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Anthony Hayes and Daniel Krige have secured the screen rights to the heroic story of Max Sylvester, the student pilot who managed to safely land a Cessna in Perth after his instructor passed out mid-flight.

Hayes and Krige are writing and plan to co-direct the 90-minute feature, working title Flight School, with events unfolding in real time.

The duo, who first collaborated on Krige’s 2007 crime drama West, aim to raise $500,000 from crowd-funding site Indiegogo and then seek completion funding from Screen Australia.

Sylvester, 29, called air traffic control just over an hour into his lesson at Perth’s Jandakot Airport one Saturday afternoon in September after his instructor collapsed.

During one very intense hour the air traffic controller coached Sylvester on how to fly and land the plane while his wife and three young children waited anxiously on the ground.

“It’s an insane...

Anthony Hayes in ‘Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan’.

Anthony Hayes has been acting since he was nine. While there is no danger of him giving up that stellar career, for the present he is concentrating more on his other passions: writing and directing.

In the past five or six years he has been in the fortunate position of choosing roles he really wanted to do – in the movies Cargo, War Machine and The Light Between Oceans and TV’s Mystery Road and Seven Types of Ambiguity – rather than just for a pay cheque.

Now his primary focus is writing and directing, starting with Gold, a thriller in which he will co-star with Sam Worthington about two guys who discover the world’s biggest gold nugget in the Australian desert. After that he hopes to make Stingray, a crime thriller he wrote and was set to direct in 2016 until the financing fell through.

Five established filmmakers have come together to create new Australian production company Bonafide Pictures..

Writer-director-actors Serhat Caradee (Cedar Boys) and Daniel Krige (West) have joined forces with producers Anne Robinson (West, Backyard Ashes), Tim Maddocks (Terminus) and Liz Burton (Cedar Boys) to develop content for local and international markets under the Bonafide banner.

The company is currently in development on both long and short-form projects for the big screen as well as TV, including advertising and corporate videos..

.Having known each other for a while, we all share the same drive and passion for wanting to tell entertaining and engaging stories that say something about our world, so it made sense to join forces and pool our resources., the team said in a statement..

Currently they have nine feature films in development, plus three TV series, two documentaries and two web series..

The team is also aiming to nurture up-and-coming filmmakers through industry attachments,...

The Belanglo State Forest, scene of Ivan Milat.s grisly serial murders, is such a forbidding place the producers of the Seven Network.s Catching Milat chose to avoid the area.

Only director Peter Andrikidis and DoP Joe Pickering visited the area south of Berrima but they used a drone camera to film the location.

.It.s such an eerie place I didn.t want to go there when they did the tech survey,. Kerrie Mainwaring, who produced the two-part Shine Australia miniseries with Rory Callaghan, tells If.

Instead, the cast and crew shot the crime drama in Terrey Hills, St Ives, Balmain, Glebe, Wattle Grove and Parramatta.

As the title suggests, the focus is not on Ivan Milat but on the marathon investigation into the 1990s backpacker murders that led to his arrest and conviction.

Callaghan came up with the idea and Shine optioned the book Sins of the...

*there are spoilers here. Director: Daniel Krige. Writers: Jonathon Green and Anthony O'Connor. Cast: Nicholas Hope, Kelly Paterniti, Sam Reid, Alan Dukes, James Mackay, and Hayley McElhinney. Redd Inc. is an Australian shot horror film, which was originally titled Inhuman Resources. This is truly an independent film, that was partially financed through crowd funding. Redd Inc. is also a tale of an office worker's worst nightmare. Thomas Reddmann keeps his five workers literally chained to their desks, while needling them to work harder. Shot primarily on one location, Redd Inc. can sometimes look drab, but the film's characterizations and especially the lead villain create for an exceptionally good time. Thomas Reddmann is accused of several axe-murders. Reddmann was able to escape the local mental rehabilitation unit, after he is found guilty. He puts his time to good use. Soon, Reddmann has abducted five characters, each of whom are involved in his case.

