To mark the release of Never Too Late, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD.
It has been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell, Aka, ‘The Chain Breakers,’ escaped the torturous Vietnamese Pow camp. They now find themselves sharing a new prison, The Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans. Each of the boys has an unrealised dream they want to achieve. So, they band together to devise a plan to escape this new hell. But the rules of engagement have changed, in fact, they can’t even remember what they were and that’s half the problem. Directed by Mark Lamprell, Never Too Late is a cross between Grumpy Old Men and The Great Escape, about four mates reconciling after years apart to teach each other that it’s never too late to chase your dreams.
Never Too Late will be available on...
It has been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell, Aka, ‘The Chain Breakers,’ escaped the torturous Vietnamese Pow camp. They now find themselves sharing a new prison, The Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans. Each of the boys has an unrealised dream they want to achieve. So, they band together to devise a plan to escape this new hell. But the rules of engagement have changed, in fact, they can’t even remember what they were and that’s half the problem. Directed by Mark Lamprell, Never Too Late is a cross between Grumpy Old Men and The Great Escape, about four mates reconciling after years apart to teach each other that it’s never too late to chase your dreams.
Never Too Late will be available on...
- 3/16/2022
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Tunisian drama debuted at Venice and is nominated for best international feature.
Studio Soho Distribution has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s drama The Man Who Sold His Skin, which is up for the best international feature at the Oscars this weekend.
The drama, sold by Paris-based Bac Films, premiered in Venice’s Horizons strand last September, where it won Yahya Mahayni best actor and the film the Edipo Re Award. Studio Soho is planning to release the feature theatrically in August.
Inspired by true events, it follows a young Syrian refugee in...
Studio Soho Distribution has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s drama The Man Who Sold His Skin, which is up for the best international feature at the Oscars this weekend.
The drama, sold by Paris-based Bac Films, premiered in Venice’s Horizons strand last September, where it won Yahya Mahayni best actor and the film the Edipo Re Award. Studio Soho is planning to release the feature theatrically in August.
Inspired by true events, it follows a young Syrian refugee in...
- 4/23/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
In a boost to cinemas, Roadshow’s local comedy-drama Rams has posted the third highest opening weekend post-covid, behind only Tenet and After We Collided.
Opening on 298 screens and earning $809,177 ($1.27 million with previews), Roadshow CEO Joel Pearlman has touted the result, arguing it proves Australian audiences are enthusiastic to return to cinemas.
A reimagining of 2015 Icelandic drama Hrútar, Jeremy Sims’ directs the Michael Caton and Sam Neill-starrer which follows two estranged brothers as they raise separate flocks of sheep descended from their family’s prized bloodline. When a rare disease threatens their stock, they have to work together to save their sheep, their small town and their family’s legacy.
Over the weekend, Neill was nominated for the Aacta Award Best Lead Actor for his performance. The supporting cast includes Miranda Richardson, Wayne Blair, Leon Ford, Travis McMahon, Asher Keddie, Hayley McElhinney, Kipan Rothbury and newcomers Asher Yasbincek and Will McNeill.
Opening on 298 screens and earning $809,177 ($1.27 million with previews), Roadshow CEO Joel Pearlman has touted the result, arguing it proves Australian audiences are enthusiastic to return to cinemas.
A reimagining of 2015 Icelandic drama Hrútar, Jeremy Sims’ directs the Michael Caton and Sam Neill-starrer which follows two estranged brothers as they raise separate flocks of sheep descended from their family’s prized bloodline. When a rare disease threatens their stock, they have to work together to save their sheep, their small town and their family’s legacy.
Over the weekend, Neill was nominated for the Aacta Award Best Lead Actor for his performance. The supporting cast includes Miranda Richardson, Wayne Blair, Leon Ford, Travis McMahon, Asher Keddie, Hayley McElhinney, Kipan Rothbury and newcomers Asher Yasbincek and Will McNeill.
- 11/2/2020
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
‘Never Too Late’ (Photo credit: Bradley Patrick).
The launches of the Liam Neeson action drama Honest Thief and Australian ‘geezer’ comedy Never Too Late helped reverse a three-week slide at cinemas last weekend.
But ticket sales remain depressed and the year-to-date national Bo total through Sunday is $334 million, a woeful 67.5 per cent down on last year’s $1.03 billion.
Among the limited releases, Polish drama Corpus Christi posted the weekend’s highest per-screen average while US indie comedy-drama Kajillionaire struggled. The Taika Waititi-produced Kiwi comedy Baby, Done did not resonate either.
Numero reported the top 20 titles generated $2.28 million, 7 per cent up on the previous frame.
The feature writing and directing debut of Ozark co-creator Mark Williams, Honest Thief stole $696,000 on 206 screens and $722,000 with previews for Rialto, in line with the US results where it’s been No. 1 for three weeks in a Covid-19 devastated market.
Neeson plays Tom Carter, a...
The launches of the Liam Neeson action drama Honest Thief and Australian ‘geezer’ comedy Never Too Late helped reverse a three-week slide at cinemas last weekend.
But ticket sales remain depressed and the year-to-date national Bo total through Sunday is $334 million, a woeful 67.5 per cent down on last year’s $1.03 billion.
Among the limited releases, Polish drama Corpus Christi posted the weekend’s highest per-screen average while US indie comedy-drama Kajillionaire struggled. The Taika Waititi-produced Kiwi comedy Baby, Done did not resonate either.
Numero reported the top 20 titles generated $2.28 million, 7 per cent up on the previous frame.
The feature writing and directing debut of Ozark co-creator Mark Williams, Honest Thief stole $696,000 on 206 screens and $722,000 with previews for Rialto, in line with the US results where it’s been No. 1 for three weeks in a Covid-19 devastated market.
Neeson plays Tom Carter, a...
- 10/26/2020
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The shenanigans of sweet and grumpy old men certainly plays to the back rows – but it’s impossible not to be charmed
Four elderly Vietnam veterans, who busted out of a PoW camp many moons ago, reunite in their twilight years for another daring mission: to escape from a nursing home!
The core premise of director Mark Lamprell’s new comedy Never Too Late – written by Luke Preston – is a quintessential example of what’s known in the movie trade as a “high concept”, meaning a pithy premise that can be written down on space no larger than the back of a matchbox.
Four elderly Vietnam veterans, who busted out of a PoW camp many moons ago, reunite in their twilight years for another daring mission: to escape from a nursing home!
The core premise of director Mark Lamprell’s new comedy Never Too Late – written by Luke Preston – is a quintessential example of what’s known in the movie trade as a “high concept”, meaning a pithy premise that can be written down on space no larger than the back of a matchbox.
- 10/21/2020
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Antony I. Ginnane.
After 50 years in the business of producing films, Antony I. Ginnane is calling on the screen industry to fight to help the next generation of creatives.
Ginnane slammed key measures of the Federal Government’s media reforms including lowering the Producer Offset for films to 30 per cent and exempting producers’ overheads from the minimum qualifying Australian production expenditure (Qape), coupled with the failure to impose local spending obligations on SVOD services.
“It’s vital that we push back on these changes to film regulations,” he said in a webinar with Screen Producers Australia CEO Matt Deaner. “We have to fight to help the next generation so they don’t come in and get screwed from the get-go.”
The producer who has more than 70 screen credits fears many films won’t get made because the ensuing funding gap of 15 per cent – 25 per cent will be impossible to fill.
After 50 years in the business of producing films, Antony I. Ginnane is calling on the screen industry to fight to help the next generation of creatives.
Ginnane slammed key measures of the Federal Government’s media reforms including lowering the Producer Offset for films to 30 per cent and exempting producers’ overheads from the minimum qualifying Australian production expenditure (Qape), coupled with the failure to impose local spending obligations on SVOD services.
“It’s vital that we push back on these changes to film regulations,” he said in a webinar with Screen Producers Australia CEO Matt Deaner. “We have to fight to help the next generation so they don’t come in and get screwed from the get-go.”
The producer who has more than 70 screen credits fears many films won’t get made because the ensuing funding gap of 15 per cent – 25 per cent will be impossible to fill.
- 10/9/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Tania Chambers.
Years of perseverance in developing feature films and TV series with multiple collaborators are paying off for producer Tania Chambers.
The MD of Feisty Dame Productions is in the midst of financing How to Please a Woman and casting the co-lead of Time to Tango, a feature inspired by Miranda Edmonds and Khrob Edmonds’ short film Tango Underpants.
In addition, she is holding a writers’ room on a TV drama with such talent as Renée Webster, Miley Tunnecliffe and Kelly Lefever.
Webster is writing and will direct How to Please a Woman, a comedy-drama about a mature woman who must embrace her sexuality when her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control.
Supported in development since 2016 by Screen Australia and Screenwest, the film has an Australian distributor and sales agent attached and the plan is to start shooting in Perth in March with funding from Screenwest’s West Coast Visions.
Years of perseverance in developing feature films and TV series with multiple collaborators are paying off for producer Tania Chambers.
The MD of Feisty Dame Productions is in the midst of financing How to Please a Woman and casting the co-lead of Time to Tango, a feature inspired by Miranda Edmonds and Khrob Edmonds’ short film Tango Underpants.
