NBCUniversal buys Matchbox Pictures
US Studio NBCUniversal has bought a majority interest in local production company Matchbox Pictures for an undisclosed amount.
Matchbox Pictures was founded in 2008 by Tony Ayres, Michael McMahon, Helen Bowden, Penny Chapman and Helen Panckhurst.
The company is currently adapting Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap for television; producing a second series of My Place; developing a six-part documentary series called Aussiewood about Australian hopefuls trying to make it in Hollywood; and a third series of Anatomy – consisting of three documentaries exploring art, sex and the body. Both Aussiewood and Anatomy 3 have received investment from Screen Australia.
