Leading New Zealand film executive Jasmine McSweeney is joining Australian producer- distributor -streaming platform Umbrella Entertainment, as its first New Zealand-based head of sales and acquisitions, as part of the company’s ambitious expansion plans.
Umbrella had a hit with its Australian and New Zealand release of local horror title Talk To Me in 2023, released with Maslow Entertainment.
McSweeney has been head of marketing at the New Zealand Film Commission for a decade and oversaw its digitisation program and the launch of a transactional video on demand platform. She will start her new role on February 5.
Umbrella general manager Ari Harrison...
Umbrella had a hit with its Australian and New Zealand release of local horror title Talk To Me in 2023, released with Maslow Entertainment.
McSweeney has been head of marketing at the New Zealand Film Commission for a decade and oversaw its digitisation program and the launch of a transactional video on demand platform. She will start her new role on February 5.
Umbrella general manager Ari Harrison...
- 1/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
Craig McLachlan as Dr Lucien Blake.
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The ABC has commissioned The Doctor Blake Mysteries.for a fifth series.
Starring Craig McLachlan as police surgeon, Dr Lucien Blake, and Nadine Garner as his devoted housekeeper Jean, The Doctor Blake Mysteries continues to attract a large audience.
ABC Director of Television Richard Finlayson said Series four had been the most successful to date with an average audience of 1.67 million viewers across TV broadcast and iview..
"Doctor Blake satisfies an appetite for engaging, home grown stories,. he said.
Series Co-creator and showrunner, George Adams, said December Media was elated to be returning to 1960s Ballarat, "once again to bring our loyal audience more tales of murder, mystery, mayhem and a wee bit of love with Blake, Jean and all our favourite characters..
Series five will see Doctor Blake facing mysteries on every front, from the boxing ring to the vineyards of Victoria, from...
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The ABC has commissioned The Doctor Blake Mysteries.for a fifth series.
Starring Craig McLachlan as police surgeon, Dr Lucien Blake, and Nadine Garner as his devoted housekeeper Jean, The Doctor Blake Mysteries continues to attract a large audience.
ABC Director of Television Richard Finlayson said Series four had been the most successful to date with an average audience of 1.67 million viewers across TV broadcast and iview..
"Doctor Blake satisfies an appetite for engaging, home grown stories,. he said.
Series Co-creator and showrunner, George Adams, said December Media was elated to be returning to 1960s Ballarat, "once again to bring our loyal audience more tales of murder, mystery, mayhem and a wee bit of love with Blake, Jean and all our favourite characters..
Series five will see Doctor Blake facing mysteries on every front, from the boxing ring to the vineyards of Victoria, from...
- 5/4/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Hugo Weaving as Dr Alex Klima in Seven Types of Ambiguity. Photo by Ben King.
Filming has started in Melbourne on Matchbox Pictures' six-part drama series Seven Types of Ambiguity for the ABC.
Based on a novel by Elliot Perlman, it stars Hugo Weaving, Xavier Samuel, Alex Dimitriades, Leeanna Walsman, Anthony Hayes, Andrea Demetriades and Susie Porter.
Seven Types of Ambiguity will be filmed on location in and around Melbourne and will air later this year on ABC TV.
Executive producers for Matchbox include Tony Ayres, Amanda Higgs and Jacquelin Perske.
The ABC executive producer is Christopher Gist and the producer is Amanda Higgs..
The series is a psychological mystery that explores the complicated emotional terrain of relationships and the risks people will go to in the name of love..
When seven-year-old Sam Marin is taken from school, his parents Anna (Leeanna Walsman) and Joe (Alex Dimitriades) are frantic.
Filming has started in Melbourne on Matchbox Pictures' six-part drama series Seven Types of Ambiguity for the ABC.
Based on a novel by Elliot Perlman, it stars Hugo Weaving, Xavier Samuel, Alex Dimitriades, Leeanna Walsman, Anthony Hayes, Andrea Demetriades and Susie Porter.
Seven Types of Ambiguity will be filmed on location in and around Melbourne and will air later this year on ABC TV.
Executive producers for Matchbox include Tony Ayres, Amanda Higgs and Jacquelin Perske.
The ABC executive producer is Christopher Gist and the producer is Amanda Higgs..
The series is a psychological mystery that explores the complicated emotional terrain of relationships and the risks people will go to in the name of love..
When seven-year-old Sam Marin is taken from school, his parents Anna (Leeanna Walsman) and Joe (Alex Dimitriades) are frantic.
- 4/25/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Matchbox Pictures is preparing a second series of Glitch, the supernatural drama created by Tony Ayres and Louise Fox.
Directed by Emma Freeman, the first series did not grab a huge linear audience but drew impressive numbers on catch-up viewing. All six episodes were made available on iview immediately after the first episode.s broadcast premiere.
The average 5-city consolidated audience was 693,000 but there were 1.2 million plays on iview (at an average of 197,000 plays per episode), the most watched series on iview this year.
The show set in the fictional town of Yoorana ended with a cliffhanger as viewers knew the identities of the six people who had returned from the dead and how they died.
Left hanging were the questions: Why these six, and how were they resurrected?
Series two will go inside the gates of Noregard Pharmaceuticals and other mysterious places as the characters again explore the extremes...
Directed by Emma Freeman, the first series did not grab a huge linear audience but drew impressive numbers on catch-up viewing. All six episodes were made available on iview immediately after the first episode.s broadcast premiere.
The average 5-city consolidated audience was 693,000 but there were 1.2 million plays on iview (at an average of 197,000 plays per episode), the most watched series on iview this year.
