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Pinocchio, a wooden puppet who wishes to be a real boy, chases fatherly love in the official trailer for Pinocchio, Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion musical adaptation of the classic tale that Netflix dropped on Wednesday.
“People are sometimes afraid of things they don’t know,” Gepetto, a grieving father voiced by David Bradley who carves the wooden puppet Pinocchio after the death of his son, tells the titular character of Pinocchio voiced by newcomer Gregory Mann in the stop-motion musical adaptation of the fantasy drama.
As Pinocchio at one point faces a nightmarish catastrophe at sea and calls out to Gepetto in alarm, the grieving father calls for his son to be brought back to him amid talking animals and magical transformations.
Oscar-winning auteur del Toro and stop-motion legend Mark Gustafson reimagined Carlo Collodi’s classic tale about a fabled wooden puppet,...
Pinocchio, a wooden puppet who wishes to be a real boy, chases fatherly love in the official trailer for Pinocchio, Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion musical adaptation of the classic tale that Netflix dropped on Wednesday.
“People are sometimes afraid of things they don’t know,” Gepetto, a grieving father voiced by David Bradley who carves the wooden puppet Pinocchio after the death of his son, tells the titular character of Pinocchio voiced by newcomer Gregory Mann in the stop-motion musical adaptation of the fantasy drama.
As Pinocchio at one point faces a nightmarish catastrophe at sea and calls out to Gepetto in alarm, the grieving father calls for his son to be brought back to him amid talking animals and magical transformations.
Oscar-winning auteur del Toro and stop-motion legend Mark Gustafson reimagined Carlo Collodi’s classic tale about a fabled wooden puppet,...
- 11/9/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro reinvents Carlo Collodi’s classic tale of the wooden marionette who is magically brought to life in order to mend the heart of a grieving woodcarver named Geppetto. This whimsical, stop-motion musical directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson follows the mischievous and disobedient adventures of Pinocchio in his pursuit of a place in the world.
In select theaters in November and on Netflix in December, and lifelong passion project of del Toro, check out the brand new trailer.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – (Pictured) Sebastian J. Cricket (voiced by Ewan McGregor). Cr: Netflix © 2022
Netflix announced in August of 2020 the cast of Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming stop-motion animated musical feature. Newcomer Gregory Mann will star as Pinocchio with Ewan McGregor as Cricket and David Bradley as Geppetto. Other cast includes Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton, Academy Award® winner Christoph Waltz,...
In select theaters in November and on Netflix in December, and lifelong passion project of del Toro, check out the brand new trailer.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – (Pictured) Sebastian J. Cricket (voiced by Ewan McGregor). Cr: Netflix © 2022
Netflix announced in August of 2020 the cast of Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming stop-motion animated musical feature. Newcomer Gregory Mann will star as Pinocchio with Ewan McGregor as Cricket and David Bradley as Geppetto. Other cast includes Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton, Academy Award® winner Christoph Waltz,...
- 7/27/2022
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A star-studded cast has been announced for Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion animated version of Pinocchio that includes Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Tilda Swinton, Ron Perlman, and more:
Hollywood, Calif. - August 19, 2020 - Netflix announced today the cast of Academy Award® winner Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming stop-motion animated musical feature Pinocchio. Newcomer Gregory Mann will star as Pinocchio with Ewan McGregor as Cricket and David Bradley as Geppetto. Other cast includes Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton, Academy Award® winner Christoph Waltz, Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things), Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett, John Turturro (The Batman), Golden Globe winner Ron Perlman (Nightmare Alley), Tim Blake Nelson (Watchmen), Burn Gorman (Enola Holmes).
Drawing on the classic Carlo Collodi tale, this stop motion musical follows the extraordinary journey of a wooden boy magically brought to life by a father’s wish. Set during the rise of Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, del Toro's...
Hollywood, Calif. - August 19, 2020 - Netflix announced today the cast of Academy Award® winner Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming stop-motion animated musical feature Pinocchio. Newcomer Gregory Mann will star as Pinocchio with Ewan McGregor as Cricket and David Bradley as Geppetto. Other cast includes Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton, Academy Award® winner Christoph Waltz, Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things), Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett, John Turturro (The Batman), Golden Globe winner Ron Perlman (Nightmare Alley), Tim Blake Nelson (Watchmen), Burn Gorman (Enola Holmes).
Drawing on the classic Carlo Collodi tale, this stop motion musical follows the extraordinary journey of a wooden boy magically brought to life by a father’s wish. Set during the rise of Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, del Toro's...
- 8/20/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion animated musical movie Pinocchio for Netflix has set its cast with newcomer Gregory Mann in the title role, Ewan McGregor as Cricket and David Bradley as Geppetto. Other cast includes Oscar winners Tilda Swinton, Christoph Waltz and Cate Blanchett; Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things); John Turturro (The Batman); Golden Globe winner Ron Perlman (Nightmare Alley); Tim Blake Nelson (Watchmen); and Burn Gorman (Enola Holmes). Based on the classic Carlo Collodi tale, the feature follows the extraordinary journey of a wooden boy magically brought to life by a father’s wish. Set during the rise of fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, del Toro’s Pinocchio is a story of love and disobedience as Pinocchio struggles to live up to his father’s expectations. “After years of pursuing this dream project, I found my perfect partner in Netflix,” said del Toro,...
- 8/19/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Maria Angelico, Lydia Rui Huang, Sarinah Masukor.
Screen Australia today announced funding for 15 Enterprise People talent opportunities and one Enterprise Business & Ideas project, with all to share in over $480,000.
The Enterprise Business & Ideas program allows an Australian entity to apply for funding to develop and deliver an innovative screen business proposal, hire a company placement and/or access business-building services, while the Enterprise People strand allows both emerging and experienced creatives to apply for funding for a domestic or international career placement, and/or other professional development opportunities.
