EXCLUSIVE: Lydia West, Abbie Cornish and Brooke Satchwell are amongst high-profile performing expertise main Stan‘s tenth anniversary slate, we are able to reveal.
The Australian streamer is at this time unveiling its newest TV collection, movies and acquisitions at a splash showcase occasion held at Linseed Home on the Grounds of Alexandria in Sydney. In complete, it unveiled 14 originals — three drama collection, six options and 5 docs — together with a bunch of acquisitions.
On the originals entrance, Stan’s Chief Content material Officer Cailah Scobie and Head of Originals Amanda Duthie are asserting the likes of He Had It Coming, Love Divided By Eleven and Whale Shark Jack, with Dutch director Paul Verhoeven co-writing a horror-comedy collection, Gnomes.
He Had it Coming stars Lydia West (It’s a Sin), Natasha Liu Bordizzo (Ahsoka: Star Wars) and Liv Hewson (Yellowjackets). It follows Elise (West), an ungainly English scholarship pupil who types an unlikely alliance with trend influencer Barbara (Liu Bordizzo) after a collection of mishaps with males. Drunk, in the dark they deface a state of their college’s male founder, after which get up to seek out out a star rugby participant has been murdered and displayed on the foot of their political protest. Detective Shepherd (Hewson) begind following the breadcrumbs they try to brush up.
It’s created and written by Gretel Vella and Craig Anderson (Double The Fist), with writers Emme Hoy (Renegade Nell), Belinda King (Wellmania), Nicholas Cole (Bump) and Hannah Samuel (The Heights). Directed by Rachel Home (Mountain) and Anne Renton (The Good Physician). Jungle Leisure is the producer, and Vella (Completely Utterly High-quality), Chloe Rickard (Inhabitants 11), Shay Spencer (Wakefield), Bridget Callow-Wright (Inhabitants 11), Robert Taylor and Ellie Gibbons are exec producers. Stan exec producers are Scobie, who referred to as the present “a intelligent and sharp exploration of gender politics” and Brown. Fifth Season has worldwide gross sales rights.
Six-part drama Love Divided By Eleven comes from writer-directors Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope, and stars Satchwell (Black Snow), alongside Eleanor Matsuura (The Strolling Useless), Ryan Johnson (Physician Physician), Ben Lawson (Firefly Lane), Annie Maynard (Higher Center Bogan), Daniel Henshall (A Sunburnt Christmas), Kerry Armstrong (Nugget is Useless: A Christmas Story), Megan Sensible (Black Snow) and Khisraw Jones-Shukoor (The Newsreader).
Filmed throughout Victoria in Ballarat, Melbourne and Yarra Valley, it follows Lillian (Satchwell), a widow coming to phrases with the demise of her fiancee who finds consolation in looking for out the recipients of his organs. Scobie mentioned: “Tender and heartfelt, Love Divided by Eleven exemplifies Stan’s dedication to championing premium native productions.”
Gristmill is the producer, marking its first present for Stan. Government producers are Butler, Hope and Greg Sitch, alongside Scobie and Brown, with MaryAnne Carroll the producer. Worldwide gross sales have gone to Hat Trick Worldwide. It should premiere later this yr.
Comedy-horror collection Gnomes is ready to enter manufacturing this yr. It comes from Joel Kohn, who will produce alongside Whole Fiction producers John Molloy (Barons) and Richard Kelly (The Tailings). Writers are Tegan Higginbotham and Fundamental Intuition and Showgirls director Verhoeven.
In keeping with the synopsis, the collection is ready in a fading nation city, which fiunds itself beneath siege by a military of murderous backyard gnomes on the eve of a Gnome-a-Palooza competition. Two cops, a former couple, are pressured to workforce up with a motley crew of locals to save lots of their residence from a ‘gnome-apocalypse.’
Sequence shall be a global co-production, of which Stan has turn out to be one of many world’s most necessary gamers. Whole Fiction and Display screen Invaders are making it alongside co-producers Completely satisfied Accidents from the U.S. and Community Film in Germany. Completely satisfied Accidents is dealing with worldwide distribution and landed the pre-sale with Community Film. Scobie and Donna Chang are EPs for Stan.
On the movie entrance, Stan confirmed a number of Stan Unique-branded pics, together with the additions of buzzy Ruben Österlund movie The Leisure System is Down and Russell Crowe martial arts pic Beast in Me. Whale Shark Jack, a household characteristic movie is at the moment in manufacturing in Western Australia, time-loop comedy One Extra Shot, billed as a “rom-com gone improper” set within the Nineteen Nineties and starring Emily Browning (Legend), and the Midori Francis-starrer Saccharine, which we instructed you about in December. Bump: A Christmas Movie will observe the Bump household who starred in Stan TV collection and stars Nathalie Morris, Carlos Sanson Jr. and Claudia Karvan.
On the docs entrance, Stan has unveiled the most recent 5 originals in its Revealed strand. Amongst them is characteristic doc Zyzz & Chestbrah: The Poster Boys, concerning the rise of bodybuilders and web sensations Aziz and Stated, aka Zyzz and Chestbrah. Gal Greenspan of Sweetshop & Inexperienced and Tom Blackwell of Olympia Photos.
