Australian writer Justine Juel Gillmer has signed with major US talent agency WME (Blake Fronstin) and with Jeff Silver's 4th Floor Management.
A movie based on the Tony-winning Broadway musical The Drowsy Chaperone is being developed as a Canadian-Australian co-production.
Fresh from helming The Rover, David Michod is writing and and will direct The Operators, which will star Brad Pitt as the four-star general who led US and NATO forces in the war against Afghanistan
Kids and families flocked to The LEGO Movie and the Captain America sequel while teenagers embraced Divergent and adults checked into The Grand Budapest Hotel last weekend.
The National Film and Sound Archive is shedding jobs and reducing its touring program and the number of events at its Arc cinema in Canberra.
The Weinstein Co. launched The Railway Man in four cinemas in New York and Los Angeles last Friday, posting solid but not spectacular figures.
Mario Andreacchio's AMPCO Studios has clinched financing and production deals with Chinese entities for two films and created a China co-production film fund with an initial capital of $15 million.
Projects by Stephan Elliott, The Babadook writer- director Jennifer Kent, Ben Elton, Rowan Woods, Trent O'Donnell and Jacqueline McKenzie are among the recipients of the latest round of development funding from Screen Australia.