Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.
Today we talk with a legend (Blake Howard of One Heat Minute Productions) about a legend: Russell Crowe. Born in New Zealand and settled in Australia, Crowe had starred in a dozen films (he was even a child actor!) before his American breakthrough in Curtis Hanson’s L.A. Confidential.
Our first B-Side is an Australian picture he made with icon (and close friend) Jack Thompson: The Sum of Us. Our second is the wines & vines rom-com A Good Year! Number three is the Pittsburgh shot-and-set action drama The Next Three Days. And, finally, we get a little Unhinged. Don’t worry, during this part of the show you will find nary a hinge.
Blake dishes...
Today we talk with a legend (Blake Howard of One Heat Minute Productions) about a legend: Russell Crowe. Born in New Zealand and settled in Australia, Crowe had starred in a dozen films (he was even a child actor!) before his American breakthrough in Curtis Hanson’s L.A. Confidential.
Our first B-Side is an Australian picture he made with icon (and close friend) Jack Thompson: The Sum of Us. Our second is the wines & vines rom-com A Good Year! Number three is the Pittsburgh shot-and-set action drama The Next Three Days. And, finally, we get a little Unhinged. Don’t worry, during this part of the show you will find nary a hinge.
Blake dishes...
- 5/4/2023
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Acast, the world’s largest independent podcast company, will manage ad sales and content distribution for Higher Ground podcasts.
The relationship between Acast and Higher Ground is a win for listeners across the United States and around the globe. Acast will make several Higher Ground podcasts available to audiences for free on all podcast platforms and listening apps globally. Select Higher Ground podcasts will now support sponsorships, advertising, and branded integrations through Acast’s industry-leading technology, which allows brands to reach listeners of those podcasts across all platforms.
Higher Ground produces some of the most popular and iconic podcasts in the industry — including the recently launched Audible Original series Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast; the hit series Renegades: Born in the USA, a series of conversations between President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen and released as a New York Times bestselling book based on the podcast; The Michelle Obama Podcast; Tell Them,...
The relationship between Acast and Higher Ground is a win for listeners across the United States and around the globe. Acast will make several Higher Ground podcasts available to audiences for free on all podcast platforms and listening apps globally. Select Higher Ground podcasts will now support sponsorships, advertising, and branded integrations through Acast’s industry-leading technology, which allows brands to reach listeners of those podcasts across all platforms.
Higher Ground produces some of the most popular and iconic podcasts in the industry — including the recently launched Audible Original series Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast; the hit series Renegades: Born in the USA, a series of conversations between President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen and released as a New York Times bestselling book based on the podcast; The Michelle Obama Podcast; Tell Them,...
- 4/5/2023
- Podnews.net
Higher Ground, the production company founded by Barack and Michelle Obama, has struck its latest audio deal with the podcasting platform Acast.
Acast will handle ad sales and distribution for Higher Ground’s library of podcasts, which includes The Big Hit Show with Alex Pappademas, Renegades: Born in the USA with President Obama and Bruce Springsteen and The Sum of Us with Heather McGhee. The pact with Acast is separate from Higher Ground’s multiyear first-look deal with Audible, which began last June after the production company parted ways with Spotify. The first project from the Higher Ground–Audible partnership, Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast, was released in March; new episodes of The Light Podcast will have an exclusive two-week window on Audible before being released widely on all major platforms by Acast.
On the advertising and sponsorship side, marketers will be able to use Acast’s ad placement technology on select shows like Renegades,...
Acast will handle ad sales and distribution for Higher Ground’s library of podcasts, which includes The Big Hit Show with Alex Pappademas, Renegades: Born in the USA with President Obama and Bruce Springsteen and The Sum of Us with Heather McGhee. The pact with Acast is separate from Higher Ground’s multiyear first-look deal with Audible, which began last June after the production company parted ways with Spotify. The first project from the Higher Ground–Audible partnership, Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast, was released in March; new episodes of The Light Podcast will have an exclusive two-week window on Audible before being released widely on all major platforms by Acast.
On the advertising and sponsorship side, marketers will be able to use Acast’s ad placement technology on select shows like Renegades,...
- 4/4/2023
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Al Franken spent nine years as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota, and it all finally paid off in recent weeks when he logged a stint as a guest host on “The Daily Show.”
