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Industry professionals are widely praising and remembering Australian actor Tony Barry, who died on Wednesday at age 81.

The actor is undoubtedly a Hollywood veteran with a roster of over 120 Australian films and television series.

One of the accomplished actor’s many TV shows was “Australia,” in which he starred with fellow Australian Hugh Jackman. Jackman took to Instagram on Wednesday to share his saddened thoughts regarding the loss of Barry.

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Jackman’s story grieved the loss of the critically acclaimed actor, “Deb and I are very sad to hear of Tony Barry’s passing. He was a wonderful man and a huge talent in the Australian film industry. We were very lucky to work with him during his incredible career.”

Barry has amassed extensive critical praise from within the industry.

Veteran Australian film and television actor Tony Barry, who played Ray Tivoli in the drama series The Time of Our Lives, has died. He was 81. Barry’s death was confirmed by his friend, New Zealand filmmaker, Gaylene Preston, who shared on Facebook that the actor had died in Murwillumbah, Australia, after a long illness. “He was one of a kind,” Preston wrote. “A fierce fighter for the underdog, working for indigenous rights and as part of rehabilitation programmes in the justice system and for the environment.” She continued, “He considered himself an honourary Kiwi being the only Australian to feature on a Nz postage stamp for his role in Goodbye Pork Pie. Diagnosed with melanoma in 2007, he insisted in keeping going, working to the end. A mighty tree has fallen. A warrior is lying down.” Born on August 28, 1941, in Ipswich, Queensland, Barry made his screen debut in 1968 in the television series Skippy: the Bush Kangaroo.

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Tony Barry, the veteran Australian film and television actor who starred in cult Kiwi comedy Goodbye Pork Pie and had a long-running role in the television drama series The Time of Our Lives, has died. He was 81.

Barry’s friend, the New Zealand filmmaker Gaylene Preston, wrote on Facebook that the actor had died in Murwillumbah, Australia after a long illness. “He was one of a kind. A fierce fighter for the underdog, working for indigenous rights and as part of rehabilitation [programs] in the justice system and for the environment,” Preston wrote.

“Tony Barry gone – lovely man, terrific actor and hero of mine. Sad today,” tweeted Sam Neill who starred with Barry in Michael Blakemore’s Country Life.

Born on Aug. 28, 1941, in Queensland, Australia, Barry made his screen debut in 1968 in the television series Skippy: the Bush Kangaroo, which he followed with appearances...

Geoff Murphy.

Producer, director and screenwriter Geoff Murphy, a leading figure in New Zealand cinema’s renaissance of the late 1970s and early 1980s, died in Wellington on Monday. He was 80.

Murphy was best known as the director of Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu and The Quiet Earth. Action-comedy Goodbye Pork Pie, a road movie starring Kelly Johnson, Tony Barry and Claire Oberman, became the first local film to gain blockbuster status at the box office in 1981, according to the New Zealand Film Commission.

“He deserves every ounce of credit for the brilliant things he did with The Quiet Earth,” writer-director Sam Pillsbury told Stuff Nz. “He was a genius and one of the most brilliant people I’ve ever worked with and I learned a lot from him.”

He was was a founding member of Blerta, the musical and theatrical co-operative that toured New Zealand in the early 1970s. His first feature,...

Ryan Kwanten explains what drew him to writer-director Ivan Sen's story in our exclusive featurette for Mystery Road, which is available on Blu-ray and DVD today through Well Go USA.

The story centers on indigenous cowboy detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen), returning to his outback hometown to solve the murder of a teenage girl, whose body is found under the highway trucking route. Alienated from both the white-dominated police force and his own community, including his teenage daughter (now connected to the murdered girl), Jay stands alone in his determination to fight back - for his town, and his people.

Watch as Ryan Kwanten, who plays Pete, a kangaroo hunter implicated in the murder, explains how the script was quite the hot commodity around town, and how he was drawn to the character and Ivan Sen's writing, before picking up Mystery Road on Blu-ray and DVD.

