Australian model and actress Annalise Braakensiek has died.
On Sunday, police visited Braakensiek’s home in Sydney for a welfare check after those close to the star became concerned about her whereabouts as she had not been heard from, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Inside the home, police found the body of a 46-year-old woman, who they have yet to formally identify as Braakensiek, The Herald reported.
At this time, her cause of death remains unknown and is not thought to be suspicious, The Guardian reported.
Less than a month before she was found dead, Braakensiek shared an Instagram post...
On Sunday, police visited Braakensiek’s home in Sydney for a welfare check after those close to the star became concerned about her whereabouts as she had not been heard from, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Inside the home, police found the body of a 46-year-old woman, who they have yet to formally identify as Braakensiek, The Herald reported.
At this time, her cause of death remains unknown and is not thought to be suspicious, The Guardian reported.
Less than a month before she was found dead, Braakensiek shared an Instagram post...
- 1/8/2019
- by Robyn Merrett
- PEOPLE.com
Cathrine McVeigh.
Mike Adams.
Mike Adams of Barnett Law has joined Essential Media and Entertainment as Head of Legal and Commercial Affairs, while Cathrine McVeigh is Essential's new Head of Production.
Adams will be working with company directors Chris Hilton, Ian Collie, Sonja Armstrong and Carmel Travers on Essential's legal and commercial interests, plus business affairs for the company.s full slate of television drama, factual, kids and factual entertainment and feature films.
Adams has been subcontracted to Essential from Barnett Law, a Sydney based law firm he joined as a Director following his recent departure from the See-Saw Films group where, since 2009, he worked as Corporate Counsel & Business Affairs Manager..
At See-Saw, Adams provided support to production activities while focusing primarily on Fulcrum Media Finance.s lending operations and oversaw the negotiation and contracting of numerous film and television projects.
As Head of Production, Cathrine McVeigh oversees Essential.s production slate.
Mike Adams.
Mike Adams of Barnett Law has joined Essential Media and Entertainment as Head of Legal and Commercial Affairs, while Cathrine McVeigh is Essential's new Head of Production.
Adams will be working with company directors Chris Hilton, Ian Collie, Sonja Armstrong and Carmel Travers on Essential's legal and commercial interests, plus business affairs for the company.s full slate of television drama, factual, kids and factual entertainment and feature films.
Adams has been subcontracted to Essential from Barnett Law, a Sydney based law firm he joined as a Director following his recent departure from the See-Saw Films group where, since 2009, he worked as Corporate Counsel & Business Affairs Manager..
At See-Saw, Adams provided support to production activities while focusing primarily on Fulcrum Media Finance.s lending operations and oversaw the negotiation and contracting of numerous film and television projects.
As Head of Production, Cathrine McVeigh oversees Essential.s production slate.
- 2/22/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Paul Fenech has built up quite a cult following with his movies and TV series in the past 14 years but Fenech fans must have had other distractions last weekend.
How else to explain the relatively tame opening of the director-actor-writer.s latest opus, Fat Pizza vs Housos?
The comedic battle of thongs, chainsaws, bikies and pizzas, which stars Fenech, Johnny Boxer, Maria Venuti and Elle Dawe, with cameos from Nick Giannopoulos, Kyle Sandilands and Angry Anderson, rang up $280,000 on 121 screens and $296,000 with previews.
Minus previews, that.s 46% below the 2012 debut of Housos vs Authority, which grabbed $526,000 on 151 screens and wound up earning $1.35 million.
It.s dubious whether anyone chose to go to the second weekend of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 1, rather than the caper set in the infamous housing commission suburb of Sunnyvale.
But Transmission Films. Andrew Mackie tells If, .We were on fewer screens this time and...
How else to explain the relatively tame opening of the director-actor-writer.s latest opus, Fat Pizza vs Housos?
The comedic battle of thongs, chainsaws, bikies and pizzas, which stars Fenech, Johnny Boxer, Maria Venuti and Elle Dawe, with cameos from Nick Giannopoulos, Kyle Sandilands and Angry Anderson, rang up $280,000 on 121 screens and $296,000 with previews.
