The coronavirus pandemic has forced the suspension or postponement of 119 screen productions, resulting in a loss to the production sector of $471 million.
BBC One has acquired both series of Hoodlum Entertainment/Network 10's Five Bedrooms from NBCUniversal Global Distribution.
After years of creating fictional characters in such series as 'House Husbands', 'Offspring', 'The Wrong Girl' and 'Playing for Keeps', Christine Bartlett allowed herself the freedom to do something unprecedented in 'Five Bedrooms'.
When Daniel Lapaine and Essie Davis were fellow students at NIDA in the early 1990s, one less arduous element of the course was fencing lessons.
When UK-based actor Daniel Lapaine was asked by his mate Tim Minchin to play his brother in Lingo Pictures/Foxtel's Upright, he was both surprised and delighted.
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.
Producers of narrative features and feature documentaries fear that reducing the Producer Offset for films to 30 per cent will have a devastating impact on theatrical releases.