In addition, she is holding a writers’ room on a TV drama with such talent as Renée Webster, Miley Tunnecliffe and Kelly Lefever.
Webster is writing and will direct How to Please a Woman, a comedy-drama about a mature woman who must embrace her sexuality when her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control.
Supported in development since 2016 by Screen Australia and Screenwest, the film has an Australian distributor and sales agent attached and the plan is to start shooting in Perth in March with funding from Screenwest’s West Coast Visions.
- 8/3/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Relic’s’ Robyn Nevin with Natalie Erika James.
Natalie Erika James’ Relic continued its reign as the top title in its second weekend in the fractured US theatrical market while Mark Lamprell’s Never Too Late launched on a combination of virtual cinemas and hard tops.
Released by IFC Midnight, the psychological horror movie co-scripted by James and Christian White, rang up $US192,000 in its first weekend at 69 drive-ins: the biggest opening weekend in almost three months.
Last weekend the haunted house movie featuring Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin and Bella Heathcote expanded to 126 locations, generating $US236,000, which brings the 10-day total to $US581,000, according to Box Office Mojo.
Produced by Carver Films’ Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw with Nine Stories Productions’ Jake Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker, Relic premiered on Stan on July 10 as a Stan Original.
The US distributor Blue Fox Entertainment launched Never Too Late in 15 hard tops plus...
Natalie Erika James’ Relic continued its reign as the top title in its second weekend in the fractured US theatrical market while Mark Lamprell’s Never Too Late launched on a combination of virtual cinemas and hard tops.
Released by IFC Midnight, the psychological horror movie co-scripted by James and Christian White, rang up $US192,000 in its first weekend at 69 drive-ins: the biggest opening weekend in almost three months.
Last weekend the haunted house movie featuring Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin and Bella Heathcote expanded to 126 locations, generating $US236,000, which brings the 10-day total to $US581,000, according to Box Office Mojo.
Produced by Carver Films’ Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw with Nine Stories Productions’ Jake Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker, Relic premiered on Stan on July 10 as a Stan Original.
The US distributor Blue Fox Entertainment launched Never Too Late in 15 hard tops plus...
- 7/13/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘I Am Woman.’
Unjoo Moon’s debut feature I Am Woman will premiere on Stan as a Stan Original on August 28 – the latest in a growing list of Australian films to bypass cinemas as the pandemic continues to depress the theatrical market.
This follows the straight-to-streaming deals for Dean Murphy’s comedy The Very Excellent Mr Dundee,, Natalie Erika James’ Relic and digital releases Maziar Lahooti’s Below (July 8), Ben Lawrence’s Hearts and Bones (May 6) and Alexs Stadermann’s animated feature 100% Wolf.
Cinemagoers may well feel aggrieved about missing the opportunity to see these films in cinemas, although Hearts and Bones and 100% Wolf did play on a handful of screens, as did Kriv Stenders’ Brock: Over the Top.
But distributors can hardly be blamed for opting not to spend up to a million dollars on marketing while ticket sales remain at historically low levels. Transmission Films had planned cinema...
Unjoo Moon’s debut feature I Am Woman will premiere on Stan as a Stan Original on August 28 – the latest in a growing list of Australian films to bypass cinemas as the pandemic continues to depress the theatrical market.
This follows the straight-to-streaming deals for Dean Murphy’s comedy The Very Excellent Mr Dundee,, Natalie Erika James’ Relic and digital releases Maziar Lahooti’s Below (July 8), Ben Lawrence’s Hearts and Bones (May 6) and Alexs Stadermann’s animated feature 100% Wolf.
Cinemagoers may well feel aggrieved about missing the opportunity to see these films in cinemas, although Hearts and Bones and 100% Wolf did play on a handful of screens, as did Kriv Stenders’ Brock: Over the Top.
But distributors can hardly be blamed for opting not to spend up to a million dollars on marketing while ticket sales remain at historically low levels. Transmission Films had planned cinema...
- 7/12/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Four Vietnam vets reunite for a mission, one that will lean on their wartime exploits but also expose more than a few old tensions. No, this is not a revisit of “Da 5 Bloods” but a brief description of the genial, cliché-encumbered, Aussie comedy “Never Too Late.” Directed by Mark Lamprell, it opens in virtual — and a few actual — cinemas nationwide on July 10.
Wily and determined, former special forces soldier Jack Bronson (James Cromwell) arrives at the Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Servicemen and Women looking the worse for wear. He’s in a wheelchair and appears to have had a stroke. The facility’s ramrod director Lin (Renee Lim) admits him. After he’s taken to his new abode, we learn that decrepit act was subterfuge. He’s there to reconnect with the love of his long life, Norma (Jacki Weaver).
It’s Norma’s voiceover that starts the movie off,...
Wily and determined, former special forces soldier Jack Bronson (James Cromwell) arrives at the Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Servicemen and Women looking the worse for wear. He’s in a wheelchair and appears to have had a stroke. The facility’s ramrod director Lin (Renee Lim) admits him. After he’s taken to his new abode, we learn that decrepit act was subterfuge. He’s there to reconnect with the love of his long life, Norma (Jacki Weaver).
It’s Norma’s voiceover that starts the movie off,...
- 7/10/2020
- by Lisa Kennedy
- Variety Film + TV
Craig McMahon.
While insurance companies and other financiers worldwide have excluded Covid-19 from their policies, Melbourne-based Elevate Production Finance (Epf) is stepping into the breach.
Backed by Australian and international institutions and private equity, Epf is prepared to immediately provide debt funding to film and television productions in Australia and New Zealand despite the pandemic.
Managing director Craig McMahon, who founded Epf in 2018, tells If: “We have the ability to take on a significant amount of work. We are excited to re-open our doors to producers seeking debt finance for their productions.
“The landscape has significantly changed, producers have had to adjust to new working environments and as a lender, we have responded swiftly by reviewing our lending protocols.
“These new protocols will enable us to consider projects impacted by the lack of Covid-19 coverage within insurance policies and completion guarantees, which is a crucial first step in redefining our lending conditions.
While insurance companies and other financiers worldwide have excluded Covid-19 from their policies, Melbourne-based Elevate Production Finance (Epf) is stepping into the breach.
Backed by Australian and international institutions and private equity, Epf is prepared to immediately provide debt funding to film and television productions in Australia and New Zealand despite the pandemic.
Managing director Craig McMahon, who founded Epf in 2018, tells If: “We have the ability to take on a significant amount of work. We are excited to re-open our doors to producers seeking debt finance for their productions.
“The landscape has significantly changed, producers have had to adjust to new working environments and as a lender, we have responded swiftly by reviewing our lending protocols.
“These new protocols will enable us to consider projects impacted by the lack of Covid-19 coverage within insurance policies and completion guarantees, which is a crucial first step in redefining our lending conditions.
- 6/9/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
In today’s film news roundup, Studio Movie Grill hires an industry veteran to handle marketing, the HFPA elects its board, and “Sometimes Always Never” and “Never Too Late” get virtual releases.
Executive Hired
Studio Movie Grill has hired former AMC Entertainment executive Tonya Mangels as head of revenue and marketing for the chain, which operates 353 screens in 10 states.
She will report to CEO Brian Schultz. While at AMC, Mangels was a vice president overseeing brand strategy, studio marketing, loyalty data analytics partnerships, mobile app/kiosk ordering, digital streaming launch and food and beverage marketing.
“We are excited to welcome guests back to enjoying movies on the big screen with the reopening of Smg Theaters starting June 19, ” Schultz said. “Aligning with our vision, we will be donating 10% of all ticket and food and beverage proceeds throughout opening weekend (June 19-21) to support Smg team members at locations nationwide still furloughed...
Executive Hired
Studio Movie Grill has hired former AMC Entertainment executive Tonya Mangels as head of revenue and marketing for the chain, which operates 353 screens in 10 states.
She will report to CEO Brian Schultz. While at AMC, Mangels was a vice president overseeing brand strategy, studio marketing, loyalty data analytics partnerships, mobile app/kiosk ordering, digital streaming launch and food and beverage marketing.
“We are excited to welcome guests back to enjoying movies on the big screen with the reopening of Smg Theaters starting June 19, ” Schultz said. “Aligning with our vision, we will be donating 10% of all ticket and food and beverage proceeds throughout opening weekend (June 19-21) to support Smg team members at locations nationwide still furloughed...
- 6/4/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
‘Onward’ (Photo credit: Disney).
In his 63 years as a film programmer, Bob Parr had never experienced anything like the current crisis as ticket sales flatlined across the country over the past few weeks.
“All exhibitors and distributors are losing a lot of money,” the Wallis Cinemas consultant told If on Sunday. “Many cinemas have closed because there are no patrons.
“Many small exhibitors make their living in school holidays and barely break even except for blockbusters during the remaining time. They are in the business because they love it.”
Later that day the Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced all cinemas and entertainment venues, registered and licensed clubs, hotels, pubs, casinos and nightclubs will close today.
Exhibitors and distributors had been steeling themselves for that decision after cinemas were shuttered in the Us, the UK and myriad other markets.
Now facing zero cash flow, they have to lay off permanent and casual staff,...
In his 63 years as a film programmer, Bob Parr had never experienced anything like the current crisis as ticket sales flatlined across the country over the past few weeks.