Minus previews, that.s 46% below the 2012 debut of Housos vs Authority, which grabbed $526,000 on 151 screens and wound up earning $1.35 million.
It.s dubious whether anyone chose to go to the second weekend of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 1, rather than the caper set in the infamous housing commission suburb of Sunnyvale.
But Transmission Films. Andrew Mackie tells If, .We were on fewer screens this time and...
- 12/1/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
In a lousy session for new releases, Nightcrawler was the best of a bad lot in Australian cinemas last weekend.
Jake Gyllenhaal.s chilling turn as a sociopath in writer-director Dan Gilroy.s biting satire of media exploitation and corruption delivered $576,000 on 96 screens.
That's a reasonable start for the indie thriller co-starring Riz Ahmed, Rene Russo and Bill Paxton, which has earned $US28.7 million in its first month in the Us.
Nationwide takings plunged by 37% to $11.1 million, which was way below the corresponding week for the past two years, according to Rentrak.s estimates.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 raked in nearly $5.8 million, despite selling around half as many tickets as in the opening weekend, but has amassed a lucrative $20.8 million.
Chris Nolan.s Interstellar banked $1.6 million in its fourth orbit, down 25%, advancing to $15.6 million.
Paul Fenech's Fat Pizza vs Housos opened with a mediocre $296,000 on 121 screens,...
Jake Gyllenhaal.s chilling turn as a sociopath in writer-director Dan Gilroy.s biting satire of media exploitation and corruption delivered $576,000 on 96 screens.
That's a reasonable start for the indie thriller co-starring Riz Ahmed, Rene Russo and Bill Paxton, which has earned $US28.7 million in its first month in the Us.
Nationwide takings plunged by 37% to $11.1 million, which was way below the corresponding week for the past two years, according to Rentrak.s estimates.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 raked in nearly $5.8 million, despite selling around half as many tickets as in the opening weekend, but has amassed a lucrative $20.8 million.
Chris Nolan.s Interstellar banked $1.6 million in its fourth orbit, down 25%, advancing to $15.6 million.
Paul Fenech's Fat Pizza vs Housos opened with a mediocre $296,000 on 121 screens,...
- 12/1/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Figure marks second highest spend in five years.
A total of $260m (A$297m) was spent in Australia on the 35 homegrown features that went into production during the 12 months up to June 30 2014, the second highest level of expenditure since 2008/09.
A further $54m (A$62m) was spent abroad across the total slate.
Nearly all these films are yet to be released but local audiences don’t have long to wait.
Paul Fenech’s Fat Pizza Vs Housos releases on Nov 27 (Transmission), Russell Crowe’s directorial debut The Water Diviner (Entertainment One) on Dec 26 and Robert Connolly’s Paper Planes on Jan 15 (Roadshow). But one of the biggest contributors, Alex Proyas’s Gods of Egypt, will not be released until 2016.
Three of the 35 films were co-productions. Only rarely are more than 35 films made in Australia but having three co-productions in the mix is pretty normal. What is not the norm is that all three were with Germany, although production...
A total of $260m (A$297m) was spent in Australia on the 35 homegrown features that went into production during the 12 months up to June 30 2014, the second highest level of expenditure since 2008/09.
A further $54m (A$62m) was spent abroad across the total slate.
Nearly all these films are yet to be released but local audiences don’t have long to wait.
Paul Fenech’s Fat Pizza Vs Housos releases on Nov 27 (Transmission), Russell Crowe’s directorial debut The Water Diviner (Entertainment One) on Dec 26 and Robert Connolly’s Paper Planes on Jan 15 (Roadshow). But one of the biggest contributors, Alex Proyas’s Gods of Egypt, will not be released until 2016.
Three of the 35 films were co-productions. Only rarely are more than 35 films made in Australia but having three co-productions in the mix is pretty normal. What is not the norm is that all three were with Germany, although production...
- 11/13/2014
- by [email protected] (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Australian films. share of the national box-office this year is destined to fall well short of last year.s 3.5% and the 10-year average of 3.8%.