Screen Australia head of development Nerida Moore said: “We’re excited to support a wide range of bespoke career development opportunities through Enterprise People, including a number of substantial international opportunities. As the screen industry becomes increasingly global, we were pleased that creatives are exploring ways to make connections in the Australian, European and North American markets, building industry knowledge with the...
Screen Australia today announced funding for 15 Enterprise People talent opportunities and one Enterprise Business & Ideas project, with all to share in over $480,000.
The Enterprise Business & Ideas program allows an Australian entity to apply for funding to develop and deliver an innovative screen business proposal, hire a company placement and/or access business-building services, while the Enterprise People strand allows both emerging and experienced creatives to apply for funding for a domestic or international career placement, and/or other professional development opportunities.
Screen Australia head of development Nerida Moore said: “We’re excited to support a wide range of bespoke career development opportunities through Enterprise People, including a number of substantial international opportunities. As the screen industry becomes increasingly global, we were pleased that creatives are exploring ways to make connections in the Australian, European and North American markets, building industry knowledge with the...
- 2/13/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Melanie Coombs.
For Melanie Coombs, producer of Mary and Max and Oscar-winning short Harvie Krumpet, stop-motion animation has a magical quality – at once real, but not real – that touches audiences profoundly.
“When you see Meryl Streep in a TV or film role, you go: there’s Meryl Streep, she’s a playing a nun, or she’s playing an evil grandmother who’s trying to steal the kids away or whatever. But it’s Meryl Streep. There is a suspension of disbelief on one level.
“But when it’s a puppet, and you know the puppet isn’t alive, it’s like this second level suspension of disbelief. When you make that second leap, there’s something that happens with the emotional connection that is really powerful. I still meet people who passionately talk to me about Mary and Max, all the time. People who have Harvie Crumpet tattoos. Mary and Max was 10 years ago.
For Melanie Coombs, producer of Mary and Max and Oscar-winning short Harvie Krumpet, stop-motion animation has a magical quality – at once real, but not real – that touches audiences profoundly.
“When you see Meryl Streep in a TV or film role, you go: there’s Meryl Streep, she’s a playing a nun, or she’s playing an evil grandmother who’s trying to steal the kids away or whatever. But it’s Meryl Streep. There is a suspension of disbelief on one level.
“But when it’s a puppet, and you know the puppet isn’t alive, it’s like this second level suspension of disbelief. When you make that second leap, there’s something that happens with the emotional connection that is really powerful. I still meet people who passionately talk to me about Mary and Max, all the time. People who have Harvie Crumpet tattoos. Mary and Max was 10 years ago.
- 8/20/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Gold Coast Film Festival Director Lucy Fisher.
This year.s Gold Coast Film Festival screened 38 films from 15 countries, with over 14,000 guests in attendance across the festival.
The festival welcomes submissions from around Australia — this year it hosted local indies such as Girl Asleep, Drama, Crushed and Broke.—.as well as international.
Festival director Lucy Fisher assumed the role in June 2015, after earlier serving as a consultant to the festival.
.We.re growing fairly quickly,. says Fisher. .In terms of the Queensland landscape, we.re in a really strong position as an international film festival...
Originally Queensland-only, the fest has opened up, looking outside the state for films in a bid "to have that element of discovery rather than just being reliant on distribution to find our films," Fisher says.
Despite the expansion, the festival is still regularly speaking to Queensland productions about holding Queensland or Australian premieres at the festival...
This year.s Gold Coast Film Festival screened 38 films from 15 countries, with over 14,000 guests in attendance across the festival.
The festival welcomes submissions from around Australia — this year it hosted local indies such as Girl Asleep, Drama, Crushed and Broke.—.as well as international.
Festival director Lucy Fisher assumed the role in June 2015, after earlier serving as a consultant to the festival.
.We.re growing fairly quickly,. says Fisher. .In terms of the Queensland landscape, we.re in a really strong position as an international film festival...
Originally Queensland-only, the fest has opened up, looking outside the state for films in a bid "to have that element of discovery rather than just being reliant on distribution to find our films," Fisher says.
Despite the expansion, the festival is still regularly speaking to Queensland productions about holding Queensland or Australian premieres at the festival...
- 12/14/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Rachel Ward and Matilda Brown star in The Death and Life of Otto Bloom.
The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, starring Xavier Samuel, Rachel Ward and Matilda Brown, will open this year's Melbourne International Film Festival.
The film, directed by Cris Jones, chronicles the life and great love of Bloom (Samuel), a man who experiences time in reverse — passing backwards through the years while remembering the future.
The Death and Life of Otto Bloom is Jones' first feature.
The full program for the festival will be revealed on July 5.
Jones said it was an honour and a joy to have his first feature opening Miff..
"For me, Miff is more than a celebration of film," he said..
"It is a family and a home. The festival has played an enormous role in my journey as a filmmaker, and without the support of the Premiere Fund, this film would not exist.
The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, starring Xavier Samuel, Rachel Ward and Matilda Brown, will open this year's Melbourne International Film Festival.
The film, directed by Cris Jones, chronicles the life and great love of Bloom (Samuel), a man who experiences time in reverse — passing backwards through the years while remembering the future.
The Death and Life of Otto Bloom is Jones' first feature.
The full program for the festival will be revealed on July 5.
Jones said it was an honour and a joy to have his first feature opening Miff..
"For me, Miff is more than a celebration of film," he said..
"It is a family and a home. The festival has played an enormous role in my journey as a filmmaker, and without the support of the Premiere Fund, this film would not exist.
- 5/16/2016
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Australian actress Claudia Karvan is set to receive the 2016 Chauvel Award as part of the 14th annual Gold Coast Film Festival..
The Chauvel Award, named in honour of Charles Chauvel, commenced in 1993 and acknowledges an individual who has made significant contribution to Australian cinema.
On April 9, the Gold Coast Film Festival will welcome audiences to David Stratton In Conversation With Claudia Karvan..
The night will be an intimate look at Karvan.s career, accompanied by footage from her films and moderated by film critic and previous Chauvel Award recipient, David Stratton..
