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Antonia Prebble : The Cure Trailer

Antonia Prebble stars in the movie The Cure, which is currently in its final stages of production.

David Gould, the man behind the movie has been signed to an American agency. Hopefully he will find a distributor for the film in the US.

For more info on the movie, please visit the official website @ thecuremovie.com.

Miriama Smith : On The BBC Tonight

Miriama Smith (Moz in The Tribe 3) will be on BBC 1 tonight as they are showing the NZ TV drama Stolen.

UPDATE. Click here to view it on iPlayer.

It will be shown early on Tuesday morning at 00:15 (a quarter past midnight) on BBC ONE/BBC ONE HD. Hopefully it’ll be on iPlayer if you miss it and want to.

I uploaded some video clips back when it was shown in New Zealand in 2010. Here is one of them:
There is another video clip here.

Fleur Saville in Liz And Dick

Fleur Saville Liz and Dick - Linday Lohan

Fleur Saville will appear in Liz & Dick, an American TV movie starring Lindsay Lohan in the lead role as Elizabeth Taylor and New Zealand actor Grant Bowler as Richard Burton.

Fleur Saville will appear as the character called Sally Hay, which her acting agency profile confirms. We’ve also spotted some recently added profile pics on her iMDB, check them out!

Antonia Prebble : The Cure : Interview

Antonia Prebble - The Cure - David Gould

In November 2011 Antonia Prebble was interviewed with TV3 News about new movie The Cure, which at the time she was filming. The movie itself is aimed at an American audience.

It’s a lovely mini interview where she talks about getting to terms with scientific tongue twisters! Check it out…

The Last Dogs Of Winter : Arrives In UK

The Last Dogs of Winter Caleb Ross, Brian Ladoon

Documentary The Last Dogs Of Winter, which features Caleb Ross, will be showing in Glasgow, as part of the Glasgow Film Festival.

The film will be shown at 3:30PM on Thursday 23rd February at the Glasgow Film Theatre. Tickets are £8. To book tickets, click here.

Brian Ladoon is the kind of wilderness man who seems tailor-made for a Werner Herzog film. In 1976, Ladoon began a lifelong mission to protect and preserve the beautiful Canadian Eskimo dog qimmiq which is the rarest registered breed of dog in the world. The dogs once numbered in their thousands but had been reduced to hundreds by the late 1970s. The Last Dogs of Winter tells Ladoon’s story and that of Caleb Ross, a young New Zealand actor who travelled to Churchill, Manitoba in search of adventure and stayed three years. An inspirational documentary with awe-inspiring footage of the landscapes, the dogs and the polar bears who share their territory. This film will screen with beautiful animated short Amaqqut Nunaat (The Country of Wolves, 11min), winner of the prestigious Best Short Drama and Best Emerging Artist awards at the ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival 2011. Part of Glasgow Film Festival 2012: The Edge of the World.

Michelle Ang : Attends Chinese Film Festival

Michelle Ang with Roseanne Liang and Cheng Pei Pei

Roseanne Liang with actors Cheng Pei Pei and Michelle Ang in China

Michelle Ang joined My Wedding And Other Secrets director Roseanne Liang and fellow cast member Cheng Pei Pei at the 20th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival in China. The movie which stars Michelle Ang and Matt Whelan was a finalist in the Chinese ‘Oscars’.

Michelle Nominated For Best Actress Award…
In other news the film is nominated for five awards in the Aotearoa Film and Television Awards (AFTAs); Michelle Ang is nominated in the Best Lead Actress in a Feature Film, best of luck to Michelle. The other awards the film is up for are: Best Feature Film, Best Director in a Feature Film (Roseanne Liang), Best Lead Actor in a Feature Film (Matt Whelan) and Best Screenplay for a Feature Film (Roseanne Liang & Angeline Loo).

The awards ceremony will take place on 12th November.

Caleb Ross : Last Dogs Of Winter @ TIFF

Caleb Ross with The Last Dogs Of Winter team

Caleb Ross attended the Toronto International Film Festival 2011 for the world premiere of the documentary The Last Dogs Of Winter, in which he features and had creative input.