“All exhibitors and distributors are losing a lot of money,” the Wallis Cinemas consultant told If on Sunday. “Many cinemas have closed because there are no patrons.
“Many small exhibitors make their living in school holidays and barely break even except for blockbusters during the remaining time. They are in the business because they love it.”
Later that day the Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced all cinemas and entertainment venues, registered and licensed clubs, hotels, pubs, casinos and nightclubs will close today.
Exhibitors and distributors had been steeling themselves for that decision after cinemas were shuttered in the Us, the UK and myriad other markets.
Now facing zero cash flow, they have to lay off permanent and casual staff,...
- 3/23/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Never Too Late’ (Photo credit: Bradley Patrick).
Blue Fox Entertainment has bought the Us rights to Mark Lamprell’s Never Too Late and will release the comedy-drama on about 25 screens, followed by transactional VOD two weeks later.
That’s the distributor’s third Aussie acquisition following Stephan Elliott’s Swinging Safari and Russell Mulcahy’s In Like Flynn last year.
Starring Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Dennis Waterman and Roy Billing as Vietnam veterans who plan to break out of their nursing home, the film scripted by Luke Preston will open the Young at Heart Senior Film Festival at Palace cinemas across Australia on February 19.
It will play each day for a couple of weeks in the festival then go out on a broader national release on April 23 via R&r Films.
Jacki Weaver plays Norma, the long-lost love of Cromwell’s character Bronson, formerly a Us soldier whom she met...
Blue Fox Entertainment has bought the Us rights to Mark Lamprell’s Never Too Late and will release the comedy-drama on about 25 screens, followed by transactional VOD two weeks later.
That’s the distributor’s third Aussie acquisition following Stephan Elliott’s Swinging Safari and Russell Mulcahy’s In Like Flynn last year.
Starring Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Dennis Waterman and Roy Billing as Vietnam veterans who plan to break out of their nursing home, the film scripted by Luke Preston will open the Young at Heart Senior Film Festival at Palace cinemas across Australia on February 19.
It will play each day for a couple of weeks in the festival then go out on a broader national release on April 23 via R&r Films.
Jacki Weaver plays Norma, the long-lost love of Cromwell’s character Bronson, formerly a Us soldier whom she met...
- 2/11/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Seller also reports international deals for first time.
Kirk D’Amico’s Myriad Pictures has closed a Us deal on upcoming Efm screening Never Too Late and has announced previously unreported international sales on the Australian comedy starring James Cromwell and Jacki Weaver.
Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired Us rights to Mark Lamprell’s tale about a band of retired Vietnam War veterans who plan to break out of their retirement home and reunite their friend with his lost love.
Dennis Waterman also stars in Never Too Late, which Lamprell directed from a screenplay by crime novellist Luke Preston.
D’Amico...
Kirk D’Amico’s Myriad Pictures has closed a Us deal on upcoming Efm screening Never Too Late and has announced previously unreported international sales on the Australian comedy starring James Cromwell and Jacki Weaver.
Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired Us rights to Mark Lamprell’s tale about a band of retired Vietnam War veterans who plan to break out of their retirement home and reunite their friend with his lost love.
Dennis Waterman also stars in Never Too Late, which Lamprell directed from a screenplay by crime novellist Luke Preston.
D’Amico...
- 2/6/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
James Cromwell and Jacki Weaver in ‘Never Too Late’. (Photo credit: Bradley Patrick).
Screen Australia’s head of content Sally Caplan rates 2019 as a good year for Australian films at home and abroad – and she is even more optimistic about the 2020 slate.
Having seen a sizable number of the upcoming Aussie releases in completed form, rough cut or in post, arguably she is uniquely placed to provide an overview.
“There is a lot of doom and gloom about films not working but they can work,” the six-year agency veteran tells If. Here are her comments on a selection of the year’s releases, in no particular order.
Robert Connolly’s The Dry, which stars Eric Bana as a cop who returns to his drought-stricken hometown after 20 years to investigate an apparent murder-suicide committed by his childhood friend: “I’ve seen the locked cut and it’s looking great, based on...
Screen Australia’s head of content Sally Caplan rates 2019 as a good year for Australian films at home and abroad – and she is even more optimistic about the 2020 slate.
Having seen a sizable number of the upcoming Aussie releases in completed form, rough cut or in post, arguably she is uniquely placed to provide an overview.
“There is a lot of doom and gloom about films not working but they can work,” the six-year agency veteran tells If. Here are her comments on a selection of the year’s releases, in no particular order.
Robert Connolly’s The Dry, which stars Eric Bana as a cop who returns to his drought-stricken hometown after 20 years to investigate an apparent murder-suicide committed by his childhood friend: “I’ve seen the locked cut and it’s looking great, based on...
- 1/29/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Angela Little.
Screen composer Angela Little is pursuing her career in Hollywood after completing her Master of Music in Screen Scoring at the University of Southern California while continuing to work on Australian productions.
Little has signed with the Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, which represents numerous composers, music producers, songwriters, music supervisors and music editors.
“The agency wants to build a relationship with me and they told me to run all deals through them, which is really exciting,” she tells If via Skype.
She has just scored Mark Lamprell’s Never Too Late, a comedy-drama starring Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Dennis Waterman and Roy Billing as Vietnam veterans who plan to break out of their nursing home. Jacki Weaver plays Norma, the long-lost love of Cromwell’s character Bronson, who was a Us soldier whom she met when he was in Australia on R&r.
Angela oversaw the live recording of two...
Screen composer Angela Little is pursuing her career in Hollywood after completing her Master of Music in Screen Scoring at the University of Southern California while continuing to work on Australian productions.
Little has signed with the Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, which represents numerous composers, music producers, songwriters, music supervisors and music editors.
“The agency wants to build a relationship with me and they told me to run all deals through them, which is really exciting,” she tells If via Skype.
She has just scored Mark Lamprell’s Never Too Late, a comedy-drama starring Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Dennis Waterman and Roy Billing as Vietnam veterans who plan to break out of their nursing home. Jacki Weaver plays Norma, the long-lost love of Cromwell’s character Bronson, who was a Us soldier whom she met when he was in Australia on R&r.
Angela oversaw the live recording of two...
- 8/7/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Jacki Weaver.
Jacki Weaver is starring alongside Naomi Watts and The Walking Dead’s Andrew Lincoln in Penguin Bloom, the adaptation of Bradley Trevor Greive and Cameron Bloom’s novel directed by Glendyn Ivin.
Lincoln plays Cameron Bloom, the husband of Watt’s Sam Bloom in the drama based on the true story of a young Sydney family who struggle to come to terms with a near-fatal accident that left their mother paralyzed.
An unlikely ally enters their lives in the form of an injured Magpie chick, which the family dubbed ‘Penguin’ due to her black and white plumage.
Weaver portrays Jan, Sam’s mother. Newcomers Griffin Murray-Johnston, Felix Cameron and Abe Clifford-Barr, who were discovered in a nationwide search by casting directors Kirsty McGregor and Stevie Ray, play the Bloom’s children.
Rounding out the cast are Rachel House as Sam’s Kiwi kayak coach Gaye Hatfield, Leeanna Walsman...
Jacki Weaver is starring alongside Naomi Watts and The Walking Dead’s Andrew Lincoln in Penguin Bloom, the adaptation of Bradley Trevor Greive and Cameron Bloom’s novel directed by Glendyn Ivin.
Lincoln plays Cameron Bloom, the husband of Watt’s Sam Bloom in the drama based on the true story of a young Sydney family who struggle to come to terms with a near-fatal accident that left their mother paralyzed.
An unlikely ally enters their lives in the form of an injured Magpie chick, which the family dubbed ‘Penguin’ due to her black and white plumage.
Weaver portrays Jan, Sam’s mother. Newcomers Griffin Murray-Johnston, Felix Cameron and Abe Clifford-Barr, who were discovered in a nationwide search by casting directors Kirsty McGregor and Stevie Ray, play the Bloom’s children.
Rounding out the cast are Rachel House as Sam’s Kiwi kayak coach Gaye Hatfield, Leeanna Walsman...
- 7/31/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Courtney Gibson.
South Australian Film Corporation CEO Courtney Gibson has resigned after 15 months at the helm. She will finish at the end of this month, moving back to Sydney to be closer to family.
Gibson, a former CEO of Screen Nsw and executive at the ABC, Nine Network, Southern Star and Sbs, joined the Safc in April 2018, with a stated aim to boost production levels in the state, including a greater share of TV production.
Notably South Australia has recently scored New Line/Warner Bros.’ Mortal Kombat, and series like Matchbox Pictures/Dirty Films Stateless, Closer Productions’ The Hunting, Lingo Pictures’ comedy drama Upright, Epic Films’ First Day, the first ever children’s drama series starring a transgender teen and The Letdown season 2.
Other recent Sa productions include Daniel Radcliffe-starrer Escape from Pretoria, and Mark Lamprell’s Never Too Late, while Daina Reid’s upcoming Run Rabbit Run, based...
South Australian Film Corporation CEO Courtney Gibson has resigned after 15 months at the helm. She will finish at the end of this month, moving back to Sydney to be closer to family.
