The remake of a quintessentially American miniseries which traced slavery through multiple generations including the Revolutionary and Civil Wars will have three Australians in key creative roles.
Bruce Beresford is putting the finishing touches to his US indie drama starring Eddie Murphy, Britt Robertson, Lucy Fry and Xavier Samuel.
Vampire Academy's Lucy Fry has won a supporting role in Cook, Bruce Beresford's US drama starring Eddie Murphy as an artistic chef who agrees to provide meals to the family of a dying man.
Bruce Beresford has cast rising star Britt Robertson as one of two female leads in Cook, a drama starring Eddie Murphy.
Eddie Murphy will play a cook who is hired by a dying man to prepare meals for his girlfriend and her daughter when he passes in a US drama to be directed by Bruce Beresford.
Bruce Beresford is attached to direct a US drama about a dying man who arranges for an African-American cook to prepare meals for his girlfriend and her daughter when he passes.
Producer Bill Leimbach has hired Morgan O'Neill to direct Banjo & Matilda, an action romance revolving around Banjo Paterson and his iconic bush ballad Waltzing Matilda.
Bruce Beresford and Peter James first teamed up on the Oscar-winning Driving Miss Daisy in 1989. Brendan Swift talks to the director and cinematographer about their enduring partnership.