Schapelle (TV film)
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Director Khoa Do Country Australia | 5.2/10 IMDb Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 9 February 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Schapelle is an Australian television film that aired in Australia on Nine Network on 9 February 2014 and in New Zealand on TV One on 20 February 2014. It was produced by Stephen Corvini Fremantle Media Australia, written by playwright Katherine Thomson and directed by Khoa Do, who also directed Better Man, which looked into the trial and execution of Van Tuong Nguyen in 2005. It is based on the book Sins of the Father: The untold story behind Schapelle Corby's ill-fated drug run by Eamonn Duff. This source was later to be discredited via a series of legal actions. In the first case the judge awarded $50,000 damages for breach of copyright in the unauthorised use of family photographs. Defamation cases followed, and in October 2015 family members were awarded almost $1 million in damages.
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Filming of Schapelle took place throughout the second half of 2013, with scenes depicting Kerobokan Prison, the Indonesian High Court and many others filmed on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The production was initially given the working title of Doc McGee.
Schapelle was originally going to premiere on Monday 10 February, at 8:30pm, but due to the ongoing events involving the real life Schapelle Corby, it was announced that it would air on the preceding Sunday instead, thus going head to head with the Seven Network's INXS: Never Tear Us Apart.
The film was watched by a national audience of 1.02 million, however, Seven's INXS: Never Tear Us Apart, aired at the same time, achieved a national audience of 1.97 million. It was repeated the following night, the day on which it was originally going to air. The final consolidated audience for Schapelle was 1.96 million. The telemovie will be replayed on Sunday 28 May, the day the real-life Schapelle Corby is due home from Australia following the completion of her jail sentence for drug trafficking.
In New Zealand Schapelle screened the same night as news headlines (on same network) read "New Zealander, Leeza Tracey Ormsby, 37, may face death for drug importation" and compared the case to Schapelle's.
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