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Ya se ha publicado el primer tráiler y póster de la miniserie The Narrow Road to the Deep North, titulada en español El camino estrecho, una adaptación de la novela homónima de Richard Flanagan dirigida por Justin Kurzel a partir de un guion firmado por su colaborador habitual, Shaun Grant (La verdadera historia de la banda de Kelly).

El camino estrecho narra la vida de Evans (Elordi), un oficial médico que se convierte en prisionero de guerra japonés y se ve perseguido por su apasionada, aunque imposible, relación amorosa con Amy Mulvaney (Young), la mujer de su tío, durante el resto de su vida.

La serie de cinco episodios está protagonizada por Jacob Elordi y Odessa Young. Completan el reparto Ciarán Hinds (Plan en familia), Olivia DeJonge (Elvis), Heather Mitchell (Ricky Stanicky), Shô Kasamatsu (Tokyo Vice), Thomas Weatherall (Los rompecorazones) y...

Six months after director Justin Kurzel confirmed himself as a poet of machismo with 2024’s “The Order,” and six months before star Jacob Elordi will unleash his own take on Dr. Victor’s monster on the 2025 fall festivals, the Australian duo have dropped an altogether unexpected Frankenstein in frigid Berlin. Directed by Kurzel, and led by Elordi, the upcoming miniseries “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” plays as an intriguing genre mash-up that fuses the burly head of a war-drama onto the lithe body of a primetime soap.

Or perhaps the other way around — as the filmmakers premiered just two episodes of the eventual five-part series at the Berlin Film Festival, raising more questions than answers by previewing a time-hopping narrative that refuses easy classification.

Adapted from Richard Flanagan’s prizewinning novel, the prestige drama is less ambiguous about its protagonist, mind you. We follow rakish doctor Dorrigo Evans across three distinct timelines,...

When medical officer Dorrigo (Jacob Elordi) licks blood from a wound off the inner thigh belonging to Amy (Odessa Young), who is also his uncle’s wife, it’s a bracing, viscerally erotic moment that captures the overall vibes of Justin Kurzel’s miniseries “The Narrow Road to the Deep North.”

The extraordinary first two episodes of the Australian filmmaker’s adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s 2014 novel screened at the Berlin Film Festival, introducing us to Dorrigo (played by Elordi during World War II and Ciarán Hinds in 1989) and the haunted memories of his affair with Amy back in rural Adelaide before being shipped off to battle. Director Kurzel has made the male criminal psyche his signature inquiry, from last year’s “The Order” to 2021 Cannes winner “Nitram,” all based on true crime events. In “The Narrow Road,” he locks into his most sensuous, atmospheric, and brutally violent study yet,...

Following Nitram and The Order, Justin Kurzel goes from strength to strength with his riveting first detour into episodic television, The Narrow Road to the Deep North. While a current of unflinching violence runs through the director’s work, seldom if ever has the blunt shock of bloodletting played in such haunting counterpart to the pathos of brutalized humanity as it does in this adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s 2014 Booker Prize-winning novel. There’s a lingering soulfulness here that feels new to Kurzel’s work, distilled in an intensely moving lead performance from Jacob Elordi.

Big, bold and strikingly cinematic, the limited series’ first two of five 45-minute episodes were presented as a special gala at the Berlin Film Festival ahead of its Australian premiere on Prime Video in April. Most other major markets will follow, though Sony has not yet closed a deal for U.S. rights. With Elordi’s star on the rise,...

To this day, Kanchanaburi remains a hot destination — in every sense — for Australian and British tourists who come to pay tribute to prisoners of war who died under the Japanese lash, building the Burma Railway. Kanchanaburi is where the bridge crosses the River Kwai, subject of one of the most beloved war stories in cinema. The real sufferings of those prisoners has also been well chronicled, but, even so, Richard Flanagan’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, which drew on his own father’s experience, found a new kind of narrative behind that history: a story of trauma that bleeds from war into a difficult peace and, while largely unspoken, lasts a lifetime, His novel went on to win the Booker Prize, the top international prize for literature in English.

Adapted as a five-part series by Australian director Justin Kurzel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North...

Jacob Elordi hit the Berlin Festival on Saturday with Justin Kurzel’s WWII drama The Narrow Road to the Deep North, in which he plays a medical officer in a Japanese prisoner of war camp on the Thailand-Burma railway line.