Through last Sunday the 31 local features and documentaries released this year, plus around 20 titles that carried over from 2013 or earlier years, had racked up $19.6 million.
The year-to-date gross is $908.9 million so that represents a market share of 2.18%. Still to come are Paul Fenech's comedy Fat Pizza vs Housos (November 27), Jon Hewitt.s Turkey Shoot reboot and Jim Lounsbury.s mystery drama Love is Now (both December 4) and Russell Crowe.s The Water Diviner (Boxing Day).
So by year.s end the market share will probably be the lowest since 2004.s 1.3%.
Last year Aussie films and docs accumulated $38.5 million, boosted by The Great Gatsby.s $27.4 million. This year only The Railway Man (which launched on Boxing Day), Wolf Creek 2 and Tracks surpassed $2 million and no other title cracked $1 million.
Through last Sunday the 31 local features and documentaries released this year, plus around 20 titles that carried over from 2013 or earlier years, had racked up $19.6 million.
The year-to-date gross is $908.9 million so that represents a market share of 2.18%. Still to come are Paul Fenech's comedy Fat Pizza vs Housos (November 27), Jon Hewitt.s Turkey Shoot reboot and Jim Lounsbury.s mystery drama Love is Now (both December 4) and Russell Crowe.s The Water Diviner (Boxing Day).
So by year.s end the market share will probably be the lowest since 2004.s 1.3%.
Last year Aussie films and docs accumulated $38.5 million, boosted by The Great Gatsby.s $27.4 million. This year only The Railway Man (which launched on Boxing Day), Wolf Creek 2 and Tracks surpassed $2 million and no other title cracked $1 million.
- 11/11/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Barring a miracle or at least several hits, the Australian films released in cinemas this year have no hope of matching 2013.s combined gross of $38.5 million.
Through last Sunday, 43 local features and documentaries had racked up $18.5 million nationwide. That includes mostly small amounts earned by 20 titles that opened in 2013 or earlier. As the Safc.s Richard Harris has pointed out, the results of each film should be evaluated on the basis of its release strategy rather than regarding every film that earns less than $1 million as a disaster and proof that Australian audiences have turned away from Aussie cinema.
However distributors and producers were counting on far stronger ticket sales for the Spierig brothers. Predestination, Matt Saville.s Felony, David Michôd.s The Rover and Zak Hilditch.s These Final Hours.
Only The Railway Man (which opened on Boxing Day and has a lifetime cume of $7.3 million), Wolf Creek 2...
Through last Sunday, 43 local features and documentaries had racked up $18.5 million nationwide. That includes mostly small amounts earned by 20 titles that opened in 2013 or earlier. As the Safc.s Richard Harris has pointed out, the results of each film should be evaluated on the basis of its release strategy rather than regarding every film that earns less than $1 million as a disaster and proof that Australian audiences have turned away from Aussie cinema.
However distributors and producers were counting on far stronger ticket sales for the Spierig brothers. Predestination, Matt Saville.s Felony, David Michôd.s The Rover and Zak Hilditch.s These Final Hours.
Only The Railway Man (which opened on Boxing Day and has a lifetime cume of $7.3 million), Wolf Creek 2...
- 9/23/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
If you didn.t know she was a famous La-resident, a screen star and America.s latest comedy .it. girl, you would have glanced over at the blonde 20-something and then walked right on by.
There was no chaos, .in your face. entourage or fanfare. And despite her newfound reputation for being Hollywood.s big, bold and brash funny woman, there were no hilarious stunts or .fat girl. character impressions . only the real Rebel Wilson, back visiting her home town, Sydney, after reaping movie-magic fortune in the Us.
.I love being an Aussie over there,. says the self-professed, now well-to-do .westie. and star of the new musical comedy from Universal Pictures, Pitch Perfect.
.I feel like we get special treatment. I don.t know why? Maybe cos we.re good! I really do feel they.re like .Yay. Rebel.s here. when I.m coming into auditions and stuff because...
