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For those about to rock, we salute you. Malcolm Young, founding member of AC/DC and brother to lead guitarist Angus Young, has passed away at the age of 64. Malcolm suffered through dementia and cancer for the last years of his life and has not toured or recorded with the band since 2008's Black Ice. Malcolm Young was the band's rhythm guitar player and is responsible for many of AC/DC's best-known songs that have topped the charts as well as helped launch movies into the top of the box office with his contributions to soundtracks.

In a statement on the Malcolm Young's Facebook, his family said, "Renowned for his musical prowess, Malcolm was a songwriter, guitarist, performer, producer and visionary who inspired many." While the statement is accurate, it also underscores just how amazing Malcolm Young really was. Arnold Schwarzenegger's The Last Action Hero was a box office bomb,...

It’s time once more for Wrestlemania the biggest professional wrestling and sports entertainment event for fans and performers that there is. This year the event is held in Orlando, the home of Nxt – where a lot of the current roster of superstars got their start -and as usual (at least on paper) the card doesn’t seem that great. But that’s the thing with the WWE’s biggest pay per view, there’s always surprises: especially when it comes to Wrestlemania moments…. So with that lets get into Wrestlemania 33 – starting with the usual 2-hour kick off pre-show, which this year features the Crusiserweight Championship match the the now-annual Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royale.

Wrestlemania 33 Kick-Off Show Cruiserweight Championship Match: Austin Aries vs Neville

Aries has the upper hand early in the match, hitting a spinning elbow on Neville off the middle rope, sending him to the outside.

Despite being sacked by film critics and many box office analysts predicting financial failure for Suicide Squad, the film continues to rack up one successful feat after another. The film currently sits at $720.7 million worldwide from an estimated production budget of $175 million. During a steep second week drop, some analysts questioned whether the film would reach $600 million. Now, Atlantic Records president of film & TV Kevin Weaver has revealed via Instagram, that the soundtrack has sold enough copies to go Gold. Full Suicide Squad Soundtrack List: “House of the Rising Sun” — The Animals “You Don’t Own Me” — Lesley Gore “Sympathy for the Devil”— The Rolling Stones “Standing in the Rain” — Action Bronson, Mark Ronson and Dan Auerbach “Super Freak”— Rick James “Purple Lamborghini” — Skrillex and Rick Ross “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” — AC/DC “Slippin’ into Darkness” — War “Fortunate Son”— Creedence Clearwater Revival “Black Skinhead”— Kanye West “Gangsta” — Kehlani “Over Here” — Rae Sremmurd feat.

Todd Phillips (The Hangover) introduces the Arms and the Dudes in today’s slick new trailer for War Dogs, an upcoming action-thriller that ships Miles Teller and Jonah Hill daring (read: idiotic) opportunists to the frontlines.

Hatching a plan to smuggle weapons across the globe and into the Afghan Military, War Dogs is set against the throes of the Iraq war, following Teller and Hill’s twenty-somethings who, after landing an eye-watering 300 million contract from the Pentagon, set about getting their hands dirty by doing business with exactly the kind of people that the Us government tends to keep at arm’s reach – and then some.

It’s a far cry from the trivial shenanigans found across The Hangover trilogy, but the above snippet is dripping with style, set against the fist-pumping riff of AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.”

What’s more, War Dogs is loosely based...

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Prior to Monday night’s live Raw broadcast, the company taped matches for this week’s episodes of Superstars, Main Event, and Smackdown. There were only five matches in total, as the pre-WrestleMania shows are typically clip-heavy.

I attended the tapings last night, so here’s my notes of what went down…

Superstars

Jack Swagger pinned Tyler Breeze with a Vader Bomb

Main Event

Ryback pinned Fandango with a Shell Shock

Smackdown

Aj Styles defeated Heath Slater in a competitive match. Slater got the heat when he knocked Styles off the turnbuckle and “The Phenomenal One” fell off and hit his face on the ring steps. Styles came back, fought off interference from the Social Outcasts, and got the pin with the Phenomenal Forearm. Prior to the match, Heath Slater cut a promo where he promised the Outcasts would win the “2011 Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal.

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This week’s Smackdown tapings took place in Atlanta, Georgia, with Dean Ambrose battling Kevin Owens in the main event. The show started with Ambrose in the ring, cutting a promo about his feuds with Brock Lesnar and Triple H. Owens interrupted, leading to the Lunatic Fringe hitting him with a steel chair.

The first match of the evening was Sheamus and Rusev defeating The Usos, with Sheamus hitting the Brogue Kick on Jimmy for the win. The Dudleys then came down and beat The Usos up some more.

