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Roadshow Films has continued it push into television production, acquiring a 50 per cent stake in Blink TV.

Headed by Paul Clarke.and based out of Sydney, Blink TV is focused on unscripted production.

Clarke (Spicks and Specks, Whitlam: the Power and the Passion).has been the key creative executive for Sbs' coverage of the.Eurovision Song Contest.since 2009, and led the negotiations for Australia.s involvement and entries into the song comp. The producer has also been behind the talks to establish a Eurovision concept in the Asia Pacific region for Sbs.

In a statement, Roadshow Films Co-ceo Chris Chard said the investment into Blink TV was consistent with Roadshow.s strategy to expand its production interests beyond scripted drama. He said it would position the company to capitalise on the .increasing importance that unscripted formats and entertainment series have with broadcasters, subscription platforms and on multi-channel networks...

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We're living a tidal wave of content. It's hard to know what to watch, when, and where. We're here to help! By telling you that you can and should watch a movie about a tsunami entitled The Wave from the director of the upcoming Tomb Raider movie, Roar Uthaug, on Netflix next month. The streaming service has released the titles for their July 2016 movies and TV shows, though they are subject to change. Also available are those titles leaving Netflix in July. Highlights of what you can look forward to include: Back to the Future 1- 3, Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2 (if you want to get ready for the upcoming sequel), All of the Lethal Weapon movies (get a look at The Predator director Shane Black's first script brought to life), BoJack Horseman Season 3, The Sting, and more. Make sure to check out these titles before they leave: A Clockwork Orange,...

Netflix has revealed their slate of films that will be hitting the streaming service in July. Next month is filled with classic franchises such as “Back To The Future Parts I-iii,” “Lethal Weapon” and “Beverly Hills Cop.” There’s a bit of everything for every member of your family, from comedies like “Mean Girls,” action films like “Big Trouble In Little China” and indies like “Mustang,” Netflix has you covered.

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Below are the titles hitting the streaming library next month, plus IndieWire’s personal picks on what to check out.

Avail 7/1/16

“41 on 41” (2014)

“A Long Way From Home” (2013)

“Back to the Future” (1985)

“Back to the Future Part II” (1989)

“Back to the Future Part III” (1990)

“Bad Boys II” (2003)

“Batman: The Movie” (1966)

“Beavis and Butt-head Do America” (1996)

“Beverly Hills Cop” (1984)

“Beverly Hills Cop II” (1987)

“Big Trouble in Little China...

John and Dan Edwards have joined forces with Roadshow Films

Prolific TV producer John Edwards (Gallipoli, Puberty Blues, Offspring, Love My Way) has announced he will join forces with Roadshow Films to launch a new production company, along with son and former ITV Studios and Endemol executive Dan Edwards. . The new production company, known as Roadshow Rough Diamond, aims to create original Australian television and feature films and will have a focus on quality drama. Co-CEOs of the Roadshow Group, Chris Chard and Joel Pearlman, said they had aimed to align with the best for the new venture. Chard said Edwards, who has more than 30 production credits to his name, was .without peer in the Australian television landscape.. .We are thrilled to have his expertise and eye steering our course as Roadshow re-enters the television production arena. We intend to bring the same level of quality and commitment to our...

Who knew body paint could carry such a strong message? Supermodel Joanna Krupa has teamed up with PETA for the organization’s latest ad campaign, which puts SeaWorld on blast for the marine mammals they keep in captivity. Almost as striking as the ad’s tagline which reads, "Captive Orcas: Sad. Lonely. A Long Way From Home," is the model’s flawless figure, covered solely in black and white body paint. The powerful ad is representative of the lives these killer whales are forced to live while in captivity. PETA also reports that "attendance at SeaWorld parks has dropped and [that] the company was named one of the most hated in the U.S." since the documentary "Blackfish" was released in 2013. "These animals – they're in prison their whole life," Krupa says in the accompayning video. "I had no idea this goes on, and now other people may not know that this goes on,...

Mildred Joanne Smith, who portrayed Sidney Poitier’s wife in his film debut, the 1950 drama No Way Out, and then saw her career upended when she was severely injured in a plane crash, has died. She was 94. Smith, who after her lone movie appearance became a magazine editor and a popular English teacher for a junior high school, died July 19, her family announced. In the 1940s, Smith starred in such Broadway productions as Men to the Sea, Mamba’s Daughters, Beggar’s Holiday (as the love interest of Alfred Drake), Forward the Heart and A Long Way From Home. All

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The ailing screen production sector is set to get a major boost with more than $80 million worth of films, TV dramas and a documentary receiving funding from Screen Australia.

