"The best way to get people to go to the cinema is to embrace the point of difference from television, enhance the cinematic scale of the work and create narrative experiences that are immersive." - Robert Connolly
Matthew Holmes' 'The Cost' is the story of two ordinary blokes, David (Jordan Fraser-Tumble) and Aaron (Damon Hunter) who abduct a convicted felon (Kevin Dee) who committed a horrific crime many years before.
There is more good news for the Roache-Turner brothers’ zombie action-thriller 'Wyrmwood: Apocalypse', with XYZ Films acquiring the global distribution rights and planning a US release of the film.
It’s an all too familiar story: Australian films open in a handful of cinemas with minimal marketing and publicity and audiences don’t go because they don’t know where or when these films are playing.
Bronte Pictures has begun pre-production in regional NSW on Matthew Holmes' 'Fear Below', a period shark thriller set to star English actress Hermione Corfield alongside Jake Ryan, Josh McConville, and Jacob Junior Nayinggul.
In writer-director Tyson Wade Johnson's debut feature 'Streamline', a prodigious 15-year-old swimmer with the world at his feet (Levi Miller) self-destructs after his father (Jason Isaacs) is released from prison. Inside of the pool he lives a life of rigorous perfectionism and outside of it, his existence is lonely and hollow.
Increased awareness of Australian projects in a post-strike international market has producers cautiously optimistic about what 2024 may bring, although variables regarding financing and securing cast and crew require plenty of continued consideration.
Writer and director Kiah Roache-Turner will bring together past collaborators Bronte Pictures and Pictures in Paradise for a World War II survival-action thriller to be filmed across Australia and Malta next year.