Robin Gardner's and Devesh Chetty's RGM Media is now listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. An extraordinary general meeting of listed shell company Biosignal today approved the reverse listing. Screen Hub spoke to Robin Gardner about their plans.
When location caterer Kerry Feltzer revealed that chocolate bread and butter pudding is a crew favourite, we had to admit that a) we didn''t know what it was and b) we wanted to eat it. Who better to cater to our base desires than Julie Marlow, embedded at SPAA with a lifetime of useful skills?
Slimmer local-related pickings on offer this week, with the disappearance of The Lovely Bones and An Education. East Coaster This Way of Life opened, a couple of weeks ahead of other East Coaster and fellow Berlinale success Boy.
Publicists have their own awards, sparking a reflection in the New Yorker on their machinations..."receiving the honor felt like “getting the lawman-of-the-year award from the Mafia.”
Talent agency RGM has been looking to list on the Australian Security Exchange for six months, and was hoping to get final approval on Friday. The deal now looks like it has run afoul of a patent dispute over anti biofilm (not biopic) seaweed compound.
While the Australian media put Hoyts into the "for sale to the highest bidder" category, the company has bought the Berkeley Cinema Group in New Zealand.
The Hoyts Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire the Berkeley Cinema Group from Everard Entertainment. The Auckland-based Berkeley Cinema Group is the fourth largest cinema circuit in New Zealand and the second largest in Auckland, with 21 screens over four venues in Botany Downs, Mission Bay, Takapuna and Hibiscus Coast.
Post-Oscars, Crazy Heart picks up a little business off Jeff Bridges' win. Otherwise, there's little of local interest, and less to write home about, with a number of films being pulled ahead of DVD release.
Los Angeles based Casting Director Valerie McCaffrey and Stella Adler Theatre Artistic Director, Milton Justice seem to have a gift for picking talent and they are about to descend into Sydney for five days to collaborate and mentor Australian actors, directors and writers.
Just when you think the bubble has come to earth in LA, a reminder that the rest of the world doesn't live and die by 3D blockbusters with a three act structure.
With the second edition of Lumina out on the news stands, AFTRS is now firmly on the Australian specialist screen journal landscape. But it has a sting in its tail, to make producers think about ego, optimism, and the power of sheer persistence.
KCDC & Bunker Productions feature 'Jucy' picked up by Odin's Eye for worldwide representation. Jucy is a wo-mantic comedy that takes its audience on a rollercoaster ride through twenty-something friendship, the ever-present pressure to be normal and the consequences of being yourself.
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