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Filmmaker Noah Baumbach and the cast of his delightfully eccentric Don DeLillo adaptation White Noise met the international press in Venice Wednesday just hours ahead of the film’s festival-opening world premiere.

White Noise centers on university professor Jack Gladney (Driver) and his wife, Babette (Gerwig), as they grapple with fears of death and family life after a nearby chemical explosion pollutes the air. Raffey Cassidy, André Benjamin, Jodie Turner-Smith and Don Cheadle also star. The film, which Baumbach wrote, is the first project he has released that wasn’t based on his own original idea.

In the press conference, Baumbach reflected on the poignancy of the novel’s story and DeLillo’s language, which he said he by chance he was re-reading at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“I both couldn’t believe how relevant it felt and how relevant it felt to the moment,...

Vampire film In The Blood is set to shoot in late 2017 after receiving production funding from Screen Australia and the South Australian Film Corporation.

Produced by Trevor Blainey (Noise, Cut Snake) and written by Nigel Karikari, the film will tell the story of Selina, a vampire who returns to a remote farmstead to destroy the last vestiges of her humanity.—.her long abandoned son..

Victoria Cocks, who wrote and directed web series Wastelander Panda, will make her feature directing debut.

.Genre is what I love and what I feel most passionate about as a director," she said. "Finding a script that is able to combine that with both a great dramatic premise and great characters you genuinely care about in equal measure is something I will never say no to taking on."

Screen Australia.s CEO Graeme Mason called Cocks and Karikari "exciting new talents" and said the feature could...

La-based Australian actor says Hollywood decision makers are mostly business graduates that ‘crunch numbers’ rather than make sound artistic choices

Book now for Guardian Australia’s screening of A Month of Sundays, on 27 April

In Anthony Lapaglia’s new film A Month of Sundays, the latest work from Noise and Felony director Matthew Saville, the 57-year-old actor plays a grumpy Eeyore-like housing broker who walks around in a permanent funk. His character, Frank Mollard, is dour and reserved; a man of few words.

This is in stark contrast to the person who plays him; when we speak, he is at a Bondi hotel having landed just a few hours ago on a flight from La. Lapaglia is loquacious and engaging, rattling through topics with the kind of straight-shooting, borderline brazen sincerity often associated with beer-infused pub banter (it’s mid-afternoon and we’re drinking coffee).

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La-based Australian actor says Hollywood decision makers are mostly business graduates that ‘crunch numbers’ rather than make sound artistic choices

Book now for Guardian Australia’s screening of A Month of Sundays, on 27 April

In Anthony Lapaglia’s new film A Month of Sundays, the latest work from Noise and Felony director Matthew Saville, the 57-year-old actor plays a grumpy Eeyore-like housing broker who walks around in a permanent funk. His character, Frank Mollard, is dour and reserved; a man of few words.

This is in stark contrast to the person who plays him; when we speak, he is at a Bondi hotel having landed just a few hours ago on a flight from La. Lapaglia is loquacious and engaging, rattling through topics with the kind of straight-shooting, borderline brazen sincerity often associated with beer-infused pub banter (it’s mid-afternoon and we’re drinking coffee).

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First-time director Grant Scicluna has mined the depths of darkness in his new feature,.Downriver.

The film was inspired by a question over a few drinks with a friend.

Scicluna was aiming for the most explosive beginning he could find.

.I went home and had drinks with a friend and we were talking about things and stories and trying to find the most dramatic explosive type of set and we inevitably stumbled upon murder, and then the murder of the child at the hands of another child seemed the most explosive place to start a story,. Scicluna said..

.I started developing it from there and it took a long time. We have been writing it for over seven or eight years, so it has changed a lot since then. That.s really where it began, that.s where ideas often do just out of a conversation and a question. .

Despite the darkness of the film,...

Justine Clarke, Anthony Lapaglia and Matthew Saville on-set.

Palace Cinemas will host actor Anthony Lapaglia and director Matthew Saville for preview screenings of their new film, A Month of Sundays, at Palace Norton Street in Sydney (April 19) and Palace Cinema Como (April 21) in Melbourne.

Screenings will be followed by a Q&A with the pair.

Lapaglia plays Frank Mollard, a divorced Adelaide real-estate agent with a teenage son who strikes up a friendship with an elderly stranger, played by Julia Blake.

This is Saville's third film after Noise and Felony. The filmmaker also has a long resume on TV, including Graham Kennedy TV movie The King, The Secret Life of Us, We Can Be Heroes and Please Like Me..

Tickets for the preview screenings can be purchased here.

