Writer-director Sarah Spillane.s debut film Around the Block will test the viability of a short window between theatrical and home entertainment release.
The drama starring Christina Ricci, Hunter Page-Lochard and Jack Thompson will begin a limited cinema roll-out at the Cremorne Orpheum on June 16 - one month before it.s released on DVD, Blu-ray and digital platforms.
Producers Brian Rosen and Su Armstrong are hoping the accelerated release, with Screen Australia contributing to the $200,000 P&A spend, will provide a bigger upside than a conventional cinema season and then waiting 120 days for ancillary revenues.
The film is booked at the Randwick Ritz on June 23 and dates in Melbourne and Canberra are to be confirmed. There will be Q&A screenings with the director and key cast, excluding Ricci.
Pinnacle Films will release the title on DVD, Blu-ray and all major digital platforms including iTunes, Big Pond Movies, Foxtel, Google Play,...
The drama starring Christina Ricci, Hunter Page-Lochard and Jack Thompson will begin a limited cinema roll-out at the Cremorne Orpheum on June 16 - one month before it.s released on DVD, Blu-ray and digital platforms.
Producers Brian Rosen and Su Armstrong are hoping the accelerated release, with Screen Australia contributing to the $200,000 P&A spend, will provide a bigger upside than a conventional cinema season and then waiting 120 days for ancillary revenues.
The film is booked at the Randwick Ritz on June 23 and dates in Melbourne and Canberra are to be confirmed. There will be Q&A screenings with the director and key cast, excluding Ricci.
Pinnacle Films will release the title on DVD, Blu-ray and all major digital platforms including iTunes, Big Pond Movies, Foxtel, Google Play,...
- 4/16/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Around the Block looks like being a catalyst for the careers of first-time writer/director Sarah Spillane and co-star Hunter Page-Lochard.
Spillane and Page-Lochard, 20, have signed with Paradigm, one of Hollywood.s leading entertainment talent agencies.
Their deals with Paradigm followed. Around the Block.s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it played to appreciative audiences.
Both are represented in Australia by Rgm Artists, which introduced Spillane and Page-Lochard to Paradigm.
Paradigm's clients include Aussie Leigh Whannell, who wrote the first two Saw films, Insidious and Insidious: Chapter 2, and actors Domhnall Gleeson, who stars in Angelina Jolie's upcoming drama Unbroken, Adrien Brody, Mark Harmon, Mimi Rogers, Kathy Baker, Roseanne Barr, Luca Calvani and Jared Harris.
Produced by Brian Rosen and Su Armstrong, Around the Block stars Christina Ricci as Dino, an American teacher who is eager to impart her love of Shakespeare to students at a tough inner-city school.
Spillane and Page-Lochard, 20, have signed with Paradigm, one of Hollywood.s leading entertainment talent agencies.
Their deals with Paradigm followed. Around the Block.s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it played to appreciative audiences.
Both are represented in Australia by Rgm Artists, which introduced Spillane and Page-Lochard to Paradigm.
Paradigm's clients include Aussie Leigh Whannell, who wrote the first two Saw films, Insidious and Insidious: Chapter 2, and actors Domhnall Gleeson, who stars in Angelina Jolie's upcoming drama Unbroken, Adrien Brody, Mark Harmon, Mimi Rogers, Kathy Baker, Roseanne Barr, Luca Calvani and Jared Harris.
Produced by Brian Rosen and Su Armstrong, Around the Block stars Christina Ricci as Dino, an American teacher who is eager to impart her love of Shakespeare to students at a tough inner-city school.
- 9/24/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Australian feel-good film Around the Block, starring Christina Ricci, has begun filming this week in Sydney.
Ricci plays unconventional American drama teacher Dino Chalmers, who develops a friendship with 16-year-old Australian-Aboriginal boy Liam (played by Hunter Page-Lochard), who is torn between his unexpected love of theatre and the disintegration of his family. Ricci arrives in Australia on Saturday and will be in the country for the entire four-week shoot which is taking place in the .Block. in Redfern, according to producer Brian Rosen.
.It.s a very uplifting film and it.s very hopeful at the end . it.s symbolic of the Block,. he said. .The Block is rekindling itself now and rising from the ashes and that.s what this story is about . it.s about a kid who rises from the ashes to make something of himself..
The film also stars Jack Thompson (who is also executive producing), Matthew Nable,...
Ricci plays unconventional American drama teacher Dino Chalmers, who develops a friendship with 16-year-old Australian-Aboriginal boy Liam (played by Hunter Page-Lochard), who is torn between his unexpected love of theatre and the disintegration of his family. Ricci arrives in Australia on Saturday and will be in the country for the entire four-week shoot which is taking place in the .Block. in Redfern, according to producer Brian Rosen.
.It.s a very uplifting film and it.s very hopeful at the end . it.s symbolic of the Block,. he said. .The Block is rekindling itself now and rising from the ashes and that.s what this story is about . it.s about a kid who rises from the ashes to make something of himself..
The film also stars Jack Thompson (who is also executive producing), Matthew Nable,...
- 6/15/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
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