1. mother!Darren Aronofsky’s divisive nightmare boasted a number of very striking posters this year, including one that blatantly yet beautifully pastiched the iconic Gips/Frankfurt design for Rosemary’s Baby and another in which Jennifer Lawrence’s face is minutely cracked like a porcelain doll. But it is this first teaser poster for the film, by the extraordinary artist James Jean, that stands out for me not only as a surreally appropriate representation of Aronofsky’s uncompromising vision, but as the best movie poster of the year. Grotesque and gorgeous, and dotted with hidden clues, Jean’s looks more like a piece of devotional iconography than a poster for a horror movie. (There is also an accompanying poster by Jean which features Javier Bardem’s character.) Known for his covers for the DC comic book series Fables, Jean has been in high demand this year, creating the charcoal illustration...
- 12/11/2017
- MUBI
Attenberg Follies: Ostlund’s Meta Commentary Skewers Social Contrivances
Adding to a body of work which comically and obsessively examines the underbelly of human desires and exposing the superficiality of collective social mores, Ruben Ostlund hits a new zenith with the exceptionally funny, astutely layered The Square (not to be confused with Nash Edgerton’s 2008 neo noir).
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Adding to a body of work which comically and obsessively examines the underbelly of human desires and exposing the superficiality of collective social mores, Ruben Ostlund hits a new zenith with the exceptionally funny, astutely layered The Square (not to be confused with Nash Edgerton’s 2008 neo noir).
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- 10/27/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Odessa Young in 'High Life.'
Director Luke Eve.s web series High Life has been sold to Us streaming service Fullscreen.
It marks another Australian acquisition for Fullscreen, which also picked up The Katering Show.
High Life was written by Glen Dolman (Hawke, Mystery of a Hansom Cab), and produced by Eve (Low Life, Australian Summer) with Adam Dolman. British comedian and mental health advocate Stephen Fry was the executive producer with Gina Carter. It was backed by Screen Australia's multiplatform fund..
.The team and I are delighted that High Life has found a home with Fullscreen in the USA,. Eve said.
.Fullscreen is a perfect fit for the project and we are excited to get the word out about the series. They have been extremely supportive of myself, Glen Dolman and Adam Dolman as filmmakers and share our passion for telling engaging stories..
High Life is a...
Director Luke Eve.s web series High Life has been sold to Us streaming service Fullscreen.
It marks another Australian acquisition for Fullscreen, which also picked up The Katering Show.
High Life was written by Glen Dolman (Hawke, Mystery of a Hansom Cab), and produced by Eve (Low Life, Australian Summer) with Adam Dolman. British comedian and mental health advocate Stephen Fry was the executive producer with Gina Carter. It was backed by Screen Australia's multiplatform fund..
.The team and I are delighted that High Life has found a home with Fullscreen in the USA,. Eve said.
.Fullscreen is a perfect fit for the project and we are excited to get the word out about the series. They have been extremely supportive of myself, Glen Dolman and Adam Dolman as filmmakers and share our passion for telling engaging stories..
High Life is a...
- 5/24/2017
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Amazon Studios and Stx Films have announced Gringo is the official title for the Untitled Nash Edgerton Project.
Gringo will get a domestic release in theaters March 9, 2018.
Combining dark comedy with dramatic intrigue, Gringo joyrides across the border into Mexico, where all is not as it seems for mild-mannered American businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo). Crossing the line from citizen to criminal, Harold tangles with duplicitous business partners, Mexican drug lords, international mercenaries, and the DEA. As he attempts to survive in one of the most dangerous places on earth, the question lingers: is this ordinary man in way over his head, or is he two steps ahead?
Directed by Nash Edgerton, who made his feature length directorial debut with the acclaimed Australian thriller The Square, Gringo also stars Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried, Charlize Theron, Yul Vazquez, Thandie Newton, and Sharlto Copley.
Financed by Amazon Studios, the film is written...
Gringo will get a domestic release in theaters March 9, 2018.
Combining dark comedy with dramatic intrigue, Gringo joyrides across the border into Mexico, where all is not as it seems for mild-mannered American businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo). Crossing the line from citizen to criminal, Harold tangles with duplicitous business partners, Mexican drug lords, international mercenaries, and the DEA. As he attempts to survive in one of the most dangerous places on earth, the question lingers: is this ordinary man in way over his head, or is he two steps ahead?
Directed by Nash Edgerton, who made his feature length directorial debut with the acclaimed Australian thriller The Square, Gringo also stars Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried, Charlize Theron, Yul Vazquez, Thandie Newton, and Sharlto Copley.
Financed by Amazon Studios, the film is written...
- 5/21/2017
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: Paris Jackson is making her feature film debut in Amazon Studios’ Untitled Nash Edgerton Project. The daughter of Michael Jackson will portray Nelly, described only as “an edgy 20-year-old” in the dark comedy about a mild-mannered American businessman (David Oyelowo) who crosses a line from citizen to criminal. Directed by Nash Edgerton, who made his feature directorial debut with the acclaimed Aussie thriller The Square, the darkly comic thriller also stars…...
- 5/2/2017
- Deadline
Bree Sigsworth Pryce, Course Leader, Diplomas.
Bree Sigsworth Pryce began working at Aftrs in 2013 after a stint at Tafe. The education specialist has helped build a framework for the school.s new Diploma courses, designed to be less entry-level and more focused on practical skills than those offered previously.
The new diplomas (one semester) and advanced diplomas (two) are a direct response to the findings of the industry skills survey commissioned by the school and released last year..
Survey participants asked for .shorter courses that were very skills targeted,. says Sigsworth Pryce..
The diploma in camera fundamentals is gone, replaced by a diploma in camera. .The new one has a very specific focus on developing skills in the shooter-producer role...
The old editing diploma, an entry-level introduction to Avid and editing theory, has been replaced with a one designed to give students the brass-tacks skills to become working assistant editors.
Bree Sigsworth Pryce began working at Aftrs in 2013 after a stint at Tafe. The education specialist has helped build a framework for the school.s new Diploma courses, designed to be less entry-level and more focused on practical skills than those offered previously.
The new diplomas (one semester) and advanced diplomas (two) are a direct response to the findings of the industry skills survey commissioned by the school and released last year..
Survey participants asked for .shorter courses that were very skills targeted,. says Sigsworth Pryce..
The diploma in camera fundamentals is gone, replaced by a diploma in camera. .The new one has a very specific focus on developing skills in the shooter-producer role...
The old editing diploma, an entry-level introduction to Avid and editing theory, has been replaced with a one designed to give students the brass-tacks skills to become working assistant editors.
- 3/30/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Actor David Oyelowo has been impressing people with his skilled performances on stage and screen for quite a number of years, but his portrayal of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Ava Duvernay’s Selma certainly turned a lot more heads and made him much better known.
That increased popularity for his acting has helped Oyelowo get films like A United Kingdom made.
