Netflix has bought Us, UK and Ireland rights to Gristmill Productions. mockumentary series Little Lunch.
The deal was negotiated by the international distributor, the Australian Children.s Television Foundation, which also sold the 26 x 15. series to Tvo in Canada and Tvb in Hong Kong.
Based on the books written by Danny Katz, the show set in a primary school playground at snack time premiered on ABC3 in May and had 997,000 views on iview.
Director/producer Wayne Hope said, .We.re thrilled that the seemingly small stakes of the playground resonated so widely. Thankfully, the anxieties around having the wrong costume on dress- up-day or a weird snack in your lunch box are universally funny..
Roadshow will launch Hope.s debut feature, Now Add Honey, a comedy starring Robyn Butler, Portia de Rossi and Hamish Blake, on November 5.
Last month Netflix bought comedy series Small Time Gangster , produced by Boilermaker Pty...
The deal was negotiated by the international distributor, the Australian Children.s Television Foundation, which also sold the 26 x 15. series to Tvo in Canada and Tvb in Hong Kong.
Based on the books written by Danny Katz, the show set in a primary school playground at snack time premiered on ABC3 in May and had 997,000 views on iview.
Director/producer Wayne Hope said, .We.re thrilled that the seemingly small stakes of the playground resonated so widely. Thankfully, the anxieties around having the wrong costume on dress- up-day or a weird snack in your lunch box are universally funny..
Roadshow will launch Hope.s debut feature, Now Add Honey, a comedy starring Robyn Butler, Portia de Rossi and Hamish Blake, on November 5.
Last month Netflix bought comedy series Small Time Gangster , produced by Boilermaker Pty...
- 9/30/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Netflix has bought Melbourne-made series Small Time Gangster for UK, Australia and New Zealand, with more territories to be announced shortly.
Directed by Jeffrey Walker, with a cast including Steve Le Marquand, Gia Carides, Sacha Horler, Geoff Morrell and Gary Sweet, the series follows the misadventures of Tony Piccolo.
Piccolo is outwardly a devoted family man who earns his living cleaning carpets.
But he is also the toughest underworld enforcer in Melbourne. .When Tony suddenly develops a conscience and his two worlds threaten to collide, he.s going to need more than just cleaning fluid to clear up the mess.
Gareth Calverley and Joss King created and wrote the show.s eight episodes.
Producer Gareth Calverley said: .We.re delighted that some of the 63 million people who subscribe to Netflix the world over will now have the opportunity to see the show..
Distributed globally by Drg UK, the show was...
Directed by Jeffrey Walker, with a cast including Steve Le Marquand, Gia Carides, Sacha Horler, Geoff Morrell and Gary Sweet, the series follows the misadventures of Tony Piccolo.
Piccolo is outwardly a devoted family man who earns his living cleaning carpets.
But he is also the toughest underworld enforcer in Melbourne. .When Tony suddenly develops a conscience and his two worlds threaten to collide, he.s going to need more than just cleaning fluid to clear up the mess.
Gareth Calverley and Joss King created and wrote the show.s eight episodes.
Producer Gareth Calverley said: .We.re delighted that some of the 63 million people who subscribe to Netflix the world over will now have the opportunity to see the show..
Distributed globally by Drg UK, the show was...
- 9/15/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
https://www.facebook.com/sifuvsvampire
Release Date: 23rd October 2014 (Cinema)
If you are a fan of the old Mr.Vampire movies and the recent Rigor Mortis, then Sifu Vs Vampire is going to be the movie for you. Yuen Biao is back playing the role of Charlie Jiang, a master in dealing with corpses and vampires who has to exhume the body of Tv station owner Kelvin Chow (Kelvin Kwan).
I love the Mr.Vampire movies and always said, no one does that priest role better than Lam Ching Ying. But i am very happy to see Kung Fu legend Yuen Biao in that role, also Yuen has done horror/martial art movies before like Mr.Vampire 2, Those Merry Souls and played a vampire in Encounters Of The Spooky Kind, pictured below.
Plot:
Small time gangster Nicky (Ronald Cheng) and his friend Boo (Philip Ng) get the assignment of a life time,...