Mystery Road was released October 14th,...

Ivan Sen.s Mystery Road has been warmly received by the UK critics as the Outback thriller began its cinema roll-out, and the Us release is set for October.

The detective story starring Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten, Jack Thompson, Tony Barry, Robert Mammone and Tasma Walton opened on seven screens in London, Belfast, Dublin, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Sheffield last Friday, making a respectable £8,400 ($15,000).

Producer David Jowsey told If the UK distributor Axiom Films plans to expand the release to 28 cities through the end of October.

Typifying the warm critical reception, the Observer.s Mark Kermode declared, .This atmospheric Australian thriller is closer in tone to the measured, brooding unease of Ray Lawrence's Jindabyne than to the visceral thrills and spills of Greg Mclean's Wolf Creek.

.More interested in unpicking the broiling tensions of outback Queensland than in tying up the loose ends of his straggle-threaded whodunnit plot,...

Ivan Sen.s Mystery Road and Kim Mordaunt.s The Rocket shared the best film honours at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards presented last night.

The Great Gatsby collected four awards followed by The Rocket with 3 and Mystery Road and The Turning with 2 awards each.

Naomi Watts was named best actress for her role in the little-seen Adoration and Aaron Pedersen was best actor for Mystery Road. Sen was best director.

There was another tie for the supporting actor prize: The Great Gatsby.s Joel Edgerton and Mystery Road.s Hugo Weaving. The Turning.s Rose Byrne was best supporting actress. The Rocket.s Sitthiphon Disamoe was on hand to receive the gong for best young performer.

Best script award went to The Railway Man.s Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson. Haydn Keenan's Persons of Interest was named best documentary.

An Acknowledgment Award was presented to...

Ivan Sen.s Mystery Road posted solid results on 16 screens. while Mark Hartley.s Patrick had a limited opening at six cinemas in Australia last weekend.

A crime thriller starring Aaron Pedersen, Mystery Road raked in about $60,000, which brings the total to $105,000 including previews and festival screenings.

.You always hope for more but it.s a good result,. said producer David Jowsey, who self-distributed the film through Dark Matter, a company he owns with Sen and Michael Wrenn. Melbourne-based Backlot Studios is handling the bookings, distribution veteran Alan Finney is a consultant and Tracey Mair co-ordinated the national marketing and publicity campaign.

Jowsey tells If, .We had a very modest P&A spend, with no TV, and there was a lot of hard work in publicity at the grass roots level..

Backlot is now arranging to release the film at around 30 locations in regional areas. Well Go plans to launch...

The good news keeps coming for Ivan Sen.s Mystery Road. The crime thriller received mostly positive reviews after opening the Sydney Film Festival and now the producers have announced a Us deal.

Boutique distributor Well Go USA plans an early 2014 release. Typically Well Go distributes films to a limited number of cinemas simultaneously with DVD and Video-on-Demand platforms..

The deal was negotiated by Arclight Films. Gary Hamilton, who.s also an executive producer on the film, at the Cannes Film Market. He described it as .significant,. which could imply Well Go is putting up a minimum guarantee of five-to-six figures..

.We are delighted to hear of Mystery Road being picked up for a Us release., said producer David Jowsey. .Ivan Sen.s murder mystery feature has a great cast and its genre roots should deliver to audiences around the world...

The film opens in Australia on August 15. Aaron Pedersen...

Arclight Films sold Us distribution rights to new the feature thriller Mystery Road to Well Go USA. Gary Hamilton, Executive Producer of Mystery Road, said that the deal, which he described as ‘significant’ was negotiated at Cannes. Ivan Sen’s new feature film, Mystery Road stars Aaron Pedersen and a stunning ensemble cast which includes Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Ryan Kwanten, Tony Barry, Tasma Walton, Damian Walshe-Howling, David Field, Robert Mammone and newcomer Trisha Whitton. Written and directed by Ivan Sen, the film is produced by David Jowsey. Sen is also director of photography, editor and composer of the film. Aaron Pedersen plays detective Jay Swan who returns home to an outback town to solve the murder of a teenage Indigenous girl, whose body is found under the trucking route highway out of town. “Ivan Sen’s murder mystery feature has a great cast and its genre roots should deliver to audiences around the world.

