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In ‘These Final Hours’ You Give Worldwide Rights To XYZ

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Posted by EvanDickson on January 28, 2013 @ 11:20am
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Nathan Phillips (Wolf Creek) and Daniel Henshall (Snowtown) will star in first time feature writer-director Zak Hilditch’s These Final Hours, which is just now entering post production.

Now Scree Daily is reporting that XYZ has picked up worldwide rights to the film. Celluloid Nightmares is set to handle sales at the upcoming EFM. Hilditch’s short, “Transmission,” screened in Tribeca in 2011. His collaborator on that project, Liz Kearney, is producing These Final Hours.

In the film, “Phillips plays a self-obsessed young guy who makes his way to the party-to-end-all-parties on the last day on Earth but ends up saving the life of a young girl who’s searching for her father.”

The cast also includes Australian actresses Jessica De Gouw (“Kath & Kimderella”) and Sarah Snook (Lionsgate’s Jessabelle).

The film shot in Perth last year.

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[TV] NBC’s “Dracula” Sinks Its Teeth Into Mina

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Posted by EvanDickson on January 18, 2013 @ 11:02am
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Backin June NBC has gave a 10-episode straight-to-series order to “Dracula,” with “The Tudors” star Jonathan Rhys Meyers (pictured) set to play the iconic vampire. Now (via Deadline) they’ve cast Jessica de Gouw (pictured above; “Arrow”) as the female lead, Mina Murray (not Harker, but that’s explained in the synopsis).

Based on an idea by Krantz, “Dracula” is set in the 1890s and has been described as “Dangerous Liaisons” meets “The Tudors”.

The NBC/Sky Living series, “Centers on Dracula (Meyers), who arrives in London posing as American entrepreneur Allen Grayson, who maintains that he wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. In reality, he hopes to wreak revenge on the people who ruined his life centuries earlier, but he falls hopelessly in love with a woman who seems to be a reincarnation of his dead wife. De Gouw will play that woman, Mina Murray, a striking medical student who is engaged to Jonathan Harker but upon meeting Grayson both are instantly mesmerized by the other’s uncanny resemblance to someone from their past.”