Tagline: "Heads will roll." There is another horror movie coming out of the American Film Market that fans should be aware of. Redd Inc. aka Inhuman Resources brings plenty of bloodstains and mutilated bodies. A serial killer has set up shop in a local corporation and he has hired six new recruits. Except, these staff members were hired against their will. Now, they must prove their boss is innocent of murder. This seems an impossible task as each staff member is tortured and some are even "terminated." Redd Inc. will show at the Afm November 5th and a trailer is available here before the show. In the clip, the six employees have their mistakes scrawled across their face, while Thomas Redmann (Nicholas Hope), the boss, chooses who advances and who falls to the wayside. Have a look at the brutal clip below. Showing Date: November 5th (Afm). Director: Daniel Krige.

The 11th annual Lausanne Underground Film Festival is packed to the gills with outrageous cinema from all over the world, featuring several filmmaker retrospectives and movies screening in competition at several locations on Oct. 17-21.

The big guest of honor this year is the legendary John Waters, who will be attending the fest with several of his own classics, such as Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Desperate Living, as well as showing some of his favorite B-movie inspirations, such as William Girdler’s blaxploitation demonic possession flick Abby, Armando Bo’s Argentinian sexploitation Fuego, Robinson Devor’s controversial bestiality doc Zoo and more. Plus, Waters will perform his acclaimed “This Filthy World” one-man show.

Other Luff special guests include Christoph Schlingensief, the confrontational German filmmaker of 100 Years of Adolf Hitler, The German Chainsaw Massacre, The 120 Days of Bottrop and more; Richard Stanley, the South African genre filmmaker of the cult...

Thanks to our friends at Pinnacle Films, we have two copies of Redd Inc. on Blu-ray to give away to our Australian readers. This is an entertaining horror comedy from director Daniel Krige and writers Anthony O'Connor and Jonathon Green. The legendary Tom Savini (Friday the 13th, Dawn of the Dead) was the film's special make-up effects supervisor. Synopsis: Six captive office workers are chained to their desks by a demented, escaped serial killer; former regional manager Thomas Reddmann (Nicholas Hope). Redd assigns his 'staff' the impossible task of proving his innocence or suffering gruesome consequences. Under his twisted managerial style, written warnings are carved into foreheads, filing cabinets overflow with body parts and a trip to Human Resources is likely to end in a grisly...

By Marcey Papandrea, MoreHorror.com

While looking back at my viewing for this year, I have seen a lot of genre films, and actually I have seen a lot of really good ones. I had been surprised quite a lot this year, and I wasn’t sure if anything else this could do that. I was proved wrong with Redd Inc. (Inhuman Resources is the Us title), not only did this film surprise me, but also it is one of the best genre films I have seen this year. This is a great film, not just a great genre film, there is so much to enjoy and embrace here.

Our storyline here is very intriguing, with a setting that is very brave and it works like a charm. Six people wake up chained in an office, to desks by a man named Thomas Reddmann (Nicholas Hope), an escaped killer. His...

Sure, "The Office" isn't the same since Steve Carell left, but the Nard-Dog doesn't make that bad of a boss. And as much of a douche as he was as the boss of Initech in Office Space, Bill Lumbergh was more annoying than anything else. But Thomas Reddmann, now that's a bad boss.

Green Light Productions has released the eagerly anticipated trailer for Redd Inc., a film that draws inspiration from the early Saw films but incorporates them in a new environment. And did we mention that master of horror Tom Savini appears not only in the film but on the FX team as well? Nice!

Coming at us from Down Under, Redd Inc. stars Nicholas Hope in the role of the diabolical Reddmann. Kelly Paterniti, Hayley McElhinney, and Sebastian Reid co-star alongside Daniel Krige, who also directed. The film was written by Jonathon Green and Anthony O'Connor.

