2013's Pacific Rim.
Pacific Rim: Maelstrom, the sequel to Guillermo del Toro's 2013 blockbuster Pacific Rim, is set to begin shooting at Sydney's Fox Studios in mid November. The production will also shoot for a short period in Queensland.
Star Wars' John Boyega stars with Suicide Squad's Scott Eastwood, while Spartacus creator Steven S. DeKnight takes over directorial duties from del Toro, who remains on board as a writer and producer.
Like the first film, Maelstrom is being made by the Wanda-owned Legendary Pictures, with Mary Parent and Thomas Tull joining del Toro as producers.
Kirsty McGregor is assisting on local casting alongside casting director Sarah Finn, whose recent credits include Gold Coast productions Thor: Ragnarok and Kong: Skull Island.
Boyega plays the son of Idris Elba's character in the original film. Returning players include.Hellboy's Ron Perlman, as Hannibal Chau, and Captain Phillips' Max Martini,...
Pacific Rim: Maelstrom, the sequel to Guillermo del Toro's 2013 blockbuster Pacific Rim, is set to begin shooting at Sydney's Fox Studios in mid November. The production will also shoot for a short period in Queensland.
Star Wars' John Boyega stars with Suicide Squad's Scott Eastwood, while Spartacus creator Steven S. DeKnight takes over directorial duties from del Toro, who remains on board as a writer and producer.
Like the first film, Maelstrom is being made by the Wanda-owned Legendary Pictures, with Mary Parent and Thomas Tull joining del Toro as producers.
Kirsty McGregor is assisting on local casting alongside casting director Sarah Finn, whose recent credits include Gold Coast productions Thor: Ragnarok and Kong: Skull Island.
Boyega plays the son of Idris Elba's character in the original film. Returning players include.Hellboy's Ron Perlman, as Hannibal Chau, and Captain Phillips' Max Martini,...
- 10/4/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Director, producer and screenwriter Rose Troche (The L Word, Go Fish, Concussion) will present at the 360 Vision lab intensive being held during Vivid Sydney..
Initiated by Screen Nsw with the ABC, Screen Australia and Event Cinemas will also partner on the 360 Vision event, Australia.s first Virtual Reality development initiative..
The initiative kicks off with an intensive one-day invitation-only lab at Carriageworks to be held June 7, at which Troche will present alongside other international and Australian leaders in Vr. .
Troche is best known as the co executive producer, writer and director of the groundbreaking Showtime series The L Word.
She has also directed episodes of Six Feet Under, Ugly Betty and Law & Order, and first came to prominence in 1994 when her directorial debut Go Fish premiered at Sundance..
.I am honored to be a part of the Screen Nsw Virtual Reality event - 360 Vision. The line up is incredible and...
Initiated by Screen Nsw with the ABC, Screen Australia and Event Cinemas will also partner on the 360 Vision event, Australia.s first Virtual Reality development initiative..
The initiative kicks off with an intensive one-day invitation-only lab at Carriageworks to be held June 7, at which Troche will present alongside other international and Australian leaders in Vr. .
Troche is best known as the co executive producer, writer and director of the groundbreaking Showtime series The L Word.
She has also directed episodes of Six Feet Under, Ugly Betty and Law & Order, and first came to prominence in 1994 when her directorial debut Go Fish premiered at Sundance..
.I am honored to be a part of the Screen Nsw Virtual Reality event - 360 Vision. The line up is incredible and...
- 4/6/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Director, producer and screenwriter Rose Troche (The L Word, Go Fish, Concussion) will present at the 360 Vision lab intensive being held during Vivid Sydney..
Initiated by Screen Nsw with the ABC, Screen Australia and Event Cinemas will also partner on the 360 Vision event, Australia.s first Virtual Reality development initiative..
The initiative kicks off with an intensive one-day invitation-only lab at Carriageworks to be held June 7, at which Troche will present alongside other international and Australian leaders in Vr. .
Troche is best known as the co executive producer, writer and director of the groundbreaking Showtime series The L Word.
She has also directed episodes of Six Feet Under, Ugly Betty and Law & Order, and first came to prominence in 1994 when her directorial debut Go Fish premiered at Sundance..
.I am honored to be a part of the Screen Nsw Virtual Reality event - 360 Vision. The line up is incredible and...
Initiated by Screen Nsw with the ABC, Screen Australia and Event Cinemas will also partner on the 360 Vision event, Australia.s first Virtual Reality development initiative..