Franken turned in some robust impressions of Charles Schumer, Mitch McConnell and Susan Collins during one sketch on the Comedy Central program that suggested he was taking some pretty interesting notes when he served in that chamber. “I didn’t give them a heads up,” Franken says in a recent interview, after his run. “I served wth those people. Some I could do. I’m not one othose impressionists who can do everyone. I do who I can do.”
While Franken is one of a number of noted hosts who have helped the show keep spinning after the depature last year of Trevor Noah, you might say he has been training for such an appearance for much of his professional life.
Franken turned in some robust impressions of Charles Schumer, Mitch McConnell and Susan Collins during one sketch on the Comedy Central program that suggested he was taking some pretty interesting notes when he served in that chamber. “I didn’t give them a heads up,” Franken says in a recent interview, after his run. “I served wth those people. Some I could do. I’m not one othose impressionists who can do everyone. I do who I can do.”
While Franken is one of a number of noted hosts who have helped the show keep spinning after the depature last year of Trevor Noah, you might say he has been training for such an appearance for much of his professional life.
- 4/3/2023
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
WME and Endeavor Content will be recognizing the one-year anniversary of #BlackoutTuesday on June 1 by teaming with Color of Change and its #ChangeHollywood initiative to pause work for a “day on,” which will consist of workshops and programming focused on achieving racial equity.
The day’s programing will feature a conversation with Michael B. Jordan, Color of Change president Rashad Robinson and Endeavor executive chairman Patrick Whitesell; and a review of McKinsey’s “Leaving $10B On the Table,” a study of Hollywood’s economic losses from Black inequity, with co-authors Sheldon Lyn, Nony Onyeador and Ammanuel Zegeye and moderated by WME client and The Sum of Us author Heather McGhee.
Additionally, there will be discussions about colorism in entertainment with The Grapevine, filmmaker and WME client Dream Hampton and Robinson talking power and responsibility in Hollywood in a panel moderated by Endeavor chief inclusion officer Alicin Williamson, and a workshop titled “Tools for Talent,...
The day’s programing will feature a conversation with Michael B. Jordan, Color of Change president Rashad Robinson and Endeavor executive chairman Patrick Whitesell; and a review of McKinsey’s “Leaving $10B On the Table,” a study of Hollywood’s economic losses from Black inequity, with co-authors Sheldon Lyn, Nony Onyeador and Ammanuel Zegeye and moderated by WME client and The Sum of Us author Heather McGhee.
Additionally, there will be discussions about colorism in entertainment with The Grapevine, filmmaker and WME client Dream Hampton and Robinson talking power and responsibility in Hollywood in a panel moderated by Endeavor chief inclusion officer Alicin Williamson, and a workshop titled “Tools for Talent,...
- 5/26/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Heather McGhee’s New York Times bestseller The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together is getting the audio series treatment.
Higher Ground, the production company set up by President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, has struck an option deal to turn the non-fiction book into a Spotify podcast series.
The deal is unusual as while it’s commonplace for books to be optioned for scripted series and movies as well as documentaries, it’s rare from book-to-podcast.
The book, which was published by One World / Penguin Random House, in February, offers an exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.
McGhee, an expert in economic and social policy and the former president of the inequality-focused think tank Demos, embarks on a deeply personal journey...
Higher Ground, the production company set up by President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, has struck an option deal to turn the non-fiction book into a Spotify podcast series.
The deal is unusual as while it’s commonplace for books to be optioned for scripted series and movies as well as documentaries, it’s rare from book-to-podcast.
The book, which was published by One World / Penguin Random House, in February, offers an exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.
McGhee, an expert in economic and social policy and the former president of the inequality-focused think tank Demos, embarks on a deeply personal journey...
- 5/4/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Tony Goldwyn, last seen on the New York stage co-starring with Bryan Cranston in Network, will make a four-month return to Broadway when he joins the cast of Matthew Lopez’ The Inheritance.
Starting Sunday Jan. 5, Goldwyn will take over the role of Henry Wilcox from John Benjamin Hickey, who’s taking a leave of absence to direct the Broadway-bound production of Plaza Suite starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Goldwyn, best known to TV audiences for his seven-season run as Scandal‘s President Fitzgerald Grant, has starred in such other Broadway productions as Promises, Promises and Holiday. Off Broadway credits include The Water’s Edge, The Dying Gaul, Spike Heels and The Sum of Us, among others.
