The producers of Anthony Maras’ debut feature 'Hotel Mumbai' are free to shop the thriller about the 2008 terrorist attacks on the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel to US distributors after a court ruling.
Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman will star in Lion, a drama based on the true story of Saroo Brierley, an Indian-born Australian who found his birth mother 25 years after they were separated.
The floodgates opened last weekend with more than a dozen new releases led by 'The Personal History of David Copperfield', plus several re-issues as more cinemas resumed trading.
Screen Australia has announced $4 million worth of production investment for one film, two television series and three online projects. They include a film adaptation of book 'Penguin Bloom', starring Naomi Watts and produced by Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories; a second season of ABC series 'Mystery Road'; Nine's 'Seachange' reboot; and 'Roborovski', a VR project from Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Dev Patel.
Anthony Maras has sat in on numerous screenings of his debut film 'Hotel Mumbai', including test screenings in Los Angeles, the world premiere in Toronto and the Adelaide Film Festival, and the audience responses have been uniform.
The timing could not have been worse: 'Hotel Mumbai' opening in Australian cinemas the day before the horrific slaughter of innocents at two mosques in Christchurch.
Anthony Maras finally has settled on his follow-up to 'Hotel Mumbai': A 1970s true-crime saga about the spectacular rise and fall of Atlanta porn king Mike Thevis.
Anthony Maras’ 'Hotel Mumbai' is performing well across the US.