missed it, check out Heather Wixson's Sundance review of the film.
"The Nightingale is a meditation on the consequences of violence and the price of seeking vengeance. Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, the film follows Clare (Aisling Franciosi), a 21-year-old Irish convict. Having served her 7-year sentence, she is desperate to be free of her abusive master, Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Claflin...
- 5/30/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Chicago – The discovery of rising stars is among the many things the Chicago Critics Film Festival (Ccff) does best, and that continued on May 19th, 2019, at the 7th annual fest. Aisling Franciosi is the lead actress of “The Nightingale,” a new film from Jennifer Kent (“The Babadook”), and she appeared on behalf of the film.
“The Nightingale” is a meditation on the consequences of violence and the price of seeking vengeance. Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, the film follows Clare (Aisling Franciosi), a 21-year-old Irish convict. Having served her sentence, she is desperate to be free of her abusive master, Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Clafin), who refuses to release her from his charge. Clare’s husband Aidan (Michael Sheasby) retaliates and she then becomes the victim of a unspeakable and graphically depicted crime at the hands of the lieutenant and his cronies.
Aisling Franciosi at the 7th Chicago Critics...
“The Nightingale” is a meditation on the consequences of violence and the price of seeking vengeance. Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, the film follows Clare (Aisling Franciosi), a 21-year-old Irish convict. Having served her sentence, she is desperate to be free of her abusive master, Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Clafin), who refuses to release her from his charge. Clare’s husband Aidan (Michael Sheasby) retaliates and she then becomes the victim of a unspeakable and graphically depicted crime at the hands of the lieutenant and his cronies.
Aisling Franciosi at the 7th Chicago Critics...
- 5/23/2019
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The first trailer has been released for an upcoming revenge thriller called The Nightingale. I had a chance to see this movie at Sundance this year and it was one of the best films at the festival.
The movie was directed by Jennifer Kent, who previously brought us the horror film The Babadook. But, I have to say that The Nightingale is a completely different beast. This movie is super dark and brutal. This is the kind of film that could really mess you up in a psychological kind of way.
The movie was hard for me to watch and during the screening I attended, it was so uncomfortable that people were getting up and walking out of the film because it was just too much. Hell, no joke, one guy even had a heart attack in the middle of the screening!
While the film is filled with brutality, it...
The movie was directed by Jennifer Kent, who previously brought us the horror film The Babadook. But, I have to say that The Nightingale is a completely different beast. This movie is super dark and brutal. This is the kind of film that could really mess you up in a psychological kind of way.
The movie was hard for me to watch and during the screening I attended, it was so uncomfortable that people were getting up and walking out of the film because it was just too much. Hell, no joke, one guy even had a heart attack in the middle of the screening!
While the film is filled with brutality, it...
- 5/23/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
IFC Films has released the first trailer for Jennifer Kent’s deeply dark ‘The Nightingale’ starring Sam Claflin and Aisling Franciosi.
The Babadook’s Kent is at the helm of the dark and harrowing tale that stars, Claflin, Franciosi, Michael Sheasby and Baykali Ganambarr.
Also in trailers – Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star in new trailer for ‘Once Upon A Time in Hollywood’
The film is slated for an August 2nd release.
The Nightingale Synopsis
Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, the film follows Clare (Aisling Franciosi), a 21-year-old Irish convict. Having served her 7-year sentence, she is desperate to be free of her abusive master, Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Claflin) who refuses to release her from his charge.
Clare’s husband Aidan (Michael Sheasby) retaliates and she becomes the victim of a harrowing crime at the hands of the lieutenant and his cronies. When British authorities fail to deliver justice,...
The Babadook’s Kent is at the helm of the dark and harrowing tale that stars, Claflin, Franciosi, Michael Sheasby and Baykali Ganambarr.
Also in trailers – Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star in new trailer for ‘Once Upon A Time in Hollywood’
The film is slated for an August 2nd release.