Stratton said he was looking forward to the event.
.I have known Claudia since she started acting and even appeared in a film with her once — something I.m certain will be referred to in our informal chat," he said. .
"Her career has gone from strength to strength, and she is unquestionably one of our finest actors..
Karvan.Karvan...
The Chauvel Award, named in honour of Charles Chauvel, commenced in 1993 and acknowledges an individual who has made significant contribution to Australian cinema.
On April 9, the Gold Coast Film Festival will welcome audiences to David Stratton In Conversation With Claudia Karvan..
The night will be an intimate look at Karvan.s career, accompanied by footage from her films and moderated by film critic and previous Chauvel Award recipient, David Stratton..
Stratton said he was looking forward to the event.
.I have known Claudia since she started acting and even appeared in a film with her once — something I.m certain will be referred to in our informal chat," he said. .
"Her career has gone from strength to strength, and she is unquestionably one of our finest actors..
Karvan.Karvan...
- 2/29/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
The Gold Coast Film Festival has secured Jan Chapman, Melanie Coombs and Alan Finney to be part of its 2016 Chauvel Award committee.
Chapman, producer of the AFI Best Film winner, Lantana and Academy Award winner The Piano, and 2002 Chauvel Award recipient, will join the committee this year alongside Coombs, producer of the Academy Award winner Harvie Krumpet and Finney, a film industry veteran actor and producer..
Film critic David Stratton, Screen Queensland chief executive, Tracey Vieira and Bond University.s Professor Bruce Molloy have also been announced as 2016 Chauvel Committee members.
The Chauvel Award, named in honour of Charles Chauvel, acknowledges an individual who has made significant contribution to Australian cinema..
The award was previously part of the Brisbane International Film Festival and past recipients of the Award have included producer Anthony Buckley, directors George Miller and Rolf de Heer, actors Bryan Brown and Geoffrey Rush, cinematographer John Seale and...
Chapman, producer of the AFI Best Film winner, Lantana and Academy Award winner The Piano, and 2002 Chauvel Award recipient, will join the committee this year alongside Coombs, producer of the Academy Award winner Harvie Krumpet and Finney, a film industry veteran actor and producer..
Film critic David Stratton, Screen Queensland chief executive, Tracey Vieira and Bond University.s Professor Bruce Molloy have also been announced as 2016 Chauvel Committee members.
The Chauvel Award, named in honour of Charles Chauvel, acknowledges an individual who has made significant contribution to Australian cinema..
The award was previously part of the Brisbane International Film Festival and past recipients of the Award have included producer Anthony Buckley, directors George Miller and Rolf de Heer, actors Bryan Brown and Geoffrey Rush, cinematographer John Seale and...
- 12/17/2015
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Shorts director Cris Jones will make his feature debut on The Death and Life of Otto Bloom.
Xavier Samuel is attached to play the title character, an extraordinary man who experiences time in reverse — passing backwards through the years while remembering the future.
Screen Australia, Film Victoria and the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund are financing the low budget drama which will shoot in Melbourne later this year.
The producers are Mish Armstrong, Alicia Brown and Melanie Coombs, with Jonathan Page as Ep. Coombs produced Jones. well-received 2008 short The Funk.
Page.s Bonsai Films will distribute in Australia and international sales will be handled by Global Screen, which reps Oddball.
The other two features which received funding at Screen Australia.s September board meeting are Hounds of Love and Emo (The Musical).
In Hounds of Love Stephen Curry is attached to play one half of a sinister couple, John and Evelyn White,...
Xavier Samuel is attached to play the title character, an extraordinary man who experiences time in reverse — passing backwards through the years while remembering the future.
Screen Australia, Film Victoria and the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund are financing the low budget drama which will shoot in Melbourne later this year.
The producers are Mish Armstrong, Alicia Brown and Melanie Coombs, with Jonathan Page as Ep. Coombs produced Jones. well-received 2008 short The Funk.
Page.s Bonsai Films will distribute in Australia and international sales will be handled by Global Screen, which reps Oddball.
The other two features which received funding at Screen Australia.s September board meeting are Hounds of Love and Emo (The Musical).
In Hounds of Love Stephen Curry is attached to play one half of a sinister couple, John and Evelyn White,...
- 10/1/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Sessions writer-director Ben Lewin is attached to helm Blue Rose, a biopic about the self-described .sex crazed. Australian composer and pianist Percy Grainger.
La-based Jeffrey Walker will return to Oz a to direct Dance Academy: The Comeback., a spin-off of Werner Film Productions. popular TV series, which will follow a young ballerina who dreams of being a star.
Following Ruin and Hail, Amiel Courtin-Wilson is to write, produce and direct Hawkwood, a thriller set in the backwaters of Africa which tells of ageing mercenary.s journey from chaos to grace.
These are among 16 feature projects which are receiving more than $620,000 in development funding from Screen Australia.
Lewin will write Blue Rose with Wain Fimeri for producers Chryssy Tintner, Jan Eymann, Judi Levine and Arclight.s Mark Lazarus and Gary Hamilton. His next film is Us indie romantic drama Purple Hearts, which will star Jane the Virgin's Gina Rodriguez...
La-based Jeffrey Walker will return to Oz a to direct Dance Academy: The Comeback., a spin-off of Werner Film Productions. popular TV series, which will follow a young ballerina who dreams of being a star.
Following Ruin and Hail, Amiel Courtin-Wilson is to write, produce and direct Hawkwood, a thriller set in the backwaters of Africa which tells of ageing mercenary.s journey from chaos to grace.
These are among 16 feature projects which are receiving more than $620,000 in development funding from Screen Australia.
Lewin will write Blue Rose with Wain Fimeri for producers Chryssy Tintner, Jan Eymann, Judi Levine and Arclight.s Mark Lazarus and Gary Hamilton. His next film is Us indie romantic drama Purple Hearts, which will star Jane the Virgin's Gina Rodriguez...