The agency is investing more than $12 million in four features, four adult dramas, two children.s dramas and a theatrical doc. In addition Scroz is providing completion funding to sex comedy The Little Deaths, writer-director Josh Lawson.s feature debut.

The projects include a Blinky Bill animated movie, a comedy set during the Cronulla race riots, the long-mooted Molly Meldrum TV drama and The Principal, the first drama commissioned by Sbs since Better Man.

.We have backed some of our great contemporary writers, directors and producers, alongside some exciting new voices, . said Screen Australia head of production Sally Caplan.

.The projects target audiences as diverse as Australia is today, with projects which are ambitious, risk-taking and culturally important, revealing we have...

Disney's family-friendly movie tops the UK box-office charts, as rival animation Free Birds' fortunes take a dive

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Pushing The Hunger Games: Catching Fire aside after its two weeks at the top spot, Disney's Frozen opened with £4.70m. That's by no means the top number for an animation this year – Despicable Me 2 debut gathered £14.82m, including £4.87m in previews in June – but it's a solid start for a film presumed to play to the Christmas audience. Family films targeting the Christmas market have a knack of playing strongly right through until Christmas Eve, and if the festive association is not too strong can, continue to play beyond that date.

Two years ago, Aardman's Arthur Christmas debuted with a so-so £2.11m, but by Christmas Day had managed £19.66m, and eventually reached £20.84m. (A re-release...

Leviathan | Saving Mr Banks | Carrie | Jeune & Jolie | Marius, Fanny | Saving Santa | The Best Man Holiday | Free Birds | Day Of The Flowers | Life's A Breeze

Leviathan (12A)

(Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel, 2012, Fra/UK/Us) 87 mins

An arthouse fishing-trawler documentary sounds like a practical joke, but this takes us to places we've never before – into the ocean depths and back out on to the decks with the catch. It's a series of dark, semi-abstract tableaux full of flapping fish, clanking machinery and tattooed fishermen doing wet, gory work. It's easy to forget this is real life you're watching.

Saving Mr Banks (PG)

(John Lee Hancock, 2013, Us) Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson. 125 mins

How Walt Disney came to make Mary Poppins was hardly a pressing movie mystery, and one suspects a spoonful of drama has been added, but the leads are eminently watchable.

Carrie (15)

(Kimberly Peirce, 2013, Us) Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore. 100 mins

Brian De Palma...

We support the EFPs good work and we love European cinema. This is a great opportunity upcoming in NYC.

The diverse line-up includes Italy's Miele by Valeria Golino, recently screened in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes International Film Festival, which delves into the complicated issues of euthanasia in an intense family drama. German actor/director Til Schweiger's Guardians is an action thriller about a young orphaned girl who must be protected in the dangerous world of state secrets and murder. In the multi-media thriller, App, Dutch director Bobby Boermans draws the viewers into a mysterious world and enhances the movie-going experience with additional footage available on your cell phone during the screening. Isabel Coixet painfully reunites two former lovers in her latest drama Yesterday Never Ends, and Virgina Gilbert reflects on life as a beautiful messy struggle in A Long Way from Home. Rounding things out, the French-Belgium co-production, IØm a Standard Supporter, portrays a football addict facing his limits.From a multimedia techno-thriller to arthouse dramas and actors' driven love stories, the line-up of six films at the Industry Screenings in New York, presented by European Film Promotion (Efp), demonstrates a broad spectrum of what European cinema currently has on offer. On June 25th and 26th the six selected films will exclusively be screened to Us buyers and industry professionals at the screening room of the Tribeca Grand Hotel in New York City. All films are seeking Us distribution, and the sales representatives will be in attendance. The NY Industry Screenings are part of EFPØs Films Sales Support (Fss) scheme, backed by the Media Programme of the European Union.

Around 200 European and international distributors and festival programmers are expected in London next week for the 10th edition of the London UK Film Focus (Luff), running June 24-27.

Premieres include Exclusive Media’s Formula 1 doc 1, StudioCanal’s horror thriller In Fear, the Damian Jones-produced Powder Room starring Sheridan Smith, Metro International’s raucous comedy The Stag and Altitude Film Sales’ The Hooligan Factory.

uConnect, the London-based sales outfit run by Peter Rogers, will be screening Summer In February, starring Dominic Cooper and Dan Stevens.

“The timing is very good for us. We did think it would stand out at Luff,” said Rogers. The love triangle tale was released in the UK earlier this month by Metrodome.

Luff will return to the BFI Southbank to showcase features.

Natalie Brenner, Evp of international sales at Metro International, said: “You have the best screening rooms in London. You have an invited list of really good distributors who sit and...