The initiative kicks off with an intensive one-day invitation-only lab at Carriageworks to be held June 7, at which Troche will present alongside other international and Australian leaders in Vr. .
Troche is best known as the co executive producer, writer and director of the groundbreaking Showtime series The L Word.
She has also directed episodes of Six Feet Under, Ugly Betty and Law & Order, and first came to prominence in 1994 when her directorial debut Go Fish premiered at Sundance..
.I am honored to be a part of the Screen Nsw Virtual Reality event - 360 Vision. The line up is incredible and...
- 4/6/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Director, producer and screenwriter Rose Troche (The L Word, Go Fish, Concussion) will present at the 360 Vision lab intensive being held during Vivid Sydney..
Initiated by Screen Nsw with the ABC, Screen Australia and Event Cinemas will also partner on the 360 Vision event, Australia.s first Virtual Reality development initiative..
The initiative kicks off with an intensive one-day invitation-only lab at Carriageworks to be held June 7, at which Troche will present alongside other international and Australian leaders in Vr. .
Troche is best known as the co executive producer, writer and director of the groundbreaking Showtime series The L Word.
She has also directed episodes of Six Feet Under, Ugly Betty and Law & Order, and first came to prominence in 1994 when her directorial debut Go Fish premiered at Sundance..
.I am honored to be a part of the Screen Nsw Virtual Reality event - 360 Vision. The line up is incredible and...
Initiated by Screen Nsw with the ABC, Screen Australia and Event Cinemas will also partner on the 360 Vision event, Australia.s first Virtual Reality development initiative..
The initiative kicks off with an intensive one-day invitation-only lab at Carriageworks to be held June 7, at which Troche will present alongside other international and Australian leaders in Vr. .
Troche is best known as the co executive producer, writer and director of the groundbreaking Showtime series The L Word.
She has also directed episodes of Six Feet Under, Ugly Betty and Law & Order, and first came to prominence in 1994 when her directorial debut Go Fish premiered at Sundance..
.I am honored to be a part of the Screen Nsw Virtual Reality event - 360 Vision. The line up is incredible and...
- 4/6/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Ridley Scott.s Alien: Covenant will be made in Nsw, contributing $60 million to the state's economy and more than 600 local cast and crew.
The film will star Michael Fassbender whose previous work includes 12 Years a Slave and X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Alien: Covenant director and producer, Ridley Scott, said he had worked with many creative talents from Australia over the years.
"Everyone has told me how great filming is there," he said..
"It has been a long-time goal for me to make a movie downunder, and I am extremely pleased that it.s finally happening. I am excited to work with the highly skilled local crews and artists, and I want to thank Deputy Premier Grant and Minister Roberts and the New South Wales Government for encouraging filmmaking in New South Wales.
Twentieth Century Fox executive vice president, Fred Baron, said it was the fourth film Twentieth Century Fox...
The film will star Michael Fassbender whose previous work includes 12 Years a Slave and X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Alien: Covenant director and producer, Ridley Scott, said he had worked with many creative talents from Australia over the years.
"Everyone has told me how great filming is there," he said..
"It has been a long-time goal for me to make a movie downunder, and I am extremely pleased that it.s finally happening. I am excited to work with the highly skilled local crews and artists, and I want to thank Deputy Premier Grant and Minister Roberts and the New South Wales Government for encouraging filmmaking in New South Wales.
Twentieth Century Fox executive vice president, Fred Baron, said it was the fourth film Twentieth Century Fox...
- 11/27/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
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
Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford and director James Vanderbilt have hit Sydney for the start of production on the “Rathergate” biopic Truth, which is scheduled for eight week shoot here over the Australian spring. Nsw arts minister Troy Grant said the film is expected to spend more than $9.6 million (Aus $11 million) in direct production expenditure in the state and create 208 jobs both in front of and behind the camera. The Nsw state government has provided incentives to Truth producers through its Nsw Trade & Investment's State Investment Attraction Scheme. In Truth, based on Mary Mapes’ memoir, Truth
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- 10/23/2014
- by Pip Bulbeck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace, Dennis Quaid and Elizabeth Moss lead the cast in Truth, a Us political drama now shooting in Sydney. The Nsw government confirmed its financial support via the State Investment Attraction Scheme and said the film would inject more than $11 million in direct production expenditure into the State's economy, creating 208 jobs. Most of the post will happen in Sydney.
