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Exclusive Update 4.17am Pt, July 2: We’ve got more details on Jodi Matterson’s new indie, Silent Firework.
The indie has developed partnerships with a pair of execs that Australian exec Matterson worked with at former company Made Up Stories, and another with a key exec behind kids series Bluey. Additionally, we hear Matterson has raised a capital fund on the financing side.
Matterson will work with Wolf Like Me writer, creator and director Abe Forsythe and Glendyn Ivin, who directed all seven episodes of Prime Video drama series The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. It is also in development on projects with Libbie Doherty, who is an executive producer of Bluey and ex-Head of Children and Family at Australian pubcaster the ABC.
Forsythe is an actor, producer and director whose credits include 2019 horror comedy Little Monsters, which starred Lupita Nyong’o and Josh Gad. More recently, he created and...
The indie has developed partnerships with a pair of execs that Australian exec Matterson worked with at former company Made Up Stories, and another with a key exec behind kids series Bluey. Additionally, we hear Matterson has raised a capital fund on the financing side.
Matterson will work with Wolf Like Me writer, creator and director Abe Forsythe and Glendyn Ivin, who directed all seven episodes of Prime Video drama series The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. It is also in development on projects with Libbie Doherty, who is an executive producer of Bluey and ex-Head of Children and Family at Australian pubcaster the ABC.
Forsythe is an actor, producer and director whose credits include 2019 horror comedy Little Monsters, which starred Lupita Nyong’o and Josh Gad. More recently, he created and...
- 7/2/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
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Sam Neill and Annette Bening headline mystery thriller Apples Never Fall, which the BBC has picked up.
The latest adaptation to spring from a book by Lianne Moriarty is the number one New York Times bestselling book Apples Never Fall, which has been acquired by the BBC for broadcast in the UK.
It’ll star Sam Neill and Annette Bening as a pair of middle-aged tennis coaches whose happy lives are turned upside down by a woman’s mysterious disappearance.
The synopsis reads as follows:
Apples Never Fall centres on the seemingly picture-perfect Delaney family. Former tennis coaches Stan (Sam Neill) and Joy (Annette Bening) have sold their successful tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. While they look forward to spending time with their four adult children, everything changes when a wounded young woman knocks on Joy and Stan’s door,...
The latest adaptation to spring from a book by Lianne Moriarty is the number one New York Times bestselling book Apples Never Fall, which has been acquired by the BBC for broadcast in the UK.
It’ll star Sam Neill and Annette Bening as a pair of middle-aged tennis coaches whose happy lives are turned upside down by a woman’s mysterious disappearance.
The synopsis reads as follows:
Apples Never Fall centres on the seemingly picture-perfect Delaney family. Former tennis coaches Stan (Sam Neill) and Joy (Annette Bening) have sold their successful tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. While they look forward to spending time with their four adult children, everything changes when a wounded young woman knocks on Joy and Stan’s door,...
- 6/4/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
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Exclusive: Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories has teamed with producer Monica Saunders-Weinberg to adapt Fiona McIntosh’s novel The Pearl Thief as a feature film. One Life screenwriter Nick Drake is attached to write.
The Pearl Thief is billed as a sweeping, epic story love and betrayal set between 1939 and the early 1960s. Saunders-Weinberg acquired the rights and took the project to Nine Perfect Strangers maker Made Up Stories, which then attached Drake to the project.
Synopsis reads: “The stakes are high in this gripping novel set between the city of Prague and its snowy woodlands on the cusp of World War II, and later in the streets of Paris, London, and the heather-covered moors of Yorkshire in 1963.”
The plot will follow Katerina, a museum curator determined to overcome the trauma of her past and avenge the pain inflicted upon those she loved and those she’ll never know.
The Pearl Thief is billed as a sweeping, epic story love and betrayal set between 1939 and the early 1960s. Saunders-Weinberg acquired the rights and took the project to Nine Perfect Strangers maker Made Up Stories, which then attached Drake to the project.
Synopsis reads: “The stakes are high in this gripping novel set between the city of Prague and its snowy woodlands on the cusp of World War II, and later in the streets of Paris, London, and the heather-covered moors of Yorkshire in 1963.”