Directed by Amma Asante (Belle), Oyelowo plays Seretse Khama, the future king of the African nation of Botswana, who while attending college in England during the ‘40s, falls in love with Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike), a working class British woman, only for them to learn that their interracial love wouldn’t be accepted by either of their countries. On returning home to be inaugurated, the obstacles become clearer as Seretse’s regent uncle and various British politicos want to separate him from Ruth even after they’ve been married.
That increased popularity for his acting has helped Oyelowo get films like A United Kingdom made.
Directed by Amma Asante (Belle), Oyelowo plays Seretse Khama, the future king of the African nation of Botswana, who while attending college in England during the ‘40s, falls in love with Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike), a working class British woman, only for them to learn that their interracial love wouldn’t be accepted by either of their countries. On returning home to be inaugurated, the obstacles become clearer as Seretse’s regent uncle and various British politicos want to separate him from Ruth even after they’ve been married.
- 2/7/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Xenia Goodwin.
StudioCanal has dated Dance Academy: The Movie.
The film, directed by Jeffrey Walker and starring Xenia Goodwin, Keiynan Lonsdale, Jordan Rodrigues, Dena Kaplan, Thomas Lacey, Alicia Banit and Tara Morice, will hit Australian cinemas on March 23, 2017.
International sales are being handled by Zdf Enterprises Germany.
The show was created by writer Samantha Strauss (Mary: The Making of a Princess) with producer Joanna Werner (Secret City, Ready For This).
The film.s Ep's are Louise Smith (The Square, The Rage in Placid Lake), Bernadette O.Mahony (Worst Year of My Life Again, Mortified), Vicki O.Neil, Arne Lohmann and Nicole Keebe.
Dop Martin McGrath Acs (Muriel.s Wedding), who shot all 65 episodes of the show.s three seasons, is lensing the feature..
Also on board is production designer Chris Kennedy (The Water Diviner, The Proposition, Cosi), costume designer Tess Schofield (The Water Diviner, The Sapphires, Bootmen), hair and...
StudioCanal has dated Dance Academy: The Movie.
The film, directed by Jeffrey Walker and starring Xenia Goodwin, Keiynan Lonsdale, Jordan Rodrigues, Dena Kaplan, Thomas Lacey, Alicia Banit and Tara Morice, will hit Australian cinemas on March 23, 2017.
International sales are being handled by Zdf Enterprises Germany.
The show was created by writer Samantha Strauss (Mary: The Making of a Princess) with producer Joanna Werner (Secret City, Ready For This).
The film.s Ep's are Louise Smith (The Square, The Rage in Placid Lake), Bernadette O.Mahony (Worst Year of My Life Again, Mortified), Vicki O.Neil, Arne Lohmann and Nicole Keebe.
Dop Martin McGrath Acs (Muriel.s Wedding), who shot all 65 episodes of the show.s three seasons, is lensing the feature..
Also on board is production designer Chris Kennedy (The Water Diviner, The Proposition, Cosi), costume designer Tess Schofield (The Water Diviner, The Sapphires, Bootmen), hair and...
- 6/28/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Xenia Goodwin on the set of Dance Academy: The Movie.
Dance Academy: The Movie has begun shooting in Sydney, almost six years to the day since the premiere of Dance Academy season one in 2010.
The series began with country girl Tara Webster (Xenia Goodwin) travelling to Sydney to audition for a place at the National Academy of Dance, the top ballet school in Australia..
Returning alongside Goodwin in the feature film is Dena Kaplan, Alicia Banit, Thomas Lacey (Winners and Losers), Jordan Rodrigues (The Fosters), Keiynan Lonsdale (Insurgent) and Strictly Ballroom's Tara Morice.
The show was created by writer Samantha Strauss (Mary: The Making of a Princess) with producer Joanna Werner (Secret City, Ready For This).
The film.s Ep's are Louise Smith (The Square, The Rage in Placid Lake), Bernadette O.Mahony (Worst Year of My Life Again, Mortified), Vicki O.Neil, Arne Lohmann and Nicole Keebe,...
Dance Academy: The Movie has begun shooting in Sydney, almost six years to the day since the premiere of Dance Academy season one in 2010.
The series began with country girl Tara Webster (Xenia Goodwin) travelling to Sydney to audition for a place at the National Academy of Dance, the top ballet school in Australia..
Returning alongside Goodwin in the feature film is Dena Kaplan, Alicia Banit, Thomas Lacey (Winners and Losers), Jordan Rodrigues (The Fosters), Keiynan Lonsdale (Insurgent) and Strictly Ballroom's Tara Morice.
The show was created by writer Samantha Strauss (Mary: The Making of a Princess) with producer Joanna Werner (Secret City, Ready For This).
The film.s Ep's are Louise Smith (The Square, The Rage in Placid Lake), Bernadette O.Mahony (Worst Year of My Life Again, Mortified), Vicki O.Neil, Arne Lohmann and Nicole Keebe,...
- 5/30/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Amazon and Stx Entertainment have teamed up on world rights to Nash Edgerton’s all-star action comedy that Stx is introducing to international buyers in Cannes.
David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron, Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried, Thandie Newton, Yul Vazquez and Sharlto Copley are shooting the film in Mexico City.
Nash Edgerton’s Untitled Film centres on a newly married executive with a stake in a pharmaceutical company about to go public, whose life is abruptly thrown into disarray.
When he becomes stranded south of the border as a wanted man, the mild-mannered businessman realises that his aspirational life was not all that it seemed.
Anthony Tambakis and Matt Stone wrote the screenplay and Amazon Studios produces with Nash Edgerton, Rebecca Yeldham, Tambakis, A.J. Dix, Beth Kono. Trish Hoffman is the executive producer.
Edgerton previously directed Australian thriller The Square and short films Spider and Bear.
David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron, Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried, Thandie Newton, Yul Vazquez and Sharlto Copley are shooting the film in Mexico City.
Nash Edgerton’s Untitled Film centres on a newly married executive with a stake in a pharmaceutical company about to go public, whose life is abruptly thrown into disarray.
When he becomes stranded south of the border as a wanted man, the mild-mannered businessman realises that his aspirational life was not all that it seemed.
Anthony Tambakis and Matt Stone wrote the screenplay and Amazon Studios produces with Nash Edgerton, Rebecca Yeldham, Tambakis, A.J. Dix, Beth Kono. Trish Hoffman is the executive producer.
Edgerton previously directed Australian thriller The Square and short films Spider and Bear.
- 5/11/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Following his acclaimed 2008 thriller "The Square," stuntman turned actor and filmmaker Nash Edgerton has begun shooting his currently untitled second feature (previously called "American Express") for Amazon Studios.
Edgerton has enlisted an impressive cast including Charlize Theron, David Oyelowo, Amanda Seyfried, Thandie Newton and his brother Joel Edgerton for the dark kidnap comedy-drama which is filming in Chicago and Mexico City.
The dark kidnap comedy-drama is co-written by Matthew Stone ("Intolerable Cruelty") and Anthony Tambakis ("Warrior"), but plot details are currently under wraps.
Source: The Australian...
Edgerton has enlisted an impressive cast including Charlize Theron, David Oyelowo, Amanda Seyfried, Thandie Newton and his brother Joel Edgerton for the dark kidnap comedy-drama which is filming in Chicago and Mexico City.