The Inheritance, playing at the Barrymore Theatre, is Lopez’s re-imagining of E.M. Forster’s Howards End, updated to 21st Century Manhattan and shifting the characters to a group of gay men,...
Starting Sunday Jan. 5, Goldwyn will take over the role of Henry Wilcox from John Benjamin Hickey, who’s taking a leave of absence to direct the Broadway-bound production of Plaza Suite starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Goldwyn, best known to TV audiences for his seven-season run as Scandal‘s President Fitzgerald Grant, has starred in such other Broadway productions as Promises, Promises and Holiday. Off Broadway credits include The Water’s Edge, The Dying Gaul, Spike Heels and The Sum of Us, among others.
The Inheritance, playing at the Barrymore Theatre, is Lopez’s re-imagining of E.M. Forster’s Howards End, updated to 21st Century Manhattan and shifting the characters to a group of gay men,...
- 12/9/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Mark Warner receives his award from Karen Eastmure.
The editors of Ladies in Black, Bloom and The Final Quarter were among the honorees of the Australian Screen Editors’ annual Ellie Awards presented on Saturday night at the Eternity Playhouse in Darlinghurst.
Mark Warner’s work on Ladies in Black won best editing in a feature drama, James Manché’s episode 5 of Bloom was recognised as best editing in a drama and Sally Fryer’s The Final Quarter took the feature documentary editing prize.
That followed Fryer’s win at the Aacta Awards while the Adam Goodes doco directed by Ian Darling was named best documentary program at the Asian Academy Creative Awards in Singapore last Friday night.
The other recipients included Sara Edwards’ Gatwick – The Last Chance Hotel (documentary), Julie-Anne De Ruvo’s The Letdown (comedy), Nicholas Dunlop and Lawrie Silvestrin’s Don’t Stop the Music (factual entertainment) and...
The editors of Ladies in Black, Bloom and The Final Quarter were among the honorees of the Australian Screen Editors’ annual Ellie Awards presented on Saturday night at the Eternity Playhouse in Darlinghurst.
Mark Warner’s work on Ladies in Black won best editing in a feature drama, James Manché’s episode 5 of Bloom was recognised as best editing in a drama and Sally Fryer’s The Final Quarter took the feature documentary editing prize.
That followed Fryer’s win at the Aacta Awards while the Adam Goodes doco directed by Ian Darling was named best documentary program at the Asian Academy Creative Awards in Singapore last Friday night.
The other recipients included Sara Edwards’ Gatwick – The Last Chance Hotel (documentary), Julie-Anne De Ruvo’s The Letdown (comedy), Nicholas Dunlop and Lawrie Silvestrin’s Don’t Stop the Music (factual entertainment) and...
- 12/8/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Talking with siblings about sex can be awkward, but the Goldwyn kids clearly don't have that problem.
When Liz Goldwyn invited her half brother, Tony, star of Scandal, onto her newish The Sex Ed podcast for its July 2 installment, the two gabbed for 54 minutes. They covered topics ranging from Tony's first love scene on stage (a makeout scene with a man in the play The Sum of Us) and onscreen (opposite Gina Gershon as a sexaholic in Love Matters for Showtime) as well as the time he went full Monty onstage in New York City during a performance of ...
When Liz Goldwyn invited her half brother, Tony, star of Scandal, onto her newish The Sex Ed podcast for its July 2 installment, the two gabbed for 54 minutes. They covered topics ranging from Tony's first love scene on stage (a makeout scene with a man in the play The Sum of Us) and onscreen (opposite Gina Gershon as a sexaholic in Love Matters for Showtime) as well as the time he went full Monty onstage in New York City during a performance of ...
- 7/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Olivia and Fitz presumably went off to Vermont to make jam for the rest of their lives after he picked her up in last year’s series finale of “Scandal.” But their portrayers, Kerry Washington and Tony Goldwyn, have been busy on the Great White Way, which means we could be treated to an Olitz reunion at the Tony Awards.
Washington headlined “American Son,” which ended its limited two-month run on Jan. 27. She’s currently in sixth place in our Best Actress in a Play odds for the production, which follows an estranged interracial couple who reunites at a police station when their teenage son goes missing. This would be the first Tony bid for Washington, who was twice Emmy-nominated for “Scandal.” Glenda Jackson (“King Lear”), Laurie Metcalf (“Hillary and Clinton”), Elaine May (“The Waverly Gallery”), Annette Bening (“All My Sons”) and Laura Donnelly (“The Ferryman”) are the predicted top five.