Release Date: 23rd October 2014 (Cinema)
If you are a fan of the old Mr.Vampire movies and the recent Rigor Mortis, then Sifu Vs Vampire is going to be the movie for you. Yuen Biao is back playing the role of Charlie Jiang, a master in dealing with corpses and vampires who has to exhume the body of Tv station owner Kelvin Chow (Kelvin Kwan).
I love the Mr.Vampire movies and always said, no one does that priest role better than Lam Ching Ying. But i am very happy to see Kung Fu legend Yuen Biao in that role, also Yuen has done horror/martial art movies before like Mr.Vampire 2, Those Merry Souls and played a vampire in Encounters Of The Spooky Kind, pictured below.
Plot:
Small time gangster Nicky (Ronald Cheng) and his friend Boo (Philip Ng) get the assignment of a life time,...
- 9/22/2014
- by kingofkungfu
- AsianMoviePulse
Actor director Michael Chan has a new project in the works titled La Tele de Vampire (aka Jiang Shi TV) and even though its being touted as a ‘horror’ flick the poster suggest we’re in classic old school ‘hopping’ vampire territory, so this may be played more for laughs that scares, but we shall see when a (current release date is August so it should be too long a wait) trailer surfaces. Synopsis: Small time gangster Nicky (Ronald Cheng) and his friend Boo (Philip Ng) get the assignment of a life time, to threaten Charlie Jiang (Yuen Biao), a feng shui master to exhume the corpse of the great grandfather of TV station tycoon Kelvin Chow (Kelvin Kwan). A new burial is said to bring Kelvin great fortune and prosperity but things take a turn for the worse when his great grandfather’s corpse turns into a Vampire King...
- 5/30/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
Actor director Michael Chan has a new project in the works titled La Tele de Vampire (aka Jiang Shi TV) and even though its being touted as a ‘horror’ flick the poster suggest we’re in classic old school ‘hopping’ vampire territory, so this may be played more for laughs that scares, but we shall see when a (current release date is August so it should be too long a wait) trailer surfaces. Synopsis: Small time gangster Nicky (Ronald Cheng) and his friend Boo (Philip Ng) get the assignment of a life time, to threaten Charlie Jiang (Yuen Biao), a feng shui master to exhume the corpse of the great grandfather of TV station tycoon Kelvin Chow (Kelvin Kwan). A new burial is said to bring Kelvin great fortune and prosperity but things take a turn for the worse when his great grandfather’s corpse turns into a Vampire King...
- 5/30/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
Shine International Launching Branded On-Demand Channel In a first for Shine International, the sales and distribution division of Shine Group is launching a branded on-demand streaming channel. Initially going out in the U.S. via Roku, the channel will offer more than 200 hours of multi-genre programming including The School, Got To Dance, The Magicians, Eternal Law and The Sandhamn Murders. Content is available for free with advertising, or can be rented ad-free. ‘Small Time Gangster’ Heads To Romania As ‘Umbre’ HBO Europe will start production next month in Romania on Umbre, a local version of Australian series Small Time Gangster. The eight-parter is set to air on HBO Romania in early 2015, Film News Europe reports. The dark comedy follows a taxi driver whose side job is working for a Bucharest mobster. After he accidentally kills someone, he can’t extricate himself from the mob. Igor Cobileanski (The Unsaved) is directing...
- 5/28/2014
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Cast:
Ronald Cheng
Yuen Biao
Philip Ng
Michelle Hu
Ken Lo
Directed By: Daniel Chan
Also Known As:
La Tele de Vampire
La Tele De Vampire is the latest movie from Kung Fu legend Yuen Biao and it’s great to see him back in a big role. The movie stars Biao as a Feng Shui master and is threatened by Ronald Cheng and Philip Ng to examine a corpse.
Synopsis
Small time gangster Nicky (Ronald Cheng) and his friend Boo (Philip Ng) get the assignment of a life time, to threaten Charlie Jiang (Yuen Biao), a feng shui master to exhume the corpse of the great grandfather of TV station tycoon Kelvin Chow (Kelvin Kwan). A new burial is said to bring Kelvin great fortune and prosperity but things take a turn for the worse when his great grandfather`s corpse turns into a Vampire King and is let...