Exclusive: Arclight Films has licensed Us rights on the Australian thriller starring Aaron Pedersen and Ryan Kwanten to Well Go USA.

Arclight managing director Gary Hamilton served as executive producer and described the recent deal in Cannes as “significant.” Well Go plans an early 2014 release.

Ivan Sen directs Mystery Road, which stars Pedersen and an ensemble that includes Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Kwanten, Tony Barry, Tasma Walton, Damian Walshe-Howling, David Field, Robert Mammone and newcomer Trisha Whitton.

Sen wrote the screenplay to the story about a detective who returns to his Australian Outback town to solve the murder of an Aboriginal teenage girl. The project is in post.

Producer David Jowsey, whose credits include Mad Bastards and Toomelah, said: “We are delighted to hear of Mystery Road being picked up for a Us release. Ivan Sen’s murder mystery feature has a great cast and its genre roots should deliver to audiences around the world.”

“We are thrilled...

Exclusive: Arclight Films has licensed Us rights on the Australian thriller starring Aaron Pedersen and Ryan Kwanten to Well Go USA.

Arclight managing director Gary Hamilton served as executive producer and described the recent deal in Cannes as “significant.” Well Go plans an early 2014 release.

Ivan Sen directs Mystery Road, which stars Pedersen and an ensemble that includes Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Kwanten, Tony Barry, Tasma Walton, Damian Walshe-Howling, David Field, Robert Mammone and newcomer Trisha Whitton.

Sen wrote the screenplay to the story about a detective who returns to his Australian Outback town to solve the murder of an Aboriginal teenage girl. The project is in post.

Producer David Jowsey, whose credits include Mad Bastards and Toomelah, said: “We are delighted to hear of Mystery Road being picked up for a Us release. Ivan Sen’s murder mystery feature has a great cast and its genre roots should deliver to audiences around the world.”

“We are thrilled...

Ivan Sen.s new film Mystery Road, which will open the Sydney Film Festival, is bypassing the established theatrical distributors in a rare departure from the usual distribution model.

Producer David Jowsey and writer-director Sen have decided to release the murder mystery on August 15 via Dark Matter, a company they own with Michael Wrenn.

The rationale: If the film turns a profit, that will go to the filmmakers, not the distributor. The producers are paying for the marketing costs, avoiding the standard 25%-30% fee charged by distributors..

They.ve hired the Melbourne-based Backlot Studios to negotiate terms with exhibitors for a flat fee. Distribution veteran Alan Finney is a consultant and Tracey Mair is coordinating the national marketing and publicity campaign.

The film stars Aaron Pedersen as an Aboriginal cop, Detective Jay Swan, who's called on to investigate the murder of a young Indigenous girl and realises a serial killer is at work.

A new poster is in for Ivan Sen's Mystery Road Australian thriller, starring Aaron Pederson, Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Ryan Kwanten, Tony Barry, David Field, Damian Walsh-Howling and Tasma Walton. The film's produced by Screen Australia and Mystery Road Films, and follows an detective who returns to his home in the Outback to investigate the murder of a teenage girl. David Jowsey produces Mystery Road. Helmer Sen directed the Dreamland documentary as well as Toomelah, a drama set in a remote Aboriginal community...

Charlize Theron's Denver & Delilah Films, Cj Entertainment, and Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures have partnered to produce an adaptation by William Monahan of Chan-wook Park's Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.

Theron will star as well as produce with Denver & Delilah partner Beth Kono, Annapurna Pictures' Megan Ellison and Chelsea Barnard, Cj Entertainment's Ted Kim, and William Monahan. Justine Suzanne Jones of Henceforth Pictures, A.J. Dix of Denver & Delilah, Ted Schipper of Annapurna Pictures and Miky Lee of Cj Entertainment will executive produce. Ellison and Annapurna Pictures will finance the film. Panorama Media will serve as the international sales agent.

