‘Back of the Net.’
The Disney Channel has acquired the Us rights to Louise Alston’s young adult drama Back of the Net, which stars Sofia Wylie.
Produced by the Steve Jaggi Company, the film follows Wylie as American science student Cory Bailey, who finds herself stuck at a soccer academy in Sydney for the summer.
Despite her lack of interest in the sport she is determined to end her team’s losing streak and beat the school’s mean girl Evie (Tiarnie Coupland).
Scripted by Us writers Casie Tabanou and Alison Spuck McNeeley and also featuring Trae Robin, Gemma Chua-Tran, Ashleigh Maree Ross, Yasmin Honeychurch, Christopher Kirby and Kate Box, it will premiere on the Disney Channel and DisneyNow at 8 pm Edt/Pdt on Saturday June 15.
The network was the natural home for the movie as Wylie starred as Buffy Driscoll in Disney Channel’s Andi Mack series. She...
The Disney Channel has acquired the Us rights to Louise Alston’s young adult drama Back of the Net, which stars Sofia Wylie.
Produced by the Steve Jaggi Company, the film follows Wylie as American science student Cory Bailey, who finds herself stuck at a soccer academy in Sydney for the summer.
Despite her lack of interest in the sport she is determined to end her team’s losing streak and beat the school’s mean girl Evie (Tiarnie Coupland).
Scripted by Us writers Casie Tabanou and Alison Spuck McNeeley and also featuring Trae Robin, Gemma Chua-Tran, Ashleigh Maree Ross, Yasmin Honeychurch, Christopher Kirby and Kate Box, it will premiere on the Disney Channel and DisneyNow at 8 pm Edt/Pdt on Saturday June 15.
The network was the natural home for the movie as Wylie starred as Buffy Driscoll in Disney Channel’s Andi Mack series. She...
- 5/20/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘The Curse of the Weeping Woman’
New Line/DC Entertainment’s family superhero adventure Shazam! easily retained the top spot in its third weekend virtually by default.
One reason for the dreary Easter weekend trading: Distributors were unwilling to launch films for fear of being crushed by the Disney/Marvel juggernaut Avengers: End Game, which opens on Wednesday.
But an underlying factor is the generally lousy performance of Hollywood films this year. In the Us pundits described the Easter business as the worst since 2003. The Us box office for the year to date stands at $2.9 billion, down 16 per cent on 2018.
The only new wide release was the James Wan-produced horror pic The Curse of the Weeping Woman (aka The Curse of La Llorona), which opened at No. 1 in the Us but was a distant fifth here.
Bollywood romantic drama Kalank and Korean thriller Burning fared best among the specialty...
New Line/DC Entertainment’s family superhero adventure Shazam! easily retained the top spot in its third weekend virtually by default.
One reason for the dreary Easter weekend trading: Distributors were unwilling to launch films for fear of being crushed by the Disney/Marvel juggernaut Avengers: End Game, which opens on Wednesday.
But an underlying factor is the generally lousy performance of Hollywood films this year. In the Us pundits described the Easter business as the worst since 2003. The Us box office for the year to date stands at $2.9 billion, down 16 per cent on 2018.
The only new wide release was the James Wan-produced horror pic The Curse of the Weeping Woman (aka The Curse of La Llorona), which opened at No. 1 in the Us but was a distant fifth here.
Bollywood romantic drama Kalank and Korean thriller Burning fared best among the specialty...
- 4/22/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Back of the Net’
Facing zero competition from the new releases, New Line/DC Entertainment’s family superhero adventure Shazam! continued its reign at Australian cinemas last weekend.
Lionsgate’s Hellboy reboot, Universal’s comedy Little, Fox’s romantic drama The Aftermath and Laika Studios/Roadshow’s stop-motion animated comedy Missing Link all struggled, generally mirroring their Us results.
Meanwhile Umbrella’s Back of the Net, a young adult drama directed by Louise Alston and scripted by Casie Tabanou and Alison Spuck, launched in Queensland and Victoria, netting $14,000 from limited sessions on 38 screens.
Don’t read too much into that because the film starring Sofia Wylie (the Disney Channel’s Andi Mack) as a soccer academy student who locks horns with the school’s star player Evie (Tiarnie Coupland) is rolling out over the next few weeks, dated for the school holidays.
Also, producer Steve Jaggi is soon expected to...