The Nightingale Synopsis
Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, the film follows Clare (Aisling Franciosi), a 21-year-old Irish convict. Having served her 7-year sentence, she is desperate to be free of her abusive master, Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Claflin) who refuses to release her from his charge.
Clare’s husband Aidan (Michael Sheasby) retaliates and she becomes the victim of a harrowing crime at the hands of the lieutenant and his cronies. When British authorities fail to deliver justice,...
- 5/23/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Joseph Baxter May 22, 2019
Against an early-19th century colonial Australia backdrop, director Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale showcases a harrowing tale of revenge.
The Nightingale is Jennifer Kent’s anticipated written/directorial follow-up to her 2014 feature debut, The Babadook, a surprisingly-symbolic horror offering that uses the conventionally frightening specter of a top-hat-touting monster for a rather unconventional depiction of a maternal element of the human condition.
The film, which debuted at the Venice International Film Festival back in September 2018, and was reviewed right here on Den of Geek back in February after its Sundance screening, will finally see a proper release this summer, serving as a prospective buzz-generating vehicle for its star, Italian actress Aisling Franciosi, who amongst notable TV runs, is best known from her Game of Thrones flashback role as Westeros’ Helen of Troy herself, Lyanna Stark.
The Nightingale Trailer
The official trailer for The Nightingale has arrived.
Against an early-19th century colonial Australia backdrop, director Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale showcases a harrowing tale of revenge.
The Nightingale is Jennifer Kent’s anticipated written/directorial follow-up to her 2014 feature debut, The Babadook, a surprisingly-symbolic horror offering that uses the conventionally frightening specter of a top-hat-touting monster for a rather unconventional depiction of a maternal element of the human condition.
The film, which debuted at the Venice International Film Festival back in September 2018, and was reviewed right here on Den of Geek back in February after its Sundance screening, will finally see a proper release this summer, serving as a prospective buzz-generating vehicle for its star, Italian actress Aisling Franciosi, who amongst notable TV runs, is best known from her Game of Thrones flashback role as Westeros’ Helen of Troy herself, Lyanna Stark.
The Nightingale Trailer
The official trailer for The Nightingale has arrived.
- 5/22/2019
- Den of Geek
After her revelatory and harrowing feature The Babadook heralded Jennifer Kent to international acclaim, expectations have been high for her second feature and what horrors and thrills she would again unleash to unsuspecting audiences. As an official selection of the Venice Film Festival (winning the special Jury Prize) and Sundance, The Nightingale will now arrive in theaters this August via IFC Films, and the first trailer has landed.
Set in 1825 in the Australian Tasmanian Outback, Clare (Aisling Franciosi), an Irish convict, has served her abusive master (Sam Claflin) for seven years and refuses to free her from his charge. As a result, an act of horrific violence ensues against her and her family and she vows vengeance against him and his cronies, with the aid of an Aboriginal Tracker Billy (Baykali Ganambarr) to find him to enact her revenge.
Leonardo Goi in his review wrote, “Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale...
Set in 1825 in the Australian Tasmanian Outback, Clare (Aisling Franciosi), an Irish convict, has served her abusive master (Sam Claflin) for seven years and refuses to free her from his charge. As a result, an act of horrific violence ensues against her and her family and she vows vengeance against him and his cronies, with the aid of an Aboriginal Tracker Billy (Baykali Ganambarr) to find him to enact her revenge.
Leonardo Goi in his review wrote, “Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale...
- 5/22/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
For her much-anticipated followup to her beloved “The Babadook,” filmmaker Jennifer Kent somehow managed to go even darker than her breakout horror hit, which follows a terrified mother and child going to battle with a be-hatted monster with some nefarious plans. Kent’s “The Nightingale” again centers on a mother, but this time around, Kent’s film focuses on one that has lost her child and is hellbent on avenging the violence that has consumed both of their lives.
Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, the film follows breakout star Aisling Franciosi as Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict who has just completed a seven-year sentence. Eager to be rid of an iron-gripped and horrifying master (Sam Claflin), who has spent the subsequent years abusing Clare in terrible ways, Clare and her husband Aidan (Michael Sheasby) attempt to break free. To say it doesn’t work and results in an...
Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, the film follows breakout star Aisling Franciosi as Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict who has just completed a seven-year sentence. Eager to be rid of an iron-gripped and horrifying master (Sam Claflin), who has spent the subsequent years abusing Clare in terrible ways, Clare and her husband Aidan (Michael Sheasby) attempt to break free. To say it doesn’t work and results in an...
- 5/22/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Jessica De Gouw (L) and Laura Carmichael (Photo credit: Daniel Asher Smith).
Downton Abbey‘s Laura Carmichael and Jessica De Gouw are playing women from different sides of the tracks in Network 10’s psychological thriller The Secrets She Keeps.
Michael Dorman, who stars in Amazon Prime Video’s Patriot, Ryan Corr (Bloom) and Michael Sheasby round out the cast.
Adapted from Michael Robotham’s novel by Jono Gavin and Sarah Walker, the six-part series started shooting in Sydney and the Blue Mountains today, produced by Lingo Pictures’ Helen Bowden and Paul Watters.
The set-up director Catherine Millar is directing four episodes and Jennifer Leacey is helming two.
De Gouw is Meghan, who is married to Jack (Dorman), has two gorgeous children and a third bundle of joy on the way.
Carmichael is Agatha, who is pregnant, has a much younger ex-boyfriend in Hayden (Sheasby), is estranged from her mother and admires Meghan from afar.
Downton Abbey‘s Laura Carmichael and Jessica De Gouw are playing women from different sides of the tracks in Network 10’s psychological thriller The Secrets She Keeps.
Michael Dorman, who stars in Amazon Prime Video’s Patriot, Ryan Corr (Bloom) and Michael Sheasby round out the cast.
Adapted from Michael Robotham’s novel by Jono Gavin and Sarah Walker, the six-part series started shooting in Sydney and the Blue Mountains today, produced by Lingo Pictures’ Helen Bowden and Paul Watters.
The set-up director Catherine Millar is directing four episodes and Jennifer Leacey is helming two.
De Gouw is Meghan, who is married to Jack (Dorman), has two gorgeous children and a third bundle of joy on the way.
Carmichael is Agatha, who is pregnant, has a much younger ex-boyfriend in Hayden (Sheasby), is estranged from her mother and admires Meghan from afar.
- 5/19/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
The Nightingale is Jennifer Kent's follow-up to The Babadook and is a bold and brutal affair. Too much so in the end.
Midway through a Sundance screening of Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, the film had to be paused. Moments ago on the screen, one character had taken a furious vengeance on another. Flesh was pierced, bones were shattered, and the sounds of a life audibly, and brutally, going out were heard. It is not an exaggeration to say that 911 was called after a fellow moviegoer had at least fainted following this sequence. He may have been the most prudent among us.
As Kent’s follow-up to the cult horror darling The Babadook, The Nightingale is an unforgiving experience and likely the most intense one I’ve had in a movie theater since The Revenant four years ago. Like that film, Nightingale is technically a harrowing period piece as opposed to a strict horror,...
Midway through a Sundance screening of Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, the film had to be paused. Moments ago on the screen, one character had taken a furious vengeance on another. Flesh was pierced, bones were shattered, and the sounds of a life audibly, and brutally, going out were heard. It is not an exaggeration to say that 911 was called after a fellow moviegoer had at least fainted following this sequence. He may have been the most prudent among us.
As Kent’s follow-up to the cult horror darling The Babadook, The Nightingale is an unforgiving experience and likely the most intense one I’ve had in a movie theater since The Revenant four years ago. Like that film, Nightingale is technically a harrowing period piece as opposed to a strict horror,...
