It.s been another successful year for the country.s premier drama schools, at least measured by the number of actor graduates that have signed with Australian talent agents.
All 22 graduates of Nida.s acting class have secured representation. The Vca had 24 graduate actors, of whom all but one has signed with agents. That actor is still negotiating while heading home to the Us.
The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Waapa) graduated 17 actors. Sixteen have found agents and the other had a final interview on Thursday and was hopeful of doing a deal soon afterwards.
"At the Nida Showcase in early November, it was fantastic to introduce the Nida graduating class of actors to the best agents in town,. Di Drew, the school.s Head of Film and Television, tells If.
.Within three weeks, every graduate from the 2013 acting class had an agent. This year's graduates are very prepared and industry ready,...
All 22 graduates of Nida.s acting class have secured representation. The Vca had 24 graduate actors, of whom all but one has signed with agents. That actor is still negotiating while heading home to the Us.
The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Waapa) graduated 17 actors. Sixteen have found agents and the other had a final interview on Thursday and was hopeful of doing a deal soon afterwards.
"At the Nida Showcase in early November, it was fantastic to introduce the Nida graduating class of actors to the best agents in town,. Di Drew, the school.s Head of Film and Television, tells If.
.Within three weeks, every graduate from the 2013 acting class had an agent. This year's graduates are very prepared and industry ready,...
- 12/19/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The exodus of actors from International Casting Services (Ics) continues as the agency founded 52 years ago by the late Gloria Payten prepares to shut its doors.
This week Cameron.s Management announced David Roberts and Jennifer Hagan had joined its agency after earlier signing Drew Forsythe.
Lisa Mann Creative Management (Lmcm) confirmed it is now representing former Ics clients Alycia Debnam-Carey, Christie Whelan Browne, Sophie Ross and Justin Cotta.
Linsten Morris Management has signed Dee Smart and her daughter Charlie Hancock.
Melina McKenna, who was a senior agent at Ics, joined Lmcm on June 4, and Martin Sacks, Kris McQuade, Helen Dallimore, Erica Lovell, Jo Turner, Nick Simpson-Deeks, Edmund Lembke-Hogan, Kip Gamblin and Nathan O.Keefe crossed from Ics to Lmcm.
As If reported previously, Rachel Blake, John Batchelor and Tony Martin subsequently joined Rgm, John Waters signed with Marquee and Debra Lawrance went to Creative Representation.
After McKenna departed Pauline Lee,...
This week Cameron.s Management announced David Roberts and Jennifer Hagan had joined its agency after earlier signing Drew Forsythe.
Lisa Mann Creative Management (Lmcm) confirmed it is now representing former Ics clients Alycia Debnam-Carey, Christie Whelan Browne, Sophie Ross and Justin Cotta.
Linsten Morris Management has signed Dee Smart and her daughter Charlie Hancock.
Melina McKenna, who was a senior agent at Ics, joined Lmcm on June 4, and Martin Sacks, Kris McQuade, Helen Dallimore, Erica Lovell, Jo Turner, Nick Simpson-Deeks, Edmund Lembke-Hogan, Kip Gamblin and Nathan O.Keefe crossed from Ics to Lmcm.
As If reported previously, Rachel Blake, John Batchelor and Tony Martin subsequently joined Rgm, John Waters signed with Marquee and Debra Lawrance went to Creative Representation.
After McKenna departed Pauline Lee,...
- 7/4/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Film review: 'Welcome to Woop Woop'
Aussie filmmaker Stephan Elliott follows up his hit "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" with another out-there Down Under outing. "Welcome to Woop Woop" retains the camp sensibility, but without all the colorful drag, the result is, simply, a drag.
Mired in heavy-handed grotesquerie, this forced farce goes irretrievably off from the get-go. Aside from some limited potential as a cult curiosity item -- like those horrible traffic accidents that some can't help but gawk at -- expect "Woop Woop" to rapidly outstay its theatrical welcome.
Based on novelist Douglas Kennedy's "The Dead Heart" and adapted by Michael Thomas ("Backbeat"), the picture concerns the antic exploits of one Teddy (Johnathon Schaech), a New York con man who finds himself in a lot of hot water back home and seeks refuge in the untamed Australian wilderness.
He ends up in the proverbial frying pan when a lusty fling with a nympho hitchhiker named Angie (Susie Porter) has nightmarish consequences. He awakens from a drugged stupor to find himself locked in a barn, having been unconscious during a formal marriage to Angie and trapped in a remote, dusty town presided over by her tyrannical father, Daddy-O (Rod Taylor), who's undying love of anything by Rodgers & Hammerstein prohibits the local radio station or outdoor movie nights from playing anything else.
Discovering that would-be escapees end up with a bullet in their backs, Teddy nevertheless plots a dramatic getaway with the help of Angie's less-crazed sister Krystal (Dee Smart), who was widowed after her hairdresser husband (Paul Mercurio) failed in his freedom-finding bid.
Director Elliott heaps on the garishness, apparently going for a Fellini-on-the-outback vibe but minus any of that master's carefully measured, poetic surrealism. As a consequence, most of the potential for humor is submerged by all the weighty excess.
