Actress Toni Collette discussed her journey from a working-class neighborhood in northwest Sydney to Hollywood star in a masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra talent and project development event on Friday.
The Oscar-nominated Muriel’s Wedding, Little Miss Sunshine, Knives Out and Unbelievable acting star is among six top cinema professionals attending Qumra, alongside directors Leos Carax, Claire Denis, Atom Egoyan and Jim Sheridan as well as sound editor and designer Martin Hernández.
Colette said she had been drawn to performance from an early age, firstly through musical theatre and tap dance.
“My father said I came out of the womb with jazz hands towards the light,” she joked.
Looking back on her early career, Collette recalled how she had dropped out of Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art Nida after being offered the part of Sonya in a 1992 stage production of Uncle Vanya by Neil Armfield.
This...
The Oscar-nominated Muriel’s Wedding, Little Miss Sunshine, Knives Out and Unbelievable acting star is among six top cinema professionals attending Qumra, alongside directors Leos Carax, Claire Denis, Atom Egoyan and Jim Sheridan as well as sound editor and designer Martin Hernández.
Colette said she had been drawn to performance from an early age, firstly through musical theatre and tap dance.
“My father said I came out of the womb with jazz hands towards the light,” she joked.
Looking back on her early career, Collette recalled how she had dropped out of Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art Nida after being offered the part of Sonya in a 1992 stage production of Uncle Vanya by Neil Armfield.
This...
- 3/1/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Hilary Linstead, casting director, agent and film and stage producer died on Aug. 6 after contracting a form of leukaemia. She was 83.
Described as a “force of nature” by her friends and colleagues, Linstead nurtured and promoted some of Australia’s most famous artistic talents, including directors such as John Bell, Baz Luhrmann, Gillian Armstrong, Jim Sharman, Jane Campion and Neil Armfield, and many writers, designers, composers, cinematographers, choreographers, comedians and performers.
Born in London in 1938, and educated at Cheltenham Ladies College, Linstead went to Australia as a professional actor, as a member of an English touring company. After realizing that acting was not for her, Linstead found her metier as a casting director and worked in an advertising company and at International Casting Services representing actresses. In 1962 she married Leon Stemler.
The turning point in her career came when she joined Liz Mullinar to found M&l Casting Consultants, which became...
Described as a “force of nature” by her friends and colleagues, Linstead nurtured and promoted some of Australia’s most famous artistic talents, including directors such as John Bell, Baz Luhrmann, Gillian Armstrong, Jim Sharman, Jane Campion and Neil Armfield, and many writers, designers, composers, cinematographers, choreographers, comedians and performers.
Born in London in 1938, and educated at Cheltenham Ladies College, Linstead went to Australia as a professional actor, as a member of an English touring company. After realizing that acting was not for her, Linstead found her metier as a casting director and worked in an advertising company and at International Casting Services representing actresses. In 1962 she married Leon Stemler.
The turning point in her career came when she joined Liz Mullinar to found M&l Casting Consultants, which became...
- 8/18/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Hilary Linstead, the agent, casting director and film producer who launched Australia’s first talent agency, has died aged 83.
Talked of as a “force of nature” by industry friends, Linstead is considered to have nurtured many of Australia’s most successful stage, film and TV talents, and is known for discovering Rome and Juliet director Baz Luhrmann among others, representing him and the likes of Power of the Dog director Jane Campion, Gillian Armstrong (Little Women) and Adelaide festival joint artistic director Neil Armfield.
Linstead was born in London in 1938 but moved to Australia to become an actress. However, she soon switched to become a casting director and worked at International Casting Services representing actresses. She then teamed with Liz Mullinar to form M&l Casting Consultants, which led casting on productions such as Rocky Horror Show and Jesus Christ Superstar and Australian film classics such as Picnic at Hanging Rock.
Talked of as a “force of nature” by industry friends, Linstead is considered to have nurtured many of Australia’s most successful stage, film and TV talents, and is known for discovering Rome and Juliet director Baz Luhrmann among others, representing him and the likes of Power of the Dog director Jane Campion, Gillian Armstrong (Little Women) and Adelaide festival joint artistic director Neil Armfield.
Linstead was born in London in 1938 but moved to Australia to become an actress. However, she soon switched to become a casting director and worked at International Casting Services representing actresses. She then teamed with Liz Mullinar to form M&l Casting Consultants, which led casting on productions such as Rocky Horror Show and Jesus Christ Superstar and Australian film classics such as Picnic at Hanging Rock.
- 8/18/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Photo: 'Holding the Man'/Transmission Films As part of Hollywood Insider’s Hidden Gems Series, we aim to bring forth and highlight movies that must be watched from around the world. International films that are brilliant hidden gems and masterpieces of cinema that are worth your time. Today, we highlight ‘Holding the Man’ which is available to watch on Netflix. Holding the Man is a gripping movie mirrored off of the true story of Timothy Conigrave (played by Ryan Corr) and his relationship with John Caleo (played by Craig Mathew Stott). The movie flows through the peaks and lows of both character’s lives, fiddling with the complexities of queerness in the ‘70s and ‘80s. At the heart of the AIDS crisis, these two beautiful Australian men huddle together against the elements and find breathing room between themselves. At its core, Holding the Man is about fostering life...
- 11/12/2020
- by Tyler Bey
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge says, 'That this episode of Broadway Rewind features something Toxic, something Royal and something Academic.' We drop by New World Stages for a look at the David Bryan and Joe DePietro musical, The Toxic Avenger.We also visit with two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick and the cast of Roundabout's production of The Philanthropist, but we kick it off at the opening night of director Neil Armfield's production of Eugene Ionesco's Exit The King, which starred Academy Award winners Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon, Tony Award winner Andrea Martin and Lauren Ambrose. Geoffrey Rush told Ridge, 'I just phoned my wife and said, 'Darling I just made my Broadway debut and it's a marker. It's not what I aimed for. I had never really, seriously ever thought about it... I used to listen to a lot of Broadway musical theatre back in the mid 60's...
- 4/12/2020
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
‘Fight for Planet A: The Climate Challenge.’
Two climate change documentaries fronted by Craig Reucassel, a factual entertainment series which looks at public shaming and teetotaller Shaun Micallef’s expose on the effects of alcohol will premiere on the ABC next year.
Among the other highlights of the 2020 schedule unveiled today, Blackfella Films will chronicle how the Maralinga Tjarutja people overcame the 1950s nuclear weapon tests and WildBear Entertainment will deliver documentaries detailing threats to humanity and ground-breaking scientific advances.
Flying Kite Pictures and Sticky Pictures are co-producing the 10-part series Are You Tougher Than Your Ancestors?, which sees children leave their modern comforts and spend 24 hours re-creating the lives of kids from another era.
Created and produced by Vanna Morisini, the series will celebrate the diversity of Australia’s shared history. At the end of each episode viewers will find out if the kids were up to the task.
Two climate change documentaries fronted by Craig Reucassel, a factual entertainment series which looks at public shaming and teetotaller Shaun Micallef’s expose on the effects of alcohol will premiere on the ABC next year.
Among the other highlights of the 2020 schedule unveiled today, Blackfella Films will chronicle how the Maralinga Tjarutja people overcame the 1950s nuclear weapon tests and WildBear Entertainment will deliver documentaries detailing threats to humanity and ground-breaking scientific advances.
Flying Kite Pictures and Sticky Pictures are co-producing the 10-part series Are You Tougher Than Your Ancestors?, which sees children leave their modern comforts and spend 24 hours re-creating the lives of kids from another era.
Created and produced by Vanna Morisini, the series will celebrate the diversity of Australia’s shared history. At the end of each episode viewers will find out if the kids were up to the task.
- 11/7/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Top (l-r) Sophie Hawkshaw, Zoe Terakes; Bottom (l-r) Rachel House, Marta Dusseldorp.
As a teenager Monica Zanetti searched in vain for gay rom-coms which she could watch with her mother, while Neil Armfield’s same-sex romantic drama Holding the Man was a major influence.
That has inspired the writer-director to make her feature directing debut on Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt), which, unlike Armfield’s film has a happy ending.
Shooting in Sydney started today, starring Marta Dusseldorp, fellow Janet King alumni Julia Billington, Kiwi Rachel House, Zoe Terakes and newcomer Sophie Hawkshaw.
Zanetti adapted the screenplay from her eponymous play which was staged in 2017 at The Depot Theatre in Marrickville, her second feature credit after Jonnie Leahy’s 2014 drama Skip Deep.
Hawkshaw’s Ellie is 18 and struggling to find the courage to ask classmate Abbie (Terakes) to the formal. Luckily her aunt Tara (Billington), a lesbian who died in the 80s,...