- 4/21/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Producers Alicia Brown and Melanie Coombs have been awarded €50,000 ($A73,000) to complete development of. Step Thirteen, an oddball comedy which will mark the feature debut of English writer-director Tessa Sheridan.
Their UK/Australian company Optimism Film will co-produce with Denmark.s Morten Kaufmann (The Hunt).
Sheridan won the Palme d.Or at the Cannes Film Festival for her short Is it the Design on the Wrapper?, which followed a woman dressed garishly in bubble-gum colours who conducts an opinion survey about bubble gum consumer habits at a street market, where she encounters a girl aged six or seven.
The BFI has been funding Step Thirteen and now the Media/Creative Europe program has come up with the final stage development funding.
.It.s a highly competitive process and we were the only UK drama to receive the funding,. Brown tells If. .Aardman, Red Star 3D and Blue Zoo Productions were...
Their UK/Australian company Optimism Film will co-produce with Denmark.s Morten Kaufmann (The Hunt).
Sheridan won the Palme d.Or at the Cannes Film Festival for her short Is it the Design on the Wrapper?, which followed a woman dressed garishly in bubble-gum colours who conducts an opinion survey about bubble gum consumer habits at a street market, where she encounters a girl aged six or seven.
The BFI has been funding Step Thirteen and now the Media/Creative Europe program has come up with the final stage development funding.
.It.s a highly competitive process and we were the only UK drama to receive the funding,. Brown tells If. .Aardman, Red Star 3D and Blue Zoo Productions were...
- 11/19/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The UK’s Isabelle Stead, Canada’s George Ayoub and Australia’s Kristian Moliere are among those selected for this year’s Producers Lab Toronto.
The24 producers from Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will participate in the fifth edition of the networking platform, which runs Sept 3-6 during the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14).
Plt is targeted at producers who have had previous experience in working on international co-productions and now have projects in the pipeline that could be interesting for the international market.
European producers
The ten European producers were selected by European Film Promotion’s member organisations from previous participants of its Cannes-based initiative Producers on the Move. They include:
Human Films’ co-founder Isabelle Stead, who has played a key role in the new wave of Iraqi cinema by producing such award-winning films as Mohamed Al-Daradji’s Son Of Babylon and In The Sands Of Babylon. She is now...
The24 producers from Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will participate in the fifth edition of the networking platform, which runs Sept 3-6 during the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14).
Plt is targeted at producers who have had previous experience in working on international co-productions and now have projects in the pipeline that could be interesting for the international market.
European producers
The ten European producers were selected by European Film Promotion’s member organisations from previous participants of its Cannes-based initiative Producers on the Move. They include:
Human Films’ co-founder Isabelle Stead, who has played a key role in the new wave of Iraqi cinema by producing such award-winning films as Mohamed Al-Daradji’s Son Of Babylon and In The Sands Of Babylon. She is now...
- 8/20/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
UK producer Kevin Loader joins comedy drama B Model, to be directed by actor Rachel Griffiths.
Now that it is likely to be set up as a UK/Australian co-production, prolific UK producer Kevin Loader (In the Loop, Hyde Park on Hudson, Le Week-End) has become part of the team behind the comedy drama B Model, to be directed by actor Rachel Griffiths.
Griffiths has directed two shorts, Roundabout and Tulip and this will be her first feature – providing the money can be raised.
Australian producer Louise Smith was reluctant to provide details of the project precisely because it is yet to be financed. The current draft of the script is being written by Samantha Stauss, co-creator of the series Dance Academy.
B Model is included in a list of 18 features that Screen Australia has injected a total of Us$500,000 worth of development money into in the last four months.
One of the...
Now that it is likely to be set up as a UK/Australian co-production, prolific UK producer Kevin Loader (In the Loop, Hyde Park on Hudson, Le Week-End) has become part of the team behind the comedy drama B Model, to be directed by actor Rachel Griffiths.
Griffiths has directed two shorts, Roundabout and Tulip and this will be her first feature – providing the money can be raised.
Australian producer Louise Smith was reluctant to provide details of the project precisely because it is yet to be financed. The current draft of the script is being written by Samantha Stauss, co-creator of the series Dance Academy.
B Model is included in a list of 18 features that Screen Australia has injected a total of Us$500,000 worth of development money into in the last four months.
One of the...
- 7/23/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Screen Australia today announced nearly $535,000 in development funding for 18 features including projects set in Canada, inner-city Berlin, Mexico City, Vietnam, the Middle East and medieval England.
The genres range from family and musical to comedy, drama, thriller, sci-fi and action. The funding will support eight new projects as well as further assistance for 10 titles.
Through its Talent Escalator programs, the agency is placing three producers in professional posts to improve their direct industry experience and supporting short film director Nicholas Verso in the next stage of his professional development.
Screen Australia.s Head of Production Sally Caplan said, .In this round it is encouraging to see such a great range of Australian stories receive support from filmmakers at different levels, some with international creative partners and several with international focus.
"We are also pleased to be able to support emerging local talent with international placements that will increase our industry...
The genres range from family and musical to comedy, drama, thriller, sci-fi and action. The funding will support eight new projects as well as further assistance for 10 titles.
Through its Talent Escalator programs, the agency is placing three producers in professional posts to improve their direct industry experience and supporting short film director Nicholas Verso in the next stage of his professional development.
Screen Australia.s Head of Production Sally Caplan said, .In this round it is encouraging to see such a great range of Australian stories receive support from filmmakers at different levels, some with international creative partners and several with international focus.
"We are also pleased to be able to support emerging local talent with international placements that will increase our industry...
- 7/22/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Xavier Samuel, Miranda Otto and Sam Neill are attached to star in Midnight in Byzantium, a mystery/adventure about a young guy who is trapped in a remote town where nothing - and no one - is as it seems.
The film will mark the feature debut of Melbourne-based writer-director Cris Jones, who has directed numerous short films, music videos and TVCs. The producers are Optimism Films. Melanie Coombs, Alicia Brown and Mish Armstrong.
