Ben Elton and The Wiggles may seem a strange combination but the Englishman is attached to write and direct a movie featuring the Australian group.
Any list of must-watch films is likely to so arbitrary and subjective that it buys plenty of arguments, and so it proves with the Taste of Cinema website's compilation on Australian cinema.
Janet King/Crownies regular Christopher Morris and Home and Away's Esther Anderson play the leads in Broken Contract, an action comedy that starts shooting in Perth on April 28.
Delivering Ten Network Holdings' bleak results for the half year to the end of February, executive chairman/CEO Hamish McLennan today acknowledged the bleeding obvious: the network must improve its entertainment programing.
Angry Boys' Clyde Boraine has joined the cast of Final Four, a feature drama inspired by the true story of a group of Aussies who played in the US college basketball league.
Negotiations between the union representing the crew on Neighbours and FremantleMedia Australia have reached a stalemate and the union is now seeking a ballot of its members in order to begin an industrial campaign.
A US scheme which enables moviegoers to select a title from a library and organise a screening at a participating cinema, if sufficient people are willing to buy tickets, will be pitched to Australian exhibitors this month.
The Weinstein Co. paid a reported US$2 million for North American rights to The Railway Man after its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last September -but has waited more than six months to launch the film in the US.