The plot will follow Katerina, a museum curator determined to overcome the trauma of her past and avenge the pain inflicted upon those she loved and those she’ll never know.
- 5/31/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
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Exclusive: Once the Hollywood strikes were over, Fifth Season, run by co-CEOs Chris Rice and Graham Taylor, moved in to get production on six series up and running by January, including The Savant, starring and executive produced by Jessica Chastain.
The new limited series for Apple TV+ is the first production under a first-look deal Fifth Season Television has made with Chastain’s Freckle Films (George & Tammy), run by President Kelly Carmichael, to develop and produce projects.
In addition to The Savant, which marks Fifth Season’s seventh series at Apple TV+, other series that ramped up quickly after the strikes include Season 2 of Apple TV+’s Severance and the upcoming The Chief Of War starring Jason Momoa and Lady In the Lake (in post-production) with Natalie Portman — all on Apple TV+ — Season 2 of Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers starring Nicole Kidman and Australian series The Last Anniversary, which Kidman produces.
The new limited series for Apple TV+ is the first production under a first-look deal Fifth Season Television has made with Chastain’s Freckle Films (George & Tammy), run by President Kelly Carmichael, to develop and produce projects.
In addition to The Savant, which marks Fifth Season’s seventh series at Apple TV+, other series that ramped up quickly after the strikes include Season 2 of Apple TV+’s Severance and the upcoming The Chief Of War starring Jason Momoa and Lady In the Lake (in post-production) with Natalie Portman — all on Apple TV+ — Season 2 of Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers starring Nicole Kidman and Australian series The Last Anniversary, which Kidman produces.
- 3/22/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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Secrets can poison any family, especially one whose matriarch mysteriously goes missing.
Upcoming Peacock series “Apples Never Fall” stars Oscar-nominated “Nyad” actress Annette Bening and “Jurassic Park” icon Sam Neill as the seemingly perfect couple behind an elite tennis academy. Yet as the duo celebrate retirement, Joy (Bening) suddenly goes missing…leaving their family (and the press) to accuse husband Stan (Neill) of being behind her disappearance.
Based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel of the same name, “Apples Never Fall” is the latest adaptation of Moriarty’s work, coming after “Big Little Lies” and “Nine Perfect Strangers.”
The official synopsis for “Apples Never Fall” reads: Former tennis coaches Stan (Sam Neill) and Joy (Annette Bening) Delaney have sold their successful tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. While they look forward to spending time with their four adult children, everything...
Upcoming Peacock series “Apples Never Fall” stars Oscar-nominated “Nyad” actress Annette Bening and “Jurassic Park” icon Sam Neill as the seemingly perfect couple behind an elite tennis academy. Yet as the duo celebrate retirement, Joy (Bening) suddenly goes missing…leaving their family (and the press) to accuse husband Stan (Neill) of being behind her disappearance.
Based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel of the same name, “Apples Never Fall” is the latest adaptation of Moriarty’s work, coming after “Big Little Lies” and “Nine Perfect Strangers.”
The official synopsis for “Apples Never Fall” reads: Former tennis coaches Stan (Sam Neill) and Joy (Annette Bening) Delaney have sold their successful tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. While they look forward to spending time with their four adult children, everything...
- 2/14/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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Having already worked with compatriots Baz Luhrmann, James Wan, Kim Farrant, Phillip Noyce, and John Polson (who is directing her in the upcoming “The Last Anniversary” from author Liane Moriarty), Nicole Kidman generally finds a way to work with every notable Aussie filmmaker she can. And now she can add one more to the list: Justin Kurzel, the celebrated indie filmmaker known for “Macbeth,” “Assassin’s Creed,” and “True History of The Kelly Gang,” starring Aussie Russell Crowe.
Continue reading Nicole Kidman To Star In ‘Mice’ Thriller For Director Justin Kurzel at The Playlist.
Continue reading Nicole Kidman To Star In ‘Mice’ Thriller For Director Justin Kurzel at The Playlist.