The project has received development funding from Screen Australia and a travel grant which enabled Jones to attend this year.s Binger Filmlab Directors Lab in Amsterdam.
Also attached is Jacek Koman, whose credits include Top of the Lake, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Spirited and Julius Avery.s upcoming movie Son of a Gun, which stars Ewan McGregor, Alicia Vikander and Brenton Thwaites.
The synopsis reads: .A young man wakes up in a small,...
The film will mark the feature debut of Melbourne-based writer-director Cris Jones, who has directed numerous short films, music videos and TVCs. The producers are Optimism Films. Melanie Coombs, Alicia Brown and Mish Armstrong.
The project has received development funding from Screen Australia and a travel grant which enabled Jones to attend this year.s Binger Filmlab Directors Lab in Amsterdam.
Also attached is Jacek Koman, whose credits include Top of the Lake, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Spirited and Julius Avery.s upcoming movie Son of a Gun, which stars Ewan McGregor, Alicia Vikander and Brenton Thwaites.
The synopsis reads: .A young man wakes up in a small,...
- 8/20/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Six Australian films will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) next month following the overnight announcement that Around the Block and Canopy have been selected.
Both will have their world premieres as part of the festival.s Discovery program, which showcases works by ..directors to watch: The future of world cinema..
First-time writer/director Sarah Spillane.s Around the Block is the saga of an Aboriginal boy who is torn between his love of acting and the disintegration of his family. Hunter Page-Lochard, whose credits include The Sapphires and Bran Nue Dae, plays the lead alongside Christina Ricci as his unconventional, American-born drama teacher. Jack Thompson, Matt Nable, Damian Walshe-Howling and Daniel Henshall round out the key cast.
Produced by Brian Rosen and Su Armstrong, the film will open in Australia on November 7, distributed by Michael Wrenn's Greenlight Releasing. Rosen tells If it will debut on 30-...
Both will have their world premieres as part of the festival.s Discovery program, which showcases works by ..directors to watch: The future of world cinema..
First-time writer/director Sarah Spillane.s Around the Block is the saga of an Aboriginal boy who is torn between his love of acting and the disintegration of his family. Hunter Page-Lochard, whose credits include The Sapphires and Bran Nue Dae, plays the lead alongside Christina Ricci as his unconventional, American-born drama teacher. Jack Thompson, Matt Nable, Damian Walshe-Howling and Daniel Henshall round out the key cast.
Produced by Brian Rosen and Su Armstrong, the film will open in Australia on November 7, distributed by Michael Wrenn's Greenlight Releasing. Rosen tells If it will debut on 30-...
- 8/20/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Denis Villeneuve will have two films in the festival as it emerged that Canadian Features world premiere Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man and his doppelganger [pictured] has joined the previously announced Prisoners, also starring Gyllenhaal.
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce. Also receiving its world premiere is All The Wrong Reasons featuring the final performance by the late Glee star Cory Monteith.
Festival organisers also unveiled Producers Lab Toronto participants and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, the shorts programme and participants in the tenth Tiff Talent Lab.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever...
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce. Also receiving its world premiere is All The Wrong Reasons featuring the final performance by the late Glee star Cory Monteith.
Festival organisers also unveiled Producers Lab Toronto participants and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, the shorts programme and participants in the tenth Tiff Talent Lab.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever...
- 8/7/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Toronto -- They say it's a global business, so Australia and New Zealand producers are for the first time taking part in Producers Lab Toronto at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. Aussie producers Melanie Coombs of Optimism Film and Mathew Dabner of Gate 41 will join Kiwi counterparts Fiona Copland of filmwork and Robin Laing of StellaFilm, plus 10 European producers and 10 more Canadian movie producers at the fourth annual co-production forum. Coming to Toronto from Europe is Pandora da Cunha Telles of Portugal's Ukbar Filmes, Yael Fogiel of France's Les Films du Poisson, David Grumbach of Luxembourg's
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- 8/7/2013
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Denis Villeneuve will have two films in the festival as it emerged on Wednesday [7] that Canadian Features world premiere Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man and his doppelganger [pictured] has joined the previously announced Prisoners, also starring Gyllenhaal.
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever, biting satire to intimate social commentary, powerful dramas and even a truly magical comedy, the settings and themes vary, but the perspectives are always uniquely Canadian.”
The City Of Toronto and Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film will be given to one of many outstanding...
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever, biting satire to intimate social commentary, powerful dramas and even a truly magical comedy, the settings and themes vary, but the perspectives are always uniquely Canadian.”
The City Of Toronto and Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film will be given to one of many outstanding...
- 8/7/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Screen Australia has committed almost $360,000 in funding to assist 15 filmmaking teams and three new internships.
The announcement, made earlier today, confirmed eight new projects will receive Screen Australia support while another seven teams will benefit from continued funding..
The new projects to receive support include I Am Jack, Confessions of a Super Man, Long Tan, Mulan, Common Foe, and Soundtrack..
Three internships, developed through Screen Australia.s Talent Escalator Project, will send Australian filmmakers overseas to further develop their chosen crafts..
Writer/director Alex Murawski will work alongside Bruce Beresford in Los Angeles for three months on Beresford.s latest production Bonnie and Clyde.
Natalie Lindwall will gain six months experience in the UK working with Ecosse Flims as a development producer, and producer Raquelle David will spend six months in Toronto working with Niv Fichman at Rhombus Media..
Also through the Talent Escalator Program, Screen Australia will assist directors Cris Jones,...
The announcement, made earlier today, confirmed eight new projects will receive Screen Australia support while another seven teams will benefit from continued funding..
The new projects to receive support include I Am Jack, Confessions of a Super Man, Long Tan, Mulan, Common Foe, and Soundtrack..
Three internships, developed through Screen Australia.s Talent Escalator Project, will send Australian filmmakers overseas to further develop their chosen crafts..
