Filming has started on BBC Two’s critically acclaimed drama The Last Kingdom, from Carnival Films. The second series, adapted by BAFTA-nominated and RTS award-winning writer Stephen Butchard from Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series of novels, is to return to BBC Two next year, with Netflix joining as a co-production partner. The series will premiere on BBC…
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Sacred Games adapted into Netflix series
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Netflix has announced a new original series based on the critically-acclaimed best-selling novel Sacred Games by Indian author Vikram Chandra. Shot on location in India, this Hindi-English series will be produced in partnership with Phantom Films, one of India’s leading production houses. Mr. Chandra explained that Sacred Games is set in Mumbai and delves into…
BMW Renews Partnership with Village and Event Cinemas
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Village Cinemas and joint venture partners Event, today announced the renewal of their partnership with BMW Group Australia, with BMW continuing as the presenting partner for Gold Class Cinemas. BMW is the exclusive presenting partner of Gold Class Cinemas nationally across both the Event and Village Cinema circuits, signing a further two-year agreement. “Village Cinemas…
ACT Smart Bin Trial
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Minister for Transport and Municipal Services Meegan Fitzharris has announced the start of a 12 month trial of three solar-powered self-compacting rubbish bins in three community locations around the ACT. “These innovative new bins have been installed at Campbell 5 in Campbell, Kingston Foreshore and Link Park at Wright, with the aim of reducing unnecessary…
Street
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Director Bradford May Staring Beau Casper Smart, Kate Miner, Shashawnee Hall Rated M Score 1/6 Remo Street is a young fighter who comes from a world where nothing is easy, so when he is faced with the opportunity to train with a world class coach, he has to choose between the long hard road to…
Julie’s Greenroom coming to Netflix in 2017
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Netflix has recently announced that icon Julie Andrews will star in Julie’s Greenroom, a new preschool show from The Jim Henson Company that features an all-new puppet cast of kids learning about the performing arts. The series will be available exclusively to Netflix members globally in early 2017. “The best of the best have joined…
Money Monster
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Director Jodie Foster Staring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell Rated M Score 3/6 Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio. On the face of it this is a pretty decent average movie. With Jodi Foster in the director’s…
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
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Director Taika Waititi Staring Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata Rated PG Score 5/6 A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. This is the second movie that I have watched that was directed by Taika Waititi the first being…
Fancy Boy starts production
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Fancy Boy, a new six-part sketch comedy show, commenced production in Melbourne. Executive producer Stuart Menzies explained that the show, which has grown out of the three year Fresh Blood initiative to uncover exciting new talent, finds comedy in the stranger corners of suburbia: in the couple whose communication breakdown leads to a kidnap; in…
Hardcore Henry
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Director IIya Naishuller Staring Sharlto Copley, Tim Roth, Haley Bennett Rated R Score 6/6 Henry is resurrected from death with no memory, and he must save his wife from a telekinetic warlord with a plan to bio-engineer soldiers. Okay, a quick message to Hoyts Australia, I really hope that the Friday night screening of Hardcore…