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BrianWilson and the makers of Love & Mercy back new mental health initiative.
Although Steven Soderbergh did serve as a
cinematographer on Magic Mike XXL, for now
he looks as if he is sticking to his pledge to
concentrate only on television. As well as a
second season of his period medical drama The
Knick, this month will see the premiere in the
US of new comedy series Red Oaks, which
follows the adventures of a young
tennis pro at an exclusive country
club in the ‘80s. Soderbergh is
executive producing the series
with David Gordon Green
(Pineapple Express). The
iconic indie director is
also working on a 13
part anthology series
based on his film The
Girlfriend Experience,
which will explore
the relationships of
high class escorts who
provide their clients with
far more than just sex.
Magic Mike XXL is out on
October 21
NEW VOICE DIMENSIONS FOR LEGO
A s well as a charity concert in
November for Give an Hour, a
national nonprofit organization
providing free mental health services to the
military and veteran community, Wilson and
the team behind the biopic Love & Mercy –
which is out this month on DVD and Blu-ray
– have pledged to help promote the work of
the Campaign to Change Direction, which is
encouraging all Americans to put as much
care into their mental well-being as they do
into their physical health.
“My wife Melinda and I are very excited
to be a part of this important campaign,”
Wilson says. “It’s time for us to bring the
conversation of mental health in America
out of the shadows, and Change Direction is
leading the way.”
Wilson struggled for decades with mental
issues and those battles are central to Love
& Mercy, which looks both at his major
breakdown in the mid-60s and his later
attempts to break free from the care of a
controversial psychiatrist Dr Eugene Landy.
The former Beach Boy – who is played
by both Paul Dano and John Cusack – has
given the thumbs up to director Bill Pohlad’s
account of his life.
“Bill paid so much attention to the details
and made everything perfect,” he says. “My
favorite scenes in the movie are the ones set
in the studio where I’m producing the record.
It brought back so many wonderful memories
of working with great musicians like Hal
Blaine and the Wrecking Crew.”
He also approved of the soundtrack,which
has just been released and is made up mainly
of Beach Boys classics and a new score from
Atticus Ross, who won an Oscar – along with
Trent Reznor – for The Social Network.
However, Wilson did contribute an original
song to the film, the appropriately titled One
Kind of Love.
“It’s about Melinda and me,” he says. “The
song is about the way we fell in love and the
way we are in love. Love is timeless in the
same way great music is timeless and this is
an expression of that.”
Love & Mercy is out on October 28; the soundtrack
album is out now
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Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Gary Oldman
are just some of the many stars lending their voices to
LEGO Dimensions. The game features 14 fan-favourite
universes from games, film and television, and will
include principal voice actors reprising some of their
most well-known roles. Alongside the wonders from
Back To The Future, Chris Pratt returns to voice The
LEGO Movie ’s Emmet and Jurassic World’s Owen,
Elizabeth Banks can be heard as Wyldstyle, and Gary
Oldman embodies the game’s antagonist - Lord Vortech.
And from Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman
and Michelle Gomez voice their respective roles.
LEGO Dimensions is out on now on Xbox One,
PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii U.
Television New Zealand has unveiled a strong
line-up of homegrown dramas and comedies
for 2016, including the broadcaster’s first ever
multi-night series.
Filthy Rich is a new local drama from Rachel
Lang and Gavin Strawhan (Outrageous Fortune,
Nothing Trivial), and follows the stories of three
illegitimate children who discover they each
have a claim to the fortune of one of New
Zealand’s wealthiest men. The network says the
show will get multiple screenings each week,
something which has only ever been done for
reality shows. Also premiering from Lang and
Strawhan in 2016 will be Dirty Laundry, in which
a wealthy family have to cope with a major
drop in finances when the matriarch is jailed
for money laundering. Other new local shows
confirmed for next year are a major new drama
series about Sir Edmund Hillary, 800 Words, a
Trans-Tasman co-production about an Australian
columnist starting a new life in NZ, and The Cul
de Sac, a mystery series centred on a group
of teenagers who wake to a world where the
adults have mysteriously disappeared.
Love & Mercy
Red Oak
Magic Mike XXL