As a teenager Monica Zanetti searched in vain for gay rom-coms which she could watch with her mother, while Neil Armfield’s same-sex romantic drama Holding the Man was a major influence.
That has inspired the writer-director to make her feature directing debut on Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt), which, unlike Armfield’s film has a happy ending.
Shooting in Sydney started today, starring Marta Dusseldorp, fellow Janet King alumni Julia Billington, Kiwi Rachel House, Zoe Terakes and newcomer Sophie Hawkshaw.
Zanetti adapted the screenplay from her eponymous play which was staged in 2017 at The Depot Theatre in Marrickville, her second feature credit after Jonnie Leahy’s 2014 drama Skip Deep.
Hawkshaw’s Ellie is 18 and struggling to find the courage to ask classmate Abbie (Terakes) to the formal. Luckily her aunt Tara (Billington), a lesbian who died in the 80s,...
- 4/23/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush has won his defamation case against the News Corp.-owned newspaper Daily Telegraph in his home country of Australia. The paper had published a story in which actress Erin Norvill accused Rush of inappropriate sexual behavior during a stage production of “King Lear” in Sydney.
Judge Michael Wigney on Thursday called the report “a recklessly irresponsible piece of sensationalist journalism” that relied on allegations from an accuser “prone to exaggeration and embellishment.” Norvill, speaking outside the courtroom after the verdict, said she stood by her testimony.
Wigney awarded Rush A$850,000 in aggravated damages. The actor is expected to receive further payments for loss of earnings at a further hearing in May.
After exiting the courtroom, Rush said he was grateful for the verdict. But, he added, “there are no winners in this case. It’s been extremely distressing for everyone involved.” Details of the case were...
Judge Michael Wigney on Thursday called the report “a recklessly irresponsible piece of sensationalist journalism” that relied on allegations from an accuser “prone to exaggeration and embellishment.” Norvill, speaking outside the courtroom after the verdict, said she stood by her testimony.
Wigney awarded Rush A$850,000 in aggravated damages. The actor is expected to receive further payments for loss of earnings at a further hearing in May.
After exiting the courtroom, Rush said he was grateful for the verdict. But, he added, “there are no winners in this case. It’s been extremely distressing for everyone involved.” Details of the case were...
- 4/11/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Luke Davies on dinner with Heath Ledger and Philip Seymour Hoffman: "At the Candy première at Berlin. The film Capote was also there." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Luke Davies, in town for a Writers Guild of America East panel, joined me at the Park Lane Hotel on Central Park South for a follow-up conversation on Beautiful Boy that took us to a dinner he attended in Berlin for Bennett Miller's Capote with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Neil Armfield's Candy star Heath Ledger, and onto Anton Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man and Life.
Felix van Groeningen's Beautiful Boy, co-written with Luke Davies is based on the memoirs by David Sheff (Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction) and by his son Nic Sheff (Tweak). The film stars Timothée Chalamet, Steve Carell, Maura Tierney, and Amy Ryan, and is produced by two-time Oscar-winners Dede Gardner and...
Luke Davies, in town for a Writers Guild of America East panel, joined me at the Park Lane Hotel on Central Park South for a follow-up conversation on Beautiful Boy that took us to a dinner he attended in Berlin for Bennett Miller's Capote with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Neil Armfield's Candy star Heath Ledger, and onto Anton Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man and Life.
Felix van Groeningen's Beautiful Boy, co-written with Luke Davies is based on the memoirs by David Sheff (Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction) and by his son Nic Sheff (Tweak). The film stars Timothée Chalamet, Steve Carell, Maura Tierney, and Amy Ryan, and is produced by two-time Oscar-winners Dede Gardner and...
- 12/12/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
(l-r) Angie Fielder, Luke Davies, Dev Patel, Garth Davis and Dp Greig Fraser on-set.
Aussie screenwriter Luke Davies lives in La with director David Michôd, and is repped by UTA's Bec Smith. Both are former If editors, and Davies himself used to contribute DVD reviews to the magazine. We spoke with the honorary old boy on the phone from Bondi, where he was staying on a layover in Oz late last year.
Your path into screenwriting began with Candy, is that right?.
Yeah. I was always obsessed with film but didn.t know how to break in. So I said to Margaret Fink, the producer, that she could option the book if I was allowed to try my hand at the first draft of the screenplay. That was the beginning of the path that led to here.
Had you been reading screenplays before that point or did you just learn on the job?...
Aussie screenwriter Luke Davies lives in La with director David Michôd, and is repped by UTA's Bec Smith. Both are former If editors, and Davies himself used to contribute DVD reviews to the magazine. We spoke with the honorary old boy on the phone from Bondi, where he was staying on a layover in Oz late last year.
Your path into screenwriting began with Candy, is that right?.
Yeah. I was always obsessed with film but didn.t know how to break in. So I said to Margaret Fink, the producer, that she could option the book if I was allowed to try my hand at the first draft of the screenplay. That was the beginning of the path that led to here.
Had you been reading screenplays before that point or did you just learn on the job?...
- 2/20/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Holding the Man..
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man has won the Best Feature Film Award at the image+nation 29 festival in Montreal.
In announcing the prize, the jury praised Armfield.s deft direction.
"The winner of this category is a masterful melodrama and time capsule of a devastating time in the Lgbt history, that touches on a familiar theme with a lot of humour and honesty, and a frank courage rarely achieved in narrative film,. the jury said..
.The performances by the leads Ryan Corr and Craig Stott as Timothy Congrave and John Caleo were outstanding, and the chemistry between these two characters was palpable."
Produced by Goalpost Pictures, Holding the Man is based on Timothy Conigrave.s memoir and stage play..
It was adapted for the screen by writer Tommy Murphy and produced by Kylie du Fresne, with assistance from Screen Australia, Film Victoria and Screen Nsw.
It also stars Anthony Lapaglia,...
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man has won the Best Feature Film Award at the image+nation 29 festival in Montreal.
In announcing the prize, the jury praised Armfield.s deft direction.
"The winner of this category is a masterful melodrama and time capsule of a devastating time in the Lgbt history, that touches on a familiar theme with a lot of humour and honesty, and a frank courage rarely achieved in narrative film,. the jury said..
.The performances by the leads Ryan Corr and Craig Stott as Timothy Congrave and John Caleo were outstanding, and the chemistry between these two characters was palpable."
Produced by Goalpost Pictures, Holding the Man is based on Timothy Conigrave.s memoir and stage play..
It was adapted for the screen by writer Tommy Murphy and produced by Kylie du Fresne, with assistance from Screen Australia, Film Victoria and Screen Nsw.
It also stars Anthony Lapaglia,...
- 12/11/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Holding the Man.
Neil Armfield.s Holding The Man has been picked up by Netflix. The film will be available on the platform in all of the streaming service.s territories — except Australia and New Zealand. . Holding the Man is also set for theatrical release in a number of international territories, having been sold to Strand Releasing in the Us, Peccadillo in the UK, Pro Fun in Germany and Switzerland and Cinemien in the Benelux. . Producer Kylie du Fresne said: .The film has captured the hearts of audiences wherever it has screened and I am absolutely delighted that people around the world will now be able to share in the experience.. . Holding the Man is based on Timothy Conigrave.s memoir by the same name, adapted for screen by Tommy Murphy. It stars Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Anthony Lapaglia, Guy Pearce, Kerry Fox and Camilla Ah Kin.. Tristan Whalley, from UK-based Goalpost Film,...
Neil Armfield.s Holding The Man has been picked up by Netflix. The film will be available on the platform in all of the streaming service.s territories — except Australia and New Zealand. . Holding the Man is also set for theatrical release in a number of international territories, having been sold to Strand Releasing in the Us, Peccadillo in the UK, Pro Fun in Germany and Switzerland and Cinemien in the Benelux. . Producer Kylie du Fresne said: .The film has captured the hearts of audiences wherever it has screened and I am absolutely delighted that people around the world will now be able to share in the experience.. . Holding the Man is based on Timothy Conigrave.s memoir by the same name, adapted for screen by Tommy Murphy. It stars Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Anthony Lapaglia, Guy Pearce, Kerry Fox and Camilla Ah Kin.. Tristan Whalley, from UK-based Goalpost Film,...
