Bruna Papandrea and Steve Hutensky's Made Up Stories has acquired the rights to The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, the debut novel from Australian author Holly Ringland with plans to turn the coming-of-age drama into a TV series.
Asher Keddie will be joined by the likes of Matt Day, Jonathan LaPaglia, Tina Bursill, Emma Lung, and Maria Angelico in Binge dramedy 'Strife', which has begun filming in Sydney.
Naomi Watts has partnered with Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea to option Aussie bestseller 'Penguin Bloom'.
The creative industries were well represented in this year's Australia Day honours list, with director Phillip Noyce, Made Up Stories producer Bruna Papandrea, and actors Claudia Karvan and David Wenham among those recognised.
Together, Reese Witherspoon and Papandrea produced David Fincher's Gone Girl, Jean-Marc Vallee's Wild and upcoming HBO miniseries Big Little Lies, based on the novel by Sydney writer Liane Moriarty. Papandrea and Witherspoon recently bought the rights to
The first reviews for Jennifer Kent’s 'The Nightingale' after the world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival were effusive - marred only by a disgusting comment from an Italian journalist.
The team behind the award-winning film 'The Dry' has begun production on another Jane Harper feature adaptation in Victoria, with Eric Bana reprising his role as Aaron Falk and Robert Connolly returning as writer and director.
New seasons of 'Total Control' and children's titles 'Rock Island Mysteries' and 'Strange Chores', as well as feature film projects from Northern Pictures, Made Up Stories and Causeway Films are among the nine projects that will share in $12 million of production funding from Screen Australia.