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GOOD VIBRATIONS BrianWilson and the makers of Love & Mercy back new mental health initiative.

A s well as a charity concert in November for Give an Hour, a national nonprofit organization

encouraging all Americans to put as much care into their mental well-being as they do into their physical health. “My wife Melinda and I are very excited to be a part of this important campaign,” Wilson says. “It’s time for us to bring the conversation of mental health in America out of the shadows, and Change Direction is leading the way.” Wilson struggled for decades with mental issues and those battles are central to Love & Mercy , which looks both at his major breakdown in the mid-60s and his later attempts to break free from the care of a controversial psychiatrist Dr Eugene Landy. The former Beach Boy – who is played by both Paul Dano and John Cusack – has given the thumbs up to director Bill Pohlad’s account of his life. “Bill paid so much attention to the details and made everything perfect,” he says. “My reality shows. Also premiering from Lang and Strawhan in 2016 will be Dirty Laundry , in which a wealthy family have to cope with a major drop in finances when the matriarch is jailed for money laundering. Other new local shows confirmed for next year are a major new drama series about Sir Edmund Hillary, 800 Words , a Trans-Tasman co-production about an Australian columnist starting a new life in NZ, and The Cul de Sac , a mystery series centred on a group of teenagers who wake to a world where the adults have mysteriously disappeared.

favorite scenes in the movie are the ones set in the studio where I’m producing the record. It brought back so many wonderful memories of working with great musicians like Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew.” He also approved of the soundtrack,which has just been released and is made up mainly of Beach Boys classics and a new score from Atticus Ross, who won an Oscar – along with Trent Reznor – for The Social Network . However, Wilson did contribute an original song to the film, the appropriately titled One Kind of Love . “It’s about Melinda and me,” he says. “The song is about the way we fell in love and the way we are in love. Love is timeless in the same way great music is timeless and this is an expression of that.”

providing free mental health services to the military and veteran community, Wilson and the team behind the biopic Love & Mercy – which is out this month on DVD and Blu-ray – have pledged to help promote the work of the Campaign to Change Direction, which is

Love & Mercy is out on October 28; the soundtrack album is out now

Love & Mercy

MULTI HOMEGROWN TREATS

Television New Zealand has unveiled a strong line-up of homegrown dramas and comedies for 2016, including the broadcaster’s first ever multi-night series. Filthy Rich is a new local drama from Rachel Lang and Gavin Strawhan ( Outrageous Fortune , Nothing Trivial ), and follows the stories of three illegitimate children who discover they each have a claim to the fortune of one of New Zealand’s wealthiest men. The network says the show will get multiple screenings each week, something which has only ever been done for

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Although Steven Soderbergh did serve as a cinematographer on Magic Mike XXL , for now he looks as if he is sticking to his pledge to concentrate only on television. As well as a second season of his period medical drama The Knick , this month will see the premiere in the US of new comedy series Red Oaks , which

follows the adventures of a young tennis pro at an exclusive country club in the ‘80s. Soderbergh is executive producing the series

NEW VOICE DIMENSIONS FOR LEGO

with David Gordon Green ( Pineapple Express ). The iconic indie director is also working on a 13 part anthology series based on his film The Girlfriend Experience ,

Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Gary Oldman are just some of the many stars lending their voices to LEGO Dimensions . The game features 14 fan-favourite universes from games, film and television, and will include principal voice actors reprising some of their most well-known roles. Alongside the wonders from Back To The Future , Chris Pratt returns to voice The LEGO Movie ’s Emmet and Jurassic World ’s Owen, Elizabeth Banks can be heard as Wyldstyle, and Gary Oldman embodies the game’s antagonist - Lord Vortech. And from Doctor Who , Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman and Michelle Gomez voice their respective roles.

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LEGO Dimensions is out on now on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii U.

Magic Mike XXL is out on October 21

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