Dolph Ziggler defeated The Miz with a small package in a short match.

Sasha Banks versus Becky Lynch went to a predictable no contest, after Charlotte came out and attacked both women. It is pretty obvious at this point it will be a triple threat at WrestleMania.

Aj Styles defeated Kofi Kingston via a springboard elbow.

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Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows.

Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows will premiere on ABC3 on March 6.

.ABC3.s Nowhere Boys is a smash hit drama that has captured the imagination of young Australians and audiences around the world", Head of Children.s TV Deirdre Brennan said..

"I.m thrilled that, together with Matchbox Pictures, we.ve been able to expand the adventurous stories and fantastic characters onto the big screen and now a television event Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows, premiering on ABC3 next month. I know fans of all ages will love it..

The show was awarded the Kidscreen Award for Best Non-Animated or Mixed Series in the Tweens/Teens category at Kidscreen in Miami earlier this week.

Matchbox Pictures Managing Director Chris Oliver-Taylor said: "Matchbox is thrilled that Nowhere Boys Series 2 has won this very prestigious award, following on from its Best New Series win...

Kevin Owens is as much a brut as he is a prizefighter, and the WWE heel continued to use the announcer’s table as a weapon Thursday on the pre-taped “Smackdown.” Fan favorite Dean Ambrose was taking it to Owens during the latest match in their heated Intercontinental Championship rivalry, even landing a Dirty Deeds through the ring ropes. In a clip obtained by TheWrap, Ko clearly didn’t take too kindly to that, nor did his baddie buddy Sheamus. The Irish outlaw interfered, slamming Ambrose into the steel ring steps, later ripping off rounds of punches to his demented dome.

Tables, Ladders and Chairs matches haven’t really been the same since the Attitude heyday of Edge & Christian and The Hardy Boys but still the WWE perserve with the pay per view each and every year. 2015 looks set to be an interesting PPV with – at least on paper – a few matches that could really make their mark on fans: the triple threat match featuring three high-flying tag teams; the Intercontinental Championship match between Kevin Owens and Dean Ambrose (definitely a crowd-pleaser) and then there’s the main event… Sheamus versus Roman Reigns; and we all know how fans react to Reigns getting anywhere close to the title!

As always Spoilers if you haven’t seen the PPV yet…

TLC 2015 opens with a video package hyping the matches for the night before The New Day heading out to the ring to their usual mixed reception. After some trash talking from the...

As we head into this years Survivor Series there’s not only the loss of the current WWE champion to deal with but also an apparent terrorist threat to deal with too. No wonder the WWE let Lillian Garcia blast out “The Star Spangled Banner” as loud and as bold as as she possibly could! That aside, It will be interesting to see where the 2015 Survivor Series is headed given the almost ramshackle last-minute nature in which the matches seem to have been put together… Of course what was planned on was the celebration of 25 years of the Phenom himself, The Undertaker. After all, 1990′s Survivor Series (yes, the event has been going that long) was the official debut of Mark Calaway’s now-iconic character in the WWE.

As always Spoilers if you haven’t seen the PPV yet…

After Garcia’s empassioned performance, the pay per view opens with...

The Aftrs Open Summer School — now in its third year — has expanded to 17 intensive courses, including a new six-week doco school and a six-week film school.

These introductory and intermediate film courses running between November and January are designed for intensive learning and the chance to upskill in the rapidly changing media landscape.

Amongs the screen industry speakers and lecturers are writer/director David Caesar (Nowhere Boys, Underbelly, Dirty Deeds, Mullet), cinematographer Ross Emery (The Wolverine, Woman In Gold, I Frankenstein), TV writer Vicki Madden (The Bill, Water Rats, Blood Brothers, McLeod.s Daughters and Foxtel drama The Kettering Incident), feature film director Elissa Down (The Black Balloon, Offspring) and documentary director/producer Madeleine Heatherton (Call Me Dad, Bondi Rescue, The Nest,. Last Chance Surgery, Outback Truckies).

Also screenwriter Ian David ( Police Crop: The Winchester Conspiracy, Police State, Joh's Jury, Blue Murder, Killing Time, 3 Acts of Murder, The Shark Net,...

Nowhere Boys: Book of Shadows is set to hit Australian cinemas on January 1.

After two seasons on ABC television, the 82-minute family film will bring together Felix (Dougie Baldwin, Andy (Joel Lok), Sam (Rahard Adams) and Jake (Matt Testro) for one final spell when Felix discovers a sealed Book of Shadows.

