Amazon MGM Studios and Skydance’s comedy Balls Up, starring Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser, is set to start filming in Queensland, Australia at Village Roadshow Studios this month,
Peter Farrelly is directing from a screenplay by Wolverine and Deadpool writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese.
According to Screen Queensland, the production will “generate an estimated $64.8 million for the Queensland economy, employing approximately 250 local cast and crew, as well as utilising small businesses”. The film is about two US marketing executives fired for blowing an opportunity to sponsor a client and who decide to use the free tickets they received to attend a major soccer match. Their drunken debauchery leads them to be hunted by every person across the country.
Other international productions to take place in Queensland include Ron Howard’s
Eden, The Bluff, and Good Cop/Bad Cop.Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger, produce alongside Andrew Muscato, Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese.
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