The movie, which premiered at TIFF on September 9th, received a standing ovation from a capacity filled showing of the documentary. The ovation was received when director Costa Botes with film subjects Brian Ladoon and Caleb Ross went to the stage for a Q & A session. (Source: Stuff.co.nz)

Variety.com gave a positive review on the documentary, describing it as an “Intimate, gorgeously rendered docu… Costa Botes intelligently surveys Ladoon’s quixotic mission, the numerous obstacles he faces, and the uneasy co-existence of man, animal and nature in the small town of Churchill (pop. 873). A wilderness lover’s delight, “Dogs” reps a shoo-in for cablers, fests and the cinematheque circuit.”

Speaking to Helen Barlow of the New Zealand Herald, Caleb said the following, “The film received a standing ovation and I have to admit I was a little choked up. The Q & A session went very well. People were coming up to us saying it’s a great movie, very moving and very informative, so I couldn’t have asked for any better. One of the comments Costa got from the crowd was that it’s funny [for Canadians] to be taught about their native heritage by a Kiwi. I guess it’s one of those issues that not a lot of people know about, which is why this story needed to be told”.

As usual, for the latest news on the film visit the official website/blog for The Last Dogs Of Winter. With thanks to Hil for the info. Cheers :) There’s still allot of articles out there on the doc, it’s worth googling and checking out.

Antonia Prebble : The Cure

Antonia Prebble has landed the lead role in New Zealand movie The Cure. In the movie Antonia will play the role of a biochemist named Beth Wakefield. The film will be shot in Wellington this November.

Movie synopsis:
“The film is about a young female researcher [Beth] whose life is in danger when she discovers the pharmaceutical company she works for had developed a cure for cancer many years earlier. They haven’t released it because that would destroy their chemotherapy drug sales. She must now escape and release the cure to the world while the company tries to stop her.”

Also cast in the movie are, Stephen Lovatt (Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, Xena: Warrior Princess) as Ted [a man who must decide how far he's willing to go to save his dying son] and John Bach (The Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia).

To keep up to date on the movie, and for job opportunities, check out the website here, the Facebook page and Twitter. The film is by David Gould Studios, for more insight into the movie, check out the article from Screen Hub posted here.

Michelle Ang in The Beaver : Pictures

Yay, with thanks to Marie, here’s some pics of the awesome Michelle Ang in movie The Beaver:

Here’s a bit about Michelle’s appearance in the film by Marie:
In the movie Michelle appears briefly in a scene at the start where Jodie Foster’s character Meredith Black is working at home [Jodie also directed the film]. Michelle Ang is shown on Meredith’s computer screen as a Japanese translator. We can’t hear what she says as there is a voice over in the scene talking about Meredith’s dedication to her job working on Japanese rollercoasters/theme park. Michelle’s appearance is one of those blink and you’ll miss it moments! She is also uncredited at the end of the movie. But it was great to see her and the film is pretty good too if you like character movies/family dramas. Mel Gibson plays Walter Black, the lead role, in the movie.

The Beaver is out now on DVD in America, click here to check it out. It is released in Germany (Der Biber) on October 6th (info here) and in the UK on October 10th (info here).

Fleur Saville : Tangiwai [2011] Movie : Video Clip

Tangiwai, a TV movie made for TVNZ, was broadcast on Sunday 14th August 2011. The film featured Fleur Saville (The Tribe’s Ruby) as the character Eva Peacocke, a friend/confident to the lead female character Nerissa Love, played by Rose McIver.

Check out a video clip featuring Fleur Saville, Rose McIver and Ryan O’Kane (as Bob Blair) in the Tangiwai:

Fleur is definitely looking fab post Shortland Street, where she became a household name in her role as Libby Jeffries. The movie was a dramatisation of a true account of one persons life, which was affected by the Tangiwai traincrash in New Zealand in 1953.

We previously mentioned the production and Fleur’s appearance in it in February.
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