The Easybeats.
Production has begun in Sydney on Playmaker.s.The Easybeats for the ABC.
The two-part mini will follow rise of the iconic 1960s rock band — made up of five immigrants who met in a Sydney hostel — and will star Ashley Zukerman (The Code, Manhatten) alongside newcomers Christian Byers, Will Rush, Mackenzie Fearnley, Du Toit Bredenkamp and Arthur McBain..
The script has been penned by Christopher Lee (Howzat, Paper Giants, Gallipoli), with Matthew Saville (Seven Types of Ambiguity, Please Like Me, The Slap) directing..
Playmaker producers David Taylor and David Maher said: .We.re massive Easybeats fans so to be involved in bringing this incredible story to life is a real honour, and something we.re both proud and excited to be producing for the ABC..
The Easybeats, which has received funding from Screen Australia and Screen Nsw, is set to air later this year..
Production has begun in Sydney on Playmaker.s.The Easybeats for the ABC.
The two-part mini will follow rise of the iconic 1960s rock band — made up of five immigrants who met in a Sydney hostel — and will star Ashley Zukerman (The Code, Manhatten) alongside newcomers Christian Byers, Will Rush, Mackenzie Fearnley, Du Toit Bredenkamp and Arthur McBain..
The script has been penned by Christopher Lee (Howzat, Paper Giants, Gallipoli), with Matthew Saville (Seven Types of Ambiguity, Please Like Me, The Slap) directing..
Playmaker producers David Taylor and David Maher said: .We.re massive Easybeats fans so to be involved in bringing this incredible story to life is a real honour, and something we.re both proud and excited to be producing for the ABC..
The Easybeats, which has received funding from Screen Australia and Screen Nsw, is set to air later this year..
- 5/1/2017
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
I love the movies, really, truly I do, I love the movies. Cinema, motion pictures, movies, film, whatever you want to label this peculiar art form that we all cherish here at We Are Movie Geeks, I have loved it ever since the first time I saw a movie on television, in a theater or at a drive-in. I wish I could recall the first movie I ever saw and what the medium was in which I saw it.
One of my earliest memories was the yearly showing of Wizard of Oz on television and my delight at seeing Judy Garland in a different movie, Pigskin Parade, and realizing that actors made a living by appearing in more than one movie or television series.
I can recall seeing Battle Beyond the Stars at the Pine Hill Drive-in in Piedmont, Missouri, one of the Russian space movies bought and re-edited by Roger Corman.
One of my earliest memories was the yearly showing of Wizard of Oz on television and my delight at seeing Judy Garland in a different movie, Pigskin Parade, and realizing that actors made a living by appearing in more than one movie or television series.
I can recall seeing Battle Beyond the Stars at the Pine Hill Drive-in in Piedmont, Missouri, one of the Russian space movies bought and re-edited by Roger Corman.
- 3/10/2015
- by Sam Moffitt
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Glendyn Ivin is a huge fan of Peter Weir.s Gallipoli but he has resisted the temptation to revisit Weir.s seminal 1981 movie since he was hired to direct the Nine Network miniseries Gallipoli. .I love that film; it.s one of the reasons I became a filmmaker,. Ivin told If on Monday during a recce for the eight-hour production which starts shooting in and near Melbourne on March 17. .But I have avoided watching it again because we are doing a very different story..
In keeping with this fresh take on the saga of the young Aussies who fought in the legendary WW1 campaign, Ivin said he and his DoP Germain McMicking will shoot the film in a style which is far from a traditional drama.
The screenplay is by Christopher Lee (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War, Paper Giants, Rush, Police Rescue), adapted from the best-selling book by Les Carlyon.
In keeping with this fresh take on the saga of the young Aussies who fought in the legendary WW1 campaign, Ivin said he and his DoP Germain McMicking will shoot the film in a style which is far from a traditional drama.
The screenplay is by Christopher Lee (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War, Paper Giants, Rush, Police Rescue), adapted from the best-selling book by Les Carlyon.