The ABC3 series, aimed at the 8-14-year-old market, began when the four teens got lost during a school excursion and found themselves in a parallell world.

The feature film will add rising star Angourie Rice to the cast. Rice first came to the screen in These Final Hours and will soon be seen in Us feature The Nice Guys with Ryan Gosling.

Series regulars Darci McDonald (Ellen), Sean Ree-Wemyss (Oscar), Michala Banas (Phoebe), Victoria Thaine (Alice), Ben Keller (Bear), Tamala Shelton (Mia) and Michelle Gerster (Viv) willl also return for the film..

The film was produced by Beth Frey for Matchbox Pictures.

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This week’s Smackdown took place in Providence, Rhode Island and featured the Dudley Boyz first match in WWE in ten years as well as a big night for the Wyatt Family.

An interesting note about the pre-Smackdown taping is that Samoa Joe and Finn Balor teamed up to beat Lucha Dragons in the Nxt Dusty Rhodes Memorial tag team tournament. Balor and Joe together sounds pretty awesome, so that’s something to look forward to on a future edition of Nxt.

Here are the results from Smackdown.

Bray Wyatt along with Luke Harper and Braun Strowman did a promo to start the show. They talked about Strowman being a new member of the Wyatt Family. Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose confronted them in the ring, but the Wyatt Family backed away to end the segment.

The Ascension did a promo ripping on the Dudley Boyz to set up their match.

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Live from the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn, New York, it’s SummerSlam 2015!

Lilian Garcia introduces host Jon Stewart and we’re under way! He drops a Beastie Boys reference and hypes up the show. ‘I’ve spent sixteen years talking about politics, it’s nice to be back in reality’. WWE? Reality? This is clearly a WWE-scripted intro, then. Huge boos for Cena’s name. This crowd is going to eat him alive. Mick Foley is brought out- cheap pops imminent…yup, there it is. They riff with each other for a while and it doesn’t really go anywhere. Still, nice to see Foley and Stewart looks up for this.

After the customary video package, it’s time for our first match…

Sheamus Vs. Randy Orton

Good choice for an opener. Orton went for an Rko early, but Sheamus bailed and cut a ringside promo and fans looking stupid.

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This week’s Smackdown took place in Green Bay, Wisconsin and was the last major show before WWE SummerSlam this Sunday.

Prior to Smackdown taking place, they did a dark match and also taped some matches for Main Event. The dark match for the local fans only saw Wisconsin native Hornswoggle defeat Heath Slater. That led to this tweet from Dolph Ziggler, who was obviously impressed with the match.

Just saw 1 of the coolest preshow, matches! Congrats on being over af @wwehornswoggle & great at your job @HeathSlaterOMRB

— Dolph Ziggler (@HEELZiggler) August 19, 2015

Here are the results from this week’s Smackdown.

Ryback took on Big Show in the opener and their match ended in a countout. They did a big spot where Ryback gave Show a clothesline that sent him through the barricade. It sounds like something that could be difficult to pull off.

The New Day trio defeated...

WrestleMania 31, the WWE’s biggest event of the year is over and we arrive at Extreme Rules, the pay per view that WWE claim is their time once a year to “go extreme”. The PG era has meant that “extreme” in the current WWE climate is very different to what it meant back in Ecw or during WWE’s TV-14 run, but there’s still some interesting stuff booked for this PPV, so let’s see how it all plays out.

On paper this is a mixture of rematches and feuds we’ve seen before, but that doesn’t mean that the matches are going to be bad. The PPV opens with the Chicago crowd popping for Neville, who wrestles Bad News Barrett on the “Kick-off Show”. Daniel Bryan was pulled from the show, so his Intercontinental Title defence against Barrett never happened. Neville got a good reception from the fans and had a decent,...

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At Elimination Chamber, the WWE World Heavyweight Title match had the kind of finish that makes fans groan so hard that they’re in danger of rupturing their spleens. Dean Ambrose was diving from the top turnbuckle onto Seth Rollins, who pulled the referee into harm’s way instead. While the ref was nursing his boo-boo on the outside, Ambrose hit Rollins with Dirty Deeds and covered him, a new referee rushing to the ring to count the 1-2-3. Ambrose won the WWE World Heavyweight Title for two minutes, during which the internet exploded.

Of course it was not to be, and in a booking decision that would make Dusty Rhodes proud, the original ref ruled that Rollins was disqualified for attacking him, meaning that while Ambrose won the match by Dq, he didn’t win the belt. Ambrose thought, ‘well knackers to that’ and announced that,...

