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Matchbox the Movie

2026

When a group of former childhood friends reconnect, their reunion takes a wild turn as they stumble upon a dangerous international plot—and must save the world.

Rose Riley

Rose Riley is an Australian actress, known for her roles on Australian TV series as Sienna Blake in Home and Away and as Anna Davis in Back to the Rafters. After graduating from high school, Riley began her training at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Three years later, she made the move from Perth to Sydney where she began her career as an actor. Rose has scored various roles in the Australian film and television industry, notably in ABC dramas Mystery Road and Total Control, and Australian indie film Book Week. More recently she worked on FX's Mr Inbetween and played Sharee, a detention center guard, in six-part drama Stateless for Matchbox Pictures. She was thrilled to be cast as Anna in the return series Back to the Rafters for Amazon Prime/7.

Jack Riley

Cast · Known for Rugrats, Night Court

John Albert Riley Jr. (December 30, 1935 – August 19, 2016) was an American actor, comedian and writer. He was known for playing Elliot Carlin, a chronic psychology client of the main character on The Bob Newhart Show, and for voicing Stu Pickles, one of the parents in the animated Rugrats franchise. Riley was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Agnes C. Riley (née Corrigan) and John Albert Riley. After attending Saint Ignatius High School and John Carroll University, he served in the U.S. Army. After being discharged, Riley became a popular radio personality in Cleveland, along with his radio partner and "straight man" Jeff Baxter; The Baxter & Riley Show on WERE (1300 AM) featured not only music but comedy sketches and a slew of offbeat characters that Riley and Baxter voiced. Riley gave up the radio show in the mid-1960s and moved to Los Angeles, where his Cleveland friend Tim Conway helped him obtain work writing comedy sketches, which later led to acting opportunities. First a semi-regular in the cast of the 1960s sitcom Occasional Wife, a short-lived show on NBC in which he played Wally Frick, Riley was perhaps most famous for playing Elliot Carlin, the neurotic, sour, and selfish patient on The Bob Newhart Show 1972–1978. In 1973, he was cast as Gomez Addams in The Addams Family Fun-House, then in 1979, he starred in ABC's holiday telefilm The Halloween That Almost Wasn't (a.k.a. The Night Dracula Saved The World) as Warren the Werewolf (Wolf Man) of Budapest. Riley then, in 1980, appeared in a comedy special for HBO called The Wild Wacky Wonderful World of Winter. He was a regular cast member in The Tim Conway Show, a comedy-variety show that aired on CBS from March 1980 through late summer 1981, acting in sketch comedy in each episode. In 1985, he reprised his Bob Newhart Show role of Elliot Carlin on St. Elsewhere, and did so again in a 1987 episode of ALF. Among his other TV credits are multiple appearances on such shows as Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (parodying Lyndon Johnson), M*A*S*H, Barney Miller, Hogan's Heroes, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, One Day at a Time, Gomer Pyle, Diff'rent Strokes, and Night Court. He was also a favorite of Mel Brooks, appearing in several of his films: High Anxiety (1977), History of the World: Part I (1981), To Be or Not to Be (1983), and (cameo only) Spaceballs (1987). Riley often provided voiceovers for television and radio commercials, most notably in spots for Country Crock margarine. He also voiced the character "P.C. Modem, the computer genius" in radio commercials for CompUSA that aired in the 1990s. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Riley was known for voicing Stu Pickles (father of the main protagonist Tommy) in the animated series Rugrats. The franchise consisted of the TV series, the spin-off All Grown Up! and the film trilogy. He continued to make guest appearances during the 1990s in popular sitcoms, showing up in episodes of Seinfeld, Son of the Beach, Friends, Coach, The Drew Carey Show, That '70s Show, and, in a gag appearance, as an unnamed but obvious Mr. Carlin in a 1988 episode of Newhart. He made a cameo appearance on the November 23, 2013, episode of Saturday Night Live, as a subway passenger during the sketch "Matchbox 3". That episode would be his final acting role.