Ronald Cheng
Yuen Biao
Philip Ng
Michelle Hu
Ken Lo
Directed By: Daniel Chan
Also Known As:
La Tele de Vampire
La Tele De Vampire is the latest movie from Kung Fu legend Yuen Biao and it’s great to see him back in a big role. The movie stars Biao as a Feng Shui master and is threatened by Ronald Cheng and Philip Ng to examine a corpse.
Synopsis
Small time gangster Nicky (Ronald Cheng) and his friend Boo (Philip Ng) get the assignment of a life time, to threaten Charlie Jiang (Yuen Biao), a feng shui master to exhume the corpse of the great grandfather of TV station tycoon Kelvin Chow (Kelvin Kwan). A new burial is said to bring Kelvin great fortune and prosperity but things take a turn for the worse when his great grandfather`s corpse turns into a Vampire King and is let...
- 5/23/2014
- by kingofkungfu
- AsianMoviePulse
A couple of years ago a friend of filmmaker Tony Ayres gave him a tantalising .what if. proposition: What if there was a small country town in Victoria where people who had been dead for up to 200 years came back to life?
That sparked an idea which he developed with writer Louise Fox and has evolved into Glitch, a six-part supernatural drama for the ABC. Screen Australia has agreed to co-fund the Matchbox Pictures production, which is due to start shooting in October.
The key character is the town.s cop, James, whose wife died from breast cancer two years earlier and reappears. Each episode will introduce a succession of undead characters. No director has yet been announced.
.We don.t often do high-concept supernatural drama in Australia,. Ayres tells If. .It.s my favourite genre. It will be a very Australian spin on the genre. We are looking for emotional truth.
That sparked an idea which he developed with writer Louise Fox and has evolved into Glitch, a six-part supernatural drama for the ABC. Screen Australia has agreed to co-fund the Matchbox Pictures production, which is due to start shooting in October.
The key character is the town.s cop, James, whose wife died from breast cancer two years earlier and reappears. Each episode will introduce a succession of undead characters. No director has yet been announced.
.We don.t often do high-concept supernatural drama in Australia,. Ayres tells If. .It.s my favourite genre. It will be a very Australian spin on the genre. We are looking for emotional truth.
- 5/21/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Australian Director’s Guild has announced its nominees for the 2012 Adg Awards
Across the various categories, the nominations include Justin Kurzel for Snowtown, Matthew Saville for The Slap, Tony Krawitz for The Tall Man, Paul Scott for documentary series Outback Fight Club and Bruce Hunt for Subaru Xv’s Carwash.
The ceremony will be held as part of the Adg’s 30th anniversary at the Australian Maritime Museum in Sydney on May 11.
Kingston Anderson, general manager of the Adg said: “This will be the largest celebration and Awards ceremony the Adg has ever hosted and will be an opportunity to highlight the many achievements of Adg members over the past 30 years and the significant role they have played in the development of the Australian screen industry, as well as to honour the best directors of 2012.”
The nominations are:
Feature film
Brendan Fletcher - Mad Bastards
Justin Kurzel – Snowtown
Julia Leigh...
Across the various categories, the nominations include Justin Kurzel for Snowtown, Matthew Saville for The Slap, Tony Krawitz for The Tall Man, Paul Scott for documentary series Outback Fight Club and Bruce Hunt for Subaru Xv’s Carwash.
The ceremony will be held as part of the Adg’s 30th anniversary at the Australian Maritime Museum in Sydney on May 11.
Kingston Anderson, general manager of the Adg said: “This will be the largest celebration and Awards ceremony the Adg has ever hosted and will be an opportunity to highlight the many achievements of Adg members over the past 30 years and the significant role they have played in the development of the Australian screen industry, as well as to honour the best directors of 2012.”
The nominations are:
Feature film
Brendan Fletcher - Mad Bastards
Justin Kurzel – Snowtown
Julia Leigh...
- 4/16/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Hunter has lead the Aacta Awards with 14 nominations including best film.