- 8/2/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Told with a lovely romantic sweep and full of raw, honest emotion, this is a gay love story that’s also just a great love story, full stop. Yay. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
A gay love story that’s also just a great love story, full stop? Yay. Without ever denying the particular challenges that faced gay couples in macho, conservative Australia in the 1970s and 80s, and without ignoring the particular horrors of the AIDS epidemic that ravaged an entire generation of young men, Holding the Man manages to elevate the romance of Tim (Ryan Corr: The Water Diviner) and John (Craig Stott) to the universal in a way that few movies about Lgbt relationships have yet to do. Director Neil Armfield (Candy), fortified by spirited,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
A gay love story that’s also just a great love story, full stop? Yay. Without ever denying the particular challenges that faced gay couples in macho, conservative Australia in the 1970s and 80s, and without ignoring the particular horrors of the AIDS epidemic that ravaged an entire generation of young men, Holding the Man manages to elevate the romance of Tim (Ryan Corr: The Water Diviner) and John (Craig Stott) to the universal in a way that few movies about Lgbt relationships have yet to do. Director Neil Armfield (Candy), fortified by spirited,...
- 6/3/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
★★☆☆☆ Adapted from a 1995 memoir of the same name by Australian actor Timothy Conigrave, Holding the Man recounts the star-crossed love of a lifetime between the writer and his athletic, handsome beau, John Caleo. Both men would succumb to AIDS-related illnesses and it is a pity that this layered and temporally-shifting recollection, that spans more than fifteen years, registers so little genuinely stirring emotion given the rollercoaster tale of woe at hand. What should be a heart-wrenching viewing experience remains disappointingly flat despite two dedicated performances - from Ryan Corr and Craig Stott - that attempt to bring some intensity of feeling to Neil Armfield's film.
- 6/2/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Exclusive: Netflix takes world Svod rights to drama featuring Guy Pearce, Kerry Fox and Anthony Lapaglia; Goalpost inks additional key deals.
Netflix has swooped on world Svod rights to drama Holding The Man, director Neil Armfield’s adaptation of the well-received Australian memoir of the same name.
Goalpost Films inked the deal with Netflix and has closed additional deals for all other rights with Strand Releasing for the Us, Peccadillo Pictures for the UK and Ireland, Pro Fun for Germany and Switzerland and Cinemien for Benelux.
The film, which garnered six Aacta Award nominations this year and took more than $1m at the local box office last year, will roll out across Europe and Us before its August 1, 2016, start date on Netflix.
Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Guy Pearce, Kerry Fox, Anthony Lapaglia and Geoffrey Rush star in writer Tommy Murphy’s adaptation of Timothy Conigrave’s memoir of the same name, about the rollercoaster...
Netflix has swooped on world Svod rights to drama Holding The Man, director Neil Armfield’s adaptation of the well-received Australian memoir of the same name.
Goalpost Films inked the deal with Netflix and has closed additional deals for all other rights with Strand Releasing for the Us, Peccadillo Pictures for the UK and Ireland, Pro Fun for Germany and Switzerland and Cinemien for Benelux.
The film, which garnered six Aacta Award nominations this year and took more than $1m at the local box office last year, will roll out across Europe and Us before its August 1, 2016, start date on Netflix.
Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Guy Pearce, Kerry Fox, Anthony Lapaglia and Geoffrey Rush star in writer Tommy Murphy’s adaptation of Timothy Conigrave’s memoir of the same name, about the rollercoaster...
- 5/6/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Read More: London's Biggest Lgbt Film Festival To Open With Football Film 'The Pass' The world's largest Lgbt Film Festival will hit London for its 30th year running come March 16-27. The BFI Flare fest previously announced this month that it will host the world premiere of Ben A. Williams' "The Pass" and will close with Catherine Corsini’s "Summertime." The days in between the two premieres will include over 50 feature films and more than 100 shorts various guest appearances, masterclasses and workshops. The most significant edition to this year's Flare Festival is the BFI's decision to separate the week into 3 sections: Hearts, Minds and Bodies. Of the three categories, films like Neil Armfield's "Holding the Man," Lorenzo Vigas' "From Afar," Rigoberto Perzecano's "Carmin Tropical" and Jack Walsh's "Yvonne Rainer: Facts are Feelings" will screen. The three genres of films will...
- 2/18/2016
- by Elle Leonsis
- Indiewire
Lgbt festival will feature more than 50 features in its 30th anniversary year; Catherine Corsini’s Summertime [pictured] revealed as closing night film.
BFI Flare: London Lgbt Film Festival (March 16-27) has revealed the line-up for its 30th anniversary edition.
The festival will feature more than 50 features and 100 shorts this year, as well as a series of events and an expanded industry programme.
The film programme will be split into three programmes - Hearts, Bodies and Minds - which will highlight three distinct themes: Lgbt content in British film and new British talent, transgender representation, and Queer Science and new technology.
The first of those, Lgbt content in British film and new British talent, will feature titles including Tomer and Barak Heymann’s documentary Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?, Andrew Stegall’s Departure, and Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures.
The second strand, Transgender representation on screen, will feature...
BFI Flare: London Lgbt Film Festival (March 16-27) has revealed the line-up for its 30th anniversary edition.
The festival will feature more than 50 features and 100 shorts this year, as well as a series of events and an expanded industry programme.
The film programme will be split into three programmes - Hearts, Bodies and Minds - which will highlight three distinct themes: Lgbt content in British film and new British talent, transgender representation, and Queer Science and new technology.
The first of those, Lgbt content in British film and new British talent, will feature titles including Tomer and Barak Heymann’s documentary Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?, Andrew Stegall’s Departure, and Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures.
The second strand, Transgender representation on screen, will feature...
- 2/18/2016
- ScreenDaily
Kate Winslet in The Dressmaker.
The Film Critics Circle of Australia, the national body of film reviewers, critics and writers, has unveiled the nominations for their annual awards.
The Dressmaker has garnered ten nominations while Last Cab to Darwin and Mad Max: Fury Road each received eight nominations..
Neil Armfield's Holding the Man earned seven nominations, Paper Planes and Cut Snake each have five, while Tanna received four.
"The spread of nominees from heralded blockbusters to small-scale independents highlights the diversity of Australian cinema", Fcca President Russell Edwards said..
"As the country's most important critical body looking at movies, we at the Film Critics Circle of Australia are pleased to be able to not only salute the box office, but also celebrate the innovative spirit"..
The nominees for best director are Neil Armfield, George Miller, Jocelyn Moorhouse and Jeremy Sims..
Nicole Kidman (Strangerland), Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road...
The Film Critics Circle of Australia, the national body of film reviewers, critics and writers, has unveiled the nominations for their annual awards.
The Dressmaker has garnered ten nominations while Last Cab to Darwin and Mad Max: Fury Road each received eight nominations..
Neil Armfield's Holding the Man earned seven nominations, Paper Planes and Cut Snake each have five, while Tanna received four.
"The spread of nominees from heralded blockbusters to small-scale independents highlights the diversity of Australian cinema", Fcca President Russell Edwards said..
"As the country's most important critical body looking at movies, we at the Film Critics Circle of Australia are pleased to be able to not only salute the box office, but also celebrate the innovative spirit"..
The nominees for best director are Neil Armfield, George Miller, Jocelyn Moorhouse and Jeremy Sims..
Nicole Kidman (Strangerland), Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road...
- 2/1/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
While the screen industry has plenty to celebrate as Australian films are set to finish the year with around $87 million in B.O. takings, the results show a sizable number of films failed to address fundamental questions.
Namely: Who precisely will watch my film and which cinemas will play it at a time when theatrical release here increasingly is a sure way to lose money?
Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason is delighted with the range of films and documentaries that have resonated with audiences this year.
Mad Max Fury Road, The Dressmaker, Oddball and The Water Diviner all grossed more than $10 million, and Paper Planes just under. Last Cab to Darwin, Blinky Bill: The Movie, That Sugar Film and Holding the Man performed well, although Mason believes Neil Armfield.s gay-themed romance, which grossed $1.2 million, deserved to make double that.
Still, Mason questions the mindset of a sizable section of the screen industry.
Namely: Who precisely will watch my film and which cinemas will play it at a time when theatrical release here increasingly is a sure way to lose money?
Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason is delighted with the range of films and documentaries that have resonated with audiences this year.
Mad Max Fury Road, The Dressmaker, Oddball and The Water Diviner all grossed more than $10 million, and Paper Planes just under. Last Cab to Darwin, Blinky Bill: The Movie, That Sugar Film and Holding the Man performed well, although Mason believes Neil Armfield.s gay-themed romance, which grossed $1.2 million, deserved to make double that.
Still, Mason questions the mindset of a sizable section of the screen industry.
- 12/1/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Sonya Pemberton.s Uranium — Twisting the Dragon.s Tail won three prizes at the 2015 Atom Awards presented in Melbourne on Thursday night.
