Currently on screen in Warwick Thornton’s 'Sweet Country', Bryan Brown and Sam Neill will join forces again in comedy/drama Palm Beach.
Clay Epstein's Film Mode Entertainment acquired the international rights and screened the film at the American Film Market, resulting in a raft of deals with distributors in the US, Japan, China, Vietnam and other Asian markets.
When Robert Rabiah scored his first major role in Andrew Dominik’s 'Chopper' in 2000, he felt he had arrived as an actor. Yet he soon discovered acting is a fickle profession as he experienced some lean periods in between roles.
Jacqueline McKenzie made her film debut in Geoffrey Wright’s 1992 movie 'Romper Stomper' as Gabe, the ill-treated lover of Russell Crowe’s Nazi skinhead Hando. So the actress was delighted when Wright told her two years ago he was working on a contemporary TV series which would follow Gabe, two other characters from the original film and Gabe’s estranged son, Kane, during a race riot in Melbourne.
“Lily is a star and she is compelling. The camera loves her, she commands real authority, she occupies the screen and you don’t doubt for a minute that she could bash your head in,” says 'Romper Stomper' producer John Edwards.
Toby Wallace was around 16 years old when he first saw Geoffrey Wright’s movie 'Romper Stomper', which was released in 1992, three years before he was born.
Dan Wyllie played a dim-witted, racist skinhead nicknamed Cackles together with Russell Crowe as Hando in Geoffrey Wright’s breakthrough 1992 film 'Romper Stomper'.
When Toby Wallace was cast as the son of the former lover of Russell Crowe’s character in Stan’s 'Romper Stomper' series, Geoffrey Wright was quick to dismiss suggestions the young actor is the next Crowe.