Heath Ledger backed film set for release next year
Matt Amato and Heath Ledger
The first feature film to emerge from the late Heath Ledger’s artistic collaborative The Masses is close completing filming in the US this month.
Ledger co-wrote the film The Makings of You with Matt Amato, a love story set against the backdrop of boarded up homes in deprived areas of St Louis, USA.
Amato wrote the screenplay and is director of the movie, with Jay R Ferguson, who plays Stan Rizzo in TV series Mad Men, in the lead role.
Australian entrepreneur Ron Creevey, a 47.5 per cent shareholder in The Masses, said the film, dedicated to Ledger, has a strong Australian connection and he hopes to launch its general release at Bondi Beach in Sydney next October.
“There were many plans in place for the Masses when Heath passed away and from there it was a case of rebuilding and getting the right time in place to execute and push this film out,” Creevey said.
“It took around five years to get it to the point where it is now, but it just needed to be right, and I think from Matt’s side he wasn’t in the frame of mind until about two years ago when he started to pick up the pieces. Now he’s running at 100 miles an hour and it’s just about finished and we are very excited to get this out.”
Creevey, who founded mobile media company YuuZoo in 2006, has just launched digital media company Moment Media, which owns mobile website developer local.mobi.
