The upcoming summer release of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth, is the next entry in George Miller and Byron Kennedy’s post-apocalyptic action film series Mad Max. Mad Max: Fury Road, which won an Oscar, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, and The Road Warrior were the three subsequent flicks in the series after the 1979 release of the first movie.
However, it seems Taylor-Joy’s work on Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga didn’t attract as much attention as her covert marriage to Malcolm McRae, which took everyone by surprise. But now, it seems like the actress, 28, is making up for lost time with the perfect gift for her beloved husband after wrapping up filming for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
Anya Taylor-Joy in a still from Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Image via Warner Bros. Pictures)
She got tickets to a Jimmy Buffett tribute...
However, it seems Taylor-Joy’s work on Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga didn’t attract as much attention as her covert marriage to Malcolm McRae, which took everyone by surprise. But now, it seems like the actress, 28, is making up for lost time with the perfect gift for her beloved husband after wrapping up filming for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
Anya Taylor-Joy in a still from Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Image via Warner Bros. Pictures)
She got tickets to a Jimmy Buffett tribute...
- 5/8/2024
- by Siddhika Prajapati
- FandomWire
The Mad Max films take place in a dystopian wasteland ravaged by scarcity and violence. With high-octane car chases, inventive weaponry, and ruthless warlords, the franchise has all an action fan needs. Fans are gearing up for another descent into this unforgiving world as a new chapter in the Mad Max saga will make its way to theaters later this year.
Chris Hemsworth as Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Warlord
“Furiosa”, a prequel centered around the iconic character from “Mad Max: Fury Road” will see Anya Taylor-Joy portray the character alongside Chris Hemsworth in the cast. To further add to the excitement, the movie’s rating certificate is exactly what fans want from a Mad Max movie.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Is Rated R For Strong Violence and Grisly Images
Anya Taylor-Joy will star as Imperator Furiosa in Furiosa: A Mad Max Story.
Furiosa: A Mad Max...
Chris Hemsworth as Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Warlord
“Furiosa”, a prequel centered around the iconic character from “Mad Max: Fury Road” will see Anya Taylor-Joy portray the character alongside Chris Hemsworth in the cast. To further add to the excitement, the movie’s rating certificate is exactly what fans want from a Mad Max movie.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Is Rated R For Strong Violence and Grisly Images
Anya Taylor-Joy will star as Imperator Furiosa in Furiosa: A Mad Max Story.
Furiosa: A Mad Max...
- 4/24/2024
- by Piyush Yadav
- FandomWire
"Mad Max: Fury Road" is a miracle of filmmaking. George Miller's magnum opus defies logic, spits in the face of death and studio cowardice, and delivers a cacophony of action in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. After years of setbacks, both financial and natural, not only did the movie get made, but it remains one of the best studio blockbusters of all time — and it was rather successful at the Oscars, to boot.
Part of why the action scenes in "Fury Road" look so good is because they were real, and also really dangerous to shoot — including having someone drive a rolling War Rig for real. This is not exactly new for the franchise, of course, as "Mad Max 2" famously had a stunt performer break a leg on screen, and that shot made it to the final film.
Still, as George Miller said in an interview for the book "Blood,...
Part of why the action scenes in "Fury Road" look so good is because they were real, and also really dangerous to shoot — including having someone drive a rolling War Rig for real. This is not exactly new for the franchise, of course, as "Mad Max 2" famously had a stunt performer break a leg on screen, and that shot made it to the final film.
Still, as George Miller said in an interview for the book "Blood,...
- 3/3/2024
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
Nothing can look pretty gorgeous in widescreen, and there was quite a lot of it in the Australian New Wave of the '70s. The daunting expanse of the Outback provided the canvas for several classic films of the period, such as two masterpieces that were roughly analogous to the folk horror genre emerging in Britain around the same time: Nicholas Roeg's "Walkabout" and Ted Kotcheff's controversial "Wake in Fright." In these movies, the stark setting created a dislocating sense that white settlers don't belong in such a harsh and humbling environment, adding to their aura of unease.
Most of the notable films of the Aussie New Wave were set in the past or present but, as the '80s beckoned, the biggest hit of the bunch looked to the future in George Miller's "Mad Max." Unlike "Walkabout" and "Wake in Fright," which were both shot in the heart of the Outback,...
Most of the notable films of the Aussie New Wave were set in the past or present but, as the '80s beckoned, the biggest hit of the bunch looked to the future in George Miller's "Mad Max." Unlike "Walkabout" and "Wake in Fright," which were both shot in the heart of the Outback,...
- 5/29/2023
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
The Mad Max movie franchise, first created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy in 1979 with the initial movie of the same name, became a media sensation. The film series is set in post-apocalyptic Australia and follows the titular character Max Rockatansky (portrayed by Mel Gibson in 3 films) into action-packed adventures.
Later on, Tom Hardy took over as Max for 2015’s fourth installment – “Mad Max: Fury Road.”
The series chronicles the thrilling escapades of Rockatansky, a police officer in a dystopian Australia facing social disintegration due to war and depleting resources. Grief-stricken and enraged by the biker gang’s murder of his wife and child, Max embarks on a quest for vengeance.
As Australia rapidly plunges into barbarity with each passing day, he finds himself assisting small pockets of civilization – initially driven by self-interest but eventually out of compassion. Alone in the Wasteland, Max is determined to make that responsible pay for their heinous deed.
Later on, Tom Hardy took over as Max for 2015’s fourth installment – “Mad Max: Fury Road.”
The series chronicles the thrilling escapades of Rockatansky, a police officer in a dystopian Australia facing social disintegration due to war and depleting resources. Grief-stricken and enraged by the biker gang’s murder of his wife and child, Max embarks on a quest for vengeance.
As Australia rapidly plunges into barbarity with each passing day, he finds himself assisting small pockets of civilization – initially driven by self-interest but eventually out of compassion. Alone in the Wasteland, Max is determined to make that responsible pay for their heinous deed.
- 2/12/2023
- by Israr Ahmed
- buddytv.com
At times, you can tell that the sequel is the kind of movie that the filmmaker wanted to make the first time around. Whether due to a low budget or lack of experience, the director couldn't properly realize their vision with the original film. The sequel is thus not just a chance to revisit the characters and their world, but an opportunity for a redo. One such film is 1981's "The Road Warrior," the sequel to 1979's "Mad Max."
George Miller has never sugarcoated his struggle while making his debut movie. While the then-32-year-old Miller had produced an award-winning short film prior to "Mad Max," he had no history of writing a script or helming a feature film. Still, Miller felt he had an obligation to his financiers to do his job well. Miller recounted to The Guardian last year: "My partner, Byron Kennedy, and I had raised a...
George Miller has never sugarcoated his struggle while making his debut movie. While the then-32-year-old Miller had produced an award-winning short film prior to "Mad Max," he had no history of writing a script or helming a feature film. Still, Miller felt he had an obligation to his financiers to do his job well. Miller recounted to The Guardian last year: "My partner, Byron Kennedy, and I had raised a...
- 1/28/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
Since the release of the original "Mad Max" film in 1979, the series has only increased in popularity. With the sequel, which was titled "The Road Warrior" in the U.S. and "Mad Max 2" everywhere else, the franchise gained a plethora of new fans on top of the cult following it had already been growing. The story of Max Rockatansky was one that viewers could resonate with for many different reasons. Moreover, the fact that the films maintained a high quality immensely helped with their reception as well.
There are a lot of defining features of the "Mad Max" films that make the series so appealing to audiences. From the insane vehicular combat to the impressively shot chase sequences, "Mad Max" has always been a solid form of entertainment. However, Miller believes he shouldn't take credit for Max's journey through the wasteland being open to multiple interpretations. Being the ever-so-humble filmmaker,...
There are a lot of defining features of the "Mad Max" films that make the series so appealing to audiences. From the insane vehicular combat to the impressively shot chase sequences, "Mad Max" has always been a solid form of entertainment. However, Miller believes he shouldn't take credit for Max's journey through the wasteland being open to multiple interpretations. Being the ever-so-humble filmmaker,...
