The film The Dinner Party will screen at Dendy Cinemas in Canberra, after a successful debut at the National Film and Sound Archive.
“Trying to get this film into cinemas has been a hard push, mainly because we are unknown filmmakers, from a city [Canberra] that has seen little if any film come out of it and therefore an unknown market, but due to increasing demand for people to see it on the big screen, it will start screening at Dendy Canberra starting on February 21,” ” producer Brendan Sloane told Encore.
The fim’s national release through PackScreen was cancelled last year.
“After approaching many cinemas in Australia and not releasing as planned in 2010, I hooked up with Accent for a DVD release but held onto the cinema rights as I always believed this film would launch in Canberra,” explained Sloane. “The Nfsa gave me a premiere and a Saturday matinee; they...
“Trying to get this film into cinemas has been a hard push, mainly because we are unknown filmmakers, from a city [Canberra] that has seen little if any film come out of it and therefore an unknown market, but due to increasing demand for people to see it on the big screen, it will start screening at Dendy Canberra starting on February 21,” ” producer Brendan Sloane told Encore.
The fim’s national release through PackScreen was cancelled last year.
“After approaching many cinemas in Australia and not releasing as planned in 2010, I hooked up with Accent for a DVD release but held onto the cinema rights as I always believed this film would launch in Canberra,” explained Sloane. “The Nfsa gave me a premiere and a Saturday matinee; they...
- 2/18/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Dark, contemporary thriller The Dinner Party, starring Lara Cox of Australian TV shows Heartbreak High and Home and Away, is released on DVD in the UK this week.
Inspired by true events, the Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment release was nominated for Best Debut Feature at the 17th Raindance Film Festival 2009.
This Aussie production, written and directed by Scott Murden, centres on jealous, unstable Angela (Lara Cox) who plans a dinner party for her student friends.
What they don't know is that the night's deadly entertainment is an extra serving of suicide and murder.
Determined to end her life after the final course, Angela's friends watch as their hostess becomes obsessed with death.
Soon they realise that not all of them will be leaving the table as Angela does not plan to die alone. The question is: Who is she going to take with her?
Running time is 88minutes on the Certificate 15 release.
Inspired by true events, the Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment release was nominated for Best Debut Feature at the 17th Raindance Film Festival 2009.
This Aussie production, written and directed by Scott Murden, centres on jealous, unstable Angela (Lara Cox) who plans a dinner party for her student friends.
What they don't know is that the night's deadly entertainment is an extra serving of suicide and murder.
Determined to end her life after the final course, Angela's friends watch as their hostess becomes obsessed with death.
Soon they realise that not all of them will be leaving the table as Angela does not plan to die alone. The question is: Who is she going to take with her?
Running time is 88minutes on the Certificate 15 release.
- 7/13/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
“The Dinner Party” is an Australian independent feature that has enjoyed success on the festival circuit, having been an official selection at the Australian Film Festival and nominated for Best Debut Feature at Raindance in London in 2009. Apparently inspired by tragic true life events, the film marks the debut of writer director Scott Murden and has a few recognisable faces in the cast for soap opera fans, including Lara Cox (who featured in the popular series “Heartbreak High” and “Home and Away”) and Ben Seton (“Water Rats”). The film now arrives on region 2 DVD via Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment, coming with audio commentary from Murden. The film revolves around Angela (Lara Cox), a disturbed young woman whose turbulent relationship with long suffering boyfriend Joel seems to be heading for its end. Deciding to kill herself, she organises a dinner party for Joel and a handful of friends, planning to take at...
- 7/8/2010
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Take a seat and get ready to die, as courtesy of Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment we have three copies of Scott Murden’s Australian shocker The Dinner Party on DVD to give away to lucky UK fans.
Nominated for Best Debut Feature at the Raindance London Film Festival 2009, and supposedly inspired by true events, the synopsis for The Dinner Party is as follows:
Jealous and unstable, Angela (Lara Cox) plans a dinner party for her student friends - what they don’t know is that the night’s deadly entertainment is an extra serving of suicide and murder!
Determined to end her life after the final course, Angela’s friends watch as their hostess becomes obsessed with death. Soon they realise that not all of them will be leaving the table as Angela does not plan to die alone. The question is: Who is she going to take with her?
Accepting...
Nominated for Best Debut Feature at the Raindance London Film Festival 2009, and supposedly inspired by true events, the synopsis for The Dinner Party is as follows:
Jealous and unstable, Angela (Lara Cox) plans a dinner party for her student friends - what they don’t know is that the night’s deadly entertainment is an extra serving of suicide and murder!
