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Exclusive: After more than a decade, Silver Lining Entertainment, the management and production company founded by veterans Jeff Golenberg and Sam Maydew, is dissolving.

Golenberg and fellow Silver Lining partner Jason Shapiro have launched Strand Entertainment, a management and production company based in Los Angeles, bringing most of Silver Lining’s managers with them. Maydew has formed his own management/production company, 734 Media. The split we hear was amicable, with the former partners’ paths diverging, a process accelerated by the pandemic.

Joining Golenberg and Shapiro in their new venture are longtime colleagues Tarik Kanafani, Emily Rifanburg, Kaelyn Hutchins, and Aileen Lewis. Jeff’s brother, manager/producer Rob Golenberg, who was a partner at Silver Lining, has formed GoGi Entertainment, a new production company focused on international productions, with his former assistant Paulina Giron Velasquez. He also plans to continue to work alongside the Strand principals and their joint production entity,...

"Ocean Boy" is the new dramatic feature, directed by Tyler Atkins, set in 1980's Australia, starring Luke Hemsworth, Isabel Lucas, Leeanna Walsman, Rasmus King and Heather Mitchell, now playing in theaters:

"...teenage surfer 'Rockit' grapples to understand why his Mum's not coming home, and embarks on a holiday with his father 'Bosch', only to discover he's running from the law. Rockit finds a soulmate and then teenage love with 'Ash Ash', but it's the ocean that gives him the security and calm he yearns..."

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Ocean Boy (Bosch & Rockit) is a 2022 movie directed by Tyler Atkins starring Luke Hemsworth and Isabel Lucas. It will be released on February 3

As Rockit grapples to understand why his Mum’s not coming home, he embarks on a magical holiday with his father, Bosch, only to discover they’re actually running from the law. Rockit finds a soulmate and then teenage love with Ash Ash, but it’s the ocean that gives him the security and calm he yearns from his parents. Ultimately Rockit is a boy nurtured and held by nature.

Release Date

February 3, 2023 (United States)

Cast

Luke Hemsworth / Bosch

Isabel Lucas / Deb

Leeanna Walsman / Elizabeth

Heather Mitchell / Wendy

Michael Sheasby

Martin Sacks

Savannah La Rain

Rasmus King

Pearl Spring Voss

Ryan Oliver Gelbart

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Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to the Australian drama Ocean Boy, starring Luke Hemsworth (Westworld). The Anthem Sports & Entertainment Company plans to release the pic formerly titled Bosch + Rockit in theaters and on demand on February 3, 2023.

The feature directorial debut of Tyler Atkins is set along the Australian coast in late summer and follows the young father Bosch (Hemsworth) as he goes on the run for drug dealing with his surf gang. In tow is his son, Rockit (Rasmus King), who believes he is on a magical holiday. Isabel Lucas and Leeanna Walsman also star.

“We at Gravitas are proud to be bringing Ocean Boy to theaters and into homes this upcoming February,” said Gravitas’ Senior Director of Acquisitions, Bill Guentzler. “Luke Hemsworth and Rasmus King bring to life a magical tale of the deep connection between a father and son that we believe will touch the hearts of audiences.

Luke Hemsworth and Rasmus King aren’t to blame for the problems in this film, about a surfing drug dealer and his son who are forced to move after a bushfire

Having amassed bad debts and upset the wrong people, a protagonist with a habit of making poor decisions goes on the run and relocates to a small town, hoping to start afresh – until the past inevitably catches up. This evergreen story trajectory is once again rehashed, in Tyler Atkins’ cloying and sometimes flat-out cheesy film Bosch & Rockit. Opening with the words “inspired by true events”, Atkins goes on to demonstrate why these words tend to mean very little: a well-crafted, entirely fictitious feature can feel much more plausible than a goofily executed one – like Bosch & Rockit – claiming some connection to reality.

Early in the runtime the titular father (Bosch) and son (Rockit), played by Luke Hemsworth and Rasmus King,...

“6 Festivals,” a music drama film that marks the first Australian feature movie to be commissioned by Paramount+, is to get a local theatrical release.

The picture is the story of three teenage best friends who try to attend six music festivals in as many months. It gets its world premiere on Friday at the Sydney Film Festival, as part of the Sff’s Sounds on Screen section.

The picture will have a limited theatrical release in Australia through Bonsai Films from Aug. 11, 2022. Global accessibility on Paramount+ will follow at an unspecified date later in the year.

Parent company, ViacomCBS also owns Australian linear network Channel 10. Together they gave the Paramount+ platform a local launch last August by including 10’s pre-existing streaming offering, 10 All Access.