- 10/23/2022
- by Ernesto Valenzuela
- Slash Film
Brad Pitt as Mad Max and Angelina Jolie as Furiosa: can you picture it? Apparently, George Miller, the director or co-director of every "Mad Max" movie and creator of the franchise with Byron Kennedy, could. With "Mad Max: Fury Road," Miller delivered one of the best films of the 2010s, and by then he had long since moved on to the idea of Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron as his stars. However, "Fury Road" spent many years before that in development hell, and at one point, Miller was indeed considering Pitt and Jolie for the roles.
The original "Mad Max" trilogy, starring Mel Gibson as Max, played...
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The original "Mad Max" trilogy, starring Mel Gibson as Max, played...
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- 2/6/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
Medical doctor George Miller teamed with amateur filmmaker Byron Kennedy to make this action-packed dystopian car crash saga on a shoestring budget. Inspired by the 1973 oil crisis, its violent depiction of a bombed-out society became a top-grossing Australian commercial hit, but ran aground during limited distribution in the US. Aip, on its last legs as a distributor, decided to redub all the Aussie dialog with American actors and phrases, which curtailed its playability. Nonetheless it was popular enough to spawn a bigger-budget sequel and call attention to actor Mel Gibson in his first lead role.
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- 11/24/2021
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
Burbank, CA, September 28, 2021 – Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced today that The Mad Max Anthology, featuring 1979’s acclaimed post-apocalyptic action film Mad Max, 1981’s Mad Max The Road Warrior, 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and 2015’s Mad Max Fury Road will be released together on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack and Digital HD on November 2. Created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy, Miller directed or co-directed all four films. Mel Gibson starred as Max Rockatansky in the first three films and Tom Hardy took over the lead role in the fourth film. Additionally Mad Max The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome will also be available individually in 4K, joining Mad Max and Mad Max Fury Road which are already available in 4K.
The Mad Max Anthology 4K Uhd release, along with the 4K Uhd releases of Mad Max The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, are from...
The Mad Max Anthology 4K Uhd release, along with the 4K Uhd releases of Mad Max The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, are from...
- 9/29/2021
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
Greetings from The Humungus! The Lord Humungus! The Warrior of the Wasteland! The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla!”
arner Bros. Home Entertainment announced today that The Mad Max Anthology, featuring 1979’s acclaimed post-apocalyptic action film Mad Max, 1981’s Mad Max The Road Warrior, 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and 2015’s Mad Max Fury Road will be released together on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack and Digital HD on November 2. Created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy, Miller directed or co-directed all four films. Mel Gibson starred as Max Rockatansky in the first three films and Tom Hardy took over the lead role in the fourth film. Additionally Mad Max The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome will also be available individually in 4K, joining Mad Max and Mad Max Fury Road which are already available in 4K.
The Mad Max Anthology 4K Uhd release, along with the 4K...
arner Bros. Home Entertainment announced today that The Mad Max Anthology, featuring 1979’s acclaimed post-apocalyptic action film Mad Max, 1981’s Mad Max The Road Warrior, 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and 2015’s Mad Max Fury Road will be released together on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack and Digital HD on November 2. Created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy, Miller directed or co-directed all four films. Mel Gibson starred as Max Rockatansky in the first three films and Tom Hardy took over the lead role in the fourth film. Additionally Mad Max The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome will also be available individually in 4K, joining Mad Max and Mad Max Fury Road which are already available in 4K.
The Mad Max Anthology 4K Uhd release, along with the 4K...
- 9/28/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
While Aacta’s Byron Kennedy Award is typically given to an individual or organisation who demonstrates “outstanding creative enterprise”, this year the award will go to a film.
The nominees for the honour, which celebrates the legacy of Dr George Miller’s original producing partner and Mad Max co-creator Byron Kennedy, are a short-list of the last decade’s best indie genre features.
The films are diverse, spanning comedies, Westerns, thrillers, horrors and sci-fis, but Aacta has determined each are in line with Kennedy’s “ethos of excellence”, resourcefulness and “the can-do spirit of independent, low-budget local filmmaking.”
They include: The Babadook, Beast, Cargo, Girl Asleep, I Am Mother, The Infinite Man, Mad Bastards, Mystery Road, Red Hill, That’s Not Me, These Final Hours and Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.
‘Girl Asleep’.
Many nominated are debut features, such as Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and Zak Hilditch’s These Final Hours,...
The nominees for the honour, which celebrates the legacy of Dr George Miller’s original producing partner and Mad Max co-creator Byron Kennedy, are a short-list of the last decade’s best indie genre features.
The films are diverse, spanning comedies, Westerns, thrillers, horrors and sci-fis, but Aacta has determined each are in line with Kennedy’s “ethos of excellence”, resourcefulness and “the can-do spirit of independent, low-budget local filmmaking.”
They include: The Babadook, Beast, Cargo, Girl Asleep, I Am Mother, The Infinite Man, Mad Bastards, Mystery Road, Red Hill, That’s Not Me, These Final Hours and Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.
‘Girl Asleep’.
Many nominated are debut features, such as Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and Zak Hilditch’s These Final Hours,...
- 11/24/2020
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
The true breakdown of society appears to have begun in Australia around 1979, when George Miller made this berserk extrapolation of every toxic futurist prediction on the books. Out on the open road the only thing saving society from horrifying motorized gang violence is a corps of equally crazed patrolmen in their interceptor vehicles. With this picture Mel Gibson went from zero to ninety on the star-meters, even though U.S. distribution fell to the failing American International Pictures. Kino gathers up the best existing extras, and includes audio mixes in two separate languages — incomprehensible Australian and marginally understandable Australian. With the non-stop action on screen, who cares?
Mad Max
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1979 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 93 min. / Street Date November 24, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, Roger Ward, Lisa Aldenhoven, David Bracks, Bertrand Cadart.
Cinematography: David Eggby
Film Editor: Cliff Hayes,...
Mad Max
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1979 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 93 min. / Street Date November 24, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, Roger Ward, Lisa Aldenhoven, David Bracks, Bertrand Cadart.
Cinematography: David Eggby
Film Editor: Cliff Hayes,...
- 11/14/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Aacta is calling for recommendations for the Byron Kennedy Award which celebrates outstanding creative enterprise in the screen industry.
The prize, which honours Dr George Miller’s original filmmaking partner and Mad Max co-creator Byron Kennedy, is given to an individual or organisation whose work embodies innovation and the relentless pursuit of excellence.
Presented by Kennedy Miller Mitchell in association with Aacta and selected by a jury, the award includes a cash prize of $10,000.
Past recipients include John Poulson; Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin; Animal Logic; filmmakers Ivan Sen, Amiel Courtin-Wilson and Martin Butler and Bentley Dean; Dop Adam Arkapaw; and Vr artist and filmmaker Lynette Wallworth.
The award will be presented at the 8th Aacta Awards in Sydney in December. Recommendations should be emailed to Aacta Awards manager Ivan Vukusic at ivukusic@afi.org.au with:
• A copy of the candidate’s filmography;
• A letter detailing the candidate’s...
The prize, which honours Dr George Miller’s original filmmaking partner and Mad Max co-creator Byron Kennedy, is given to an individual or organisation whose work embodies innovation and the relentless pursuit of excellence.
Presented by Kennedy Miller Mitchell in association with Aacta and selected by a jury, the award includes a cash prize of $10,000.
Past recipients include John Poulson; Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin; Animal Logic; filmmakers Ivan Sen, Amiel Courtin-Wilson and Martin Butler and Bentley Dean; Dop Adam Arkapaw; and Vr artist and filmmaker Lynette Wallworth.
The award will be presented at the 8th Aacta Awards in Sydney in December. Recommendations should be emailed to Aacta Awards manager Ivan Vukusic at ivukusic@afi.org.au with:
• A copy of the candidate’s filmography;
• A letter detailing the candidate’s...
