MEAA crew members employed on Neighbours will stop work for 15 minutes on Friday, the first industrial action in 25 years.
Now shooting in Melbourne and country Victoria, the comedy Oddball is breaking all the rules which say you should never work with children, animals, birds and on or near water.
Screen Australia is proposing a new title and a change of focus for its Enterprise funding program following a review of the scheme.
Hollywood comedy Bad Neighbours ruled for the second consecutive weekend at the Australian box-office while two Australian films struggled to find audiences.
Liam Hemsworth, Isla Fisher and Elizabeth Debicki will join Kate Winslet and Judy Davis in The Dressmaker, Jocelyn Moorhouse's 1950s-set comic drama that's due to shoot in Victoria in October.
John V. Soto was named best director at the British Independent Film Festival on Saturday for his crime thriller The Reckoning.
Production of the US remake of murder mystery Secrets & Lies is scheduled to start in late July after Disney's ABC network ordered a 10-episode series.
Horror/thriller The Pack is the first film from Breakout Movies, a new genre movie production partnership between VFX and post house Kojo and Prodigy Movies.