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We Made It!

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Wishing all our fabulous MCTV Members and their families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Thanks for your amazing effort this year, it’s been tough! Because of everyone’s hard work we continue to place more people in more productions than any other agency. Some highlights of 2020 were Back to the Rafters, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Bump, Children of the Corn, Hardball and Three Thousand Years of Longing. We look forward to watching all these productions and a bigger, better and brighter 2021.

Our office will be closed from 18th December to 4th January 2021.

Have a safe and relaxing break!

Beth, Paul and all the team at MCTV

Bump Due New Year’s Day!

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Earlier this year over 150 people from MCTV worked on Bump.  The series, about an ambitious and high-achieving teenage girl who has a surprise baby; and the complications that ensue for two families, will premiere on Stan on New Year’s Day. The series stars Claudia Karvan and Angus Sampson as well as fresh faces such as Nathalie Morris, Carlos Sanson Jnr and Catalina Palma. Well done to all our talent, we can’t wait to see it!

MCTV supplied almost all the talent for the background of scenes on this production. See if you can spot anyone you know in the trailer here.

New Ad to feature Mark Wahlberg

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Mark Wahlberg is the latest A-lister to land in Australia, arriving last week for his latest role. This time he’s not shooting a blockbuster movie, but according to the Daily Telegraph a new global ad campaign for online betting agency, Ladbrokes. MCTV has also been submitting for this campaign.

Good luck to all those who have been submitted!

Take a look at the 2016 Ladbrokes ad which also featured MCTV talent here.

Heartbreak High Returns

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One of our biggest jobs in the 1990s was Heartbreak High, a hugely popular drama series that ran for 7 seasons depicting real life at high school in a gritty and honest way. Netflix has just announced that 8 episodes of a new Heartbreak High will be produced next year. Netflix has said the Heartbreak High reboot will be “inspired by” the original series “but totally reimagined for a new generation”.  Scripts are being developed at the moment with filming commencing next year. The show will air in 2022.

The original series is also being screened on Netflix now, some of our long time members might even spot themselves!

Read more about the reboot here.

More Drama in 2021

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Despite the dramas of 2020, the local film industry has been strengthening due to funding injections, demand for content and the safety of Australia as a location. More productions look to be on their way to Australia and Sydney with Foxtel announcing 3 dramas will be in production locally next year.

The latest announcement is for a new 10 part local drama series The Twelve, set around a murder jury based on a Belgian series of the same name. The Twelve will look to continue the tradition of crime based Aussie dramas such as Wentworth which finishes with the current season.

Shooting for The Twelve is expected to begin mid 2021.

 

Be part of the Crowd!

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Did you know that some of MCTV’s biggest jobs have been providing audiences for live TV show tapings including The Masked Singer and The Voice? We have recently been submitting for an American music quiz show. Name that Tune will be filmed in Australia, with American contestants currently living here. The show is being filmed under strict COVID protocols and joins the growing list of film and TV projects relocating to Australia for safety reasons. This one hour show is a revival of a popular 1950s series, which asked contestants to correctly identify songs being played by an on-stage orchestra or band.

Audience members get a sneak peek at the action and hosts, American actress Jane Krakowski and musician Randy Jackson. They can cheer and clap, but mustn’t spoil the fun. The show is set to air on FOX the US in 2021.

Find out more here.

First Look at Penguin Bloom

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The trailer for Penguin Bloom has just landed ahead of the films release on 21 January 2021. The movie stars Naomi Watts and was filmed on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Based on the blog and bestselling photo book, the movie tells the amazing and emotional true story of an Australian mother’s rehabilitation after her son finds an injured bird.

Grab the tissue box and check out the trailer. Congratulations and thank you to all the MCTV talent who went to Go Sees and also to those who were selected, it looks great!

Amazing Female Roles

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Amazing Grace is currently filming in Sydney with a fantastic female cast.  Sigrid Thornton, Kate Jenkinson, Catherine Van Davies, Alexandra Jensen and Kat Hoyos star in this new drama set in an unconventional birth centre.  The 8 episode series, which will air in 2021, follows other hugely popular female driven Australian shows like Wentworth, which also stars Kate Jenkinson. Wentworth has reached an amazing 100 episodes and been distributed internationally, proving the popularity of female led productions.

MCTV is currently submitting for background roles in Amazing Grace.

Star Spotting in Sydney

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The stars are out, even in the daytime in Sydney lately! Thor: Love and Thunder stars Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth have both been busy preparing for their upcoming roles. Chris Hemsworth posted this image of his workout on Instagram and Natalie Portman was spotted in Woolies buying veges and at the beach! Idris Elba has been spotted out of quarantine and ready to get started on A Thousand Years of Longing. Here at MCTV we have been so busy submitting talent to productions to take too much notice of the star power on our doorstep!!

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Book Now! ScreenFest 2020

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AACTA’s annual ScreenFest event starts this Friday and runs until Decemeber 2. It will be the first since the announcement of Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman as new leaders of AACTA. The ScreenFest program is being presented entirely online this year, with a huge number of free talks and events (bookings essential). Included in the program are special movie screenings such as, Mad Max: Fury Road the Black and Chrome Edition and exclusive online conversations with the cast of  Wentworth, both of which featured MCTV talent. There’s also masterclasses and short films on offer. Check out the full range of events and book here.

ScreenFest kicks off with the AACTA Industry Awards, including many productions MCTV has been involved with. Goodluck to all the nominees!