Gibson, a former CEO of Screen Nsw and executive at the ABC, Nine Network, Southern Star and Sbs, joined the Safc in April 2018, with a stated aim to boost production levels in the state, including a greater share of TV production.
Notably South Australia has recently scored New Line/Warner Bros.’ Mortal Kombat, and series like Matchbox Pictures/Dirty Films Stateless, Closer Productions’ The Hunting, Lingo Pictures’ comedy drama Upright, Epic Films’ First Day, the first ever children’s drama series starring a transgender teen and The Letdown season 2.
Other recent Sa productions include Daniel Radcliffe-starrer Escape from Pretoria, and Mark Lamprell’s Never Too Late, while Daina Reid’s upcoming Run Rabbit Run, based...
- 7/16/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Anni Browning accepts the 2017 Spa Award to Film Finances for Best Service and Facilities.
In 22 years with Film Finances Australasia, Anni Browning experienced numerous highs and faced a few challenges as the cinema industry ebbed and flowed.
Browning, who has stepped down as MD of the completion bond company but is still a consultant, supported Rachel Perkins’ debut feature Radiance.
She took one of her biggest risks on a Rolf de Heer movie, which she counts as one of her proudest achievements.
The biggest trend during her time has been the proliferation of low budget films, despite the need to pay crews and allocate reasonable money for post- production. Film Finances bonded a lot of films budgeted at $1 million- $1.5 million and one-off feature docs costing as little as $100,000- $200,000.
One thing which has not remained constant is the insurance bond premium. When she started it was as high as 6 per cent of the budget.
In 22 years with Film Finances Australasia, Anni Browning experienced numerous highs and faced a few challenges as the cinema industry ebbed and flowed.
Browning, who has stepped down as MD of the completion bond company but is still a consultant, supported Rachel Perkins’ debut feature Radiance.
She took one of her biggest risks on a Rolf de Heer movie, which she counts as one of her proudest achievements.
The biggest trend during her time has been the proliferation of low budget films, despite the need to pay crews and allocate reasonable money for post- production. Film Finances bonded a lot of films budgeted at $1 million- $1.5 million and one-off feature docs costing as little as $100,000- $200,000.
One thing which has not remained constant is the insurance bond premium. When she started it was as high as 6 per cent of the budget.
- 7/7/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘2040’.
Five months into the year, 18 Australian films and feature docs released in cinemas since the start of the year, plus holdovers, have racked up a modest $14.3 million.
That compares with $37.6 million generated in the same period last year, led by Peter Rabbit’s $26.4 million, Breath’s $3.6 million in four weeks (finishing with $4.6 million) and Sweet Country’s $2 million.
Shawn Seet’s Storm Boy is the top title with nearly $5 million, a creditable result. But almost certainly that would have been rather higher if Sony Pictures had been able to use Geoffrey Rush in the publicity campaign.
Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding has grossed $4.7 million through Sunday, its sixth weekend, and could finish with $5.5 million.
Anthony Maras’ Hotel Mumbai collected $3.3 million, knee-capped by the dreadful co-incidence of opening on the same weekend as the Christchurch massacre.
Damon Gameau’s 2040 has earned $568,000 after its second weekend and, buoyed by word-of-mouth, distributor...
Five months into the year, 18 Australian films and feature docs released in cinemas since the start of the year, plus holdovers, have racked up a modest $14.3 million.
That compares with $37.6 million generated in the same period last year, led by Peter Rabbit’s $26.4 million, Breath’s $3.6 million in four weeks (finishing with $4.6 million) and Sweet Country’s $2 million.
Shawn Seet’s Storm Boy is the top title with nearly $5 million, a creditable result. But almost certainly that would have been rather higher if Sony Pictures had been able to use Geoffrey Rush in the publicity campaign.
Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding has grossed $4.7 million through Sunday, its sixth weekend, and could finish with $5.5 million.
Anthony Maras’ Hotel Mumbai collected $3.3 million, knee-capped by the dreadful co-incidence of opening on the same weekend as the Christchurch massacre.
Damon Gameau’s 2040 has earned $568,000 after its second weekend and, buoyed by word-of-mouth, distributor...
- 6/3/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
James Cromwell.
Mark Lamprell’s Never Too Late (formerly The Chain Breakers), a comedy-drama about four heroic Vietnam veterans who plan to break out of their nursing home, will start shooting in South Australia on March 18.
Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Dennis Waterman and Roy Billing play the quartet, who were famous for escaping from a Vietnamese Pow camp.
Now residents of the Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans, each has an unrealised dream he wants to achieve before it’s too late. They devise a plan to escape but the rules of engagement have changed. Indeed, they can’t even remember what the rules were and that’s half the problem.
Jacki Weaver plays Norma, the long-lost love of Cromwell’s character Bronson, formerly a Us soldier. They met when he was in Australia on R&R but he was posted back to Vietnam before he could propose. Norma’s...
Mark Lamprell’s Never Too Late (formerly The Chain Breakers), a comedy-drama about four heroic Vietnam veterans who plan to break out of their nursing home, will start shooting in South Australia on March 18.
Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Dennis Waterman and Roy Billing play the quartet, who were famous for escaping from a Vietnamese Pow camp.
Now residents of the Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans, each has an unrealised dream he wants to achieve before it’s too late. They devise a plan to escape but the rules of engagement have changed. Indeed, they can’t even remember what the rules were and that’s half the problem.
Jacki Weaver plays Norma, the long-lost love of Cromwell’s character Bronson, formerly a Us soldier. They met when he was in Australia on R&R but he was posted back to Vietnam before he could propose. Norma’s...
- 3/6/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Jacki Weaver.
Comedy feature The Chain Breakers, to star Jacki Weaver, Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Denis Waterman and Shane Jacobson, is one of seven projects to have recently received production funding from Screen Australia.
Written by Luke Preston and directed by Mark Lamprell, the film follows four Vietnam vets, famous for escaping a Pow camp, who find themselves in a new hell: The Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans. Each has an unrealised dream they want achieve, and so they band together to escape again. Produced by Antony I. Ginnane and David Lightfoot, the film is billed as a cross between Grumpy Old Men and The Great Escape. It will be distributed via R & R Films, the new venture between Richard Becker and Robert Slaviero.
Among the other projects to have shared in the $7.5 million of funding from the federal agency is Lone Wolf, writer-director Jonathan Ogilvie’s...
Comedy feature The Chain Breakers, to star Jacki Weaver, Jack Thompson, James Cromwell, Denis Waterman and Shane Jacobson, is one of seven projects to have recently received production funding from Screen Australia.
Written by Luke Preston and directed by Mark Lamprell, the film follows four Vietnam vets, famous for escaping a Pow camp, who find themselves in a new hell: The Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans. Each has an unrealised dream they want achieve, and so they band together to escape again. Produced by Antony I. Ginnane and David Lightfoot, the film is billed as a cross between Grumpy Old Men and The Great Escape. It will be distributed via R & R Films, the new venture between Richard Becker and Robert Slaviero.
Among the other projects to have shared in the $7.5 million of funding from the federal agency is Lone Wolf, writer-director Jonathan Ogilvie’s...
- 1/14/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Babe: Pig In The City co-writer Mark Lamprell to direct.
Myriad Pictures is in Toronto launching sales on the comedy The Chain Breakers starring James Cromwell, Dennis Waterman, Jacki Weaver and Shane Jacobson.
Mark Lamprell, who co-wrote Babe: Pig In The City, is set to direct from a screenplay by Luke Preston about four senior men who use skills learned during the Vietnam War to escape from their nursing home.
Each man has his own reasons to leave the facility, and use their mutual love and camaraderie to secure their freedom.
The Chain Breakers was developed with support from Film Victoria with R&R Films,...
Myriad Pictures is in Toronto launching sales on the comedy The Chain Breakers starring James Cromwell, Dennis Waterman, Jacki Weaver and Shane Jacobson.
Mark Lamprell, who co-wrote Babe: Pig In The City, is set to direct from a screenplay by Luke Preston about four senior men who use skills learned during the Vietnam War to escape from their nursing home.
Each man has his own reasons to leave the facility, and use their mutual love and camaraderie to secure their freedom.
The Chain Breakers was developed with support from Film Victoria with R&R Films,...
- 9/7/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
'Lion' leads this year's Aussie films, and now ranks as the fifth highest grossing Australian film of all time..
The Australian films released theatrically so far this year have grossed $42.6 million.—.nearly double the meagre 2016 calendar year total of $24.1 million.
The resurgence for Australian cinema has been led by Garth Davis. Lion (Transmission), the stand-out with $29.5 million.
Launched on Boxing Day 2016, Kriv Stenders. Red Dog :True Blue has earned $5.8 million this year, not a terrible result for Roadshow Films but below industry expectations.
Rachel Perkins. Jasper Jones (Madman) brought in $2.66 million and Jeffrey Walker.s Dance Academy: The Movie (StudioCanal) made $2.1 million.
None of the other 37 films tracked by the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia (which includes holdovers from previous years) has cracked $1 million.
However the market share for Aussie films this year will be a marked improvement on 2016.s 1.9 per cent, which was a sharp...
The Australian films released theatrically so far this year have grossed $42.6 million.—.nearly double the meagre 2016 calendar year total of $24.1 million.
