Archive for category: Acting and Extras Work in Sydney

Mixed in with the real footage of Adem Somyurek covered in the 60 minutes story “The Faceless Man”, there are a couple of short segments of our own MCTV actors playing Adem Somyurek. Here you can see the back of his head but in the clip below you will see obscured footage of his face while the real audio of Adem Somyurek plays.

We regularly submit people for re-enactment roles and 60 minutes and other current affairs shows and the work is usually pretty fun. Many of our extras have used small parts like these to demonstrate their talents for other roles too.

Playing a character from the 1950’s is a pretty fun way to pass the time and that’s exactly what 40 of our MCTV extras had the opportunity to do late last year. If you haven’t had a chance to check it our, it’s available on iView.

It’s early days but Ausfilm boss Kate Marks says “18 Hollywood-backed features and TV series [are] looking to shoot here”. There’s  “over $900 million worth of real enquiries out there at the moment”. With post COVID restrictions likely to ease much faster than in other parts of the world, Australia is looking like an extremely attractive place for film production.

These big productions do expect support from the Federal government in the form of tax incentives. In 2018, the government set up a system where the maximum tax rebate offered to foreign productions was limited to $140M over 4 years. Almost all of that money has been allocated and the industry is waiting on an announcement from the Federal government about further funding. “The location fund has been really successful, but once it runs out the projects run out,”. For more information see this article in The Age.

While many film productions were postponed due to coronavirus, there were a small number that were able to push on. Children of the Corn is a US funded feature film based on the Stephen King short story fo the same title.

Shooting has continued in Richmond near Sydney with strict social distancing measures observed. The majority of the production was based outdoors in cornfields so providing a safe work environment was possible.

We feel very privileged to have been part of this major production and the MCTV talent who were able to participate feel very luck to have had such a great distraction while coronavirus shut down the rest of Sydney.

For more details on how Children of the Corn and Neighbours have been showing the rest of the world how it’s done see the Sydney Morning Herald article.

If you have been following Simu Liu on twitter you will know that he is pretty excited about being a superhero in the new movie shooting here in Sydney. While any details about the new movie are strictly under wraps, Simu Liu shared a quick pic from one of the hair and makeup trucks the other day. I think he is still pinching himself to check that he is not in a dream. You can see his tweet below and the excitement of all his fans and followers.

ugh guys my job is the worst pic.twitter.com/xOcH3vuJJx

— Simu Liu (@SimuLiu) March 2, 2020