- 2/2/2019
- Den of Geek
Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale has been acquired by IFC Films ahead of its North American premiere later this month in the Spotlight section at the Sundance Film Festival. The pic is coming off a Special Jury Prize from its world premiere in Venice, where Kent was the lone female director in the competition lineup. A summer 2019 release is planned by IFC, which also released the Australian writer-director’s 2014 horror hit The Babadook. The plot of Nightingale centers on a a 21-year-old Irish convict (Aisling Franciosi) in 1820s Tasmania who goes on a harrowing mission to avenge a crime perpetrated by her abusive master (Sam Claflin). Baykali Ganambarr and Michael Sheasby co-star. Variety reported this news first this morning.
- 1/9/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
George Pullar (l) and Ethan Panizz in ‘Playing for Keeps’ (Photo: Network 10).
For a guy who fell into acting after he badly injured one leg at high school in Brisbane, George Pullar is carving out an impressive career.
Now 22, Pullar made his screen debuts in Goalpost Pictures’ Fighting Season and Seven Studios’ A Place to Call Home straight after graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Waapa).
Following that he played a star Afl recruit in Screentime’s Playing For Keeps, which Network 10 has renewed for next year.
Capping a memorable year, he was named among the Casting Guild of Australia’s 10 Rising Stars, together with Michael Sheasby, Harry Greenwood, Tess Haubrich, Markella Kavenagh, George Zhao, Milly Alcock, Kimie Tsukakoshi, Harvey Zielinski and Alexandra Jensen.
After he injured his leg when he was 16, requiring a cast, his mother suggested he take up drama classes. He did so...
For a guy who fell into acting after he badly injured one leg at high school in Brisbane, George Pullar is carving out an impressive career.
Now 22, Pullar made his screen debuts in Goalpost Pictures’ Fighting Season and Seven Studios’ A Place to Call Home straight after graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Waapa).
Following that he played a star Afl recruit in Screentime’s Playing For Keeps, which Network 10 has renewed for next year.
Capping a memorable year, he was named among the Casting Guild of Australia’s 10 Rising Stars, together with Michael Sheasby, Harry Greenwood, Tess Haubrich, Markella Kavenagh, George Zhao, Milly Alcock, Kimie Tsukakoshi, Harvey Zielinski and Alexandra Jensen.
After he injured his leg when he was 16, requiring a cast, his mother suggested he take up drama classes. He did so...
- 12/18/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Antonia Murphy, Joseph Wijangco and Anousha Zarkesh (Photo credit: Marlo Media)
Nikki Barrett and Anousha Zarkesh won multiple prizes at the Casting Guild of Australia Awards presented last Friday in Melbourne.
Barrett received the awards for her work in See Pictures/Gran Via Productions/Windalong Productions’ Breath (best casting in a feature film), Easy Tiger’s Jack Irish series 2 (TV drama) and Fremantle Australia’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV miniseries and telemovie).
Zarkesh took home the awards for Princess Pictures’ Wrong Kind of Black (best achievement in casting) and Scarlett Pictures’ Black Comedy series 3 (TV comedy).
“We had a lucky year in that all three of these projects were very collaborative casting processes with the filmmakers actively engaged in trying to find something true to the world they were creating. It’s always the best kind of casting to be involved in and shows on screen,” Barrett tells If.
Nikki Barrett and Anousha Zarkesh won multiple prizes at the Casting Guild of Australia Awards presented last Friday in Melbourne.
Barrett received the awards for her work in See Pictures/Gran Via Productions/Windalong Productions’ Breath (best casting in a feature film), Easy Tiger’s Jack Irish series 2 (TV drama) and Fremantle Australia’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV miniseries and telemovie).
Zarkesh took home the awards for Princess Pictures’ Wrong Kind of Black (best achievement in casting) and Scarlett Pictures’ Black Comedy series 3 (TV comedy).
“We had a lucky year in that all three of these projects were very collaborative casting processes with the filmmakers actively engaged in trying to find something true to the world they were creating. It’s always the best kind of casting to be involved in and shows on screen,” Barrett tells If.
