Ben Geurens and Nathaniel Dean play estranged brothers who are the targets of an extortion racket in Heath Davis’ suspense-drama Locusts.
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Following on from their collaboration on feature film 'The Second', Screen Queensland and Stan have partnered on a new fund that will support both up-and-coming and established creatives to develop high-end drama series for the streaming service.
Following two months of industry consultation, Screen Australia’s new guidelines for drama development funding – which are platform neutral and see broadened eligibility criteria - take effect from today.
The Nine Network has commissioned 'Bad Mothers', an eight-part comedy/drama from Jungle Entertainment and New Zealand-based Filthy Productions.
The sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s 2015 thriller 'Sicario' has a new director but no Emily Blunt, which may partly explain why 'Sicario: Day of the Soldado' posted modest opening figures in the US and Australia last weekend.
SPA has raised objections to deals which the ABC and SBS have negotiated recently with producers, claiming they are inconsistent with industry standards and industrial agreements.
As the Make it Australian campaign for local content obligations to be imposed on streaming services intensifies, Netflix is talking up its growing investment in Australian film and TV productions and again rejecting the need for a quota.
When Emma Jensen wrote the first treatment of the screenplay for 'Mary Shelley' in 2011, she could not have imagined how the climate for female-centred films- and more broadly for women’s rights - would have evolved by the time the film was released.