There was no chaos, .in your face. entourage or fanfare. And despite her newfound reputation for being Hollywood.s big, bold and brash funny woman, there were no hilarious stunts or .fat girl. character impressions . only the real Rebel Wilson, back visiting her home town, Sydney, after reaping movie-magic fortune in the Us.
.I love being an Aussie over there,. says the self-professed, now well-to-do .westie. and star of the new musical comedy from Universal Pictures, Pitch Perfect.
.I feel like we get special treatment. I don.t know why? Maybe cos we.re good! I really do feel they.re like .Yay. Rebel.s here. when I.m coming into auditions and stuff because...
- 5/13/2013
- by Yasmin Noone
- IF.com.au
Paul Fenech comedy Housos Vs. Authority has grossed $554,003 on its opening weekend at cinemas.
Housos Vs. Authority, inspired by Sbs TV series Housos, follows Franky, Shazza, Dazza and their mates as they attempt to sprinkle Shazza's mum's ashes on top of Australia's most famous icon. The film, distributed by Paramount and Transmission Films, opened on 151 screens, giving it a screen average of $3485.
The performance is far shy of Fat Pizza, Fenech's last feature film comedy which grossed $1.16 million on its opening weekend in April 2003. That film, distributed by Roadshow, was based on the successful Sbs series Pizza and went on to gross $3.65 million at the box office.
Meanwhile, Australian documentary Paul Kelly: Stories of Me continued to perform well. It lifted 48 per cent in its third weekend, taking $139,241 across seven screens. It is likely to become the second Australian documentary to enter the top 10 box office list alongside Storm Surfers 3D.
Housos Vs. Authority, inspired by Sbs TV series Housos, follows Franky, Shazza, Dazza and their mates as they attempt to sprinkle Shazza's mum's ashes on top of Australia's most famous icon. The film, distributed by Paramount and Transmission Films, opened on 151 screens, giving it a screen average of $3485.
The performance is far shy of Fat Pizza, Fenech's last feature film comedy which grossed $1.16 million on its opening weekend in April 2003. That film, distributed by Roadshow, was based on the successful Sbs series Pizza and went on to gross $3.65 million at the box office.
Meanwhile, Australian documentary Paul Kelly: Stories of Me continued to perform well. It lifted 48 per cent in its third weekend, taking $139,241 across seven screens. It is likely to become the second Australian documentary to enter the top 10 box office list alongside Storm Surfers 3D.
- 11/5/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Fenech: Brain behind Housos
The Australian TV industry has been taken over by the “posh wanker brigade”, Housos creator Paul Fenech has complained.
His comments – in which he highlighted his “love-hate relationship” with Sbs – came in a live video chat with Mumbrella readers on the weekend that the Housos fim opened in cinemas.
Fenech also spoke of his antipathy to working in the advertising industry again and said that the lengthy process involved in getting Screen Australia funding has made him go his own way in producing films such as Housos which he partly funded out of his own pocket.
A nine-episode second series of the housing commission comedy will follow on Sbs in the new year. Previous Fenech series on Sbs have included Pizza – which he followed at the cinema with the Village Roadshow-funded Fat Pizza – and Swift And Shift Couriers.
Fenech highlighted his tensions with the broadcaster. He...
The Australian TV industry has been taken over by the “posh wanker brigade”, Housos creator Paul Fenech has complained.
His comments – in which he highlighted his “love-hate relationship” with Sbs – came in a live video chat with Mumbrella readers on the weekend that the Housos fim opened in cinemas.
Fenech also spoke of his antipathy to working in the advertising industry again and said that the lengthy process involved in getting Screen Australia funding has made him go his own way in producing films such as Housos which he partly funded out of his own pocket.
A nine-episode second series of the housing commission comedy will follow on Sbs in the new year. Previous Fenech series on Sbs have included Pizza – which he followed at the cinema with the Village Roadshow-funded Fat Pizza – and Swift And Shift Couriers.
Fenech highlighted his tensions with the broadcaster. He...
- 11/4/2012
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
Comedian Paul Fenech’s new film Housos Vs The Authority will have one of distributor Transmission Films’ widest openings for a local picture.
The slapstick comedy based on the Sbs TV show will go into cinemas today across 150 screens.