Writer/director Alex Murawski will work alongside Bruce Beresford in Los Angeles for three months on Beresford.s latest production Bonnie and Clyde.
Natalie Lindwall will gain six months experience in the UK working with Ecosse Flims as a development producer, and producer Raquelle David will spend six months in Toronto working with Niv Fichman at Rhombus Media..
Also through the Talent Escalator Program, Screen Australia will assist directors Cris Jones,...
- 5/20/2013
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The future of the Queensland-based Asia Pacific Screen Awards remains in doubt as the government considers future funding. Oscar-winning producer Melanie Coombs argues that Apsa make a significant contribution to the industry which should be protected..
The annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards event is so much more than an awards night. As we enter the 'Asian Century', the APSAs connect Australian filmmakers with our peers in our region. The insights and cultural understandings that come from this bringing together of internationally awarded and celebrated filmmakers are invaluable to me as an Australia filmmaker and to my peers.
The Mpa Apsa Academy Film Fund is the most obvious example of this: it has awarded eight development grants in two years and seven of those projects have been made . one of which is the Oscar-winning A Separation. This makes it the most successful film development fund probably in the world, but certainly in Australia.
The annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards event is so much more than an awards night. As we enter the 'Asian Century', the APSAs connect Australian filmmakers with our peers in our region. The insights and cultural understandings that come from this bringing together of internationally awarded and celebrated filmmakers are invaluable to me as an Australia filmmaker and to my peers.
The Mpa Apsa Academy Film Fund is the most obvious example of this: it has awarded eight development grants in two years and seven of those projects have been made . one of which is the Oscar-winning A Separation. This makes it the most successful film development fund probably in the world, but certainly in Australia.
- 12/4/2012
- by Melanie Coombs, producer
- IF.com.au
The filmmakers behind Love and Fury have the blessing of producer Melanie Coombs (Mary and Max) for the documentary about the clandestine love affair between her grandfather, the influential public servant Nugget Coombs, and poet, environmentalist and Aboriginal rights campaigner Judith Wright.
.Grandpa was a public figure and for a lot of people this is a very interesting story,. Coombs told If Magazine.
.We all knew about it [the affair] but my grandmother was a very observant Catholic and while there was talk of them divorcing at some point early on in the Nugget/Judith affair I think that it was decided that it was best for the whole of both the Wright and Coombs families for it to be this secret..
Coombs was one of the first people the filmmakers . director John Hughes (What I Have Written), who wrote the script with Penelope Chai, and producer Philippa Campey (Murundak: Songs of...
.Grandpa was a public figure and for a lot of people this is a very interesting story,. Coombs told If Magazine.
.We all knew about it [the affair] but my grandmother was a very observant Catholic and while there was talk of them divorcing at some point early on in the Nugget/Judith affair I think that it was decided that it was best for the whole of both the Wright and Coombs families for it to be this secret..
Coombs was one of the first people the filmmakers . director John Hughes (What I Have Written), who wrote the script with Penelope Chai, and producer Philippa Campey (Murundak: Songs of...
- 7/4/2012
- by Sandy George
- IF.com.au
A musical from Red Dog director Kriv Stenders, a feature about the choir of hard knocks directed by Jonathan Teplitzky and an untitled project from Joel and Nash Edgerton are three of 16 features that have received a share of $400,000 in development support from Screen Australia. Of these 16 projects, ten are new additions to the development slate, while the remaining six have been receiving ongoing assistance. Screen Australia.s head of development Martha Coleman said in a statement that the calibre of features was outstanding. .There.s a general acknowledgement from the marketplace that our filmmakers have raised the bar and I think the next wave of films in the coming years will be really interesting..
Synchronicity, which is written by Marissa Goodhill,. produced by Leesa Kahn and Catriona Hughes and has Kriv Stenders attached as director, is a musical set to the songs of Kylie Minogue. It follows 17-year-old Kylie...
Synchronicity, which is written by Marissa Goodhill,. produced by Leesa Kahn and Catriona Hughes and has Kriv Stenders attached as director, is a musical set to the songs of Kylie Minogue. It follows 17-year-old Kylie...
- 5/15/2012
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
Some of Australia’s biggest names in film-making have received funding for new projects in the latest round of Screen Australia’s single-project feature development.
The funding round for script development has supported 16 projects totalling $400,000, ten new projects and six which receive continued support.
Martha Coleman, Screen Australia’s head of development said: “The calibre of feature projects coming to the Development Department is outstanding. There’s a general acknowledgement from the marketplace that our film-makers have raised the bar and I think the next wave of films in the coming years will be really interesting.”
Film-makers include Julia Leigh, the Edgerton brothers, Abe Forsythe and Kriv Stenders.
Julia Leigh is to direct her second film, Disquiet following on from Sleeping Beauty, which won best direction in a feature film at the Australian Director’s Guild Awards on Friday night. The psychological horror will be adapted by Leigh from her book of the same name.
The funding round for script development has supported 16 projects totalling $400,000, ten new projects and six which receive continued support.
Martha Coleman, Screen Australia’s head of development said: “The calibre of feature projects coming to the Development Department is outstanding. There’s a general acknowledgement from the marketplace that our film-makers have raised the bar and I think the next wave of films in the coming years will be really interesting.”
Film-makers include Julia Leigh, the Edgerton brothers, Abe Forsythe and Kriv Stenders.
Julia Leigh is to direct her second film, Disquiet following on from Sleeping Beauty, which won best direction in a feature film at the Australian Director’s Guild Awards on Friday night. The psychological horror will be adapted by Leigh from her book of the same name.
- 5/14/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Screen Australia has announced a new round of funding for 18 filmmaking teams to develop feature projects including teams led by producer Emile Sherman (The King’s Speech), director Kriv Stenders (Red Dog) and director Gillian Armstrong.
The funding totals $500,000.
Sherman is working with Clayton Jacobsen (Kenny) to develop crime film The Docks with writers Jamie Browne and Kris Mrksa.
