The ABC has promoted entertainment manager Nick Hayden, who created 'At Home Alone Together', 'Whovians', 'Tonightly' and the 'Australia Talks' live show, to head of entertainment.
Many feature producers fear the Federal Government's sweeping media reforms will spell the death knell of Australian features, forcing them and some writers and directors to focus on content for streamers or free-to-air broadcasters.
Jeffrey Walker is the set-up director for 'Young Rock', the NBC-commissioned comedy which will star Uli Latukefu as the young adult Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.
Dan Ewing makes his Hollywood debut in Paramount Pictures' comedy-adventure 'Love and Monsters', which follows humans who were forced underground after giant creatures took control of the land.
ABC staff have voted overwhelmingly to reject the proposed deferral of a 2 per cent pray rise which was was agreed on in last year’s three-year Enterprise Agreement.
Producers of narrative features and feature documentaries fear that reducing the Producer Offset for films to 30 per cent will have a devastating impact on theatrical releases.
In a major overhaul of the regulatory system, the Federal Government is scrapping the fixed quotas for local drama, children's programming and documentary and harmonising the film and TV Producer Offsets at 30 per cent.
Filipino-born US-star Aina Dumlao, Miranda Otto and Michelle Vergara Moore are playing the leads in 'The Unusual Suspects', Aquarius Films' 4-part heist comedy for SBS which is now shooting in Sydney.