Elordi and his fellow cast members addressed the challenge of losing significant amounts of weight for their roles.

The Saltburn and Priscilla star was surprisingly upbeat about the experience, suggesting camaraderie among the cast had helped him get through the ordeal.

“It was a very calming experience to do it with all the lads. I think there was something quite profound that happened in that it wasn’t a complete torture,” he said.

“There was a peace that sort of came over all of us when we were in the camps, and you reach a level of love that goes beyond what you’re used to in your everyday because everything gets stripped away,...

Australian star Jacob Elordi shared some insights into his creative process and passion for acting during a brief stop on Saturday in Berlin, Germany for the world premiere of his upcoming period series The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

“I have no real interest in making movies for the sake of entertainment or for making money,” Elordi said. “There’s a feeling that I get — that everyone gets, I think — when you watch a film and I call it cinema. When you experience cinema and you’re in a room and it does that thing to you — that kind of profound, unnameable thing that moves you and confirms you on this planet in this life — that’s what I chase, I guess, as a performer. I want to be a part of that. Usually, it stems from the filmmaker. So I’m really just a super fan who’s following his heart.

Exclusive: Jacob Elordi-starring series The Narrow Road to the Deep North has been picked up by Sky and Max in Europe along with NBC Universal in Latin America ahead of its Berlinale premiere.

Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of the Booker Prize-winning Richard Flanagan novel is the highest-profile TV series to be premiering at the Berlinale this year. We can reveal it has sold to Sky for Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland, Max in Cee and NBC Universal for Lat Am. Other deals include RTÉ (Ireland), Movistar Plus+ (Spain), Nova (Greece), Axn (Portugal) and LG Uplus (South Korea). Distributor Sony Pictures Television (Spt) said more sales in the Middle East and Europe are incoming soon.

Sony is yet to strike a deal for Narrow Road in the U.S. It will premiere on Prime Video in Australia, New Zealand and Canada on April 18 and has been picked up by the BBC for the UK.

Jacob Elordi and Ciarán Hinds play the same man, at different stages of his life, in the Australian war drama The Narrow Road to the Deep North, directed by Justin Kurzel (The Order, Macbeth, True History of the Kelly Gang), which the BBC has acquired for the U.K.

The adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name from Sony Pictures Television-backed Curio Pictures consists of five episodes of 45 minutes each. The series, adapted by writer Shaun Grant, will premiere on Prime Video in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada and then air on BBC One and stream on the BBC iPlayer in the U.K.

“The series is a savagely beautiful five-part saga charting the life of Dorrigo Evans (played by Jacob Elordi as a young man, with Ciarán Hinds as the older Dorrigo), through his passionate love affair with Amy Mulvaney (Odessa Young), his...

Jacob Elordi drama series “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” has been acquired by the BBC for the U.K.

The five-part adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel, which also stars Ciarán Hinds and Odessa Young, will be broadcast in the U.K. on BBC One and the BBC’s proprietary streamer iPlayer. It will drop in Canada, Australia and New Zealand on Prime Video.

A premiere date has not been set yet.

Encompassing both the horrors of war and intimacy of deep love, “The Narrow Road To The Deep North” sees Elordi portray Dorrigo Evans, a young man who experiences some of life’s most extreme ups and downs, from embarking on a passionate love affair with Amy Mulvaney (Young) to being held captive in a Pow camp and, eventually, becoming a revered surgeon and reluctant war hero. Hinds plays an older version of Evans.

The...

Prime Video has unveiled first-look images of its The Narrow Road to The Deep North adaptation starring Jacob Elordi, which has wrapped production in Australia.

Set against the shadows of World War II, Sony Pictures Television’s series tells the epic story of Lieutenant-Colonel Dorrigo Evans (Elordi) and how his all-too-brief love affair with Amy Mulvaney (Odessa Young) shaped his life. The story is told over multiple time periods, providing a love story to sustain audiences through the darkest of times, an intimate character study illustrating the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity, and an investigation into a marriage and an unforgettable love affair.

A set of new castings have also been announced including Essie Davis (Lynette), William Lodder(Rabbit), Eduard Geyl (Jimmy), Christian Byers (Rainbow), Sam Parsonson (Rooster), Reagan Mannix (Bonox), Fabian McCallum (Sheephead), Caelan McCarthy (Chum), David Howell (Tiny), Taki Abe (Colonel Kota), Masa Yamaguchi...