The Genepool Productions documentary, which chronicles the cultural, scientific and natural history of uranium, was lauded as best documentary- history, TV factual series and best documentary — science, technology and the environment.
Director Maya Newell and producer Charlotte Mars. Gayby Baby was named best documentary-general at the awards for tertiary and general/open categories held at Lux Melbourne on Chapel Street, hosted by Brian Nankervis from RocKwiz.
Best documentary- biography went to Remembering the Man, Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe.s. film on Tim Conigrave and John Caleo, whose story was told in Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man.
Gillian Armstrong.s Women He.s Undressed, produced by Damien Parer, was best documentary - arts.
Best docudrama was The War That Changed Us, which chronicled how WW1 impacted the soldiers and their families,...
The Genepool Productions documentary, which chronicles the cultural, scientific and natural history of uranium, was lauded as best documentary- history, TV factual series and best documentary — science, technology and the environment.
Director Maya Newell and producer Charlotte Mars. Gayby Baby was named best documentary-general at the awards for tertiary and general/open categories held at Lux Melbourne on Chapel Street, hosted by Brian Nankervis from RocKwiz.
Best documentary- biography went to Remembering the Man, Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe.s. film on Tim Conigrave and John Caleo, whose story was told in Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man.
Gillian Armstrong.s Women He.s Undressed, produced by Damien Parer, was best documentary - arts.
Best docudrama was The War That Changed Us, which chronicled how WW1 impacted the soldiers and their families,...
- 11/26/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Rosemary Myers' Girl Asleep has won the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival Best Feature People Choice's Award for her coming of age drama starring Eamon Farren and Bethany Whitmore.
Funded by the Festival.s Film Investment Fund and developed out of the Hive Lab, Girl Asleep is based on Windmill Theatre.s hit stage show.
The film was not only a critical favourite but was loved just as much by audiences, screening to sell out sessions across the Festival.
Holding the Man documentary, Remembering the Man won the People's Choice Award for Best Documentary, while the most popular short was Meryl Tankard's Michelle's Story.
Remebering the Man traces the story Tim Conigrave and John Caleo, who fell in love at at Catholic boys' school in 1976..
Their romance lasted for 16 years, facing disapproval, temptation, separation, and the looming shadow of the Grim Reaper..
Their relationship has been immortalised in Conigrave's...
Funded by the Festival.s Film Investment Fund and developed out of the Hive Lab, Girl Asleep is based on Windmill Theatre.s hit stage show.
The film was not only a critical favourite but was loved just as much by audiences, screening to sell out sessions across the Festival.
Holding the Man documentary, Remembering the Man won the People's Choice Award for Best Documentary, while the most popular short was Meryl Tankard's Michelle's Story.
Remebering the Man traces the story Tim Conigrave and John Caleo, who fell in love at at Catholic boys' school in 1976..
Their romance lasted for 16 years, facing disapproval, temptation, separation, and the looming shadow of the Grim Reaper..
Their relationship has been immortalised in Conigrave's...
- 11/4/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Cinema on-demand platform Tugg Australia is growing month-by-month, delivering tidy sums to the producers of hot-button documentaries and incremental revenues for narrative features. The top-grossing title so far is Frackman, Richard Todd.s profile of environmental activist Dayne Pratzky, which has generated $160,000 from 90 screenings. Among other films in demand are Maya Newell.s Gayby Baby; Joao Dujon Pereira.s Black Hole, which chronicles the battle against Whitehaven Coal to save a woodland forest from being cleared to make way for an open cut coal mine; and Avi Lewis. This Changes Everything, an attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change filmed in nine countries and five continents over four years. Last week was a milestone as the platform had its biggest week ever since its soft launch in 2013, with 26 screenings and 3,000 ticket sales. .With 27 confirmed screenings through the end of the month, October will deliver more than 80 screenings and...
- 10/27/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Propelled by Oddball and Blinky Bill: The Movie, next week Australian films are set to smash the record for the biggest B.O. total in a single year.
The feature films and docs released in 2015 plus holdovers have amassed an estimated $61.8 million.
Produced by Steve Kearney and Richard Keddie and directed by Stuart McDonald, Oddball raked in $3.55 million in its second week, lifting its earnings to $6.3 million. Deane Taylor.s Blinky Bill climbed to $1.9 million after pocketing a tad over $1 million in its sophomore session.
So by the end of next week the 2015 total will surpass the current record of $63.4 million set in 2001, the year of Moulin Rouge!, Lantana, The Man Who Sued God and Crocodile Dundee in La..
In that year the Australian films. market share was 7.8 per cent. If the 2001 total was adjusted for inflation then 2015 would not be a record in real terms but the market share is a consistent barometer.
The feature films and docs released in 2015 plus holdovers have amassed an estimated $61.8 million.
Produced by Steve Kearney and Richard Keddie and directed by Stuart McDonald, Oddball raked in $3.55 million in its second week, lifting its earnings to $6.3 million. Deane Taylor.s Blinky Bill climbed to $1.9 million after pocketing a tad over $1 million in its sophomore session.
So by the end of next week the 2015 total will surpass the current record of $63.4 million set in 2001, the year of Moulin Rouge!, Lantana, The Man Who Sued God and Crocodile Dundee in La..
In that year the Australian films. market share was 7.8 per cent. If the 2001 total was adjusted for inflation then 2015 would not be a record in real terms but the market share is a consistent barometer.
- 10/1/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Australian films looks like maintaining their impressive momentum at cinemas after the premieres last weekend of Oddball and Blinky Bill: The Movie.
Stuart McDonald.s comedy inspired by the true story of chicken farmer Swampy Marsh, who deploys his sheepdog.to protect an endangered Fairy Penguin population, starring Shane Jacobson, Sarah Snook, Coco Gillies.and Alan Tudyk,.rang up $1.07 million in its first four days on 289 screens, including limited previews. . Deane Taylor.s animated movie which features the voices of.Ryan Kwanten, Toni Collette, Robin McLeavy, David Wenham, Rufus Sewell, Richard Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman, Barry Otto and Barry Humphries, took $335,000 on 266 screens, with previews. . Both are positioned to cash in on the two weeks school vacation with.Oddball appealing to families and Blinky Bill drawing young folk and their parents or carers, so their figures should lift during the week. . Steve Kearney, who produced Oddball with Richard Keddie and Sheila Hanahan Taylor,...
Stuart McDonald.s comedy inspired by the true story of chicken farmer Swampy Marsh, who deploys his sheepdog.to protect an endangered Fairy Penguin population, starring Shane Jacobson, Sarah Snook, Coco Gillies.and Alan Tudyk,.rang up $1.07 million in its first four days on 289 screens, including limited previews. . Deane Taylor.s animated movie which features the voices of.Ryan Kwanten, Toni Collette, Robin McLeavy, David Wenham, Rufus Sewell, Richard Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman, Barry Otto and Barry Humphries, took $335,000 on 266 screens, with previews. . Both are positioned to cash in on the two weeks school vacation with.Oddball appealing to families and Blinky Bill drawing young folk and their parents or carers, so their figures should lift during the week. . Steve Kearney, who produced Oddball with Richard Keddie and Sheila Hanahan Taylor,...
- 9/21/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
More than 125 people applied for the chance to work with Mel Gibson on Hacksaw Ridge as part of the Adg/Screen Australia director.s attachment scheme, a record since the scheme began several years ago.
Beth Armstrong was chosen after writing and directing six short films.. She will be mentored by Gibson on the WW2 drama that will star Andrew Garfield,. Sam Worthington and Vince Vaughn and shoot in Queensland and Nsw, produced by Pandemonium Films. Bill Mechanic, Permut Productions. David Permut, Bruce Davey and Paul Currie. Mechanic said, .The talent and calibre of applicants for the director's attachment scheme were extremely impressive, making the decision a very hard one.
.This emphasises the incredible artistry and potential of up and coming filmmakers here in Australia, and we are so thrilled to have Beth as part of the Hacksaw Ridge team..
Screen Australia. senior development executive Nerida Moore said: .I'm sure...
Beth Armstrong was chosen after writing and directing six short films.. She will be mentored by Gibson on the WW2 drama that will star Andrew Garfield,. Sam Worthington and Vince Vaughn and shoot in Queensland and Nsw, produced by Pandemonium Films. Bill Mechanic, Permut Productions. David Permut, Bruce Davey and Paul Currie. Mechanic said, .The talent and calibre of applicants for the director's attachment scheme were extremely impressive, making the decision a very hard one.
.This emphasises the incredible artistry and potential of up and coming filmmakers here in Australia, and we are so thrilled to have Beth as part of the Hacksaw Ridge team..
