For the first time in her 40-year career, controversial and renowned French director Catherine Breillat has agreed to direct a film she has not personally written, signing onto the Australian co-production Bridge of Floating Dreams.
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Kung Fu Style, the first of three animated features co-produced by Australia's Vue Group and Shanghai Hippo Animation Design, will be released on at least 9,500 screens in China.
Writer-director Jennifer Peedom was in her tent at the base camp at Mount Everest when the avalanche struck last month, killing 16 Nepali guides.
Now shooting in Melbourne and country Victoria, the comedy Oddball is breaking all the rules which say you should never work with children, animals, birds and on or near water.
Director Ben Chessell finishes principal photography on Sucker, his debut feature, in Melbourne today, full of praise for the chemistry between his young lead, YouTube star John Luc, and veteran English actor Timothy Spall.
Shane Jacobson, Saran Snook, Alan Tudyk, Deborah Mailman and a dog named Meeko head the cast of Oddball, a comedy which starts shooting in Melbourne and country Victoria on Monday.
Screen Producers Australia is striving to simplify the often cumbersome process of arranging contracts for screen productions.
Janet King/Crownies regular Christopher Morris and Home and Away's Esther Anderson play the leads in Broken Contract, an action comedy that starts shooting in Perth on April 28.