The resurgence for Australian cinema has been led by Garth Davis. Lion (Transmission), the stand-out with $29.5 million.
Launched on Boxing Day 2016, Kriv Stenders. Red Dog :True Blue has earned $5.8 million this year, not a terrible result for Roadshow Films but below industry expectations.
Rachel Perkins. Jasper Jones (Madman) brought in $2.66 million and Jeffrey Walker.s Dance Academy: The Movie (StudioCanal) made $2.1 million.
None of the other 37 films tracked by the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia (which includes holdovers from previous years) has cracked $1 million.
However the market share for Aussie films this year will be a marked improvement on 2016.s 1.9 per cent, which was a sharp...
- 5/30/2017
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
(l-r).Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall, Shane Jacobson and Kevin Bishop.
The boys are back in 'A Few Less Men', the sequel to Stephan Elliott's 2011 comedy 'A Few Best Men'..If spoke to producer Tania Chambers, a newcomer to the franchise, about jumping onboard, raising the cash and the challenges of shooting in the desert.
'A Few Less Men' opens nationally on March 9 via StudioCanal.
How did you get involved in A Few Less Men?
When I was CEO at Screen Nsw, A Few Best Men was one of the films we financed. So I got to know the producing team. The premiere of the film was shortly after I left Screen Nsw, and I decided that I.d been involved in some of the hard yakka getting the film made and I may as well celebrate with them. They asked what my plans were,...
The boys are back in 'A Few Less Men', the sequel to Stephan Elliott's 2011 comedy 'A Few Best Men'..If spoke to producer Tania Chambers, a newcomer to the franchise, about jumping onboard, raising the cash and the challenges of shooting in the desert.
'A Few Less Men' opens nationally on March 9 via StudioCanal.
How did you get involved in A Few Less Men?
When I was CEO at Screen Nsw, A Few Best Men was one of the films we financed. So I got to know the producing team. The premiere of the film was shortly after I left Screen Nsw, and I decided that I.d been involved in some of the hard yakka getting the film made and I may as well celebrate with them. They asked what my plans were,...
- 3/2/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
(l-r).Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall, Shane Jacobson and Kevin Bishop.
The boys are back in 'A Few Less Men', the sequel to Stephan Elliott's 2011 comedy 'A Few Best Men'..If spoke to producer Tania Chambers, a newcomer to the franchise, about jumping onboard, raising the cash and the challenges of shooting in the desert.
'A Few Less Men' opens nationally on March 9 via StudioCanal.
How did you get involved in A Few Less Men?
When I was CEO at Screen Nsw, A Few Best Men was one of the films we financed. So I got to know the producing team. Shortly after I left Screen Nsw was the premiere of the film, and I decided that I.d been involved in some of the hard yakka getting the film made and I may as well celebrate with them. They asked what my plans were,...
The boys are back in 'A Few Less Men', the sequel to Stephan Elliott's 2011 comedy 'A Few Best Men'..If spoke to producer Tania Chambers, a newcomer to the franchise, about jumping onboard, raising the cash and the challenges of shooting in the desert.
'A Few Less Men' opens nationally on March 9 via StudioCanal.
How did you get involved in A Few Less Men?
When I was CEO at Screen Nsw, A Few Best Men was one of the films we financed. So I got to know the producing team. Shortly after I left Screen Nsw was the premiere of the film, and I decided that I.d been involved in some of the hard yakka getting the film made and I may as well celebrate with them. They asked what my plans were,...
- 3/2/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Xavier Samuel in Spin Out.
He might not be a household name just yet, but Xavier Samuel has seemingly endless projects in the pipeline. If talks to the actor about the purple patch that's seen him star in every other Aussie film this year.
Scan the title credits of this year.s Aussie films and you.ll notice one name popping up again and again: Xavier Samuel.
From the titular character in Miff opener The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, to the lead in Marc Gracie and Tim Ferguson.s B&S ball rom-com Spin Out and in the upcoming sequel to 2011.s Few Best Men, A Few Less Men — Samuel.s having a busy year.
He.s also the lead in David Pulbrook.s thriller Bad Blood — currently in post — and will feature alongside Hugo Weaving in the ABC.s anticipated six-part series Seven Types of Ambiguity.
Despite...
He might not be a household name just yet, but Xavier Samuel has seemingly endless projects in the pipeline. If talks to the actor about the purple patch that's seen him star in every other Aussie film this year.
Scan the title credits of this year.s Aussie films and you.ll notice one name popping up again and again: Xavier Samuel.
From the titular character in Miff opener The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, to the lead in Marc Gracie and Tim Ferguson.s B&S ball rom-com Spin Out and in the upcoming sequel to 2011.s Few Best Men, A Few Less Men — Samuel.s having a busy year.
He.s also the lead in David Pulbrook.s thriller Bad Blood — currently in post — and will feature alongside Hugo Weaving in the ABC.s anticipated six-part series Seven Types of Ambiguity.
Despite...
- 10/25/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Xavier Samuel in Spin Out.
He might not be a household name just yet, but Xavier Samuel has seemingly endless projects in the pipeline. If talks to the actor about the purple patch that's seen him star in every other Aussie film this year.
Scan the title credits of this year.s Aussie films and you.ll notice one name popping up again and again: Xavier Samuel.
From the titular character in Miff opener The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, to the lead in Marc Gracie and Tim Ferguson.s B&S ball rom-com Spin Out and in the upcoming sequel to 2011.s Few Best Men, A Few Less Men — Samuel.s having a busy year.
He.s also the lead in David Pulbrook.s thriller Bad Blood — currently in post — and will feature alongside Hugo Weaving in the ABC.s anticipated six-part series Seven Types of Ambiguity.
Despite...
He might not be a household name just yet, but Xavier Samuel has seemingly endless projects in the pipeline. If talks to the actor about the purple patch that's seen him star in every other Aussie film this year.
Scan the title credits of this year.s Aussie films and you.ll notice one name popping up again and again: Xavier Samuel.
From the titular character in Miff opener The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, to the lead in Marc Gracie and Tim Ferguson.s B&S ball rom-com Spin Out and in the upcoming sequel to 2011.s Few Best Men, A Few Less Men — Samuel.s having a busy year.
He.s also the lead in David Pulbrook.s thriller Bad Blood — currently in post — and will feature alongside Hugo Weaving in the ABC.s anticipated six-part series Seven Types of Ambiguity.
Despite...
- 10/25/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Independent producer Andrena Finlay runs Wildheart Films with her husband, producer Al Clark (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert)..
They are currently in pre-production with Jamie Hilton's See Pictures on Stephan Elliott's Flammable Children, starring Guy Pearce, Radha Mitchell and Kylie Minogue.
Finlay most recently produced Mark Lamprell's Goddess in 2013..
Separate to her day job as a producer, she's now starting a new consultancy business called Screen Arts. Business. Consulting (Screen ABC)..
Finlay is kicking things off with two producing workshops — October 15 and October 29 — aimed at demystifying the process of financing feature films.
The workshops will cover creating finance plans, recoupment waterfalls, understanding investors (Workshop 1 — Oct 15), and how to navigate through the myriad of transaction documents required before a producer can even get cashflow (Workshop 2 — Oct 29)..
The first workshop will zero in on two case studies: a $2.5 million Screen Australia traditionally-financed production and a low budget feature,...
They are currently in pre-production with Jamie Hilton's See Pictures on Stephan Elliott's Flammable Children, starring Guy Pearce, Radha Mitchell and Kylie Minogue.
Finlay most recently produced Mark Lamprell's Goddess in 2013..
Separate to her day job as a producer, she's now starting a new consultancy business called Screen Arts. Business. Consulting (Screen ABC)..
Finlay is kicking things off with two producing workshops — October 15 and October 29 — aimed at demystifying the process of financing feature films.
The workshops will cover creating finance plans, recoupment waterfalls, understanding investors (Workshop 1 — Oct 15), and how to navigate through the myriad of transaction documents required before a producer can even get cashflow (Workshop 2 — Oct 29)..
The first workshop will zero in on two case studies: a $2.5 million Screen Australia traditionally-financed production and a low budget feature,...
- 9/27/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Blake Lively.
Sony's The Shallows was shot in Queensland, and a large chunk of the effects work was completed by Perth production house Boogie Monster, who created over 130 graphically-driven visual effects shots for the film, in which Blake Lively is terrorised by an angry shark.
Boogie Monster's portfolio of shots was created under the eye of visual effects supervisor Nathan McGuinness. The company edged out a number of international effects houses to get the chance to create the opening and closing main title sequences of the film.
The company's leading VFX artist Phil Hew said .it was inspiring to be part of something truly international and to be working with a director on the other side of the world who trusted us with his vision..
The director, Jaume Collet-Serra, is best known for Liam Neeson actioners Run All Night, Non-Stop and Unknown.
Boogie Monster was able to move large amounts...
Sony's The Shallows was shot in Queensland, and a large chunk of the effects work was completed by Perth production house Boogie Monster, who created over 130 graphically-driven visual effects shots for the film, in which Blake Lively is terrorised by an angry shark.