- 9/13/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Photo by American Int/Everett / Rex Features
“Livin’ in a land down under, where women glow and men plunder,” sang 80’s pop group Men At Work.
As most of the United States is buried under cold and snowy temps, Australia is having balmy warm weather. The country of marmite, koalas and kangaroos, and the Great Barrier Reef is currently hosting the first of the tennis grand slams of 2018, The Australian Open.
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic hits a shot during a training session ahead of the Australian Open tennis tournament, in Melbourne, Australia January 15, 2017. Reuters/Issei Kato
The list of actors and actresses hailing from the sixth largest nation include Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, Rod Taylor, Mel Gibson, Guy Pearce, Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush, Toni Collette, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Ben Mendelsohn, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Hugo Weaving, Naomi Watts, Abbie Cornish, Eric Bana, Joel Edgerton, Mia Wasikowska, Margot Robbie, Chris Hemsworth,...
“Livin’ in a land down under, where women glow and men plunder,” sang 80’s pop group Men At Work.
As most of the United States is buried under cold and snowy temps, Australia is having balmy warm weather. The country of marmite, koalas and kangaroos, and the Great Barrier Reef is currently hosting the first of the tennis grand slams of 2018, The Australian Open.
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic hits a shot during a training session ahead of the Australian Open tennis tournament, in Melbourne, Australia January 15, 2017. Reuters/Issei Kato
The list of actors and actresses hailing from the sixth largest nation include Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, Rod Taylor, Mel Gibson, Guy Pearce, Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush, Toni Collette, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Ben Mendelsohn, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Hugo Weaving, Naomi Watts, Abbie Cornish, Eric Bana, Joel Edgerton, Mia Wasikowska, Margot Robbie, Chris Hemsworth,...
- 1/18/2018
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Mel Gibson on the set of Hacksaw Ridge.. . Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge cleaned up at the 6th Aacta Awards ceremony last night, taking home five awards, including Best Film and Best Original Screenplay. . Gibson was honoured for Best Direction, while Andrew Garfield won Best Lead Actor and Hugo Weaving nabbed Best Supporting Actor. . .I need to thank Australia for making this film,. said Gibson in his acceptance speech. . He praised the "homegrown" film.s cast and crew, .the calibre of which is as good or better than anywhere in the world.. . .I.m not the only one who wants to make films here all the time, Ridley Scott said the same thing,. Gibson said. .I.m honoured to receive this.. . . The five awards add to the four Hacksaw Ridge already picked up earlier this week at the Aacta Industry Luncheon. The film was nominated in 13 categories overall. . Odessa Young...
- 12/7/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Mel Gibson on the set of Hacksaw Ridge.. . Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge cleaned up at the 6th Aacta Awards ceremony last night, taking home five awards, including Best Film and Best Original Screenplay. . Gibson was honoured for Best Direction, while Andrew Garfield won Best Lead Actor and Hugo Weaving nabbed Best Supporting Actor. . .I need to thank Australia for making this film,. said Gibson in his acceptance speech. . He praised the "homegrown" film.s cast and crew, .the calibre of which is as good or better than anywhere in the world.. . .I.m not the only one who wants to make films here all the time, Ridley Scott said the same thing,. Gibson said. .I.m honoured to receive this.. . . The five awards add to the four Hacksaw Ridge already picked up earlier this week at the Aacta Industry Luncheon. The film was nominated in 13 categories overall. . Odessa Young...
- 12/7/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Female film-makers donned sausage costumes to protest gender disparity in the Australian industry.Scroll down for full list of winners:
Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge was named best film of the year at the 2016 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) awards, with the wartime drama taking nine of its 13 nominated awards, at an event that was also marked by activism on and off the stage.
Hacksaw Ridge was produced in New South Wales and financed through the Producer Offset and other state and federal government subsidies.
The film’s star Andrew Garfield was named best actor for his portrayal of conscientious objector Desmond Dawes, and Hugo Weaving won best supporting actor (again, after winning in 2015 for The Dressmaker) for his role as Dawes’ battle-scarred father.
Garfield accepted his award via video message from Los Angeles, and expressed “pure joy” at the win. He also singled out “Mel’s brilliant ability to make everyone feel valuable...
Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge was named best film of the year at the 2016 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) awards, with the wartime drama taking nine of its 13 nominated awards, at an event that was also marked by activism on and off the stage.
Hacksaw Ridge was produced in New South Wales and financed through the Producer Offset and other state and federal government subsidies.
The film’s star Andrew Garfield was named best actor for his portrayal of conscientious objector Desmond Dawes, and Hugo Weaving won best supporting actor (again, after winning in 2015 for The Dressmaker) for his role as Dawes’ battle-scarred father.
Garfield accepted his award via video message from Los Angeles, and expressed “pure joy” at the win. He also singled out “Mel’s brilliant ability to make everyone feel valuable...
- 12/7/2016
- ScreenDaily
Aacta has named artist and director Lynette Wallworth as the recipient of this year.s Byron Kennedy Award.
The award, which honours George Miller.s original filmmaking partner and Mad Max co-creator Byron Kennedy, celebrates "outstanding creative enterprise within the screen industry. It is given to an individual or organisation whose work embodies innovation, vision and the pursuit of excellence."
Wallworth is known for her use of virtual reality and the mixing of technology with art. Her installations and films have been shown at the World Economic Forum, the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts and The Smithsonian.
Her documentary.Tender received five Aacta nominations and won the Aacta Award for Best Documentary Television Program at the 4th Aacta Awards in 2014. Her most recent work, Collisions, is a Vr film made with Aboriginal elder Nyarri Nyarri Morgan.
.The names of some of the previous winners of the Byron Kennedy Award count amongst my heroes,...
The award, which honours George Miller.s original filmmaking partner and Mad Max co-creator Byron Kennedy, celebrates "outstanding creative enterprise within the screen industry. It is given to an individual or organisation whose work embodies innovation, vision and the pursuit of excellence."
Wallworth is known for her use of virtual reality and the mixing of technology with art. Her installations and films have been shown at the World Economic Forum, the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts and The Smithsonian.
Her documentary.Tender received five Aacta nominations and won the Aacta Award for Best Documentary Television Program at the 4th Aacta Awards in 2014. Her most recent work, Collisions, is a Vr film made with Aboriginal elder Nyarri Nyarri Morgan.
.The names of some of the previous winners of the Byron Kennedy Award count amongst my heroes,...
- 12/1/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Burbank, CA, September 14, 2016 –Mad Max fans will have something to put atop their holiday gift lists with the Mad Max High Octane Collection, debuting December 6 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Wbhe). All four films from visionary director George Miller’s blockbuster sci-fi franchise — Mad Max (1979); Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981); Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985); and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), now with Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky — are together in one collection.
The Mad Max High Octane Collection is available to own in both Blu-ray ($79.99 Srp) and DVD ($54.97 Srp) versions. Both collections include the four films and five hours of bonus content, including the visually stunning Mad Max: Fury Road “Black & Chrome” Edition. The Blu-ray collection will also include a 4K-Ultra HD version and a Uv Digital Copy of Mad Max: Fury Road.
The Mad Max: Fury Road “Black & Chrome Edition” will also be available on Blu-ray ($29.98 Srp) in...
The Mad Max High Octane Collection is available to own in both Blu-ray ($79.99 Srp) and DVD ($54.97 Srp) versions. Both collections include the four films and five hours of bonus content, including the visually stunning Mad Max: Fury Road “Black & Chrome” Edition. The Blu-ray collection will also include a 4K-Ultra HD version and a Uv Digital Copy of Mad Max: Fury Road.
The Mad Max: Fury Road “Black & Chrome Edition” will also be available on Blu-ray ($29.98 Srp) in...
- 9/15/2016
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Witness! Warner Bros. has finally – finally – locked down plans to unveil the monochromatic cut of George Miller’s scintillating action opus, Mad Max: Fury Road. And it’s releasing sooner than you may think.