The dark kidnap comedy-drama is co-written by Matthew Stone ("Intolerable Cruelty") and Anthony Tambakis ("Warrior"), but plot details are currently under wraps.
Source: The Australian...
- 3/16/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
One of the best surprises of 2015 thus far has been Joel Edgerton’s directorial debut, The Gift. The increasingly prolific actor somehow managed to churn out this effective thriller amidst a variety of other projects. Newly created distributor Stx Entertainment, born to revitalize the nearly non-existent medium budget studio flick, hit their first release out of the park. Budgeted at five million, Edgerton’s film went on to net nearly sixty million worldwide. But the success of the film is due to Edgerton’s simple yet superb play on audience expectations while utilizing a topical ripped-from-the-headlines social issue.
A throwback to the R rated adult themed items from the late 80s and early 90s, recalling any number of home invasion, interloper thrillers from Fatal Attraction to The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Edgerton plays with familiar dynamics and expectations to create a cautionary karmic tale equally rooted in topical issues.
A throwback to the R rated adult themed items from the late 80s and early 90s, recalling any number of home invasion, interloper thrillers from Fatal Attraction to The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Edgerton plays with familiar dynamics and expectations to create a cautionary karmic tale equally rooted in topical issues.
- 11/3/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Psychological thrillers had their heyday in the 90’s with films like Fatal Attraction, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and plenty of others. What was interesting was their core viewing audience were women. Typically, the films would revolve around an affair or have some sort of sexual context that would give just enough gossipy sleaze to middle America. Earlier this year, you may remember a film being released that seemed like it was somehow transported from the 90’s called The Boy Next Door, another Blumhouse joint like The Gift, starring Jennifer Lopez. If you already forgot about it, Jenny from the Block is a high school teacher who is seduced by a high school student and then the student’s obsession turns nasty. While I haven’t seen the film, this film seems to use the knowledge that people have of true life stories they have seen or heard of...
- 8/7/2015
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Keep on Giving: Edgerton’s Debut a Surprisingly Adept Thriller
Actor Joel Edgerton makes his feature directorial debut with The Gift, an intelligent, enjoyably entertaining thriller arriving just like the eponymous item it’s named for, especially considering the lowly regarded timeframe of its premiere and a horrendously miscalculated theatrical trailer. A throwback to the R rated adult themed items from the late 80s and early 90s, recalling any number of home invasion, interloper thrillers from Fatal Attraction to The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Edgerton plays with familiar dynamics and expectations to create a cautionary karmic tale equally rooted in topical issues. Strong characterizations and a trio of compelling performances makes this one of the most pleasantly startling mainstream oriented thrillers to come along in quite some time, and delivers an emotional resonance absent from Edgerton’s previous screenplays for Australian neo-noirs The Square (directed by his brother, Nash Edgerton...
Actor Joel Edgerton makes his feature directorial debut with The Gift, an intelligent, enjoyably entertaining thriller arriving just like the eponymous item it’s named for, especially considering the lowly regarded timeframe of its premiere and a horrendously miscalculated theatrical trailer. A throwback to the R rated adult themed items from the late 80s and early 90s, recalling any number of home invasion, interloper thrillers from Fatal Attraction to The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Edgerton plays with familiar dynamics and expectations to create a cautionary karmic tale equally rooted in topical issues. Strong characterizations and a trio of compelling performances makes this one of the most pleasantly startling mainstream oriented thrillers to come along in quite some time, and delivers an emotional resonance absent from Edgerton’s previous screenplays for Australian neo-noirs The Square (directed by his brother, Nash Edgerton...
- 8/6/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Universal Pictures has secured the international distribution rights to Eponine Films’ Australian feature Love Is Now. The Aussie pic stars Eamon Farren (Red Dog), Claire Van Der Boom (The Square, Hawaii Five-0) and Anna Torv (The Secret Life Of Us, Fringe) and will be released Down Under on December 4 via Oz distrib Hoyts. The story chronicles a summer of love for experienced photographer Audrey (Van Der Boom) and aspiring snapper Dean (Farren). Propelled by new love and Audrey’s free spirit, the couple embarks on a formative country adventure following the Nsw Harvest Trail, where they discover significantly more than they ever expected along the way. The film is written and directed by first time feature director Jim Lounsbury.
The BBC reports that season 8 of Doctor Who, which recently wrapped, had an average consolidated audience of 7.4M viewers every week in the UK. That marks an increase of 39% above overnight figures.
The BBC reports that season 8 of Doctor Who, which recently wrapped, had an average consolidated audience of 7.4M viewers every week in the UK. That marks an increase of 39% above overnight figures.
- 11/19/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
A full year after debuting at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, the Australian thriller Felony is poised to hit theaters in the United States this fall. Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby, Animal Kingdom) wrote the film and stars in the story of a detective trying to hide a drunk driving accident after celebrating a major drug bust earlier in the day. One of his colleagues (Tom Wilkinson) tries to cover up the truth while another (Jai Coutney) is intent on finding out what really happened. This doesn't look half-bad, and Jai Courtney actually seems like a decent actor when he's using his native Australian accent. Watch the trailer! Here's the Us trailer for Matthew Saville's Felony from YouTube: Watch the much different trailer for the release of Felony in Australia right here. Felony is directed by Australian filmmaker Matthew Saville, from a screenplay written by actor/producer Joel Edgerton,...
- 9/5/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Octavia Spencer (The Help) has joined the cast of Insurgent, the sequel to Divergent and second of four planned films based on the Veronica Roth novels. Spencer will play Johanna, the leader of the Amity faction as she joins Shailene Woodley, Theo James and Kate Winslet, all of which are returning for the film, which will be directed by Robert Schwentke and released March 20, 2015. Deadline Nash Edgerton, brother of Joel Edgerton, and director of numerous great shorts and the 2008 film The Square, is set to direct American Express for Annapurna with Charlize Theron set to star. Plot details have not been released. Alec Baldwin has joined Warren Beatty's untitled Howard Hughes project, which is currently filming. Baldwin will play the reclusive billionaire's lawyer, Bob Maheu. The film centers on the love story between Hughes' assistant (Alden Ehrenreich) and an actress played by Lily Collins. Beatty plays Hughes with Martin Sheen,...
- 5/12/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Stuntman and sometimes actor Nash Edgerton (yep, brother of Joel Edgerton and part of the Blue Tongue Films collective) has earned the most acclaim for his directorial efforts, fare such as 2008's "The Square" or the recent short "Bear." And now he's lining up a project that could see him getting his biggest profile yet. Charlize Theron has signed up to produce and star in the director's "American Express." Even more, Megan Ellison's Annapurna International is handling the international sales for the picture at Cannes, where financing is being sought. Oh, what's it about? Your guess is as good as ours as plot details are under wraps, so we'll just have to wait and see. Moving from indie fare to blockbuster material, Octavia Spencer has joined the cast of "Insurgent." Yep, "Divergent" has created a new bonafide Ya series, with Shailene Woodley returning as Tris to a dystopian Chicago,...