Boogie Monster's portfolio of shots was created under the eye of visual effects supervisor Nathan McGuinness. The company edged out a number of international effects houses to get the chance to create the opening and closing main title sequences of the film.
The company's leading VFX artist Phil Hew said .it was inspiring to be part of something truly international and to be working with a director on the other side of the world who trusted us with his vision..
The director, Jaume Collet-Serra, is best known for Liam Neeson actioners Run All Night, Non-Stop and Unknown.
Boogie Monster was able to move large amounts...
- 8/19/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
(l-r):.Kevin Bishop,.Xavier Samuel and.Kris Marshall.in A Few Less Men.
A Few Less Men, the sequel to Stephan Elliott's 2011 comedy A Few Best Men, was helmed by Mark Lamprell, the screenwriter of Babe: Pig in the City and director of 2000's My Mother Frank and 2013's Goddess.
Lamprell came on board after reading the script by Dean Craig (Death at a Funeral), who wrote the original film.
"It was lovely working on somebody else's screenplay because it was a really solid screenplay structurally," Lamprell said. "I could see that there was a really good movie in there. Dean's a very accomplished writer. The whole guts of it were laid out before me.".
Lamprell, who got his start at Kennedy Miller making Bts documentaries such as The Making of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), describes A Few Less Men as "a silly comedy.".
"It's not high-brow wit.
A Few Less Men, the sequel to Stephan Elliott's 2011 comedy A Few Best Men, was helmed by Mark Lamprell, the screenwriter of Babe: Pig in the City and director of 2000's My Mother Frank and 2013's Goddess.
Lamprell came on board after reading the script by Dean Craig (Death at a Funeral), who wrote the original film.
"It was lovely working on somebody else's screenplay because it was a really solid screenplay structurally," Lamprell said. "I could see that there was a really good movie in there. Dean's a very accomplished writer. The whole guts of it were laid out before me.".
Lamprell, who got his start at Kennedy Miller making Bts documentaries such as The Making of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), describes A Few Less Men as "a silly comedy.".
"It's not high-brow wit.
- 6/23/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall and Kevin Bishop in A Few Less Men.
Arclight Films have released a first look at A Few Less Men, the sequel to 2011's A Few Best Men..
The new film sees Goddess' Mark Lamprell taking over directing duties from Priscilla's Stephan Elliot, and will be released by StudioCanal in Australia and Nz.
The film was produced by Laurence Malkin, Tania Chambers and Share Stallings and written by Dean Craig (Death at a Funeral), and footage is currently being screened to buyers in Cannes.
.From a talented group of filmmakers with a proven track record of delivering strong, entertaining stories with broad appeal, A Few Less Men is sure to satisfy audiences in Australia and abroad", said StudioCanal Australia and New Zealand Chief Executive Elizabeth Trotman..
"Here at StudioCanal we are so pleased to be on board and are looking forward to developing an exciting campaign.
Arclight Films have released a first look at A Few Less Men, the sequel to 2011's A Few Best Men..
The new film sees Goddess' Mark Lamprell taking over directing duties from Priscilla's Stephan Elliot, and will be released by StudioCanal in Australia and Nz.
The film was produced by Laurence Malkin, Tania Chambers and Share Stallings and written by Dean Craig (Death at a Funeral), and footage is currently being screened to buyers in Cannes.
.From a talented group of filmmakers with a proven track record of delivering strong, entertaining stories with broad appeal, A Few Less Men is sure to satisfy audiences in Australia and abroad", said StudioCanal Australia and New Zealand Chief Executive Elizabeth Trotman..
"Here at StudioCanal we are so pleased to be on board and are looking forward to developing an exciting campaign.
- 5/15/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
By now, most of us know the story of Mad Max director George Miller and his never-realized Justice League project. But did you know there was another famous film he almost went on to direct for Warner Bros.? Some of us may never get over what Justice League: Mortal could have been. Perhaps the pain will be less acute over this new information, considering the final product was a relatively well-received movie. Miller (along with Roland Joffé) were at one point set to direct Contact. Ultimately directed by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump), 1997's Contact starred Jodie Foster as Dr. Eleanor Arroway, a Seti scientist whose long search for alien life leads to actual discovery and more doubt than she's every experienced in life. It also starred Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, James Woods, John Hurt, and Angela Bassett. The film changed a bit from Carl Sagan...
- 5/2/2016
- by Jill Pantozzi
- Hitfix
Considering the mess of the last "Green Lantern" film in 2011, enthusiasm for the in-development "Green Lantern Corps" film that ties in with the new Dceu mythology is understandably low. But one key bit of hiring could turn around the naysayers.
The latest episode of Heroic Insider has included a comment suggest whom they've heard as a potential directing candidate for the 2020 release: "George Miller is being rumored to direct the Green Lantern Corps movie. I think it would be perfect for him."
As many as three human Green Lanterns are rumored to feature in the new film. Miller already has a hand in the Dceu as a producer on the currently in production "Justice League: Part One".
In related news, screenwriter Mark Lamprell has spoken about an old project of Miller's - a film adaptation of Carl Sagan's "Contact". Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis was the one who directed the well-regarded 1997 film adaptation,...
The latest episode of Heroic Insider has included a comment suggest whom they've heard as a potential directing candidate for the 2020 release: "George Miller is being rumored to direct the Green Lantern Corps movie. I think it would be perfect for him."
As many as three human Green Lanterns are rumored to feature in the new film. Miller already has a hand in the Dceu as a producer on the currently in production "Justice League: Part One".
In related news, screenwriter Mark Lamprell has spoken about an old project of Miller's - a film adaptation of Carl Sagan's "Contact". Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis was the one who directed the well-regarded 1997 film adaptation,...
- 4/29/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Mark Lamprell.
Mark Lamprell is not just a screenwriter (Babe: Pig in the City) and director (My Mother Frank, Goddess), but a novelist as well..
His second novel, A Lovers' Guide to Rome, has just been published by Allen and Unwin. As if that wasn't enough, his next film, A Few Less Men, will be released later in the year..
Lamprell got his start at Kennedy Miller, making documentaries about the making of, among other projects, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
"I was at Kennedy Miller for years", Lamprell said..
"I did a documentary series called Sports Crazy, a ten hour series, in 1987. Before that, every time they did a miniseries, I did a 'making of' one-hour special."
That led to Lamprell being enlisted by Miller as a writer on various projects, including one very large science-fiction adaptation.
"I'd gotten to be a funny little fixture there at Kennedy Miller, and...
Mark Lamprell is not just a screenwriter (Babe: Pig in the City) and director (My Mother Frank, Goddess), but a novelist as well..
His second novel, A Lovers' Guide to Rome, has just been published by Allen and Unwin. As if that wasn't enough, his next film, A Few Less Men, will be released later in the year..
Lamprell got his start at Kennedy Miller, making documentaries about the making of, among other projects, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
"I was at Kennedy Miller for years", Lamprell said..
"I did a documentary series called Sports Crazy, a ten hour series, in 1987. Before that, every time they did a miniseries, I did a 'making of' one-hour special."
That led to Lamprell being enlisted by Miller as a writer on various projects, including one very large science-fiction adaptation.
"I'd gotten to be a funny little fixture there at Kennedy Miller, and...
- 4/27/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Mark Lamprell.
Australian filmmaker Mark Lamprell (My Mother Frank) is gearing up for a busy year..
He's currently releasing his second novel, A Lovers' Guide to Rome, and is putting the finishing touches on his latest film, A Few Less Men, the sequel to Stephan Elliott's 2011 comedy.A Few Best Men.
Lamprell sat down to write A Lovers' Guide to Rome while waiting for his last feature, 2013's movie-musical Goddess, to be released.
"I was in Bristol visiting my son", Lamprell said, "and I had time on my hands and I thought I should write another screenplay".
Instead, Lamprell sat down and wrote a novel, weaving together three stories of lovers young and old holidaying in Rome.
"Because I'd decided to write something based on my own personal experience, it was a little bit like a door in the top of my head opened, and something just poured in...
Australian filmmaker Mark Lamprell (My Mother Frank) is gearing up for a busy year..
He's currently releasing his second novel, A Lovers' Guide to Rome, and is putting the finishing touches on his latest film, A Few Less Men, the sequel to Stephan Elliott's 2011 comedy.A Few Best Men.
Lamprell sat down to write A Lovers' Guide to Rome while waiting for his last feature, 2013's movie-musical Goddess, to be released.
"I was in Bristol visiting my son", Lamprell said, "and I had time on my hands and I thought I should write another screenplay".
Instead, Lamprell sat down and wrote a novel, weaving together three stories of lovers young and old holidaying in Rome.
"Because I'd decided to write something based on my own personal experience, it was a little bit like a door in the top of my head opened, and something just poured in...
- 4/26/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Mark Lamprell’s sequel to A Few Best Men is being introduced at Efm.
Arclight Films is showing first footage to Berlin buyers on A Few Less Men, the comedy sequel to its hit A Few Best Men [pictured].
Executive producer Gary Hamilton and his team have already struck deals in Australia and New Zealand (StudioCanal), Italy (Lucky Red), pan-Eastern Europe (Modus Vivendi), pan-Middle East (Italia Films), Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Columbia (Eastwood Holdings), and Vietnam (Galaxy).