It’s a version that has seemingly been kicking around for months now, and has surely been one of the most requested cuts of Fury Road following its release. That, and a behind-the-scenes peek at the painstaking work that went in to creating those jaw-dropping action sequences.
If you’re a fan of the film, then you’re in luck, because today also heralds the arrival of what is arguably the best effects showcase of Mad Max: Fury Road to date, shedding light on the ways in which George Miller and his crack team of stunt coordinators orchestrated apocalyptic chaos out on that Fury Road.
As Coming Soon notes, there’s actually two Blu-ray releases in...
It’s a version that has seemingly been kicking around for months now, and has surely been one of the most requested cuts of Fury Road following its release. That, and a behind-the-scenes peek at the painstaking work that went in to creating those jaw-dropping action sequences.
If you’re a fan of the film, then you’re in luck, because today also heralds the arrival of what is arguably the best effects showcase of Mad Max: Fury Road to date, shedding light on the ways in which George Miller and his crack team of stunt coordinators orchestrated apocalyptic chaos out on that Fury Road.
As Coming Soon notes, there’s actually two Blu-ray releases in...
- 9/15/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
The long awaited black and chrome version of George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road finally has a release date. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced that they will be releasing the Mad Max: Fury Road Black & Chrome Edition on December 6th in a two-film collection that also includes the theatrical version of the film. It will also include a special introduction by Miller describing his vision for the film. I'm excited about watching this version of the film because Miller says it's the best version of it. When previously talking about his black and white vision of the film, he said:
"One thing I’ve noticed is that the default position for everyone is to de-saturate post-apocalyptic movies. There’s only two ways to go, make them black and white — the best version of this movie is black and white, but people reserve that for art movies now. The...
"One thing I’ve noticed is that the default position for everyone is to de-saturate post-apocalyptic movies. There’s only two ways to go, make them black and white — the best version of this movie is black and white, but people reserve that for art movies now. The...
- 9/15/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Kayti Burt Sep 16, 2016
George Miller's planned black and white version of the brilliant Mad Max: Fury Road is roaring to shelves this Christmas...
Warner Bros has confirmed that it is releasing that much-discussed black-and-white version of Mad Max: Fury Road — and it will be available in time for Christmas.
The Mad Max: Fury Road "Black and Chrome" Edition will be available on Blu-ray as part of a two-film collection (the other film is the theatrical version), and will hit shelves on December 6th in the Us.
You can also grab the "Black and Chrome" edition as part of a larger, more expensive Mad Max boxset too.
The Mad Max High Octane Edition will include all four films from the George Miller franchise: Mad Max (1979); Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981); Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985); and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). The Mad Max High Octane Edition will include five hours of extras too,...
George Miller's planned black and white version of the brilliant Mad Max: Fury Road is roaring to shelves this Christmas...
Warner Bros has confirmed that it is releasing that much-discussed black-and-white version of Mad Max: Fury Road — and it will be available in time for Christmas.
The Mad Max: Fury Road "Black and Chrome" Edition will be available on Blu-ray as part of a two-film collection (the other film is the theatrical version), and will hit shelves on December 6th in the Us.
You can also grab the "Black and Chrome" edition as part of a larger, more expensive Mad Max boxset too.
The Mad Max High Octane Edition will include all four films from the George Miller franchise: Mad Max (1979); Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981); Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985); and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). The Mad Max High Octane Edition will include five hours of extras too,...
- 9/15/2016
- Den of Geek
Max Rockatansky is coming home for the holidays this year courtesy of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, who have announced a December 6th release for the Mad Max High-Octane Collection Blu-ray / DVD that includes all four Mad Max films, the black-and-white version of Mad Max: Fury Road, and several new special features.
In addition to featuring it on the Mad Max High Octane Collection, Wbhe will also release the "Black & Chrome" edition of Fury Road on a new Blu-ray with the regular version of the movie.
For more details, we have the official press release below (via Why So Blu?), along with a look at the cover art for both releases. Will you be picking these up on December 6th?
Press Release (via Why So Blu?): Mad Max fans will have something to put atop their holiday gift lists with the Mad Max High Octane Collection, debuting December 6 from Warner Bros.
In addition to featuring it on the Mad Max High Octane Collection, Wbhe will also release the "Black & Chrome" edition of Fury Road on a new Blu-ray with the regular version of the movie.
For more details, we have the official press release below (via Why So Blu?), along with a look at the cover art for both releases. Will you be picking these up on December 6th?
Press Release (via Why So Blu?): Mad Max fans will have something to put atop their holiday gift lists with the Mad Max High Octane Collection, debuting December 6 from Warner Bros.
- 9/15/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Warner Bros. has revealed details on a brand new Mad Max movie collection coming to blu-ray along with the official release of the highly anticipated Black & Chrome version of Fury Road. Wouldn't you know it, it's just in time for the Holidays. Come inside for all the details!
If you've been looking forward to the black and white version of Fury Road the film's director has been teasing for a while, then today brings some good news. WB has announced a new blu-ray collection of all the Mad Max films along with five hours of bonus footage. It will also include the Black & Chrome version of Mad Max: Fury Road (even a 4K copy of the original film as well) so you can enjoy the previous film whichever way you wish.
If you already own the previous Mad Max blu-ray collection, WB is releasing the Black and Chrome Edition separately.
If you've been looking forward to the black and white version of Fury Road the film's director has been teasing for a while, then today brings some good news. WB has announced a new blu-ray collection of all the Mad Max films along with five hours of bonus footage. It will also include the Black & Chrome version of Mad Max: Fury Road (even a 4K copy of the original film as well) so you can enjoy the previous film whichever way you wish.
If you already own the previous Mad Max blu-ray collection, WB is releasing the Black and Chrome Edition separately.
- 9/14/2016
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Jordan Maison)
- Cinelinx
George Miller and David Stratton in conversation.
David Stratton and George Miller had a wide-ranging chat at the Chauvel last night as guests of the French Film Festival, of which both are patrons.
Miller described growing up in Chinchilla, where he fell in love with movies during the saturday matinees at the local cinema, which was his "secular cathedral".
He also praised Stratton's tenure at the Sydney Film Festival and its influence on a generation of Australian filmmakers..
Miller's short, Violence in the Cinema, Part 1, played at the festival in 1971, as part of the Benson and Hedges awards.
The cigarette manufacturer was the only company willing to sponsor a festival for Australian shorts, joked Stratton, who also queried the title of Miller's short - "there was never a part two".
Violence in the Cinema starred Arthur Dignam, and was programmed before a film by Vittoria de Sica. Miller recalled his...
David Stratton and George Miller had a wide-ranging chat at the Chauvel last night as guests of the French Film Festival, of which both are patrons.
Miller described growing up in Chinchilla, where he fell in love with movies during the saturday matinees at the local cinema, which was his "secular cathedral".
He also praised Stratton's tenure at the Sydney Film Festival and its influence on a generation of Australian filmmakers..
Miller's short, Violence in the Cinema, Part 1, played at the festival in 1971, as part of the Benson and Hedges awards.
The cigarette manufacturer was the only company willing to sponsor a festival for Australian shorts, joked Stratton, who also queried the title of Miller's short - "there was never a part two".
Violence in the Cinema starred Arthur Dignam, and was programmed before a film by Vittoria de Sica. Miller recalled his...
- 3/10/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
George Miller’s action-epic scoops eight awards including best film and best director.Scroll down for the full list
Mad Max: Fury Road has scooped the pool at Australia’s top film awards, the AACTAs, with George Miller’s high-action epic scoring wins in eight of its 11 nominated categories, including best film and best director.
Jocelyn Moorhouse’s retro western The Dressmaker won the Aacta People’s Choice Award at the Sydney event, and Kate Winslet won the Best Actress award for her lead performance (and convincing accent) as a spiteful Aussie seamstress in outback 1950s Australia. Winslet accepted her award via smartphone video selfie.
Her onscreen mum, Judy Davis, was the odds-on favourite to win Best Supporting Actress, which she did. In another acting gong for The Dressmaker, Hugo Weaving seemed as surprised as everyone else when his name was called to the stage of Sydney’s The Star casino complex.