Screen Australia. senior development executive Nerida Moore said: .I'm sure...
- 9/21/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Australian films are poised to record their highest share of the national box-office for 14 years, which goes a long way towards regaining the faith of audiences after a long lean spell.
Through last Sunday, the feature films and docs released in 2015 plus holdovers had racked up $52.9 million. With Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man earning tidy sums and Stuart McDonald.s Oddball and Deane Taylor.s Blinky Bill the Movie opening on Thursday, the total will soon surpass 2009.s $54.7 million.
It might be a stretch but 2015 could come close to the all-time record of $63.4 million in 2001, the year of Moulin Rouge!, Lantana, The Man Who Sued God and Crocodile Dundee in La. After a strong start to the year from Mad Max: Fury Road, The Water Diviner, Paper Planes and That Sugar Film, Aussie films already have eclipsed 2014.s lowly $26.1 million (a market...
Through last Sunday, the feature films and docs released in 2015 plus holdovers had racked up $52.9 million. With Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man earning tidy sums and Stuart McDonald.s Oddball and Deane Taylor.s Blinky Bill the Movie opening on Thursday, the total will soon surpass 2009.s $54.7 million.
It might be a stretch but 2015 could come close to the all-time record of $63.4 million in 2001, the year of Moulin Rouge!, Lantana, The Man Who Sued God and Crocodile Dundee in La. After a strong start to the year from Mad Max: Fury Road, The Water Diviner, Paper Planes and That Sugar Film, Aussie films already have eclipsed 2014.s lowly $26.1 million (a market...
- 9/15/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Australian films are poised to record their highest share of the national box-office for 10 years, which goes a long way towards regaining the faith of audiences after a long lean spell.
Through last Sunday, the feature films and docs released in 2015 plus holdovers had racked up $52.9 million. With Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man earning tidy sums and Stuart McDonald.s Oddball and Deane Taylor.s Blinky Bill the Movie opening on Thursday, the total will soon surpass 2009.s $54.7 million, the best result in the past 10 years. After a strong start to the year from Mad Max: Fury Road, The Water Diviner, Paper Planes and That Sugar Film, Aussie films already have eclipsed 2014.s lowly $26.1 million (a market share of 2.43 per cent) and 2013's $38.5 million. Despite some critical acclaim, Ruben Guthrie, Women He.s Undressed and Partisan did not resonate strongly and Manny Lewis tanked.
Through last Sunday, the feature films and docs released in 2015 plus holdovers had racked up $52.9 million. With Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man earning tidy sums and Stuart McDonald.s Oddball and Deane Taylor.s Blinky Bill the Movie opening on Thursday, the total will soon surpass 2009.s $54.7 million, the best result in the past 10 years. After a strong start to the year from Mad Max: Fury Road, The Water Diviner, Paper Planes and That Sugar Film, Aussie films already have eclipsed 2014.s lowly $26.1 million (a market share of 2.43 per cent) and 2013's $38.5 million. Despite some critical acclaim, Ruben Guthrie, Women He.s Undressed and Partisan did not resonate strongly and Manny Lewis tanked.
- 9/15/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Young adults turned out for the Maze Runner sequel while teenagers and families embraced Pixels at Australian cinemas last weekend.
In another buoyant frame for Australian films, Last Cab to Darwin and Holding the Man continued to earn tidy sums but See-Saw Films. James Dean pic Life opened weakly.
Overall, nationwide takings tallied $11.1 million, on par with the previous weekend, according to Rentrak's estimate, and the B.O. for the year to date is around 12 per cent up on 2014.
Fox.s Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, which sees the Gladers searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organisation known as Wckd, rang up $3.5 million and $3.7 million with previews. The 4-day tally is similar to the debut of the original a year ago, which wound up with $16.2 million.
Universal.s Straight Outta Compton dropped by 50 per cent in its second weekend but the Nwa biopic directed by F. Gary Gray...
In another buoyant frame for Australian films, Last Cab to Darwin and Holding the Man continued to earn tidy sums but See-Saw Films. James Dean pic Life opened weakly.
Overall, nationwide takings tallied $11.1 million, on par with the previous weekend, according to Rentrak's estimate, and the B.O. for the year to date is around 12 per cent up on 2014.
Fox.s Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, which sees the Gladers searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organisation known as Wckd, rang up $3.5 million and $3.7 million with previews. The 4-day tally is similar to the debut of the original a year ago, which wound up with $16.2 million.
Universal.s Straight Outta Compton dropped by 50 per cent in its second weekend but the Nwa biopic directed by F. Gary Gray...
- 9/14/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Kelli Cross has been named director's attachment on Rachel Perkins' Jasper Jones.
The Australian Directors Guild and Screen Australia announced Cross as an indigenous feature film attachment for 2015.
The attachment is part of the Director.s Attachment Scheme, an industry incentive program funded by Screen Australia and managed by the Adg for emerging feature film directors.
The film is an adaption of the award winning coming of age mystery novel by Craig Silvey..
Principal photography is set to commence in October in the south west of Western Australia..
The cast will include Levi Miller (Terra Nova, upcoming Pan, Blue Dog), Angourie Rice (These Final Hours, upcoming The Nice Guys) and Aaron McGrath (Glitch)..
Cross said she was absolutely thrilled and honoured to be attached to Perkins..
"This is a fantastic opportunity with an experienced director of great sensibility and attention to detail to absorb and learn from," she said.
The Australian Directors Guild and Screen Australia announced Cross as an indigenous feature film attachment for 2015.
The attachment is part of the Director.s Attachment Scheme, an industry incentive program funded by Screen Australia and managed by the Adg for emerging feature film directors.
The film is an adaption of the award winning coming of age mystery novel by Craig Silvey..
Principal photography is set to commence in October in the south west of Western Australia..
The cast will include Levi Miller (Terra Nova, upcoming Pan, Blue Dog), Angourie Rice (These Final Hours, upcoming The Nice Guys) and Aaron McGrath (Glitch)..
Cross said she was absolutely thrilled and honoured to be attached to Perkins..
"This is a fantastic opportunity with an experienced director of great sensibility and attention to detail to absorb and learn from," she said.
- 9/7/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Straight Outta Compton has delivered Universal Pictures another monster release, taking $4.5 million in its first weekend at the Australian box office.
The F. Gary Gray directed biopic, which traces the rise of Nwa from the mean streets of Compton, Los Angeles, in the mid-1980s has blasted Southpaw out of the top spot.
It has overtaken Southpaw's total box office ($4,462,604) in its first weekend.
Straight Outta Compton follows 2015 Universal titles Trainwreck ($13,060,3939) and Jurassic World ($52,838,633).
Vacation, the fifth instalment National Lampoon's Vacation film series came in third spot with with $577,104 taking its total to $4,042,474.
While Ricki and the Flash produced another solid week with $566,939 for the weekend on 243 screens taking cumulative box office to more than $2 million.
Joel Egerton's the Gift also performed strongly with $520,921 this weekend. The Gift's cumulative revenue is now more than $1.5 million in Australia after a strong showing in the Us.
But the story of moment for...
The F. Gary Gray directed biopic, which traces the rise of Nwa from the mean streets of Compton, Los Angeles, in the mid-1980s has blasted Southpaw out of the top spot.
It has overtaken Southpaw's total box office ($4,462,604) in its first weekend.
Straight Outta Compton follows 2015 Universal titles Trainwreck ($13,060,3939) and Jurassic World ($52,838,633).
Vacation, the fifth instalment National Lampoon's Vacation film series came in third spot with with $577,104 taking its total to $4,042,474.
While Ricki and the Flash produced another solid week with $566,939 for the weekend on 243 screens taking cumulative box office to more than $2 million.
Joel Egerton's the Gift also performed strongly with $520,921 this weekend. The Gift's cumulative revenue is now more than $1.5 million in Australia after a strong showing in the Us.
But the story of moment for...
- 9/7/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Us Boxing drama Southpaw has fought back in its second weekend at the box office to knock the fifth installment in the National Lampoon's Vacation film series out of the top spot.
The Antoine Fuqua director film, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Billy Hope and Rachel McAdams as his wife Maureen, took almost $1.3 million on the weekend on 193 screens.
This was a drop of 17 per cent compared to its first weekend of takings and took its total Australian box office to almost $3.4 million.
Soutpaw took $17 million on its first weekend in the Us and was made on an estimated budget of $US30 million.
While Vacation, starring Ed Helms as Rusty Griswold and Christina Applegate as Debbie Grisworld), lost the number one spot, it still collected more than $1 million.
This took its Aussie tally to about $3.2 million, while in the Us, it opened with $US15million on an estimated budget of $31 million.