WWE decided, in their infinite wisdom, to hold another WWE PPV/Special Event in the month of May, meaning that in just over a month’s space there will have been three WWE supershows. Still, this has potential to be something special, so even though it is a bit of overkill, it’s interesting. With matches featuring many young and hungry talent as well as long-term main eventers, this is an event that could very well be a stepping stone towards an era of the Nxt-bred talent solidifying themselves as big stars on the main roster.

The Kick-off show featured some talk from the Renee Young hosted panel, plus a Miz-tv segment with Daniel Bryan, in which Bryan said he wasn’t through with in-ring competition. The opening match on the pre-show/Kick-off show was a random one-on-one between Stardust and Zack Ryder. This was the kind of match you’d see on Main Event,...

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The WWE Elimination Chamber three hour WWE Network special took place on Sunday in Corpus Christi, Texas. Here are results of everything that happened.

During the Kickoff Show, Stardust beat Zack Ryder.

Also during the Kickoff Show, Daniel Bryan was a guest on Miz TV. Bryan was there to plug his book. Miz acted like a jerk towards him, so Bryan brought out Macho Mandow and AxelMania, who teamed together to send Miz out of the ring.

The main show began with the first time ever Tag Team Title match inside the Elimination Chamber. The New Day were allowed to have all three members in the match. They were also the last team to enter the match, which was apparently a favour from The Authority since New Day helped them on Smackdown. The New Day won the match to retain their titles by last eliminating the Prime Time Players.

The Road to WrestleMania continues with the first WWE Fastlane PPV. By the end of this pay per view we should have a clearer view of what Wrestlemania will have in store for us, and hopefully we’ll have seen some interesting and entertaining matches and angles too. On paper it looks like it could be a decent PPV, but it all depends on the booking decisions and where the path leads after it is all over. So, let’s get on with this, shall we?

The opening match of the inaugural Fastlane PPV sees Ziggler, Rowan and Ryback take on Seth Rollins, Kane and Big Show in six man tag team action. The match, to me, felt like a typical Raw main event. It didn’t feel big, the fans were into it no more or less than they would be on a television show and the lack of...

A month since WrestleMania 31 and we arrive at Extreme Rules, the PPV that WWE claim is their time once a year to “go extreme”. The PG era has meant that “extreme” in the current WWE climate is very different to what it meant back in Ecw or during WWE’s TV-14 run, but there’s still some interesting stuff booked for this show, so let’s see how it all plays out.

On paper this show is a mixture of rematches and feuds we’ve seen before, but that doesn’t mean that the matches are going to be bad. The show opens with the Chicago crowd popping for Neville, who wrestles Bad News Barrett on the “Kick-off Show”. Daniel Bryan was pulled from the show, so his Intercontinental Title defence against Barrett never happened. Neville got a good reception from the fans and had a decent, though fairly short,...

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...

The Road to WrestleMania continues, and we make a final PPV stop at the first WWE Fastlane PPV. When we leave this show tonight we should have a clearer view of what the big show in March will have in store for us, and hopefully we’ll have seen some interesting and entertaining matches and angles too. On paper it looks like it could be a decent show, but it all depends on the booking decisions and where the path leads after the show is over. So, let’s get on with this, shall we?

The opening match of the evening saw Ziggler, Rowan and Ryback take on Seth Rollins, Kane and Big Show in six man tag team action. The match, to me, felt like a typical Raw main event. It didn’t feel big, the fans were into it no more or less than they would be on...

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Smackdown was filmed on Tuesday from Colorado Springs. The show will air on Thursday night and was primarily concerned with Daniel Bryan’s momentum towards WWE Fast Lane.

Opening the broadcast was a Miz TV segment. The guests were Bryan and Roman Reigns, but things quickly fell apart when Reigns hit the Superman Punch on The Miz. The Royal Rumble winner then challenged Bryan to a fight, but Seth Rollins turned up and interrupted the stare off. It was then announced that Bryan would be facing Rollins, Jamie Noble and Joey Mercury in Smackdown’s main event.

Ryback and Dolph Ziggler defeated Stardust and Goldust, after Stardust decided to walk out on his partner. The break up had been coming for some time.

It looked like Ryback and Ziggler could be going forward as a new tag team. The idea here was that it was “The Big Guy...

Solution Entertainment Group has released the first image from the Shia Labeouf-led psychological thriller "Man Down" which also Gary Oldman, Kate Mara and Jai Courtney. Set in a savage post-apocalyptic America, Labeouf and Courtney play a pair who are in search of the former's family.

