Pierce Brosnan, Bill Nighy and Fan Bingbing are attached to star in The Moon & the Sun, a Hollywood film which will shoot in Australia and France.
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The clamour from Australian producers and some distributors for a new model for releasing Australian films is getting louder.
The world premiere of Anna Broinowski's feature documentary-comedy about the late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il and his obsession with Hollywood cinema prompted sharply different reactions at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
As a solo producer, Unicorn Films' Lizzette Atkins has a remarkably diverse and prolific development slate.
Films directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, Michael Rowe and Ben Chessell received a total of $4.4 million in funding at Screen Australia's board meeting on Wednesday.
Sam Worthington may be a big star in Hollywood action-adventures but Drift, the Australian surfing- set drama in which he co-stars with Myles Pollard and Xavier Samuel, has had a limited release in the US.
Why should consumers have to wait for four months after every film opens in cinemas to watch it on DVD or iTunes, BigPond Movies and Foxtel on-demand?
Maverick US distributor/producer Harvey Weinstein is so notorious for cutting films that he acquires he earned the soubriquet Harvey Scissorhands.