Kung fu, karaoke and comedy are just some of the ingredients that make up Maximum Choppage, a new 6 x 30 min comedy series from Matchbox Pictures.
Ray Martin hates small dogs; HG Nelson has issues with awarding anyone 4th place; Julia Morris does not like other people’s children; small plastic toys genuinely cause Dave Hughes great pain; Noni Hazlehurst is not a fan of the comb-over and Matt Prest
Screen Australia has again rejected calls to cease funding projects from foreign-owned production companies but the aggrieved filmmakers are not giving up on their campaign.
Matchbox Pictures, producers of The Slap, The Straits, Devil's Playground and Nowhere Boys, will open an office in Brisbane in the first quarter of 2015.
Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Entertainment and Universal Cable Productions with sibling Matchbox Pictures will shoot Hunters, a 13-episode alien crime drama, in Melbourne next year.
Malaysian actress, TV host and VJ Nur Fazura has had several high profile affairs and at least one public spat: ideal material for a docudrama on the 31-year-old.
Filming of SBS's 10-part comedy entertainment series Room 101 adapted from a hit BBC show has started in Sydney.
Has TV replaced film in terms of quality of story, risk taking, directors and casting?