Transmission’s managing director, Richard Payten told Mumbrella’s sister title Encore he was hoping for takings of more than $1m over the film’s run.
Payten said: “At 150 prints, you want to be doing north of a million, so that’s our aim. There is an appetite for the film, and cinemas have been completely supportive of it.”
The film has a solid social media presence with 92,000 likes on Facebook for Housos.
Fenech told Encore: “My brand of humour certainly has plenty of ongoing fans, but Housos has grabbed a whole new fan base.”
Sbs has since announced a second season of the TV series. Fenech’s previous feature film,...
The slapstick comedy based on the Sbs TV show will go into cinemas today across 150 screens.
Transmission’s managing director, Richard Payten told Mumbrella’s sister title Encore he was hoping for takings of more than $1m over the film’s run.
Payten said: “At 150 prints, you want to be doing north of a million, so that’s our aim. There is an appetite for the film, and cinemas have been completely supportive of it.”
The film has a solid social media presence with 92,000 likes on Facebook for Housos.
Fenech told Encore: “My brand of humour certainly has plenty of ongoing fans, but Housos has grabbed a whole new fan base.”
Sbs has since announced a second season of the TV series. Fenech’s previous feature film,...
- 11/1/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
It.s not surprising that comedic actor Ed Kavalee.s debut telemovie Scumbus is about to hit screens. What is surprising is that he used his life savings to self-fund the project, which was strong enough to attract come of the biggest names in Australian comedy including Glenn Robbins, Tony Martin, Peter Helliar and Dave Hughes.
.What do they tell you not to do? Don.t put your own money in,. Kavalee says. .But I didn.t have a choice . what am I going to do? Ring up a funding body and say I have this idea for a comedy telemovie? They would have hung up straight away. You know you get to this point where you say .I.ve got to do something.....
Kavalee has been winning fans over the past six years on radio and as a host and performer on TV shows such Thank God You.re Here; TV Burp; Santo,...
.What do they tell you not to do? Don.t put your own money in,. Kavalee says. .But I didn.t have a choice . what am I going to do? Ring up a funding body and say I have this idea for a comedy telemovie? They would have hung up straight away. You know you get to this point where you say .I.ve got to do something.....
Kavalee has been winning fans over the past six years on radio and as a host and performer on TV shows such Thank God You.re Here; TV Burp; Santo,...
- 11/1/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
It.s not surprising that comedic actor Ed Kavalee.s debut telemovie Scumbus is about to hit screens. What is surprising is that he used his life savings to self-fund the project, which was strong enough to attract come of the biggest names in Australian comedy including Glenn Robbins, Tony Martin, Peter Helliar and Dave Hughes.
.What do they tell you not to do? Don.t put your own money in,. Kavalee says. .But I didn.t have a choice . what am I going to do? Ring up a funding body and say I have this idea for a comedy telemovie? They would have hung up straight away. You know you get to this point where you say .I.ve got to do something.....
Kavalee has been winning fans over the past six years on radio and as a host and performer on TV shows such Thank God You.re Here,...
.What do they tell you not to do? Don.t put your own money in,. Kavalee says. .But I didn.t have a choice . what am I going to do? Ring up a funding body and say I have this idea for a comedy telemovie? They would have hung up straight away. You know you get to this point where you say .I.ve got to do something.....
Kavalee has been winning fans over the past six years on radio and as a host and performer on TV shows such Thank God You.re Here,...
- 11/1/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
While it would be generous to call Paul Fenech the Rob Schneider of Australia, the writer-direct-actor has definitely invented his own crazy brand of broad puerile humour to which a certain section of the population adores and keeps turning up in droves to see. Fenech's career started out brilliantly, when he won the top prize at major short film competition Tropfest, by submitting a film under the pseudonym 'Laura Feinstein' in order to appeal to the sensitivities of the judges, particularly Tropfest founder John Polson, who hoped that a female director would win the award. From there came the TV comedy series Pizza, then the spin-off movie Fat Pizza, followed by another TV show Swift and Shift Couriers, and then a third show Housos - a nickname for the...
