Look into the series Criterion Channel have programmed for August and this lineup is revealed as (in scientific terms) quite something. “Hollywood Chinese” proves an especially deep bench, spanning “cinema’s first hundred years to explore the ways in which the Chinese people have been imagined in American feature films” and bringing with it the likes of Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly, Cimino’s Year of the Dragon, Griffith’s Broken Blossoms, and Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet—among 20-or-so others. A three-film Marguerite Duras series brings one of the greatest films ever (India Song) and two lesser-screened experiments; films featuring Yaphet Kotto include Blue Collar, Across 110th Street, and Midnight Run; and lest we ignore a Myrna Loy retro that goes no later than 1949.
Criterion editions include The Asphalt Jungle, Husbands, Rouge, and Sweet Smell of Success; streaming premieres for Loznitsa’s Donbass, Béla Tarr’s watershed Damnation, and...
Criterion editions include The Asphalt Jungle, Husbands, Rouge, and Sweet Smell of Success; streaming premieres for Loznitsa’s Donbass, Béla Tarr’s watershed Damnation, and...
- 7/25/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
‘Storm Boy’
Us critics lauded Shawn Seet’s Storm Boy as a beautiful and contemporary retelling of Colin Thiele’s classic tale but the drama faced stiff competition in the specialty market last weekend.
Meanwhile Anthony Maras’ Hotel Mumbai climbed to $US6.4 million after ringing up $1.8 million on 940 screens in its second weekend wide in the Us.
The Bleecker Street/ShivHans Pictures release produced by Basil Iwanyk, Gary Hamilton, Mike Gabrawy, Julie Ryan, Andrew Ogilvie and Jomon Thomas had a decent per-screen average of $1,914, despite falling by 44 per cent.
The thriller starring Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Anupam Kher, Jason Isaacs and Tilda Cobham-Hervey collected $151,000 in its fourth weekend in Oz, to reach $2.9 million.
The Us distributor Good Deed Entertainment launched Storm Boy on 56 screens, grossing $46,676 for an average of $834.
The international sales agent Kathy Morgan told If last week the distributor had booked the film at premium locations...
Us critics lauded Shawn Seet’s Storm Boy as a beautiful and contemporary retelling of Colin Thiele’s classic tale but the drama faced stiff competition in the specialty market last weekend.
Meanwhile Anthony Maras’ Hotel Mumbai climbed to $US6.4 million after ringing up $1.8 million on 940 screens in its second weekend wide in the Us.
The Bleecker Street/ShivHans Pictures release produced by Basil Iwanyk, Gary Hamilton, Mike Gabrawy, Julie Ryan, Andrew Ogilvie and Jomon Thomas had a decent per-screen average of $1,914, despite falling by 44 per cent.
The thriller starring Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Anupam Kher, Jason Isaacs and Tilda Cobham-Hervey collected $151,000 in its fourth weekend in Oz, to reach $2.9 million.
The Us distributor Good Deed Entertainment launched Storm Boy on 56 screens, grossing $46,676 for an average of $834.
The international sales agent Kathy Morgan told If last week the distributor had booked the film at premium locations...
- 4/7/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Tony Briggs on the set of his short ‘Elders.’
After Tony Briggs spent a year playing Pete Baxter in Neighbours, his screen debut, he discovered the producers had debated whether to identify his character as Indigenous.
He was not aware of those discussions and was very pleased when he found out another actor on the serial had advised the producers that wasn’t necessary.
That was in 1988. Since then he has played numerous characters whose nationality was not mentioned in Rosehaven, Rake, Cleverman, The Warriors (which he co-created with Robert Connolly), Seven Types of Ambiguity, Nowhere Boys and Wentworth, alternating with multiple stage roles.
The creator of The Sapphires is serving as the artistic director of the inaugural Birrarangga Film Festival, a celebration of Indigenous filmmakers from around the world, which will be staged at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image from April 26 – 29.
He is gratified to see more...
After Tony Briggs spent a year playing Pete Baxter in Neighbours, his screen debut, he discovered the producers had debated whether to identify his character as Indigenous.
He was not aware of those discussions and was very pleased when he found out another actor on the serial had advised the producers that wasn’t necessary.
That was in 1988. Since then he has played numerous characters whose nationality was not mentioned in Rosehaven, Rake, Cleverman, The Warriors (which he co-created with Robert Connolly), Seven Types of Ambiguity, Nowhere Boys and Wentworth, alternating with multiple stage roles.