It’s a wrap for Jacob Elordi down under. The in-demand actor’s upcoming Amazon Prime Video miniseries The Narrow Road to the Deep North, in which he stars opposite Odessa Young in a sweeping love story spanning decades, has just completed production in New South Wales, Australia.

Produced by Prime Video, Curio Pictures, and Sony Pictures Television, the upcoming five-part drama series is based on Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel and has been adapted for the screen by writer Shaun Grant and directed by Justin Kurzel (Nitram, Assassin’s Creed, Macbeth).

Set against the shadows of World War II, the series tells the epic story of Lieutenant-Colonel Dorrigo Evans (Elordi), and how his all-too-brief love affair with Amy Mulvaney (Young) shaped his life. The story is told over multiple time periods, journeying from Evans’ childhood to his experience as a prisoner-of-war on the Thailand-Burma Railway as a young man,...

Five months of production has been completed on Jacob Elordi-starring drama series “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” which is set in the “Euphoria” and “Saltburn” star’s native Australia.

An adaptation of the Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanaghan, the five-part series is a love story set against the backdrop of World War II. Elordi portrays Lieutenant-Colonel Dorrigo Evans and co-stars with Odessa Young. Ciaran Hinds (“Belfast”) plays the older version of Evans.

The adapted screenplay was penned by Shaun Grant and the show is directed by Justin Kurzel.

Production is by Curio Pictures with Prime Video releasing the title in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In other territories, it distributed by Sony Pictures Television.

Flanaghan’s novel, published in 2013, chronicles a century dominated by war, with forced labor on the Thai-Burma Railway and a brief love affair as its dramatic heart.

The story is told over...

It never gets easier to look up the horrors of what real life humans are willing to perpetrate but some of them are harder than others. Looking into the purported Scottish myth that inspired The Hills Have Eyes for example is a whole heck of a lot easier to do than find out the absolutely abysmal crimes that were committed against a young girl in The Girl Next Door. Sadly, today’s movie The Snowtown Murders, a.k.a. Snowtown (watch it Here), is a lot closer to the sickening facts that happened to The Girl Next Door. While Australia already got our notorious spotlight shined on the fictional Mick Taylor who was a composite of two backpack killers, today we will look at the man who is known as the country’s worst serial killer and unpack what he did and who with. The movie is hard to watch...

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The Hollywood Reporter reports (from Hollywood) that Lily Gladstone and Martin Scorsese will reunite via Charlie Kaufman: the latter has written The Memory Police, an adaptation of Yoko Ogawa’s acclaimed sci-fi novel which the Best Actress nominee will lead and Scorsese is executive-producing. Reed Morano (I Think We’re Alone Now) is taking directing duties on the film, somehow both Kafkaesque and Orwellian, as the official synopsis suggests:

On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer...

Nicole Kidman has joined the cast of Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of the Gordon Reece novel ‘Mice.’

Coming from the team behind ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ and ‘The Undoing’ — Blossom Films and Made Up Stories, the story follows Shelley and her mother as they are pushed to their limits, confronting their moral convictions and the line between right and wrong in the face of bullying, violence and fear.

Blossom Films, led by Nicole Kidman, and Made Up Stories, founded by Bruna Papandrea, will co-produce the project. Per Saari from Blossom Films, Steve Hutensky and Jodi Matterson from Made Up Stories, and Thirdborn’s Justin Kurzel and Genevieve Grant will also produce. Jeanne Snow from Made Up Stories will serve as executive producer along with Thirdborn’s Andrew O’Donohue and Harriet Warner.

The book’s author Gordon Reece commented, “The thought of an actress as staggeringly gifted as Nicole Kidman teaming...

Exclusive: The team behind Nine Perfect Strangers and The Undoing — Blossom Films and Made Up Stories – have put together another solid film that Nicole Kidman will star in for director Justin Kurzel.

They’ve teamed on a feature film adaptation of Mice, a debut novel by Gordon Reece. The producers will partner with the production company Thirdborn, made up of Kurzel, Shaun Grant and Nicole O’Donohue. Grant will write the script; he and Kurzel teamed for the Cannes-winning Nitramand and the upcoming TV series The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Blossom Films’ Kidman and Made Up Stories’ principal Bruna Papandrea will produce alongside Blossom’s Per Saari, Made Up Stories’ Steve Hutensky and Jodi Matterson and Thirdborn’s Kurzel and Grant. Jeanne Snow of Made Up Stories will exec produce with Thirdborn’s O’Donohue and Harriet Warner.

In Mice, Shelley and her mother are pushed to their limits,...

Veteran Irish actor Ciaran Hinds and Odessa Young have joined ‘Euphoria’ star Jacob Elordi in the cast of premium Australian miniseries ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’.

Production is now under way. An adaptation of the Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanaghan, the five-part series is a love story set against the backdrop of World War II, reports Variety.

Production is by Curio Pictures with Prime Video releasing the title in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In other territories, it is distributed by Sony Pictures Television. Flanaghan’s novel, published in 2013, chronicles a century dominated by war, with the forced labour on the Thai-Burma Railway as its dramatic heart.

As per Variety, the story is told by an Australian doctor who was taken prisoner during World War II and became an unlikely and uncomfortable hero after the war’s end.

The series has been in development for several years...

Veteran Irish actor Ciaran Hinds and Odessa Young have joined ‘Euphoria’ star Jacob Elordi in the cast of premium Australian miniseries ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’.

Production is now under way. An adaptation of the Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanaghan, the five-part series is a love story set against the backdrop of World War II, reports Variety.

Production is by Curio Pictures with Prime Video releasing the title in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In other territories, it is distributed by Sony Pictures Television. Flanaghan’s novel, published in 2013, chronicles a century dominated by war, with the forced labour on the Thai-Burma Railway as its dramatic heart.

As per Variety, the story is told by an Australian doctor who was taken prisoner during World War II and became an unlikely and uncomfortable hero after the war’s end.

The series has been in development for several years...

Veteran actor Ciaran Hinds and Odessa Young have joined Euphoria star Jacob Elordi in the cast of premium Australian miniseries “The Narrow Road to the Deep North.” Production is now under way.

An adaptation of the Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanaghan, the five-part series is love story set against the backdrop of World War II. Production is by Curio Pictures with Prime Video releasing the title in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In other territories, it distributed by Sony Pictures Television.

Flanaghan’s novel, published in 2013, chronicles a century dominated by war, with the forced labor on the Thai-Burma Railway as its dramatic heart. The story is told by an Australian doctor who was taken prisoner during World War II and became an unlikely and uncomfortable hero after the war’s end.

The series has been in development for several years and was previously announced on the slate of Fremantle.

Exclusive: Ciarán Hinds (Belfast) and Odessa Young (Mothering Sunday) are among the cast joining Jacob Elordi in the Prime Video Australia Original series The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a TV adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name. Production on the new 5-part drama series kicked off Down Under today.

Also rounding out the cast are Olivia DeJonge (Elvis), Heather Mitchell (Love Me), Thomas Weatherall (Heartbreak High), Show Kasamatsu (Tokyo Vice), Charles An (Pacific Rim: Uprising) and Simon Baker (Limbo).

Elordi has returned home to Australia to play the lead role of the younger Dorrigo Evans in the 1940s. Young will portray Amy Mulvaney, DeJonge will portray younger Ella and Baker will portray Keith. Fast-forward to the 1980s, the series will feature Hinds as the older Dorrigo and Mitchell as older Ella. Weatherall will portray Frank Gardiner, Kasamatsu will portray Major Nakamura and Charles An will portray The Goanna.

Susan Sarandon, playing the U.S. Secretary of State Alaska Adams, gets the better of Bryan Brown, as the Australian prime minister, in a fast-paced verbal duel that represents the first footage from the Sean Penn-produced satirical comedy series “C*A*U*G*H*T.”

An elite team of Aussie soldiers is sent to an island nation to retrieve a secret file that has gone astray. Mistaken for Americans, they are captured by freedom fighters and produce a hostage video that goes viral. When the soldiers achieve celebrity status on social media, they realize that being caught might just be the best thing that could’ve happened to them.

“C*A*U*G*H*T” explores themes of identity, fame, and the absurdity of the viral age. “Why can’t we comedically deconstruct the intellectual ideas that humanity is facing right now?” says Kick Gurry who directs, produces and stars in the six-part series.

Exclusive: Stan has ordered a trio of original drama series as part of its content boss Cailah Scobie has called “a massive week” for the Australian streamer.