The launches of Matt Saville.s A Month of Sundays and Simon Stone.s The Daughter at international film festivals are paying off with critical acclaim for both.

Saville.s dramedy, which stars Anthony Lapaglia as a real estate agent whose life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a call from his dead mother, sending him on a journey of redemption, premiered in the contemporary world cinema section of the Toronto International Film Festival.

Stone.s re-imagining of Ibsen.s The Wild Duck, which features Geoffrey Rush, Sam Neill, Ewen Leslie, Paul Schneider, Anna Torv, Miranda Otto and newcomer Odessa Young, which had its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival,. screened at the Venice Film Festival.s Venice Days followed by its North American premiere at Tiff.s special presentations sidebar.

The Hollywood Reporter.s Jordan Mintzer hailed A Month of Sundays as a .modest, warm hearted character...

The 59Th BFI London Film Festival Announces Full 2015 Programme

You can peruse the programme at your leisure here.

The programme for the 59th BFI London Film Festival in partnership launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. BFI London Film Festival is Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals. It introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience. The Festival provides an essential platform for films seeking global success; and promotes the careers of British and international filmmakers through its industry and awards programmes. With this year’s industry programme stronger than ever, offering international filmmakers and leaders a programme of insightful events covering every area of the film industry‎ Lff positions London as the world’s leading creative city.

The Festival will screen a...

Matthew Saville.s A Month of Sundays and Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin will screen in the Contemporary World Cinema program at next month.s Toronto International Film Festival.

It will be the world premiere for Saville.s comedy-drama which stars Anthony Lapaglia as real estate agent Frank Mollard, who is divorced but still attached, can't connect with his teenage son or sell houses in a property boom. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother, who died a year ago. John Clarke, Justine Clarke and Julia Blake round out the cast.

Produced by Madman.s Nick Batzias, Saville and Kirsty Stark, the film deals with parents, children, regrets, mourning, joy, houses, homes, love, work, television, Shakespeare and jazz fusion. Madman has yet to set a release date.

The Toronto launch steals a march on the Adelaide Film Festival (October 15-25), which had announced A Month of Sundays as a world premiere.

DoP Mark Wareham with Matthew Saville with Anthony Lapaglia.

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On paper the shooting schedule sounded logistically daunting: 20 days for a feature film starring Anthony Lapaglia, Justine Clarke, Julia Blake and John Clarke.

As it turned out, filming comedic drama A Month of Sundays in Adelaide proved relatively easy, much to the surprise of writer-director Matthew Saville.

.Thanks to the cast, crew and logistic simplicity of shooting in Adelaide, it all went very smoothly,. Saville tells If during a break from the editing suite.

Produced by Madman Production Company.s Nick Batzias and Kirsty Stark, the film stars Lapaglia as Frank Mollard, a real estate agent whose life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a call from his dead mother, sending him on a journey of redemption.

Justine Clarke plays Frank.s estranged wife, with John Clarke as his boss/friend and Blake as the woman at the heart of a life-changing new relationship.

Madman.s Nick Batzias and writer-director Matthew Saville have been keen to work together again since Madman released Saville.s 2003 telemovie Roy Hollsdotter Live and his 2007 crime thriller Noise.

After years of development they.ll start shooting A Month of Sundays, a comedic relationships drama starring Anthony Lapaglia, Justine Clarke, Julia Blake and John Clarke, in Adelaide on January 12.

Lapaglia plays Frank Mollard, a real estate agent whose life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a call from his dead mother, sending him on a journey of redemption. Justine is his estranged wife, with John Clarke as his boss/friend and Blake as the woman at the heart of a life-changing new relationship. Indiana Crowther plays Frank.s teenage son.

Saville, whose last feature was Felony, wrote the screenplay, inspired by his family.s experiences. It.s the first narrative feature from Madman Production Company, produced by Batzias and Kirsty Stark,...

Patch of Blue: Saville’s Sophomore Film Lost in Endless Ellipses

For his first film since his 2007 feature debut Noise, Australian director Matthew Saville returns with Felony, which seems to be a labor of love for Joel Edgerton, who besides starring in the film also wrote and produced. Presenting us with a complicated moral conundrum, an intriguing introduction and sly triangle of dueling intentions garners some tension, but the film overstays its reach by the third act, which feels like a repetitive extension of the perspectives at hand. Hardly the banal cop drama its oblique title would imply, Saville’s film still lacks a certain finesse that would make this scenario have some sort of lasting impression.

Policeman Mal Toohey (Edgerton) parties a bit too hard one night after a significant raid on a drug lab, a bust that endangered his life. Driving home, he’s about five blocks away...