"Zhang Yimou's first English-language film, 'The Great Wall' at Legendary East, has seen a budget increase to $135 million with filming to begin in February. The period action spectacular with sci-fi elements is currently casting..." (full details)

"Ivanhoe Pictures has picked up the film rights to Ryan Graudin's young adult action-adventure novel 'The Walled City'. The story follows three teenagers who are fighting to survive and escape a lawless, walled city..." (full details)

"On Entertainment, Wild Bunch and Pathe are teaming for an $80 million animated feature based on the iconic Playmobil toys brand. Much of the team behind 'The Little Prince' will be...

Producer Annie Kinnane expresses a common complaint in the industry: Often by the time she and her friends hear about a new Australian film it.s been yanked off screens before they had a chance to see it.

Instead of just griping, she.s doing her bit to increase awareness by launching a Facebook page this week, entitled Australian Films You Will Want to See.

She.s encouraging her Fb friends and the wider industry to post an item as soon as they.ve seen a film they can recommend.

That initiative is in a similar vein to When Did You Last Pay to See an Australian Film at the Cinema?, a Fb page created earlier this month by My Mistress producer Leanne Tonkes.

Tonkes is asking her industry peers to nominate the last Aussie film they paid to see, as opposed to freebie previews, Aacta, funding body or post house screenings,...

Producer Annie Kinnane expresses a common complaint in the industry: Often by the time she and her friends hear about a new Australian film it.s been yanked off screens before they had a chance to see it.

Instead of just griping, she.s doing her bit to increase awareness by launching a Facebook page this week, entitled Australian Films You Will Want to See.

She.s encouraging her Fb friends and the wider industry to post an item as soon as they.ve seen a film they can recommend.

That initiative is not unlike When Did You Last Pay to See an Australian Film at the Cinema?, a Fb page created earlier this month by My Mistress producer Leanne Tonkes.

Tonkes is asking her industry peers to nominate the last Aussie film they paid to see, as opposed to freebie previews, Aacta, funding body or post house screenings, and...

There have been better go-home shows. But then again, an episode of SmackDown still stands between us and Hell in a Cell, so all may not be lost. The folks in Kansas City did their darndest to put a promo-heavy Raw on their shoulders with equal parts passionate interaction and irksome subversion – poor Randy Orton – and the minority of talent who squared off in the ring (i.e. Usos, Mizdow, Gold/Stardust, Ziggler/Cesaro, etc.) ran circles around the night's plodding microphone work.

But in the interest of providing a service to you readers,...

As we approach the final reckoning in Boardwalk Empire, there's little room for escape. Here's Michael's review...

This review contains spoilers

5.5 King of Norway

It’s hard not to see this season in a valedictory light, offering a pattern of reunions, score-settling and closure as characters, willingly or otherwise, attempt to find and secure a sense of closure before the shutters finally come down. It comes across like the closing of a circle, or rather several interlinked circles, that bring characters back to where they came from, again whether they like it or not. Such a view places this episode’s reunion of Nucky and Chalky in a similar context to that of Nucky and Margaret last week. In both cases, the exiled come to Nucky, surprising him by their unannounced return. In both cases too, Nucky takes the opportunity to nurture his sentimentality, seeking sweet reminiscences with Margaret and...

After focussing on TV dramas, David Caesar plans to direct a conspiracy thriller, his first feature since Prime Mover in 2009.

Scripted by Terence Hammond and produced by Antony I. Ginnane, Spontaneous Combustion is set during a pandemic involving government and Big Pharma.

The plan is to start shooting in Melbourne in the first quarter of 2015, with post production and VFX in Queensland. The logline reads, "When a marine biologist who saw his father burst into flames for no reason is drawn into investigating an outbreak of spontaneous combustion deaths by an investigative journalist, they uncover a Big Pharma conspiracy and put their own lives on the line in a race to stop the development of a deadly global weapon."

.David is harking back to his Dirty Deeds milieu here, and he.s a big fan of The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor and The Conversation, which is the zone we are in here,...

AC/DC might be heading down that "Highway to Hell" again to perform some "Dirty Deeds" that will shake you "All Night Long" and leave you "Thunderstruck." While the hard rock legends have been relatively quiet since 2008, due to guitarist Angus Young's health problems, singer Brian Johnson says AC/DC is potentially touring in 2014. In a post on his site about the "Cars That Rock," the upcoming U.K. TV series he's hosting, Johnson casually mentions, "it looks very likely that we will be on the road again before the end of the year. So stand by for more music." Of course, nothing is set in stone, but be on the lookout for more updates. AC/DC's most recent album was 2008's "Black Ice. The live collection "Live at River Plate" followed in 2012. ...