We can reveal Stan has commissioned Bluey producer Ludo Studio to make eight-part road series Thou Shalt Not Steal, and also ordered coastal mystery thriller Exposure and Invisible Boys, a contemporary drama about a closeted gay teenager in small-town Western Australia. A trio of UK-based international distributors have signed on for the shows.

Stan has been working closely with international partners as it builds out its slate, with Deadline in the past year revealing comedy series C*A*U*G*H*T, which stars Sean Penn and Matthew Fox, and epic family drama Prosper, developed with Lionsgate.

“The shows are representative of our entire slate,” Stan Chief Content Officer Scobie said of the new originals in an exclusive interview with Deadline. “We back distinctive voices and tell Australia...

Jacob Elordi has been cast as the lead of “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” a limited series from Justin Kurzel and Shaun Grant.

The series, which has been in development at Fremantle for years and has now moved to Sony Pictures Television, is based on Richard Flanagan’s 2013 novel, which received critical acclaim and won the Booker Prize. Elordi will star in the adaptation as the main protagonist Dorrigo Evans, an Australian army surgeon imprisoned in a Thai-Burmese camp. The original novel jumps across multiple periods of Evans’ life, from his affair as a young man with his uncle’s wife to his experiences in the war to his days as an elderly man consumed with regret.

“It is great for Shaun and I to be collaborating with a talented actor like Jacob,” Kurzel said in a statement shared with press. “The Narrow Road to the Deep North needs a powerful leading presence,...

Jacob Elordi has signed on to lead Sony Pictures Television’s (Spt) forthcoming limited series, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North.”

The “Euphoria” actor will portray the series’ main character, Dorrigo Evans, described as “an army surgeon whose short but forbidden affair with Amy, the young wife of his uncle, sustains and haunts him through his darkest days as the reluctant leader of men held prisoner in a Thai-Burmese camp during WWII.” Elordi will return to his native Australia for the shoot.

Based on Richard Flanagan’s acclaimed novel of the same name, the five-part series is being developed by Spt’s Curio Pictures with Jo Porter as managing director and executive producer alongside Rachel Gardner, who also serves as creative director. Justin Kurzel will also direct and executive produce.

“It is thrilling to have Jacob Elordi join us on this project,” Porter said. “The character of Dorrigo Evans...

“Euphoria” star Jacob Elordi is attached to star in director Justin Kurzel’s and writer Shaun Grant’s adaptation of “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” based on Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning WWII novel of the same name.

Australian-based Curio Pictures managing director Jo Porter and creative director Rachel Gardner will executive produce the five-part series, Sony Pictures Television’s announced Wednesday.

Elordi will play army surgeon Dorrigo Evans, whose brief love affair with the young wife of his uncle sustains and haunts him through his darkest days as the reluctant leader of men held prisoner in a Thai-Burmese camp during WWII.

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“It is thrilling to have Jacob Elordi join us on this project. The character of Dorrigo Evans requires a multi-layered actor who can bring strength, sensitivity and charisma to the role – qualities Jacob has in spades.

Euphoria star Jacob Elordi is to lead Justin Kurzel and Shaun Grant’s limited series adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Kurzel and Grant’s adaptation had been in development with Fremantle for several years but Sony Pictures Television has taken rights and Sony’s recently-launched Australian label Curio Pictures will produce. Curio MD Jo Porter was initially exec producing for Fremantle before moving to Curio.

Elordi, who is best known for playing Nate in HBO smash hit Euphoria, will play Dorrigo Evans, an army surgeon whose brief love affair with Amy, the young wife of his uncle, sustains and haunts him through his darkest days as the reluctant leader of men prisoners in a Thai-Burmese camp during World War Two.

The book won the 2014 Booker Prize and was critically acclaimed for its themes of war, marriage and love.

Kurzel is directing,...

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Euphoria star Jacob Elordi is headed home for his next TV project.

The Australian actor has signed on to star in The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a limited series set during World War II that will film in his native country. The drama from Sony Pictures Television’s Curio Pictures is based on Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel.

Elordi will play Dorrigo Evans, an Australian army surgeon whose brief love affair with Amy, his uncle’s young wife, sustains and haunts him through his darkest days as the reluctant leader of men held prisoner in a Thai-Burmese camp during World War II. The series from writer Shaun Grant and director Justin Kurzel (True History of the Kelly Gang) is described as “an intimate character study, a depiction of both sides of war, an investigation into a marriage and a portrait of an unforgettable love affair.

