Ross Grayson Bell stands behind a chair, hands rested on the high point of its iron frame. He is slight and compact, with a powerful smile. Dressed in mauve and purple, with clipped silver-brown stubble, his look is casual but cool. The most exciting thing about Fight Club, he says, is the scene in the […]
Screen Daily: Screen Australia backs 18 features with development funds (article by Sandy George)
UK producer Kevin Loader joins comedy drama B Model, to be directed by actor Rachel Griffiths. Now that it is likely to be set up as a UK/Australian co-production, prolific UK producer Kevin Loader (In the Loop, Hyde Park on Hudson, Le Week-End) has become part of the team behind the comedy drama B Model, […]
The Northern Star – Aussie Films in the Frame (Scott Harlum)
BUDDING North Coast film-makers and screen writers were treated to advice from an expert in Lismore this week. Ross Grayson Bell, the Australian born producer of the critically acclaimed film FIGHT CLUB, which starred Bad Pitt, was in town to address a seminar arranged by the organisers of the Queer Fruits Film Festival. Back in […]
Scene Magazine – Producer Interview (Majella McMahon)
In the build up to screening a 35mm print of FIGHT CLUB for the Gold Coast Film Festival next week, I was interview by Majella McMahon for Screen Magazine. Describe Fight Club in five words? You are not your fears. What was your role and did it change your career? The movie exists because of […]
Tweed Coast Weekly – FIGHT CLUB Producer to Speak at Flashback
Everyone knows that the first rule of Fight Club is not to talk about Fight Club. Fortunately for us, the film’s Australian producer, Ross Grayson Bell, has decided to break this rule. Grayson Bell will attend and participate in a Q&A session following a one-off special screening of Fight Club on 35mm print on Thursday, […]
Northern Star – Producer Fights for Aussie Films (Rebecca Lollback)
THE producer of one of Hollywood’s most ground-breaking movies, FIGHT CLUB, will be in Lismore next month in an effort to boost the Australian film industry. Australian-born Ross Grayson Bell has more than 20 years experience in Los Angeles and London, working with famous identities such as Winona Ryder, Jamie Foxx and Lawrence Bender. FIGHT […]
The Age – The Tide Turns for Australian Film (Jim Schembri)
There’s definitely something in the air. Things haven’t looked this good for Australian cinema since – well, last year. If 2009 was the year Australian cinema rose from a prolonged, self-induced coma, 2010 was the equivalent of the industry getting up and going for a jog. The year was defined by a rolling blessing of […]
Screen Hub – Ross Grayson Bell spoke to a packed room of industry professionals (Anne Richey)
Ross Grayson Bell, creative producer of ‘Fight Club’ and new Head of Screenwriting at AFTRS spoke to a packed room of industry professionals and industry hopefuls about screenwriting, Hollywood, and a few tidbits about ‘Fight Club’. Ross believes that it’s an exciting time in Australian cinema, and that the change is coming from screenwriters. Although […]
Empire Magazine – The Story of a Cult Classic – FIGHT CLUB
On the 10th anniversary of the cult classic, the story of how it began…(by Helen O’Hara) It was one of the most controversial films of 1999, a bitingly funny, pitch dark look at modern consumer culture and the difficulty this generation has in connected in any meaningful way. That, or an ultraviolet fascist fantasy, depending […]
Barry Cox – Shelf-stacker to Chinese Crooner
The distinctive Liverpool sound has spread across the world in the past five decades. But even so, the world of music may have been unprepared for Barry Cox, 30, once a supermarket shelf-stacker but now a celebrated Chinese crooner. Inspired by a wish to do something a bit different as a teenager, Cox decided to […]