Exclusive: Emmy and Golden Globe winner Jeremy Piven, Tricia Helfer, SAG Award Nominee Ryan Kwanten and Nick Wechsler are set to headline Primitive War, Luke Sparke’s sci-fi horror adaptation of Ethan Pettus’ sci-fi military book series.
The film also includes actors Anthony Ingruber, Aaron Glenane, Carlos Sanson Jr, Ana Thu Nguyen (Mortal Kombat 2), Adolphus Waylee (Nautilus), Richard Brancatisano, Marcus Johnson and Jake Ryan.
Primitive War follows an elite recon unit known as the Vulture Squad. In 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War they are sent to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing Green Beret platoon. They soon discover they are not alone.
The film also includes actors Anthony Ingruber, Aaron Glenane, Carlos Sanson Jr, Ana Thu Nguyen (Mortal Kombat 2), Adolphus Waylee (Nautilus), Richard Brancatisano, Marcus Johnson and Jake Ryan.
Primitive War follows an elite recon unit known as the Vulture Squad. In 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War they are sent to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing Green Beret platoon. They soon discover they are not alone.
- 3/27/2024
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Principal photography has begun on Take My Hand, a romantic drama feature starring Radha Mitchell (Finding Neverland), Adam Demos (UnReal), Bart Edwards (The Witcher), Meg Fraser (Bloody Hell) and former Big Brother contestant Xavier Molyneux making his film debut.
Former Neighbours star and singer Natalie Bassingthwaite (Elvis) is also among cast.
Director Raftopolous co-wrote the screenplay with Dave Paterson (2067) based on the true love story between himself and his current wife.
Take My Hand follows vibrant young Australian woman Laura, who forges a successful banking career in London and seemingly has the perfect marriage. Her world is turned upside down when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and her husband starts to show his true colors. When a tragic accident leaves her a widowed mother with three sons, she returns home to Australia, and is reunited with Michael, a high school friend and a divorcee with one daughter, who...
Former Neighbours star and singer Natalie Bassingthwaite (Elvis) is also among cast.
Director Raftopolous co-wrote the screenplay with Dave Paterson (2067) based on the true love story between himself and his current wife.
Take My Hand follows vibrant young Australian woman Laura, who forges a successful banking career in London and seemingly has the perfect marriage. Her world is turned upside down when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and her husband starts to show his true colors. When a tragic accident leaves her a widowed mother with three sons, she returns home to Australia, and is reunited with Michael, a high school friend and a divorcee with one daughter, who...
- 3/23/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Filming has begun on Tom Waller’s true-crime thriller, “Kiss of the Con Queen,” with real-life victim Eoin O’Brien (“The Last Full Measure”) taking the lead role. He plays actor duped by an impersonator to travel to Indonesia on the promise of auditions for a leading role in a DC origins series, only to discover that he had been scammed by the infamous Con Queen of Hollywood.
In the real world, the alleged perpetrator, 41-year-old Indonesian food blogger Hargobind Tahilramani, is accused of pretending to be both male and female Hollywood executives and having swindled hundreds of victims of millions of dollars. He was arrested in 2020 after an FBI manhunt and is currently in prison in the U.K. where he is fighting against possible extradition to the U.S. The U.K. court hearings have been dramatic and disturbing.
A chunk of the filming on Waller’s film has already...
In the real world, the alleged perpetrator, 41-year-old Indonesian food blogger Hargobind Tahilramani, is accused of pretending to be both male and female Hollywood executives and having swindled hundreds of victims of millions of dollars. He was arrested in 2020 after an FBI manhunt and is currently in prison in the U.K. where he is fighting against possible extradition to the U.S. The U.K. court hearings have been dramatic and disturbing.
A chunk of the filming on Waller’s film has already...
- 3/14/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
‘Occupation: Rainfall’ Dop Wade Muller and Luke Sparke.
Aiming to cash in on the anticipated global success of Occupation: Rainfall, filmmaker Luke Sparke is developing a raft of features and TV series spanning horror, drama, time-travel and comedy.
The writer-producer-director is assembling a team of writers on these projects, all of which he intends to shoot in Australia.
“On Occupation: Rainfall I had an amazing team working with me and I’m excited to keep moving forward with them,” he tells If.
The sequel to his 2018 sci-fi thriller Occupation will have its world premiere at Monster Fest in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, followed by a cinema release via Monster Pictures.