4-part collection Into the Evening is an investigation into on of Australia’s baffling crimes. Directed by Janine Hosking and Katrina McGowan, the producers of Easy methods to Poison a Planet and A Horse Named Winx, it comes from iKandy Movies.
Function doc Craig Bellamy: Contained in the Storm, from Whooska Media, appears to be like on the lifetime of nice NRL coach Craig Bellamy, who has ended 21 of twenty-two seasons teaching in finals campaigns, as he goals to steer Melbourne Storm to success in 2024.
One other characteristic doc is Joh: Final King of Queensland, which appears to be like at controversial political chief Joh Bjelke-Petersen, whose iron grip over Queenslanders within the twentieth Century ended after an inquiry unveiled an unlimited net of corruption. To keep away from going through his celebration, Parliament and the press, he locked himself in his workplace when uncovered. Richard Roxburgh will play Bjelke-Petersen within the doc, which is from Kriv Stenders and Matthew Condon. WildBear Leisure is the producer and has worldwide gross sales rights.
Lastly, Dying Cap is a three-part collection about Erin Patterson, the lady who’s standing trial for homicide and tried homicide by poisoning friends at a seemingly peculiar household lunch with deadly mushrooms, often called demise caps. Gil Marsden is the director, with Dreamchaser, Den of Martians and Fifth Season co-producing. Fifth Season has international gross sales rights.
Acquisitions unveiled at this time embrace crime drama Lengthy Vivid River starring Amanda Seyfried; courtroom drama The Rainmaker, which is primarily based on John Grisham’s best-selling novel; science fiction thriller The Institute, primarily based on the Stephen King novel; documentary Kevin Costner’s The West; and British espionage thriller Secret Service. One other main seize isRichard Gadd’s new present Half Man, which additionally stars Jamie Bell.
On the movie entrance, Stan has bagged unique SVOD rights to Oscar-nominated Donald Trump characteristic The Apprentice, Australia’s award-winning animated movie Memoir of a Snail with Sarah Snook and Eric Bana, and Western Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 with Kevin Costner.
Additional bulletins
Different bulletins made on the Stan showcase embrace casting for psychological thriller collection collection Watching You, which premieres this yr. It follows a lady who units out to unmask an insidious voyeur who threatens to destroy her life after a passionate one-night stand is captured by hidden cameras. Aisha Dee (Protected House) has landed the lead function, with Josh Helman (Mad Max: Fury Street), Chai Hansen (Inhabitants 11), Laura Gordon (Lodge Cocaine), Olivia Vásquez (Sloth Lane) and Luke Cook dinner (Good Cop/Unhealthy Cop) additionally starring.
Scrublands: Silver, the second season of the Scrublands drama collection, additionally has a trailer (see under). It will likely be on a slate additionally together with the likes of ITV drama The Hack; Season 2 of BBC co-pro Ten Pound Poms; The CW and Roku collection Good Cop/Unhealthy Cop, which premieres in Australia this Thursday; Season 2 of Natasha Lyonne-starrer Poker Face; Season 3 of relationship present Love Triangle; Revealed: Malk Leifer; Nicolas Cage movie The Surfer; and one other British drama collection, Lord of the Flies.
The likes of Satchwell, Claudia Karvan, Natalie Erika James, Madeleine Madden, Michael Atkinson, Morgan Turinui, Matt Burke and Tyson Pedro attended the occasion, which was led by Stan’s performing Managing Director, Dan Taylor.
Stan has been a significant participant each domestically and internationally, as Australia broadcasters and streamers struggle for place in a market the place program and filmmakers stay involved for the longer term, and Binge proprietor Foxtel is within the means of an intriguing sale to DAZN. With co-pro cash within the U.S. drying up, producers inform us the 9 Leisure-owned subscription streamer has persistently paid into initiatives from States and the UK, in addition to ordering a constant stream of movies and collection immediately out of Australia.
“Inside a quickly evolving and aggressive panorama, Stan has strengthened itself as one of the crucial profitable single territory SVODs on the earth,” mentioned Taylor. “From premium Stan Originals corresponding to Black Snow and Thou Shalt Not Steal, which delighted critics and audiences alike, to acquired international hits like Yellowstone, Hacks and Twisted Steel, and a world-class sport providing together with Rugby, Grand Slam Tennis and the Olympic and Paralympic Video games, we proceed to supply our subscribers with excellent native and worldwide content material.
“Over the previous ten years, we’ve introduced Australian tales to international audiences and solidified our place as the most important commissioner of Australian drama. We stay up for the following decade of display storytelling on Stan.”
Scobie, who has overseen Stan’s content material slate since Might 2021, added: “Following ten years of championing distinctive storytelling for Australian audiences, Stan continues to fee premium Unique productions and purchase the most effective in worldwide leisure. From drama and comedies to options, documentaries and actuality tv, we stay dedicated to fostering rising and established creatives and partnering with the world’s greatest studios and distributors to convey probably the most anticipated content material to our subscribers. As we glance to the following ten years, and past, we are going to proceed to attach with our audiences and showcase Australian storytelling at its easiest.”