- 10/8/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Fenech: Brain behind Housos
Sbs has commissioned another series of nine episodes of Paul Fenech’s politically incorrect comedy Housos.
Production of the new series – set in a fictional housing commission block in Sunnyvale – starts in Sydney’s western suburbs on Monday.
The cast includes Encore columnist Jason ‘Jabba’ Davis, Habib Tahir, Melissa Tkautz, Amanda Keller and Angry Anderson. Narrator Ian Turpie passed away in March this year.
Since it first aired on Sbs, Fenech has also shot a Housos feature film.
Tony Iffland, Sbs’s director of television and online content, said: “Housos became hugely successful with its tongue-in-cheek humour. The new season will continue our commitment to commissioning and supporting Australian content and talent. We are delighted to be working with Paul again on a second series.
Fenech – best known for Fat Pizza – said: “The new season of Housos gives fans the chance to unite and get in touch with their inner-bogan.
Sbs has commissioned another series of nine episodes of Paul Fenech’s politically incorrect comedy Housos.
Production of the new series – set in a fictional housing commission block in Sunnyvale – starts in Sydney’s western suburbs on Monday.
The cast includes Encore columnist Jason ‘Jabba’ Davis, Habib Tahir, Melissa Tkautz, Amanda Keller and Angry Anderson. Narrator Ian Turpie passed away in March this year.
Since it first aired on Sbs, Fenech has also shot a Housos feature film.
Tony Iffland, Sbs’s director of television and online content, said: “Housos became hugely successful with its tongue-in-cheek humour. The new season will continue our commitment to commissioning and supporting Australian content and talent. We are delighted to be working with Paul again on a second series.
Fenech – best known for Fat Pizza – said: “The new season of Housos gives fans the chance to unite and get in touch with their inner-bogan.
- 9/9/2012
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
Australian audiences that rush in to see the Paramount Pictures film The Dictator when it opens this week in cinemas will get their first taste of Housos vs Authority, the new feature based on the TV series Housos.
That.s because a teaser trailer for Paul Fenech.s latest local comedy will be shown before the latest, similarly politically incorrect feature starring Sacha Baron Cohen.
Housos broadcaster Sbs has described the series as doing to bogans what Kath and Kim did to lower, middle-class Australia. In the big-screen version a bunch of bludgers go on a trip to Uluru to scatter Shazza.s mum.s ashes on top of Australia.s most famous icon.
Housos vs Authority is being ushered into cinemas in early November by Transmission Films, which channels all its films through Paramount.s booking system.
The film does not have a sales agent.
.Paul Fenech is a...
That.s because a teaser trailer for Paul Fenech.s latest local comedy will be shown before the latest, similarly politically incorrect feature starring Sacha Baron Cohen.
Housos broadcaster Sbs has described the series as doing to bogans what Kath and Kim did to lower, middle-class Australia. In the big-screen version a bunch of bludgers go on a trip to Uluru to scatter Shazza.s mum.s ashes on top of Australia.s most famous icon.
Housos vs Authority is being ushered into cinemas in early November by Transmission Films, which channels all its films through Paramount.s booking system.
The film does not have a sales agent.
.Paul Fenech is a...
- 5/13/2012
- by Sandy George
- IF.com.au
One of the films coming out of Sundance this year that is sure to have mainstream appeal is Leslye Headland’s Bachelorette. On paper there is no denying the connection between last year’s box office hit and 2012′s soon-to-be hit but the two films couldn’t be more different. Rebel Wilson, a blossoming comedic talent from Australia, stars in both films and breaks down the differences, along with discussing her staggering six up-coming films to be released this year. Check out the interview below where she kicks off with her thoughts on the premiere and read my review here.
Rebel Wilson: It has huge laughs, but then, especially in the more serious bits, everyone was really listening around me.
The Film Stage: That’s what I found so impressive about the movie, is the way it balances the comedy with the sensitive issues, and like, Leslye’s writing is so smart about that.
Rebel Wilson: It has huge laughs, but then, especially in the more serious bits, everyone was really listening around me.
