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A ripping yarn about a killer kangaroo conceals a sweet little Disneyesque family drama in Ozploitation director Ryan Coonan’s adaptation of his 2014 short, Waterborne. Shot in the wilds of Brisbane with a skeleton crew and barely enough actors to keep its monster fed, its ability to attract international viewers stems mostly from the presence of Alien: Covenant star Tess Haubrich and genre legend Michael Biehn – as you’ve never seen him before.

Haubrich is small town sheriff Maddie, a troubled young woman who blames herself for the death of her war hero father yet who is still tough enough to step up and take charge when occasion demands it, as we see in an early scene involving a scuffle in the local pub. Unfortunately, the two likeable rogues whom she sends off to walk home, after confiscating their car keys, are unlucky enough to attract the attention of a.

Move over, Skippy—the bush kangaroo has nothing on Rippy, the bloodthirsty zombie marsupial that’s hopping mad and out for carnage! To celebrate the release of this unique Australian horror on digital platforms—and its upcoming DVD release on 13th January—we’re giving away a DVD copy of Rippy!

Imagine the outback under siege by a ferocious seven-foot-tall zombie kangaroo. That’s the premise of Rippy, a gloriously gruesome creature feature from debut director Ryan Coonan. Packed with thrills, chills, and dark humour, Rippy is a must-watch for fans of animals-gone-wild horror like Razorback, Rogue, and Black Sheep.

The film stars Michael Biehn as a grizzled local with a dark past, who teams up with Tess Haubrich (Alien: Covenant) to stop the zombieroo from wreaking havoc. Haubrich plays a small-town sheriff haunted by her father’s legacy, who must summon her courage when the locals begin turning up ripped to shreds.

Forget Skippy the Bush kangaroo – meet Rippy the bloodthirsty zombie marsupial – in the Australian horror out now on digital platforms and available to own on DVD from 13th January. To celebrate, we have a DVD up for grabs!

The Terminator and Aliens star Michael Biehn goes up against a zombie kangaroo in the horror chiller Rippy, the feature debut from director Ryan Coonan. Also starring Tess Haubrich (Alien: Covenant), as a small town sheriff dealing with an epidemic of killing by kanga in her small town, Rippy is a creature feature like no other – if you thought Cocaine Bear was trouble, he’s got nothing on the seven foot tall, hopping mad killer zombieroo!

Superbly shot against an atmospheric outback setting, and mixing thrills and chills with the occasional chuckle, Coonan’s debut packs a gloriously gruesome punch in the tradition of animals run amok favourites such as Razorback,...

Forget Skippy the Bush kangaroo – meet Rippy the bloodthirsty zombie marsupial – in the Australian horror out now on digital platforms and available to own on DVD from 13th January. To celebrate, we have a DVD up for grabs!

The Terminator and Aliens star Michael Biehn goes up against a zombie kangaroo in the horror chiller Rippy, the feature debut from director Ryan Coonan. Also starring Tess Haubrich (Alien: Covenant), as a small town sheriff dealing with an epidemic of killing by kanga in her small town, Rippy is a creature feature like no other – if you thought Cocaine Bear was trouble, he’s got nothing on the seven foot tall, hopping mad killer zombieroo!

Superbly shot against an atmospheric outback setting, and mixing thrills and chills with the occasional chuckle, Coonan’s debut packs a gloriously gruesome punch in the tradition of animals run amok favourites such as Razorback,...

Horror drama about a marsupial in the frame for murder brings earnestness and maudlin backstory where none is needed

It is a horror movie truth universally acknowledged that if your killer bounces after its victims, you’d best play it for laughs. But that is something mystifyingly lost on Ryan Coonan’s slasher flick, which appears to have transformed the hench kangaroo meme into a feature-length film. Sadly, Rippy is no antipodean Cocaine Bear; after traversing wastes of maudlin backstory, it waits until the final five minutes before finally delivering some tongue-in-cheek sauce courtesy of a famous marsupial catchphrase.

Outback sheriff Maddie (Tess Haubrich) lives in the shadow of her late, toast-of-the-town cop father, who was also a high-school sports champion and war hero. (She saves us having to work this out by telling us off the bat in voiceover.) When his wild-eyed buddy Schmitty (Michael Biehn) wanders in babbling about a humongous homicidal joey,...

Alien fans were excited about the news of an Alien: Romulus follow-up. Franchise creator Ridley Scott stokes the fire with a tease for another sequel's plot.

Director Ridley Scott told THR that Prometheus resurrected the Alien franchise. Expressing his regret over not taking ownership of the IP after the success of Alien, Scott also said the sequels botched the canon plot. "I watched Alien 2, 3 and 4 and realized, 'Oh, you just ran that firmly into the ground,'" he asserted. "Then I went back to [former 20th Century Fox chief Tom Rothman] and said, 'Listen, there's a way out. We should resurrect Alien with Prometheus.'" That movie divided the fan base but has since gained a cult following; it also earned a sequel in Alien: Covenant.

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Stars: Tess Haubrich, Michael Biehn, Nathan Jones, Angie Milliken | Written by Ryan Coonan, Richard Barcaricchio | Directed by Ryan Coonan

Rippy, originally entitled The Red before getting retitled to riff on the old kid’s show Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, is the latest creature feature from down under. As if Australia didn’t already have enough critters that will kill you, director Ryan Coonan and co-writer Richard Barcaricchio have expanded their 2014 short Waterborne and turned a giant kangaroo into a flesh hungry zombie.

Maddy is the sheriff of the small outback town of Axehead. It’s a job her war hero father held before he died saving her life. She feels the pressure of living up to his reputation, and days like this don’t help.

First her Uncle Schmitty comes into town claiming he was attacked by a giant kangaroo that shrugged off his bullets. Then the two drunks whose...

Ryan Coonan’s 2024 dark comedy Rippy tells the strange but true story of a zombie kangaroo terrorizing an Australian country town. Set mostly at night in the rural community of Axehead, the film stars Tess Haubrich as Sheriff Maddy, a young officer trying to live up to her late father’s legacy.

Just as the pressures of her job start weighing her down, a series of gruesome attacks leaves the townsfolk ripped to shreds. Maddy and her eccentric Uncle Schmitty, played by veteran actor Michael Biehn, must work to stop the undead assailant before it’s too late.

Through their investigation, they discover the culprit is none other than Rippy, a hulking zombie kangaroo on the rampage. With most of the action taking place after dark and plenty of gore along the way, Rippy sets out to be a wild horror comedy ride.

While the bizarre concept alone makes it worth a watch,...

The phrase “Killer Kangaroo” rolls off the tongue quite well, so it’s nice to finally put it to use. A rampaging ‘roo is indeed the star of Ryan Coonan’s debut, which is based on his previous short Waterborne. However, there is a twist to why the marsupial star of Rippy (originally called The Red) is so steamed up; a mysterious ailment has turned him into a boxing zombie. That kind of logline is prime for hilarity. As it turns out though, this movie does the opposite and ends up playing things straight. Perhaps too much so.

Australia is home to many dangerous creatures: crocodiles, spiders, sharks, and handfuls of lethal snakes. Do kangaroos count as one of those fearsome fauna? Yes and no. The sheer size of a red buck would be intimidating to just about anyone. And if they chose to, a properly aggressive ‘roo could do...

Over the years, Netflix has expanded into a variety of genres with original content, but they never let go of being a go-to place for some of the best movies ever made. As the streaming wars continue and services like Disney+ and Apple TV+ continue to gain traction, Netflix is becoming less of the dominant go-to content hub that it used to be. That said, sci-fi fans can find great value in a Netflix subscription, thanks to the genre movies available on the platform.

Netflix broke out as a leader in the genre thanks to the original sci-fi series Stranger Things and that opened the floodgates to countless movies and streaming series for fans to enjoy. Much of its library consists of titles released in the past couple of decades, but there are a few classics on the streaming service for people who love all flavors of sci-fi. From big-budget...

"What's your plan?" "I'm going to blow the F his brains out! Capelight Pictures has revealed a full trailer for a hilarious B-movie horror creation called Rippy, formerly known as The Red. It's a kooky Australian comedy horror about a violent, killer kangaroo. When locals in a country town start being killed by a zombie kangaroo, the local sheriff must face her past and work with her eccentric uncle to defeat the beast before it kills everyone. The filmmakers explain: "It explores the conflict between obligation and freedom of choice, the grief of losing a loved one and the lies we tell ourselves, and each other, to protect the memories of those that have passed. It is also about a 7 foot tall undead kangaroo, and the start of the apocalypse. The Red is a horror comedy film influenced by classic creature features such as The Thing, An American Werewolf in London,...

There’s an outbreak in the outback in the upcoming killer kangaroo creature feature The Red starring Michael Biehn, and the official trailer has been unleashed this week.

The Red is a feature expansion of Ryan Coonan’s 2014 smash festival short film Waterborne, and it’s directed by Coonan and written by Coonan and Richard Barcaricchio.

The Red hits cinemas in Australia October 31. Stay tuned for a U.S. release date.

The upcoming creature feature follows the story of young police officer Maddy, who is determined to live up to her deceased father’s legacy. Her courage is put to the test when locals are found brutally ripped to shreds by Rippy the Zombie Kangaroo.

As the undead beast leaves a trail of carnage, Maddy, with the help of her eccentric uncle Schmitty and resilient aunt Donna, must embark on a high-stakes battle to save the town.

Tess Haubrich, Aaron...

‘The Red” is a new zombie horror comedy feature, directed by Ryan Coonan starring Michael Biehn, Aaron Pedersen, Tess Haubrich and Molly Belle Wright, currently in post-production:

“…’The Red’ is a story about understanding one's true worth. It explores the conflict between obligation and freedom of choice…

“…the grief of losing a loved one and the lies we tell ourselves, and each other, to protect the memories of those that have passed.

“It is also about a 7ft tall undead kangaroo, and the start of the apocalypse…”

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The Red features a bulky zombie kangaroo named Rippy, set to become an iconic creature in horror. The film follows young sheriff Maddy tracking down undead beasts with help from her family. The film promises a wild ride, inspired by classic Aussie slang and pop culture, perfect for creature feature fans.

Michael Biehn, who starred in The Terminator, is returning to the big screen with The Red, a creature horror film featuring a bulky zombie kangaroo named Rippy. Described as "your average bloke by day, and a terrifying Zombie Kangaroo by night," Rippy will be central to the film, possibly becoming one of the most iconic creatures in horror.

Ryan Coonan's zombie film, based on his 2014 short film Waterborne, follows Maddy (Tess Haubrich), a young sheriff who is obsessed with living up to her deceased father's legacy. When the town's residents are found ripped to bits by an unknown creature,...

The Terminator star Michael Biehn returning to the silver screen for Aussie zombie-kangaroo horror movie - The Red.

Per JoBlo, orginal Kyle Reese actor and action movie icon Michael Biehn is headed back to the silver screen in the upcoming Australian zombie kangaroo horror film, The Red. Biehn stars alongside Aaron Pederson, Tess Haubrich, Angie Milliken, Don Bridges, and Brett Whittingham as citizens of a small town that comes under siege by an undead kangaroo bearing a hulking physique and an even bigger appetite for human flesh.

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Written by Richard Barcaricchio and Ryan Coonan, the latter of whom is also directing the film, The Red is based on Coonan's 2014 short film, Waterborne.

Radioactive is set to give the horror comedy The Red, a feature expansion of director Ryan Coonan’s 2014 short film Waterborne, a theatrical release across Australia and New Zealand on October 31st, with a press release also promising that the film will arrive in the United States sometime during “the spooky season.” We don’t have a date for any releases outside Australia and New Zealand, but we do have a trailer for the film, and you can check that out in the embed above.

At the heart of The Red is Rippy, the giant Zombie Kangaroo. “Rippy is your average bloke by day, and a terrifying Zombie Kangaroo by night.” Rippy is joined in the cast by Tess Haubrich (Wolf Creek season 2), Angie Milliken (MDA), and Michael Biehn (The Terminator), with Haubrich taking on the role of young police officer Maddy, who is determined to live up to her deceased father’s legacy.

There’s an outbreak in the outback in the upcoming killer kangaroo creature feature The Red, and Bloody Disgusting has been provided with a first-look sneak peek this afternoon.

In the film, which is now in post production, “Obsessed with living up to her dead father’s legacy a young sheriff finds her mettle tested when locals are found ripped to shreds.”

The Red is a feature expansion of Ryan Coonan’s 2014 smash festival short film Waterborne, and it’s directed by Coonan and written by Coonan and Richard Barcaricchio.

Micheal Biehn, Tess Haubrich, Aaron Pederson and Angie Milliken star.

You can watch the original short film below, which at the time was said to be “the world’s first zombie kangaroo film, and a prequel for a feature film currently in development.”

Nine years – and 1.6 million views on YouTube! – later, Waterborne has finally become feature film The Red. Stay...

Last King of the Cross is not going anywhere. After a breakout season in Australia, Paramount+ has renewed the crime drama for a second season while it works out details for it to air in other parts of the world, per Variety. Season one of the series is expected to air in the US later this year.

Starring Lincoln Younes, Tim Roth, Callan Mulvey, Claude Jabbour, Matt Nable, Maria Tran, and Tess Haubrich, the series, produced by Helium, is based on the autobiography of nightclub owner John Ibrahim and his life living in Sydney’s King Cross during the 1980s and 1990s.

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A new episode of The Arrow in the Head Show has just been released, and in this one hosts John “The Arrow” Fallon and Lance Vlcek are looking back at what may be the least popular entry in the Alien franchise – and if that’s the case, it’s an accomplishment that it passed some of the lesser entries on the race to the bottom. The movie in question is 2017’s Alien: Covenant (watch it Here) – and to find out what The Arrow and Lance think of it, check out the video embedded above!

Directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by John Logan and Dante Harper (and a story by Jack Paglen and Michael Green), Alien: Covenant has the following synopsis: Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, members of the colony ship Covenant discover what they think to be an uncharted paradise. While there,...

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Comcast-owned pay-tv group Sky has snatched up rights across its European footprint for the upcoming Australian crime drama Last King of the Cross.

In a deal announced on the eve of international television market MIPCOM Cannes, Sky took exclusive rights across the UK, Ireland, Italy and Germany for the 10-part series starring Tim Roth and inspired by John Ibrahim’s best-selling autobiography about his rise from a poverty-stricken immigrant to Australia’s most infamous nightclub mogul. Set in the 1980s and ’90s in Australia’s mini-Atlantic City — the decadent half-mile strip along Sydney’s Kings Cross where every form of vice is on offer — the series co-stars Lincoln Younes, Claude Jabbour, Callan Mulvey, Tess Haubrich, Maria Tran and Matt Nable.

Helium Pictures produced Last King of the Cross for Paramount+ Australia with Cineflix Rights handling international sales. Mark Fennessy and Karl Zwicky produced,...

Filming is officially underway on the survival horror film The Red, a feature expansion of director Ryan Coonan’s 2014 short film Waterborne. This version of the story stars Tess Haubrich (Wolf Creek season 2) and Michael Biehn (The Terminator), with Haubrich taking on the role of

a young sheriff, obsessed with living up to her dead father’s legacy, who finds her mettle tested when locals are found ripped to shreds. She must finally face up to her past and work with her eccentric Vietnam veteran uncle (Biehn) to defeat the beast responsible for the murders before it kills everyone in town.

Haubrich and Biehn are joined in the cast by Angie Milliken (Elvis). It’s worth noting that Haubrich and Biehn are both Alien franchise alums, as Haubrich had a role in Alien: Covenant and Biehn was, of course, in Aliens.

Coonan wrote the screenplay for The Red with Richard Barcaricchio,...

Exclusive: Production begins today [Monday 26 September] on Australian survival horror The Red, starring Tess Haubrich (Alien: Covenant), Michael Biehn (The Terminator) and Angie Milliken (Elvis).

In the film, a young sheriff (Haubrich) obsessed with living up to her dead father’s legacy finds her mettle tested when locals are found ripped to shreds. She must finally face up to her past and work with her eccentric Vietnam veteran uncle (Biehn) to defeat the beast responsible for the murders before it kills everyone in town.

Ryan Coonan directs from a script he wrote with Richard Barcaricchio based on their short film Waterborne. Produced in 2014, Waterborne played at more than 70 festivals including Fantasia, Fantastic Fest and Sitges.

Producers are Judd Tilyard (Two Heads Creek) and Liz Tomkins for Dicentium Films, Jessica Butland (Ruby’s Choice) for Radioactive Pictures and Barcaricchio, with Brett Thornquest and Steven Matusko of Eclectik Vision co-producing (Blood Vessel). Verity Fiction...

Exclusive: Australian actor Sam Delich, who is currently appearing in Netflix’s Joseph Kosinski feature Spiderhead, has landed a major recurring role on Disney+’s comedy-drama series Last Days of the Space Age.

Details of his role are being kept under wraps, but we understand he will essentially play the villain of the piece, which is a tentpole of Disney+’s Australia and New Zealand 2022/23 slate and was unveiled in Sydney last month.

Last Days of the Space Age is an eight-part dramedy series set in 1979 Perth in Western Australia, as a power strike threatens to plunge the region into darkness, while the city hosts the iconic Miss Universe pageant and the US space station Skylab crashes just beyond the city’s suburbs. Against this backdrop, three families in a tight-knit coastal community find their marriages, friendships and futures put to the test.

Delich will appear in the supporting role...

This article contains Spiderhead spoilers.

It looks almost blissful. That serene sunset Steve Abnesti (Chris Hemsworth) imagines he’s flying toward might as well be heaven for the good doctor. After all, he’s unlikely to see the real thing once his plane smashes headlong into a mountain.

So ends Abnesti Pharmaceuticals’ experiments on the remote island and institute of “Spiderhead,” and so too ends Steve Abnesti. It’s a surprisingly cheeky conclusion to Joseph Kosinski’s new science fiction thriller out now on Netflix. Up to this point, audiences have been asked to consider how dark things can get as the backstories of each inmate become clear, and the prospect of escape from their guilt over past mistakes seems even less likely than it does from this gilded hellhole. And yet, both Jeff (Miles Teller) and Lizzy (Jurnee Smollett) live to console each other another day and figure out...

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In real life, there would probably be no shortage of people willing to commit crimes if it resulted in being given free reign to wander around a minimum-security prison and receive psychedelic drugs administered by Chris Hemsworth. So it’s not too much of a stretch to go along with the imaginative premise of Netflix’s new, nearly unclassifiable film starring the MCU veteran along with Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett.

Based on a short story by George Saunders, Joseph Kosinski’s Spiderhead could be categorized as sci-fi, except its central conceit isn’t all that far removed from our “better living through chemistry” reality. It’s a thriller at times, but also a wickedly funny dark comedy. And it features a nostalgia-inducing yacht rock soundtrack that slyly comments on the action.

Hemsworth, wearing wire-rimmed glasses to establish his character’s intellectual bona fides,...

Even with Top Gun: Maverick continuing to crush at the box-office, buzz for director Joseph Kosinski’s next film Spiderhead continues to grow as Netflix as released a new clip of the pic featuring stars Chris Hemsworth and Miles Teller. The clip was unveiled during a panel for Netflix’s Geeked Out Festival with Hemsworth introducing it himself.

