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Gosling and 3,000 extras in the ‘Fall Guy’

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Huge news today with Universal Pictures announcing that its film adaptation of 80s TV hit, ‘The Fall Guy’ will be filmed in Sydney. Star of the movie, Ryan Gosling will relocate to Sydney while filming takes place and according to MP Paul Fletcher we can expect 3,015 extras will be needed to make the movie.

Created by Glen A. Larson, the original ‘The Fall Guy’ had Lee Majors in the title role, as a Hollywood stunt man who works a side hustle as a bounty hunter to make ends meet. The popular series ran for more than 100 episodes between 1981-1986.

Fletcher said “We are pleased to welcome ‘The Fall Guy’ down under with $30 million in support from our highly successful Location Incentive, with the production to employ over 1,000 Australian cast and crew, and more than 3,015 Australian extras”.

NSW Minister for the Arts, Ben Franklin, said New South Wales had become one of the most sought after places to film major Hollywood films.

Filming is rumoured to be starting in Spring. Watch this space…

Joy Arrives for Furiosa

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Excitement is building for filming of the next Mad Max instalment, ‘Furiosa’. Actress Anya Taylor-Joy arrived in Australia on Thursday night posting a cute message to Instagram “Sending love from the future”, a reference to the US-Australian time difference.

Taylor Joy will star alongside Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.

When the movie was announced, then Premier Gladys Berejiklian said it would be the ‘largest film ever to be filmed here’, creating 850 jobs and injecting at least $350 million into the local economy.

More to come ….

$5.5m in Production Funding Announced

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Series 2 of ‘The PM’s Daughter‘ is among recipients of $5.5m worth of production funding from Screen Australia. This is great news for the 99 MCTV members who got work on Series 1.

Two new feature films, a live action psychological thriller, ‘Runaway’; and a sequel to the animated movie ‘100% Wolf’ – ‘200% Wolf’ (working title) were also awarded funding. Kids TV series ‘Lil J & Big Cuz’ has been funded for another season.

Four online projects also attracted funding: hybrid narrative-natural history series ‘It’s A Jungle Out Here!’; TikTok series ‘Cool Mum’ about a non-binary teenager coming out to their mum; K-drama inspired romantic comedy ‘No Ordinary Love’ and ‘Salma’s Season’, about a mother pursuing her dream of winning the Australian Open, both for YouTube.

If you missed it, you can watch series 1 of ‘The PM’s Daughter” here on ABC iView.

📷: Cassandra Helmot as Cat Parkes Perez in ‘The PM’s Daughter’

‘Last King of the Cross’ Cast Announcement

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Now filming has officially started for “Last King of the Cross”, we can reveal we have been busy submitting and sending people to set. The new 10-part series is based on the real life story of John Ibrahim and represents one of Paramount+’s biggest international commitments as it expands content production outside the US.

Additional cast members have recently been announced:- Calvin Mulvey (‘Underbelly’), Tess Haubrich (‘Alien: Covenant’), Claude Jabbour (‘Eden’, ‘Stateless’), Maria Tran (‘Truy Sat’, ‘Echo 8’), Matt Nable (‘Transfusion‘, Bikie Wars: Brothers In Arms) and Damian Walshe-Howling (‘Underbelly’, ‘Janet King‘) will be joining Lincoln Younes (‘Barons’) and Ian McShane.

The cast also includes Wadih Dona, Setareh Naghoni, Wesley Patten, Jake Ryan, Tony Nikolakopoulos, Simon Elrahi, Robert Rabiah, Justin Rosniak, and rising stars Allegra Monk and Malek Alkoni, who plays teen John.

You can find out more about the series here.

More to come…

📷: Recently announced cast of ‘Last King of the Cross’ – Paramount+

‘Interceptor’ Trailer Drops

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‘Interceptor’ is Aussie author Matthew Reilly’s directorial debut and was shot in Sydney in 2021.

The movie stars Elsa Pataky as tough and jaded Captain JJ Collins, who finds herself in charge of a lone missile interceptor base in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Luke Bracey stars opposite Pataky as the charismatic, yet crooked ex-US military intelligence officer intent on carrying out an unthinkable plan.

‘Interceptor’ is set for simultaneous Australian and international release via Netflix on June 3. If you can’t wait that long, you can check out the ‘Australian Story’ episode about the making of the movie here.

Congratulations to the 10 MCTV members who worked on this movie. It looks great!

Super Sydney Stunt For Redbull

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Congratulations to MCTV members Buffy L, Simon H, Sonia M, Klara B, Jason T, Yolanda S and Sam H who all got to work on this amazing new Redbull video with Sydney born parkour legend Dominic Di Tommaso (Dom Tomato).

The clip starts with a heartstopping first person view backflip on the top of the Opera House sails and continues with a wild freerunning tour of the building. The video has already attracted over 50,000 views on YouTube in the 2 days since it was released.

You can read more about Dominic Di Tommaso and watch a great BTS about how the video was made here.

We are continually amazed by the wide range of content our members get to be involved in. You can find out more about how to join here.

📷: Andy Green/Red Bull Content Pool

Australia will be ‘Land of Bad’

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Deadline has reported that new action-thriller ‘Land of Bad’ will be shot in Australia, commencing in September 2022. The movie, which stars Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth,

Crowe will play Reaper, an Air Force drone pilot supporting a Delta Force special ops mission in the South Philippines. After the mission goes terribly wrong, he has 48 hours to remedy what has devolved into a wild rescue operation. Hemsworth will play the green air controller who is thrust into the middle of a high-stakes extraction which involves no weapons and no communication other than the drone above.

Crowe is currently in post-production on ‘Poker Face‘, a crime-thriller he stars in alongside Liam Hemsworth and shot in Sydney. He will next be seen in Taika Waititi’s ‘Thor: Love and Thunder‘, also a Sydney based production.

More to come…

‘Roar’ Streaming Now

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Nicole Kidman’s latest project, ‘Roar’ is out! Her company, Blossom films co-produced the series and she leads one of the 8 episodes, which was shot in NSW last year.

The genre-bending anthology series weaves together eight darkly comedic feminist fables that take unexpected approaches to subjects like gender roles, autonomy and identity.

Congratulations to the MCTV members who got to work on this international project.

All 8 episodes of ‘Roar’, including the one filmed here, are currently streaming on Apple TV+.

Series 2 of ‘Wolf Like Me’ Greenlit

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‘Wolf Like Me‘, which stars Isla Fisher and Josh Gad has been greenlit for a second series by NBCUniversal streamer Peacock in the US. We are so excited that the series has been such a success and resonated so well with international audiences.

Series 1 was filmed in Sydney and regional NSW in 2021 and produced by Made Up Stories (‘Big Little Lies’, ‘Pieces of Her‘), in partnership with Endeavor Content and Stan. Series 1 featured 53 MCTV members. Series 2 will be produced by the same team so fingers crossed they return to Sydney for filming.

If you haven’t had a chance to catch this quirky romantic dramedy you can watch it on Stan.

More to come…

Official Thor Trailer Drops

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We are so excited to get a first real look at ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ after Marvel dropped this teaser trailer. 73 MCTV members got to work on this latest instalment, which was filmed in Sydney in 2021 – many called to set multiple times.

The movie will be showing in Australian cinemas from July 7 2022 – we can’t wait!!

Well done to everyone who worked on this.