- 1/22/2024
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
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Exclusive: The team behind Nine Perfect Strangers and The Undoing — Blossom Films and Made Up Stories – have put together another solid film that Nicole Kidman will star in for director Justin Kurzel.
They’ve teamed on a feature film adaptation of Mice, a debut novel by Gordon Reece. The producers will partner with the production company Thirdborn, made up of Kurzel, Shaun Grant and Nicole O’Donohue. Grant will write the script; he and Kurzel teamed for the Cannes-winning Nitramand and the upcoming TV series The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Blossom Films’ Kidman and Made Up Stories’ principal Bruna Papandrea will produce alongside Blossom’s Per Saari, Made Up Stories’ Steve Hutensky and Jodi Matterson and Thirdborn’s Kurzel and Grant. Jeanne Snow of Made Up Stories will exec produce with Thirdborn’s O’Donohue and Harriet Warner.
In Mice, Shelley and her mother are pushed to their limits,...
They’ve teamed on a feature film adaptation of Mice, a debut novel by Gordon Reece. The producers will partner with the production company Thirdborn, made up of Kurzel, Shaun Grant and Nicole O’Donohue. Grant will write the script; he and Kurzel teamed for the Cannes-winning Nitramand and the upcoming TV series The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Blossom Films’ Kidman and Made Up Stories’ principal Bruna Papandrea will produce alongside Blossom’s Per Saari, Made Up Stories’ Steve Hutensky and Jodi Matterson and Thirdborn’s Kurzel and Grant. Jeanne Snow of Made Up Stories will exec produce with Thirdborn’s O’Donohue and Harriet Warner.
In Mice, Shelley and her mother are pushed to their limits,...
- 1/22/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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The new year is nearly upon us and it’s shaping up to be a hot one in TV land as more and more countries get in on the premium drama series act. Here, we round up 15 of the buzziest titles you’re set to hear much more about over the coming year, from Doctor Who to The Count of Monte Cristo to Netflix Italy’s pornography drama Supersex.
‘Doctor Who’ (BBC)
It’s back like you’ve never seen it before. The 40th season of Doctor Who, the outsized British sci-fi series that has been on and off screens for 60 years, will kick off next year with its first ever Black lead alongside a healthy budget boost coupled with several spin-offs. Anticipation surrounding the Doctor’s latest adventures rarely ramps down but there is extra bite with this one. Following his star breakout turn as Eric Effiong in Netflix’s Sex Education,...
‘Doctor Who’ (BBC)
It’s back like you’ve never seen it before. The 40th season of Doctor Who, the outsized British sci-fi series that has been on and off screens for 60 years, will kick off next year with its first ever Black lead alongside a healthy budget boost coupled with several spin-offs. Anticipation surrounding the Doctor’s latest adventures rarely ramps down but there is extra bite with this one. Following his star breakout turn as Eric Effiong in Netflix’s Sex Education,...
- 12/24/2023
- by Max Goldbart and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
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Exclusive: Teresa Palmer, Miranda Richardson and Danielle Macdonald and a host of other names have joined Nicole Kidman’s light-hearted Australian drama series The Last Anniversary.
The Foxtel drama for Aussie streamer Binge has gone into production in Sydney with Helen Thomson, Susan Prior, Claude Scott-Mitchell, Charlie Garber, Uli Latukefu and Jeremy Lindsay Taylor also attached to appear.
Based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel, The Last Anniversary is billed as “a wickedly funny, heartfelt dramedy wrapped in a gripping mystery about family, motherhood and the women who define the generations that come after them.”
Set on the mysterious Scribbly Gum Island, where a young couple disappeared decades before,...
The Foxtel drama for Aussie streamer Binge has gone into production in Sydney with Helen Thomson, Susan Prior, Claude Scott-Mitchell, Charlie Garber, Uli Latukefu and Jeremy Lindsay Taylor also attached to appear.
Based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel, The Last Anniversary is billed as “a wickedly funny, heartfelt dramedy wrapped in a gripping mystery about family, motherhood and the women who define the generations that come after them.”
Set on the mysterious Scribbly Gum Island, where a young couple disappeared decades before,...
- 11/24/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
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