If you touch the financial side of filmmaking–whether it’s budgeting, tax incentives, accounting, or paying the crew–you know accuracy is key. But navigating guild regulations, managing complex ...
PJ Pictures has acquired the rights to adapt Clare Fletcher’s romantic-comedy novel Five Bush Weddings into a feature film. The movie, set in rural Australia, explores the essence of love, family and ...
Towards the end of Black Snow‘s second season, one of the more affluent characters discusses solutions to the housing crisis while at a ritzy function. Senator Julie Cosgrove, played by Kat Stewart, ...
Veteran Australian filmmaker Robert Connolly says the local industry can learn important marketing lessons from Australian rules football. He recalled how the St Kilda team turned up to his daughter’s ...
With music biopics, the subject’s blessing is never guaranteed. In the case of Michael Gracey’s Robbie Williams-inspired Better Man, however, not only was the real-life inspiration on board but ...
The Federal government has cut the Location Offset’s minimum qualifying Australian production expenditure (QAPE) back to $15 million just months after raising it as part of a reformed package designed ...
About three months ago, casting director Stephanie Pringle was with her Chicken and Chips Casting co-founder Alison Fowler and actress Charlotte Chimes at Bondi’s Coogee Pavilion. At the time, ...
Victorian filmmaker Natalie Erika James will wrap production on her third feature in Melbourne this week, directing a cast toplined by Midori Francis, Danielle Macdonald, and Madeleine Madden.
Filmmaker and producer Paul Clarke has joined independent production company Beyond as a writer, director, and executive producer. Clarke has previously collaborated with Beyond on titles such as ...
Ludo Studio juggernaut Bluey is set to grace the big screen with BBC Studios and the Walt Disney Company announcing an animated feature centred on the Blue Heeler dog, Mum Chilli, Dad Bandit, and ...
Michael Gracey’s Better Man has carried over its success from AACTA nominations into the AACTA International categories, leading the field with six nods. The film, to be released on Boxing Day, is up ...