Previously, On Reven8e.

Can Morgan Fairchild and “Gold Dust Woman” save a dull episode?

Here are five highlights:

The Vipers Who Lunch

Having primetime soap legend Morgan Fairchild appear as one of Victoria’s Hampton friends was a masterstroke. Unfortunately, she’s on about two minutes, but I’m hoping it’s not a one-shot deal. Her character on the short-lived 80′s soap Paper Dolls was described as “A crocodile with lip gloss,” and I would love for her and Victoria to share Bitch-On-Wheels notes. Or better yet, go after each other. Make it happen, show!

Declan 2.0

Okay, so “Javolan” is obviously not going to happen, but do they really have to pair up Javier with … Charlotte? Haven’t they already done the “wrong side of the tracks’ star-crossed lovers thing. And we all know how well that turned out. I suppose they have to find some to way...

For the best part of 20 years Chris Blackburn tried his hand at writing film scripts, a sideline to his day jobs as a newspaper and TV reporter, reality show producer and, currently, as a co-executive producer on Big Brother.

Eighteen months ago he had an idea for a crime drama about a young man whose sister has been brutally murdered, set primarily in a row of vacant houses near his home on the north coast of Nsw.

Blackburn wrote the script and asked his son Tim, a TV editor who has directed several short films to direct. Entitled Burns Point, the film is now in day seven of a 21-day shoot in and around the town of Ballina.

Asked how he.s financed the film, Chris tells If, .It.s mostly me. I.ve saved up for this and put money aside." Cast and crew are working on deferred. fees in some cases.

Grieco Witnesses Dirty Deeds Done In Exchange For Gold

Mining is a dirty business, obviously, but not just in the harsh physical conditions of the job. This is a locale based industry that effects entire communities, has bred conflict over working conditions as in Barbara Kopple’s monumental Harlan County, U.S.A., and can lead to imperialization and communal displacement, as in Mark Grieco’s documentary debut, Marmato, which documents the buyout of local mining companies in the title Colombian community by various muscle flexing Canadian corporations. Unable to fully fund their community leveling open pit plans that mean to suck all the gold within, the companies close the mine, leaving locals without work while providing no alternatives to support their families. Over the course of months and years, Grieco follows these events up to an anxiety ridden pinnacle of political fervor, but seemingly due to time constraints, fails...

Oh no! Khloe reportedly got tested for sexually transmitted diseases after she discovered Lamar had cheated on her with multiple women.

Poor Khloe Kardashian! As she continues to struggle with Lamar Odom‘s alleged drug addiction and infidelities, a new report reveals that she had to get tested for STDs after Lamar admitted to cheating on her with at least five different women. Read on for more details.

Khloe Kardashian: Std Testing After Lamar Odom Cheating Rumors? — Dirty Deeds

Khloe was astonished by Lamar’s confession, especially after he revealed that he never used protection with any of the strange women he allegedly slept with, according to a new report from Radar Online.

She “was physically sick to her stomach when Lamar admitted that not only had he cheated on her, but didn’t use protection 100 percent of the time,” a source told Radar. “Lamar refused to admit to how many women it was,...

Don Groves is a Deadline contributor based in Sydney. Australian actor-writer-director Bille Brown, who performed on Broadway and the West End and in the films Killer Elite, The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader and Fierce Creatures, died Sunday in a Brisbane hospital. He was 61 and had been battling bowel cancer. William “Bille” Brown began his career in the early 1970s at the Queensland Theater Company with Geoffrey Rush, among others. In 1976 he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and appeared in productions at London’s Aldwych and Haymarket Theaters and with the Chichester Festival Theater and English National Opera. He had two further engagements with the RSC, from 1986–88 and 1994–96. He was an artist-in-residence at the State University of New York in 1982 and made his Broadway debut in 1986 in Michael Frayn’s Wild Honey with Ian McKellen. He returned to Australia to live permanently in 1996. His Australian film credits include The Dish,...

Revolution takes place in a world with no electricity, which means no iPods, no CD players, no tape decks, no turntables. So it’s not easy for creator Eric Kripke to find ways to put his love of classic rock on display in the new hit post-apocalyptic show. But when the opportunity arose to feature Led Zeppelin in an upcoming episode, Kripke jumped at the chance and found a way to light up the show with a bit of rock and roll.

Tonight’s episode of Revolution features two songs by Led Zeppelin: 1970 slow jam “Since I’ve Been Loving You” and 1975 exotic,...