Check out the trailer below.

Kidnap victims, shackles, torture, a mean-ass boss with a hook for his hand...what does it all amount to?  The trailer for Redd. Inc., Daniel Krige's upcoming indie horror movie on which Tom Savini supervised the special FX.

Redd Inc. is the story of a capricious, officious and vicious boss (named Redd) who traps his victims and forces them to work in an horrific office of his own insane creation. They are tasked with a seemingly impossible job which they must complete or face a grisly "termination."

Nicholas Hope plays the lead baddie against actress Kelly Paterniti.  Inside, you'll find the first trailer.  Visit the official site for more details.

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by Tim Mathis, MoreHorror.com

Tom Savini is returns to horror! Yep, that's right folks. If.com and DreadCentral.com are reporting that after close to what's been a decade, horror FX and acting legend Tom Savini (responsible for creating special effects and makeup for such classics as Friday the 13th and George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead) is coming out of retirement on the makeup and FX end to hammer away at two new Australian horror movies. Nick Nicolaou's Mary Doe and Daniel Krige's Redd Inc.

Redd Inc. is a horror revenge tale that follows Annabelle – a burlesque webcam stripper. She gets abducted and ends up chained to a desk with five others in a macabre, horrific make-shift office. Their self-appointed “boss” is escaped, wrongly-convicted serial killer Thomas Reddmann, aka Redd, demented from experimental, behavior modification treatment. He requires Annabelle...

Tom Savini got his start in the film business by creating some of the greatest F/X work horror movie fans have ever seen. As his career expanded, he left behind the latex and Karo syrup and began creating characters in a different manner ... by portraying them on screen. While that's cool and we love some of Tom's characters, we've been hungry for him to get back to F/X work. Speaking of which ...

According to If.com, after almost a decade horror legend Tom Savini - who was responsible for creating special effects and makeup for such classics as Friday the 13th and George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead - has come out of retirement on makeup and effects to get his hands dirty on two new Australian horror films - Nick Nicolaou's Mary Doe and Daniel Krige's Redd Inc....

An article for an Australian news outlet has revealed that Tom Savini came out of retirement to assist and supervise FX on two upcoming films: Redd, Inc. and Mary Doe . The former, directed by Daniel Krige, takes today's popular "strangers trapped in a single location" scenario, except this time it's strangers (led by an abducted web cam model) who wind up in an office and are subjected to sundry cruelty from a wrongly-convicted serial killer. Nicholas Hope plays the lead baddie against actress Kelly Paterniti. Savini has a cameo. Mary Doe , meanwhile, is seeking funds and aims to roll soon under the direction of Nick Nicolaou. That film is a zombie tale.

We have news of a great new casting opportunity for all you guys out there interested in appearing in new Australian horror movie 'Redd Inc'. The filmmakers are accepting global auditions from around the world through online video submission. Parts have already been cast by utilising this method and several roles are still up for grabs that include a news reporter at the scene of a crime, a YouTube crime fan, a victim's relative, and a patient of the Landsdale Clinic - all of which will be featured in the movie's opening scene. Once the submissions are in it's up to the public to vote for their favorite performances. The top ten, in each category, will then be whittled down by director Daniel Krige along with producer Jonathon Green. Submissions close on 31 January 2011. The voting closes a week later on 7 February and it'll begin production in March. You can check out the synopsis below.

The acting road is never a smooth one. While it may seem all glitz and glamour, the reality is that it can be a pretty tough life. So it helps when industry professionals, who have done the hard yards, impart their wisdom to make the road a little less rocky.   Led by actor Anthony Hayes, Rogue Stars Acting offers Script-to-Screen master classes and expert advice from Hayes; actor, writer and director Daniel Krige; casting director Kirsty McGregor, of McGregor Casting, and other industry guests.   Hayes has enjoyed great success in his career, having won four Australian Film Institute Awards and two Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards.