Disney/Pixar executives might be wondering why they waited 14 years to greenlight a sequel to 'The Incredibles' after the family film smashed records for a Disney animated title in Australia and the US last weekend.
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The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) has launched a national pitching competition to unearth scripted series for television and the web.
The producers of Anthony Maras’ debut feature 'Hotel Mumbai' are free to shop the thriller about the 2008 terrorist attacks on the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel to US distributors after a court ruling.
Paraguayan director Marcelo Martinessi’s debut film 'The Heiresses' won the $60,000 top prize at the 65th Sydney Film Festival while Ben Lawrence’s feature documentary 'Ghosthunter' took the Documentary Australia Foundation Award.
SBS has partnered with Film Victoria, Create NSW, Screen Queensland, Screenwest and the South Australian Film Corporation to launch the Short-Form Content Initiative, which will back projects from emerging creatives from backgrounds currently underrepresented in the screen industry.
Rose Byrne, Matt Damon, Naomi Watts, director Gregor Jordan, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, director Jeremy Podeswa, Elizabeth Debicki and LA-based casting director Carmen Cuba will be among the official judges for the 10th anniversary of Australians in Film's Heath Ledger Scholarship.
Thirty-two years since Paul Hogan made his fame and fortune in 'Crocodile Dundee' and 17 years since 'Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles' was released, Hoges has not lost his marquee appeal for distributors around the world.
Aspiring Australian screenwriters are being offered the opportunity to win a feature film writing deal from Warner Bros. Pictures in a new collaboration between the studio, The Black List and WA-based Veerhuis Pictures.