Is there anything better than Nicolas Cage playing an unhinged dude who will stop at nothing to achieve personal justice? In Roger Donaldson‘s Seeking Justice, Cage does just that after his wife (January Jones) is brutally attacked and he’s offered support by Guy Pearce, a mysterious stranger with his own aims and secrets. As you can likely expect, they’re not selfless aims and they’re not fluffy secrets. With Seeking Justice hitting DVD and Blu-ray next week, we’re excited to offer a very special Blu-ray prize pack filled with films that all tap right into the themes of the Cage-starrer. Dirty cops. Dirty deeds. All on your own television. This prize pack includes Blu-rays of The Son of No One, Brooklyn’s Finest, Texas Killing Fields, Righteous Kill, and Seeking Justice. That’s quite a bit of crooked law enforcement to deal with all at once. To...

From 1975 to 1977, Mark Evans played bass in AC/DC, which means he missed two of the band’s most earth-shattering moments: the death of original singer Bon Scott in 1980, and the triumphant release the same year of its crowning commercial triumph, Back In Black. Accordingly, Evan’s memoir, Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outside Of AC/DC, is a bit skimpy and shortsighted when measured against the group’s epic history. But Evans managed to render his book much like AC/DC’s iconic hard rock: lean, raw, unflinching, and heavy on the riffs. To Evans’ benefit ...

AC/DC's former bass player Mark Evans has released a tell-all book called Dirty Deeds. The former musician, who appeared in the original line-up of the Australian rock group alongside brothers Angus and Malcolm Young, was sacked in 1977 amid rumours that he had never got on with Angus. Evans told The Daily Telegraph: "I certainly had issues with Angus but everyone did. Angus is Angus and I have respect for the guy, for what he has achieved. "His and Mal's commitment to that band is amazing. They are so single-minded and the level of commitment they demanded - [it] was easy to fall short of that." Evans explained that (more)...

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No one will ever be able to forget when Amber viciously attacked her baby daddy Gary on the MTV show ‘Teen Mom’ — and you can re-live it all during this countdown!

Amber Portwood‘s disgusting behavior on the Aug. 14 2009 episode of Teen Mom will forever be immortalized! Lucky for us, the MTV cameras were rolling on the fateful day that, unfortunately for her, ended up landing Amber in jail and being charged with two felony counts. The TV Guide Network is airing an original four-part series called 100 Hollywood Crimes, Misdemeanors & Dirty Deeds and the second special on Aug. 14 is something you won’t want to miss!

It’ll feature some of Hollywood’s most notorious scandals. Tune in because our very our reporter Chloe Melas weighs in on some of the crimes as an entertainment expert!

The special is presented by LifeLock and...

From unsolved murders in Hollywood to celebrities posing for mug shots, TV Guide Network is counting down Tinseltown's most notorious legal scandals.

The four-part series 100 Hollywood Crimes, Misdemeanors & Dirty Deeds will examine famous tragedies like the Black Dahlia murder and the slaying of Sharon Tate, the sex scandals of Roman Polanski and Hugh Grant, and even the more minor crimes that have landed starlets like Paris Hilton and Winona Ryder in hot water.

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Today's birthday wishes go out to Angus Young of AC/DC, and though he is now 56 years old, the guy really is forever young. It isn't just because of his trademark school boy uniform (though that's certainly a big help), but it's also because of his lively concert performances and almost juvenile take (in the best way possible) on rock and roll.

AC/DC formed way back in 1973 when he was only 18 years old, and Young has been the group's lead guitarist since its inception. They instantly became huge in their native Australia, and it was mainly because of Young's incredible approach to music. He took blues riffs and melted them down, bent them in half, twisted them around and knocked them back out again with an incredible balance of power and grace. Those riffs helped turn giant slabs of proto-metal like "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," "Highway to Hell,...

Dirty deeds done dirt cheap! Universal has debuted the first official trailer over on Apple for the upcoming comedy Bridesmaids, directed by Paul Feig, starring an ensemble cast of SNL alums, including: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Ellie Kemper, Melissa McCarthy, Matt Lucas, Chris O'Dowd, Wendi Mclendon-Covey, Kali Hawk and even Jon Hamm. It was produced by Judd Apatow and Barry Mendel, directed by Paul Feig ("The Office", "Nurse Jackie"), and written by Kristen Wiig & Annie Mumolo. As funny as this is in spots, there's definitely not enough Rose Byrne... or Jon Hamm for that matter. Enjoy! Watch the first official trailer for Paul Feig's Bridesmaids: [flv:http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/Bridesmaids-officialtrailer.mp4 http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/Bridesmaids-officialtrailer.jpg 598 248] You can also watch the Bridesmaids trailer in High Definition on Apple Bridesmaids is directed by Paul Feig, of feature films I Am David and Unaccompanied Minors, but he has a lot of TV directing work on shows like "Arrested Development...

