Essential Media and Entertainment has lined up co-production partners in Malaysia and Ireland for a CGI animated pre-school series for ABC-TV.
Greg Quail and Jesse Fawcett have re-branded their trans-national production company Essential Media and Entertainment as the EQ Media Group and are boosting the slate of unscripted and scripted content.
The government is calling for comments on its draft documentary legislation
Canada’s Kew Media Group has acquired Essential Quail Media, a joint venture between Essential Media and Entertainment and Quail Television, for an initial purchase price of $32.8 million, comprising $20 million in cash and $12.8 million in shares.
The Walt Disney Co. is opening Saving Mr Banks on a limited number of screens in the US on December 18, a week before it goes into wide release.
Australian publicist Peter Ritchie has joined 20th Century Fox Television Distribution, based in Los Angeles.
Sweetshop & Green has announced producer and writer Rachael Turk as its new head of scripted in what is a newly created role.
When Sam Neill set out to retrace Captain James Cook’s three voyages to the Pacific for a six-part Foxtel documentary, he had sketchy ideas about the 18th Century explorer and his exploits.