In other awards...
Mad Max: Fury Road has scooped the pool at Australia’s top film awards, the AACTAs, with George Miller’s high-action epic scoring wins in eight of its 11 nominated categories, including best film and best director.
Jocelyn Moorhouse’s retro western The Dressmaker won the Aacta People’s Choice Award at the Sydney event, and Kate Winslet won the Best Actress award for her lead performance (and convincing accent) as a spiteful Aussie seamstress in outback 1950s Australia. Winslet accepted her award via smartphone video selfie.
Her onscreen mum, Judy Davis, was the odds-on favourite to win Best Supporting Actress, which she did. In another acting gong for The Dressmaker, Hugo Weaving seemed as surprised as everyone else when his name was called to the stage of Sydney’s The Star casino complex.
In other awards...
- 12/9/2015
- ScreenDaily
George Miller’s action-epic scoops eight awards including best film and best director.Scroll down for the full list
Mad Max: Fury Road has scooped the pool at Australia’s top film awards, the AACTAs, with George Miller’s high-action epic scoring wins in eight of its 11 nominated categories, including best film and best director.
Jocelyn Moorhouse’s retro western The Dressmaker won the Aacta People’s Choice Award at the Sydney event, and Kate Winslet won the Best Actress award for her lead performance (and convincing accent) as a spiteful Aussie seamstress in outback 1950s Australia. Winslet accepted her award via smartphone video selfie.
Her onscreen mum, Judy Davis, was the odds-on favourite to win Best Supporting Actress, which she did. In another acting gong for The Dressmaker, Hugo Weaving seemed as surprised as everyone else when his name was called to the stage of Sydney’s The Star casino complex.
In other awards...
Mad Max: Fury Road has scooped the pool at Australia’s top film awards, the AACTAs, with George Miller’s high-action epic scoring wins in eight of its 11 nominated categories, including best film and best director.
Jocelyn Moorhouse’s retro western The Dressmaker won the Aacta People’s Choice Award at the Sydney event, and Kate Winslet won the Best Actress award for her lead performance (and convincing accent) as a spiteful Aussie seamstress in outback 1950s Australia. Winslet accepted her award via smartphone video selfie.
Her onscreen mum, Judy Davis, was the odds-on favourite to win Best Supporting Actress, which she did. In another acting gong for The Dressmaker, Hugo Weaving seemed as surprised as everyone else when his name was called to the stage of Sydney’s The Star casino complex.
In other awards...
- 12/9/2015
- ScreenDaily
It's been a long weekend, but a largely good one. That's despite being floored up with a fever and a nasty head and chest thing. On Friday night, I went to see both the East and West coast broadcasts of "Undateable Live" on NBC, and then I mainlined screeners for consideration for the year-end awards that I vote on as a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Sunday morning, I had to send my vote with a proxy because I was still ill, and I noted in the comments I sent over that there was one award I felt very strongly about. I wrote, "The only award I feel urgently about is Best Director. It's George Miler this year. No one else alive would have or could have made That version of that movie. He's the man, and we should reward that." It's safe to say that I...
- 12/7/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
Aacta is calling for recommendations for one of the nation's most prized screen excellence awards, the Byron Kennedy Award.
The award, which honours Dr George Miller.s late filmmaking partner and Mad Max co-creator, celebrates outstanding creative enterprise within the film and television industries and is given to an individual or organisation whose work embodies innovation and the relentless pursuit of excellence.
Presented by Kennedy Miller Mitchell in association with Aacta and selected by a jury,. the award carries a cash prize of $10,000.
Past recipients include John Polson, Sarah Watt, Animal Logic, the Acs, Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin, Ivan Sen, Dion Beebe, Rolf de Heer and Chris Lilley.
In 2015 it went to Courtin-Wilson for his risk taking and evocative storytelling. The jury said .Amiel has been patiently searching for truth and beauty at the margins of society, making films which have captured the attention of international audiences."
The Byron Kennedy...
The award, which honours Dr George Miller.s late filmmaking partner and Mad Max co-creator, celebrates outstanding creative enterprise within the film and television industries and is given to an individual or organisation whose work embodies innovation and the relentless pursuit of excellence.
Presented by Kennedy Miller Mitchell in association with Aacta and selected by a jury,. the award carries a cash prize of $10,000.
Past recipients include John Polson, Sarah Watt, Animal Logic, the Acs, Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin, Ivan Sen, Dion Beebe, Rolf de Heer and Chris Lilley.
In 2015 it went to Courtin-Wilson for his risk taking and evocative storytelling. The jury said .Amiel has been patiently searching for truth and beauty at the margins of society, making films which have captured the attention of international audiences."
The Byron Kennedy...
- 9/23/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
By Alex Simon
Cars have been a staple of motion pictures since the earliest Keystone Kops two-reel comedies a century ago, usually providing fodder for chase scenes and general mayhem. Whether they’re breaking land-speed records, flying through the air defying laws of aerodynamics, or driven by intrepid heroes pursuing bad guys, cars and movies go together like…well, like movies and popcorn.Like movies and tickets. Like cars and tickets. Wait…let’s just get on with the list, shall we?
Here are the ten coolest cars in movie history, in no particular order:
1. Rendezvous: 1976 Mercedes-Benz 450Sel 6.9
Director Claude Lelouch mounted a camera on his 1976 Mercedes and tore through the early morning streets of Paris at breakneck speeds, cheating only slightly in post-production by overdubbing the sound of a Ferrari 275 Gtb engine with that of his Benz’s. Three people were in the car, with Lelouch at the wheel,...
Cars have been a staple of motion pictures since the earliest Keystone Kops two-reel comedies a century ago, usually providing fodder for chase scenes and general mayhem. Whether they’re breaking land-speed records, flying through the air defying laws of aerodynamics, or driven by intrepid heroes pursuing bad guys, cars and movies go together like…well, like movies and popcorn.Like movies and tickets. Like cars and tickets. Wait…let’s just get on with the list, shall we?
Here are the ten coolest cars in movie history, in no particular order:
1. Rendezvous: 1976 Mercedes-Benz 450Sel 6.9
Director Claude Lelouch mounted a camera on his 1976 Mercedes and tore through the early morning streets of Paris at breakneck speeds, cheating only slightly in post-production by overdubbing the sound of a Ferrari 275 Gtb engine with that of his Benz’s. Three people were in the car, with Lelouch at the wheel,...
- 7/8/2015
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
"Out of the ruins, out from the wreckage
Can't make the same mistakes this time.
We are the children, the last generation
We are the ones they left behind…"
From the moment you hear Tina Turner's powerful wailing over the opening credits, you know Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is going to be a very different proposition to its glorious predecessors. Could that offbeat, anarchic energy be successfully retained for a film clearly designed for mass market appeal? Not quite.
The plot is an uninvolving mishmash of ideas and characters that never feel fully formed or realised. Max is thrust into the dangerous realms of Bartertown, a skewed remnant of society that's superbly well designed. After agreeing a deal with Turner's crooked ruler Aunty Entity, he faces a fight to the death in a steel cage called the Thunderdome.
A similar narrative structure to franchise revival Fury Road then ensues,...
Can't make the same mistakes this time.
We are the children, the last generation
We are the ones they left behind…"
From the moment you hear Tina Turner's powerful wailing over the opening credits, you know Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is going to be a very different proposition to its glorious predecessors. Could that offbeat, anarchic energy be successfully retained for a film clearly designed for mass market appeal? Not quite.
The plot is an uninvolving mishmash of ideas and characters that never feel fully formed or realised. Max is thrust into the dangerous realms of Bartertown, a skewed remnant of society that's superbly well designed. After agreeing a deal with Turner's crooked ruler Aunty Entity, he faces a fight to the death in a steel cage called the Thunderdome.
A similar narrative structure to franchise revival Fury Road then ensues,...