Screen Australia today announced investment of nearly. $965,000 for three films and a feature documentary, estimated to generate more than $6.8 million of production.

Fiona Cameron, Screen Australia.s chief operating officer, said, .This round we have backed a diverse collection of projects that promises audiences an amusing, informative and imaginative experience with innovative narratives and vivid characters..

Funding was allocated to Madman Productions for the feature A Month of Sundays from writer/director Matthew Saville (Felony, Noise, The Slap, Cloudstreet) and producers Nick Batzias and Kirsty Stark.

The film follows real estate agent Frank Mollard (played by Anthony Lapaglia), whose life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a call from his dead mother, sending him on a journey of redemption.

WildBear Entertainment will receive completion funding for Electric Boogaloo: The Wild Untold Story of Cannon Films, Mark Hartley's doco about movie-obsessed immigrant cousins, Yoram Globus and the late Menahem Golan,...

A bunch of new trailers have landed over the past day or so for all sorts of upcoming smaller films, but with a lot of them starring big names. The most high-profile would be "The Judge" which sees Robert Downey Jr. returning to drama for the story of a slick city lawyer who returns to his hometown after his mother's death and ends up having to defend his estranged father from being convicted for her apparent murder.

Tom Hardy stars in "The Drop" as a Brooklyn bartender who gets caught up in a robbery investigation that digs deep into his neighborhood's past. Noomi Rapace, James Frecheville and Matthias Schoenaerts also star, as does the late James Gandolfini in his final performance.

Following the acclaimed "Keep The Lights On," filmmaker Ira Sachs explores love of an older kind in "Love is Strange". John Lithgow and Alfred Molina star as a couple...

Sullivan Stapleton and Alex Russell will play ex-cons in Cut Snake, Matchbox Pictures. crime thriller directed by Tony Ayres, which shoots in Melbourne in late October.

Also attached is Jessica De Gouw, a fast-rising Aussie actress who stars in TV's. Arrow and the upcoming series Dracula, which features Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the vampire who.s brought back to life and poses as an American entrepreneur.

The producers are Trevor Blainey (Noise) and Matchbox Pictures. Michael McMahon (The Home Song Stories, Lou, The Slap).

Written by Blake Ayshford (The Time of Our Lives, The Straits), Cut Snake is described as a tense, psychologically-driven crime thriller in which one man discovers his biggest enemy to putting the past behind him is himself.

It marks a return to the big screen for Ayres who directed a segment of Tim Winton.s The Turning,. episodes of The Slap, executive-produced Underground: The Julian Assange Story...

Joel Edgerton, Jai Courtney, Tom Wilkinson and Melissa George have begun filming Felony in Sydney, a crime and corruption thriller set inside the Australian police force - which was also written by Edgerton.Matthew Saville directs the feature which makes this the second cop thriller in his oeuvre, after 2007's brilliant Noise. Felony is about a decorated Australian cop (Edgerton) who runs a cyclist off the road after drinking with his buddies to celebrate a major gang bust. His split-second decision to lie about the incident changes everyone's lives forever. Tom Wilkinson plays the lead investigator who arrives first on the scene and Courtney will play a fresh-faced police detective who suspects Edgerton's character is lying and gradually builds a criminal case against him. Felony will be distributed...

Cameras have begun rolling on Felony, the new film written by Joel Edgerton and directed by Matthew Saville, director of Noise and Cloudstreet.

Filming began yesterday in Sydney with key cast; Edgerton, Tom Wilkinson, Melissa George and Jai Courtney and will continue until late December.

The film is produced by Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight, Edgerton for Blue-Tongue Films and Michael Benaroya for Benaroya Pictures.

The story follows three detectives who are faced with a tense struggle following a tragic accident that sees one detective put a child in hospital. One cop is guilty, one will try to cover it up while the third will attempt to expose it.

As well as Edgerton’s success as an actor, he previously co-wrote The Square, directed by brother Nash Edgerton, among other shorts.

Blight said: “With director Matt Saville and my producer partners Joel and Michael, we’ve assembled a stunning international cast...

The upcoming Aussie thriller Felony has already established a very strong male cast, with Joel Edgerton, Tom Wilkinson and Jai Courtney already on-board to star in the police thriller, but now it's ready to add some of the fairer sex into the mix. New reports say that Aussie actress Melissa George is the latest actor to sign on for the picture. The Wrap first reported the casting news. The film tells the story of a police officer who works to hide the fact that he was responsible for an incident that left a child in a coma. Matthew Saville, who wrote and directed the 2007 thriller Noise, is helming the project based on an original script written by Edgerton (the star also wrote The Square in 2008). Edgerton will play the cop who runs the kid off the road while driving home drunk after a gang bust celebration. Wilkinson will play the...