Facing zero competition from the new releases, New Line/DC Entertainment’s family superhero adventure Shazam! continued its reign at Australian cinemas last weekend.
Lionsgate’s Hellboy reboot, Universal’s comedy Little, Fox’s romantic drama The Aftermath and Laika Studios/Roadshow’s stop-motion animated comedy Missing Link all struggled, generally mirroring their Us results.
Meanwhile Umbrella’s Back of the Net, a young adult drama directed by Louise Alston and scripted by Casie Tabanou and Alison Spuck, launched in Queensland and Victoria, netting $14,000 from limited sessions on 38 screens.
Don’t read too much into that because the film starring Sofia Wylie (the Disney Channel’s Andi Mack) as a soccer academy student who locks horns with the school’s star player Evie (Tiarnie Coupland) is rolling out over the next few weeks, dated for the school holidays.
Also, producer Steve Jaggi is soon expected to...
- 4/15/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Terry Serio in ‘On Halloween’
Filmmaker Timothy Boyle decided to shoot a micro-budgeted horror movie about a killer clown in between two other projects.
Operating virtually as a one-man band, Boyle wrote, produced, directed and photographed On Halloween. His associate producer Jeremy Cook was on hand at times to help move the lights and organise the cast.
“It was just me, my camera and my actors on set,” the filmmaker tells If. “It was actually liberating, the best experience of my career and the closest thing I’ve ever had to truly experiencing being an auteur.”
Inspired by the creepy clown sightings of 2016, which prompted some people to go clown hunting, he assembled a cast including Giselle van der Wiel, Brandon Paterson, Conor Fogarty, Terry Serio, Ivan Topic, Aaron J March, Patch May and Ezekiel Simat.
Giselle plays Jordan Madden, a journalist in search of the truth behind a series...
Filmmaker Timothy Boyle decided to shoot a micro-budgeted horror movie about a killer clown in between two other projects.
Operating virtually as a one-man band, Boyle wrote, produced, directed and photographed On Halloween. His associate producer Jeremy Cook was on hand at times to help move the lights and organise the cast.
“It was just me, my camera and my actors on set,” the filmmaker tells If. “It was actually liberating, the best experience of my career and the closest thing I’ve ever had to truly experiencing being an auteur.”
Inspired by the creepy clown sightings of 2016, which prompted some people to go clown hunting, he assembled a cast including Giselle van der Wiel, Brandon Paterson, Conor Fogarty, Terry Serio, Ivan Topic, Aaron J March, Patch May and Ezekiel Simat.
Giselle plays Jordan Madden, a journalist in search of the truth behind a series...
- 3/13/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Damien Power (Photo credit: Shutterstock).
In his Hollywood debut Damien Power will direct No Exit, a thriller based on a novel by Taylor Adams, for 20th Century Fox.
Adapted by Andrew Barrer and Gabe Ferrari (Ant-Man and the Wasp), the plot follows college student Darby Thorne, who, while on the way home to visit her mother, gets stranded in a blizzard at a highway rest stop with four strangers.
During the night Thorne discovers a little girl locked in the boot of one of the cars but she doesn’t know whose car. Without cell or phone reception and trapped by the snow, she must figure out who is the kidnapper.
The producer is Scott Frank, who wrote the screenplay of Fox’s Wolverine adventure Logan, which starred Hugh Jackman. Frank also created, wrote and directed Netflix’s Western series Godless.
It will be Power’s second feature following his debut Killing Ground,...
In his Hollywood debut Damien Power will direct No Exit, a thriller based on a novel by Taylor Adams, for 20th Century Fox.
Adapted by Andrew Barrer and Gabe Ferrari (Ant-Man and the Wasp), the plot follows college student Darby Thorne, who, while on the way home to visit her mother, gets stranded in a blizzard at a highway rest stop with four strangers.
During the night Thorne discovers a little girl locked in the boot of one of the cars but she doesn’t know whose car. Without cell or phone reception and trapped by the snow, she must figure out who is the kidnapper.
The producer is Scott Frank, who wrote the screenplay of Fox’s Wolverine adventure Logan, which starred Hugh Jackman. Frank also created, wrote and directed Netflix’s Western series Godless.
It will be Power’s second feature following his debut Killing Ground,...
- 3/12/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘In Like Flynn.’
