Matchbox Pictures

Matchbox Pictures is a film and television production company with production houses in Melbourne, Sydney, and Singapore.^[1][2] It was formed in 2008 by Tony Ayres, Penny Chapman, Helen Bowden, Michael McMahon and Helen Panckhurst. In 2011, NBCUniversal took a majority stake in Matchbox Pictures, and full ownership by January 2014.^[3]

Matchbox Pictures is led by Chris Oliver-Taylor (Managing Director), Debbie Lee (Director of Scripted Development), Penny Chapman (Producer), Tony Ayres (Producer/Director), Kylie Washington (Director for Unscripted Content), Helen Panckhurst (Head of Production), Michael McMahon (Commercial Director), and Tom Chatwin (Finance Director).

Productions

Current or upcoming productions are listed in bold text.

Film

• The Home Song Stories (2007)
• Lou (2010)
• The Turning – Cockleshell (2013)
• Cut Snake (2014)
• Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows (2016)
• Ali's Wedding (2016)

Television

Scripted

• Saved (2009, television film)
• My Place (2009–11)
• The Slap (2011)
• The Straits (2012)
• Underground: The Julian Assange Story (2012, television film)
• Camp (2013)
• Zuzu & the Supernuffs (2013)
• Nowhere Boys (2013–present)
• Old School (2014)
• Devil's Playground (2014)
• Maximum Choppage (2015)
• Deadline Gallipoli (2015)
• Glitch (2015-present)
• Stories I Want to Tell You in Person (2015)
• The Family Law (2016)
• Wanted (2016-present)
• Secret City (2016-present)
• Stateless

Unscripted

• Anatomy (2008–13)
• Darwin's Lost Paradise (2009)
• Miss South Sudan Australia (2010)
• Mrs Carey's Concert (2011)
• Leaky Boat (2011)
• Sex: An Unnatural History (2011)
• The Swimmer (2012)
• Next Stop Hollywood (2013)
• Formal Wars (2013)
• Young, Lazy and Driving Us Crazy (2013)
• The Real Housewives of Melbourne (2014–present)
• Deadline Gallipoli: The Full Story (2015)
• Room 101 (2015)
• E! News Asia Special – Erin Goes to Hollywood (2015)
• How Do I Look? Asia (2015)
• E! Top 5 Philippines (2015)
• The Real Housewives of Auckland (2016-present)
• The Real Housewives of Sydney (2017)

References

1. Groves, Don. "Matchbox Venture into Asia". If.com.au. If. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
2. Groves, Don. "The Slap Producers Open Queensland Office". If.com.au. If. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
3. Roxborough, Scott. "NBCUniversal Takes Full Control of Australia's Matchbox Pictures". The Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 March 2015.