Washington headlined “American Son,” which ended its limited two-month run on Jan. 27. She’s currently in sixth place in our Best Actress in a Play odds for the production, which follows an estranged interracial couple who reunites at a police station when their teenage son goes missing. This would be the first Tony bid for Washington, who was twice Emmy-nominated for “Scandal.” Glenda Jackson (“King Lear”), Laurie Metcalf (“Hillary and Clinton”), Elaine May (“The Waverly Gallery”), Annette Bening (“All My Sons”) and Laura Donnelly (“The Ferryman”) are the predicted top five.
- 4/12/2019
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Tony Goldwyn will return to Broadway in Ivo van Hove’s much-anticipated production of Network, joining Bryan Cranston and Tatiana Maslany in the stage adaptation of the 1976 Oscar-winning film.
Goldwyn will play Max Schumacher, the TV exec in the midst of a mid-life crisis played by the Oscar-nominated William Holden in the film. British actor Douglas Henshall originated the role in the West End production of the play last year.
Known to TV audiences for playing President Fitzgerald Grant in Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal and next to be seen onscreen in Netflix’s Chambers with Uma Thurman, Goldwyn has a long stage history. Among his credits: Theresa Rebeck’s The Water’s Edge, Craig Lucas’ The Dying Gaul, Holiday at Circle in the Square opposite Laura Linney, and an Obie-winning performance in The Sum of Us. He most recently appeared on Broadway in the 2010 revival of Promises, Promises.
Performances of Network begin on Saturday,...
Goldwyn will play Max Schumacher, the TV exec in the midst of a mid-life crisis played by the Oscar-nominated William Holden in the film. British actor Douglas Henshall originated the role in the West End production of the play last year.
Known to TV audiences for playing President Fitzgerald Grant in Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal and next to be seen onscreen in Netflix’s Chambers with Uma Thurman, Goldwyn has a long stage history. Among his credits: Theresa Rebeck’s The Water’s Edge, Craig Lucas’ The Dying Gaul, Holiday at Circle in the Square opposite Laura Linney, and an Obie-winning performance in The Sum of Us. He most recently appeared on Broadway in the 2010 revival of Promises, Promises.
Performances of Network begin on Saturday,...
- 9/27/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
David Stevens, the screenwriter who shared an Oscar nomination for the landmark 1980 Australian historical drama Breaker Morant, has died. He was 77.
Stevens died Tuesday of cancer in hospice in Whangarei, New Zealand, his partner, Loren Boothby, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Stevens also adapted his play The Sum of Us into a 1994 Australian Film Institute-winning movie starring Russell Crowe and Jack Thompson and directed the five-hour 1981 romantic miniseries A Town Like Alice, featuring Helen Morse and Bryan Brown.
Stevens wrote the 1996 telefilm The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years and received an Emmy nomination for his writing on the 1988 miniseries Merlin, starring ...
Stevens died Tuesday of cancer in hospice in Whangarei, New Zealand, his partner, Loren Boothby, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Stevens also adapted his play The Sum of Us into a 1994 Australian Film Institute-winning movie starring Russell Crowe and Jack Thompson and directed the five-hour 1981 romantic miniseries A Town Like Alice, featuring Helen Morse and Bryan Brown.
Stevens wrote the 1996 telefilm The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years and received an Emmy nomination for his writing on the 1988 miniseries Merlin, starring ...
- 7/21/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
David Stevens, the screenwriter who shared an Oscar nomination for the landmark 1980 Australian historical drama Breaker Morant, has died. He was 77.
Stevens died Tuesday of cancer in hospice in Whangarei, New Zealand, his partner, Loren Boothby, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Stevens also adapted his play The Sum of Us into a 1994 Australian Film Institute-winning movie starring Russell Crowe and Jack Thompson and directed the five-hour 1981 romantic miniseries A Town Like Alice, featuring Helen Morse and Bryan Brown.
Stevens wrote the 1996 telefilm The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years and received an Emmy nomination for his writing on the 1988 miniseries Merlin, starring ...
Stevens died Tuesday of cancer in hospice in Whangarei, New Zealand, his partner, Loren Boothby, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Stevens also adapted his play The Sum of Us into a 1994 Australian Film Institute-winning movie starring Russell Crowe and Jack Thompson and directed the five-hour 1981 romantic miniseries A Town Like Alice, featuring Helen Morse and Bryan Brown.