Lady Vengeance is the story of a woman who for reasons of her own completes a prison term for a murder she did not commit, reemerging to punish the killer, and avenge the dead. Here's what writer-producer William Monahan had to say about his take on the story.

"This...

Hugo Weaving continues to switch up big blockbusters and smaller minded fare, and this time he's headed to Australia to star in "Mystery Road" alongside "True Blood" hunk Ryan Kwanten, Jack Thompson, Tony Barry, Tasma Walton, Damian Walshe-Howling, David Field, Trisha Whitton and Siobhan Binge. Written and directed by Ivan Sen ("Toomelah"), the picture will tell the story of an indigenous detective who returns home to find out who killed an indigenous girl. Kwanten will play a pig hunter while Thompson takes the role of an out to pasture pastoralist. Filming is already underway and Aussie distribution is locked up, but if you're an international buyer, give Arclight Films a ring. [Deadline]

We're sure James Marsden is a perfectly nice guy, but we can't think of a more vanilla and milquetoast screen presence than him. So with a thorough shrugging of our shoulders comes the news he's joined "2 Guns" with Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington.

Around these parts we really dig actor Ryan Kwanten. Well, we dig him in everything but "True Blood," but that's only because the show's runners have had no idea what to do with him for the past three seasons. Either way, he's got a new flick on its way!

According to Inside Film, Ivan Sen's thriller Mystery Road has begun filming in the central Queensland town of Winton.

The film stars Aaron Pedersen as detective Jay Swan, who returns home to an Outback town to solve the murder of a teenage Indigenous girl, whose body is found under the trucking route highway out of town. The film also stars Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Ryan Kwanten (pictured), Tony Barry, Tasma Walton, Damian Walshe-Howling, David Field, Robert Mammone and newcomers Trisha Whitton and Siobhan Binge.

Sen, who penned the script, has taken on multiple duties including director, cinematographer and editor. The...

Hugo Weaving can (read: does) more or less equal instant attention on the part of yours truly — so, needless to say, Mystery Road gets a seat at the proverbial table — though he’s not the star of this one. Aaron Pedersen will lead for Ivan Sen (Toomelah), playing a cop brought back to his Outback hometown when a teenager is killed under mysterious circumstances. In accordance with this, Weaving has been placed into the role of “a cop with questionable motives” — something I’m sure he can pretty much nail to a T. [Deadline]

Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) is said to be playing “a pig hunter,” and Jack Thompson (The Good German, The Great Gatsby) has the part of “a pastoralist who’s seen better times.” Though all that’s really available right now, doesn’t it sound so wonderfully Australian? But I’m actually being a little serious here — this...

Hugo Weaving and Ryan Kwanten ("True Blood") are joining a cast of strong Australian talent in Ivan Sen’s thriller "Mystery Road" which begins shooting this week in central Queensland for ABC-tv, Screen Australia and Management of Doubt reports Deadline.

Aaron Pedersen plays an Aboriginal detective who returns home to an Outback town to solve the murder of a teenage indigenous girl.

Weaving plays a cop with questionable motives, Kwanten plays a pig hunter, and the legendary Jack Thompson is set to play a pastoralist who’s seen better times.

Tony Barry, Tasma Walton, Damian Walshe-Howling, David Field, Trisha Whitton and Siobhan Binge also star.

Mystery Road director Ivan Sen

Hugo Weaving and Ryan Kwanten will appear in a new film by the director of Toomelah which has begun shooting in central Queensland.

Mystery Road, written and directed by Ivan Sen will also star Aaron Pederson in the lead role of a detective who returns to his outback home town to solve the murder of a teenage Indigenous girl.

Sen, known for his low budget films, will be Dop and editor on the film. Produced by David Jowsey, who produced Mad Bastards and Satellite Boy, the film will be released locally through Management of Doubt with international sales handled by Arclight, and Arclight’s Michael Wrenn executive producing.