Jai Courtney is going from kicking ass alongside John McClane to finding out if Joel Edgerton has broken the law. New reports say that Courtney has signed on for the co-starring role in Felony, a new Australian drama that is set to be directed by Matthew Saville based on a script that Edgerton wrote. The story, according to Deadline, is about a long time police officer (Edgerton) who runs a cyclist off the road while driving home drunk from a gang bust celebration and lies about it. The trade site says that Courtney will play a "fresh-faced police detective" who suspects that Edgerton is hiding a secret and begins an investigation. This will be the first feature for Saville since he directed the 2007 thriller Noise, but he has been keeping busy on the small screen directing mini-series and episodes of Australian television shows such as Please Like Me, The Slap,...

Felony is shaping into one of the most exciting police thrillers on the horizon. Written by Joel Edgerton and to be directed by Matt Saville (who has already proven himself with his debut film, Noise, another amazing police thriller - seriously, track it down), Felony is about decorated Australian cop (Edgerton) who runs a cyclist off the road after drinking with his buddies to celebrate a major gang bust. His split-second decision to lie about the incident changes everyone's lives forever. Tom Wilkinson has already been cast as the lead investigator who arrives first on the scene. According to Deadline, Courtney will play a fresh-faced police detective who suspects Edgerton's character is lying and gradually builds a criminal case against him. Courtney has had a busy few years. He's...

• Christoph Waltz better get used to people wanting to touch his head: The Oscar winner has signed up to play former Soviet Union chairman Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, about the historic 1986 nuclear arms summit between Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan (Michael Douglas). Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) is directing from a script by Kevin Hood (Becoming Jane). [Deadline]

• Jim Carrey is in talks to headline Loomis Fargo, a comedy about the real-life robbery of $17.3 million from a Loomis Fargo armed truck. Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) will direct, with Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn (MacGruber, Baby Mama) producing.

Aussie rising thesp, Jai Courtney, best known for his role as Varro in Starz drama series ‘Spartacus: Blood and Sand,’ has joined his fellow countryman Joel Edgerton in psychological thriller Felony.

Most recently, Courtney nabbed the coveted role of NYPD Detective John McClain’s estranged son in the next Die Hard film, A Good Day To Die Hard, so he’ll be no doubt back on the beat for Felony.

Tom Wilkinson is also part of the cast as he committed to play Detective Carl Summer, the lead investigator.

Matthew Seville (Noise) is directing the film scribed by multi-hyphenate Edgerton, this month in Sydney.

A Rashomon-style cop drama centers on a celebrated police officer (Edgerton) who follows a drunken night of celebrating a big gang bust with an ill-advised drive home that will change his life forever. After accidentally running a boy on a bicycle off the road, he’s...

How do you make a true life story about litigation against a big cement manufacturer appealing to general audiences? You cast the hell out of it. This is exactly what the makers of Devil's Dust, the story of the James Hardie asbestos scandal and court case have done, and the results look superb. Anthony Hayes (The Square) leads the cast as Bernie Banton, the campaigner who became the public face of the political and legal campaign to achieve compensation for the sufferers of asbestos-related conditions, which they contracted after working for the company James Hardie. Other lead cast include Dony Hany (Rake, Lucky Miles), Daniel Henshall (Snowtown, These Final Hours), Ewen Leslie (Mabo, Dead Europe), Mirrah Foulkes (Animal Kingdom), Henry Nixon (Noise), David Roberts (The Square), Alexandra Schepisi (The Eye of the Storm) and the always-great character actor Alan...

Not only is Joel Edgerton a burgeoning star who looks like he’s on the brink of big things in the acting world, he’s also a creative type who’s been writing scripts and directing shorts for a while. So it should come as no surprise that the upcoming thriller, Felony, has his name on its credits as both the writer and the star. As we learned back in May, Felony is being directed by Matthew Saville (Noise) and will star Edgerton as a generally good officer of the law who makes a big mistake followed by a big moral compromise when his driving home drunk leads to an accident and then his lying about it. As it does in most thrillers, one decision bereft of morality inevitably leads to a downward spiral of very bad things. Seeing as the film is set to go in front of cameras in late October, the...

Joe

Nicolas Cage is set to star in the David Gordon Green-directed gritty Southern drama "Joe" at Worldview Entertainment. Gary Hawkins is adapting from Larry Brown's novel.