Robert Slaviero has joined Umbrella Entertainment as head of sales as the distributor continues its commitment to release a sizable slate of Australian feature films and documentaries.
While some distributors have largely shied away from handling local films Umbrella is keeping the faith with three titles scheduled to open in October and eight on the slate for 2019.
“We like working with people who are passionate about their work and who have a commercial sensibility,” Umbrella MD Jeff Harrison tells If, pointing to collaborators including Causeway Films’ Kristina Ceyton and Sam Jennings, Catherine Scott, Carver Films’ Sarah Shaw and Anna McLeish, Paul Ireland and Damian Hill, Steve Jaggi and Justin Dix. “We are very happy with what we’re doing.”
Head of acquisitions Ari Harrison says the firm evaluates up to 50 scripts at any one time and he laments the shortage of projects aimed at older females. “People...
Robert Slaviero has joined Umbrella Entertainment as head of sales as the distributor continues its commitment to release a sizable slate of Australian feature films and documentaries.
While some distributors have largely shied away from handling local films Umbrella is keeping the faith with three titles scheduled to open in October and eight on the slate for 2019.
“We like working with people who are passionate about their work and who have a commercial sensibility,” Umbrella MD Jeff Harrison tells If, pointing to collaborators including Causeway Films’ Kristina Ceyton and Sam Jennings, Catherine Scott, Carver Films’ Sarah Shaw and Anna McLeish, Paul Ireland and Damian Hill, Steve Jaggi and Justin Dix. “We are very happy with what we’re doing.”
Head of acquisitions Ari Harrison says the firm evaluates up to 50 scripts at any one time and he laments the shortage of projects aimed at older females. “People...
- 9/18/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
The Australian horror film Killing Ground has a lot of great performances, but it doesn’t quite deliver on its promise...
There’s no denying that Killing Ground is an impressive debut feature. Writer-director Damien Power, making the step up from short film, pens winningly realistic dialogue and always finds unique framing for his shots. The stylistic stuff is nicely done, but the substance it’s wrapped around leaves a bit to be desired.
The basic set up isn’t really the problem, and it’s simple enough: two separate camping trips take place in the Australian wilderness, and neither group stays happy campers for long. Harriet Dyer and Ian Meadows put in highly likeable performances as Sam and Ian, a smitten young couple who take a tent to the beach and soon come to regret it. Julian Garner, Maya Strange and Tiarnie Coupland play a similarly adorable family, who...
There’s no denying that Killing Ground is an impressive debut feature. Writer-director Damien Power, making the step up from short film, pens winningly realistic dialogue and always finds unique framing for his shots. The stylistic stuff is nicely done, but the substance it’s wrapped around leaves a bit to be desired.
The basic set up isn’t really the problem, and it’s simple enough: two separate camping trips take place in the Australian wilderness, and neither group stays happy campers for long. Harriet Dyer and Ian Meadows put in highly likeable performances as Sam and Ian, a smitten young couple who take a tent to the beach and soon come to regret it. Julian Garner, Maya Strange and Tiarnie Coupland play a similarly adorable family, who...
- 8/20/2017
- Den of Geek
Killing Ground Trailer Damien Power‘s Killing Ground (2016) movie trailer stars Stephen Hunter, Aaron Pedersen, Tiarnie Coupland, Harriet Dyer, and Maya Stange. Killing Ground‘s plot synopsis: “A couple’s romantic camping trip becomes a desperate fight for survival in this ultra-raw, unhinged kill ride. In need of a break from their life in [...]
Continue reading: Killing Ground (2016) Movie Trailer: Sociopaths Hunt Family in Tense Horror Film...
Continue reading: Killing Ground (2016) Movie Trailer: Sociopaths Hunt Family in Tense Horror Film...
- 6/10/2017
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Anthony Lapaglia in 'A Month of Sundays'.
Anthony Lapaglia (Lantana) and Melanie Lynskey (Heavenly Creatures) are set to star in Sbs crime thriller Sunshine.
They.ll be joined by local actors Kim Gyngell, Tiarnie Coupland, Vince Colosimo, Leah Vandenberg, Paul Ireland and Trudy Hellier.
The four-part drama is set in the outer-west suburb of Sunshine and its surrounds, and is a co-production between Essential Media and Carver Films..