The Antoine Fuqua director film, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Billy Hope and Rachel McAdams as his wife Maureen, took almost $1.3 million on the weekend on 193 screens.
This was a drop of 17 per cent compared to its first weekend of takings and took its total Australian box office to almost $3.4 million.
Soutpaw took $17 million on its first weekend in the Us and was made on an estimated budget of $US30 million.
While Vacation, starring Ed Helms as Rusty Griswold and Christina Applegate as Debbie Grisworld), lost the number one spot, it still collected more than $1 million.
This took its Aussie tally to about $3.2 million, while in the Us, it opened with $US15million on an estimated budget of $31 million.
- 8/30/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Holding The Man has made a solid debut at the Australian box office achieving a screen average of just over $1100 on 31 screens on its first day of release..
The total box office for Holding The Man, after day one, is $260,098, which includes several preview screenings.
Transmission Film.s Richard Payten said Holding The Man was a film he was extremely proud to be distributing..
"It.s powerful and beautiful cinema from director Neil Armfield, screenwriter Tommy Murphy and producer Kylie du Fresne, with exceptional performances from an exceptional cast, including Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Anthony La Paglia, Guy Pearce and Kerry Fox," he said.
.The timing of the release is serendipitous, with such an important national discussion taking place on the issue of Marriage Equality. .
"We hope that the film contributes positively to that debate and that is also enjoyed as one of the most moving depictions of a grand...
The total box office for Holding The Man, after day one, is $260,098, which includes several preview screenings.
Transmission Film.s Richard Payten said Holding The Man was a film he was extremely proud to be distributing..
"It.s powerful and beautiful cinema from director Neil Armfield, screenwriter Tommy Murphy and producer Kylie du Fresne, with exceptional performances from an exceptional cast, including Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Anthony La Paglia, Guy Pearce and Kerry Fox," he said.
.The timing of the release is serendipitous, with such an important national discussion taking place on the issue of Marriage Equality. .
"We hope that the film contributes positively to that debate and that is also enjoyed as one of the most moving depictions of a grand...
- 8/28/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Family animation Song of the Sea has edged out Neil Armfield's Holding the Man to take out the Melbourne International Film Festival People's Choice Award.
The Tomm Moore directed animation has won the Best Feature Film Award beating out rivals Holding the Man and In the Crosswind.
Song of the Sea is about a young Irish boy, Ben, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal.
The animation follows them on their adventure to free the faeries and save the spirit world..
An, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, A Pefect Day, Mustang, Victoria, Pawno and Tehran taxi rounded out the top ten.
Graceful Girls, directed by Olivia Peniston-Bird won the Best Documentary Award, while The Look of Silence was runner-up.
Graceful girls follows school teacher Brianna Lee as she attmepts to fulfill her lifelong dream of winning Calisthenics' most prestigious title 'The Most Graceful Girl'.
The Tomm Moore directed animation has won the Best Feature Film Award beating out rivals Holding the Man and In the Crosswind.
Song of the Sea is about a young Irish boy, Ben, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal.
The animation follows them on their adventure to free the faeries and save the spirit world..
An, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, A Pefect Day, Mustang, Victoria, Pawno and Tehran taxi rounded out the top ten.
Graceful Girls, directed by Olivia Peniston-Bird won the Best Documentary Award, while The Look of Silence was runner-up.
Graceful girls follows school teacher Brianna Lee as she attmepts to fulfill her lifelong dream of winning Calisthenics' most prestigious title 'The Most Graceful Girl'.
- 8/21/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Nora Niasari has been named as an attachment to Emma Freeman on the Matchbox Pictures TV series Secret City for Foxtel.
The attachment forms part of an industry incentive program funded by Screen Australia and managed by the Australian Director's Guild for emerging directors.
Niasari said she was thrilled and honoured to be chosen for an attachment on such a successful production..
"This is perfect timing and a perfect opportunity to move into directing for television,. she said.
Nora Niasari started directing several years ago after graduating with a Master of Film and Television from the Victorian College of the Arts with a number of very successful short films, including her most recent The Phoenix, which was nominated for the Adg Best Direction in a Student Film in 2015 and was selected for over a dozen national and international film festivals..
She has also been selected for the 2015 Melbourne International Film Festival.s Accelerator Program.
The attachment forms part of an industry incentive program funded by Screen Australia and managed by the Australian Director's Guild for emerging directors.
Niasari said she was thrilled and honoured to be chosen for an attachment on such a successful production..
"This is perfect timing and a perfect opportunity to move into directing for television,. she said.
Nora Niasari started directing several years ago after graduating with a Master of Film and Television from the Victorian College of the Arts with a number of very successful short films, including her most recent The Phoenix, which was nominated for the Adg Best Direction in a Student Film in 2015 and was selected for over a dozen national and international film festivals..
She has also been selected for the 2015 Melbourne International Film Festival.s Accelerator Program.
- 8/13/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
From Neil Armfield, the director of doomed addict romance Candy, comes his latest, also doomed romance Holding The Man. Another adaptation, this time based on the life memoirs of Timothy Conigrave and his epic love for partner John Caleo. The film explores a burgeoning crush from high school right through to complicated love and longing in University and beyond. From the seventies to the early nineties until the bitter end, it is a sad and beautiful story that informs right from the outset that Tim, a full-grown adult writing his book in Italy, has lost the love of his life and is not coping.Flashbacks and forwards send the viewer through the key moments in their relationship, with some periods of time appearing much stronger...
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- 8/4/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Led by Mad Max: Fury Road, The Water Diviner and Paper Planes, Australian films collectively have raked in $44.8 million at cinemas this year and 2015 is on track to rank as the best for local cinema in the past 10 years.
B.O. receipts already have eclipsed the meagre 2014 calendar year total of $26.1 million (a market share of 2.43 per cent) and 2013's $38.5 million.
With Jeremy Sims' Last Cab to Darwin launching on Thursday after winning plaudits at the Sydney Film Festival and a slew of Aussie films set to open in the next few months, the total will overtake 2012.s $47.8 million and 2009.s $54.7 million, the latter the best result in the past 10 years. The upcoming line-up includes Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man (August 27); Kriv Stenders' Kill Me Three Times (multi-platform release via eOne), Deane Taylor.s Blinky Bill the Movie, Tony Ayres. Cut Snake and Stuart McDonald.s Oddball...
B.O. receipts already have eclipsed the meagre 2014 calendar year total of $26.1 million (a market share of 2.43 per cent) and 2013's $38.5 million.
With Jeremy Sims' Last Cab to Darwin launching on Thursday after winning plaudits at the Sydney Film Festival and a slew of Aussie films set to open in the next few months, the total will overtake 2012.s $47.8 million and 2009.s $54.7 million, the latter the best result in the past 10 years. The upcoming line-up includes Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man (August 27); Kriv Stenders' Kill Me Three Times (multi-platform release via eOne), Deane Taylor.s Blinky Bill the Movie, Tony Ayres. Cut Snake and Stuart McDonald.s Oddball...
- 8/4/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia has started a scoping study to figure out new approaches to building pride in Australian films.
The workshopping of ideas is a tacit recognition that the Australian cinema .brand. was tarnished last year by a string of films that underperformed at the B.O., reflected in the lowly market share of 2.43 per cent.
Arguably the brand wasn.t the underlying problem as audiences this year have readily embraced The Water Diviner, Paper Planes, Mad Max: Fury Road and That Sugar Film, in addition to the well-received Frackman and Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.
Moviegoers may well feel more even confident about the entertainment value of national cinema with Brendan Cowell.s Ruben Guthrie and Gillian Armstrong's Women He's Undressed launching next week, followed by Jeremy Sims' Last Cab to Darwin, Simon Stone's The Daughter, Jocelyn Moorhouse's The Dressmaker, Neil Armfield's Holding the Man and Stuart McDonald.s Oddball.
The workshopping of ideas is a tacit recognition that the Australian cinema .brand. was tarnished last year by a string of films that underperformed at the B.O., reflected in the lowly market share of 2.43 per cent.
Arguably the brand wasn.t the underlying problem as audiences this year have readily embraced The Water Diviner, Paper Planes, Mad Max: Fury Road and That Sugar Film, in addition to the well-received Frackman and Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.
Moviegoers may well feel more even confident about the entertainment value of national cinema with Brendan Cowell.s Ruben Guthrie and Gillian Armstrong's Women He's Undressed launching next week, followed by Jeremy Sims' Last Cab to Darwin, Simon Stone's The Daughter, Jocelyn Moorhouse's The Dressmaker, Neil Armfield's Holding the Man and Stuart McDonald.s Oddball.