- 5/12/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Untitled Howard Hughes Project
Alec Baldwin is set to join Warren Beatty's untitled Howard Hughes project, portraying his lawyer Bob Mayhew. Martin Sheen, Matthew Broderick, Annette Bening, Alden Ehrenreich and Lily Collins which deals with a love story between Hughes' young assistant (Ehrenreich) and a woman he is seeing (Collins). [Source: Deadline]
American Express
Charlize Theron is in talks to both star in and produce the indie movie "American Express" which Nash Edgerton ("The Square") will direct. Story details are being kept under wraps. [Source: The Wrap]
Sand Castles
Toby Kebbell ("Fantastic Four," "The Escape Artist") will join Nicholas Hoult in Seb Edwards' Iraq war drama "Sand Castle" for Umedia. Shooting kicks off in October in South Africa and Italy.
Iraq war veteran Chris Roessner penned the script is based on real events experienced by a platoon (led by Kebbell's character) sent to repair an aqueduct in the dangerous and remote village of Baqubah,...
Alec Baldwin is set to join Warren Beatty's untitled Howard Hughes project, portraying his lawyer Bob Mayhew. Martin Sheen, Matthew Broderick, Annette Bening, Alden Ehrenreich and Lily Collins which deals with a love story between Hughes' young assistant (Ehrenreich) and a woman he is seeing (Collins). [Source: Deadline]
American Express
Charlize Theron is in talks to both star in and produce the indie movie "American Express" which Nash Edgerton ("The Square") will direct. Story details are being kept under wraps. [Source: The Wrap]
Sand Castles
Toby Kebbell ("Fantastic Four," "The Escape Artist") will join Nicholas Hoult in Seb Edwards' Iraq war drama "Sand Castle" for Umedia. Shooting kicks off in October in South Africa and Italy.
Iraq war veteran Chris Roessner penned the script is based on real events experienced by a platoon (led by Kebbell's character) sent to repair an aqueduct in the dangerous and remote village of Baqubah,...
- 5/11/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Oscar winner Charlize Theron is in talks to star in and produce the indie movie “American Express,” which will be directed by Nash Edgerton (“The Square”), TheWrap has learned. Theron will produce through her Denver & Delilah banner, which has been quite active of late, most recently optioning Susannah Cahalan's bestselling book Brain On Fire: My Month Of Madness” as a star vehicle for Dakota Fanning. See video: Charlize Theron's Death Is on Aidy Bryant's Mind in ‘SNL’ Promos Plot details are being kept under wraps, though the filmmakers will be at Cannes seeking financing. Theron, who...
- 5/9/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Vanity Fair interviews director John Hillcoat (Lawless, The Road) on his controversial Superbowl ad for Coke. I personally loved it. The right-wingers hate its reminder of America as melting pot.
NPR Jehane Noujaim's The Square, nominated for Best Documentary, is having trouble getting screened at home in Egypt
Theater Mania interviews the great Charles Busch (Die Mommy, Die!) about his career and new play "The Tribute Artist" in which he does impressions of Marilyn, Bette Davis, and Katharine Hepburn among others. (I met Mr Busch at the anniversary Cabaret screening last year and he was so sweet)
Gothamist Alfonso Cuarón's Oscar campaign hits Lincoln Center soon for screenings and discussions of Children of Men and Gravity here in NYC. Ah c'mon Lincoln Center. Throw in Y Tu Mama Tambíen (still his best picture) and we'll totally be talking!
Pajiba on the whitewashing of Egyptian mythology on screen. Why not cast people of color.
NPR Jehane Noujaim's The Square, nominated for Best Documentary, is having trouble getting screened at home in Egypt
Theater Mania interviews the great Charles Busch (Die Mommy, Die!) about his career and new play "The Tribute Artist" in which he does impressions of Marilyn, Bette Davis, and Katharine Hepburn among others. (I met Mr Busch at the anniversary Cabaret screening last year and he was so sweet)
Gothamist Alfonso Cuarón's Oscar campaign hits Lincoln Center soon for screenings and discussions of Children of Men and Gravity here in NYC. Ah c'mon Lincoln Center. Throw in Y Tu Mama Tambíen (still his best picture) and we'll totally be talking!
Pajiba on the whitewashing of Egyptian mythology on screen. Why not cast people of color.
- 2/5/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Steve Le Marquand, Steve Bisley and Claire van der Boom are attached to star in Broke, an indie drama which deals with the topical issue of gambling in the Nrl world.
It.s the debut feature of writer-director Heath Davis, who cut his teeth on the short films Bee Sting, Bella, Spoon Man and Rabbit, and The Jezabels Live at the Hordern DVD.
The producer is Luke Graham, who collaborated with Davis on those shorts, with Jonathan Page (the executive producer of The Babadook, 100 Bloody Acres and Max and Mary) as Ep.
They aim to raise $55,000 via crowd funding site Indiegogo; the campaign launches next week. Davis says that money will match contributions from him, Graham and several private investors.
There is an altruistic angle: After the cast and skeleton crew have recouped their deferred fees, the profits will go to the Men of League Foundation, which was founded by...
It.s the debut feature of writer-director Heath Davis, who cut his teeth on the short films Bee Sting, Bella, Spoon Man and Rabbit, and The Jezabels Live at the Hordern DVD.
The producer is Luke Graham, who collaborated with Davis on those shorts, with Jonathan Page (the executive producer of The Babadook, 100 Bloody Acres and Max and Mary) as Ep.
They aim to raise $55,000 via crowd funding site Indiegogo; the campaign launches next week. Davis says that money will match contributions from him, Graham and several private investors.
There is an altruistic angle: After the cast and skeleton crew have recouped their deferred fees, the profits will go to the Men of League Foundation, which was founded by...
- 1/8/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Claire van der Boom. Photo credit: David Cook..
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When Claire van der Boom auditioned for the role of a younger version of Diane Keaton.s character in the Us movie Life Itself, the director told her she was the only one who didn.t try to impersonate Keaton as Annie Hall in the classic Woody Allen movie.
That was the clincher and the Los Angeles-based Australian actress started shooting the film directed by Englishman Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon, My One and Only) in New York last week.
Adapted from Jill Ciment.s novel Heroic Measures, the film stars Keaton and Morgan Freeman as Ruth and Alex, a couple whose life is disrupted when the East Village apartment where they lived for 40 years is put up for sale, a bidding war ensues and Manhattan falls under a terrorism threat.
Claire plays Ruth as she meets Alex, an artist, when she models for his paintings.
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When Claire van der Boom auditioned for the role of a younger version of Diane Keaton.s character in the Us movie Life Itself, the director told her she was the only one who didn.t try to impersonate Keaton as Annie Hall in the classic Woody Allen movie.
That was the clincher and the Los Angeles-based Australian actress started shooting the film directed by Englishman Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon, My One and Only) in New York last week.
Adapted from Jill Ciment.s novel Heroic Measures, the film stars Keaton and Morgan Freeman as Ruth and Alex, a couple whose life is disrupted when the East Village apartment where they lived for 40 years is put up for sale, a bidding war ensues and Manhattan falls under a terrorism threat.