The film, by Daniel Nettheim, is also up for best direction, adapted screenplay, cinematography, sound, production design, costume, original music score, and visual effects. Meanwhile, Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor, Sam Neill and Morgana Davies are all up for acting awards.
The film has currently made just over $1m at the local box office.
It’s the first year for the re-launched AACTAs, formerly the AFI awards.
The technical awards will be given out at a luncheon on 15 January at the Sydney Opera House, with an evening ceremony for the more ‘public-friendly’ awards held at the Opera House on 31 January.
Running against The Hunter for best film is Red Dog, Mad Bastards, The Eye of the Storm, Snowtown and Oranges and Sunshine.
The Eye of the Storm, was second in the nominations race with 12, of which six are...
The film, by Daniel Nettheim, is also up for best direction, adapted screenplay, cinematography, sound, production design, costume, original music score, and visual effects. Meanwhile, Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor, Sam Neill and Morgana Davies are all up for acting awards.
The film has currently made just over $1m at the local box office.
It’s the first year for the re-launched AACTAs, formerly the AFI awards.
The technical awards will be given out at a luncheon on 15 January at the Sydney Opera House, with an evening ceremony for the more ‘public-friendly’ awards held at the Opera House on 31 January.
Running against The Hunter for best film is Red Dog, Mad Bastards, The Eye of the Storm, Snowtown and Oranges and Sunshine.
The Eye of the Storm, was second in the nominations race with 12, of which six are...
- 11/30/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The first winners of the newly renamed Kit Denton Disfellowship, previously the Kit Denton Fellowship, have been named as Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan whose writing credits have included Big Bite, Hamish & Andy and The Mansion.
The announcement was made at tonight’s Australian Writers Guild Awgie Awards held in Sydney.
Other winners included The Secret Life Of Us writer Kris Mrksa who picked up the Foxtel Fellowship, Chris Lilley who was recognised for his contribution to comedy and films Snow Town and Burning Man.
The Awgie winners:
2011 Kit Denton Fellowship
ForCourage and Excellence in Performance Writing
Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan
2011 Foxtel Fellowship
Fellowship awarded in recognition of a significant body of work in television.
Kris Mrksa
2011 Richard Lane Award
For Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Australian Writers’ Guild
Ian David
2011 Dorothy Crawford Award
For Outstanding Contribution to the Profession
Currency Press
2011 Fred Parsons Award
For Outstanding Contribution...
The announcement was made at tonight’s Australian Writers Guild Awgie Awards held in Sydney.
Other winners included The Secret Life Of Us writer Kris Mrksa who picked up the Foxtel Fellowship, Chris Lilley who was recognised for his contribution to comedy and films Snow Town and Burning Man.
The Awgie winners:
2011 Kit Denton Fellowship
ForCourage and Excellence in Performance Writing
Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan
2011 Foxtel Fellowship
Fellowship awarded in recognition of a significant body of work in television.
Kris Mrksa
2011 Richard Lane Award
For Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Australian Writers’ Guild
Ian David
2011 Dorothy Crawford Award
For Outstanding Contribution to the Profession
Currency Press
2011 Fred Parsons Award
For Outstanding Contribution...
- 9/23/2011
- by Tim Burrowes
- Encore Magazine
The Australian Writers’ Guild has announce the nominations for its 44th Awgie Awards.
The writers of Australia’s best stage, screen and radio scripts have been nominated across 23 awards, including Shaun Grant (Snowtown), Alice Addison (The Hunter), Jonathan Teplitzky (Burning Man) and Tony Krawitz
(The Tall Man) all screening at Tiff.
Awg President, Academy Award nominee Jan Sardi said in a statement, ‘The foundation of all great productions is the script. Each year the Awgie Awards recognise and celebrate the creators of those foundations, the writers. The nominations for this year’s Awgie awards clearly demonstrate the high standard of Australian performance writing. Some of the writers honoured today are familiar names, underscoring the consistent excellence of their work and ongoing contribution to our industry. Equally exciting are the new names and titles reflecting the breadth and vibrancy of Australian scriptwriting talent.”
As well as announcing the winners of the below categories,...