The show set in the fictional town of Yoorana ended with a cliffhanger as viewers knew the identities of the six people who had returned from the dead and how they died.
Left hanging were the questions: Why these six, and how were they resurrected?
Series two will go inside the gates of Noregard Pharmaceuticals and other mysterious places as the characters again explore the extremes...
- 10/26/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Rodger Corser and Anna McGahan have joined the cast on the fourth series of Dr Blake Mysteries.
Starring Craig McLachlan as police surgeon, Dr Lucien Blake, 1950s Ballarat continues to be a hotbed of murder and deception, trickery and espionage.
Series three picked up a combined average metro and regional consolidated audience of 1.6 million.
ABC Executive Producer Carole Sklan says: .We are delighted that the tremendously entertaining Craig McLachlan has been joined by stars Rodger Corser and Anna McGahan for more enthralling mysteries in a fourth series of The Doctor Blake Mysteries..
The series co-creator and producer George Adams says: .Season four is, I know, going to be another classic, full of tales of deception, devilment and delight. We can't wait to get started..
The fourth series will film in and around Melbourne and Ballarat, with the new eight episodes airing on ABC next year.
The series is produced by...
Starring Craig McLachlan as police surgeon, Dr Lucien Blake, 1950s Ballarat continues to be a hotbed of murder and deception, trickery and espionage.
Series three picked up a combined average metro and regional consolidated audience of 1.6 million.
ABC Executive Producer Carole Sklan says: .We are delighted that the tremendously entertaining Craig McLachlan has been joined by stars Rodger Corser and Anna McGahan for more enthralling mysteries in a fourth series of The Doctor Blake Mysteries..
The series co-creator and producer George Adams says: .Season four is, I know, going to be another classic, full of tales of deception, devilment and delight. We can't wait to get started..
The fourth series will film in and around Melbourne and Ballarat, with the new eight episodes airing on ABC next year.
The series is produced by...
- 9/8/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Jessica Marais will star as transgender Les Girls performer Carlotta in a new telemovie for ABC 1. Carlotta follows the life of the transgender pioneer, who was born as Richard Byron before transforming into Carol and, on stage, Carlotta in the 1970s. Written by David Hannum, with story consultation from Carlotta, the film will be directed by Samantha Lang (My Place, The Monkey.s Mask) and will feature an acclaimed cast, including Caroline O.Connor, Alex Dimitriades, Anita Hegh, Eamon Farren and Paul Capsis. Carlotta will be produced by Riccardo Pellizzeri (Underbelly: Nz, Siege, Mda, Blue Heelers) and Lara Radulovich (Wentworth, Neighbours) with the ABC.s Carole Sklan and Christopher Gist as executive producers. Developed by Pellizzeri and Radulovich, Carlotta is being produced by their new production company Story Ark Productions. Producers Lara Radulovich and Riccardo Pellizzeri said, .This has been a passion project of ours for many years and...
- 4/22/2013
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
August 21 marks the 25th anniversary of "Dirty Dancing." The coordinated love story follows Baby (Jennifer Grey), a college-bound girl who, while summering with her family at the Kellerman Resort, falls head-over-heels for the dance instructor, played by Patrick Swayze. The 1987 film, directed by Emile Ardolino, has become a cult classic, giving us the unforgettable line "Nobody puts baby in a corner," as well as making dancing on a log sexy. While you've surely watched "Dirty Dancing" a million times on TV at this point, you can actually visit the location where a lot of the film was shot: the real-life Kellerman Resort, Mountain Lake Hotel in Pembroke, Virgina. Location as Character: The 1987 hit takes place in the fictitious Kellerman Resort, which is, in the movie, located in the Catskills. It's here that Johnny (Swayze) and Baby (Grey) dance into each other's hearts. Mountain Lake Hotel also offers many activities as Kellerman,...
- 8/21/2012
- by Jessie Heyman
- Moviefone
Craig McLachlan has been announced as the lead in a new ABC period crime series.
The ten-part series, The Dr Blake Mysteries will see McLachlan play Dr Lucien Blake, Gp and police surgeon to Ballarat in 1959.
The series is produced by Tony Wright and George Adams of December Media. Wright is executive producer alongside the ABC’s Christopher Gist.
Wright said: “George Adams and I are both lifelong aficionados of the murder mystery genre in all its forms. It’s beyond exciting to be producing our own for the ABC.”
Carole Sklan, ABC’s head of fiction said: “December Media have created the brilliant, irreverent Dr Blake, and assembled an outstanding cast and creative team. Through the eyes of the maverick doctor, the series captures 1959 Australia on the cusp of change.”
Set in Ballarat, in rural Victoria, Dr Blake finds himself investigating deaths both natural and unnatural, with housekeeper/receoptionist...
The ten-part series, The Dr Blake Mysteries will see McLachlan play Dr Lucien Blake, Gp and police surgeon to Ballarat in 1959.
The series is produced by Tony Wright and George Adams of December Media. Wright is executive producer alongside the ABC’s Christopher Gist.
Wright said: “George Adams and I are both lifelong aficionados of the murder mystery genre in all its forms. It’s beyond exciting to be producing our own for the ABC.”
Carole Sklan, ABC’s head of fiction said: “December Media have created the brilliant, irreverent Dr Blake, and assembled an outstanding cast and creative team. Through the eyes of the maverick doctor, the series captures 1959 Australia on the cusp of change.”
Set in Ballarat, in rural Victoria, Dr Blake finds himself investigating deaths both natural and unnatural, with housekeeper/receoptionist...
- 4/10/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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