Cappi Ireland

Costume Design · Known for Animal Kingdom, Last Seen, Mortal Kombat II

Cappi Ireland is a leading Australian costume designer. Cappi has worked for some of the best directors in Australia on some of the most awarded projects. Her film and television credits are impressive and varied. Recent credits include the feature MORTAL KOMBAT 2, directed again by Simon McQuoid; APPLE CIDER VINEGAR (NETFLIX TV), directed by Jeffrey Walker; and BETTER MAN, a musical biopic about Robbie Williams with director Michael Gracey. Also, the LOVE ME series 1 & 2, a 6-part Binge Original/Warner Bros TV series with directors Emma Freeman and Bonnie Moir on their respective series; the TAP/NBCU series FIRES, a story of a catastrophic bushfire season that tore through the hearts of Australia and the world, which reunited her with long-time collaborators Tony Ayres and Liz Watts; and the period drama NEW GOLD MOUNTAIN set in the goldfields in the 1800s and directed by Corrie Chen for SBS and Goalpost Pictures. The 2021 AACTA Awards remarkably saw Cappi nominated for a record 4 nominations for her work on feature films MORTAL KOMBAT and THE DRY and television series FIRES and NEW GOLD MOUNTAIN—the latter going on to win Best Costumes for Television. She received a further nomination in 2022 for her iconic costumes on the hugely successful first series for Binge, LOVE ME. Cappi received a great deal of attention for her costumes for the action-adventure fantasy feature film MORTAL KOMBAT, directed by Simon McQuoid. She enjoyed returning to the world of fantasy speciality costuming and having the opportunity to work at such a scale again with the recent sequel (MORTAL KOMBAT 2). Additional credits include THE DRY, released in 2020, which reunited her with director Robert Connolly; the third season of GLITCH for Matchbox Pictures and Netflix, following up on her work designing seasons one and two; RIDE LIKE A GIRL, Rachel Griffiths’ directorial debut starring Teresa Palmer; the Matchbox Pictures/NBCU TV series; SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY; NEWTON’S LAW; and Garth Davies Academy Award-nominated feature film LION, for which she received an AACTA Award, an APDG Award, and a nomination for Excellence in Contemporary Film at the 19th Costume Designers Guild Awards (USA). Other notable work includes the Matchbox Pictures/NBCU TV miniseries BARRACUDA, for which she received a 2017 APDG Award Nomination for Best Costume Design in a Television series; GALLIPOLI, an epic 7-part TV miniseries for Channel 9/Endemol, which garnered her a 2015 APDG award for Best Costume in a TV series; BALIBO; and the multi-award-winning TV drama, THE SLAP. Additional films include, FRANKENSTEIN; CUT SNAKE; THE MULE; and THE ROVER, which reunited her with award-winning directors David Michod and Tony Ayres; ANIMAL KINGDOM; and ORANGES AND SUNSHINE. Cappi has received in total ten AFI/AACTA nominations and four AFI/AACTA wins. Those not included above are Cappi’s first AFI Award for Best Costume Design in 2007 for THE HOME SONG STORIES directed by Tony Ayres and an AFI in 2008 for Best Costume Design for Jonathan Ogilvie’s THE TENDER HOOK. Information above via their homepage.

Colette Kilroy

Colette Kilroy is an actress, known for David & Fatima, Masculine Timing, Me and You and Everyone We Know, and The Ice Storm. Other film credits include Finding Amanda and Matchbox Circus Train. Television credits include Ellen Behar on NBC’s Profiler. Theatre credits include her Broadway debut as Ellen/Phoebe Kidde in Eastern Standard (John Golden Theatre); Off-Broadway, as Fayle in Neddy (American Place Theatre); and regionally, as Marion in Absurd Person Singular, Annie Cannon in Silent Sky, Corine in The Triumph of Love, and Geraldine Bernst/Arlene Terry in Night and Her Stars (South Coast Repertory), Maureen Kincaid in A Texas Trilogy: The Oldest Living Graduate (Malibu Stage), Lane in The Clean House (Odyssey Theatre), Stella in The Scene (Ensemble Theatre), Mae in Nighthawks (Kirk Douglas Theatre), Paulina in The Winter’s Tale (F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre), and Isabella in Measure for Measure (Shakespeare Theatre).

Rob Thomas

Rob Thomas is an American musician born on February 14, 1972 in Landstuhl, West Germany. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Matchbox Twenty. He has been married to Marisol Thomas since October 2, 1999

Liz Watts

Executive Producer · Producer · Known for Animal Kingdom, Tenzing

Liz Watts is an Australian film producer best known for Animal Kingdom (2010). In 1997, she formed Porchlight Films with Vincent Sheehan and Anita Sheehan around 2008. The company ceased operations on June 20, 2020. In 2021, she struck an overall deal with Matchbox Pictures. Description above from the Wikipedia article Liz Watts, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Lili Haydn

Lili Haydn is an American rock violinist, vocalist, actress, and composer. As a child, she pursued a career as an actress; at age eight she discovered the violin and began to focus on classical music. By the time Haydn was 15, she had played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. After graduating from Brown University with a BA in political science, Haydn started composing original songs and became one of the most requested session violinists around Los Angeles. By the time she signed with Atlantic in 1997, she had embraced a variety of genres, having played with Quwaali musician Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Porno for Pyros, Tracy Chapman, The Jayhawks, Brandy, Tony! Toni! Tone!, No Doubt, Tom Petty and more. In addition, she has played with, sung with, and opened for Sting, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Matchbox 20, Seal, and George Clinton, who calls her "the Jimi Hendrix of the violin".