- 7/9/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Australian Directors Guild, Screen Australia and Playmaker Media today announced Julietta Boscolo as the director.s attachment to Geoff Bennett on the Nine Network's Love Child, now in production.
A Vca graduate, Boscolo started directing several years ago. with a number of short films including Sam.s Gold, which won the Adg Best Direction in a Short Film last year and was invited to more than a dozen national and international festivals.
She was one of nine filmmakers worldwide selected for the Binger Filmlab Directors Lab in Amsterdam in 2013. Julietta said, .I'm absolutely thrilled and honoured to be chosen for this attachment on such a successful production. This is perfect timing and a perfect opportunity to move into directing for television.. Screen Australia.s Senior Development Executive Nerida Moore said, .Screen Australia recognises the importance of ongoing talent development opportunities, and is proud to support this through the Director.s Attachment Scheme.
A Vca graduate, Boscolo started directing several years ago. with a number of short films including Sam.s Gold, which won the Adg Best Direction in a Short Film last year and was invited to more than a dozen national and international festivals.
She was one of nine filmmakers worldwide selected for the Binger Filmlab Directors Lab in Amsterdam in 2013. Julietta said, .I'm absolutely thrilled and honoured to be chosen for this attachment on such a successful production. This is perfect timing and a perfect opportunity to move into directing for television.. Screen Australia.s Senior Development Executive Nerida Moore said, .Screen Australia recognises the importance of ongoing talent development opportunities, and is proud to support this through the Director.s Attachment Scheme.
- 6/30/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Timothy Conigrave published his 1995 memoir "Holding the Man" several months before his death. The true story tale deals with his relationship with his lover of fifteen years, John Caleo, whom he met at a Jesuit Catholic school in Melbourne in the mid-1970s - Tim was a drama major, John the captain of the football team.
The book went on to win a United Nations Human Rights Award the year it came out, but has more recently found fame as an acclaimed stage play adaptation by Tommy Murphy - an award-winning play that became one of the most successful Australian stage productions in recent years, and has gone on to play in different parts of the world including London's West End and Los Angeles.
Now the story has been adapted for the screen with Ryan Corr ("Wolf Creek 2") and Craig Stott in the lead roles along with Guy Pearce,...
The book went on to win a United Nations Human Rights Award the year it came out, but has more recently found fame as an acclaimed stage play adaptation by Tommy Murphy - an award-winning play that became one of the most successful Australian stage productions in recent years, and has gone on to play in different parts of the world including London's West End and Los Angeles.
Now the story has been adapted for the screen with Ryan Corr ("Wolf Creek 2") and Craig Stott in the lead roles along with Guy Pearce,...
- 6/21/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The Australian B.O. is running hot, outpacing last year by more than 14%, and some industry mavens predict 2015 will set an all-time record.
Distributors and exhibitors are more than usually confident about the second half release line-up, including at least half a dozen Australian films.
Powered by Mad Max: Fury Road ($20.5 million in five weeks), Paper Planes and The Water Diviner,. local films have raked in $42.8 million this year, already eclipsing the paltry 2014 calendar total of $26.1 million and 2013.s $38.5 million.
The Sydney Film Festival looks like being an effective launching pad for Brendan Cowell's Ruben Guthrie (which opens on July 16 via Madman), Gillian Armstrong's Women He's Undressed (Rialto, also July 16), Jeremy Sims'. Last Cab to Darwin (Icon, August 6), Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man (Transmission, August 27) and Simon Stone.s The Daughter (Roadshow, September 10).
There is a positive buzz about other upcoming releases including Stuart McDonald.s rustic comedy Oddball (Roadshow,...
Distributors and exhibitors are more than usually confident about the second half release line-up, including at least half a dozen Australian films.
Powered by Mad Max: Fury Road ($20.5 million in five weeks), Paper Planes and The Water Diviner,. local films have raked in $42.8 million this year, already eclipsing the paltry 2014 calendar total of $26.1 million and 2013.s $38.5 million.
The Sydney Film Festival looks like being an effective launching pad for Brendan Cowell's Ruben Guthrie (which opens on July 16 via Madman), Gillian Armstrong's Women He's Undressed (Rialto, also July 16), Jeremy Sims'. Last Cab to Darwin (Icon, August 6), Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man (Transmission, August 27) and Simon Stone.s The Daughter (Roadshow, September 10).
There is a positive buzz about other upcoming releases including Stuart McDonald.s rustic comedy Oddball (Roadshow,...
- 6/18/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Directed by Neil Armfield, this much-anticipated film adaptation of Timothy Conigrave’s memoir is sensual yet ultimately unsatisfying
Actor Timothy Conigrave’s bestselling memoir Holding the Man, an intimate account of his 15-year relationship with lover John Caleo, was published in 1995 and adapted by playwright Tommy Murphy into an award-winning stage production in 2006. Australian theatre doyen Neil Armfield reconfigures the material once more, this time for the big screen, directing his first feature film since 2006’s Candy with Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish.
Rather than recalibrating the film as a literary adaptation, the director’s fondness for the stage play is obvious. Murphy was recruited once more for screenwriting duties and the production’s theatrical bloodline is at times plain to all and sundry. You can get away dialogue like “be it on your conscience” on the stage, but in film such stately-sounding words feel contrived – not surprisingly, like actors reading from scripts.
Actor Timothy Conigrave’s bestselling memoir Holding the Man, an intimate account of his 15-year relationship with lover John Caleo, was published in 1995 and adapted by playwright Tommy Murphy into an award-winning stage production in 2006. Australian theatre doyen Neil Armfield reconfigures the material once more, this time for the big screen, directing his first feature film since 2006’s Candy with Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish.
Rather than recalibrating the film as a literary adaptation, the director’s fondness for the stage play is obvious. Murphy was recruited once more for screenwriting duties and the production’s theatrical bloodline is at times plain to all and sundry. You can get away dialogue like “be it on your conscience” on the stage, but in film such stately-sounding words feel contrived – not surprisingly, like actors reading from scripts.
- 6/15/2015
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Portuguese director Miguel Gomes. Arabian Nights has won the top award, the Sydney Film prize, at the 62nd Sydney Film Festival.
The 3-part opus, which draws on the folk tales One Thousand and One Nights to create a portrait of modern-day life in Portugal, took the $62,000 cash prize at the closing night awards at the State Theatre.
Jury president Liz Watts hailed a film of "ambition and political vision which confronts, frustrates, and spellbinds - and ultimately reminds us that cinema continues to be a powerful vehicle to examine the human condition..
Journalist Michael Ware and two-time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag received the $10,000 Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian documentary for Only the Dead; with a special mention to The Lost Aviator directed by Andrew Lancaster. .A Single Body directed and written by Sotiris Dounoukos won the best live action short award; Grace Under Water directed and produced by Anthony Lawrence...
The 3-part opus, which draws on the folk tales One Thousand and One Nights to create a portrait of modern-day life in Portugal, took the $62,000 cash prize at the closing night awards at the State Theatre.
Jury president Liz Watts hailed a film of "ambition and political vision which confronts, frustrates, and spellbinds - and ultimately reminds us that cinema continues to be a powerful vehicle to examine the human condition..
Journalist Michael Ware and two-time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag received the $10,000 Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian documentary for Only the Dead; with a special mention to The Lost Aviator directed by Andrew Lancaster. .A Single Body directed and written by Sotiris Dounoukos won the best live action short award; Grace Under Water directed and produced by Anthony Lawrence...
- 6/14/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Miguel Gomes’ three-volume epic wins eight on the closing night of the Sydney Film Festival.
Director Miguel Gomes and his three-volume 383-minute film Arabian Nights has won the $48,000 (A$62,000) Sydney Film Prize, it was announced on Sunday, the closing night of the 62nd Sydney Film Festival.
Journalist Michael Ware was awarded the $7,730 (A$10,000) Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary for Only the Dead, about his experiences in Afghanistan. The film was co-directed with Bill Guttentag.
Director Andrew Lancaster’s The Lost Aviator received a special mention for a family story of murder, love and aviation.
Jury president and Australian producer Liz Watts said Arabian Nights, which had its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, was a film of ambition and political vision which confronts, frustrates, and spellbinds – and ultimately reminds us that cinema continues to be a powerful vehicle to examine the human condition.
“A subject that is so timely – oppression and exploitation are at...
Director Miguel Gomes and his three-volume 383-minute film Arabian Nights has won the $48,000 (A$62,000) Sydney Film Prize, it was announced on Sunday, the closing night of the 62nd Sydney Film Festival.
