Matchbox Pictures has quietly launched a production offshoot in Asia and is already working on several projects.
Shooting is underway on Australia's first Kung Fu comedy - MAXIMUM CHOPPAGE, a 6X30 minute series, where identity, family and love are battlefields.
Matchbox Pictures, the prolific producer of Nowhere Boys, Devil's Playground, The Slap, the movie Cut Snake, Real Housewives of Melbourne, Formal Wars and upcoming miniseries Deadline Gallipoli, is now fully owned by a US studio.
Matchbox Pictures and Universal Television will produce a US version of The Slap for the NBC network.
Matchbox Pictures has produced a reality show about a group of young, pampered and immature adults who are forced to live together in a house and fend for themselves on a basic weekly budget, for the Seven network.
Comedies from Matchbox Pictures, Princess Pictures, Working Dog and The Bondi Hipsters are among the highlights of ABC-TV's 2014 schedule.
Principal photography began yesterday on Matchbox Pictures' new Australian feature film Cut Snake - a tense, psychologically-driven crime thriller in which one man discovers his biggest enemy to putting the past behind him is himself.
When Camp premieres in the US on NBC next Wednesday at 10pm, few if any viewers will know the series set in a US summer camp was shot in Australia with an Aussie cast.