The creator of The Sapphires is serving as the artistic director of the inaugural Birrarangga Film Festival, a celebration of Indigenous filmmakers from around the world, which will be staged at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image from April 26 – 29.
He is gratified to see more...
- 3/28/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
If you’re in the mood for a feel good, coming of age story to combat the impending April showers, then Storm Boy just might be answer.
Based on Colin Thiele’s classic Australian novel, Storm Boy centers on a boy (Finn Little) raises a pelican with his dad (Jai Courtney). Geoffrey Rush is the grown up version [...]
The post Jai Courtney And Geoffrey Rush Take Flight In ‘Storm Boy’ Trailer appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.
Based on Colin Thiele’s classic Australian novel, Storm Boy centers on a boy (Finn Little) raises a pelican with his dad (Jai Courtney). Geoffrey Rush is the grown up version [...]
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- 3/4/2019
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
‘Storm Boy’ (Photo: Matt Nettheim).
Shawn Seet’s Coorong-set re-imagining of Henri Safran’s 1976 classic Storm Boy drew families and older folks last weekend, resonating particularly strongly in South Australia, as takings overall were flattened by the heatwave.
M. Night Shyamalan’s horror movie Glass was the top title, albeit opening below its Us trajectory. Josie O’Rourke’s period drama Mary, Queen of Scots had a respectable debut while Joe Cornish’s action-fantasy The Kid Who Would be King tanked.
Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro, a biopic on Italy’s scandal-plagued former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, fared Ok on limited release after earning tidy sums at festivals.
The top 20 titles collectively harvested $19 million, down 7 per cent on the previous weekend according to Numero.
The sequel to Split and follow-up to 2000’s Unbreakable, Glass yielded $3.3 million on 421 screens for Disney. Pro-rata, that trailed the estimated $40.5 million Us debut for the film...
Shawn Seet’s Coorong-set re-imagining of Henri Safran’s 1976 classic Storm Boy drew families and older folks last weekend, resonating particularly strongly in South Australia, as takings overall were flattened by the heatwave.
M. Night Shyamalan’s horror movie Glass was the top title, albeit opening below its Us trajectory. Josie O’Rourke’s period drama Mary, Queen of Scots had a respectable debut while Joe Cornish’s action-fantasy The Kid Who Would be King tanked.
Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro, a biopic on Italy’s scandal-plagued former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, fared Ok on limited release after earning tidy sums at festivals.
The top 20 titles collectively harvested $19 million, down 7 per cent on the previous weekend according to Numero.
The sequel to Split and follow-up to 2000’s Unbreakable, Glass yielded $3.3 million on 421 screens for Disney. Pro-rata, that trailed the estimated $40.5 million Us debut for the film...
- 1/21/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Colin Thiele’s 1963 children’s novel about a boy and his beloved pelican receives tender and touching treatment in its second film adaptation. Adding a contemporary wrap-around story to the 1950s-set tale, and wringing well-judged changes to Henri Safran’s much-loved 1976 film, this version of “Storm Boy,” directed by excellent Aussie small-screen helmer Shawn Seet, has the emotional heft and visual splendor to win the hearts of domestic and international family audiences. Sony will release the film Down Under on Jan. 17, during the summer school holiday season. U.S. theatrical release via Good Deed Entertainment is scheduled for April.
In purely cinematic terms “Storm Boy” has all the ingredients for commercial success. How well it performs will depend at least partly on public response to controversy surrounding top-billed star Geoffrey Rush, also one of the film’s executive producers. Australia’s Federal Court will soon deliver a decision on the...
In purely cinematic terms “Storm Boy” has all the ingredients for commercial success. How well it performs will depend at least partly on public response to controversy surrounding top-billed star Geoffrey Rush, also one of the film’s executive producers. Australia’s Federal Court will soon deliver a decision on the...
- 1/15/2019
- by Richard Kuipers
- Variety Film + TV
(L-r) Jai Courtney, Finn Little and Shawn Seet.
Shawn Seet was 12 when he saw Henri Safran’s Storm Boy, the 1976 family drama based on Colin Thiele’s acclaimed novel.
The director was born in Australia but lived in Malaysia until he was 12. His uncle took him to the movie which made such an impression he kept the film’s poster, which still adorns his bedroom.
So when producers, Ambience Entertainment’s Michael Boughen and Matthew Street asked him to direct a contemporary re-imagining of the movie, he did not hesitate.
“It was amazing,” Seet tells If. “I asked them, ‘Do you know my history?’ Safran’s film was wonderful, a classic, and as I left the meeting I wondered if I had what it takes to pull it off.”