Stevens wrote the 1996 telefilm The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years and received an Emmy nomination for his writing on the 1988 miniseries Merlin, starring ...
- 7/21/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Photo by American Int/Everett / Rex Features
“Livin’ in a land down under, where women glow and men plunder,” sang 80’s pop group Men At Work.
As most of the United States is buried under cold and snowy temps, Australia is having balmy warm weather. The country of marmite, koalas and kangaroos, and the Great Barrier Reef is currently hosting the first of the tennis grand slams of 2018, The Australian Open.
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic hits a shot during a training session ahead of the Australian Open tennis tournament, in Melbourne, Australia January 15, 2017. Reuters/Issei Kato
The list of actors and actresses hailing from the sixth largest nation include Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, Rod Taylor, Mel Gibson, Guy Pearce, Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush, Toni Collette, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Ben Mendelsohn, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Hugo Weaving, Naomi Watts, Abbie Cornish, Eric Bana, Joel Edgerton, Mia Wasikowska, Margot Robbie, Chris Hemsworth,...
“Livin’ in a land down under, where women glow and men plunder,” sang 80’s pop group Men At Work.
As most of the United States is buried under cold and snowy temps, Australia is having balmy warm weather. The country of marmite, koalas and kangaroos, and the Great Barrier Reef is currently hosting the first of the tennis grand slams of 2018, The Australian Open.
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic hits a shot during a training session ahead of the Australian Open tennis tournament, in Melbourne, Australia January 15, 2017. Reuters/Issei Kato
The list of actors and actresses hailing from the sixth largest nation include Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, Rod Taylor, Mel Gibson, Guy Pearce, Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush, Toni Collette, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Ben Mendelsohn, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Hugo Weaving, Naomi Watts, Abbie Cornish, Eric Bana, Joel Edgerton, Mia Wasikowska, Margot Robbie, Chris Hemsworth,...
- 1/18/2018
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
His voice is indelibly laid down in minds of Australians who have watched his film career unfold over five decades: from Breaker Morant to The Man From Snowy River; from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil to The Sum of Us. Jack Thompson’s skill as an actor is echoed in his abiding love of poetry and memories of the father who introduced him to it. The power of poetry, he says, keeps him centred in the here and now
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- 2/24/2017
- by David Fanner and Lucy Clark
- The Guardian - Film News
Following the mid-70s wave of critically acclaimed Australian cinema, thanks to names like Peter Weir, Fred Schepisi and Gillian Armstrong, director Bruce Beresford would score his first of several iconic moments in cinematic history with 1980’s Breaker Morant, based on the play by Kenneth G. Ross. The film premiered at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, and was awarded a Best Supporting Acting accolade for Jack Thompson (a category that no longer officially exists), and began a prolific decade for Beresford, which closed with a controversial Best Picture win at the 1989 Academy Awards with Driving Miss Daisy. Documenting a particularly heinous miscarriage of justice from the country’s military history, Beresford’s title helped established a legacy of commemorative reenactments from his native country and showcases a trio of excellent performances.
Set during the Boer War at the turn of the century in South Africa, a trio of three Australian lieutenants,...
Set during the Boer War at the turn of the century in South Africa, a trio of three Australian lieutenants,...
- 9/29/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The legal dissolution of a marriage has been dramatic fodder for serious films throughout the years, including Kramer Vs Kramer and The Sum Of Us. Oh, and even a few comedies like The War Of The Roses (but it’s very, very dark). Husband and wife are treated equally in the court (when the lawyers aren’t able to work things out) as the judge and jurors decide how the union will end. But what about other countries, other cultures? What occurs when one spouse apparently has all the power in the proceedings? Such is the conflict in this new film set in Israel, where a trio of rabbis decide one woman’s fate. And since there’s no claims of adultery or physical abuse, the divorce decree can only happen if the husband will consent. That’s the main obstacle and conflict in Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem.
- 3/20/2015
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Oscar winning actor Russell Crowe takes to the director’s chair for the first time with his upcoming movie The Water Diviner. Here’s a first look at the brand new trailer and poster for the film.
Starring Russell Crowe (Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind) and Olga Kurylenko (Oblivion, Quantum Of Solace), The Water Diviner is an epic adventure set four years after the devastating battle of Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I.