Claire plays Ruth as she meets Alex, an artist, when she models for his paintings.
- 10/8/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Joel Edgerton has become one of the most in-demand actors in Hollywood through a series of awesome supporting and leading performances, so now the question is just what will the Australian actor do next? Well, he’s got at least five films lined up for release between now and 2014, but perhaps most exciting is his directorial debut Weirdo. We previously didn’t have much in the way of details other than the fact Edgerton is directing, but in a recent interview he revealed some information on the plot for the film, which he also wrote.
Edgerton is at Tiff currently for the premiere of Felony, which he wrote and stars in. While there, he was asked about his upcoming film and his answers gave a fair bit of interesting information about the plot.
Check out what he had to say below.
“It’s about a guy who is forced to...
Edgerton is at Tiff currently for the premiere of Felony, which he wrote and stars in. While there, he was asked about his upcoming film and his answers gave a fair bit of interesting information about the plot.
Check out what he had to say below.
“It’s about a guy who is forced to...
- 9/11/2013
- by Alexander Lowe
- We Got This Covered
Actor Joel Edgerton has had a hand in some action behind the camera as producer of his brother Nash Edgerton's film The Square, not to mention some other films from his Blue-Tongue Films cohorts David Michôd (Animal Kingdom), Kieran Darcy-Smith, Luke Doolan, Spencer Susser and Mirrah Foulkes. But now the star of Zero Dark Thirty, The Great Gatsby and Warrior will sit in the director's chair for the first time with a project called Weirdo that he also wrote. Edgerton will also take a supporting role in the film which the actor discussed with ScreenDaily at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. More below! Edgerton says, "It’s about a guy who is forced to face the past when it comes back in the form of an old school friend. But he continually lies about it (the past) and it haunts him in a bad bad way.” It's a smaller film,...
- 9/9/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Outside a busy acting career, Joel Edgerton has long been established as a writer, contributing scripts to the likes of The Square, Felony and The Rover. Now he’s ready to add director to his CV, gearing up to make Weirdo in the Us next year.“It’s about a guy who is forced to face the past when it comes back in the form of an old school friend,” Edgerton tells Screen Daily. “But he continually lies about it and it haunts him in a bad, bad way.”He’s written the script already, and explains that he’s trying to make it as easy as possible for him to shoot. “Weirdo is a very contained film: five or six locations and six characters. We have people interested in financing subject to casting and we’re playing that game now. I’ll play a supporting role and I will bring the post home.
- 9/9/2013
- EmpireOnline
Exclusive: Weirdo to be produced by Australia-born, Us-based Rebecca Yeldham.
Sydney-based actor/writer Joel Edgerton and Australian-born Us-based producer Rebecca Yeldham are planning to make Edgerton’s directorial debut Weirdo in California next year.
“It’s about a guy who is forced to face the past when it comes back in the form of an old school friend,” Edgerton, who also wrote the script, told Screen. “But he continually lies about it (the past) and it haunts him in a bad bad way.”
“Weirdo is a very contained film: five or six locations and six characters,” he said, explaining why it is an ideal first feature for him as director. “We have people interested in financing subject to casting and we’re playing that game now … I’ll play a supporting role and I will bring the post home.”
Edgerton was talking on the eve of the Toronto International Film Festival, which tomorrow...
Sydney-based actor/writer Joel Edgerton and Australian-born Us-based producer Rebecca Yeldham are planning to make Edgerton’s directorial debut Weirdo in California next year.
“It’s about a guy who is forced to face the past when it comes back in the form of an old school friend,” Edgerton, who also wrote the script, told Screen. “But he continually lies about it (the past) and it haunts him in a bad bad way.”
“Weirdo is a very contained film: five or six locations and six characters,” he said, explaining why it is an ideal first feature for him as director. “We have people interested in financing subject to casting and we’re playing that game now … I’ll play a supporting role and I will bring the post home.”
Edgerton was talking on the eve of the Toronto International Film Festival, which tomorrow...
- 9/9/2013
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Weirdo to be produced by Australia-born, Us-based Rebecca Yeldham.
Sydney-based actor/writer Joel Edgerton and Australian-born Us-based producer Rebecca Yeldham are planning to make Edgerton’s directorial debut Weirdo in California next year.
“It’s about a guy who is forced to face the past when it comes back in the form of an old school friend,” Edgerton, who also wrote the script, told Screen. “But he continually lies about it (the past) and it haunts him in a bad bad way.”
“Weirdo is a very contained film: five or six locations and six characters,” he said, explaining why it is an ideal first feature for him as director. “We have people interested in financing subject to casting and we’re playing that game now … I’ll play a supporting role and I will bring the post home.”
Edgerton was talking on the eve of the Toronto International Film Festival, which tomorrow...
Sydney-based actor/writer Joel Edgerton and Australian-born Us-based producer Rebecca Yeldham are planning to make Edgerton’s directorial debut Weirdo in California next year.
“It’s about a guy who is forced to face the past when it comes back in the form of an old school friend,” Edgerton, who also wrote the script, told Screen. “But he continually lies about it (the past) and it haunts him in a bad bad way.”
“Weirdo is a very contained film: five or six locations and six characters,” he said, explaining why it is an ideal first feature for him as director. “We have people interested in financing subject to casting and we’re playing that game now … I’ll play a supporting role and I will bring the post home.”
Edgerton was talking on the eve of the Toronto International Film Festival, which tomorrow...
- 9/9/2013
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Blue-Tongue Films’ name appears before such films as Animal Kingdom, Hesher, The Square and Kieran Darcy-Smith’s Wish You Were Here, released this week by eONE Films, but it’s not a production company. Rather, Blue-Tongue Films calls itself a “production collective,” with its members including one American and seven Australian filmmakers. It started in 1996 when a grainy black-and-white five-minute film introduced them to no one in particular, certainly not the world. Nash Edgerton was working as a stuntman — or at least trying to. The group’s first short film, Loaded, started as a chase sequence meant to be a show …...
- 6/7/2013
- by Keith BieryGolick
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
On the sun-kissed coast of Cambodia, four young Australians party, explore and kick back and relax, soaking up the sun during the day, and sweating it out at night. But this idyllic backdrop holds something far more sinister in store and when only three of the four return home, so begins a mystery crossing national borders, and poised to fundamentally change the lives of everyone involved. So begins "Wish You Were Here," a lean thriller from director Kieran-Darcy Smith, from a script he co-wrote with one of the film's stars (and his wife), Felicity Price, in a picture that features two of Australia's hottest exports at the moment, Joel Edgerton and Teresa Palmer. And it's the actress we caught up with on the phone last week to talk about the movie, made under the Blue Tongue Films banner, a production house of like-minded collaborators that has put its stamp on movies like "Animal Kingdom,...
- 6/5/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Australia has been mighty kind over the last couple of years to audiences who enjoy a good character-based thriller. Films that Twitch has taken a liking to which fall under this category include The Square, Snowtown, and, of course, the much lauded Animal Kingdom. While never getting a full review here on the site, James Marsh and Ryland Aldrich did have good things to say about Kieran Darcy-Smith's Asian-vacation-gone-wrong Wish You Were Here during its festival run, making particular note of the performances by Joel Edgerton, Felicity Price, and Teresa Palmer. As more than luck would have it, we've got ten double passes to give away to a June 4th screening of the movie in New York City. If you'd like a chance to win...