The show follows Jacob, a young South Sudanese-Australian basketball player who is on the cusp of being picked up by U.S. scouts for the U.S. College league. .
Lapaglia plays Eddie, an ex-player now operating a small sports store in Sunshine who agrees to coach Jacob.s underperforming team, The Sunshine Kings..
In the midst of doing everything he can to make the draft, Jacob finds himself answering to Sunshine-raised lawyer Zara Skelton (Lynskey) when he is caught up in a...
Anthony Lapaglia (Lantana) and Melanie Lynskey (Heavenly Creatures) are set to star in Sbs crime thriller Sunshine.
They.ll be joined by local actors Kim Gyngell, Tiarnie Coupland, Vince Colosimo, Leah Vandenberg, Paul Ireland and Trudy Hellier.
The four-part drama is set in the outer-west suburb of Sunshine and its surrounds, and is a co-production between Essential Media and Carver Films..
The show follows Jacob, a young South Sudanese-Australian basketball player who is on the cusp of being picked up by U.S. scouts for the U.S. College league. .
Lapaglia plays Eddie, an ex-player now operating a small sports store in Sunshine who agrees to coach Jacob.s underperforming team, The Sunshine Kings..
In the midst of doing everything he can to make the draft, Jacob finds himself answering to Sunshine-raised lawyer Zara Skelton (Lynskey) when he is caught up in a...
- 3/26/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
I have a huge appreciation for Australian cinema, so I was thrilled to have the opportunity to sit down and speak with several folks involved with Killing Ground, the brutal survival horror film written and directed by Damien Power and starring Aaron Pedersen, Aaron Glenane, Harriet Dyer, Ian Meadows, Maya Stange, Julian Garner, and Tiarnie Coupland.
Killing Ground premiered over the weekend at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and Daily Dead caught up with Power, Glenane, and Stange to talk about their experiences collaborating on the project, the importance of building trust on the set of the brutal thriller, and much more.
Look for more from the Sundance Film Festival all this week, right here on Daily Dead!
Great to speak with you today, guys. Damien, I’d love to start with you and hear about approach to this project and creating these villains, German (Pedersen) and Chook (Glenane), who you end up getting lost with,...
Killing Ground premiered over the weekend at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and Daily Dead caught up with Power, Glenane, and Stange to talk about their experiences collaborating on the project, the importance of building trust on the set of the brutal thriller, and much more.
Look for more from the Sundance Film Festival all this week, right here on Daily Dead!
Great to speak with you today, guys. Damien, I’d love to start with you and hear about approach to this project and creating these villains, German (Pedersen) and Chook (Glenane), who you end up getting lost with,...
- 1/24/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Writer/director Damien Power’s Killing Ground may tread some seemingly familiar territory in terms of its overall approach to survival horror—a young couple dealing with deadly backcountry predators on their idyllic getaway is certainly something fans have seen before. But make no mistake, what seems like a pretty standard set-up in Killing Ground evolves viciously into an unexpected game of cat and mouse, and Powers does a brilliant job of both embracing and deconstructing the genre tropes at play in his horrifically savage thriller.
At the start of Killing Ground, we meet young couple Ian (Ian Meadows) and Sam (Harriet Dyer), who are heading out to an Australian campground in the bushland to celebrate their New Year’s holiday and find some time for a little romance. When they arrive, they notice another campsite in the area, but decide to go on about their business, independently celebrating the arrival of a new year.
At the start of Killing Ground, we meet young couple Ian (Ian Meadows) and Sam (Harriet Dyer), who are heading out to an Australian campground in the bushland to celebrate their New Year’s holiday and find some time for a little romance. When they arrive, they notice another campsite in the area, but decide to go on about their business, independently celebrating the arrival of a new year.
- 1/21/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Aaron Glenane and Aaron Pedersen in Killing Ground.
Writer-director Damien Power describes the writing process on his thriller, Killing Ground, in one word: "long".
"I was working with producer Joe Weatherstone on another script. With that project we went to the then-afc's IndiVision lab, which was a workshop for low-budget features: a million or less. It's a workshop so we kind of pulled it apart, and I don't think we ever really put those pieces back together again"..
"But while I was in that process I had an idea for something that I thought we could make quickly and cheaply. And then eight years later, I got to make it" (laughs)..