- 6/6/2015
- Digital Spy
Following a fifteen-year creative hiatus and another fifteen years stranded in development hell, director George Miller’s iconic outback creation, Max Rockatansky, returned to theatres this month to a rapturous reception. “Absence makes the heart grow fonder” and “good things come to those who wait” aren’t reliable rules of thumb for filmmaking, let alone in a studio system, but Mad Max: Fury Road demonstrated the value of such back-to-basics thinking: focused storytelling, practical effects and a freedom from franchise baggage combined to make Fury Road the critical high-water mark for 2015 blockbusters. That it also performed well at the box office made Miller’s $150 million return to both the wasteland and action filmmaking a double-barreled coup d’état.
If anything, the extensive gap between Fury Road and 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Rockatansky’s last adventure, afforded Miller’s fourth go-round with the character a certain clemency from the “franchise...
If anything, the extensive gap between Fury Road and 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Rockatansky’s last adventure, afforded Miller’s fourth go-round with the character a certain clemency from the “franchise...
- 5/26/2015
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Written by Terry Hayes and George Miller
Directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie
Australia, 1985
An undetermined amount of time has elapsed since Max’s (Mel Gibson) previous high stakes adventure. Now with a few more grey hairs, he traverses the treacherous Outback with camels and a stagecoach, looking for who knows what. His long walk is interrupted by a renegade pilot (Bruce Spence), who flies low, thus blowing up sand and obscuring Max’s field of vision. During the interruption the pilot and his son steal the wagon and make way for the only nearest outpost: Batertown. Batertown is governed by the megalomaniacal Auntie Entity (Tina Turner), although her authority is frequently challenged by a duo of characters that run the town’s fuel compound where methanol is extracted from pig feces. They are Master Blaster, or rather, Master (Angelo Rossito), a little man that...
Written by Terry Hayes and George Miller
Directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie
Australia, 1985
An undetermined amount of time has elapsed since Max’s (Mel Gibson) previous high stakes adventure. Now with a few more grey hairs, he traverses the treacherous Outback with camels and a stagecoach, looking for who knows what. His long walk is interrupted by a renegade pilot (Bruce Spence), who flies low, thus blowing up sand and obscuring Max’s field of vision. During the interruption the pilot and his son steal the wagon and make way for the only nearest outpost: Batertown. Batertown is governed by the megalomaniacal Auntie Entity (Tina Turner), although her authority is frequently challenged by a duo of characters that run the town’s fuel compound where methanol is extracted from pig feces. They are Master Blaster, or rather, Master (Angelo Rossito), a little man that...
- 5/14/2015
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
If "Mad Max" is "A Fistful Of Dollars" and "The Road Warrior" is "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly," then clearly "Fury Road" is George Miller's "Once Upon A Time In The West," the moment when his movies move from the archetypical to the profound. It seems impossible that George Miller has been away from live-action for 17 years. Then again, nothing about George Miller's career has ever really fit into any typical model. I always think of him as part of the Class of '82, the directors whose work really crystallized in what I maintain is the greatest geek movie line-up of all time. Most of those guys came out of the system, either through the Roger Corman training program or moving from TV to movies, trained at southern California film schools so they all had similar skill sets. Miller was different, though. He was never really one of them.
- 5/11/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
Veteran producer-director Martha Ansara warns that deregulating the system of approving visas for foreign actors and crews would endanger Australian cultural content.
.The risk is that such a move would be a step towards the creation of a homogenized international product that offers us little in terms of our own culture and, being generic, must compete with the much better financed American product of the same type,. Ansara contends in her submission to the government.s review of Temporary Work (Entertainment) visa (Subclass 420).
.This would not be useful even to those who in the pursuit of the dollar seem not to believe that there is a distinct Australian culture worth maintaining..
Ansara supports the retention of the requirement for the Arts Minister to approve certificates for foreign actors and crew. .The value of the certification is that it is license which guarantees for all to see that the appropriate procedures...
.The risk is that such a move would be a step towards the creation of a homogenized international product that offers us little in terms of our own culture and, being generic, must compete with the much better financed American product of the same type,. Ansara contends in her submission to the government.s review of Temporary Work (Entertainment) visa (Subclass 420).
.This would not be useful even to those who in the pursuit of the dollar seem not to believe that there is a distinct Australian culture worth maintaining..
Ansara supports the retention of the requirement for the Arts Minister to approve certificates for foreign actors and crew. .The value of the certification is that it is license which guarantees for all to see that the appropriate procedures...
- 3/1/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Water Diviner and The Babadook share top film honours and ABC’s The Code is the biggest TV winner. All the red carpet glitz, gossip and gongs from Sydney
Water Diviner and Babadook tie, but at least they’re AussieAactas red carpet: the stars arrive – in pictures
8.58pm Aest
The big winners? The Water Diviner and The Babadook for film, and The Code for its multiple awards in the telly categories.
Plenty more to celebrate and debate in the coming days. We’ll be back on Friday with the best quotes and pictures. Not to mention our weekly film column that sees Luke Buckmaster re-watching the cult classics of Australian cinema, week in week out, for your reading/viewing pleasure.
8.39pm Aest
And, breathe, we’re almost there. Cate and Debs are back on stage to lead into the final and biggest gong of the night: the award for...
Water Diviner and Babadook tie, but at least they’re AussieAactas red carpet: the stars arrive – in pictures
8.58pm Aest
The big winners? The Water Diviner and The Babadook for film, and The Code for its multiple awards in the telly categories.
Plenty more to celebrate and debate in the coming days. We’ll be back on Friday with the best quotes and pictures. Not to mention our weekly film column that sees Luke Buckmaster re-watching the cult classics of Australian cinema, week in week out, for your reading/viewing pleasure.
8.39pm Aest
And, breathe, we’re almost there. Cate and Debs are back on stage to lead into the final and biggest gong of the night: the award for...
- 1/29/2015
- by Nancy Groves and Alexandra Spring in Sydney
- The Guardian - Film News
Double win marks the first time two films have shared Australia’s top film prize.Scroll down for full list of winners
Russell Crowe’s The Water Diviner and Jennifer Kent thriller The Babadook have both won the Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts) Award for best film, marking the first time that two titles have shared the country’s top film prize.
The event in Sydney, hosted this year by actresses Cate Blanchett and Deborah Mailman, is only the 4th annual Aacta Awards but they were the result of an overhaul of the AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards, which were established in 1969.
The two winning films could not be more different from each other. Kent’s meticulously crafted low-budget claustrophobic thriller, The Babadook, is about a single mother who battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house.
Gladiator star Crowe’s directorial debut, The Water Diviner, is about...
Russell Crowe’s The Water Diviner and Jennifer Kent thriller The Babadook have both won the Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts) Award for best film, marking the first time that two titles have shared the country’s top film prize.
The event in Sydney, hosted this year by actresses Cate Blanchett and Deborah Mailman, is only the 4th annual Aacta Awards but they were the result of an overhaul of the AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards, which were established in 1969.
The two winning films could not be more different from each other. Kent’s meticulously crafted low-budget claustrophobic thriller, The Babadook, is about a single mother who battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house.
Gladiator star Crowe’s directorial debut, The Water Diviner, is about...
- 1/29/2015
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Jennifer Kent.s The Babadook and Russell Crowe.s The Water Diviner tied for best film at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) awards in Sydney.
That.s the first joint award for best film in AFI/Aacta history. Kent also collected the awards for best director (Crowe wasn't nominated in that category) and original screenplay.
Telecast on Network Ten, the awards drew just 297,000 viewers in the five metro cities last night, proving more popular in Melbourne (107,000) than Sydney (80,000).
Playmaker Media.s conspiracy thriller The Code collared the awards for best TV drama, lead actor in a TV drama (Ashley Zukerman), supporting actress (Chelsie Preston Crayford) and direction in a TV drama or comedy (Shawn Seet). The Longford Lyell Award, named for Australian cinema pioneers Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell, went to screenwriter Andrew Knight, whose credits as head writer or co-writer include Fast Forward, Full Frontal,...