Producers Laurence Malkin, Tania Chambers, Share Stallings, and Gorean Films Limited produce the story based on a screenplay by Dean Craig about two friends who must transport their friend’s coffin to London after they are stranded in the Australian bush.
Mark Lamprell directed A Few Less Men and Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall, and Kevin Bishop reprise their roles.
Arclight Films’ Efm sales slate includes psychedelic thriller Happy Birthday featuring an appearance by Aerosmith frontman Steve Tyler, and 3-D horror...
Arclight Films is showing first footage to Berlin buyers on A Few Less Men, the comedy sequel to its hit A Few Best Men [pictured].
Executive producer Gary Hamilton and his team have already struck deals in Australia and New Zealand (StudioCanal), Italy (Lucky Red), pan-Eastern Europe (Modus Vivendi), pan-Middle East (Italia Films), Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Columbia (Eastwood Holdings), and Vietnam (Galaxy).
Producers Laurence Malkin, Tania Chambers, Share Stallings, and Gorean Films Limited produce the story based on a screenplay by Dean Craig about two friends who must transport their friend’s coffin to London after they are stranded in the Australian bush.
Mark Lamprell directed A Few Less Men and Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall, and Kevin Bishop reprise their roles.
Arclight Films’ Efm sales slate includes psychedelic thriller Happy Birthday featuring an appearance by Aerosmith frontman Steve Tyler, and 3-D horror...
- 2/14/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Arclight Films has announced the start of principal Photography in Perth, Western Australia, on A Few Less Men and a slew of key pre-sales.
Rights to Mark Lamprell’s sequel to A Few Best Men have gone in Australia and New Zealand (StudioCanal), Italy (Lucky Red), Middle East (Italia Films), Eastern Europe (Modus Vivendi), Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Columbia (Eastwood Holdings) and Vietnam (Galaxy).
Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall and Kevin Bishop reprise their roles in the story of men who must take their friend’s coffin back to London after a crash landing leaves them stranded in the Australian bush. Dean Craig once again is the writer.
Laurence Malkin, Tania Chambers and Share Stallings and Gorean Films Limited are producing and Ingenious, Screen Australia, ScreenWest and Lotterywest, Arclight Films, New Oz and The Post Lounge are co-financiers.
Craig, Arclight chief Gary Hamilton, Mark Lazarus, James Vernon and Josh Kesselman served as executive producers.
Shane Jacobson, [link...
Rights to Mark Lamprell’s sequel to A Few Best Men have gone in Australia and New Zealand (StudioCanal), Italy (Lucky Red), Middle East (Italia Films), Eastern Europe (Modus Vivendi), Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Columbia (Eastwood Holdings) and Vietnam (Galaxy).
Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall and Kevin Bishop reprise their roles in the story of men who must take their friend’s coffin back to London after a crash landing leaves them stranded in the Australian bush. Dean Craig once again is the writer.
Laurence Malkin, Tania Chambers and Share Stallings and Gorean Films Limited are producing and Ingenious, Screen Australia, ScreenWest and Lotterywest, Arclight Films, New Oz and The Post Lounge are co-financiers.
Craig, Arclight chief Gary Hamilton, Mark Lazarus, James Vernon and Josh Kesselman served as executive producers.
Shane Jacobson, [link...
- 11/4/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Arclight Films has announced the start of principal Photography in Perth, Western Australia, on A Few Less Men and a slew of key pre-sales.
Rights to Mark Lamprell’s sequel to A Few Best Men have gone in Australia and New Zealand (StudioCanal), Italy (Lucky Red), Middle East (Italia Films), Eastern Europe (Modus Vivendi), Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Columbia (Eastwood Holdings) and Vietnam (Galaxy).
Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall and Kevin Bishop reprise their roles in the story of men who must take their friend’s coffin back to London after a crash landing leaves them stranded in the Australian bush. Dean Craig once again is the writer.
Laurence Malkin, Tania Chambers and Share Stallings and Gorean Films Limited are producing and Ingenious, Screen Australia, ScreenWest and Lotterywest, Arclight Films, New Oz and The Post Lounge are co-financiers.
Craig, Arclight chief Gary Hamilton, Mark Lazarus, James Vernon and Josh Kesselman served as executive producers.
Shane Jacobson, [link...
Rights to Mark Lamprell’s sequel to A Few Best Men have gone in Australia and New Zealand (StudioCanal), Italy (Lucky Red), Middle East (Italia Films), Eastern Europe (Modus Vivendi), Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Columbia (Eastwood Holdings) and Vietnam (Galaxy).
Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall and Kevin Bishop reprise their roles in the story of men who must take their friend’s coffin back to London after a crash landing leaves them stranded in the Australian bush. Dean Craig once again is the writer.
Laurence Malkin, Tania Chambers and Share Stallings and Gorean Films Limited are producing and Ingenious, Screen Australia, ScreenWest and Lotterywest, Arclight Films, New Oz and The Post Lounge are co-financiers.
Craig, Arclight chief Gary Hamilton, Mark Lazarus, James Vernon and Josh Kesselman served as executive producers.
Shane Jacobson, [link...
- 11/4/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Now filming in Perth,. the sequel to Stephan Elliott's 2011 hit A Few Best Men boasts a supporting cast headed by some top comedic names and a few who are better known for dramas. A Few Less Men sees Shane Jacobson, Ryan Corr, Deborah Mailman, Jeremy Sims, Darren Gilshenan, Lynette Curran, Pamela Shaw and Sacha Horler playing a motley array of characters whom the lead trio encounters on their way back to London. Directed by Mark Lamprell and scripted by Dean Craig, the sequel follows the lads played by Xavier Samuel, Kevin Bishop and Kris Marshall as they transport their mate Luke.s coffin across Australia after a forced plane landing strands them in the middle of the bush. Jacobson is Mungus, whom the lads bump into after he accidentally takes Luke.s coffin home with him. Corr is mad cousin Henry, Mailman is a cop, Sims is a pilot...
- 11/4/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Goddess. Mark Lamprell is directing A Few Less Men, the sequel to Stephan Elliott's 2011 hit comedy A Few Best Men. Lamprell takes over from Not Suitable for Children's Peter Templeman, who was named as the director when Screen Australia announced its investment in the project last month. Scripted by Dean Craig, A Few Less Men will see Xavier Samuel, Kevin Bishop and Kris Marshall reprise their roles as the guys who transport their mate.s coffin across Australia after a forced plane landing strands them in the middle of the bush.
Shooting is set to start on October 26 in Western Australia, produced by Tania Chambers, Laurence Malkin and Share Stallings, their second collaboration after Kill Me Three Times.
Chambers tells If, "The change of director was a very amicable and mutual decision. We continue to look for projects to do with Peter and are very excited to work with Mark.
Shooting is set to start on October 26 in Western Australia, produced by Tania Chambers, Laurence Malkin and Share Stallings, their second collaboration after Kill Me Three Times.
Chambers tells If, "The change of director was a very amicable and mutual decision. We continue to look for projects to do with Peter and are very excited to work with Mark.
- 9/13/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Faithful
Adele Exarchopoulos ("Blue Is the Warmest Color") and Matthias Schoenaerts ("Rust and Bone") are set to star in Michael R. Roskam's noirish romance thriller "The Faithful" at Wild Bunch, Savage Films and Pathe.
Thomas Bidegain and Noe Debre's script is set against the backdrop of crime gangs in Brussels. Filming is slated to begin next year. [Source: Variety]
The Last Word
Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried are teaming to star in Mark Pellington's comedic drama "The Last Word" for Myriad. Pellington, Anne-Marie MacKay of and Kirk D'Amico will produce.
MacLaine will play a controlling woman who wants to pre-write her obituary and is teamed up with a young writer at a local paper. The writer, however, wants to find out the real story and the reluctant partners begin a journey that will reawaken the older woman’s passion for life. [Source: THR
A Few Less Men
Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall...
Adele Exarchopoulos ("Blue Is the Warmest Color") and Matthias Schoenaerts ("Rust and Bone") are set to star in Michael R. Roskam's noirish romance thriller "The Faithful" at Wild Bunch, Savage Films and Pathe.
Thomas Bidegain and Noe Debre's script is set against the backdrop of crime gangs in Brussels. Filming is slated to begin next year. [Source: Variety]
The Last Word
Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried are teaming to star in Mark Pellington's comedic drama "The Last Word" for Myriad. Pellington, Anne-Marie MacKay of and Kirk D'Amico will produce.
MacLaine will play a controlling woman who wants to pre-write her obituary and is teamed up with a young writer at a local paper. The writer, however, wants to find out the real story and the reluctant partners begin a journey that will reawaken the older woman’s passion for life. [Source: THR
A Few Less Men
Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall...
- 9/12/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The company has secured a raft of key sales on the comedy follow-up to A Few Best Men and announced from Toronto an October 26 production start in Western Australia.
Deals have closed in Australia and New Zealand (StudioCanal), Italy (Lucky Red), Middle East (Italia Films), Eastern Europe (Modus Vivendi), Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Columbia (Eastwood Holdings) and Vietnam (Galaxy).
Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall and Kevin Bishop will reprise their roles in the follow-up to the 2011 wedding comedy (pictured) written by Dean Craig.