Australian farmer Connor (Crowe) travels to Istanbul to discover the fate of his sons, reported missing in the action, where he forges a relationship with the beautiful Turkish woman (Kurylenko) who owns the hotel in which he stays. Holding on to hope, and with the help of a Turkish Officer, Connor embarks on a journey across the country to find the truth about the fate of his sons. The Water Diviner is an extraordinary tale of love,...
Starring Russell Crowe (Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind) and Olga Kurylenko (Oblivion, Quantum Of Solace), The Water Diviner is an epic adventure set four years after the devastating battle of Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I.
Australian farmer Connor (Crowe) travels to Istanbul to discover the fate of his sons, reported missing in the action, where he forges a relationship with the beautiful Turkish woman (Kurylenko) who owns the hotel in which he stays. Holding on to hope, and with the help of a Turkish Officer, Connor embarks on a journey across the country to find the truth about the fate of his sons. The Water Diviner is an extraordinary tale of love,...
- 10/1/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert has had the greatest cultural impact of any local film released between 1993-1997, according to a new analysis by Screen Australia.
The report, Staying Power: The enduring footprint of Australian film, ranked almost 100 films' longevity by assessing their: primary release, revenues, ongoing access by audiences, acclaim and wider impact.
The report highlighted 20 films that had a domestic box office greater than $2.5 million and/or achieved an international release in 10 countries or more. Aside from Priscilla, the other films assessed were: Angel Baby, Babe, Bad Boy Bubby, The Castle, Children of the Revolution, Cosi, Country Life, Dating the Enemy, Kiss or Kill, Lightning Jack, Muriel's Wedding, Napolean, Paradise Road, The Piano, Reckless Kelly, Shine, Sirens, The Sum of Us, and The Wiggles Movie.
Screen Australia chief executive Ruth Harley, speaking at the Canberra International Film Festival, said feature films have the powerful ability...
The report, Staying Power: The enduring footprint of Australian film, ranked almost 100 films' longevity by assessing their: primary release, revenues, ongoing access by audiences, acclaim and wider impact.
The report highlighted 20 films that had a domestic box office greater than $2.5 million and/or achieved an international release in 10 countries or more. Aside from Priscilla, the other films assessed were: Angel Baby, Babe, Bad Boy Bubby, The Castle, Children of the Revolution, Cosi, Country Life, Dating the Enemy, Kiss or Kill, Lightning Jack, Muriel's Wedding, Napolean, Paradise Road, The Piano, Reckless Kelly, Shine, Sirens, The Sum of Us, and The Wiggles Movie.
Screen Australia chief executive Ruth Harley, speaking at the Canberra International Film Festival, said feature films have the powerful ability...
- 11/8/2012
- by Staff Reporter
- IF.com.au
Brace yourselves. This list of the Top 100 Greatest Gay Movies is probably going to generate some howls of protest thanks to a rather major upset in the rankings. Frankly, one that surprised the hell out of us here at AfterElton.
But before we get to that, an introduction. A few weeks ago we asked AfterElton readers to submit up to ten of their favorite films by write-in vote. We conducted a similar poll several years ago, but a lot has happened culturally since then, and a number of worthy movies of gay interest have been released. We wanted to see how your list of favorites had changed.
We also wanted to expand our list to 100 from the top 50 we had done previously. We figured there were finally enough quality gay films to justify the expansion. And we wanted to break out gay documentaries onto their own list (You'll find the...
But before we get to that, an introduction. A few weeks ago we asked AfterElton readers to submit up to ten of their favorite films by write-in vote. We conducted a similar poll several years ago, but a lot has happened culturally since then, and a number of worthy movies of gay interest have been released. We wanted to see how your list of favorites had changed.
We also wanted to expand our list to 100 from the top 50 we had done previously. We figured there were finally enough quality gay films to justify the expansion. And we wanted to break out gay documentaries onto their own list (You'll find the...
- 9/11/2012
- by AfterElton.com Staff
- The Backlot
More than a decade after the controversial film’s release, Bob Ellis considers whether Geoffrey Wright’s Romper Stomper, starring Russell Crowe, has stood the test of time.
It was nine years before Tampa, four years before Hanson, but there it was, ugly, prophetic, violent, Romper Stomper. ‘This is not your country’. A frankly Hitlerist gang of tattooed thugs going after Asians with baseball bats, bricks and knives in Footscray alleys, defending Australia’s racial and cultural purity. ‘Won’t let what happened to the Abos happen to us,’ says Hando, the headshaven pack leader, urging his eager swarm of war-painted dysfunctionals on, despising pasta as ‘wog food’ and smashing up Japanese cars, pushing back the yellow hordes with Howardite gravitas, we will decide who comes here, and tribal pride. He may lose this war against the unceasing invader, but he will give it his best shot. Russell Crowe in...