Set in small town Mississippi, the story follows an ex-con who becomes the unlikeliest of role models to the fifteen-year-old eldest son of a homeless family ruled by an alcoholic father. Together they try to find a path to redemption. [Source: THR]

Felony

Tom Wilkinson will join Joel Edgerton in the thriller "Felony" at The Solution Entertainment Group. Matthew Saville ("Noise") will direct from a script by Edgerton who is also producing with Rosemary Blight.

Edgerton plays a decorated cop who, somewhat drunk on a drive home, runs a cyclist off the road and lies about it. Wilkinson will play the lead investigator who arrives on the scene and investigates the accident. [Source: Deadline]

Horns

Juno Temple, Joe Anderson and Kelli Garner are in talks to join...

According to a press release two-time Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson has been set to star in the thriller Felony opposite the previously cast male lead Joel Edgerton.

Edgerton wrote a script and is also producing via his Blue-Tongue Films banner, while Matthew Saville (Noise) is directing.

Driving home after a celebration drink with his team after cracking the infamous gang bangers, a decorated cop (Edgerton) runs a young cyclist off the road, gives CPR to the child and then is caught up in an increasingly convoluted web of deceit after he lies about what happened in the accident.

Wilkinson will play a crime scene investigator Carl Summer, who arrives at the accident site and make an assessment. Exec producer Lisa Wilson said:

‘Tom Wilkinson is one of the most versatile actors around who inhabits every character he plays with an incredible energy and credibility.’

Wilkinson who will soon be seen...

Felony is shaping up to be one of the most exciting police thrillers of 2013. A Rashomon-style story set within the Australian police force, Felony was written by actor Joel Edgerton (also playing the lead) and will be directed by Matthew Saville who delivered big-time with sonic crime thriller Noise. Here's the lowdown: Driving home after a celebration drink with his team after cracking a major gang, a decorated cop runs a cyclist off the road and lies about it.Now comes news that British actor Tom Wilkinson, coming off one of the best performances of his career in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, will also be in the film, cast in the pivotal role of the lead investigator who arrives first on the scene. Felony is set to start shooting in...

Felony is shaping up to be one of the most exciting police thrillers of 2013. A Rashomon-style story set within the Australian police force, Felony was written by actor Joel Edgerton (also playing the lead) and will be directed by Matthew Saville who delivered big-time with sonic crime thriller Noise. Here's the lowdown: Driving home after a celebration drink with his team after cracking a major gang, a decorated cop runs a cyclist off the road and lies about it.Now comes news that British actor Tom Wilkinson, coming off one of the best performances of his career in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, will also be in the film, cast in the pivotal role of the lead investigator who arrives first on the scene. Felony is set to start shooting in...

Two-time Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson (upcoming The Lone Ranger, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Michael Clayton) joins the thriller Felony opposite the previously cast male lead Joel Edgerton (upcoming Zero Dark Thirty, The Great Gatsby), it was announced by The Solution Entertainment Group.s (.The Solution.) founders and partners, Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel, and producers Rosemary Blight of Goalpost Pictures Australia and Edgerton for Blue-Tongue Films.

The feature film, set to start lensing in late October, will be directed by Matthew Saville (Noise) from a script by Edgerton.

The Solution arranged the financing for the film, with Wilson and Nestel serving as executive producers. The company is representing the international rights to the film and is actively selling the title at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival.

Felony will be distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Roadshow Films. CAA is handling Us rights.

Driving home after a celebration...

Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson is joining Joel Edgerton in the upcoming crime thriller "Felony." The film centers on a police officer (Edgerton) who accidentally runs a young cyclist off the road, and then finds himself in an increasingly complex web of deceit after he lies about what transpired in the accident. Wilkinson will play Detective Carl Summer, the lead investigator of the case. Edgerton also wrote the screenplay, while Matthew Saville ("Noise") is directing. The film will start shooting in late October. The Solution Entertainment Group’s Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel will produced along with Rosemary Blight of Goalpost Pictures Australia...

The Solution Entertainment Group is currently offering a handful of projects at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival, one of the more promising of which is Felony, a Joel Edgerton-scripted thriller to be directed by Matthew Saville. Edgerton is also set to star in the film, as a highly respected police officer who collides his way into a moral dilemma. And we’ve just gotten word, via press release, that Tom Wilkinson has signed on to join the project.

Lately, it’s been a quiet time for Wilkinson, save for the fact that he was the best part of the otherwise lackluster Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. But his assignment here — Detective Carl Summer, the investigating officer of a driving accident that Edgerton‘s character is very intimately involved with — sounds like it could ignite those aggressive, on-edge sparks we’ve been craving. (It’s been a whole two-and-a-half-years since...