Mark Lamprell directs and Laurence Malkin, Tania Chambers and Share Stallings produce. Financiers include Ingenious, Screen Australia, ScreenWest and LotteryWest, Arclight Films, New Oz and The Post Lounge.
Craig serves as executive producer with Arclight chief Gary Hamilton, Mark Lazarus, James Vernon and Josh Kesselman.
Deals have closed in Australia and New Zealand (StudioCanal), Italy (Lucky Red), Middle East (Italia Films), Eastern Europe (Modus Vivendi), Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Columbia (Eastwood Holdings) and Vietnam (Galaxy).
Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall and Kevin Bishop will reprise their roles in the follow-up to the 2011 wedding comedy (pictured) written by Dean Craig.
Mark Lamprell directs and Laurence Malkin, Tania Chambers and Share Stallings produce. Financiers include Ingenious, Screen Australia, ScreenWest and LotteryWest, Arclight Films, New Oz and The Post Lounge.
Craig serves as executive producer with Arclight chief Gary Hamilton, Mark Lazarus, James Vernon and Josh Kesselman.
- 9/12/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
To have any chance of international sales, Australian films need to be original, bold, tell universal stories and be extremely well executed.
That.s according to some international sales agents whom If interviewed as part of our ongoing series of articles on the state of Australian cinema and ways to reach audiences more effectively.
While their views may sound obvious, they say that too often Australian films are failing on most if not all counts.
Michael Favelle of Odin.s Eye Entertainment agrees with the premise that producers should go big or small and avoid middle budget films, as If canvassed last week, but he sees a deeper problem.
.Yes there is a challenge in recouping and financing mid-range films but where we are failing more often is in original films with clear and compelling premises or stories with universal appeal,. says Favelle, the international sales rep for Canopy, Forbidden Ground,...
That.s according to some international sales agents whom If interviewed as part of our ongoing series of articles on the state of Australian cinema and ways to reach audiences more effectively.
While their views may sound obvious, they say that too often Australian films are failing on most if not all counts.
Michael Favelle of Odin.s Eye Entertainment agrees with the premise that producers should go big or small and avoid middle budget films, as If canvassed last week, but he sees a deeper problem.
.Yes there is a challenge in recouping and financing mid-range films but where we are failing more often is in original films with clear and compelling premises or stories with universal appeal,. says Favelle, the international sales rep for Canopy, Forbidden Ground,...
- 9/16/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
★★☆☆☆When done right, nothing gets people out of their seats and dancing down the aisles (or in their living rooms) than a well-executed sing-a-long. In recent years, thanks to the success of Mamma Mia!, the musical has had something of a renaissance. Mark Lamprell's Goddess (2013), an Australian-produced effort based on the stage show Sinksongs, is the latest to try to grab the hearts of musical lovers. In it, despondent housewife Elspeth (Laura Michelle Kelly) is fed up of life. She's been denied her dreams of becoming a due to her husband, James (former Boyzone star Ronan Keating), continuously called away in his job as a marine biologist (!?), leaving her to care for their twin sons.
- 7/2/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Adapted from screenwriter Joanna Weinberg’s stage play Sinksongs, this Mark Lamprell musical Goddess begins with a swooping shot of our leading lady Elspeth Dickens, imitating The Sound of Music as she runs through the fields. A nod, instantly, to one of the films that illuminate the genre – though it also works as a slight reminder that this nonsensical piece merely pales in comparison.
Elspeth (Laura Michelle Kelly) is a dedicated stay-at-home mother to her two young boys, almost single-handedly raising the troublesome duo while her husband James (Ronan Keating) works away from home. To keep herself entertained, she sets up a webcam in her kitchen, broadcasting her when cooking, cleaning – and singing. As more and more visitors tune in, her reputation builds and career opportunities come her way. Suddenly the tables are turned, as she prepares to set off for work, and James returns home to look after the kids.
Elspeth (Laura Michelle Kelly) is a dedicated stay-at-home mother to her two young boys, almost single-handedly raising the troublesome duo while her husband James (Ronan Keating) works away from home. To keep herself entertained, she sets up a webcam in her kitchen, broadcasting her when cooking, cleaning – and singing. As more and more visitors tune in, her reputation builds and career opportunities come her way. Suddenly the tables are turned, as she prepares to set off for work, and James returns home to look after the kids.
- 7/2/2014
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The 15th Annual Newport Beach Film Festival (Nbff) will present its UK Celebration takes place on April 25 followed by an Australian Spotlight on April 28.
The UK event will feature the regional premieres of Amma Asante’s period drama Belle, Stuart Murdoch’s musical God Help The Girl and Amit Gupta’s comedy Jadoo, followed by a UK Gala.
The Gala is a signature event of BritWeek – Oc and is hosted by Jaguar Land Rover Newport Beach and Ted Baker London.
The Australian Spotlight on April 28 will feature the West Coast Premiere of Mark Lamprell’s feelgood film Goddess, followed by a festive Pacific Rim Gala.
“The Newport Beach Film Festival is extremely proud to showcase the very best in contemporary UK cinema,” said Newport Beach Film Festival CEO Gregg Schwenk. We are thrilled to partner with Ted Baker London and BritWeek and celebrate UK films and filmmakers,” stated Gregg Schwenk, CEO of the...
The UK event will feature the regional premieres of Amma Asante’s period drama Belle, Stuart Murdoch’s musical God Help The Girl and Amit Gupta’s comedy Jadoo, followed by a UK Gala.
The Gala is a signature event of BritWeek – Oc and is hosted by Jaguar Land Rover Newport Beach and Ted Baker London.
The Australian Spotlight on April 28 will feature the West Coast Premiere of Mark Lamprell’s feelgood film Goddess, followed by a festive Pacific Rim Gala.
“The Newport Beach Film Festival is extremely proud to showcase the very best in contemporary UK cinema,” said Newport Beach Film Festival CEO Gregg Schwenk. We are thrilled to partner with Ted Baker London and BritWeek and celebrate UK films and filmmakers,” stated Gregg Schwenk, CEO of the...
- 4/21/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Financier/executive producer James M. Vernon has an unusual problem in the Australian film industry: he says he has more money to invest than there are viable projects.
Vernon.s Media Funds Management (Mfm) has co-financed a raft of films including Mark Lamprell.s Goddess, Fred Schepisi.s The Eye of the Storm, Simon Wincer.s The Cup, Stephan Elliott.s A Few Best Men and the soon-to-be-released Brian Trenchard-Smith-directed action thriller Absolute Deception.
Among the Mfm co-funded films in post-production are the Spierig brothers. supernatural thriller Predestination, Russell Scott.s 3D IMAX documentary Hidden Universe and Geoff Davis. WW1 drama The Stolen.
The most recent project Mfm co-funded was Trenchard-Smith.s action comedy Hard Drive, shot on the Gold Coast and starring John Cusack and Thomas Jane.
Typically Mfm provides up to 100% of the producer offset, up to 100% on pre-sales and gap financing based on qualified sales agency sales estimates.
Vernon.s Media Funds Management (Mfm) has co-financed a raft of films including Mark Lamprell.s Goddess, Fred Schepisi.s The Eye of the Storm, Simon Wincer.s The Cup, Stephan Elliott.s A Few Best Men and the soon-to-be-released Brian Trenchard-Smith-directed action thriller Absolute Deception.
Among the Mfm co-funded films in post-production are the Spierig brothers. supernatural thriller Predestination, Russell Scott.s 3D IMAX documentary Hidden Universe and Geoff Davis. WW1 drama The Stolen.
The most recent project Mfm co-funded was Trenchard-Smith.s action comedy Hard Drive, shot on the Gold Coast and starring John Cusack and Thomas Jane.
Typically Mfm provides up to 100% of the producer offset, up to 100% on pre-sales and gap financing based on qualified sales agency sales estimates.
- 7/17/2013
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
This article first appeared in If Magazine Issue #151
He.s a successful pop star, an international heartthrob and has smashed his way onto Australian TV screens as a popular judge on hit show The X-Factor. But Ronan Keating is very, very nervous.
After ten years of trying to break into the acting world (the star famously was unsuccessful in his audition for The Hobbit) Keating has landed a main role in the upcoming Australian feature film, Goddess..
Now the film has wrapped and is about to hit Australian screens, Keating is uncharacteristically insecure about how his first foray into the acting world will be received..
.I.m really bloody nervous,. he admits during a fifteen minute phone interview. .It.s not out there in the public yet but I.m so curious to what they will think of the film and my character. I have no idea. I.ve got nothing to gage it against.
He.s a successful pop star, an international heartthrob and has smashed his way onto Australian TV screens as a popular judge on hit show The X-Factor. But Ronan Keating is very, very nervous.
After ten years of trying to break into the acting world (the star famously was unsuccessful in his audition for The Hobbit) Keating has landed a main role in the upcoming Australian feature film, Goddess..
Now the film has wrapped and is about to hit Australian screens, Keating is uncharacteristically insecure about how his first foray into the acting world will be received..
.I.m really bloody nervous,. he admits during a fifteen minute phone interview. .It.s not out there in the public yet but I.m so curious to what they will think of the film and my character. I have no idea. I.ve got nothing to gage it against.
- 7/5/2013
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
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