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- 5/28/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Sure, The Great Gatsby stars the walking meme, Leonardo DiCaprio, and his buddy Tobey Maguire but there is a third guy you should really get to know: Joel Edgerton. Trust me on this. He’s sure to be the breakout star of this film, which hits theaters this weekend.
1) In The Great Gatsby, Joel plays Tom Buchanan, husband of Daisy and the film’s main villain.
2) He also rocks some serious jodhpurs.
3) In the film, he’s reunited with Jason Clarke, who was Joel’s co-star in Zero Dark Thirty.
4) Like his director, Baz Luhrmann, Joel is a fellow Aussie. (He was born in Blacktown, a suburb of Sydney. The director was also born in Sydney.)
5) In addition to acting, Joel is also a screenwriter. He wrote the neo thriller, The Square and another film called The Pitch.
1) In The Great Gatsby, Joel plays Tom Buchanan, husband of Daisy and the film’s main villain.
2) He also rocks some serious jodhpurs.
3) In the film, he’s reunited with Jason Clarke, who was Joel’s co-star in Zero Dark Thirty.
4) Like his director, Baz Luhrmann, Joel is a fellow Aussie. (He was born in Blacktown, a suburb of Sydney. The director was also born in Sydney.)
5) In addition to acting, Joel is also a screenwriter. He wrote the neo thriller, The Square and another film called The Pitch.
- 5/9/2013
- by Stacy Lambe
- TheFabLife - Movies
Australian film collective Blue-Tongue Films has given rise to some pretty serious film talents over the last decade such as "Animal Kingdom"'s David Michod and "Hesher"'s Spencer Susser, as well as giving on screen talent like brothers Joel and Nash Edgerton (who also directed "The Square") and Mia Wasikowska their breakthrough roles. Apparently there's even more talent to be mined from Blue-Tongue, as the trailer from the collective's newest feature, the Sundance thriller "Wish You Were Here" showcases a promising start from first-time feature director Kieran Darcy-Smith. The film starts Joel Edgerton and rising star Teresa Palmer (who starred in Nash's short "Bear" earlier this year) as half of a quartet of friends whose Cambodian vacation takes a dark turn. The film earned a slew of awards from its native Australian Film Institute and opens stateside on June 7th from distributor Entertainment One. You can check out the...
- 3/28/2013
- by Mark Lukenbill
- Indiewire
A couple weeks back we showed you Bear, Nash Edgerton's awesome short film sequel to his mega successful festival gem Spider (there's a third one to be made allegedly) and now we have the making-of video which reveals the tricks and easter-eggs in the short.Check it out below. If you haven't seen Bear, watch that below first!If you like what you see, be sure to check out Nash's noir-crime feature The Square too....
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- 3/20/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Brisbane-based post-production company Cutting Edge has hired Felix Crawshaw and Simone Clow.
Executive producer longform Crawshaw was previously at Fuel VFX while VFX producer Clow most recently worked in a full-time capacity at Iloura.
Cutting Edge chief executive Michael Burton said that experienced and passionate producers were essential to deliver best-in-class creative.
.These appointments also reflect our expansion in both shortform and longform,. he said in a statement. .In both formats we are busy and we are committed. In shortform we.re delivering outstanding creative; in longform we are carving a niche as one of the best boutique, high end VFX shops in the country..
Crawshaw was part of the team which delivered groundbreaking stereoscopic FX shots on Ridley Scott.s epic sci-fi feature Prometheus while at Fuel VFX. His credits include Captain America . The First Avenger, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Spirit, Charlotte's Web, Australia,...
Executive producer longform Crawshaw was previously at Fuel VFX while VFX producer Clow most recently worked in a full-time capacity at Iloura.
Cutting Edge chief executive Michael Burton said that experienced and passionate producers were essential to deliver best-in-class creative.
.These appointments also reflect our expansion in both shortform and longform,. he said in a statement. .In both formats we are busy and we are committed. In shortform we.re delivering outstanding creative; in longform we are carving a niche as one of the best boutique, high end VFX shops in the country..
Crawshaw was part of the team which delivered groundbreaking stereoscopic FX shots on Ridley Scott.s epic sci-fi feature Prometheus while at Fuel VFX. His credits include Captain America . The First Avenger, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Spirit, Charlotte's Web, Australia,...
- 2/26/2013
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
If you haven't seen Nash Edgerton's short films before you're in for a treat as Vice has finally brought online Edgerton's latest short film Bear. The film serves as something of a sequel to his previous short, Spider, which we co-wrote with Animal Kingdom writer/director David Michod (who co-wrote this one as well, and was released in front of Edgerton's 2010 feature directorial debut The Square. In fact, back in 2010 I posted all of Edgerton's short films up to that point (eight in total) and they are all still available and online right here, but before you had over there (and trust me after watching the following two short films you're going to want to) check out both Spider and Bear below. Bear stars Edgerton along with Warm Bodies star Teresa Palmer and if I may make a suggestion, watch Spider first, it will help make the opening line to Bear that much funnier.
- 2/4/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Here is a complete listing of the films that were shown/covered by the Ioncinema.com team comprised of Nicholas Bell (Nb), Jordan M. Smith (Js) and Eric Lavallee (El). We’ll be populating this page up until March.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Afternoon Delight – Jill Soloway: Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Ain’T Them Bodies Saints – David Lowery: El (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review // Interview
Austenland- Jerusha Hess: Nb (★): Review
C.O.G.- Kyle Patrick Alvarez: Js (★★ 1/2), Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Concussion – Stacie Passon: El (★★★), Js (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★): Review // Interview
Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes – Francesca Gregorini: Js (★★★), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review
Fruitvale – Ryan Coogler: El (★★★), Js (★★★★★), Nb (★★★★): Review // Interview // Video
In A World… – Lake Bell: El (★★★): Review
Kill Your Darlings – John Krokidas: El (★★★), Nb (★★★): Review
The Lifeguard – Liz W. Garcia: El (★★ 1/2): Review
May In The Summer...
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Afternoon Delight – Jill Soloway: Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Ain’T Them Bodies Saints – David Lowery: El (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review // Interview
Austenland- Jerusha Hess: Nb (★): Review
C.O.G.- Kyle Patrick Alvarez: Js (★★ 1/2), Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Concussion – Stacie Passon: El (★★★), Js (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★): Review // Interview
Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes – Francesca Gregorini: Js (★★★), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review
Fruitvale – Ryan Coogler: El (★★★), Js (★★★★★), Nb (★★★★): Review // Interview // Video
In A World… – Lake Bell: El (★★★): Review
Kill Your Darlings – John Krokidas: El (★★★), Nb (★★★): Review
The Lifeguard – Liz W. Garcia: El (★★ 1/2): Review
May In The Summer...