That.s the first joint award for best film in AFI/Aacta history. Kent also collected the awards for best director (Crowe wasn't nominated in that category) and original screenplay.
Telecast on Network Ten, the awards drew just 297,000 viewers in the five metro cities last night, proving more popular in Melbourne (107,000) than Sydney (80,000).
Playmaker Media.s conspiracy thriller The Code collared the awards for best TV drama, lead actor in a TV drama (Ashley Zukerman), supporting actress (Chelsie Preston Crayford) and direction in a TV drama or comedy (Shawn Seet). The Longford Lyell Award, named for Australian cinema pioneers Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell, went to screenwriter Andrew Knight, whose credits as head writer or co-writer include Fast Forward, Full Frontal,...
- 1/29/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The ABC.s rebuff of a campaign led by the producers to allocate an earlier timeslot to Sophia Turkiewicz.s documentary Once My Mother has drawn the ire of filmmaker Martha Ansara.
A founding member of the Australian Documentary Forum (Ozdox) and a recipient of the AFI's Byron Kennedy Award, Ansara has described the decision as being in line with the broadcaster.s move away from innovative single documentaries.
The ABC will screen Turkiewicz.s 72 minute film, which traces her search to discover why her Polish mother abandoned her and the truth behind her wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, on Sunday October 26 at 10.20 pm. Producer Rod Freedman beseeched ABC head of programming Brendan Dahill to schedule the doco at 9.30 pm or earlier, fearing it would be ignored in the .graveyard. timeslot, and he enlisted the support of industry colleagues.
Dahill replied, .I am happy with the slot that we...
A founding member of the Australian Documentary Forum (Ozdox) and a recipient of the AFI's Byron Kennedy Award, Ansara has described the decision as being in line with the broadcaster.s move away from innovative single documentaries.
The ABC will screen Turkiewicz.s 72 minute film, which traces her search to discover why her Polish mother abandoned her and the truth behind her wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, on Sunday October 26 at 10.20 pm. Producer Rod Freedman beseeched ABC head of programming Brendan Dahill to schedule the doco at 9.30 pm or earlier, fearing it would be ignored in the .graveyard. timeslot, and he enlisted the support of industry colleagues.
Dahill replied, .I am happy with the slot that we...
- 10/7/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Aacta.s Raymond Longford Award almost certainly will be renamed the Longford Lyell Award in recognition of Lottie Lyell, the Australian film pioneer.s partner in life and filmmaking. Producer Tony Buckley has been lobbying for the change for two years, a campaign that has been widely supported. Now Aacta is putting the proposal to its members, seeking feedback by October 10. .We think it.s a really good suggestion,. AFI | Aacta CEO Damian Trewhella told If today. .Informally we have had a lot of support and no one has objected. Unless there are strong alternative views there is a strong chance we will adopt the new name.. First presented in 1968, the award is the highest accolade the Australian Academy can bestow upon an individual who has made a truly outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Australia's screen environment and culture. Previous recipients include Peter Weir, Geoffrey Rush, Fred Schepisi, Ken G. Hall,...
- 9/25/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Hollywood extravaganza The Great Gatsby dominates movie category while Redfern Now scoops best drama series
Video: Jacki Weaver - 'I'm a little bit overwhelmed'
A David-and-Goliath battle between a low budget film set in Laos and an extravagant Hollywood production of The Great Gatsby ended with the giant victorious at Australia's Academy Awards, the Aactas
Baz Luhrmann's blockbuster, filmed entirely in Sydney studios with computer graphics helping to create the F Scott Fitzgerald story's Long Island and New York backdrops, took six of the top prizes on 30 January, including best film, director, and adapted screenplay for Luhrmann and long-time collaborator Craig Pearce. This brought its tally to 13 following its sweep of the craft awards announced two days earlier at the country's top annual film and TV awards.
In the television categories, Jane Campion's quirky crime series Top of the Lake, a four nation co-production set in rural New Zealand,...
Video: Jacki Weaver - 'I'm a little bit overwhelmed'
A David-and-Goliath battle between a low budget film set in Laos and an extravagant Hollywood production of The Great Gatsby ended with the giant victorious at Australia's Academy Awards, the Aactas
Baz Luhrmann's blockbuster, filmed entirely in Sydney studios with computer graphics helping to create the F Scott Fitzgerald story's Long Island and New York backdrops, took six of the top prizes on 30 January, including best film, director, and adapted screenplay for Luhrmann and long-time collaborator Craig Pearce. This brought its tally to 13 following its sweep of the craft awards announced two days earlier at the country's top annual film and TV awards.
In the television categories, Jane Campion's quirky crime series Top of the Lake, a four nation co-production set in rural New Zealand,...
- 1/30/2014
- by Lynden Barber
- The Guardian - Film News
Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation wins every film category but two at the annual Australian awards ceremony.
The big budget Us-financed jazz age extravaganza The Great Gatsby won every film category but two at the annual Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television) Awards this evening Australian time in Sydney.
This included the best film gong, which goes to Australian producers Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin and Catherine Knapman and their Us counterparts Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher.
Luhrmann also scored best director and, with his high school friend and regular collaborator Craig Pearce, best adapted screenplay.
The only award The Great Gatsby could have won but didn’t was for best actress: that instead went to Rose Byrne for her small part — all the actors had small roles overall — in the bold anthology film The Turning, adapted from a book of short stories by popular novelist Tim Winton.
The Rocket, a festival hit made on a shoestring budget...
The big budget Us-financed jazz age extravaganza The Great Gatsby won every film category but two at the annual Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television) Awards this evening Australian time in Sydney.
This included the best film gong, which goes to Australian producers Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin and Catherine Knapman and their Us counterparts Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher.
Luhrmann also scored best director and, with his high school friend and regular collaborator Craig Pearce, best adapted screenplay.
The only award The Great Gatsby could have won but didn’t was for best actress: that instead went to Rose Byrne for her small part — all the actors had small roles overall — in the bold anthology film The Turning, adapted from a book of short stories by popular novelist Tim Winton.
The Rocket, a festival hit made on a shoestring budget...
- 1/30/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation wins every film category but two at the annual Australian awards ceremony.
The big budget Us-financed jazz age extravaganza The Great Gatsby won every film category but two at the annual Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television) Awards this evening Australian time in Sydney.
This included the best film gong, which goes to Australian producers Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin and Catherine Knapman and their Us counterparts Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher.
Luhrmann also scored best director and, with his high school friend and regular collaborator Craig Pearce, best adapted screenplay.
The only award The Great Gatsby could have won but didn’t was for best actress: that instead went to Rose Byrne for her small part — all the actors had small roles overall — in the bold anthology film The Turning, adapted from a book of short stories by popular novelist Tim Winton.
The Rocket, a festival hit made on a shoestring budget...
The big budget Us-financed jazz age extravaganza The Great Gatsby won every film category but two at the annual Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television) Awards this evening Australian time in Sydney.
This included the best film gong, which goes to Australian producers Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin and Catherine Knapman and their Us counterparts Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher.
Luhrmann also scored best director and, with his high school friend and regular collaborator Craig Pearce, best adapted screenplay.
The only award The Great Gatsby could have won but didn’t was for best actress: that instead went to Rose Byrne for her small part — all the actors had small roles overall — in the bold anthology film The Turning, adapted from a book of short stories by popular novelist Tim Winton.
The Rocket, a festival hit made on a shoestring budget...
- 1/30/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation wins every film category but two at the annual Australian awards ceremony.
The big budget Us-financed jazz age extravaganza The Great Gatsby won every film category but two at the annual Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television) Awards this evening Australian time in Sydney.
This included the best film gong, which goes to Australian producers Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin and Catherine Knapman and their Us counterparts Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher.
Luhrmann also scored best director and, with his high school friend and regular collaborator Craig Pearce, best adapted screenplay.
The only award The Great Gatsby could have won but didn’t was for best actress: that instead went to Rose Byrne for her small part — all the actors had small roles overall — in the bold anthology film The Turning, adapted from a book of short stories by popular novelist Tim Winton.
The Rocket, a festival hit made on a shoestring budget...
