Clare Knight and Harry Cripps are set to helm an animated film with a focus on Australian fauna for Netflix, with a stellar cast that includes Isla Fisher, Tim Minchin, Eric Bana, Guy Pearce, Miranda Tapsell, Jacki Weaver, Celeste Barber and Keith Urban.
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Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Essie Davis and Anthony LaPaglia will star in Justin Kurzel's 'Nitram', a feature film for Stan about Martin Bryant, the Port Arthur gunman who murdered 35 people and injured 23 others.
Ron Howard's 'Thirteen Lives', based on the Thai caves rescue, is the latest in a string of international projects headed to Australia, due to shoot in the Gold Coast from March.
Despite the pandemic, there was still almost $1 billion spent on drama production in Australia in the last financial year, indicating the sector had been on track for a potentially record-breaking year before it was interrupted.
UPDATED: Rose Byrne, Krew Boylan, Bobby Cannavale and Daniel Webber will lead the ensemble cast of musical dramedy 'Seriously Red', written by Boylan and directed by Gracie Otto
The Federal Government has splashed $21.58 million to lure two Netflix titles to Australia: feature film 'Escape From Spiderhead', due to shoot on the Gold Coast, and eight-part series 'Pieces of Her', bound for Sydney.
Playground Films has optioned Hilary Bell's Sydney Theatre Company stage play 'Splinter' and Fiona Wright's novel 'Small Acts of Disappearance'.
Zac Efron will headline the cast of Anthony Hayes' 'Gold', due to kick off in South Australia this month.