Journalist Michael Ware was awarded the $7,730 (A$10,000) Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary for Only the Dead, about his experiences in Afghanistan. The film was co-directed with Bill Guttentag.
Director Andrew Lancaster’s The Lost Aviator received a special mention for a family story of murder, love and aviation.
Jury president and Australian producer Liz Watts said Arabian Nights, which had its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, was a film of ambition and political vision which confronts, frustrates, and spellbinds – and ultimately reminds us that cinema continues to be a powerful vehicle to examine the human condition.
“A subject that is so timely – oppression and exploitation are at...
- 6/14/2015
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
The 12 titles include Jafar Panahi’s Berlinale winner, Roy Andersson’s Venice victor and Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Sundance prize-winner.Scroll down for competition line-up
A story shot entirely on iPhone, Sean Baker’s Tangerine, about a transgender La prostitute very cranky with her boyfriend, and another that is told in one take, Sebastian Schipper’s Berlinale award-winner Victoria, which features the Berlin party scene and a bank robbery, are among 12 movies in competition in the Sydney Film Festival (Sff).
Two Iranian films, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad’s Tales and Jafar Panahi’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Tehran Taxi, are also in the running for the Us$50,000 (A$64,000) prize, as are French director Thomas Salvador’s “minimalist superhero film” Vincent, which he also stars in, and Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’ Arabian Nights, a six-hours-plus portrait of Portugal set to premiere at Cannes this month.
The three selections that have already won major prizes at top tier festivals are Francesco Munzi’s Italian...
A story shot entirely on iPhone, Sean Baker’s Tangerine, about a transgender La prostitute very cranky with her boyfriend, and another that is told in one take, Sebastian Schipper’s Berlinale award-winner Victoria, which features the Berlin party scene and a bank robbery, are among 12 movies in competition in the Sydney Film Festival (Sff).
Two Iranian films, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad’s Tales and Jafar Panahi’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Tehran Taxi, are also in the running for the Us$50,000 (A$64,000) prize, as are French director Thomas Salvador’s “minimalist superhero film” Vincent, which he also stars in, and Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’ Arabian Nights, a six-hours-plus portrait of Portugal set to premiere at Cannes this month.
The three selections that have already won major prizes at top tier festivals are Francesco Munzi’s Italian...
- 5/6/2015
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Gazing into the crystal ball, Screen rounds up its Cannes predictions.
With the unveiling of Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection now exactly three weeks away buzz over the titles that Thierry Fremaux and his team will select for the 68th edition is hitting fever pitch.
Official teaser announcements have started to roll this week, led by the confirmation on Wednesday that George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road would premiere in an Out of Competition screening on May 14.
Earlier the week, Cannes unveiled its poster featuring Ingrid Bergman to mark the centenary of the late big screen’s birth and it was announced that Stig Bjorkman’s documentary Ingrid Bergman – In Her Own Words would show in Cannes Classics as part of the commemorations.
For the rest of the Official Selection, except perhaps the opening film which is traditionally revealed in advance, Cannes watchers will have to wait for the announcement press conference in Paris on April...
With the unveiling of Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection now exactly three weeks away buzz over the titles that Thierry Fremaux and his team will select for the 68th edition is hitting fever pitch.
Official teaser announcements have started to roll this week, led by the confirmation on Wednesday that George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road would premiere in an Out of Competition screening on May 14.
Earlier the week, Cannes unveiled its poster featuring Ingrid Bergman to mark the centenary of the late big screen’s birth and it was announced that Stig Bjorkman’s documentary Ingrid Bergman – In Her Own Words would show in Cannes Classics as part of the commemorations.
For the rest of the Official Selection, except perhaps the opening film which is traditionally revealed in advance, Cannes watchers will have to wait for the announcement press conference in Paris on April...
- 3/26/2015
- ScreenDaily
Ivan Radford Jun 13, 2017
More recommendations have been added to our list of Netflix UK movies you might want to try...
Ask some Netflix users and they'll tell you that Netflix UK pales in comparison to Netflix Us, that America has all the new, good stuff, while British streamers are left with the bargain bin rejects from old Blockbuster stores.
See related No Metroid Prime sequel for Wii U says series producer
Take a closer look, though, and there's a whole heap of quality there just waiting to be discovered. Whether they're unfairly maligned, or just criminally under-seen, here are 25 under-appreciated films on Netflix UK.
(We'll keep this list updated as things arrive or leave the service to make sure you don't run of new things to try. Last update: June 2017)
What We Do In The Shadows
Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s horror mockumentary, which follows a group of vampire flatmates in Wellington,...
More recommendations have been added to our list of Netflix UK movies you might want to try...
Ask some Netflix users and they'll tell you that Netflix UK pales in comparison to Netflix Us, that America has all the new, good stuff, while British streamers are left with the bargain bin rejects from old Blockbuster stores.
See related No Metroid Prime sequel for Wii U says series producer
Take a closer look, though, and there's a whole heap of quality there just waiting to be discovered. Whether they're unfairly maligned, or just criminally under-seen, here are 25 under-appreciated films on Netflix UK.
(We'll keep this list updated as things arrive or leave the service to make sure you don't run of new things to try. Last update: June 2017)
What We Do In The Shadows
Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s horror mockumentary, which follows a group of vampire flatmates in Wellington,...
- 3/25/2015
- Den of Geek
Artists confirmed for Andrew Upton's seventh season his second programmed as solo Artistic Director at Sydney Theatre Company in 2015 include many of Australia's top theatrical talents Cate Blanchett, Jacqueline McKenzie, Robyn Nevin, Susie Porter, Richard Roxburgh, Geoffrey Rush, Helen Thomson, Hugo Weaving, Ursula Yovich and many more in a program boasting directors such as Neil Armfield, Leticia Caceres, Richard Cottrell, John Crowley, Pamela Rabe and Stc's Andrew Upton, Sarah Goodes and Kip Williams.
- 2/27/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The late Village Roadshow executive Greg Coote, Anthony Lapaglia and rising stars Margot Robbie and Brenton Thwaites will be honoured in the annual Australians in Film (AiF) awards.
Animal Logic CEO Zareh Nalbandian and veteran 20th Century Fox production executive Fred Baron will also be feted at the AiF.s gala dinner in Los Angeles on October 26.
Coote, who passed away in June, is a former chairman and CEO of Dune Entertainment, which co-financed more than 60 movies with Fox. He is the recipient of the AiF Orry-Kelly Award, which recognises Australians who have contributed to the success of other Australians in the industry.
.Greg Coote was an important advisor to Australians in Film from the beginning, helping to shape our early strategy, with a particular focus on supporting emerging Australian talent in Hollywood,. said AiF president Simonne Overend.
.He played such a major part in our success and really did...
Animal Logic CEO Zareh Nalbandian and veteran 20th Century Fox production executive Fred Baron will also be feted at the AiF.s gala dinner in Los Angeles on October 26.
Coote, who passed away in June, is a former chairman and CEO of Dune Entertainment, which co-financed more than 60 movies with Fox. He is the recipient of the AiF Orry-Kelly Award, which recognises Australians who have contributed to the success of other Australians in the industry.
.Greg Coote was an important advisor to Australians in Film from the beginning, helping to shape our early strategy, with a particular focus on supporting emerging Australian talent in Hollywood,. said AiF president Simonne Overend.
.He played such a major part in our success and really did...
- 9/18/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Guy Pearce, Anthony Lapaglia and Kerry Fox are to star in an Australian movie adaptation of Holding the Man.
The film, directed by Neil Armfield, is based on Timothy Conigrave's memoir, which was adapted for a stage play in 2006.
The story focuses on two young men who fall in love and embark on a 15-year romance.
Producer Kylie Dufresne said: "The success of Tim Conigrave's book and Tommy Murphy's stage play proves that this is a love story that speaks across generations, sexualities and cultures."
Production for Holding the Man begins in Melbourne next week, reports ScreenDaily.
Pearce was recently reported to be in talks to play the villain in thriller War on Everyone.
Earlier this year, he explained that he almost turned down his role in Iron Man 3.
The film, directed by Neil Armfield, is based on Timothy Conigrave's memoir, which was adapted for a stage play in 2006.
The story focuses on two young men who fall in love and embark on a 15-year romance.
Producer Kylie Dufresne said: "The success of Tim Conigrave's book and Tommy Murphy's stage play proves that this is a love story that speaks across generations, sexualities and cultures."
Production for Holding the Man begins in Melbourne next week, reports ScreenDaily.
Pearce was recently reported to be in talks to play the villain in thriller War on Everyone.
Earlier this year, he explained that he almost turned down his role in Iron Man 3.
- 9/4/2014
- Digital Spy
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