- 1/29/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
If you're into short films, you need the Blue-Tongue Films collective in your life. Consisting of Nash Edgerton (The Square co-writer/director; stuntman pundit), Spencer Susser (Hesher writer/director), Joel Edgerton (Warrior, Animal Kingdom, Zero Dark Thirty actor), Luke Doolan, Kieran Darcy-Smith (Wish You Were Here co-writer/director), David Michôd (Animal Kingdom writer/director), and Mirrah Foulkes, these folks have paved their way in the short film world with perhaps the most innovative films in the last decade. These guys are responsible for cult hits Spider, I Love Sarah Jane, Lucky, Bear, and a lot more. You can watch all of them over on their official website. Co-directors Nash and Spencer teamed up with Taika Waititi (Eagle vs Shark writer/director) for their latest short, The Captain. It's about a pilot...
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- 1/24/2013
- Screen Anarchy
1.) Joel Edgerton is in talks to join Natalie Portman and Michael Fassbender in Jane Got A Gun. The Western from director Lynne Ramsey (We Need to Talk About Kevin) centers on a woman who reaches out for a former lover (Fassbender) to save her husband from a violent gang. Edgerton would play the leader of said gang. If you're unfamiliar with Hollywood's next big hunky Australian leading man (following the likes of Russell Crowe, Eric Bana and Hugh Jackman) to this point, prepare to get to know him very soon as he stars in both Zero Dark Thirty and The Great Gatsby. Until then, catch up with his work in Warrior and the Aussie crime films The Square and Animal Kingdom. Deadline 2.) Michelle Williams is in line to star in Fox Searchlight's remake of the Italian thriller The Double Hour. Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) is directing the film,...
- 12/12/2012
- by Kevin Blumeyer
- Rope of Silicon
Cameras have begun rolling on Felony, the new film written by Joel Edgerton and directed by Matthew Saville, director of Noise and Cloudstreet.
Filming began yesterday in Sydney with key cast; Edgerton, Tom Wilkinson, Melissa George and Jai Courtney and will continue until late December.
The film is produced by Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight, Edgerton for Blue-Tongue Films and Michael Benaroya for Benaroya Pictures.
The story follows three detectives who are faced with a tense struggle following a tragic accident that sees one detective put a child in hospital. One cop is guilty, one will try to cover it up while the third will attempt to expose it.
As well as Edgerton’s success as an actor, he previously co-wrote The Square, directed by brother Nash Edgerton, among other shorts.
Blight said: “With director Matt Saville and my producer partners Joel and Michael, we’ve assembled a stunning international cast...
Filming began yesterday in Sydney with key cast; Edgerton, Tom Wilkinson, Melissa George and Jai Courtney and will continue until late December.
The film is produced by Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight, Edgerton for Blue-Tongue Films and Michael Benaroya for Benaroya Pictures.
The story follows three detectives who are faced with a tense struggle following a tragic accident that sees one detective put a child in hospital. One cop is guilty, one will try to cover it up while the third will attempt to expose it.
As well as Edgerton’s success as an actor, he previously co-wrote The Square, directed by brother Nash Edgerton, among other shorts.
Blight said: “With director Matt Saville and my producer partners Joel and Michael, we’ve assembled a stunning international cast...
- 11/6/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Australian feature thriller Felony, penned by actor Joel Edgerton, has begun shooting in Sydney.
Matthew Saville (The Slap, cloudstreet) is directing the film, which follows three male detectives as they become embroiled in a tense struggle after a tragic accident leaves a small child in a coma. One is guilty; one tries to cover it up, and the other attempts to expose it.
Felony also stars Edgerton (The Great Gatsby, Animal Kingdom), alongside two-time Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson (The Exotic Marigold Hotel, Michael Clayton), Melissa George (Treatment, The Slap) and Jai Courtney (A Good Day to Die Hard, Spartacus).
Edgerton is having a strong run as an actor, starring in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming The Great Gatsby and Kathryn Bigelow's Osama Bin Laden film, Zero Dark Thirty. However, Felony marks his first return to a more expansive filmmaking role since 2008 thriller The Square. That film, which he also wrote and starred in,...
Matthew Saville (The Slap, cloudstreet) is directing the film, which follows three male detectives as they become embroiled in a tense struggle after a tragic accident leaves a small child in a coma. One is guilty; one tries to cover it up, and the other attempts to expose it.
Felony also stars Edgerton (The Great Gatsby, Animal Kingdom), alongside two-time Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson (The Exotic Marigold Hotel, Michael Clayton), Melissa George (Treatment, The Slap) and Jai Courtney (A Good Day to Die Hard, Spartacus).
Edgerton is having a strong run as an actor, starring in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming The Great Gatsby and Kathryn Bigelow's Osama Bin Laden film, Zero Dark Thirty. However, Felony marks his first return to a more expansive filmmaking role since 2008 thriller The Square. That film, which he also wrote and starred in,...
- 11/6/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Australian feature thriller Felony, penned by actor Joel Edgerton, has begun shooting in Sydney.
Matthew Saville (The Slap, cloudstreet) is directing the film, which follows three male detectives as they become embroiled in a tense struggle after a tragic accident leaves a small child in a coma. One is guilty; one tries to cover it up, and the other attempts to expose it.
Felony also stars Edgerton (The Great Gatsby, Animal Kingdom), alongside two-time Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson (The Exotic Marigold Hotel, Michael Clayton), Melissa George (Treatment, The Slap) and Jai Courtney (A Good Day to Die Hard, Spartacus).
Edgerton is having a strong run as an actor, starring in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming The Great Gatsby and Kathryn Bigelow's Osama Bin Laden film, Zero Dark Thirty. However, Felony marks his first return to a more expansive filmmaking role since 2008 thriller The Square. That film, which he also wrote and starred in,...
Matthew Saville (The Slap, cloudstreet) is directing the film, which follows three male detectives as they become embroiled in a tense struggle after a tragic accident leaves a small child in a coma. One is guilty; one tries to cover it up, and the other attempts to expose it.
Felony also stars Edgerton (The Great Gatsby, Animal Kingdom), alongside two-time Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson (The Exotic Marigold Hotel, Michael Clayton), Melissa George (Treatment, The Slap) and Jai Courtney (A Good Day to Die Hard, Spartacus).
Edgerton is having a strong run as an actor, starring in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming The Great Gatsby and Kathryn Bigelow's Osama Bin Laden film, Zero Dark Thirty. However, Felony marks his first return to a more expansive filmmaking role since 2008 thriller The Square. That film, which he also wrote and starred in,...
- 11/6/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
The upcoming Aussie thriller Felony has already established a very strong male cast, with Joel Edgerton, Tom Wilkinson and Jai Courtney already on-board to star in the police thriller, but now it's ready to add some of the fairer sex into the mix. New reports say that Aussie actress Melissa George is the latest actor to sign on for the picture. The Wrap first reported the casting news. The film tells the story of a police officer who works to hide the fact that he was responsible for an incident that left a child in a coma. Matthew Saville, who wrote and directed the 2007 thriller Noise, is helming the project based on an original script written by Edgerton (the star also wrote The Square in 2008). Edgerton will play the cop who runs the kid off the road while driving home drunk after a gang bust celebration. Wilkinson will play the...