Enthusiastic responses to previews staged by Sony Pictures and screenings at the St George OpenAir Cinema suggest he’s nailed it.
Shawn Seet was 12 when he saw Henri Safran’s Storm Boy, the 1976 family drama based on Colin Thiele’s acclaimed novel.
The director was born in Australia but lived in Malaysia until he was 12. His uncle took him to the movie which made such an impression he kept the film’s poster, which still adorns his bedroom.
So when producers, Ambience Entertainment’s Michael Boughen and Matthew Street asked him to direct a contemporary re-imagining of the movie, he did not hesitate.
“It was amazing,” Seet tells If. “I asked them, ‘Do you know my history?’ Safran’s film was wonderful, a classic, and as I left the meeting I wondered if I had what it takes to pull it off.”
Enthusiastic responses to previews staged by Sony Pictures and screenings at the St George OpenAir Cinema suggest he’s nailed it.
- 1/15/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Shawn Seet’s remake of the Australian film, which stars Geoffrey Rush, makes jarring missteps in its final act
There are elements of the author Colin Thiele’s classic children’s book Storm Boy that, if not adapted for the screen with the right sensibility, risk creating an experience about as uplifting as a story involving drug addicts collapsing in the gutter with needles in their arms.
The director Henri Safran got the balance right in his excellent 1976 version, infusing an elegantly constructed film with light and dark elements that resonate across all age groups, evoking the child in the adult and the adult in the child.
There are elements of the author Colin Thiele’s classic children’s book Storm Boy that, if not adapted for the screen with the right sensibility, risk creating an experience about as uplifting as a story involving drug addicts collapsing in the gutter with needles in their arms.
The director Henri Safran got the balance right in his excellent 1976 version, infusing an elegantly constructed film with light and dark elements that resonate across all age groups, evoking the child in the adult and the adult in the child.
- 1/14/2019
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
‘Storm Boy’
Good Deed Entertainment has acquired the North American rights to Ambience Entertainment’s Storm Boy.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, who broke the news, the distributor plans to release it during the American springtime, with the deal brokered by Kathy Morgan International.
In Australia, Sony Pictures Releasing will launch the film during the summer school holidays on January 17.
Studiocanal previously held the rights to the film locally, but Sony swooped on it after the deal did not pan out.
Shot in South Australia, Storm Boy is based on the classic novel by Colin Thiele, and is directed by Shawn Seet, produced by Matthew Street and Michael Boughen, and written by Justin Monjo. Leading the cast are Jai Courtney, newcomer Finn Little and Geoffrey Rush.
Rush plays Mike ‘Storm Boy’ Kingsley, a retired businessman who starts to see things which at first he can’t explain. When his grand-daughter...
Good Deed Entertainment has acquired the North American rights to Ambience Entertainment’s Storm Boy.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, who broke the news, the distributor plans to release it during the American springtime, with the deal brokered by Kathy Morgan International.
In Australia, Sony Pictures Releasing will launch the film during the summer school holidays on January 17.
Studiocanal previously held the rights to the film locally, but Sony swooped on it after the deal did not pan out.
Shot in South Australia, Storm Boy is based on the classic novel by Colin Thiele, and is directed by Shawn Seet, produced by Matthew Street and Michael Boughen, and written by Justin Monjo. Leading the cast are Jai Courtney, newcomer Finn Little and Geoffrey Rush.
Rush plays Mike ‘Storm Boy’ Kingsley, a retired businessman who starts to see things which at first he can’t explain. When his grand-daughter...
- 12/14/2018
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Good Deed Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Storm Boy.
The film stars Jai Courtney (Suicide Squad, Divergent), Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush and Finn Little, who makes his feature film debut.
Based on the best-selling novel by Colin Thiele, the story centers on Michael Kingley as he attempts to prevent his rebellious granddaughter from going down a painful path, similar to one he took years earlier. He tells her about his formative experience, living a lonely existence with his father, Hideaway Tom, on the isolated Coorong in South Australia and the unlikely bond he formed with an orphaned pelican, Mr. Percival....
The film stars Jai Courtney (Suicide Squad, Divergent), Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush and Finn Little, who makes his feature film debut.
Based on the best-selling novel by Colin Thiele, the story centers on Michael Kingley as he attempts to prevent his rebellious granddaughter from going down a painful path, similar to one he took years earlier. He tells her about his formative experience, living a lonely existence with his father, Hideaway Tom, on the isolated Coorong in South Australia and the unlikely bond he formed with an orphaned pelican, Mr. Percival....
