Oncue Talent are looking for both Male and Female coloured African’s,
aged 16 to 70, for extras for the Feature Film ‘The Whistle Blower’
currently filming in Melbourne.
If you have any family, friends or neighbours that fit the requirements,
please ask them to send through their photos, age and contact details to talent@oncuetalent.com.au urgently.
US media and entertainment company CBS has announced it will acquire the embattled Network Ten in a move designed to save the station and rebuild its position in the Australian market.
In addition to the main linear channel, the deal also includes digital multi-channels Eleven – in which CBS already owned a 33 per cent stake – and One, as well as Ten’s digital catch-up platform, Tenplay. CBS has been a key supplier of US content to the network for some years.
CBS Corporation’s chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves said of the Ten acquisition: “Network Ten is a prime broadcasting asset with over half a century of experience and brand equity in Australia.
“We have been able to acquire it at a valuation that gives us confidence we will grow this asset by applying our programming expertise in a market with which we are already familiar.”
CBS Studios International president and CEO Armando Nuñez noted the close working relationship between Ten and CBS over the last 20 years, and stated that the deal will see CBS continue to provide Ten with “access to the very best in US content.”
“We also look forward to working with the outstanding team at Network Ten to enhance and expand on its great legacy of Australian news, drama, reality and sports programming.
“This acquisition not only presents CBS with considerable broadcasting opportunities in Australia, but also allows for further multi-platform distribution and growth.”
Ten CEO Paul Anderson said: “CBS and Ten have had a strong relationship for a number of years; we are very excited about further developing that relationship with CBS as an owner and strength that they will provide to the company at this critical time.”
Recievers PPB Advisory and administrators KordaMentha are said to be working together to make sure that Ten’s operation continue uninterrupted while the transaction is finalised. CBS is also providing immediate financial support.
All this means a major section of local production is being safeguarded.
The Port Shorts Film Festival is in full swing offering creatives a chance to share in more than $12,000 in cash and prizes or get involved in the Port Shorts Masterclass Series with workshops hosted by legendary Aussie actors Stephen Curry and Peter Phelps, Wolf Creek Producer Matt Hearn, cimematographer and ACS Victoria President Warwick Field, Pirates of the Caribbean 5 drone operator Stephen Oh, Mad Max 4: Fury Road stunt coordinator Lawrence Woodward, music video producer/director Natasha Pincus (Gotye, Powderfinger), AFI Award-nominated screenwriter Kier Shorey, Kitefish Films’ Karen Jones and Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM). See www.portshorts.com for all the details.
Please Stand By, a film by Ben Lewin, will screen at the Austin Film Festival in Texas in October. It’s the first film by the Melbourne director since his Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA-nominated 2012 feature, The Sessions, starring Helen Hunt and John Hawkes.
His new comedy drama stars Toni Collette, Alice Eve and Dakota Fanning and was written by Grimm’s Michael Golamco.
Lewin’s next film, The Catcher Was A Spy, featuring a strong ensemble cast including Paul Rudd, Guy Pearce, Sienna Miller, Paul Giammati, Tom Wilkinson and Mark Strong, is believed to have wrapped principal photography.
Lewin is best known in Australia for creating the TV series Rafferty’s Rules and the mid-1990s feature Paperback Romance, starring Gia Carides and Anthony LaPaglia.
Please Stand By will premiere next to the season finale of HBO’s new drama from The Wire’s David Simon, The Deuce, and the new romantic comedy Amanda and Jack Go Glamping starring David Arquette and Amy Acker, written and directed by Brandon Dickerson.
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His new comedy drama stars Toni Collette, Alice Eve and Dakota Fanning and was written by Grimm’s Michael Golamco.
Lewin’s next film, The Catcher Was A Spy, featuring a strong ensemble cast including Paul Rudd, Guy Pearce, Sienna Miller, Paul Giammati, Tom Wilkinson and Mark Strong, is believed to have wrapped principal photography.
Lewin is best known in Australia for creating the TV series Rafferty’s Rules and the mid-1990s feature Paperback Romance, starring Gia Carides and Anthony LaPaglia.
Please Stand By will premiere in Austin in October next to the season finale of HBO’s new drama from The Wire’s David Simon, The Deuce, and the new romantic comedy Amanda and Jack Go Glamping starring David Arquette and Amy Acker, written and directed by Brandon Dickerson.
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His new comedy drama stars Toni Collette, Alice Eve and Dakota Fanning and was written by Grimm’s Michael Golamco.
Lewin’s next film, The Catcher Was A Spy, featuring a strong ensemble cast including Paul Rudd, Guy Pearce, Sienna Miller, Paul Giammati, Tom Wilkinson and Mark Strong, is believed to have wrapped principal photography.
Lewin is best known in Australia for creating the TV series Rafferty’s Rules and the mid-1990s feature Paperback Romance, starring Gia Carides and Anthony LaPaglia.
Please Stand By will premiere in Austin in October next to the season finale of HBO’s new drama from The Wire’s David Simon, The Deuce, and the new romantic comedy Amanda and Jack Go Glamping starring David Arquette and Amy Acker, written and directed by Brandon Dickerson.