It was nine years before Tampa, four years before Hanson, but there it was, ugly, prophetic, violent, Romper Stomper. ‘This is not your country’. A frankly Hitlerist gang of tattooed thugs going after Asians with baseball bats, bricks and knives in Footscray alleys, defending Australia’s racial and cultural purity. ‘Won’t let what happened to the Abos happen to us,’ says Hando, the headshaven pack leader, urging his eager swarm of war-painted dysfunctionals on, despising pasta as ‘wog food’ and smashing up Japanese cars, pushing back the yellow hordes with Howardite gravitas, we will decide who comes here, and tribal pride. He may lose this war against the unceasing invader, but he will give it his best shot. Russell Crowe in...
- 11/30/2011
- by Brooke Hemphill
- Encore Magazine
Have you ever loved a performance so much that your subsequent disinterest in the same actor is actually hard to wrap your head around? That's me when it comes to Russell Crowe.
I love everything about him in L.A. Confidential... but in particular the way he looks at Kim Basinger. God, the way he looks at her. It's just riveting. He easily made my Best Actor shortlist in 1997. For the record it went like so...
Russell Crowe, La ConfidentialJohnny Depp, Donnie BrascoChristopher Guest, Waiting for GuffmanIan Holm, The Sweet Hereafter *winner*Mark Wahlberg, Boogie NightsI'd probably rejigger to make Christopher Guest the winner now that it's been 13 years (yes, Guffman arrived in '97 even though it's listed as '96 everywhere) and that performance is still the most hilarious I think I've ever seen.
But I'm veering off topic. Damnit.
Back on. I watched a few key Confidential scenes after...
I love everything about him in L.A. Confidential... but in particular the way he looks at Kim Basinger. God, the way he looks at her. It's just riveting. He easily made my Best Actor shortlist in 1997. For the record it went like so...
Russell Crowe, La ConfidentialJohnny Depp, Donnie BrascoChristopher Guest, Waiting for GuffmanIan Holm, The Sweet Hereafter *winner*Mark Wahlberg, Boogie NightsI'd probably rejigger to make Christopher Guest the winner now that it's been 13 years (yes, Guffman arrived in '97 even though it's listed as '96 everywhere) and that performance is still the most hilarious I think I've ever seen.
But I'm veering off topic. Damnit.
Back on. I watched a few key Confidential scenes after...
- 11/8/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Bethenny got married. There is no getting. It's past tense. She and Jason are - to quote Bravo's episode title - "So Hoppy Together." Was that why she married him? For the pun?
In Thursday night's installment, the wedding day finally arrived, and down at The Four Seasons, frazzled wedding planner Shawn is going full-tilt trying to get everything ready in time.
He's a tad stressed, you could say.
Back at home, the Bethenny Getting Married finale is even more intense, with the insane bride trying to get ready for her wedding and simultaneously editing her new book.
We love her, but wow. Chill, girl!
Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words.
She accomplishes the book, to her momentary relief. Then Teri, the Maid of Honor, comes over wearing another really bad shirt and the hair and makeup pros arrive as well.
We're getting down to the wire.
In Thursday night's installment, the wedding day finally arrived, and down at The Four Seasons, frazzled wedding planner Shawn is going full-tilt trying to get everything ready in time.
He's a tad stressed, you could say.
Back at home, the Bethenny Getting Married finale is even more intense, with the insane bride trying to get ready for her wedding and simultaneously editing her new book.
We love her, but wow. Chill, girl!
Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words.
She accomplishes the book, to her momentary relief. Then Teri, the Maid of Honor, comes over wearing another really bad shirt and the hair and makeup pros arrive as well.
We're getting down to the wire.