- 12/2/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Sundance was a major launch pad for Jennifer Kent‘s The Babadook and it could be the lieu for the Us premiere (nabbing one of the eight spots in the Spotlight section) to her sophomore film which premiered in competition at the recent Venice Film Festival. Production took place in March of 2017, so Kent spent a good amount of time crafting The Nightingale in post bypassing fests in 2018 until the Lido (where we reviewed the film). Aisling Franciosi, Baykali Ganambarr, Sam Claflin, Damon Herriman, Harry Greenwood, Ewen Leslie, Charlie Shotwell, Michael Sheasby, Charlie Jampijinpa Brown and Magnolia Maymuru star.…...
- 11/22/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The male cast of ‘Fighting Season’ (Photo: Mark Rogers).
The casting directors of 1%, Breath, Sweet Country and The Merger are the finalists in the feature film category of the Casting Guild of Australia Awards.
The Cga has also announced the 10 winners of this year’s Rising Stars awards, who are nominated by Cga members and chosen by a committee comprising Kirsty McGregor, Nikki Barrett, Anousha Zarkesh, Tom McSweeney, Faith Martin and Nathan Lloyd.
The recipients are George Pullar (Fighting Season), Michael Sheasby (The Nightingale), Harry Greenwood (True History of the Kelly Gang), Tess Haubrich (Bad Mothers), Markella Kavenagh (The Cry), George Zhao (The Family Law), Milly Alcock (Upright), Kimie Tsukakoshi (The Bureau of Magical Things), Harvey Zielinski and Alexandra Jensen.
McSweeney tells If: “I’ve watched Kimie grow as a performer over the past decade from a kid with a fantastic singing voice to an actress of conviction, dedication and positivity.
The casting directors of 1%, Breath, Sweet Country and The Merger are the finalists in the feature film category of the Casting Guild of Australia Awards.
The Cga has also announced the 10 winners of this year’s Rising Stars awards, who are nominated by Cga members and chosen by a committee comprising Kirsty McGregor, Nikki Barrett, Anousha Zarkesh, Tom McSweeney, Faith Martin and Nathan Lloyd.
The recipients are George Pullar (Fighting Season), Michael Sheasby (The Nightingale), Harry Greenwood (True History of the Kelly Gang), Tess Haubrich (Bad Mothers), Markella Kavenagh (The Cry), George Zhao (The Family Law), Milly Alcock (Upright), Kimie Tsukakoshi (The Bureau of Magical Things), Harvey Zielinski and Alexandra Jensen.
McSweeney tells If: “I’ve watched Kimie grow as a performer over the past decade from a kid with a fantastic singing voice to an actress of conviction, dedication and positivity.
- 11/8/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale features some of the most atrocious on-screen violence in recent memory. It is a cauldron of blood, murders, and rapes so unflinching in vividness and brutality as to make it impossible to go through its 136 minutes without ever turning away from the screen, let alone to come out of it untouched. But it is also, in a way that’s indissolubly bound to role that violence plays in Kent’s work, and to the depiction she offers of it, one of the most memorable works in its genre – a parable that never turns violence into a spectacle, but is resolutely committed to expose the poisonous double prism of racism and sexism it feeds upon.
Far in time and space from the familiar present-day contours of her 2014 Sundance hit The Babadook, Kent sets her second feature in 1825 Tasmania, where Irish twentysomething Clare (Aisling Franciosi) struggles to...
Far in time and space from the familiar present-day contours of her 2014 Sundance hit The Babadook, Kent sets her second feature in 1825 Tasmania, where Irish twentysomething Clare (Aisling Franciosi) struggles to...
