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COUNTRY
CALENDAR
MARVEL AT THE
MARVEL LINE-UP
South Pacific Pictures and Prime Television
are still awaiting confirmation on funding
for a second season of The Brokenwood
Mysteries, but both are keen to make more
episodes.
In the meantime, fans of the series will
be able to revisit the first four standalone
telefeatures when the first season is released
on DVD this month.
The Brokenwood Mysteries is the first
homegrown whodunit series in yonks and
stars Neill Rea (Go Girls) as an eccentric big
city policeman DI Mike Shepherd who takes a
new job in the seemingly sleepy small country
town of the title.
Fern Sutherland (The Almighty Johnsons)
plays his sidekick Detective Kristin Sims, while
other regulars include Miriama McDowell (The
Dark Horse), Pana Hema Taylor (The Dead
Lands) and Nic Sampson (Step Dave).
Incidentally, The Brokenwood Mysteries
also features a fab soundtrack featuring some
of our best alt country musicians – in the
show, Shepherd is a huge country music fan.
Among those who feature prominently in the
series are Tami Neilson, who recently won
this year’s Silver Scroll for Walk (Back to Your
Arms) from her album Dynamite, and Delaney
Davidson, who is currently on tour promoting
his latest album Swim Down Low.
T his month sees the DVD and Blu-ray
release of the latest addition to its
blockbuster comic book collection,
Guardians Of The Galaxy, and Marvel has just
announced that a sequel will now arrive in
cinemas in May 2017.
However, there is heaps more marvellous
Marvel stuff to come before that. As previously
announced, the next biggie will be Avengers:
Age Of Ultron, which will reunite Iron Man,
Captain America, Thor, etc to take on the
notorious super-villain (played by James Spader).
It is due on the big screen next May and will
be followed in July by Ant-Man, which will star
Paul Rudd as one of the lesser known Marvel
superheroes.
2016 will see another new Marvel hero on
the big screen in the shape of Doctor Strange,
with Benedict Cumberbatch rumoured to be in
the frame to play the crime-fighting neuro-
surgeon. Iron Man and Captain America will also
return, but this time as adversaries in Captain
America: Civil War, which will also introduce the
Black Panther, who will be played by Chadwick
Boseman (Get On Up).
The latter will get a solo screen adventure in
2017, along with the third Thor movie, Ragnarok,
and the aforementioned Guardians Of The
Galaxy sequel.
2018, meanwhile, brings the release of
Avengers: Infinity War, Part 1, in which the
superhero team face their most dangerous
adversary yet, Thanos. Part 2 has been
earmarked for 2019, but before that, fans can
look forward to the first standalone movie
devoted to a superheroine, Captain Marvel –
aka Carol Danvers – plus Inhumans, another of
Marvel’s more obscure superhero teams.
With new movies also in the works from
other Marvel franchises such as X-Men, Spider-
Man and Fantastic Four – not too mention a
swag of new DC movies
– comic books look set to
dominate the big screen for
the next five years.
Guardians Of The Galaxy
is out on December 3 and
is available as an exclusive
Steelbook edition from JB Hi-Fi.
Guardians OfThe Galaxy The Brokenwood Mysteries
Ant-Man
Tami Neilson
Marvel maps out its cinema universe for the next five years.
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