- 7/9/2010
- by steve@iscribelimited.com (L.J. Gibbs)
- TVfanatic
Among the projects to receive funding is Snowtown a true-crime story from Justin Kurzel whose short film Blue Tongue screened at Cannes in 2005. The film follows a teenager who befriend’s John Bunting, Australia’s most notorious serial killer, and his world is altered when confronted by fear and loyalty for the man. - Australian Film Scene: Local Screen Australia recently announced funding approvals for 11 new projects, including 2 feature films, contributing a total of $5 million. Among the projects to receive funding is Snowtown a true-crime story from Justin Kurzel whose short film Blue Tongue screened at Cannes in 2005. The film follows a teenager who befriend’s John Bunting, Australia’s most notorious serial killer (wiki entry here), and his world is altered when confronted by fear and loyalty for the man. “Snowtown is a sophisticated character drama with an engaging yet horrific twist. In this chilling and compelling true story,...
- 4/7/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Russell Crowe is to be honored with the 2,404th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Oscar winner will unveil the pavement plaque in front of the Kodak Theater, where the Academy Awards are held annually, on April 12.
Moviemaker Ron Howard will be among the celebrities paying tribute to Crowe at the event.
Russell Crowe has been acting since he was four years old, when he was hired for a line of dialog in one episode of Australian TV series "Spyforce". He later appeared in some Australia's TV shows, such as "The Sum of Us", "The Young Doctors", and "Neighbours". His first film was 1990 movie called "Blood Oath". After making a success in Australia, the 45-year-old actor began landing roles in American big screen projects. Some of Hollywood movies he starred included "Gladiator", "Cinderella Man" and "A Good Year".
Moviemaker Ron Howard will be among the celebrities paying tribute to Crowe at the event.
Russell Crowe has been acting since he was four years old, when he was hired for a line of dialog in one episode of Australian TV series "Spyforce". He later appeared in some Australia's TV shows, such as "The Sum of Us", "The Young Doctors", and "Neighbours". His first film was 1990 movie called "Blood Oath". After making a success in Australia, the 45-year-old actor began landing roles in American big screen projects. Some of Hollywood movies he starred included "Gladiator", "Cinderella Man" and "A Good Year".
- 3/30/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Alan Filderman has his own casting company, Alan Filderman Casting. His Broadway credits include the musicals "Once on This Island," "Grey Gardens," and "Marie Christine," and the play "33 Variations," starring Jane Fonda. His Off-Broadway work includes the current Transport Group revival of Mart Crowley's "The Boys in the Band," "Langston in Harlem," William Finn and James Lapine's "A New Brain," "From the Mississippi Delta," "Sin," "Listen to My Heart," "Here Lies Jenny," "Miss Evers' Boys," Edward Albee's "Three Tall Women," "Song of Singapore," Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens' "Dessa Rose," "The Sum of Us," and "A Beautiful Thing." He has worked in regional theaters across the United States and on the films "Ice Age," "Broadway Damage," and "Anastasia."Pleasing the GodsThere are no rules. If there were rules, everybody would follow them and everybody would be a star. An actor can come in and audition, and...
- 3/4/2010
- backstage.com
Russell Crowe was horrified when gay fans threw their underwear on the stage to him while he performed with his rock band 30 Odd Foot Of Grunts in San Francisco recently. Russell announced he would keep his words short because, "The more I talk the more time certain people have to throw their underwear on the stage." But the star had little knowledge that his macho ways, rippling muscles and tough-talking have earned him God-like status within San Francisco's homosexual community - so much so that gay singers in the area are bending over backwards for the chance to share the stage with Crowe and his Grunts the next time they perform there. A member of the Lesbian & Gay Chorus Of San Francisco says, "I'm sure he wouldn't have any problems in getting a gay choir to perform with him the next time he brings his band to San Francisco. There's also a Gay Men's choir here in town and they'd all be happy for a shot at singing with him. If he's really serious about tapping into our audience, we'd welcome him with open arms. People who make an extra effort to support the gay community are gonna be embraced. It really helps your popularity. You'll earn a lot of loyal fans who will stand by you no matter what." And members of the choir see no reason for the star to be surprised about his newly-acquired homosexual fans - because he's the ideal gay icon. The choir member continues, "Anybody who's an icon of macho is going to eventually become a homosexual icon. His almost caveman ways are what really appeal to a lot of the guys here. He's almost a parody of a rugged type of man. That definitely adds a camp element to his image. Nobody would ever make fun of him for his ways, but people definitely have a sense of humour about Russell Crowe - more so than he seems to have." Despite his current spate of he-man roles, one of Russell's breakthrough roles, in which he proved his abilities as a serious actor, was as a gay man in 1994's The Sum of Us.
- 10/11/2001
- WENN
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