Auteur director and cancer sufferer Paul Cox is working with executive producer Shaun Miller and producer Maggie Miles to develop his own memoir Tales from the Cancer Ward into drama script Force of Destiny.
Screen Australia also continues its investment in producer Marian Macgowan’s The Great, with writer Tony McNamara and director Gillian Armstrong on the adaptation of McNamara’s play of the same name.
Red Dog director Kriv Stenders works with his Lucky Country writer Andy Cox to develop their comic romance script F*****! A Romance.
Screen Australia has...
The funding totals $500,000.
Sherman is working with Clayton Jacobsen (Kenny) to develop crime film The Docks with writers Jamie Browne and Kris Mrksa.
Auteur director and cancer sufferer Paul Cox is working with executive producer Shaun Miller and producer Maggie Miles to develop his own memoir Tales from the Cancer Ward into drama script Force of Destiny.
Screen Australia also continues its investment in producer Marian Macgowan’s The Great, with writer Tony McNamara and director Gillian Armstrong on the adaptation of McNamara’s play of the same name.
Red Dog director Kriv Stenders works with his Lucky Country writer Andy Cox to develop their comic romance script F*****! A Romance.
Screen Australia has...
- 12/12/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
With a line up of voice talents including Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Barry Humphries, the cinematic release of Adam Elliot’s Mary And Max is something we’re very happy to tell you about.
The film is getting its UK release next week and there’s a Q&A with Producer Melanie Coombs at the Odeon Covent Garden on the 22nd of October.
Mary And Max is a clayography feature film from Academy Award® winning writer/director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs, featuring the voice talents of Toni Collette, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Humphries and Eric Bana.
Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, Mary And Max tells of a pen-pal relationship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle (Collette), a chubby, lonely 8-year-old living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz (Hoffman), a severely obese, 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in the chaos of New York City.
The film is getting its UK release next week and there’s a Q&A with Producer Melanie Coombs at the Odeon Covent Garden on the 22nd of October.
Mary And Max is a clayography feature film from Academy Award® winning writer/director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs, featuring the voice talents of Toni Collette, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Humphries and Eric Bana.
Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, Mary And Max tells of a pen-pal relationship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle (Collette), a chubby, lonely 8-year-old living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz (Hoffman), a severely obese, 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in the chaos of New York City.
- 10/18/2010
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The animated short Masterpiece by Vivien Mason has won Screenrights’ Rights on Screen competition.
The film, which compares the creation of a screen production to childbirth, aims to remind producers to register their work for royalties.
Participating films were asked to communicate the importance of registration, ideally in pre-production, for Screenrights to collect and deliver royalties to producers.
The judging panel for the competition included Ian Collie (Essential Media & Entertainment), Brain Beaton (Artemis International), Melanie Coombs (Melodrama Pictures), Veronica Fury (Fury Productions), Megan McMurchy (SuitCase Films) and Tony Wright (December Films).
Mason created the animated short with a digital camera and her computer; she won a $2,500 cash award.
The film, which compares the creation of a screen production to childbirth, aims to remind producers to register their work for royalties.
Participating films were asked to communicate the importance of registration, ideally in pre-production, for Screenrights to collect and deliver royalties to producers.
The judging panel for the competition included Ian Collie (Essential Media & Entertainment), Brain Beaton (Artemis International), Melanie Coombs (Melodrama Pictures), Veronica Fury (Fury Productions), Megan McMurchy (SuitCase Films) and Tony Wright (December Films).
Mason created the animated short with a digital camera and her computer; she won a $2,500 cash award.
- 5/3/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
IFC Films has sent over four clips from Adam Elliot’s animated “Mary and Max”, which follows the tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary (Bethany Whitmore), a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. In the movies it’s cute, but in real life the cops kick down your door for it. Go figure. Mary And Max is a clayography feature film from Academy Award® winning writer/director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs, featuring the voice talents of Toni Collette, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Humphries and Eric Bana. Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, Mary And Max tells of a pen-pal relationship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle (Collette), a chubby, lonely 8-year-old living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz (Hoffman), a severely obese, 44-year-old Jewish man...
- 10/26/2009
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
See the trailer and a mime animation short from IFC's "Mary and Max" claymation film featuring the voice talents of Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries, Bethany Whitmore and Renée Geyer. Adam Elliot directs from his own screenplay. Melanie Coombs produces. A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary (Collette), a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max (Hoffman), a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.
- 10/19/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The clay-animated film Mary and Max, which we first told you about back in October, will open the 25th Sundance Film Festival. Mary and Max features the voices of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Barry Humphries and Eric Bana and is the feature directorial debut of director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs, the team behind 2004's Oscar-winning animated short Harvie Krumpet. It will have its world premiere Jan. 15 in Park City, Utah. It’s only the second animated film in the fest's history to be selected for the prestigious opening slot, following 2007's Chicago 10. Mary and Max is a simple tale of pen-friendship between two very different people; Mary Dinkle (Collette), a little chubby lonely eight year old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horovitz (Hoffman), a 44 year old, severely obese, Jewish man with Asperger's Syndrome living in the chaos of New York. The Sundance...
- 11/20/2008
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
New York -- The 25th Sundance Film Festival's slate is taking shape with the clay animated opening night film "Mary and Max" starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette.
The Aussie feature debut of director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs, the team behind 2004's Oscar-winning animated short "Harvie Krumpet," will have its world premiere Jan. 15 in Park City, Utah. "Max" is only the second animated film in the fest's history to be selected for the prestigious slot, following 2007's "Chicago 10."
"Dame Edna" creator Barry Humphries narrates the story of a pen-pal friendship between a lonely, 8-year-old girl (Collette) living in suburban Melbourne and a morbidly obese New Yorker (Hoffman). The tale spans two decades and is far from children's fare, covering such topics as autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, obesity and kleptomania.
"This portrait of a global friendship between two marvelously dysfunctional people is an exceptionally moving, funny and thought-provoking work,...