The big budget Us-financed jazz age extravaganza The Great Gatsby won every film category but two at the annual Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television) Awards this evening Australian time in Sydney.
This included the best film gong, which goes to Australian producers Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin and Catherine Knapman and their Us counterparts Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher.
Luhrmann also scored best director and, with his high school friend and regular collaborator Craig Pearce, best adapted screenplay.
The only award The Great Gatsby could have won but didn’t was for best actress: that instead went to Rose Byrne for her small part — all the actors had small roles overall — in the bold anthology film The Turning, adapted from a book of short stories by popular novelist Tim Winton.
The Rocket, a festival hit made on a shoestring budget...
- 1/30/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
If the 3rd annual Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards could be categorised as a David vs Goliath battle between The Rocket and The Great Gatsby, Goliath is the hands-down winner.
Baz Luhrmann.s opulent romantic drama won six awards tonight, for best film, director, adapted screenplay, lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio, supporting actor Joel Edgerton and supporting actress Elizabeth Debicki.
That.s in addition to the six awards in craft categories plus the Aacta award for outstanding achievement in visual effects bestowed on Luhrmann.s film on Tuesday.
Kim Mordaunt's The Rocket, which had 12 nominations versus 14 for Gatsby, had to be content with just one trophy, for Mordaunt.s original screenplay.
The outcome is likely to reignite the debate about the near-impossibility of comparing a lavishly-mounted 3D film financed by Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures, which cost $160 million, with an independently-funded Lao-set film from a first-time director budgeted at about $2 million.
Baz Luhrmann.s opulent romantic drama won six awards tonight, for best film, director, adapted screenplay, lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio, supporting actor Joel Edgerton and supporting actress Elizabeth Debicki.
That.s in addition to the six awards in craft categories plus the Aacta award for outstanding achievement in visual effects bestowed on Luhrmann.s film on Tuesday.
Kim Mordaunt's The Rocket, which had 12 nominations versus 14 for Gatsby, had to be content with just one trophy, for Mordaunt.s original screenplay.
The outcome is likely to reignite the debate about the near-impossibility of comparing a lavishly-mounted 3D film financed by Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures, which cost $160 million, with an independently-funded Lao-set film from a first-time director budgeted at about $2 million.
- 1/30/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Australian Cinematographers Society national president Ron Johanson felt he was being called to the headmaster.s office when he was asked to take an urgent Skype call from the AFI/Aacta.
CEO Damian Trewhella told him about the Byron Kennedy Award, named after the co-founder of the Mad Max production company Kennedy Miller (now Kennedy Miller Mitchell), who died aged 33 in a helicopter crash in 1983.
The affable Johanson asked, .What.s that got to do with me?. He was flabbergasted when he was informed the Acs is the recipient of the next Byron Kennedy Award, which celebrates outstanding creative enterprise in the film and television industries and is given to an individual or organisation whose work embodies innovation and the pursuit of excellence.
It.s the first time the award, first presented in 1984, has been bestowed on a guild or professional association. Past honorees include Roger Savage, Dion Beebe, Jane Campion,...
CEO Damian Trewhella told him about the Byron Kennedy Award, named after the co-founder of the Mad Max production company Kennedy Miller (now Kennedy Miller Mitchell), who died aged 33 in a helicopter crash in 1983.
The affable Johanson asked, .What.s that got to do with me?. He was flabbergasted when he was informed the Acs is the recipient of the next Byron Kennedy Award, which celebrates outstanding creative enterprise in the film and television industries and is given to an individual or organisation whose work embodies innovation and the pursuit of excellence.
It.s the first time the award, first presented in 1984, has been bestowed on a guild or professional association. Past honorees include Roger Savage, Dion Beebe, Jane Campion,...
- 12/17/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Odd List Simon Brew 15 Nov 2013 - 07:08
Lots of films are dedicated to, or in memory of someone. But it's not always clear why. We've been finding out...
Back when Breaking Bad returned for its final batch of episodes in August 2013, it had a dedication at the end of it. The card read 'Dedicated to our friend Kevin Cordasco'. As it turned out, Kevin Cordasco was a 16-year old who had been battling cancer for seven years, who had met both Bryan Cranston and Vince Gilligan. Cordasco died before he could ever get to see the episode dedicated to him.
I found this such a moving story, that it got me wondering about the dedications that appear on films, and what the story behind them was. After all, the dedications are there for a reason. What I uncovered was some funny stories, mainly extremely sad ones, and some extremely moving dedications.
Lots of films are dedicated to, or in memory of someone. But it's not always clear why. We've been finding out...
Back when Breaking Bad returned for its final batch of episodes in August 2013, it had a dedication at the end of it. The card read 'Dedicated to our friend Kevin Cordasco'. As it turned out, Kevin Cordasco was a 16-year old who had been battling cancer for seven years, who had met both Bryan Cranston and Vince Gilligan. Cordasco died before he could ever get to see the episode dedicated to him.
I found this such a moving story, that it got me wondering about the dedications that appear on films, and what the story behind them was. After all, the dedications are there for a reason. What I uncovered was some funny stories, mainly extremely sad ones, and some extremely moving dedications.
- 11/14/2013
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
The Australian Academy of Cinema Television Arts has announced a number of changes to their annual awards, including the creation of six television craft awards.
Numerous factors prompted Aacta to conduct a review of the Awards earlier this year. Namely, Aacta sought to restructure the awards in light of their current financial situation (Aacta is still looking for a new naming rights sponsor) as well as feedback from Aacta.s guild partnerships and an industry appeal for additional rewards..
The 3rd Aacta Awards will feature a total of 40 Aacta awards . just one less than last year . however with the creation of six new awards; others have been placed on hold indefinitely..
These include Best Direction in a Documentary, Best Cinematography in a Documentary, Best Sound in a Documentary, Best Editing in a Documentary, Best Visual Effects, Best Young Actor, Best Screenplay in a short film and the discretional Outstanding Achievement...
Numerous factors prompted Aacta to conduct a review of the Awards earlier this year. Namely, Aacta sought to restructure the awards in light of their current financial situation (Aacta is still looking for a new naming rights sponsor) as well as feedback from Aacta.s guild partnerships and an industry appeal for additional rewards..
The 3rd Aacta Awards will feature a total of 40 Aacta awards . just one less than last year . however with the creation of six new awards; others have been placed on hold indefinitely..
These include Best Direction in a Documentary, Best Cinematography in a Documentary, Best Sound in a Documentary, Best Editing in a Documentary, Best Visual Effects, Best Young Actor, Best Screenplay in a short film and the discretional Outstanding Achievement...
- 5/15/2013
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
It was a glorious evening for The Sapphires at the 2nd Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Ceremony last night, with the feature film bagging six Aacta awards, including Best Film and Best Director.
The awards top off what has been a sparkling year for the Sapphires team, who have already won a host of international audience choice awards and enjoyed great box office success in Australia.
Other than Best Film and Best Director (Wayne Blair), the musical drama took home the Aacta award for Best Lead Actress (Deborah Mailman), Best Lead Actor (Chris O'Dowd), Best Supporting Actress (Jessica Mauboy) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Keith Thompson, Tony Briggs), bringing their Aacta award total to eleven. (The film picked up a further five awards at the Aacta luncheon held on Monday.)
The film also bagged the news.com.au Audience Choice Award for Most Memorable Screen Moment.
The...
The awards top off what has been a sparkling year for the Sapphires team, who have already won a host of international audience choice awards and enjoyed great box office success in Australia.
Other than Best Film and Best Director (Wayne Blair), the musical drama took home the Aacta award for Best Lead Actress (Deborah Mailman), Best Lead Actor (Chris O'Dowd), Best Supporting Actress (Jessica Mauboy) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Keith Thompson, Tony Briggs), bringing their Aacta award total to eleven. (The film picked up a further five awards at the Aacta luncheon held on Monday.)
The film also bagged the news.com.au Audience Choice Award for Most Memorable Screen Moment.
The...
- 1/31/2013
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
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