Power's debut feature stars Aaron Pedersen, Harriet Dyer, Ian Meadows, Aaron Glenane, Maya Strange, and Tiarnie Coupland, and was inspired by an image that floated into the filmmaker's head: of an orange tent in the bush, abandoned.
The production...
Writer-director Damien Power describes the writing process on his thriller, Killing Ground, in one word: "long".
"I was working with producer Joe Weatherstone on another script. With that project we went to the then-afc's IndiVision lab, which was a workshop for low-budget features: a million or less. It's a workshop so we kind of pulled it apart, and I don't think we ever really put those pieces back together again"..
"But while I was in that process I had an idea for something that I thought we could make quickly and cheaply. And then eight years later, I got to make it" (laughs)..
Power's debut feature stars Aaron Pedersen, Harriet Dyer, Ian Meadows, Aaron Glenane, Maya Strange, and Tiarnie Coupland, and was inspired by an image that floated into the filmmaker's head: of an orange tent in the bush, abandoned.
The production...
- 1/29/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Aaron Glenane and Aaron Pedersen.
Stills photographer John Platt.used a Fujifilm X-T1 to shoot stills on the set of Killing Ground, the Australian feature debut from shorts filmmaker Damien Power (Hitchhiker) which stars Harriet Dyer, Ian Meadows, Aaron Pederson, Aaron Glenane, Tiarnie Coupland and Maya Stange.
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Harriet Dyer.
Platt walked us through his tool-kit:
.In addition to the primary X-T1 I also used a second body, 23mm and 50mm lenses and a 50-140mm zoom lens. The attitude from all on set to the X-T1 was amazingly positive. As each actor arrived on set for the first time I would introduce myself and ask if they would be Ok with me shooting during the take, while the camera was rolling. I also made a point of highlighting the camera.s silent shutter. Every one of them agreed they were relieved to know I wouldn.t be asking them to...
Stills photographer John Platt.used a Fujifilm X-T1 to shoot stills on the set of Killing Ground, the Australian feature debut from shorts filmmaker Damien Power (Hitchhiker) which stars Harriet Dyer, Ian Meadows, Aaron Pederson, Aaron Glenane, Tiarnie Coupland and Maya Stange.
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Harriet Dyer.
Platt walked us through his tool-kit:
.In addition to the primary X-T1 I also used a second body, 23mm and 50mm lenses and a 50-140mm zoom lens. The attitude from all on set to the X-T1 was amazingly positive. As each actor arrived on set for the first time I would introduce myself and ask if they would be Ok with me shooting during the take, while the camera was rolling. I also made a point of highlighting the camera.s silent shutter. Every one of them agreed they were relieved to know I wouldn.t be asking them to...
- 1/18/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Aaron Glenane and Aaron Pedersen.
Stills photographer John Platt.used a Fujifilm X-T1 to shoot stills on the set of Killing Ground, the Australian feature debut from shorts filmmaker Damien Power (Hitchhiker) which stars Harriet Dyer, Ian Meadows, Aaron Pederson, Aaron Glenane, Tiarnie Coupland and Maya Stange.
.
Harriet Dyer.
Platt walked us through his tool-kit:
.In addition to the primary X-T1 I also used a second body, 23mm and 50mm lenses and a 50-140mm zoom lens. The attitude from all on set to the X-T1 was amazingly positive. As each actor arrived on set for the first time I would introduce myself and ask if they would be Ok with me shooting during the take, while the camera was rolling. I also made a point of highlighting the camera.s silent shutter. Every one of them agreed they were relieved to know I wouldn.t be asking them to...
Stills photographer John Platt.used a Fujifilm X-T1 to shoot stills on the set of Killing Ground, the Australian feature debut from shorts filmmaker Damien Power (Hitchhiker) which stars Harriet Dyer, Ian Meadows, Aaron Pederson, Aaron Glenane, Tiarnie Coupland and Maya Stange.
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Harriet Dyer.
Platt walked us through his tool-kit:
.In addition to the primary X-T1 I also used a second body, 23mm and 50mm lenses and a 50-140mm zoom lens. The attitude from all on set to the X-T1 was amazingly positive. As each actor arrived on set for the first time I would introduce myself and ask if they would be Ok with me shooting during the take, while the camera was rolling. I also made a point of highlighting the camera.s silent shutter. Every one of them agreed they were relieved to know I wouldn.t be asking them to...
- 1/18/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
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