- 11/6/2012
- cinemablend.com
How do you make a true life story about litigation against a big cement manufacturer appealing to general audiences? You cast the hell out of it. This is exactly what the makers of Devil's Dust, the story of the James Hardie asbestos scandal and court case have done, and the results look superb. Anthony Hayes (The Square) leads the cast as Bernie Banton, the campaigner who became the public face of the political and legal campaign to achieve compensation for the sufferers of asbestos-related conditions, which they contracted after working for the company James Hardie. Other lead cast include Dony Hany (Rake, Lucky Miles), Daniel Henshall (Snowtown, These Final Hours), Ewen Leslie (Mabo, Dead Europe), Mirrah Foulkes (Animal Kingdom), Henry Nixon (Noise), David Roberts (The Square), Alexandra Schepisi (The Eye of the Storm) and the always-great character actor Alan...
- 10/7/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Space elevators are apparently the real deal. Essentially gigantic freight hauling lifts tethered to space stations, space elevators have persisted as an idea in scientific and engineering circles since first proposed in 1895 - despite all the advances in space travel since then. Now comes an ambitious sci-fi short set in the shadow of a giant space elevator, in a dystopian future where the poorer classes are left to scavenge on the outskirts of sprawling launch stations, while those more powerful live within the gates and within reach of an exit from Earth. This short, Payload, is written and directed by Stuart Willis, an Australian vfx guru who cut his teeth working on Superman Returns, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Australia, The Square and Happy Feet Two. He's now turned his...
- 10/3/2012
- Screen Anarchy
The Solution Entertainment Group is currently offering a handful of projects at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival, one of the more promising of which is Felony, a Joel Edgerton-scripted thriller to be directed by Matthew Saville. Edgerton is also set to star in the film, as a highly respected police officer who collides his way into a moral dilemma. And we’ve just gotten word, via press release, that Tom Wilkinson has signed on to join the project.
Lately, it’s been a quiet time for Wilkinson, save for the fact that he was the best part of the otherwise lackluster Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. But his assignment here — Detective Carl Summer, the investigating officer of a driving accident that Edgerton‘s character is very intimately involved with — sounds like it could ignite those aggressive, on-edge sparks we’ve been craving. (It’s been a whole two-and-a-half-years since...
Lately, it’s been a quiet time for Wilkinson, save for the fact that he was the best part of the otherwise lackluster Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. But his assignment here — Detective Carl Summer, the investigating officer of a driving accident that Edgerton‘s character is very intimately involved with — sounds like it could ignite those aggressive, on-edge sparks we’ve been craving. (It’s been a whole two-and-a-half-years since...
- 9/8/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Nash Edgerton is the type of awesome director who stays silent for months on end, but then suddenly pops up with a cool new short film, such as Spider or Bear, or a new music video, such as his ones for Brandon Flowers and Bob Dylan. Nash also collaborates regularly with his actor brother Joel. They made a modern noir feature, The Square together, and Joel is reportedly writing a second darkly-comic feature for Nash to direct. They've also just completed filming Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty together - both in front of the camera this time. Somewhere in between they reunited again to make Nash's new music video for Bob Dylan, for his song Duquesne Whistle - making this the third music video Nash has directed for the iconic singer-songwriter. Check out the video below, which includes a cameo...
- 9/3/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Watch: Nash Edgerton-Directed Video For Bob Dylan's "Duquesne Whistle" With Cameo From Joel Edgerton
Nash Edgerton is a man of many hats. A stuntman and coordinator of some reknown who has worked on everything from "The Matrix" trilogy to "The Thin Red Line" to "Moulin Rouge!", he's also a filmmaker, likely best known for the thriller "The Square" but also earned strong notices for his recent short, "Bear." But it appears he has a friend in Bob Dylan as well. Little did we know, but he's directed two videos for the legend already, "Must Be Santa Claus" and "Beyond Here Lies Nothin,' " and now a third has arrived. "Duquesne Whistle" is the single off Dylan's zillionth upcoming album, and the video boasts an interesting premise. Riffing on every "(500) Days of Summer"-esque meet-cute you've ever seen, Edgerton takes it to a dark and funny place where one young man's obsession with a (very) beautiful young woman has some rather violent consequeces. And oh hey,...
- 8/29/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
This article originally appeared in If Magazine #139 (Feb-March 2011).
As a practical effect, rain might seem pretty straightforward, but if it.s not 100 per cent, it could detract from an otherwise convincing production.
Used in everything from feature films to TVCs, .movie rain. has been around since the beginning of filmmaking. Traditionally, SFX companies have used rain systems developed out of firefighting systems . which, while they work, have a number of drawbacks.
.These systems came out of America; they.re great for fires, but have significant problems for film work,. says special effects veteran of more than 25 years, David Trethewey. .Firefighting systems are designed to put out fires. They throw an enormous amount of water into a space to cool it and quench the fire, and they.re not particularly concerned with how that water gets there . with the pattern that comes out of the nozzle . they just want to get water into the space.
As a practical effect, rain might seem pretty straightforward, but if it.s not 100 per cent, it could detract from an otherwise convincing production.
Used in everything from feature films to TVCs, .movie rain. has been around since the beginning of filmmaking. Traditionally, SFX companies have used rain systems developed out of firefighting systems . which, while they work, have a number of drawbacks.
.These systems came out of America; they.re great for fires, but have significant problems for film work,. says special effects veteran of more than 25 years, David Trethewey. .Firefighting systems are designed to put out fires. They throw an enormous amount of water into a space to cool it and quench the fire, and they.re not particularly concerned with how that water gets there . with the pattern that comes out of the nozzle . they just want to get water into the space.
- 8/17/2012
- by Sam Dallas
- IF.com.au
Joel Edgerton‘s career as an actor has been rapidly gaining momentum. Now, it seems that he’ll follow the lead of so many other great actors as he moves behind the camera with the psychological thriller Weirdo.
The Australian actor revealed his plans to direct the movie in an interview with Cinema Blend, but he declined to reveal any plot details. He also isn’t sure on any time frame for the film, but said it is “something that I want to make, if I can, next year.”
Edgerton has already had experience as a writer, having written the 2008 film The Square, and a handful of shorts, but this will be his first venture into directing a feature film.
Edgerton has really impressed me as an actor, with an absolutely phenomenal performance in Warrior, and a very enjoyable one in The Thing. Sadly, quality acting doesn’t always translate to quality directing.
The Australian actor revealed his plans to direct the movie in an interview with Cinema Blend, but he declined to reveal any plot details. He also isn’t sure on any time frame for the film, but said it is “something that I want to make, if I can, next year.”
Edgerton has already had experience as a writer, having written the 2008 film The Square, and a handful of shorts, but this will be his first venture into directing a feature film.
Edgerton has really impressed me as an actor, with an absolutely phenomenal performance in Warrior, and a very enjoyable one in The Thing. Sadly, quality acting doesn’t always translate to quality directing.
- 8/16/2012
- by Alex Lowe
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