Determined to end her life after the final course, Angela’s friends watch as their hostess becomes obsessed with death. Soon they realise that not all of them will be leaving the table as Angela does not plan to die alone. The question is: Who is she going to take with her?
Accepting...
- 6/11/2010
- by Pestilence
- DreadCentral.com
The Marine 2
Stars: Ted Dibiase, Temeura Morrison, Michael Rooker, Lara Cox | Written by Christopher Borrelli, John Chapin Morgan | Directed by Roel Reine
Recon sniper Jon Linwood (Dibiase) and his wife (Cox) take a five-star holiday in what they think is paradise. However his holiday is brutally interrupted when guerillas take control of a secluded five-star resort and demand a substantial ransom. As the captors start murdering hostages, Linwood must work against the clock and use his skills and experience to rescue the hotel guests and his wife from certain death.
An unrelated sequel to the John Cena-starring original, The Marine 2 bases it’s story on the real-life events of the Dos Palmos incident in 2001. This time out we get WWE wrestler Ted Dibiase in the lead role and whilst he is not as charismatic or as imposing as Cena was in the original, he does fit the role,...
Stars: Ted Dibiase, Temeura Morrison, Michael Rooker, Lara Cox | Written by Christopher Borrelli, John Chapin Morgan | Directed by Roel Reine
Recon sniper Jon Linwood (Dibiase) and his wife (Cox) take a five-star holiday in what they think is paradise. However his holiday is brutally interrupted when guerillas take control of a secluded five-star resort and demand a substantial ransom. As the captors start murdering hostages, Linwood must work against the clock and use his skills and experience to rescue the hotel guests and his wife from certain death.
An unrelated sequel to the John Cena-starring original, The Marine 2 bases it’s story on the real-life events of the Dos Palmos incident in 2001. This time out we get WWE wrestler Ted Dibiase in the lead role and whilst he is not as charismatic or as imposing as Cena was in the original, he does fit the role,...
- 4/12/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
The only real drawbacks with benchmark films the likes of Die Hard is that twenty years later you still have to suffer the shameless, pale imitations. Such is the case with this latest outing from silly action factory WWE Studios that trades an La tower block for a beach resort in the Philippines and snarling Eurocrats for non-specific separatists but otherwise owes John McTiernan's revered classic not so much a wink and a nod as dinner and a show.
Originally set to star the high-profile grappler Randy Orton, who was replaced by the lesser known Ted Dibiase Jr. (son of WWE legend The Million Dollar Man) following a dislocated shoulder, this generic exercise in crypto-fascist escapism is a sequel in name only to the decidedly average 2006 original. Dibiase stars as the hulking special forces marine Joe Linewood (who is not in the army! Got that? The marines have nothing to do with the army,...
Originally set to star the high-profile grappler Randy Orton, who was replaced by the lesser known Ted Dibiase Jr. (son of WWE legend The Million Dollar Man) following a dislocated shoulder, this generic exercise in crypto-fascist escapism is a sequel in name only to the decidedly average 2006 original. Dibiase stars as the hulking special forces marine Joe Linewood (who is not in the army! Got that? The marines have nothing to do with the army,...
- 1/6/2010
- by Neil Pedley
- JustPressPlay.net
Folks, I have seen the light. I was just ready to call The Hurt Locker one of the top three best films of the decade and easily the best film of 2009. Then, my life changed when I opened up a package to reveal The Marine 2. It couldn’t possibly be worse than the awful first film with a man who poison’s wrestling in John Cena, I thought. I was very, very happily wrong. The Marine 2 should have seen theatrical release as it’s so far greater than The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow should be ashamed of what she’s created.
Credit must be given to first-time actor Ted Dibiase Jr. for his outstanding performance as Joe Linwood. George Clooney? Psh, he’s nothing compared to the perfect, stiff Dibiase. He perfectly graduated from the Kristen Stewart School of Acting and it shows. He’s graceful with it,...
Credit must be given to first-time actor Ted Dibiase Jr. for his outstanding performance as Joe Linwood. George Clooney? Psh, he’s nothing compared to the perfect, stiff Dibiase. He perfectly graduated from the Kristen Stewart School of Acting and it shows. He’s graceful with it,...
- 1/2/2010
- by Philip Barrett
- ReelLoop.com
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