The film also stars Jurnee Smollett and Tess Haubrich and is based on the incredible short story by George Saunders, Spiderhead follows a brilliant visionary running a correctional facility that allows its inmates to shorten their sentences by participating in drug trials for mind-altering substances.

In the clip, features Hemsworth’s character administering a new drug to Teller and Haubrich’s character and while at first they aren’t into each other, it’s a matter of time before the drug kicks in and they are unable to keep their hands off each other.

Exclusive: Tim Roth is replacing Ian McShane in Paramount+’s buzzy Australian drama series Last King of the Cross.

Roth takes on the role of antagonist Ezra Shipman in the Helium Pictures-produced serialized crime drama after McShane withdrew due to health concerns.

McShane was originally cast as Shipman in late March. He is also set to reprise his role opposite Keanu Reeves in John Wick: Chapter 4. Deadline has reached out to his reps.

The show’s producer/executive producer and Helium founder Mark Fennessy said: “It’s unfortunate that Ian is unable to join us and we wish him a speedy recovery. We are truly delighted that the super brilliant Tim Roth joins our cast as Ezra and cannot wait to see him breathe life into yet another unforgettable character.”

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Spiderhead Trailer — Joseph Kosinski‘s Spiderhead (2022) movie trailer has been released by Netflix. The Spiderhead trailer stars Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, Mark Paguio, and Tess Haubrich. Crew Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick wrote the screenplay for Spiderhead. Joseph Trapanese created the music for the film. Claudio Miranda crafted the cinematography for [...]

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"We're making the world a better place!" Netflix has revealed the first official trailer for one of their big summer movies titled Spiderhead, directed by visionary filmmaker Joseph Kosinski. He went and made This in-between finishing Top Gun: Maverick (in 2020) and now, when Top Gun is finally being released, meaning Kosinski has Two exciting new movies out this summer. Based on The New Yorker short story by George Saunders, Spiderhead is a genre-bending and darkly funny psychological thriller. In the near future, convicts are offered the chance to volunteer as medical subjects to shorten their sentence. One such subject for a new drug capable of generating feelings of love begins questioning the reality of his emotions. The cast features Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, Mark Paguio, and Tess Haubrich. At first glance, this is seems like a mash-up between Snowpiercer and A Cure for Wellness, with the patients fighting...

Along came a spider…but these inmates are the ones really caught in a deceitful web.

Netflix’s psychedelic psychological thriller “Spiderhead” pairs mind-freeing drugs with the physically constraining prison system. Based on George Saunders’ New Yorker short story “Escape from Spiderhead,” the film stars Jurnee Smollett and Miles Teller as two inmates who reflect on their past crimes thanks to drug-induced trips in a state-of-the-art penitentiary, run by visionary scientist Steve Abnesti (Chris Hemsworth).

Joseph Kosinski directs the Netflix film, premiering June 17.

The official synopsis teases a cat and mouse game as Hemsworth instructs prisoners to wear devices that administer dosages of experimental drugs, in exchange for reduced sentences. There are no bars, no cells, or orange jumpsuits in this revolutionary prison called Spiderhead. Instead, “incarcerated volunteers” are free…with certain boundaries. What is free will if one man has control over all minds and bodies?

The dark comedy...

Exclusive: Paramount+ Australia drama Last King of the Cross has added more cast with the likes of 300: Rise of an Empire’s Callan Mulvey joining previously-announced Ian McShane and Lincoln Younes.

Tess Haubrich (Spiderhead, Alien: Covenant), Claude Jabbour, Maria Tran (Truy Sat, Echo 8), Matt Nable (Riddick, Bikie Wars: Brothers In Arms) and Damian Walshe-Howling have also boarded the 10-parter, which represents one of Paramount+’s biggest international bets as it expands non-u.S. footprint.

Inspired by John Ibrahim’s best-selling autobiography, Last King of The Cross (10×60) is an operatic story of two brothers, Sam and John Ibrahim, who organize the street but lose each other in their ascent to power. The serialized drama tracks Ibrahim’s rise from a poverty-stricken immigrant with no education, no money and no prospects to Australia’s most infamous nightclub mogul in Sydney’s Kings Cross – a mini-Atlantic City,...

A prison that encourages drug use? Well, that just might have to be the stuff of fiction…for now.

Netflix has adapted George Saunders’ New Yorker short story “Escape from Spiderhead,” about two inmates (played by Jurnee Smollett and Miles Teller) who grapple with their past crimes while living in a state-of-the-art penitentiary run by a brilliant visionary (Chris Hemsworth) who experiments on inmates with psychedelic drugs.

“Spiderhead” premieres June 17 on the streamer.

The tradeoff for being a test subject is a commuted prison sentence, but when the open-concept prison is challenged, the experiments start to push the limits of free will. The psychological thriller is directed by Joseph Kosinski and written by producer Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

Director Kosinski revealed that the pop classic soundtrack, with tracks including Thomas Dolby’s “She Blinded Me With Science” and Hall & Oates’ “You Make My Dreams,” came to him while at the dentist.

Netflix Format ‘Flinch’ Heads To Russia

Netflix’s Jackass-style non-scripted format Flinch is to be remade for Russia’s Ctc following a deal struck with Sony Pictures Television. Produced by Sony-backed Stellify Media, the original show, which aired for one series in 2019, is set on a remote farm in the hills of Ireland where brave and foolish contestants gather to test their nerve in three games, abiding by one rule only: “Do not flinch.” If they flinch, there are painful consequences, both for the contestants, and for hosts Desiree Burch, Lloyd Griffiths and Seann Walsh. Sony-backed Russian company Lean-m will produce the adaptation, which is being hosted in a barn by Mikhail Galustyan, Artur Babich and Valya Karnaval under the name Не Дрогни / Ne Drogn (Don’t Flinch!).

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Production has begun in Sydney on the television drama “After the Verdict,” with Michelle Lim Davidson and Tess Haubrich joining the cast.

The six-part series follows four people who have just finished jury duty on a high-profile murder trial. As they return to normal life, they begin to question their verdict and take matters into their own hands, investigating the murder themselves.

The show was created, written and executive produced by Subtext Pictures’ Ellie Beaumont and Drew Proffitt. The completed series will premiere on the 9Network in Australia with Entertainment One (eOne) handling international sales. The production also received major investment from federal body Screen Australia in association with region screen agency Screen Nsw.

Lim Davidson (“The Newsreader”) and Haubrich (“Wolf Creek”) join the previously announced Sullivan Stapleton, Magda Szubanski and Lincoln Younes in the show’s main cast. Other roles go to Virginia Gay (“Judy and Punch”), Emma Diaz...

The Bourne feature films and books have been very popular for decades and have made more than a billion dollars. Will that popularity translate into big ratings for the Treadstone series? Is it going to be a hit or a flop for USA Network? Will Treadstone be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned. Status Update Below.

An action-thriller series, the Treadstone TV show stars Jeremy Irvine, Brian J. Smith, Omar Metwally, Tracy Ifeachor, Hyo Joo Han, Gabrielle Scharnitzky, Emilia Schüle, and Michelle Forbes, with Patrick Fugit, Michael Gaston, Shruti Haasan, and Tess Haubrich in recurring roles. Created by Tim Kring and connected to the Bourne film franchise, the show explores both the origin of the CIA black ops program -- Operation: Treadstone -- and its present-day actions. Treadstone uses behavior modification protocol to turn recruits into nearly superhuman assassins. Sleeper agents across the globe...

Can this show recruit enough viewers in the first season of USA Network's Treadstone TV show? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Treadstone is cancelled or renewed for season two. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustration when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the first season episodes of Treadstone here. Status Update Below.

A USA Network action-thriller series, the Treadstone TV show stars Jeremy Irvine, Brian J. Smith, Omar Metwally, Tracy Ifeachor, Hyo Joo Han, Gabrielle Scharnitzky, Emilia Schüle, and Michelle Forbes, with Patrick Fugit, Michael Gaston, Shruti Haasan, and Tess Haubrich in recurring roles. Created by Tim Kring and connected to the Bourne film franchise, the show explores both the...

USA Network is closing the books on the Treadstone TV show. The cable channel has cancelled the action drama series, opting not to order a second season.

The Treadstone TV show stars Jeremy Irvine, Brian J. Smith, Omar Metwally, Tracy Ifeachor, Hyo Joo Han, Gabrielle Scharnitzky, Emilia Schüle, and Michelle Forbes, with Patrick Fugit, Michael Gaston, Shruti Haasan, and Tess Haubrich in recurring roles. Created by Tim Kring and connected to the Bourne film franchise, the show explores both the origin of the CIA black ops program -- Operation: Treadstone -- and its present-day actions. Treadstone uses behavior modification protocol to turn recruits into nearly superhuman assassins. Sleeper agents across the globe -- from D.C. to Berlin to Paris and beyond -- as they are mysteriously "awakened" to resume their deadly missions.

Characters include Doug McKenna...

With May right around the corner, Shudder is making sure horror is in full bloom with another month of movies both old and new, with their upcoming titles including Brandon Christensen's Z, the second season of Wolf Creek, Dario Argento's Tenebrae, and the ’90s slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer.

Below, you can check out the full list of titles coming to Shudder in the Us in May, and be sure to visit Shudder's website to learn more about the streaming service and their scary good lineup!

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Winner “Scariest Film” – Popcorn Frights

Audience Award Winner – Calgary International Film Festival

A couple is shaken to the core when their eight-year-old son begins hanging out with a creepy and ominous imaginary friend. Starring Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool), Written...