As for the cast, Schaech ("That Thing You Do!") isn't required to do much more than spend a great deal of his performance parading around in his underpants between bouts with the sex-crazed (and just-plain crazed) Angie, spiritedly played by Porter.
Portraying the outrageous Daddy-O, Taylor bears scant resemblance to the rugged leading man known from such '60s classics as "The Birds" and "The Time Machine", while the rest of the cast -- including Mercurio ("Strictly Ballroom"), Rachel Griffiths ("Muriel's Wedding") and Tina Louise -- is similarly squandered.
Even behind the scenes, Oscar-winning costume designer Lizzy Gardiner does nothing as clever as anything in "Priscilla", for which she collected her award wearing that infamous credit card dress.
The soundtrack, meanwhile, is jampacked with enough Rodgers & Hammerstein tunes to warrant an intermission.
No such luck.
WELCOME TO WOOP WOOP
MGM
Goldwyn Entertainment Co.
and the Australian Film Finance Corp.
in association with Scala Prods.
A Scala/Unthank production
Director: Stephan Elliott
Producer: Finola Dwyer
Screenwriter: Michael Thomas
Based on the book "The Dead Heart" by: Douglas Kennedy
Executive producers: Nik Powell and Stephen Woolley
Director of photography: Mike Molloy
Production designer: Owen Paterson
Editor: Martin Walsh
Costume designer: Lizzy Gardiner
Music: Guy Gross
Color/stereo
Cast:
Teddy: Johnathon Schaech
Daddy-O: Rod Taylor
Angie: Susie Porter
Krystal: Dee Smart
Blind Wally: Barry Humphries
Reggie: Richard Moir
Midget: Paul Mercurio
Sylvia: Rachel Griffiths
Ginger: Maggie Kirkpatrick
Bella: Tina Louise
Running time -- 97 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Mired in heavy-handed grotesquerie, this forced farce goes irretrievably off from the get-go. Aside from some limited potential as a cult curiosity item -- like those horrible traffic accidents that some can't help but gawk at -- expect "Woop Woop" to rapidly outstay its theatrical welcome.
Based on novelist Douglas Kennedy's "The Dead Heart" and adapted by Michael Thomas ("Backbeat"), the picture concerns the antic exploits of one Teddy (Johnathon Schaech), a New York con man who finds himself in a lot of hot water back home and seeks refuge in the untamed Australian wilderness.
He ends up in the proverbial frying pan when a lusty fling with a nympho hitchhiker named Angie (Susie Porter) has nightmarish consequences. He awakens from a drugged stupor to find himself locked in a barn, having been unconscious during a formal marriage to Angie and trapped in a remote, dusty town presided over by her tyrannical father, Daddy-O (Rod Taylor), who's undying love of anything by Rodgers & Hammerstein prohibits the local radio station or outdoor movie nights from playing anything else.
Discovering that would-be escapees end up with a bullet in their backs, Teddy nevertheless plots a dramatic getaway with the help of Angie's less-crazed sister Krystal (Dee Smart), who was widowed after her hairdresser husband (Paul Mercurio) failed in his freedom-finding bid.
Director Elliott heaps on the garishness, apparently going for a Fellini-on-the-outback vibe but minus any of that master's carefully measured, poetic surrealism. As a consequence, most of the potential for humor is submerged by all the weighty excess.
As for the cast, Schaech ("That Thing You Do!") isn't required to do much more than spend a great deal of his performance parading around in his underpants between bouts with the sex-crazed (and just-plain crazed) Angie, spiritedly played by Porter.
Portraying the outrageous Daddy-O, Taylor bears scant resemblance to the rugged leading man known from such '60s classics as "The Birds" and "The Time Machine", while the rest of the cast -- including Mercurio ("Strictly Ballroom"), Rachel Griffiths ("Muriel's Wedding") and Tina Louise -- is similarly squandered.
Even behind the scenes, Oscar-winning costume designer Lizzy Gardiner does nothing as clever as anything in "Priscilla", for which she collected her award wearing that infamous credit card dress.
The soundtrack, meanwhile, is jampacked with enough Rodgers & Hammerstein tunes to warrant an intermission.
No such luck.
WELCOME TO WOOP WOOP
MGM
Goldwyn Entertainment Co.
and the Australian Film Finance Corp.
in association with Scala Prods.
A Scala/Unthank production
Director: Stephan Elliott
Producer: Finola Dwyer
Screenwriter: Michael Thomas
Based on the book "The Dead Heart" by: Douglas Kennedy
Executive producers: Nik Powell and Stephen Woolley
Director of photography: Mike Molloy
Production designer: Owen Paterson
Editor: Martin Walsh
Costume designer: Lizzy Gardiner
Music: Guy Gross
Color/stereo
Cast:
Teddy: Johnathon Schaech
Daddy-O: Rod Taylor
Angie: Susie Porter
Krystal: Dee Smart
Blind Wally: Barry Humphries
Reggie: Richard Moir
Midget: Paul Mercurio
Sylvia: Rachel Griffiths
Ginger: Maggie Kirkpatrick
Bella: Tina Louise
Running time -- 97 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 11/16/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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