The writers of Australia’s best stage, screen and radio scripts have been nominated across 23 awards, including Shaun Grant (Snowtown), Alice Addison (The Hunter), Jonathan Teplitzky (Burning Man) and Tony Krawitz
(The Tall Man) all screening at Tiff.
Awg President, Academy Award nominee Jan Sardi said in a statement, ‘The foundation of all great productions is the script. Each year the Awgie Awards recognise and celebrate the creators of those foundations, the writers. The nominations for this year’s Awgie awards clearly demonstrate the high standard of Australian performance writing. Some of the writers honoured today are familiar names, underscoring the consistent excellence of their work and ongoing contribution to our industry. Equally exciting are the new names and titles reflecting the breadth and vibrancy of Australian scriptwriting talent.”
As well as announcing the winners of the below categories,...
- 8/18/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
For the second consecutive year, Encore has chosen a select group of screen professionals who have achieved new heights in 2010/2011, whose decisions influence and shape Australia’s audiovisual industry, and whose work has stood out from the crowd. These are our Power 50.
1. Emile Sherman – Producer
Last February, Sherman became the first Australian producer to receive an Academy Award for Best Picture, alongside his See-Saw Films partner Iain Canning, and Bedlam Productions’ Gareth Unwin. It also won at the BAFTAs and the Producers Guild of America, in addition to the many other honours for its cast and crew.
While technically a UK production, the Australianness of the film is undeniable – and so is its success; with a modest U$15m budget, The King’s Speech has grossed more than $405m worldwide – one of the most successful independent films of all time. Read Emile Sherman interview
2. Baz Luhrmann – Director, writer, producer
There...
1. Emile Sherman – Producer
Last February, Sherman became the first Australian producer to receive an Academy Award for Best Picture, alongside his See-Saw Films partner Iain Canning, and Bedlam Productions’ Gareth Unwin. It also won at the BAFTAs and the Producers Guild of America, in addition to the many other honours for its cast and crew.
While technically a UK production, the Australianness of the film is undeniable – and so is its success; with a modest U$15m budget, The King’s Speech has grossed more than $405m worldwide – one of the most successful independent films of all time. Read Emile Sherman interview
2. Baz Luhrmann – Director, writer, producer
There...
- 6/9/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Boilermaker’s new series for Movie Extra Small Time Gangster tries to find a new spin on crime dramedies, for a fraction of the cost of its Us counterparts.
Boilermaker co-founders and producers Andrew McInally and Gareth Calverley know that Small Time Gangster – their first ever full-length television series – will inevitably be compared to other projects about the criminal underworld.
“As a TV writer, you’re always going to be compared to other shows that are out there in the market place. I would absolutely not compare us to The Sopranos; we’re 70 percent drama, 30 percent black comedy, so if I had to compare it to something it would be Breaking Bad… One of the problems is that it takes two years to get a show from the drawing board to the audience and there’s not much we can do about it with comparisons,” said Calverley.
Small Time Gangster was born when Calverley,...
Boilermaker co-founders and producers Andrew McInally and Gareth Calverley know that Small Time Gangster – their first ever full-length television series – will inevitably be compared to other projects about the criminal underworld.
“As a TV writer, you’re always going to be compared to other shows that are out there in the market place. I would absolutely not compare us to The Sopranos; we’re 70 percent drama, 30 percent black comedy, so if I had to compare it to something it would be Breaking Bad… One of the problems is that it takes two years to get a show from the drawing board to the audience and there’s not much we can do about it with comparisons,” said Calverley.
Small Time Gangster was born when Calverley,...
- 4/21/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Genre-wise, suburban crime has been good to the Australian industry...Two Hands launched Heath Ledger, Animal Kingdom cleaned up at last year's AFI Awards and.Underbelly still seems unstoppable after three series. Now, Gareth Calverley and Joss King have tossed their hat in the ring with Small Time Gangster. .What I think makes Small Time really stand out,. Calverley tells If, .is that it's not about good guys and bad guys, it.s really just about working class blue collar guys who are trying to make a living.. I think I stole it from Goodfellas.. In fairness to Calverley, this can.t be the first time that thought has occurred to a content maker. .There.s a line in it that says .our...
- 4/19/2011
- by Ruby Lennon
- IF.com.au
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