Helen Mirren is set to star as 'The Talented Mr Ripley' author Patricia Highsmith in 'Switzerland', a feature film to be produced by Brouhaha Entertainment and Lunar Pictures.
In the US, M Night Shyamalan's 'Knock at the Cabin' finally dethroned 'Avatar: The Way of Water' after seven weekends at the top. However, here in Australia, audiences continued to prefer adventures in Pandora, with the James Cameron sequel now edging towards $90 million gross.
Tim Draxl, Matt Day, Jada Alberts, Nicholas Brown, Anna McGahan and Oscar Leal lead the ABC's upcoming 'In Our Blood', a four-part musical drama series from Hoodlum Entertainment, inspired by Australia's radical response to AIDS in the early 1980s.
Production on anthology feature 'My Melbourne', produced by Mind Blowing Entertainment, is set to get underway this month in collaboration with high-profile Indian directors Kabir Khan, Onir, Rimas Das and Imtiaz Ali.
Indian spy thriller 'Pathaan', starring Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, has enjoyed a bumper first weekend at the box office, coming in at no. 2 behind 'Avatar: The Way of Water'.
Noora Niasari's debut feature 'Shayda' took home the Audience Award in Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema Dramatic Competition over the weekend.
Ivan Sen's 'Limbo' and Rolf de Heer's 'Survival of Kindness' will be in the mix for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival next month, the first Australian films to screen in the official competition since 2006's 'Candy'.
Screen Australia will shortly begin a recruitment process for a new CEO, after Graeme Mason announced to staff yesterday he will leave the agency in November at the end of his second term.