‘Bad Mothers’.

AMC Networks’ streaming service Sundance Now has acquired the Us rights to Jungle Entertainment and Filthy Productions’ eight-part drama Bad Mothers from international distributor Red Arrow Studios International.

Starring Tess Haubrich, Mandy McElhinney, Jessica Tovey, and Shalom Brune-Franklin, Bad Mothers explores modern motherhood through the prism of four very different women as they juggle life’s big issues: love, family, careers, infidelity… and murder. Daniel MacPherson, Don Hany and Melissa George also star in the series, due to start streaming on Sundance Now May 7.

Bad Mothers was created by Filthy Productions’ Rachel Lang and Gavin Strawhan, who penned the scripts with Sarah Walker and Tim Lee. Chloe Rickard and Steven Zanoski produced, with Geoff Bennett, Sian Davies and Catriona McKenzie directing.

Sundance Now VP of programming Shannon Cooper said: “Sundance Now subscribers are looking for their next streaming obsession, and with its entertaining mix of comedy, drama, and plenty of surprises,...

AMC Networks’ streaming service Sundance Now has acquired U.S. rights to the eight-part Australian drama “Bad Mothers” from distributor Red Arrow Studios International.

A hit for Australia’s Nine Network, “Bad Mothers” explores modern motherhood through four different women as they juggle love, family, careers, infidelity — and murder. The drama is produced by Jungle Entertainment in association with Filthy Productions.

It stars “Treadstone’s” Tess Haubrich, “Love Child’s” Mandy McElhinney, “Wonderland’s” Jessica Tovey, and “The Heart Guy’s” Shalom Brune-Franklin.

“Bad Mothers” will make its U.S. premiere on Sundance Now on May 7.

The series has already sold to territories including the U.K., France, Sweden, Middle East and Africa.

The storyline sees Sarah’s (Tess Haubrich) seemingly perfect life as a local doctor, mother and wife come crashing down the moment she discovers her husband having an affair with her best friend. When her friend turns up dead,...

Exclusive: Sundance Now has picked up the U.S. rights to Australian drama Bad Mothers starring Treadstone’s Tess Haubrich.

The AMC Networks-owned streaming service will launch the eight-part drama on May 7 after acquiring the rights from Red Arrow Studios International.

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The drama explores the underbelly of modern motherhood through the prism of four very different women as they juggle life’s big issues: love, family, careers, infidelity and murder.

Starring Haubrich, Mandy McElhinney (Love Child), Jessica Tovey (Wonderland), and Shalom Brune-Franklin (The Heart Guy), along with Daniel MacPherson (Strike Back) and Don Hany (East West 101) with guest star Golden Globe nominee Melissa George (The Good Wife...

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Airing on the USA Network television channel, the Treadstone TV show stars Jeremy Irvine, Brian J. Smith, Omar Metwally, Tracy Ifeachor, Hyo Joo Han, Gabrielle Scharnitzky, Emilia Schüle, and Michelle Forbes, with Patrick Fugit, Michael Gaston, Shruti Haasan, and Tess Haubrich in recurring roles. Created by Tim Kring and connected to the Bourne film franchise, the show explores both the origin of the CIA black ops program...

“Treadstone,” which begins in East Berlin in 1973 and zooms ahead to multiple locations in the present day, is, we’re told in its credits, “based on an organization from the Bourne series of novels by Robert Ludlum.” The description seems apt, in its clunky way. The Treadstone organization, which trains people to be supersoldiers and to keep their tactical knowledge subconsciously buried, is an element of Jason Bourne’s story now surgically cut off from the context and narrative richness of a good novel or film. And “Treadstone” feels, too, based on an organization and not a novel or film in its rigorous movement between plotlines, something that comes to feel less like narrative balance and more like mandated check-ins on a show that hasn’t yet decided what it wants to be about.

These plotlines are generally similar enough: A person, somewhere, comes to realize the powers they contain within them,...

‘Nekrotronic.’

Kiah Roache-Turner’s Nekrotronic opened in the Us last weekend as a multi-platform release.

Momentum Pictures launched the sci-fi horror comedy starring Monica Bellucci, Ben O’Toole, David Wenham, Caroline Ford, Tess Haubrich and Bob Epine Savea in cinemas in 10 cities and on VOD and digital HD.

The eOne-owned distributor did not share box office figures, which are typically modest for day-and-date releases. The benefit of the theatrical exposure is that the reviews and publicity give the film a profile which pays off in ancillary revenues.

The director trimmed five minutes of exposition scenes after the world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, resulting in more favourable reviews, particularly from genre websites.

For example, We Are Movie Geek’s Marc Butterfield hailed the film as “hilarious, fun, action packed, and full of gross, splashy, gooey moments; in other words, fantastic.”

Butterfield observed: “The movie has a nice amalgamation of story elements from Ghostbusters,...