Kaboom

Opens: 2011

Cast: Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Juno Temple, Kelly Lynch, James Duval

Director: Gregg Araki

Summary: Smith's everyday life in the dorm - hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor - all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night.

Analysis: A year after "Thelma and Louise" came "The Living End", an independent film which had a similar premise but made the protagonists two gay HIV+ men. It was raw, intense and signalled the arrival of a new talent in the form of filmmaker Gregg Araki. In the subsequent two decades, he's delivered several trippy films involving young, good-looking omnisexual people having lots of graphic sex and dealing with some wacky cobbled together plot shenanigans.

The tone has ranged the light-hearted "Splendor" and "Nowhere" to the darker "Mysterious Skin...

Monday, Monday!

Monday Monday, can't trust that day,

Monday Monday, sometimes it just turns out that way

Oh Monday morning, you gave me no warning of what was to be

Oh Monday Monday, how could you leave and not take me.

Well, “that was unexpected” as Simon said. A lot to consume, chew on and digest. Let’s get going!

Yes, the Mamas and the Papas sang that song and seems appropriate given the Mother and Father issues we saw in this last episode. From the Blake Sterling’s daddy Edward to revelation of Sophia as Thomas’ (and who else, eh?) mother.

Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap!

What a painful experience, watching a man in love being confronted by the reality of his significant other. Heartbreaking. That experience certainly informs Sterling’s observed behavior prior to episode 7. An interesting note, he and Laura met in Barcelona. This has been the...

The Nsw Government will invest $1m to help refurbish a former power station in Broken Hill to turn it into a film studio and multi-purpose facility.

The studio will support production of Mad Max 4: Fury Road when it starts filming in August.

The announcement was made on May 12, but it was only reported by regional media outlets.

According to a statement to the press, “the new studio will strengthen Broken Hill’s blossoming film and creative arts industry and generate jobs for the region [...] it is expected to inject up to $40 million into the Nsw economy and create up to 123 jobs over five years.”

Broken Hill has hosted films such as Mad Max 2, Mission Impossible II, Dirty Deeds and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

The plans include a Mad Max museum at the venue, when the studio is not being utilised for filming.

Funds will...

Before Australian writer/director David Caesar became a filmmaker, he was a truck driver. 

And while his short stint on the open road ended abruptly when he crashed his truck, the impressions of the culture stayed with him and informed his first feature film script - an dark road thriller - which he wrote, tucked away in a drawer but revisited from time to time as his career in television and film directing took off. 

A decade later, after making his mark with explosive bank robbery black comedy Idiot Box and one of Sam Worthington's first Aussie hits, Guy Ritchie-esque gangster movie Dirty Deeds, as well as lots of TV, Caesar came back to that first script, Prime Mover, and set about transforming it into a film closer to what he now wanted to make. 

Greatly influenced by Korean directors' extreme mixes of styles and genres in their films,...

"Aussie actors take fifteen hours to get to America - we ain' t going to waste our fucking time and money. And that means we're not going to waste their time." He might be firing up big time overseas with leading roles in mega-budgeted films like Terminator Salvation, the highly anticipated Avatar and the upcoming Clash Of The Titans remake, but Sam Worthington obviously still has a hearty interest in the local film industry. The star of such Aussie flicks as Dirty Deeds, Somersault and Gettin' Square has just been announced as one of the presenters at this year's Inside Film Awards on November 18, alongside fellow thesps Emily Barclay, Aden Young, Gyton Grantley, Emma Booth, Justine Clarke and Megan Gale.

According to ethereal Buzz, 2009 will be the year of Sam Worthington. Never heard of him? Major roles in Terminator: Salvation and James Cameron’s Avatar may change that. Samuel Shane Worthington was born on August 2nd, 1976 in Perth, Australia. Growing up in Rockingham, the Aussie actor won a scholarship to The John Curtin School of Performing Arts in Fremantle -- he also studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney. After graduation, Sam won acclaim for his role in The Belvoir St. Theater’s production of Judas Kiss. Film and television work followed in his native country, including roles in Bootmen (2000), Dirty Deeds (2002), Gettin’ Square (2003), and Thunderstruck (2004). American audiences saw him briefly in 2002’s Hart’s War, alongside Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell. In 2004, Sam won...