- 3/4/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Two major miniseries on Gallipoli both aim to start shooting by the middle of next year.
Casting is underway for the eight-hour opus Gallipoli, produced by Southern Star Entertainment for the Nine Network, which will re-enact 10 months in the Australian forces'. WW1 campaign in Turkey.
Sam Worthington is highly likely to play a lead role in The Gallipoli Story, a four-parter for Foxtel which will follow Australian journalists Keith Murdoch, Charles Bean and Phillip Schuler and Brit Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, who accompanied the troops to Gallipoli in 1915 and reveal how their quest for the truth helped change the war.s course.
John Edwards, who is producing Nine.s Gallipoli with Imogen Banks and Robert Connolly, tells If he does not see the two projects as rivals, given the very different approaches to the subject.
He invited Connolly to join the production team because he and Banks are simultaneously working on two other shows,...
Casting is underway for the eight-hour opus Gallipoli, produced by Southern Star Entertainment for the Nine Network, which will re-enact 10 months in the Australian forces'. WW1 campaign in Turkey.
Sam Worthington is highly likely to play a lead role in The Gallipoli Story, a four-parter for Foxtel which will follow Australian journalists Keith Murdoch, Charles Bean and Phillip Schuler and Brit Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, who accompanied the troops to Gallipoli in 1915 and reveal how their quest for the truth helped change the war.s course.
John Edwards, who is producing Nine.s Gallipoli with Imogen Banks and Robert Connolly, tells If he does not see the two projects as rivals, given the very different approaches to the subject.
He invited Connolly to join the production team because he and Banks are simultaneously working on two other shows,...
- 11/6/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Former magazine editor Ita Buttrose claims the producers of Paper Giants knew there were inaccuracies in the script before the show screened.
The Southern Star-produced show about the launch of women’s magazine Cleo aired on ABC1 last year to critical acclaim. However, it portrayed Buttrose’s first husband Alisdair Macdonald as selfishly abandoning Buttrose while she was pregnant.
Macdonald sued the ABC for defamation after the show aired. The ABC was forced to withdraw all DVD copies of Paper Giants after settling with him out of court.
Buttrose, who is currently promoting a new edition of her autobiography told Mumbrella in a video interview: “I told them it was incorrect – and that was before the show ever went to air. I couldn’t persuade them to change it.”
Buttrose wrote about Paper Giants in A Passionate Life.
“Overall I was pleased and thought it captured well the spirit of the seventies,...
The Southern Star-produced show about the launch of women’s magazine Cleo aired on ABC1 last year to critical acclaim. However, it portrayed Buttrose’s first husband Alisdair Macdonald as selfishly abandoning Buttrose while she was pregnant.
Macdonald sued the ABC for defamation after the show aired. The ABC was forced to withdraw all DVD copies of Paper Giants after settling with him out of court.
Buttrose, who is currently promoting a new edition of her autobiography told Mumbrella in a video interview: “I told them it was incorrect – and that was before the show ever went to air. I couldn’t persuade them to change it.”
Buttrose wrote about Paper Giants in A Passionate Life.
“Overall I was pleased and thought it captured well the spirit of the seventies,...
- 7/4/2012
- by Cathie McGinn
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia has announced $17m investment across 14 projects including feature films and both adult and children’s television.
The investment is expected to trigger $97m in production.
The list of productions include: black comedy The Mule by co-writers/co-producers Leigh Whannell and Angus Sampson with direction from Tony Mahony about a drug mule caught by authorities and Antony I Ginnane’s remake of Patrick, directed by Not Quite Hollywood’s Mark Hartley.
Also on the list is The Grandmothers, written by Christopher Hampton (A Dangerous Method) and director Anne Fontaine (Coco Avant Chanel) and starring Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel and James Frecheville in the adaptation of Doris Lessing’s novel.
For TV, the telemovie Underground by Matchbox Pictures, written and directed by Robert Connolly tells the story of a teenage Julian Assange hacking computer systems; and two TV productions by John Edwards Southern Star, a serialised version of...