The full programme for the 67th Edinburgh International Film Festival has been unveiled by Artistic Director Chris Fujiwara, and it promises a profound and edifying voyage through cinema.

Boasting 14 World Premieres, 5 International Premieres and 10 European Premieres, this year’s programme ranges from family friendly blockbusters (Monsters University and Jurassic Park 3D), right through to the more obscure, art-house documentaries (“10″ and Natan).

The Bling Ring, Frances Ha, Upstream Colour and What Maisie Knew are among the films likely to attract wider audiences, all of which are in contention for the Audience Award and have picked up glowing reviews from their time on the festival circuit.

Other strands include Directors’ Showcase, which presents classics of the future and includes The Deep, We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks and When Night Falls; New Realities, the best in new documentary filmmaking, represented by The Turtle’s Rage, Consequence and Before You Know It; and Films on Film,...

After the harrowing situation of watching the Gallagher siblings get carted off by Dfs, Fiona decided it was time for her to take matters into her own hands this week.

In "A Long Way From Home," she finally took the long-coming step of filing for custody of her younger siblings.

Despite the fact that Lip and Ian are basically almost 18 and fully take care of themselves, they were included in the custody filing. That means five kids. Jimmy wasn't too thrilled to say the least.

Then again, Jimmy had a family issue of his own to handle. With the Ins performing random check-ins, Jimmy had to run home, slip on a wedding band and play dutiful husband to Estefania. Apparently Estefania thinks that Jimmy is responsible for other issues, such as lovers being unable to finish her off. Might I just remind everyone that Fiona has No idea about any of this.

As the 15th edition of Ultra Music Festival in Miami draws ever closer.with the first weekend taking place March 15-17 just over a month away.the festival has announced the .Road To Ultra: A Long Way From Home. North American Club Tour. Venturing into nine markets around the U.S., the tour bus will move through six states as it stops off to delight music lovers in Atlantic City, NYC, Boston, Syracuse, Pontiac, Chicago, Austin, South Padre Island and Houston. Spearheading this assault will be Dutch superstar Fedde le Grand with Sultan & Ned Shepard, who will bring a bit of the experience of the world.s premier electronic dance music event to club-goers for the festival.s first ever North American...

Everyone has their favorite character from Game of Thrones, but I think everyone loves Peter Dinklage's potrayl of Tyrion Lannister. He's often mentioned as a fan favorite and for good reason. Peter Dinklage has done some great work in the past and it's great to see him get more work due to the success of Game of Thrones. Variety is reporting that he has signed on for the film A Long Way From Home. The film comes from first time director Paki Smith, a production designer and set decorator...

Indian Summer

Kevin McKidd and Ashley Jensen have scored the lead roles in Brian Ward's $4 million feature directorial debut "Indian Summer" which will begin shooting next May.

The story follows an orphaned boy, his embittered uncle, and beautiful but lonely aunt, whose lives are changed forever by the arrival of an exotic stranger - a Native American Indian U.S. Marine. [Source: Movies.ie]

A Long Way From Home

James Fox, Natalie Dormer, Paul Nicholls and Brenda Fricker are set to star in Virginia Gilbert's $1 million drama "A Long Way From Home".

The story follows an older, retired married couple and a younger couple on vacation who meet in Nimes. The older man (Fox) and younger woman (Dormer) develop a profound relationship. [Source: THR]

Don Jon's Addiction

"21 Jump Street" star Brie Larson has been cast as Joseph Gordon-Levitt's sister in Gordon-Levitt's dark comedy directorial debut "Don Jon's Addiction."

He plays a porn-addicted,...

Natalie Dormer will star in A Long Way from Home. The Game of Thrones actress will appear alongside James Fox, Paul Nicholls and Brenda Fricker in writer-director Virginia Gilbert's dramatic love film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The British-French co-production centres around an older couple whose passion is reignited after meeting a younger couple on holiday in Nimes. The older man (Fox) strikes up a profound relationship (more)...

Natalie Dormer’s name has most closely been associated with TV projects recently, including work on The Tudors and Game Of Thrones. But she does crop up in films from time to time, including W.E. and a small role in Captain America, and is part of the cast for romantic drama A Long Way From Home.James Fox, Brenda Fricker and Paul Nicholls are also involved in Virginia Gilbert’s film, which is now cranking the cameras in France.Gilbert wrote and is directing Home, which finds a retired couple (Fox and Fricker) and a young couple meeting on holiday in Nimes. Fox develops a profound relationship with Dormer, which changes everyone’s lives."It's a small-budget film with magnificent actors," producer Guillame Benski tells The Hollywood Reporter. "It's a movie that talks about love and a rebirth of passion with an original and touching point of view." It’s...