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Ben Lewin’s latest film, Please Stand By, will screen at the Austin Film Festival in Texas in October. It’s the first film by the Melbourne director since his Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA-nominated 2012 feature, The Sessions, starring Helen Hunt and John Hawkes.
Please Stand By is a comedy drama and stars Toni Collette, Alice Eve and Dakota Fanning. It was written by Grimm’s Michael Golamco.
Lewin’s next film, The Catcher Was A Spy, featuring a strong ensemble cast including Paul Rudd, Guy Pearce, Sienna Miller, Paul Giammati, Tom Wilkinson and Mark Strong, is believed to have wrapped principal photography.
Lewin is best known in Australia for creating the TV series Rafferty’s Rules and the mid-1990s feature Paperback Romance, starring Gia Carides and Anthony LaPaglia.
Please Stand By will premiere in Austin in October next to the season finale of HBO’s new drama from The Wire’s David Simon, The Deuce, and the new romantic comedy Amanda and Jack Go Glamping starring David Arquette and Amy Acker, written and directed by Brandon Dickerson.
Rachel Griffiths will lead the cast of new SBS drama series Dead Lucky, set to start shooting this week.
A four-part crime thriller produced by the newly-formed Subtext Pictures, Dead Lucky follows two feuding detectives as they hunt down a killer leaving a trailer of broken lives across the city.
Griffiths will play Grace Gibbs, obsessed with catching the armed robber who murdered her junior officer. Charlie Fung (Yoson An, Grace), her new trainee, blames Grace for the death of his best friend.
Other cast members include Mojean Aria (The Bronx Bull), Xana Tang (The Letdown), Aldo Mignone (A Place To Call Home), Anna Samson (Wake In Fright – The Television Series), Ian Meadows (The Wrong Girl, The Moodys), Rhys Muldoon (Fighting Season, House Husbands), Annie Maynard (Upper Middle Bogan, Paper Giants), Brooke Satchwell (Jack Irish, Wonderland), Simon Burke (Devil’s Playground), Sara West (Don’t Tell, Peter Allen: The Boy Next Door), Sarah Thamin (Hyde & Seek), Tessa de Josselin (Holding The Man), Lincoln Younes (Down Under) with Matt Nable(Jasper Jones, Barracuda) and Justine Clarke (Hoges, Red Dog: True Blue).
Dead Lucky has been created and written by Ellie Beaumont and Drew Proffitt, who are producing with Diane Haddon, while David Caesar will direct. Executive producers are Sue Masters for SBS and Ellie Beaumont, Drew Proffitt, Nina Stevenson and Greg Sitch. The series has received major production investment fro Screen Australia in association with Create NSW. DRG is handing international distribution.
Beaumont and Proffitt said: “We’re excited to be launching Subtext and working with the brilliant Rachel Griffiths and our unbelievably talented cast and crew. We thank SBS, Screen Australia, Create NSW and DRG for backing the new showrunner-owned indie on the block.”
The two-part mini-series for the Nine Network stars Aaron Jeffrey (Wentworth,McLeod’s Daughters,Water Rats) as the notorious Mark ‘Chopper’ Read, Michael Caton (The Castle, Packed to the Rafters) as Chopper’s father Keith, Todd Lasance (The Vampire Diaries) as Chopper’s nemesis, gangster Syd Collins, and Ella Scott Lynch (Love Child) as Read’s second wife, Margaret.
Other cast members include Zoe Ventoura, Jane Allsop, Reef Ireland, Alex Tsitsopoulos and Anna Bamford. Original Underbelly cast members Vince Colosimo and Kevin Harrington will return as Alphonse Gangitano and Lewis Moran, and Debra Byrne will also reprise her portrayal of Judy Moran.
Underbelly Files: Chopper, written by Justin Monjo, is produced by Kerrie Mainwaring and Karl Zwicky. Peter Andrikidis, who helmed the seminal season of Underbelly, will return to direct. Cinematographer Joe Pickering and production designer Paddy Reardon also return.
Screentime’s CEO Rory Callaghan, and executive chairman, Bob Campbell are executive producers alongside the Nine Network’s joint Heads of Drama, Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan.
“With this new take on the Mark ‘Chopper’ Read story Screentime is delighted to be reuniting our ‘A team’ for a mesmerising mini-series which will bring the fourth instalment of Underbelly: Files to Nine for 2018, in classic style,” Bob Campbell said.
The ABC has announced a new season of Rake is set to go into production in October.
Richard Roxburgh will return to the role of Clever Greene, now as an elected and independent senator in Parliament. He’ll be joined once again by Matt Day, Caroline Brazier, Adrienne Pickering, Keegan Joyce, Kate Box and Damien Garvey.
Producer, creator and writer Peter Duncan leads the creative team on this the fifth series, again directing alongside Rowan Woods, Shannon Murphy and Jenn Leacey. Duncan co-wrote the season with Andrew Knight, and Ian Collie is producing.
Duncan says: “As a committed if somewhat lazy group of anarchists, we wanted to see if Cleaver could bring as much chaos to Parliament as he did to the courts. So far, we think our mission is on track. It’s great that we have an opportunity to expand Cleaver’s messy palette and give Richard a chance to get his hands truly dirty.”