The investment is expected to trigger $97m in production.
The list of productions include: black comedy The Mule by co-writers/co-producers Leigh Whannell and Angus Sampson with direction from Tony Mahony about a drug mule caught by authorities and Antony I Ginnane’s remake of Patrick, directed by Not Quite Hollywood’s Mark Hartley.
Also on the list is The Grandmothers, written by Christopher Hampton (A Dangerous Method) and director Anne Fontaine (Coco Avant Chanel) and starring Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel and James Frecheville in the adaptation of Doris Lessing’s novel.
For TV, the telemovie Underground by Matchbox Pictures, written and directed by Robert Connolly tells the story of a teenage Julian Assange hacking computer systems; and two TV productions by John Edwards Southern Star, a serialised version of...
- 12/5/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
If you haven’t heard of Hawk, you shouldn’t feel bad. Googling it doesn’t bring much up about the project, or its director, Mj McMahon. It is a 38-minute fantasy epic loosely based on Welsh folklore and tells the tale of a boy named Rowen, who is taken away from the civilized world, where his lessons in the wild begin. Yet when he shatters the balance of nature, Rowan discovers another world beneath our own. In that shadowy land of old gods and wild hunts, the divide between man and beast becomes uncertain and the fairy tales of childhood spring to life. With only the guidance of a hunting hawk, Rowan must make amends for his crime, and choose between what is real, and what is not.
The task of scoring this film fell to Stuart Hancock, an award-winning composer who has worked in film, television, commercials, theatre and written concert music.
The task of scoring this film fell to Stuart Hancock, an award-winning composer who has worked in film, television, commercials, theatre and written concert music.
- 4/7/2011
- Shadowlocked
With the resounding success of The King's Speech – and the expected coronation of Colin Firth – this year's Bafta ceremony was short on surprises
His Majesty has spoken, deafeningly, once again. Either this film has unstoppable Oscar momentum, or this is where it will peak, and this resounding home-turf Bafta victory for The King's Speech and its amiable, self-deprecating star, Colin Firth, will evaporate in a fortnight's time in favour of American wins for Black Swan, The Social Network and True Grit. Yet somehow I don't think so. With seven Baftas – the same as Slumdog Millionaire's tally two years ago – the auguries are very good for Tks to clean up at the Academy Awards. And the runes were to be read simply in the beaming, yet distinctively steely presence of Harvey Weinstein among the tuxed throng in the Bafta audience, among the film's producers. The King's Speech is partly a Harvey Weinstein picture,...
His Majesty has spoken, deafeningly, once again. Either this film has unstoppable Oscar momentum, or this is where it will peak, and this resounding home-turf Bafta victory for The King's Speech and its amiable, self-deprecating star, Colin Firth, will evaporate in a fortnight's time in favour of American wins for Black Swan, The Social Network and True Grit. Yet somehow I don't think so. With seven Baftas – the same as Slumdog Millionaire's tally two years ago – the auguries are very good for Tks to clean up at the Academy Awards. And the runes were to be read simply in the beaming, yet distinctively steely presence of Harvey Weinstein among the tuxed throng in the Bafta audience, among the film's producers. The King's Speech is partly a Harvey Weinstein picture,...
- 2/15/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
"The King's Speech" continued its reign over the movie industry's awards season by taking home seven trophies at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards (BAFTAs) on Sunday, February 13..
The critically-acclaimed film won its three leading stars the main acting prizes - Colin Firth was named Best Actor for his role as stuttering British monarch George VI; Helena Bonham Carter took home the Best Supporting Actress title, while the Best Supporting Actor award went to Geoffrey Rush.
The movie picked up the coveted Best Film honor, beating fellow contenders "Black Swan", Inception", The Social Network" and True Grit". It also won the Outstanding British Film, Best Score and Best Original Screenplay awards.
Firth, who also claimed the Best Actor trophy last year for his role in "A Single Man", said, "I like coming here, thank you BAFTA." He also thanked his family for "remaining so steady whether they...