Sen has assembled an ensemble cast that also includes Jack Thompson, Tony Barry, Tasma Walton, Damian Walshe-Howling, Robert Mammone and newcomers Trisha Whitton and Siobhan Binge.

Jowsey said: “Ivan Sen is one of Australia’s most gifted filmmakers who,...

Ivan Sen's thriller Mystery Road has begun filming in the central Queensland town of Winton.

The film stars Aaron Pedersen as detective Jay Swan who returns home to an outback town to solve the murder of a teenage Indigenous girl, whose body is found under the trucking route highway out of town. The film also stars Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Ryan Kwanten, Tony Barry, Tasma Walton, Damian Walshe-Howling, David Field, Robert Mammone and newcomers Trisha Whitton and Siobhan Binge.

Sen, who penned the script, has taken on multiple duties including director, cinematographer and editor. The film re-unites him with producer David Jowsey following their collaborations on Toomelah and Dreamland.

.Ivan Sen is one of Australia.s most gifted filmmakers who, with Mystery Road, has the opportunity to apply his prodigious talent to a broader canvas," Jowsey said in a statement. "Ivan.s screenplay strikes a distinctive balance between its...

Filming has just commenced on Ivan Sen's new feature film, Mystery Road, in Winton in central Queensland.   Aaron Pederson will headline a terrific ensemble of Aussie talent, which includes Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Ryan Kwanten, Tony Barry, Tasma Walton, Damian Walshe-Howling, David Field, Robert Mammone and newcomers Trisha Whitton and Siobhan Binge.   The film sees Pederson star as detective Jay Swan who returns home to an outback town to resolve the murder of a teenage Indigenous girl, whose body is found under a highway out of town.

The fourth Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs) will be presented on Thursday, 2 December, 2010 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.31 films from 15 countries and territories have been nominated in this year’s ASPAs. Nominees or their representatives from all 15 countries and areas are travelling to the Gold Coast to attend the Awards Ceremony. Nominees like actors Tony Barry, Atul Kulkarni and actress Tejaswini Pandit and China’s Xu Fan will be attending the award ceremony along with the star of the New Zealand hit film Boy, James Rolleston, ...

Bran Nue Dae and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole have been nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in the Best Children’s Film and Best Animated Film categories respectively.

New Zealand’s Boy was also nominated for Best Children’s Film, and Australian actor Tony Barry has been recognised for his performance in that country’s feature Home by Christmas.

The Jury is headed by producer Lord David Puttnam, and winners will be announced on the Gold Coast on December 2.

The nominees are:

Best Feature Film

Tangshan dadizheng (Aftershock)

People’s Republic of China (Mainland China / Hong Kong)

Produced by Guo Yanhong, Han Sanping, Wang Zhonjun, Peter Lam Kin Ngok, Wang Tonguan and Albert Yeung.

Bal (Honey)

Turkey / Germany

Produced by Semih Kaplanoðlu.

Co-Produced by Johannes Rexin, Bettina Brokemper.

Mengjia (Monga)

Taiwan

Produced by Lee Lieh and Doze Niu Chen-zer.

Paju

Republic of Korea

Produced...

Bob Ellis looks back at this year’s Sydney Film Festival.

We are forbidden urination after a three-hour film and herded bursting out into the rain and pushed in front of speeding traffic by big Tongan guardians of the Red Carpet while inside, in the ever-gorgeous art-deco foyer, barmen and pie vendors gazed on its lovely emptiness planning their bankruptcies and other careers and cursing, like all of us, the Clare Stewart Effect on world cinema.

Audiences entering successive sessions without hellish incident these last 113 years have not educated this woman; clamour, ticketless offices, caffeine deprivation, pissed trousers and lack of a chance to chat between sessions (or even sit on the marble steps) have characterised her Cromwellian rule for years now and several deaths, I calculate, from the pelting rain and it is wrong for her to preen her ghastly dress sense in golden spotlight just because certain films...