Austin Butler is set to play Elvis Presley in director Baz Luhrmann's currently untitled biopic about the music icon, due to shoot in Queensland early next year.
The George-Lucas founded Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is setting up shop in Australia, which will create employment opportunities for VFX artists.
Baz Luhrmann will produce and direct his next film, a biopic on Elvis Presley for Warner Bros, in Queensland.
The Australian International Screen Forum presented its inaugural scholarship, a placement with an American director on a US film, to Indigenous filmmaker Darlene Johnson.
Jason Blum, one of Hollywood’s hottest producers, will be among the speakers at the second annual Australian International Screen Forum in New York this month.
The Australian International Screen Forum will be held again in New York City next March, with Deborra-lee Furness, Hugh Jackman, Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin brought on to serve as ambassadors.
Wheeler produced and coordinated all the music heard in the show on top of writing his own.
Told through the lives and music of a ragtag crew of South Bronx teens, The Get Down is a mythic saga of the transformation of 1970s New York City.