Amid turbulent times for the sector, Screen Australia has some positive news, announcing production funding for three feature films, four television series, a children’s series and two online projects.
Aquarius Films and Anonymous Content will partner to produce dystopian sci-fi crime thriller series 'The Subjugate', based on the novel of the same name by Amanda Bridgeman.
Anonymous Content has announced a new sci-fi series based on Sophia Banks' short film 'Proxy', starring Emma Booth.
Netflix has ordered Brouhaha Entertainment's adaptation of Trent Dalton's 'Boy Swallows Universe', more than two years after publisher HarperCollins announced it had sold the screen rights to the author's debut novel.
Thomas M Wright's crime thriller 'The Stranger' was added to the Australian contingent for next month's Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, alongside Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis' and George Miller's 'Three Thousand Years of Longing'.
Thomas M Wright’s Cannes Un Certain Regard selection 'The Stranger' will premiere globally on Netflix in October following a theatrical release in Australia.
Travis Fimmel, Simon Baker, Phoebe Tonkin, Bryan Brown, and Anthony La Paglia will bring Trent Dalton's 'Boy Swallows Universe' to life for Netflix, with production on the eight-part series now underway in Brisbane.
Following on from its respective world and Australia premieres at the Cannes Film Festival and the Melbourne International Film Festival, writer-director Thomas M. Wright's 'The Stranger' will premiere on Netflix October 19 following a two week theatrical release.