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On April 28th 1996, a lone gunman killed 35 people and injured another 23 in Port Arthur, Tasmania. More than 25 years later, the aftermath of those events lives on, so that when director Justin Kurzel was first approached about a film on the subject, he was “hoping the script would be terrible” so that he could turn it down.

But having worked with writer Shaun Grant on both Snowtown and The True HistoryOf The Kelly Gang, he knew that wasn’t going to happen. The result is Nitram which, instead of concentrating on the actual shootings, traces the life of the gunman, especially his relationships with his parents and the eccentric woman he lived with, in the years leading up to the incident. Freda Cooper sat down with Kurzel to talk about the challenges that went with bringing the story to the screen and how it hit the headlines in Australia just after filming began.

Director Justin Kurzel’s new work, Nitram, adds to the cinema inspired by real mass shootings, with an approach to the life of the perpetrator of the shooting in Port Arthur, Australia, where 35 people were killed in April 1996. The creators of the film, Kurzel and writer Shaun Grant, had previously touched on similar tough topics. Their first collaboration, Snowtown, was also based on a violent real case that shook their country: that of John Bunting and his accomplices, including Jamie Vlassakis. Bunting is "Australia's worst serial killer," having been arrested in 1999 and eventually convicted of 11 murders. “Shaun seeded those two stories. Shaun and I had a similar upbringing,” Kurzel revealed in an interview with Screen Anarchy, adding that they both are “curious...

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The subject of violence is a thematic thread that runs through Australian director Justin Kurzel's work. His debut feature, Snowtown, based on Debi Marshall's book, Killing For Pleasure, explores the real life events in which a 16-year-old was indoctrinated into a culture of torture and murder by his mother's new boyfriend. He followed this with an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, before redirecting his gaze to the story of a gang of violent outlaws in 1870s Australia, in True History Of The Kelly Gang. His fifth feature, Nitram, adapted from a screenplay by Snowtown co-writer Shaun Grant, continues this trend, exploring the man and events that led to the 1996 mass shooting in Port Arthur, Australia.

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In conversation with Eye For Film, Kurzel discussed the inevitable challenges of directing a film that some people did not want to be made, while for a younger generation, it confronts.

In 2021, Australia marked the 25th anniversary of the worst mass shooting in the country’s history. That shooting happened in April 1996 when a young gunman went on a shooting spree, killing 35 and injuring many others. This event is the inspiration of the critically acclaimed film “Nitram” by famed Australian director Justin Kurzel and writer Shaun Grant.

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Directed by Justin Kurzel (True History Of The Kelly Gang, Snowtown Murders, MacBeth) and written by Shaun Grant (True History Of The Kelly Gang, Berlin Syndrome), Nitram stars Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Get Out, Heaven Knows What), Essie Davis (The Babadook, True History Of The Kelly Gang), Oscar Nominee Judy Davis (Husbands And Wives, Barton Fink, Naked Lunch), and Anthony Lapaglia (Empire Records, Without A Trace).

Nitram (Caleb Landry Jones) lives with his mother (Judy Davis) and father (Anthony Lapaglia) in suburban Australia in the Mid 1990s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never being able to fit in. That is until he unexpectedly finds a close friend in a reclusive heiress, Helen (Essie Davis). However, when...

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The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) announced the winners for the 11th annual Aacta International Awards, with Nicole Kidman nabbing her 7th Aacta award for her portrayal of Lucille Ball in “Being the Ricardos.”

Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” dominated the film categories with three wins — best film; best lead actor for Benedict Cumberbatch; and best supporting actor for Australian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee.

“Belfast” star Judi Dench won the best supporting actress prize, while “Dune” filmmaker Denis Villeneuve picked up the award for best direction in film. Aaron Sorkin won the screenplay prize for his “Being the Ricardos” script.

In the television categories, Kidman and Smit-McPhee’s fellow Australian, “The White Lotus” star Murray Bartlett was named best actor in a series, revealing his win exclusively to Variety’s Marc Malkin on his “Just For Variety” podcast.

