New additions to the cast include Hugh Sheridan, Roy Billing and Australian musical theatre legend Nancye Hayes.
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Shooting is expected to begin in the second half of this year.
Freeman will star as a father trying to protect his child in the midst of a zombie apocalypse.
Bad Blood will be produced by Wolf Creek's David Lightfoot alongside Antony I. Ginnane, with filming in the Adelaide Hills and at Adelaide Studios to begin June 6 and run for three weeks.
Filming has started on Goober (May 13), the first of five new South Australian projects being produced through the joint $500,000 SAFC/ABC TV LABS iview originals initiative.
Brooke Goldfinch and Catriona McKenzie have been chosen as the director’s attachments on Sir Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant.
John Ridley’s Golden Globe nominated series American Crime has been renewed for a third season.
Award winning documentary Switch on the Night will have a special screening and Q and A at the Giant Dwarf, Sydney, in a bid to raise money for Alejandra Canales’ new documentary, A Matter of Principle.