After years of fighting against being typecast as Lebanese or other Middle Eastern characters, actor Doris Younane is in a very happy place in her career.
Directors Fadia Abboud and Shirley Barrett are joining set-up director Peter Templeman on the second season of Network 10/Hoodlum Entertainment's Five Bedrooms, which is now shooting in Melbourne.
The Australian TV drama production sector has virtually ground to a halt with multiple shows suspending shooting last Friday.
Wooden Horse's 'The Clearing' has begun production in Victoria for Disney+, with Kate Mulvany, Xavier Samuel, Claudia Karvan and Anna Lise Phillips joining the previously announced leads of Teresa Palmer, Miranda Otto and Guy Pearce.
This year's AACTA Award for Best Film will be a contest between Baz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis', George Miller’s 'Three Thousand Years of Longing', Leah Purcell’s 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', Thomas M. Wright's 'The Stranger', Western Sydney anthology feature 'Here Out West', and Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes' horror 'Sissy'.
The second season of Hoodlum Entertainment's 'Five Bedrooms' was among the key launch titles for Paramount+ as it went live in Australia this week. The streamer seems assured of its continued success, with production already underway on a third in Melbourne.
Paramount+ has extended the lease for Hoodlum's 'Five Bedrooms', commissioning a fourth season of the housemate drama.
Paul Ireland’s 'Measure for Measure' will be released in North America by Samuel Goldwyn Films, the distributor's third Australian acquisition this year.