Tom Wilkinson has been set to star in Felony, joining Joel Edgerton in the thriller from The Solution Entertainment Group. Noise helmer Matthew Saville will direct Edgerton’s script. Solution partners Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel are funding and will be exec producers. Rosemary Blight and Edgerton are producing. Project is being shopped by CAA here at Toronto. Driving home after a celebration drink with his team after cracking a major gang, a decorated cop (Edgerton) runs a cyclist off the road and lies about it. Wilkinson, who just got set for Belle, will play the lead investigator who arrives on the scene and investigates the accident. “Tom Wilkinson is one of the most versatile actors around who inhabits every character he plays with an incredible energy and credibility,” said Wilson. Wilkinson is coming off The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. He’s repped by Principal Entertainment and Lou Colson. Related:...

Two-time Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson (upcoming The Lone Ranger , The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , Michael Clayton ) has joined the thriller Felony opposite the previously cast male lead Joel Edgerton, it was announced by The Solution Entertainment Group's ("The Solution") founders and partners, Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel, and producers Rosemary Blight of Goalpost Pictures Australia and Edgerton for Blue-Tongue Films. The feature film, set to start lensing in late October, will be directed by Matthew Saville ( Noise ) from a script by Edgerton. The Solution arranged the financing for the film, with Wilson and Nestel serving as executive producers. The company is representing the international rights to the film and is actively selling the title at the ongoing...

This article originally appeared in If Magazine #147 (June-July 2012).

Director Matthew Saville has three features in development: Dark Victory, an adaptation of David Marr and Marian Wilkinson.s book of the same name about the Tampa crisis; Felony, an original thriller written by and to star Joel Edgerton; and Month of Sundays, a comedy about real estate.

If Magazine asked Saville about his plans after he won two Australian Directors. Guild Awards: for the mini-series cloudstreet and for Harry.s episode in The Slap in the category for drama series.

He only answered in terms of features . later suggesting that perhaps he only has the stamina to get to 100 pages . but made it very clear how important television is to him.

.TV has a faster turnaround and gives you the opportunity to have an output, rather than be in development forever,. he said. .It is important for directors to stay match-fit...

We’ve previously written on Criminal Complex about how much we all want to hang out with Robert Pattinson and do human being things, like show each other how to put on cummerbunds and churn butter and stuff.

He’s continuing his hot-streak following one of my most eagerly awaited films, Cosmopolis, and his signing on for so many fantastic sounding crime flicks. And he’s got the clout to get these suckas made, too, which helps.

Now, we’ve previously mentioned The Rover, but it looks like this David Michôd flick is finally green-lit (which means the cops have okayed it to be stabbed in prison) and will start going into production, according to THR. Screen Australia will provide funding for the ‘futuristic western,’ set to star Guy Pierce (star of L.A. Confidential, my dreams) and the aforementioned Pattinson. If that isn’t enough to get you psyched for this one,...

Screen Australia will invest almost $20 million across 12 screen projects including futuristic Western The Rover, starring Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce.

The film is the latest collaboration between producer Liz Watts and writer-director David Michôd, following the success of their crime-thriller Animal Kingdom in 2010. FilmNation Entertainment acquired the majority of worldwide rights to The Rover at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year while Village Roadshow will distribute the film in Australia.

Screen Australia has also backed three other feature films: drama Felony, written by Joel Edgerton and directed by Matthew Saville (Noise); Healing, a redemptive prison drama starring Don Hany (East West 101) and Hugo Weaving; and Aim High in Creation, a hybrid documentary-drama about the late Kim Jong-il from writer/director Anna Broinowski (Forbidden Lie$).

Screen Australia chief executive Ruth Harley said the four Australian features have huge potential. "The Rover is a powerful, well-crafted script from a talented team with an impressive cast,...

Producer Rosemary Bligh is using the attention she.s getting at Cannes via The Sapphires to spruik Felony, which has Matthew Saville attached.

.We.ve all been waiting for Matt Saville.s follow up film, since Noise,. Bligh told If Magazine. .He is one of Australia.s exceptional directing talents and has, over recent years, delivered to audiences some of the best television that Australia has seen..

Joel Edgerton is also involved in Felony in more ways than one: .It.s an exciting project with a great creative team, including my fellow producer, writer and star Joel Edgerton..

Felony is about a police officer who knocks a young cyclist off his bike and lies about the incident.

Solution Entertainment Group is handling international sales to the thriller, although CAA has Us rights and Roadshow will distribute locally.

