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Introducing Morgan O’Neill
In 2005 Morgan won one million dollars on the first reality TV series, through the PROJECT GREENLIGHT Award, which he then used to make his film, SOLO. The TV Series was a big hit and the end product – the feature film SOLO, with Bojana Novakovic and Colin Friels garnered three FCCA award nominations, including Best Screenplay. Since moving to Hollywood he has written and directed THE FACTORY, starring John Cusack. His most recent film DRIFT starring Sam Worthington, Xavier Samuel is being released by Hopscotch in Australia...
read moreMorgan O’Neill to direct Banjo & Matilda
The development stage of the feature film making business for a producer means undertaking a series of meetings. Meetings with distributors, meetings with financiers and meetings with potential suitors for the crew. For the past few months, Banjo & Matilda had been focussed on hunting down the perfect director that could capably bring life and ferocity to a big story yet still have the tenacity to take on a big budget production, and that certainly is never a small task. It is so important to find the right chemistry between director,...
read moreSingapore Sunset: Roland Joffe and Asia
Bill has built a strong team to keep this SINGAPORE SUNSET dream alive. Roland Joffe has agreed to direct this $40+ million WW2 epic, he has brought on board a strong support group of Hollywood players – his agent Jeff Berg, his manager Craig Baumgarten and the man who know’s more about East-Meets-West film production than most, Andre Morgan. Together they are building a reputation for the project and creating a thirst for equity investment and presales. Jeff Berg, has created his new talent agency RESOLUTION with Roland as...
read moreHollywood in the outback
Bill and co Producer Mandaley Perkins are working with screen writer David Roach to get the right balance between History and Hollywood. While the film has to have all the excitement of an action Western, it cannot destroy the legend of this Banjo Paterson and the song he wrote, which has become an Australian Treasure and an international favourite. Also still difficult to get right is the love triangle between Banjo and the two women in his life at the time of writing the song in Outback Queensland in 1895. This needs such a delicate...
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It was a grand weekend in Winton, with the 100th year anniversary of Waltzing Matilda on Saturday 6 April, 2013. The commemorations were most likely the most jovial in the town that the tune was arguably born, Winton QLD. Lucky Country Productions producer, Bill Leimbach was invited to be a keynote speaker at this momentous occasion, where he presented the company’s next film, BANJO & MATILDA, a story that is based on Banjo Paterson and the birth of Waltzing Matilda. The event was packed out with high powered media and business...
read moreWaltzing Matilda Day – 6 April 2013
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Waltzing Matilda at the first venue to publicly perform the tune – The North Gregory Hotel in Winton. In 1895, Banjo Paterson and his fiance, local Winton girl from Vindex Station, Sarah Riley, visited Winton. The great shearers’ strike was just over. Pastoralists like the Macpherson family on Dagworth Station were busy running merino sheep to produce the finest wool in the world. When Banjo and Sarah arrived in Winton, Sarah met her school mate, Christina Macpherson, and Christina invited...
read moreTHE NEW SCRIPT – Banjo & Matilda
Banjo and Matilda is a love triangle between Banjo Paterson, the fiancé he brought with him to Outback Queensland, in pursuit of a hot story for the Bulletin – and the woman with whom he writes the now famous song WALTZING MATILDA. David Roach has now completed the third draft of the script that weaves them romantically and dramatically through this wonderful time in Australia’s folklore – 1895. Producer Bill Leimbach is working with Line Producer, Dennis Kiely, searching the best locations for the hide and seek drama that...
read moreABC QLD – “Who will play Banjo Paterson?”
18 October, 2012 1:13PM AEST Who will play Banjo Paterson? By Blythe Seinor The producers of a $15 million film, which is set to be shot in Western Queensland, are believed to be in talks with “A-list” Australian stars. Filming on the movie about Banjo Paterson’s life is expected to begin in Winton in July or August of 2013. North Gregory Hotel owner Clive Kitchen met with film producer Bill Leimbach when he was recently in Winton, and learnt the names of the stars on the producer’s wish-list. Mr Kitchen...
read moreBill and Mandaley Perkins to Winton for re-opening of North Gregory.
Bill Leimbach was invited to the re-opening of the iconic North Gregory Hotel in Winton during the 14th & 15th September. The hotel is being taken over by Clive Kitchen, who has spent considerable time in restoring the hotel, as it holds significant value for Australian history through Banjo Paterson and Waltzing Matilda. Also traveling with him was Mandaley Perkins who is the new Executive Producer of Banjo & Matilda. They took advantage of the visit, and further investigated the landscapes of Winton, Queensland for this...
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