The critically-acclaimed film won its three leading stars the main acting prizes - Colin Firth was named Best Actor for his role as stuttering British monarch George VI; Helena Bonham Carter took home the Best Supporting Actress title, while the Best Supporting Actor award went to Geoffrey Rush.
The movie picked up the coveted Best Film honor, beating fellow contenders "Black Swan", Inception", The Social Network" and True Grit". It also won the Outstanding British Film, Best Score and Best Original Screenplay awards.
Firth, who also claimed the Best Actor trophy last year for his role in "A Single Man", said, "I like coming here, thank you BAFTA." He also thanked his family for "remaining so steady whether they...
- 2/14/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
There was a moment during tonight’s BAFTA’s, just as Tilda Swinton hit the stage to announce Best Director, that it was clear no other movies were getting a sniff. As the usual Brit self-congratulating seemed even more nauseating than usual, I remarked to a friend; ‘If Tom Hooper wins the Best Director prize for The King’s Speech, then I’m digging out my film camera and I’m shooting the Union Jack for 90 mins with the national anthem playing – with one static, long shot… the patriotism will be overwhelming for these guys and I’ll win next year’.
Swinton introduced the vignette and in a nice piece I am reminded by the complex technical marvel of Inception, the vibrancy and electricism that Darren Aronofsky shot Black Swan with, the masterstroke of genius that true artist David Fincher showed in Social Network – and in that 45 second feature, it...
Swinton introduced the vignette and in a nice piece I am reminded by the complex technical marvel of Inception, the vibrancy and electricism that Darren Aronofsky shot Black Swan with, the masterstroke of genius that true artist David Fincher showed in Social Network – and in that 45 second feature, it...
- 2/13/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts handed out their annual BAFTA Awards today and, not surprisingly, “The King’s Speech” dominated the affair, earning awards for Best Picture, Best Actor for Colin Firth, Best Supporting Actor for Geoffrey Rush and Best Supporting Actress for Helena Bonham Carter.
It wasn’t a clean sweep for “The King’s Speech,” however, as Tom Hooper lost the Best Director award to “The Social Network” helmer David Fincher.
“The King’s Speech” also took home the BAFTAs for Outstanding British Film, Original Screenplay and Original Music.
In other major categories, Natalie Portman continued to distance herself from the field as the presumed Oscar favorite, winning Best Actress for her role in “Black Swan.” “The Social Network,” meanwhile, won Best Adapted Screenplay, while “Toy Story 3″ earned the BAFTA for Animated Film.
Held annually since 1948, the BAFTAs have emerged in recent years as...
It wasn’t a clean sweep for “The King’s Speech,” however, as Tom Hooper lost the Best Director award to “The Social Network” helmer David Fincher.
“The King’s Speech” also took home the BAFTAs for Outstanding British Film, Original Screenplay and Original Music.
In other major categories, Natalie Portman continued to distance herself from the field as the presumed Oscar favorite, winning Best Actress for her role in “Black Swan.” “The Social Network,” meanwhile, won Best Adapted Screenplay, while “Toy Story 3″ earned the BAFTA for Animated Film.
Held annually since 1948, the BAFTAs have emerged in recent years as...
- 2/13/2011
- by Scott Harris
- NextMovie
"The King's Speech" continued its regal progress through the awards season, winning the Best Film award at the BAFTAs, as Colin Firth, who plays the film's stammering monarch, picked up Best Actor.The dramatisation of the true-life relationship between King George VI and his speech therapist won seven awards at the ceremony held in central London's Royal Opera House.A selection of Hollywood royalty including Samuel L. Jackson and Mickey Rourke looked on as the story of the stuttering sovereign beat off competition from "The Social Network," "Black Swan," Inception" and "True Grit".The film is among the favourites to collect the Best Picture award at the Oscars on February 27.Firth has now claimed the impressive double of BAFTA and Golden Globe for his portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II's father, but will have to wait two weeks to find out...
- 2/13/2011
- Filmicafe
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