Screen Australia today announced investment of nearly. $965,000 for three films and a feature documentary, estimated to generate more than $6.8 million of production.
Fiona Cameron, Screen Australia.s chief operating officer, said, .This round we have backed a diverse collection of projects that promises audiences an amusing, informative and imaginative experience with innovative narratives and vivid characters..
Funding was allocated to Madman Productions for the feature A Month of Sundays from writer/director Matthew Saville (Felony, Noise, The Slap, Cloudstreet) and producers Nick Batzias and Kirsty Stark.
The film follows real estate agent Frank Mollard (played by Anthony Lapaglia), whose life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a call from his dead mother, sending him on a journey of redemption.
WildBear Entertainment will receive completion funding for Electric Boogaloo: The Wild Untold Story of Cannon Films, Mark Hartley's doco about movie-obsessed immigrant cousins, Yoram Globus and the late Menahem Golan,...
Fiona Cameron, Screen Australia.s chief operating officer, said, .This round we have backed a diverse collection of projects that promises audiences an amusing, informative and imaginative experience with innovative narratives and vivid characters..
Funding was allocated to Madman Productions for the feature A Month of Sundays from writer/director Matthew Saville (Felony, Noise, The Slap, Cloudstreet) and producers Nick Batzias and Kirsty Stark.
The film follows real estate agent Frank Mollard (played by Anthony Lapaglia), whose life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a call from his dead mother, sending him on a journey of redemption.
WildBear Entertainment will receive completion funding for Electric Boogaloo: The Wild Untold Story of Cannon Films, Mark Hartley's doco about movie-obsessed immigrant cousins, Yoram Globus and the late Menahem Golan,...
- 9/5/2014
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
The Nine Network has commissioned a second series of Playmaker Media's Love Child after the premiere drew more than 4 million viewers across three airings.
Created by writer/producer Sarah Lambert, the drama is set in Kings Cross Hospital and an adjacent home for unwed mothers in 1969.
Jessica Marais (who plays midwife Joan Millar), Jonathan Lapaglia (Dr. Patrick McNaughton) and Mandy McElhinney (Matron Frances Bolton) will return for series two, which starts on New Year.s Eve 1970.. Also returning are Ella Scott Lynch (Shirley Ryan), Sophie Hensser (Viv Maguire), Gracie Gilbert (Annie Carmichael) Harriet Dyer (Patricia Saunders) and Miranda Tapsell (Martha Tenant).
Shawn Seet, who was the set-up director on the first series, is on board for the second.. Nine.s Heads of Drama Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan said: .We are delighted with how Australian audiences have fallen in love with Love Child, and we are looking forward to working...
Created by writer/producer Sarah Lambert, the drama is set in Kings Cross Hospital and an adjacent home for unwed mothers in 1969.
Jessica Marais (who plays midwife Joan Millar), Jonathan Lapaglia (Dr. Patrick McNaughton) and Mandy McElhinney (Matron Frances Bolton) will return for series two, which starts on New Year.s Eve 1970.. Also returning are Ella Scott Lynch (Shirley Ryan), Sophie Hensser (Viv Maguire), Gracie Gilbert (Annie Carmichael) Harriet Dyer (Patricia Saunders) and Miranda Tapsell (Martha Tenant).
Shawn Seet, who was the set-up director on the first series, is on board for the second.. Nine.s Heads of Drama Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan said: .We are delighted with how Australian audiences have fallen in love with Love Child, and we are looking forward to working...
- 3/1/2014
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
The premiere of Playmaker Media.s Nine Network drama Love Child has drawn nearly 4.5 million viewers, according to figures released today.
The first episode was watched by 2.2 million people nationally, including catch-up viewing. A repeat screening last Friday attracted a further 531,000 viewers and another airing on Sunday pulled in 422,000.
So the peak audience for the three broadcasts was 3.18 million in the five capitals and 1.27 million in regional areas, for a total of 4.451 million. A further 20,000 have downloaded the first four episodes via Nine.s second-screen app, Jump-In.
The second episode won its timeslot last night with a national average of 1.85 million viewers and a peak of 2.51 million.
.Love Child has been a labour of love for everyone here at Nine and at Playmaker Media,. said Michael Healy, Nine Network Director of Television. "It.s gratifying the series is resonating with audiences in such large numbers all over the country. I...
The first episode was watched by 2.2 million people nationally, including catch-up viewing. A repeat screening last Friday attracted a further 531,000 viewers and another airing on Sunday pulled in 422,000.
So the peak audience for the three broadcasts was 3.18 million in the five capitals and 1.27 million in regional areas, for a total of 4.451 million. A further 20,000 have downloaded the first four episodes via Nine.s second-screen app, Jump-In.
The second episode won its timeslot last night with a national average of 1.85 million viewers and a peak of 2.51 million.
.Love Child has been a labour of love for everyone here at Nine and at Playmaker Media,. said Michael Healy, Nine Network Director of Television. "It.s gratifying the series is resonating with audiences in such large numbers all over the country. I...
- 2/25/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Nine Network has another hit Australian drama in Love Child, which drew 1.36 million viewers in the five capital cities last night.
Adding the regional audience of 566,280, the premiere of the 1960s-set series had a combined national average audience of 1.926 million.
It was the night's second highest rating show behind Seven's My Kitchen Rules,. easily beating Seven's Us drama Revenge which had 1.27 million viewers nationally, 862,000 in the capitals. .
Nine's gambit of previewing the. first four episodes on Jump-in before the premiere seems to have worked.
Created by writer/producer Sarah Lambert and produced by Playmaker Media, Love Child tells the stories of young women and men fighting an unjust system in a world on the brink of change.
Jessica Marais plays Joan Millar, a smart and sophisticated midwife who returns home from London to take a job at the Kings Cross Hospital. She finds a new life for herself when...
Adding the regional audience of 566,280, the premiere of the 1960s-set series had a combined national average audience of 1.926 million.
It was the night's second highest rating show behind Seven's My Kitchen Rules,. easily beating Seven's Us drama Revenge which had 1.27 million viewers nationally, 862,000 in the capitals. .
Nine's gambit of previewing the. first four episodes on Jump-in before the premiere seems to have worked.
Created by writer/producer Sarah Lambert and produced by Playmaker Media, Love Child tells the stories of young women and men fighting an unjust system in a world on the brink of change.
Jessica Marais plays Joan Millar, a smart and sophisticated midwife who returns home from London to take a job at the Kings Cross Hospital. She finds a new life for herself when...
- 2/18/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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