“6 Festivals” was written by Sean Nash, Macario De Souza and Lou Sanz and directed by de Souza (“Bra Boys”), who also works as recording artist Kid Mac.

Rasmus King plays teenage rockstar Daniel in What If the Future Never Happened, an upcoming 30-minute film based on the life of Daniel Johns, co-written and co-produced by Daniel's brother Heath. Soundtracked by Daniel Johns's latest album FutureNever, and interspersed with orchestral reinterpretations of his Silverchair classics, the musician says it is 'inspired by the pop culture I was immersed in before a curious case of child stardom. It’s at once the most honest and most fantastical thing I’ve ever done.'

The genre-bending film is set in regional Australia in 1994, 'mere months before a teenage rockstar called Daniel (Rasmus King) would conquer the global music world'. While escaping bullies, Daniel meets a mysterious figure from the future who 'will change Daniel’s Tomorrow forever'. With a release date to be announced, a feature-length sequel is already in pre-production. Daniel Johns is due in court on 22 June, after...

When it comes to filming back-to-back projects, one could do worse than swapping out Byron Bay for the Great Ocean Road.

Such was the scenario for young actress Savannah La Rain, who went from shooting Tyler Atkins’ debut feature Bosch and Rockit with Luke Hemsworth in the second half of 2020 to riding waves in regional Victoria earlier this year for upcoming Netflix young adult series Surviving Summer.

The 16-year-old told If the transition was a case of art imitating life.

“I loved how could just tell the vibe [with Surviving Summer] was so Australian with the surfing and the lingo,” she said.

“Having just come from Byron, where I had been experiencing the surf culture, it was very cool to see it in a television show and it felt very relatable.

“I could just tell it was something so special that I wanted to be a part of.”

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After handing over the reins at Endemol Shine Australia last year, Mark Fennessy has officially launched his next venture, Helium.

The Sydney-based company will comprise three arms – Helium Studios, Helium Pictures and Helium Records – blending the producer’s passions of film/TV and music.

As an independent production label, Helium will have a primary focus on premium scripted and premium factual. Fennessy, who will act as the company’s chief creative officer, tells If his focus is on the “premium, contemporary, noisy, disruptive”.

“Via a growing stable of artists and creative talent, coupled with a unique network of storytellers, writers, and producers, we’re committed to building sustainable and truly rewarding partnerships,” he says.

On the Helium launch slate is the previously announced Last King of the Cross, in pre-production for Paramount+; feature film 6 Festivals, also for Paramount+, and crime thriller series Sex and Thugs and Rock n Roll, in advanced development.

Yasmin Honeychurch, Rory Potter, Rasmus King, and newcomer Guyala Bayles lead the cast of writer-director Macario de Souza’s Paramount+ feature, 6 Festivals.

An Invisible Republic and Hype Republic film, 6 Festivals follows a group of three best friends, Maxie, Summer and James, who ‘bucket-list’ six music festivals over six months while coming to terms with James’ cancer diagnosis.

Bayles, a poet, model and recording artist plays Marley, an up-and-coming musician.

The film will feature a slew of Australian music acts, some of whom will feature in cameo appearances (as themselves), including G Flip, Dune Rats, Alison Wonderland, Bliss n Eso, Peking Duk, Pnau, Example, Hooligan Hefs, The Amity Affliction, JessB, B Wise and Running Touch.

Filming started earlier this year at music festivals across Wollongong and the Sunshine Coast.

For de Souza, making 6 Festivals is the realisation of his childhood and professional experiences to date.

“Music festivals have had a profound impact on my life.

John Schwarz and Tyler Atkins.

Luke Hemsworth is playing the lead opposite teenager Rasmus King in Bosch and Rockit, writer-director Tyler Atkins’ debut feature which follows a father and son who are pursued by crooked cops.

Now shooting in Byron Bay, the privately-financed road movie/drama is a spin-off from Atkins’ 2018 short which starred King and Aaron Jeffery.

Deeper Water Pictures’ John Schwarz, who joined the project several weeks ago at the suggestion of Dop Ben Nott, is producing with Cathy Flannery.

Based on a true story, the plot follows Hemsworth’s Bosch and King’s 13-year-old Rockit as they embark on a late summer trip along the Australian coast.

Rockit believes he is on a magical holiday with his dad until he sees the cops are in pursuit. On the run, they struggle with numerous setbacks with hope, courage and determination.

Michael Sheasby and Martin Sacks play the cops...