USA Network has released the first trailer for their upcoming Bourne spinoff series Treadstone, and it actually looks like it’s going to be an action-packed series. There are some brutal looking fight sequences teased in this first trailer.

The ten-episode series was created by Tim Kring (Heroes), and it “explores the origin story and present-day actions of a CIA black ops program known as Operation Treadstone — a covert program that uses behavior-modification protocol to turn recruits into nearly superhuman assassins.” The first season will follow sleeper agents across the globe as they’re mysteriously “awakened” to resume their deadly missions. They are part of a Treadstone program called “Cicada”.

When talking about the series, executive producer Ben Smith, who also served as producer of Jason Bourne and The Bourne Legacy, told Entertainment Weekly:

“These Cicadas have very different trajectories upon finding themselves ‘awakened’ over a decade after volunteering for...

Howard North (Ben O'Toole) has a shitty job working for the family sanitation business. One day and his partner Rangi (Bob Savea) are called into the city to do one more job at the end of a long shift. Rangi has downloaded the latest mobile game where you catch ghosts with your phone. Little do they know that an evil demon, Finnigen (Monica Belluci), is using the app to download demons into human hosts, gathering enough souls to achieve immortality. But Luther (Dave Beamish) and his daughters Molly (Caroline Ford) and Torquel (Tess Haubrich), a trio of badass demon hunters called Nekromancers, know evil is a brewing and come across Howard after Finnigen sends a demon to kill him. Why? Turns out Howard is a...

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USA has released the trailer for its “Bourne” franchise spinoff series, “Treadstone,” and we quickly learn that a legion of “sleeper agents” are waking up to discover that they’ve become superhuman assassins.

Several well-choreographed fight sequences follow, which you can watch in the action-packed 45-second trailer above.

A TV spinoff of Universal’s “Bourne” film franchise that starred Matt Damon, “Treadstone” will explore the origin story and present-day actions of a CIA black ops program known as Treadstone — a covert operation that uses behavior modification protocol to turn its agents into nearly unstoppable superhuman assassins. The first season of “Treadstone” follows sleeper agents across the globe, as they’re mysteriously “awakened” to resume their deadly missions.

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The series stars Michelle Forbes as Ellen Becker, a savvy CIA veteran trying to balance the demands of work and family...

Stars: Ben O’Toole, Dave Beamish, Monica Bellucci, Charmaine Bingwa, Caroline Ford, Benedict Hardie, Tess Haubrich, William Cheung | Written by Kiah Roache-Turner, Tristan Roache-Turner | Directed by Kiah Roache-Turner

Coming from writer and director Kiah Roache-Turner, I was very much looking forward to new Australian horror comedy Nekrotronic. His previous movie Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead was a fantastic all action kick up the ass that the zombie genre needed, so a new movie from him about demons sounded even more intriguing. And we’ve had to wait five long years for it!

It would be too simple to say this is a movie about ghosts. Even if you opened that up a little and said it was a ‘supernatural’ movie, that would be too simple. Because this involves demons, the Internet, zombies (kind of), possession and yes, ghosts.

Our lead character – Howie (Ben O’Toole) – discovers that he is part...

Review by Marc Butterfield

From Guerrila Films and Hopscotch Features, directed by Kiah Roache-Turner, debuted in 2018 Canada during the Toronto International Film Festival.

This is a B movie by even the most generous standards, but like it’s predecessor, Wyrmwood, it’s a great one, depending upon how much you like these kinds of movies. While Wyrmwood took on the zombie apocalypse, Nekrotronic takes on demons, demonic possession, and the dangers of cell phone life. Movies out of Australia always seem to have a better sense of humor about these things than the stock American films (with Zombieland being a notable exception). The cast handles their roles with appropriate amounts of gravity and incredulity. The plot, in a nutshell, is about Howard North, a sewage maintenance worker who by chance finds out his true identity in the middle of an attempt by demons to gain dominion over the world by...

‘Bad Mothers.’

My5, the UK streaming service owned by Viacom’s Channel 5, has secured the rights to Bad Mothers.

The Nine Network/Tvnz comedy/drama from Jungle Entertainment and Filthy Productions will premiere on the platform next month.

The free, advertiser-supported service is showing a growing appetite for Australian drama, having recently acquired Playmaker Media’s Bloom from Sony Pictures Television and Clandestine Beyond’s Pulse from ABC Commercial.

Red Arrow Studios International negotiated the Bad Mothers UK deal after selling the series to Fox’s Middle East and North Africa arm, Fox Networks Middle East and Universal TV in Africa.

Created by Filthy Productions’ Gavin Strawhan and Rachel Lang and produced by Jungle’s Chloe Rickard and Filthy Productions’ Steven Zanoski, the show stars Tess Haubrich, Melissa George, Mandy McElhinney, Shalom Brune-Franklin and Daniel MacPherson.

Oliver Thomas, VP of digital at Viacom International Media Networks UK, said: “We...