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The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) today announced the nominees for its 11th Aacta International Awards with Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast and Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog leading the pack, at seven and six mentions, respectively. Each is up for Best Film, along with Dune, Being The Ricardos, Nitram and Licorice Pizza. (Scroll down for the full list.) The 2021 Aacta International Awards will be presented virtually at 7am January 27 Australia time, which is 12pm Pt January 26.

Celebrating the most outstanding film and television productions made this year, the awards are determined by many of Australia’s leading filmmakers and content creators.

This is the second year Aacta has extended the awards to include global TV across four categories. Succession and The White Lotus share the most series nominations with three a piece. Succession was recognized for Best Drama Series and for its Australian lead Sarah Snook,...

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) announced the nominations for their annual Aacta International Awards, with “Belfast” leading the pack of film nominations and “Succession” and “The White Lotus” as the top contenders for the TV awards.

“Belfast” picked up seven nominations, including best film; direction and screenplay nods for Kenneth Branagh; supporting actress nominations for Caitríona Balfe and Judi Dench; and supporting actor nods for Jamie Dornan and Ciarán Hinds.

Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” followed closely behind with six nods, with recognition for lead actor Benedict Cumberbatch; supporting actress Kirsten Dunst; supporting actor Kodi Smit-McPhee; and directing and screenplay nods for the New Zealand-born filmmaker.

In the TV categories, “Succession” (nominated for best drama series) and “The White Lotus” (best comedy series) each boast three nominations, including nods for their Australian lead actors Sarah Snook and Murray Bartlett, respectively. “Succession’s” Jeremy...

Controversial drama “Nitram” dominated the prizes at the Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts (Aacta) film awards on Wednesday. Leaving little room for celebration of any other achievement in the past year, “Nitram” swept to eight awards.

These included the most major prizes — best film, best directing and best original screenplay — as well as all four acting prizes.

The film painstakingly depicts the build-up to a real-life mass shooting that took place in Tasmania. Many people had questioned whether the events were too painful to be retold and whether making a film would make a hero of the perpetrator. “Nitram” deflected those criticisms by spelling the shooter’s name backwards and by avoiding any on-screen violence.

“Nitram” premiered in competition in Cannes in July and won the lucrative top prize at August’s CinefestOZ festival. It is now streaming on Stan, the Ott that was a backer of the project.

The Australian Academy Of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) has crowned its winners for 2021, with Justin Kurzel’s Nitram scooping the Best Film award among eight total prizes.

The movie, which debuted at Cannes, recounts the factors leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia. The pic also won Best Director for Kurzel, Best Lead Actor for Caleb Landry Jones, and Best Lead Actress for Judy Davis.

Presenting the Lead Actress prize, Sam Neill delivered one of the better jokes of the evening. Referencing the recent trend of dropping gender specific acting awards at ceremonies, Neill commented it was “a really bad idea” because“if men were put up against women actors they’d wipe the bloody floor with us”.

Nitram also picked up Best Supporting Actor for Anthony Lapaglia, Best Supporting Actress for Essie Davis, Best Original Screenplay for Shaun Grant, and Best Editing for Nick Fenton.

“High Ground,” a 1930s-set drama film, picked up eight nominations for the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards. It narrowly led the field of contenders that included controversial drama “Nitram” with seven nominations, “The Dry” with six and “Penguin Bloom” with five.

Nominations were announced over the weekend ahead of a week of voting. The winners will be announced at a ceremony at Sydney Opera House on Dec. 8, 2021.

Six films received nominations for best film: “The Dry,” “The Furnace,” “High Ground,” “Nitram,” “Penguin Bloom” and “Rams.” Five of the six also received nominations for best director.

“High Ground,” received five of its nominations for acting, with two of its performers going head-to-head in the best actor category, and two more in the best supporting actor section.

Similarly, “Nitram,” which chronicles the build-up to a real-life mass shooting in Tasmania, received nominations for its two leads and two supporting cast.

Aacta has revealed those in contention for the major film, television and short-form prizes at this year’s awards, with High Ground leading the charge in the film categories and The Newsreader ahead in television.

The nominations follow those revealed for feature documentary in July, with the technical craft categories still to come.

Aacta also announced today that this year’s awards will move from The Star to the Sydney Opera House, with the ceremony to be held December 8.

There has also been a change in broadcast partners from Seven to 10, where the ceremony will air first followed by an encore on Fox Arena on Foxtel, Binge, and Aacta TV.