The slate includes Blitzkrieg, a World War 2 thriller about a group of bomber pilots who crash land in Germany and must survive the horrors they find, and The 34th Battalion, which will follow four friends from Maitland in...
Aiming to cash in on the anticipated global success of Occupation: Rainfall, filmmaker Luke Sparke is developing a raft of features and TV series spanning horror, drama, time-travel and comedy.
The writer-producer-director is assembling a team of writers on these projects, all of which he intends to shoot in Australia.
“On Occupation: Rainfall I had an amazing team working with me and I’m excited to keep moving forward with them,” he tells If.
The sequel to his 2018 sci-fi thriller Occupation will have its world premiere at Monster Fest in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, followed by a cinema release via Monster Pictures.
The slate includes Blitzkrieg, a World War 2 thriller about a group of bomber pilots who crash land in Germany and must survive the horrors they find, and The 34th Battalion, which will follow four friends from Maitland in...
- 8/16/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
The 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue was one of the most shocking and captivating stories the world experienced during the last years, as it captivated global interest for the 17 days the operation to rescue the twelve members of the football team (aged 11 to 16) and their 25-year-old assistant from the cave they were trapped in, lasted. The rescue efforts involved over 10,000 people, including more than 100 divers, scores of rescue workers, representatives from about 100 governmental agencies, 900 police officers, and 2,000 soldiers; and it required ten police helicopters, seven ambulances, more than 700 diving cylinders, and the pumping of more than a billion liters of water from the caves. Tom Waller focuses on the people and the events of the rescue while he dedicates the movie to Beirut Pakbara, a rescue diver who died during the operation.
The film deals with the events that led to the trapping of the team very briefly,...
The film deals with the events that led to the trapping of the team very briefly,...
- 8/5/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The films depicts the story of Chavoret, starting in the 60’s, when he was a guitar player in a rock n roll band, to the woman he met and fall in love with, and to the family he had with her, and the job he got in the prison in order to support them. Then, his initial transfer to the death squad, although as an assistant and not an executioner yet, and his final appointment as main executioner, particularly due to his family’s financial problems, since this line of work included a raise of 2000 baht. Lastly, his discharge from the prison, the books he wrote and his efforts to find solace from the guilt he suffered from the 55 executions he performed, to his death due to cancer.
In his tumultuous life as correctional officer, four are the events that stand out, with the first three being...
In his tumultuous life as correctional officer, four are the events that stand out, with the first three being...
- 1/6/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Trystan Go and Dan Ewing in Occupation: Rainfall.
Writer-director Luke Sparke always intended to shoot Occupation: Rainfall, the sequel to his 2018 sci-fi thriller Occupation, in three blocks.
However lengthy delays in the second and third blocks resulted in fresh additions to the cast in Jet Tranter, Mark Coles Smith, David Roberts and Dena Kaplan.
Tranter (Tidelands) took over from Stephanie Jacobson as a key leader on the human resistance who tries to end the war with aliens.
Coles Smith is a commando with Roberts as another resistance leader and Kaplan as a fighter pilot.
They joined the previously announced cast of Dan Ewing, Temuera Morrison, Ken Jeong, Daniel Gillies, Lawrence Makoare, Vince Colosimo, Trystan Go, Zac Garred, Kat Risteska, Ben Chisholm, Erin Conner, Izzy Stevens and John Reynolds.
Filming wrapped in December after delays caused by a dispute with the Meaa. “With the film being so big, we always planned...
Writer-director Luke Sparke always intended to shoot Occupation: Rainfall, the sequel to his 2018 sci-fi thriller Occupation, in three blocks.
However lengthy delays in the second and third blocks resulted in fresh additions to the cast in Jet Tranter, Mark Coles Smith, David Roberts and Dena Kaplan.
Tranter (Tidelands) took over from Stephanie Jacobson as a key leader on the human resistance who tries to end the war with aliens.
Coles Smith is a commando with Roberts as another resistance leader and Kaplan as a fighter pilot.
They joined the previously announced cast of Dan Ewing, Temuera Morrison, Ken Jeong, Daniel Gillies, Lawrence Makoare, Vince Colosimo, Trystan Go, Zac Garred, Kat Risteska, Ben Chisholm, Erin Conner, Izzy Stevens and John Reynolds.
Filming wrapped in December after delays caused by a dispute with the Meaa. “With the film being so big, we always planned...
- 1/6/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Elizabeth Rice (Mad Men) and Matthew Settle (Band Of Brothers) will star in Singaporean director Kelvin Tong’s English-language horror film The Faith Of Anna Waters.