- 9/6/2018
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
An uncompromising, on-the-warpath second feature by gifted Australian writer-director Jennifer Kent, “The Nightingale” may stray far away from the horror genre she worked so expertly in her debut — but that’s not to say there’s no babadook in it. It’s just taken another, less uncanny form: that of the colonial white Englishman, a many-headed beast terrorizing women and indigenous locals with near-deathless persistence in the unforgiving wilds of 19th-century Tasmania. Following two such victims, a 21-year-old Irish convict woman and her reluctant Aboriginal tracker, in circuitous pursuit of the army officer who viciously wronged her family, Kent’s elemental revenge tale attains a near-mythic grandeur over the course of its arduous, ravishing trek. Some stricter editing wouldn’t go amiss, particularly in a needlessly baggy, to-and-fro finale, but it’s a pretty magnificent mass of movie.
Somewhat grotesquely jeered at its first Venice press screening, this is violent,...
Somewhat grotesquely jeered at its first Venice press screening, this is violent,...
- 9/6/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Hugo Weaving has joined the cast of Mel Gibson's star-studded Australian film Hacksaw Ridge.
Weaving will join Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Vince Vaughn, Rachel Griffiths and Richard Roxburgh in the film, which is now in production.
Hacksaw Ridge is the true story of conscientious objector, Desmond Doss (Garfield), who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing a gun..
Believing that the War was just but killing was nevertheless wrong, he was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon.
Doss single-handedly evacuated the wounded near enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. He is the only conscientious objector to ever win the Us Medal of Honour.
Weaving will play Garfield's son, Tom Doss.
Producers of the film include Bill Mechanic, Bruce Davey, Paul Currie, David Permut and executive Producer,...
Weaving will join Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Vince Vaughn, Rachel Griffiths and Richard Roxburgh in the film, which is now in production.
Hacksaw Ridge is the true story of conscientious objector, Desmond Doss (Garfield), who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing a gun..
Believing that the War was just but killing was nevertheless wrong, he was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon.
Doss single-handedly evacuated the wounded near enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. He is the only conscientious objector to ever win the Us Medal of Honour.
Weaving will play Garfield's son, Tom Doss.
Producers of the film include Bill Mechanic, Bruce Davey, Paul Currie, David Permut and executive Producer,...
- 10/19/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
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Rachel Griffiths, Richard Roxburgh, Teresa Palmer and Ben O.Toole are among a large contingent of Aussies who are appearing in Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson.s WW2 drama now shooting in New South Wales.
The screenplay by Andrew Knight, Robert Schenkkan and Randall Wallace chronicles the true story of conscientious objector Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield).
In the battle of Okinawa Doss, an Army medic who believed the war was just but that killing was wrong, saved 75 soldiers without firing a gun.
As previously announced Sam Worthington is playing Captain Glover, who led the 77th Sustainment Brigade, with Vince Vaughn as Sergeant Howell, whose job was to get the new recruits ready for battle. Luke Bracey is Smitty Ryker, the alpha dog of the Doss. platoon.
Palmer plays Doss.s sweetheart Dorothy Shutte and Griffiths is his mother Bertha Doss. Roxburgh is Colonel Stelzer and O.Toole is Corporal Jessop.
The...
Rachel Griffiths, Richard Roxburgh, Teresa Palmer and Ben O.Toole are among a large contingent of Aussies who are appearing in Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson.s WW2 drama now shooting in New South Wales.
The screenplay by Andrew Knight, Robert Schenkkan and Randall Wallace chronicles the true story of conscientious objector Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield).
In the battle of Okinawa Doss, an Army medic who believed the war was just but that killing was wrong, saved 75 soldiers without firing a gun.
As previously announced Sam Worthington is playing Captain Glover, who led the 77th Sustainment Brigade, with Vince Vaughn as Sergeant Howell, whose job was to get the new recruits ready for battle. Luke Bracey is Smitty Ryker, the alpha dog of the Doss. platoon.
Palmer plays Doss.s sweetheart Dorothy Shutte and Griffiths is his mother Bertha Doss. Roxburgh is Colonel Stelzer and O.Toole is Corporal Jessop.
The...
- 9/29/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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