Redford plays former CBS News anchor Dan Rather and Blanchett is his producer Mary Mapes in the tale of the scandal that ensued after Rather reported on 60 Minutes in 2004 that George W. Bush.s father arranged for him to serve in the National Guard to avoid the Vietnam War draft.
Subsequently CBS launched an investigation into whether the documents quoted in the story were forgeries and Mapes was fired for so-called lapses in judgment.
The film marks the directing debut of screenwriter James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man,...
Redford plays former CBS News anchor Dan Rather and Blanchett is his producer Mary Mapes in the tale of the scandal that ensued after Rather reported on 60 Minutes in 2004 that George W. Bush.s father arranged for him to serve in the National Guard to avoid the Vietnam War draft.
Subsequently CBS launched an investigation into whether the documents quoted in the story were forgeries and Mapes was fired for so-called lapses in judgment.
The film marks the directing debut of screenwriter James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man,...
- 10/23/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
French language film Two Days, One Night has taken out the Sydney Film Prize at the closing night gala held yesterday evening at the State Theatre in Sydney.
The film, directed by brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, stars Marion Cotillard as a woman who, with the help of her husband (Fabrizio Rongione) tries to convince her co-workers to forgo their yearly bonus so she may keep her job.
The film is a Belgian production with French and Italian co-producers.
It .has very well received critically and currently has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 92 per cent.
Other prize winners included Janine Hosking.s 35 Letters, which took out the Inaugural Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary, with a special mention going to Tender directed by Lynette Wallworth.
The Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films were also announced, with the Dendy Live Action Short Award going to I Want to Dance Better at Parties,...
The film, directed by brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, stars Marion Cotillard as a woman who, with the help of her husband (Fabrizio Rongione) tries to convince her co-workers to forgo their yearly bonus so she may keep her job.
The film is a Belgian production with French and Italian co-producers.
It .has very well received critically and currently has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 92 per cent.
Other prize winners included Janine Hosking.s 35 Letters, which took out the Inaugural Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary, with a special mention going to Tender directed by Lynette Wallworth.
The Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films were also announced, with the Dendy Live Action Short Award going to I Want to Dance Better at Parties,...
- 6/16/2014
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
French film Two Days, One Night has taken out the Sydney Film Prize at the closing night gala held yesterday evening at the State Theatre in Sydney.
The film, directed by brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, stars Marion Cotillard as a woman who, with the help of her husband (Fabrizio Rongione) tries to convince her co-workers to forgo their yearly bonus so she may keep her job.
The film has very well received critically and currently has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 92 per cent.
Other prize winners included Janine Hosking.s 35 Letters, which took out the Inaugural Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary, with a special mention going to Tender directed by Lynette Wallworth.
The Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films were also announced, with the Dendy Live Action Short Award going to I Want to Dance Better at Parties, directed and written by Matthew Bate and Gideon Obarzanek.
The film, directed by brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, stars Marion Cotillard as a woman who, with the help of her husband (Fabrizio Rongione) tries to convince her co-workers to forgo their yearly bonus so she may keep her job.
The film has very well received critically and currently has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 92 per cent.
Other prize winners included Janine Hosking.s 35 Letters, which took out the Inaugural Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary, with a special mention going to Tender directed by Lynette Wallworth.
The Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films were also announced, with the Dendy Live Action Short Award going to I Want to Dance Better at Parties, directed and written by Matthew Bate and Gideon Obarzanek.
- 6/16/2014
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
What would it be like if Don Michael Corleone’s career as an organized crime king became a complete failure? Instead of worrying about other rival mobs attempting to assassinate him, Corleone would worry more if he could even afford enough bullets to shoot back. And instead of saying that famous line his father taught him, he’d rather say, “keep your friends close…because at least you can ask them for money.” Well thanks to Streamy Award winning director Blake Calhoun, we’d get a good idea in seeing an organized crime family become unorganized in his latest “mobumentary” web series, 88 Hits, which launched on KoldCast TV this week. Documentary filmmaker Robert Brewer (played by David Wilk) follows the daily dysfunctions of family boss Paul Pascadelli (played by Paul Slavens), his nephew and under boss Tommy Pascadelli (played by Troy Grant), the main collector Franky Ford (played by none other than…...
- 5/6/2009
- by John Manalang
- Tubefilter.com
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