The executive producers on the Goalpost Pictures Australia project are Solution principals Myles Nestel and Lisa Wilson,...

Joel Edgerton is set to write, star in and produce Felony, a new thriller to be directed by Matthew Saville (who helmed the 2007 local thriller, Noise, and whose recent work on the television series, The Slap and Cloudstreet garnered him a swag of praise) in October this year.   Being produced by The Solution Entertainment Group and Goalpost Pictures Australia, the film traces a decorated police offer whose life is irrevocably shaken and changed when he runs a young cyclist off the road after driving home from a celebration drink with his fellow officers.

The Square (2008) was one of the top crime films to come out in the last few years, according to this Criminal Complex uber-fan. Written by Joel Edgerton and directed by his brother, Nash, the film was a delicious blend of slow-burn noir and tension, carried by a weird kind of “emotional realism” (as the Edgerton brothers and their Blue Tongue Films brethren refer to it).

Aside from being my hero, and occasionally being in cafés that I’m in (where I have to pretend to be cool and that I totally don’t care that he’s there) Joel Edgerton has kept his hot streak going, starring in Animal Kingdom (easily one of the top films of the decade). I’ve been waiting since the The Square came out for Edgerton to write another crime flick, and it seems like my secret diary entries have finally been answered (I knew you were reading them,...

Felony

"Warrior" and "The Thing" actor Joel Edgerton will both pen and star in "Noise" filmmaker Matthew Saville's new thriller "Felony".

Edgerton plays a decorated police officer who is involved in a hit-and-run with a young cyclist. Lying about the accident leads only to far worse consequences. [Source: The Herald Sun]

Coming Together

"New Girl" star Max Greenfield has joined Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler in David Wain's rom-com "They Came Together".

Greenfield will play the wayward couch surfing younger brother of Rudd’s character. Wain wrote the script with his "Wet Hot American Summer" co-scribe Michael Showalter. [Source: Yahoo Movies]

Mary Pickford

Lily Rabe ("All Good Things," "American Horror Story") will play silent actress and key film industry pioneer Mary Pickford in the untitled upcoming movie based on Eileen Whitfield’s biography at Poverty Row Entertainment.

Josh Fagin is penning the script with shooting to begin early next year. Producers Julie Pacino and Jennifer DeLia...

• James Badge Dale (HBO’s The Pacific, AMC’s Rubicon) has signed onto Iron Man 3 to play villain Eric Savin, who in Marvel Comics lore becomes a cyborg called Coldblood. Apparently, killer cyborgs aren’t subtle. [Deadline]

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Following the success of The Sapphires at Cannes, production company Goalpost Pictures has secured a new film written by a prominent Australian actor/writer and directed by an award-winning Australian director.

Felony is written by, and set to star Joel Edgerton. The film will be directed by Matthew Saville.

Executive producing the film will be Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel of The Solution Entertainment Group who will handle international rights to the film at the Cannes Film Market.

Rosemary Blight of Goalpost Pictures said: “Felony is a distinctive project with exceptional creative talent attached, with Joel Edgerton as both actor and writer and Matthew Saville directing. We are thrilled to be working with The Solution on this exciting film.”

A thriller, Felony sees a decorated police officer, played by Edgerton, run a young cyclist off the road in his car after celebratory drinks with his colleagues for busting up a major gang.

Aussie actor Joel Edgerton has been in front of the camera for awhile now. You may remember him as young Uncle Owen in Attack of the Clones, but his big break came in 2010 with David Michod's Aussie crime flick Animal Kingdom. Since then, he's gone on to lead movies like Warrior and The Thing, and now a press release reveals Edgerton will write and star in a police story called Felony. After a celebration with his fellow officers following the bust of a major gang, Edgerton's character accidentally runs a young biker off the road. As other officers arrive on the scene, he tells them a lie that spins the whole story out of control. Matthew Saville (Noise) will direct, but this honestly sounds like the perfect kind of material for Joel's brother Nash to adapt. Nash has had a pretty amazing career as a stuntman and an actor in...

He's firmly on his way to the A-list after the critically acclaimed "Warrior," not to mention his upcoming starring roles in "The Great Gatsby" and Kathryn Bigelow's Bin Laden movie, but Australian actor Joel Edgerton's ambitions don't stop at simply appearing on screen. With his brother Nash and several other filmmakers from back home, he set up collective Blue Tongue Films, who've been behind films like "Animal Kingdom," and he has been active as a writer and even director, penning "The Square" with Nash back in 2008, and making his directorial debut with the short "Monkeys" last year.

