Puns grow knee-high – and in bawdier moments a bit higher – in Shucked, the new musical comedy that combines the winking hayseed humor of Green Acres and Hee Haw with the decidedly urban, gently subversive camp that peppered the Off Broadway scene in the ’90s with kitschy fare like Ruthless!, The Real Live Brady Bunch and Theatre-a-Go!-Go!’s Valley of the Dolls parody.
The musical comes by its unlikely spiritual DNA honestly, or however it can, through the combined and disparate talents of book writer Robert Horn and composers Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally.
Consider that pedigree for a moment: Horn won a Tony for 2019’s Tootsie, and has written for Dame Edna, Designing Women, Bette Midler and RuPaul. Clark and McAnally have stacked up a big barnful of CMA Awards, Grammys and country music hits. Together this trio is a match made in some bizarro Broadway cornfield of dreams,...
The musical comes by its unlikely spiritual DNA honestly, or however it can, through the combined and disparate talents of book writer Robert Horn and composers Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally.
Consider that pedigree for a moment: Horn won a Tony for 2019’s Tootsie, and has written for Dame Edna, Designing Women, Bette Midler and RuPaul. Clark and McAnally have stacked up a big barnful of CMA Awards, Grammys and country music hits. Together this trio is a match made in some bizarro Broadway cornfield of dreams,...
- 4/5/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Get Out..
Despite falling over 40 per cent, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 remains on top of the box office, earning almost $5 million over the weekend; an average of $7,875 per screen. The Disney title stars Australia's Elizabeth Debicki and has grossed $23 million in just two weeks..
Universal.s horror Get Out has debuted in second place, ringing up $1.9 million from 345 screens. With previews, the debut feature from comedian-turned-director Jordan Peele has made just under $2.9 million..
eOne tearjerker A Dog.s Purpose, which stars Dennis Quaid, has opened on 271 screens to make $1.2 million.
Behind it was The Fate of the Furious, which.dropped some 46 per cent to take $928,792 over its fourth weekend. The Universal film now sits on $27.4 million overall..
Now in its third week, Roadshow.s Going In Style brought in $580,556, taking its cume to $3.8 million.
Showing on just 51 screens, the Hindi version of Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, distributed by Eros Australia,...
Despite falling over 40 per cent, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 remains on top of the box office, earning almost $5 million over the weekend; an average of $7,875 per screen. The Disney title stars Australia's Elizabeth Debicki and has grossed $23 million in just two weeks..
Universal.s horror Get Out has debuted in second place, ringing up $1.9 million from 345 screens. With previews, the debut feature from comedian-turned-director Jordan Peele has made just under $2.9 million..
eOne tearjerker A Dog.s Purpose, which stars Dennis Quaid, has opened on 271 screens to make $1.2 million.
Behind it was The Fate of the Furious, which.dropped some 46 per cent to take $928,792 over its fourth weekend. The Universal film now sits on $27.4 million overall..
Now in its third week, Roadshow.s Going In Style brought in $580,556, taking its cume to $3.8 million.
Showing on just 51 screens, the Hindi version of Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, distributed by Eros Australia,...
- 5/8/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
(l-r) James Rolleston and Dean O.Gorman.
Kiwi director Matt Murphy grew up helping out on shoots with his filmmaker father Geoff.
Geoff made his feature debut with Goodbye Pork Pie in the early 80s. Murphy the younger worked on the film as a teenager before embarking on his own career as a gaffer, an art director and finally a director himself, based out of Sydney but shooting commercials globally.
Murphy has now made his own feature debut — with Pork Pie, a remake of his father.s film in Australian cinemas May 4.
The director began writing the screenplay, his first, five years ago, and describes his early drafts as .a bit too Hollywood..
.I wrote bigger car chases, more fantastic stunts,. Murphy tells If. .And then I realized films are about the characters, about people and their journeys. You can have the biggest event ever but if it.s not...
Kiwi director Matt Murphy grew up helping out on shoots with his filmmaker father Geoff.
Geoff made his feature debut with Goodbye Pork Pie in the early 80s. Murphy the younger worked on the film as a teenager before embarking on his own career as a gaffer, an art director and finally a director himself, based out of Sydney but shooting commercials globally.
Murphy has now made his own feature debut — with Pork Pie, a remake of his father.s film in Australian cinemas May 4.
The director began writing the screenplay, his first, five years ago, and describes his early drafts as .a bit too Hollywood..
.I wrote bigger car chases, more fantastic stunts,. Murphy tells If. .And then I realized films are about the characters, about people and their journeys. You can have the biggest event ever but if it.s not...
- 5/3/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
The New Zealand Film Commission has named the recipients of its one-off business development scheme Boost, with total funding of more than $NZ450,000.
The scheme is designed to accelerate the slates of active producers and to enable screen businesses to move films more quickly into production.
Applicants were invited to apply for $NZ50,000 - $NZ130,000 per business. At least 50 per cent of the money must be allocated to third party development costs and the commission expects the entire amount to be spent within 12-18 months.
The recipients are Jump Film and Television, Centron Pictures, Pop Film, Four Knights Film and Firefly Films.
Making the announcement at the Big Screen Symposium conference, Nzfc CEO Dave Gibson, said that screen companies in New Zealand are growing in number and scale and he expects the five Boost companies will contribute to this growth.
Founded by Robin Scholes, Jump Pictures is completing Lee Tamahori...
The scheme is designed to accelerate the slates of active producers and to enable screen businesses to move films more quickly into production.
Applicants were invited to apply for $NZ50,000 - $NZ130,000 per business. At least 50 per cent of the money must be allocated to third party development costs and the commission expects the entire amount to be spent within 12-18 months.
The recipients are Jump Film and Television, Centron Pictures, Pop Film, Four Knights Film and Firefly Films.
Making the announcement at the Big Screen Symposium conference, Nzfc CEO Dave Gibson, said that screen companies in New Zealand are growing in number and scale and he expects the five Boost companies will contribute to this growth.
Founded by Robin Scholes, Jump Pictures is completing Lee Tamahori...
- 10/11/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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