Philippe Mora plans to honour WWI hero Sir John Monash in a film to be shot in 2014, along with a number of other ambitious film projects.
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Screen Australia loses two senior executives - head of production investment Ross Matthews and head of development Martha Coleman
With the closing down of International Casting Services (ICS), at least two actors have signed with other agents.
Les Hill will play one of the leads and co-produce Bride of the Dead, an Australian zombie horror/romance/adventure/comedy.
Zombie Western Bullets for the Dead is due to roll in Queensland in July, the first in a slate of low-budget genre films from a new joint venture between Cathy Overett’s Brisbane-based Cathartic Pictures and UK sales agent Stealth Media Group.
John Cusack and Thomas Jane are set to star in Hard Drive, a thriller that starts shooting in Queensland on June 4.
Iron Sky producer Mark Overett is developing Pig Hunt, a violent thriller about a family man who gets caught up in a deadly cat-and-mouse game in the Australian Outback.
Australian TVC house Plaza Films has secured Australia and New Zealand representation of New York- based affiliate production house aWHITELABELproduct's roster of international directors.