And that's only the beginning. The actor sold a John Hughes-esque script called "One Night Stand" to New Regency back at the start of the year, he developed the idea for David Michod's next film, "The Rover," which will star Robert Pattinson, and only yesterday we reported that he was...

Aussie multi-hyphenate Joel Edgerton has a full plate (we will next see him in The Odd Life of Timothy Green, The Great Gatsby, and Zero Dark Thirty orwhateveritiswerecallingitnow), but that’s not stopping him from expanding his resume to continue to include writing and directing ventures. News from Cannes reveals that Edgerton will next star in Felony, a film to be directed by Matthew Saville from Edgerton’s own script. Edgerton previously co-wrote The Square, a nasty little film noir with a big bite, and he’s also penned a number of shorts for Blue-Tongue Films (the Aussie conglomerate that also includes his brother Nash Edgerton, Kieran Darcy-Smith, David Michod, Spencer Susser, and more). Felony will center on Edgerton’s character, a lauded police officer who makes the critical mistake of driving home after imbibing “a celebration drink with his team after the long waited bust of a major gang, [he] runs...

Cannes – Australian actor Joel Edgerton will star in and write thriller Felony for The Solution Entertainment Group and Goalpost Pictures Australia. Matthew Saville (Noise) is aboard to direct the project, with The Solution founders and partners Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel arranging financing. Wilson will debut the film to foreign buyers at the Marche du Film in Cannes, which officially gets underway Thursday. Photos: Cannes 2012: Competition Lineup Features 'Cosmopolis,' 'Moonrise Kingdom,' 'Killing Them Softly' Goalpost’s Rosemary Blight and Edgerton are producing Felony, about a decorated police officer who runs a young cyclist off the road when

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Joel Edgerton ( Warrior , upcoming The Great Gatsby ) is set to star in the new thriller Felony , also written by Edgerton and to be directed by Matthew Saville ( Noise ), it was announced today by The Solution Entertainment Group's founders and partners, Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel, and producers Rosemary Blight of Goalpost Pictures Australia and Joel Edgerton. The Solution has arranged the financing for the film and Wilson and Nestel will executive produce the feature film which starts shooting in late October. The company will handle international rights to the film which Wilson will introduce to buyers at the Cannes Film Market. Roadshow Films will distribute in Australia and New Zealand. CAA is handling the Us rights and introduced the product to The Solution....

If anyone should be aware of the power of cricket to reveal the best and worst sides of human nature, it.s Brendan Cowell.

After all, Cowell wrote (and stars in) the upcoming cricket comedy Save Your Legs! (which was recently filming in India) as well as two episodes of Matchbox Pictures. The Slap, a fictional series exploring a traumatic chain of events ignited when an adult slaps a child during a backyard cricket game.

Although Cowell looks upon both writing experiences fondly, they couldn.t be further apart in terms of tone. Save Your Legs! tells the story of Edward Teddy Brown, who starts a cricket team with his two best mates to embark on a tour of India and recapture his childhood dreams. The story is especially relevant to Cowell, a thirtysomething cricket fan.

.You know the age that I.m in now. most folks are getting married...

Sound re-recording mixer, Doron Kipen, has been appointed the new president of the Australian Screen Sound Guild (Assg). The move follows the resignation of Trevor Harrison, who served in the position for eight years. Kipen's career in sound has spanned across more than twenty five years. In this time, he has received four Assg awards, an AFI and an If Award - for his work on 2007's Noise. His work on this year's surprise hit Mrs Carey's Concert has earned him Aacta nomination for Best Sound in a Documentary. The incoming president will work alongside a new leadership committee, which includes Tony Murtagh (Bait, Happy Feet Two), Nigel Christensen (A Few Best Men), Jenny Ward (cloudstreet), Liam Egan (Here I Am), Will Ward (Burning Man), Rhette Duffy and Peter...

Tim Winton’s much-loved Australian novel Cloudstreet has been adapted for the small screen two decades after

it was first published. Laine Lister visited the West Australian set to document the ride.

When the screen rights to Cloudstreet returned to Australian ownership, Tim Winton devotees celebrated the great coup; the quintessential Australian story was finally coming home.

Years earlier, Hollywood producers had snapped up the Cloudscreet screen rights after hearing of its broad commercial appeal. The novel has been translated into 25 languages and gained literary acclaim through the Miles Franklin and NBC Awards. It has even found its way into the hearts and imaginations of thousands of Aussie kids after it was added to the senior secondary English curricula in many states.

Despite this, the story sat idle in the Us until a holding deal matured. It was then that Australian patriot Des Monahan of Screentime swooped in and brought it home.