The Film Stage: That’s what I found so impressive about the movie, is the way it balances the comedy with the sensitive issues, and like, Leslye’s writing is so smart about that.
- 1/26/2012
- by [email protected] (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Big Mamma’s Boy’s Matteo Bruno and Franco Di Chiera had the challenge of marketing a rom-com set in Melbourne’s Italian community two ways, to the cultural minority and the mass majority. Colin Delaney reports.
“For me it’s a romantic comedy and that’s it,” says Franco Di Chiera, director of Big Mamma’s Boy about an Italian-Australian career man by day, jazz singer by night who falls for a non-Italian girl, while still living with his mother.
Yet, despite the fact the film is a rom-com at heart, Di Chiera, producer Matteo Bruno and lead actor/writer Frank Lotito are well aware Big Mamma’s Boy could easily be passed off as another Australian ‘wog story’.
And what would be wrong with that? Comedies about the ‘wog’, be them Italian, Greek or any other wonderful ethnicity slapped with that all-encompassing title have been widely successful across...
“For me it’s a romantic comedy and that’s it,” says Franco Di Chiera, director of Big Mamma’s Boy about an Italian-Australian career man by day, jazz singer by night who falls for a non-Italian girl, while still living with his mother.
Yet, despite the fact the film is a rom-com at heart, Di Chiera, producer Matteo Bruno and lead actor/writer Frank Lotito are well aware Big Mamma’s Boy could easily be passed off as another Australian ‘wog story’.
And what would be wrong with that? Comedies about the ‘wog’, be them Italian, Greek or any other wonderful ethnicity slapped with that all-encompassing title have been widely successful across...
- 7/29/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Series two of Swift & Shift Couriers, created and directed by Paul Fenech (Fat Pizza) will premiere on Sbs August 1, 8.30pm.
Expect Fenech’s unique brand of politically incorrect humour for round two.
Fenech, Ian Turpie, Melissa Tkautz, Amanda Keller and Angry Anderson return with their ragtag work mates to the Hashfield Depot in the wake of tight times.
In a statement Paul Fenech said: “Swift & Shift Couriers is back; bigger, better and louder in series two – this is the pumped up on steroids version of the first series.”...
Expect Fenech’s unique brand of politically incorrect humour for round two.
Fenech, Ian Turpie, Melissa Tkautz, Amanda Keller and Angry Anderson return with their ragtag work mates to the Hashfield Depot in the wake of tight times.
In a statement Paul Fenech said: “Swift & Shift Couriers is back; bigger, better and louder in series two – this is the pumped up on steroids version of the first series.”...
- 6/24/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Everybody knows there is no exact formula to raise the funds necessary to produce a film or television program, but it doesn’t hurt to ask those who have done it successfully, using both traditional and new methods.
(note from the editor: this article was originally published in the November issue of Encore, before Screen Australia released the Drama Production Report for 2009/10)
According to the most recent National Survey of Feature Film and TV Drama Production, in 2008/09 thirteen features were financed mainly by film/TV industry sources (including cash flow against the Producer Offset); 11 were financed “substantially” by Screen Australia, State agencies and the Adelaide/Melbourne festival funds; seven (including three co-productions) were financed mainly from foreign sources; and one was financed mainly from private sources. Private investment dropped from $40m in 2007/08 to $5m in 2008/09, mainly due to the disappearance of the 10Ba model.
Under Screen Australia’s revised Terms of Trade,...
(note from the editor: this article was originally published in the November issue of Encore, before Screen Australia released the Drama Production Report for 2009/10)
According to the most recent National Survey of Feature Film and TV Drama Production, in 2008/09 thirteen features were financed mainly by film/TV industry sources (including cash flow against the Producer Offset); 11 were financed “substantially” by Screen Australia, State agencies and the Adelaide/Melbourne festival funds; seven (including three co-productions) were financed mainly from foreign sources; and one was financed mainly from private sources. Private investment dropped from $40m in 2007/08 to $5m in 2008/09, mainly due to the disappearance of the 10Ba model.
Under Screen Australia’s revised Terms of Trade,...
- 12/16/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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