Australasian actresses Sarah Snook, Melanie Lynskey, and Cleopatra Coleman will join international stars Charlie Hunnam and Gabrielle Union, and casting director Terri Taylor in judging this year's Heath Ledger Scholarship.
Melbourne-based actress Rachel Kamath said her role as Parvati in Apple TV+'s big budget adaptation 'Shantaram' encouraged her to access parts of herself that "she probably hadn't in a while".
Based on the internationally best-selling novel by Australian Gregory David Roberts, 'Shantaram' will start streaming on Apple TV+ from October 14.
Young actor Charlotte Maggi will go from riding dirt bikes in the centre of Australia for Brindle Films’ 'MaveriX' to taking up residence in a colony at the edge of the galaxy as part of Zack Snyder's Netflix sci-fi 'Rebel Moon'.
Paramount Television Studios and Anonymous Content's search for a second showrunner to work on the Apple TV+ drama 'Shantaram' has taken on added urgency following the exit of the creator/showrunner Eric Warren Singer.
Production of Apple TV+'s 'Shantaram' has been suspended after Justin Kurzel directed the first two episodes of the 10-part drama based on the novel by Gregory David Roberts.
The Hollywood studios and other international producers that were hoping to take advantage of the Federal Government’s $140 million Location Incentive Program over the next few years may well be disappointed.