Graeme Mason's appointment as chief executive of Screen Australia has been widely welcomed by the screen industry.
The Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance and the Walt Disney Studios are finalising a landmark deal for the crew who will work on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Caption Nemo.
Foxtel has commissioned a documentary on the history of cinemas in Australia, evoking an era when audiences were entertained in giant picture palaces decades before the advent of television.
The key 16-39 age group is watching less free-to-air TV but the commercial networks are chiefly to blame for the loss of viewers.
History remembers Franz Stampfl as one of the athletics world's premier coaches, a former Austrian art student who mentored Olympics champions including Roger Bannister, Christopher Chataway, Ralph Doubell and John Landy.
Director James Wan's supernatural thriller The Conjuring topped the box-office in the US last weekend but had a mediocre launch in Australia, where the genre historically has struggled to attract big audiences.
Matilda Brown and her father Bryan Brown have collaborated on Lessons from the Grave, a series of short films that will premiere on ABC1 in September.
The Walt Disney Co. has assured the Australian government that it's committed to shooting 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo Down Under next year.