A remake of Bloodsport, the 1988 action-thriller that starred Jean-Claude Van Damme, will be shot in Queensland next year.
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Maniac, a horror movie starring Elijah Wood as a serial killer, won't be released commercially in cinemas or on DVD in New Zealand after being given a festivals-only classification.
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.
100 Bloody Acres is ""the kind of gory or splattery film you could take your mother to." That is, according to brothers and co-directors Colin and Cameron Cairnes.
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.
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.
Stephen Van Mil's Impian Films will produce The Damned, a film based on the true story of two Western Australian teenagers who murdered a girl they had befriended.