High Ground has earned eight nominations, including Best Film. Also nominated for the night’s major prize are Nitram, which earned seven nods, The Dry, which has six, as well as The Furnace, Penguin Bloom and Rams.

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Grant, who won the adaptation prize with Cripps for Penguin Bloom in 2020 and for the True History of the Kelly Gang in 2019, is nominated this year for his work on Nitram, against the Here Out West writing team of Nisrine Amine, Bina Bhattacharya, Matias Bolla, Claire Cao, Arka Das, Dee Duygu Dogan, Vonne Patiag and Tien Tran; Falling for Figaro‘s Ben Lewin and Allen Palmer; and The Furnace‘s Roderick MacKay in the original feature film category.

Cripps and Robert Connolly have been recognised for The Dry, which is one of two nominees for the feature film adaptation award alongside Babyteeth, written for the screen by the original playwright Rita Kalnejais.

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Amid very few new releases, school holidays are thankfully providing welcome foot traffic for exhibitors, with almost every title getting a boost at the box office last weekend.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Free Guy and Paw Patrol: The Movie continue to lead the Bo, with notable boosts also seen for Ainbo: Amazon Princess, Space Jam: A New Legacy and Jungle Cruise.

Cinemas in Sydney and Melbourne remain closed, in addition to areas of regional Victoria, Nsw and the Act. However, Nsw exhibitors are set to reopen for fully vaccinated patrons October 11, while the Victorian roadmap is scheduled for October 26.

Majestic Cinemas CEO Kieren Dell, who has sites across regional Nsw and Queensland, describes the weekend as “lacklustre”, but is optimistic about the market picking up towards the end of the year.

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Jessie Hughes (Qld): Head Above Water (TV Series – half hour)

John Kachoyan (Vic): Gaia (Feature)

Drew Macdonald (Qld): Only One Survives (TV Series – hour)

Julia Moriarty (Nsw): Stony Rise (TV Series – hour)

Elena Pavli (Nsw): The Clinic 2200 (TV Series – half hour)

Felicity Price (Nsw): Bird Island (TV Series – hour)

Bradley Slabe (Vic): Owner’s Manual: Operation and Maintenance of the Human Body (Feature)

Ramon Watkins (Vic): Daddies (TV Series – half hour)

Harvey Zielinski (Vic): Sweet Milk Lake (Feature)

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Justin Kurzel’s Nitram has added another award to its festival run, crowned the winner of the $100,000 CinefestOZ film prize on Saturday evening.

The story about the lead-up to one of the darkest events in Australian history beat out Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson, anthology feature drama Here Out West, and Jennifer Peedom’s River for the honour, which was announced at the Closing Night Gala at Orana Cinema in Busselton.

It comes after star Caleb Landry Jones won best performance by an actor at the Cannes Film Festival in July, where Nitram became the first Australian film to premiere in competition in a decade.

Scripted by Kurzel’s frequent collaborator Shaun Grant, the film also features Judy Davis, Essie Davis, and Anthony Lapaglia.

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Caleb Landry Jones won the best actor award on the Croisette.

Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired UK-Ireland distribution rights to Justin Kurzel’s Cannes 2021 Competition title Nitram from Wild Bunch.

Caleb Landry Jones won the best actor prize at Cannes last month for his lead role in the film.

Directed by Kurzel from Shaun Grant’s screenplay, the film focuses on the events that led up to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia.The title is a backwards spelling of the first name of Martin John Bryant, who carried out the massacre, killing 35 people and injuring 23 others.

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The Port Arthur massacre, taking place April 28th, 1996 on the island state of Tasmania, is routinely commemorated as one of the darkest days in Australia’s post-colonial history. Perpetrator Martin Bryant, a 28-year-old man with severe learning disabilities, murdered 35 people and injured another 23 in a shooting spree across leisure areas in the town; he is currently incarcerated, serving 35 life sentences with no possibility of parole.

Approaching the 25th anniversary of the tragedy—and accompanied by a degree of public backlash in Australia—director Justin Kurzel has made Nitram, a fictionalized account of Bryant’s life before the murders and attempt to forensically investigate factors that fostered the atrocity. That it isn’t an exploitative embarrassment is a relief, but the film runs into some issues for seeking cast-iron certainties about something truly inexplicable. The four main performances—from Caleb Landry Jones as Nitram, Judy Davis and Anthony Lapaglia as the parents,...

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