- 12/11/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Good Deed Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Storm Boy.
The film stars Jai Courtney (Suicide Squad, Divergent), Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush and Finn Little, who makes his feature film debut.
Based on the best-selling novel by Colin Thiele, the story centers on Michael Kingley as he attempts to prevent his rebellious granddaughter from going down a painful path, similar to one he took years earlier. He tells her about his formative experience, living a lonely existence with his father, Hideaway Tom, on the isolated Coorong in South Australia and the unlikely bond he formed with an orphaned pelican, Mr. Percival....
The film stars Jai Courtney (Suicide Squad, Divergent), Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush and Finn Little, who makes his feature film debut.
Based on the best-selling novel by Colin Thiele, the story centers on Michael Kingley as he attempts to prevent his rebellious granddaughter from going down a painful path, similar to one he took years earlier. He tells her about his formative experience, living a lonely existence with his father, Hideaway Tom, on the isolated Coorong in South Australia and the unlikely bond he formed with an orphaned pelican, Mr. Percival....
- 12/11/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The first trailer for children’s adaptation Storm Boy has been released by Sony Pictures Releasing Australia.
Adapted from Colin Thiele’s acclaimed 1966 children’s novel, the film is a timeless story of an unusual and unconditional friendship. The story follows a young boy growing up on the beautiful but uninhabited coastline of Southern Australia who unexpectedly rescues and then raises three orphaned pelicans. When he forms a close bond with them, he finds himself at odds with his fisherman father and his life takes a new and unexpected turn.
Directed by Shawn Seet, it stars Geoffrey Rush, Jai Courtney, Trevor Jamieson, Morgana Davies and introducing Finn Little as ‘Storm Boy’.
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The film currently has an Australian release of January 10 2019.
Storm Boy Official Synopsis
‘Storm Boy’ has grown up to be Michael Kingley, a successful retired businessman and grandfather.
Adapted from Colin Thiele’s acclaimed 1966 children’s novel, the film is a timeless story of an unusual and unconditional friendship. The story follows a young boy growing up on the beautiful but uninhabited coastline of Southern Australia who unexpectedly rescues and then raises three orphaned pelicans. When he forms a close bond with them, he finds himself at odds with his fisherman father and his life takes a new and unexpected turn.
Directed by Shawn Seet, it stars Geoffrey Rush, Jai Courtney, Trevor Jamieson, Morgana Davies and introducing Finn Little as ‘Storm Boy’.
Also in trailers – Danny McBride turns kidnapper in trailer for Arizona
The film currently has an Australian release of January 10 2019.
Storm Boy Official Synopsis
‘Storm Boy’ has grown up to be Michael Kingley, a successful retired businessman and grandfather.
- 8/16/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"Sometimes you've gotta do what you know is right, even if they're gonna hate you for it." Sony Pictures Australia has debuted the first full trailer for Storm Boy, a "beautiful and contemporary retelling of Colin Thiele’s classic Australian tale." The story is about a boy who grew up on uninhabited coastline of Southern Australia, where he rescues and raises an orphaned pelican, named Mr. Percival. This is yet another one of those stories told from adulthood looking back at childhood. "Their remarkable adventures and very special bond has a profound effect on all their lives." Starring Geoffrey Rush, Jai Courtney, Trevor Jamieson, Morgana Davies, and introducing Finn Little as "Storm Boy". This tale was adapted once before into a film in 1976, but I don't think it connected with many audiences outside of Australia. Now we have another cinematic take on this and it looks like an inspiring, heartwarming...
- 8/15/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has come on board “Storm Boy,” a multi-generational Australian drama starring Geoffrey Rush and Jai Courtney (“Suicide Squad”). The company replaces previously attached Studiocanal as the distributor in the film’s home territory.
The company has acquired Australia and New Zealand rights only, Sony told Variety. Local media report a theatrical release set for Jan. 10, 2019.
The film is a contemporary re-telling of a 1976 Australian family classic described as a “heartwarming tale about unusual friendship and unconditional love.” It is based on a 1964 novel by Australian author Colin Thiele.
Rush, who won an Academy Award as best actor for his role in 1996’s “Shine” and has been nominated three more times, plays the adult version of the protagonist, who recounts his childhood adventures to his troubled teenage granddaughter in an effort to stop her making the same mistakes he made. Courtney plays the younger version of the protagonist’s protective father,...