The film is produced by Peter Poon, Leon Tong and Kat Goh under the Boku Films banner. Andre Morgan is executive producing through Ruddy Morgan Organization, along with Hong Kong-based Sun Entertainment Culture’s Alvin Chau and Alex Dong. Singapore’s Media Development Authority is supporting the film.
Scheduled to start shooting in early September, the film follows a female crime reporter who travels from Chicago to Asia to investigate the apparent suicide of her sister. At her sister’s house she encounters a string of other bizarre suicides involving emails, internet videos and allusions to the Tower of Babel.
The cast also includes Singapore’s Adrian Pang and Jaymee Ong, as well as Australian actors Colin Borgonon and Adina Herz. Crew includes Australian DoP Wade Muller, production designer...
The film is produced by Peter Poon, Leon Tong and Kat Goh under the Boku Films banner. Andre Morgan is executive producing through Ruddy Morgan Organization, along with Hong Kong-based Sun Entertainment Culture’s Alvin Chau and Alex Dong. Singapore’s Media Development Authority is supporting the film.
Scheduled to start shooting in early September, the film follows a female crime reporter who travels from Chicago to Asia to investigate the apparent suicide of her sister. At her sister’s house she encounters a string of other bizarre suicides involving emails, internet videos and allusions to the Tower of Babel.
The cast also includes Singapore’s Adrian Pang and Jaymee Ong, as well as Australian actors Colin Borgonon and Adina Herz. Crew includes Australian DoP Wade Muller, production designer...
- 9/3/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
That Nicolas Winding Refn's "Only God Forgives" is one of our 10 Most Anticipated Films Of The 2013 Cannes Film Festival is pretty much a no-brainer. You already know everything there is to know about the Ryan Gosling starrer, that finds him on a quest for vengeance in Bangkok, after his brother is murdered, so let's shine a bit of light on one of the co-stars in the movie, Vithaya Pansringarm. A couple new pics of the actor in the film -- where he plays the dangerous and mysterious policeman Chang -- have landed, but it might surprise you to learn that he's a relative newcomer. Pansringarm actually studied and worked in graphic design in the United States, before moving back to Bangkok in 1987, where he opened a dance studio with his wife, a ballet dancer. He only stumbled into acting when he was asked by Aussie cinematographer/director Wade Muller...
- 5/10/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Written and Directed by Prachya Pinkaew
Featuring Sahajak Boonthanakit, Djimon Hounsou, Kevin Bacon, Weeraprawat Wongpuapan
Elephant White, the newest film from Prachya Pinkaew (Ong-bak), is a beautifully shot albeit derivative action yarn with none of the panache exhibited in the director’s previous films.
After his daughter is abducted and then murdered by members of a sex-trafficking syndicate in Thailand, Rajahdan (Sahajak Boonthanakit) hires an imposing mercenary named Church (played by Gladiator’s Djimon Hounsou) to take them out. Church visits an arms dealer called Jimmy the Brit (a slumming Kevin Bacon) and stocks up on hardcore weaponry before heading into Bangkok to shoot some bad guys. After blowing up his targets in fiery action-film fashion he befriends Mae (Jirantanin Pitakporntrakul) a young sex worker who might be a spy from one of the opposing slave-trade syndicates. Church uncovers a far more complicated hierarchy responsible for the death of Rajahdan’s daughter,...
Featuring Sahajak Boonthanakit, Djimon Hounsou, Kevin Bacon, Weeraprawat Wongpuapan
Elephant White, the newest film from Prachya Pinkaew (Ong-bak), is a beautifully shot albeit derivative action yarn with none of the panache exhibited in the director’s previous films.
After his daughter is abducted and then murdered by members of a sex-trafficking syndicate in Thailand, Rajahdan (Sahajak Boonthanakit) hires an imposing mercenary named Church (played by Gladiator’s Djimon Hounsou) to take them out. Church visits an arms dealer called Jimmy the Brit (a slumming Kevin Bacon) and stocks up on hardcore weaponry before heading into Bangkok to shoot some bad guys. After blowing up his targets in fiery action-film fashion he befriends Mae (Jirantanin Pitakporntrakul) a young sex worker who might be a spy from one of the opposing slave-trade syndicates. Church uncovers a far more complicated hierarchy responsible for the death of Rajahdan’s daughter,...
- 5/18/2011
- by Bradley Harding
- Planet Fury
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