The Aussie feature debut of director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs, the team behind 2004's Oscar-winning animated short "Harvie Krumpet," will have its world premiere Jan. 15 in Park City, Utah. "Max" is only the second animated film in the fest's history to be selected for the prestigious slot, following 2007's "Chicago 10."
"Dame Edna" creator Barry Humphries narrates the story of a pen-pal friendship between a lonely, 8-year-old girl (Collette) living in suburban Melbourne and a morbidly obese New Yorker (Hoffman). The tale spans two decades and is far from children's fare, covering such topics as autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, obesity and kleptomania.
"This portrait of a global friendship between two marvelously dysfunctional people is an exceptionally moving, funny and thought-provoking work,...
- 11/19/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Filed under: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Casting
In one corner, we have Toni Collette and Philip Seymour Hoffman (doesn't that sound good already?). The Hollywood Reporter posts that Psh has just signed his voice up to star opposite Collette in Mary and Max, a claymation project from Down Under. Sort of like a claymation version of Love Letters, the film focuses on two penpals who foster a friendship over 20 years while one lives in Australia and the other in the Us. I don't know if this is a tale of classic pen to paper, or something a little more modern with late-night Internet session while one goes to bed and the other rises. To make things even more interesting -- it's the feature debut for Harvie Krumpet Oscar winners Adam Elliot and Melanie Coombs.
In the other corner, there's one of the strangest couplings I've read in a while -- Helen Hunt and Liev Schreiber.
In one corner, we have Toni Collette and Philip Seymour Hoffman (doesn't that sound good already?). The Hollywood Reporter posts that Psh has just signed his voice up to star opposite Collette in Mary and Max, a claymation project from Down Under. Sort of like a claymation version of Love Letters, the film focuses on two penpals who foster a friendship over 20 years while one lives in Australia and the other in the Us. I don't know if this is a tale of classic pen to paper, or something a little more modern with late-night Internet session while one goes to bed and the other rises. To make things even more interesting -- it's the feature debut for Harvie Krumpet Oscar winners Adam Elliot and Melanie Coombs.
In the other corner, there's one of the strangest couplings I've read in a while -- Helen Hunt and Liev Schreiber.
- 10/4/2008
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Philip Seymour Hoffman, aka The Most Legit Actor In Hollywood, is officially a part of the movie Mary and Max. Hoffman is set to voice the lead role of Max in this claymation feature from the makers of the Oscar winning short "Harvie Krumpet." The movie will follow a pen pal friendship between the two title characters. Max is an obese Jewish-American man with Asperger's Syndrome and Mary is an overweight 8 year old in Melbourne, Australia. Adam Elliot will write and direct while Melanie Coombs produces. Although this is the first feature film for the team, they also collaborated on the short "Harvie Krumpet," which won in its category at the 2004 Oscars. Icon Entertainment International CEO, Mark Gooder is apparently super excited about nabbing "The Most Legit Actor In Hollywood," and squeals "That one of the most .in demand' actors in the world would agree to voice an independent Australian...
- 10/2/2008
- cinemablend.com
Philip Seymour Hoffman is set to voice one of two lead characters in Adam Elliot’s upcoming claymation project “Mary and Max,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Hoffman will lend his voice to Max, a 44-year-old man living in New York who exchanges letters with the lonely 8-year-old Mary (voiced by Toni Collette) in Melbourne.
The trade also says the film is narrated by Australian legend Barry Humphries and features a cameo from Eric Bana, among others.
“Mary and Max” marks the feature debut of Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs, who won an Oscar for their 2003 short flick “Harvie Krumpet.”
Hoffman recently starred in “Charlie Wilson’s War,” “The Savages” and “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.” He will next be seen in “Synecdoche, New York,” followed by “Doubt.”...
Hoffman will lend his voice to Max, a 44-year-old man living in New York who exchanges letters with the lonely 8-year-old Mary (voiced by Toni Collette) in Melbourne.
The trade also says the film is narrated by Australian legend Barry Humphries and features a cameo from Eric Bana, among others.
“Mary and Max” marks the feature debut of Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs, who won an Oscar for their 2003 short flick “Harvie Krumpet.”
Hoffman recently starred in “Charlie Wilson’s War,” “The Savages” and “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.” He will next be seen in “Synecdoche, New York,” followed by “Doubt.”...
- 10/1/2008
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
London -- Philip Seymour Hoffman has joined the voice cast of Aussie claymation project "Mary and Max," taking the lead role of Max, the film's backers said Wednesday.
The feature debut from the Oscar-winning duo of writer-director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs stars Toni Collette as Mary. Elliot and Coombs won the 2003 short-film Oscar for "Harvie Krumpet."
The film is narrated by Australian legend Barry Humphries and features cameos from Eric Bana, singer Renee Geyer and local music icon Ian "Molly" Meldrum along with Julie Forsyth and John Flaus.
Icon Film Distribution CEO Mark Gooder described the addition of Hoffman as "the icing on the cake."
The movie details the story of pen pals -- one living in Australia, the other in the U.S. -- whose friendship grows over 20 years.
The project is being financed by Screen Australia, Adirondack Pictures and Film Victoria and sold internationally by Icon Entertainment International.
The feature debut from the Oscar-winning duo of writer-director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs stars Toni Collette as Mary. Elliot and Coombs won the 2003 short-film Oscar for "Harvie Krumpet."
The film is narrated by Australian legend Barry Humphries and features cameos from Eric Bana, singer Renee Geyer and local music icon Ian "Molly" Meldrum along with Julie Forsyth and John Flaus.
Icon Film Distribution CEO Mark Gooder described the addition of Hoffman as "the icing on the cake."
The movie details the story of pen pals -- one living in Australia, the other in the U.S. -- whose friendship grows over 20 years.
The project is being financed by Screen Australia, Adirondack Pictures and Film Victoria and sold internationally by Icon Entertainment International.
- 10/1/2008
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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