The company has acquired Australia and New Zealand rights only, Sony told Variety. Local media report a theatrical release set for Jan. 10, 2019.
The film is a contemporary re-telling of a 1976 Australian family classic described as a “heartwarming tale about unusual friendship and unconditional love.” It is based on a 1964 novel by Australian author Colin Thiele.
Rush, who won an Academy Award as best actor for his role in 1996’s “Shine” and has been nominated three more times, plays the adult version of the protagonist, who recounts his childhood adventures to his troubled teenage granddaughter in an effort to stop her making the same mistakes he made. Courtney plays the younger version of the protagonist’s protective father,...
- 6/5/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: KMI to sell international rights to family film remake.
Geoffrey Rush and Jai Courtney will star in Ambience Entertainment’s family drama Storm Boy, which Kathy Morgan of Kmi will introduce to buyers on the Croisette.
Production is scheduled to begin in July in South Australia on the contemporary remake of the 1976 film of the same name based on the novel by Colin Thiele.
Rush will play Mike ‘Storm Boy’ Kingley, who recounts his childhood escapades to his troubled teenage granddaughter in the hopes of stopping her from making the same mistakes he did.
Courtney stars in an earlier segment of the story as Hideaway Tom, the protective father to a young boy who following the death of his wife and daughter relocates with his child to a remote coastline.
Shawn Seet will direct Storm Boy from Justin Monjo’s screenplay using cutting-edge CGI technology, 3D animation and live footage.
Ambience Entertainment’s [link...
Geoffrey Rush and Jai Courtney will star in Ambience Entertainment’s family drama Storm Boy, which Kathy Morgan of Kmi will introduce to buyers on the Croisette.
Production is scheduled to begin in July in South Australia on the contemporary remake of the 1976 film of the same name based on the novel by Colin Thiele.
Rush will play Mike ‘Storm Boy’ Kingley, who recounts his childhood escapades to his troubled teenage granddaughter in the hopes of stopping her from making the same mistakes he did.
Courtney stars in an earlier segment of the story as Hideaway Tom, the protective father to a young boy who following the death of his wife and daughter relocates with his child to a remote coastline.
Shawn Seet will direct Storm Boy from Justin Monjo’s screenplay using cutting-edge CGI technology, 3D animation and live footage.
Ambience Entertainment’s [link...
- 5/11/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Margaret Pomeranz and Michael Loebenstein join Guardian Australia film critic Luke Buckmaster to talk about New Wave Australian films and whether 2015 is the biggest year in Australian film yet
Storm Boy rewatched – heartfelt portrait of a boy and his pelican Book your tickets for screening here
When Storm Boy was released in 1976, the film was an instant hit. Australian audiences rushed to see the film adaptation of Colin Thiele’s novel, about a motherless boy, his recluse father, his secret friend Fingerbone Bill and a pelican named Mr Percival .
Storm Boy went on to take $3m at the Australian box office (equivalent to more than $17.5m in 2015), was shown at Cannes film festival and took home an AFI for best film.
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Storm Boy rewatched – heartfelt portrait of a boy and his pelican Book your tickets for screening here
When Storm Boy was released in 1976, the film was an instant hit. Australian audiences rushed to see the film adaptation of Colin Thiele’s novel, about a motherless boy, his recluse father, his secret friend Fingerbone Bill and a pelican named Mr Percival .
Storm Boy went on to take $3m at the Australian box office (equivalent to more than $17.5m in 2015), was shown at Cannes film festival and took home an AFI for best film.
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- 10/18/2015
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
Australia’s answer to Free Willy and E.T. emotively celebrates an unconventional friendship – minus the super serve of cheese
Films about the relationship between children and their pets often embody one of the most powerful themes in coming of age stories: the idea of loving something and learning to let it go.
Movies such as Free Willy and E.T. distill that theme into actual visual moments – the whale jumps over the rocks, the alien flies off with the mothership – while others, like director Henri Safran’s 1976 heart-tugger Storm Boy (based on author Colin Thiele’s children’s book) avoid postcard moments in favour of richer and more subtle gestures.
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Films about the relationship between children and their pets often embody one of the most powerful themes in coming of age stories: the idea of loving something and learning to let it go.
Movies such as Free Willy and E.T. distill that theme into actual visual moments – the whale jumps over the rocks, the alien flies off with the mothership – while others, like director Henri Safran’s 1976 heart-tugger Storm Boy (based on author Colin Thiele’s children’s book) avoid postcard moments in favour of richer and more subtle gestures.
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- 11/21/2014
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
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