The ABC and Screen Australia today unveiled four children’s series including a Gristmill Productions comedy co-commissioned by Netflix and the first TV series from creators Matt Zeremes and Guy Edmonds.
Screen Australia, in association with Create NSW and Screenwest, has backed a new animated feature from Flying Bark Productions, the production company behind 'Maya the Bee' and 'Blinky Bill: The Movie'.
The 52 x 11 minute episode series has been commissioned by Seven for its broadcast channel, 7TWO.
Australian film and TV animation pioneer Yoram Gross died on Monday night, aged 88, of natural causes.
An Australian movie featuring Ryan Kwanten, Toni Collette, Robin McLeavy, David Wenham, Rufus Sewell, Richard Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman, Barry Otto and Barry Humphries sounds like a casting director’s dream.
Studiocanal has agreed to distribute Maya the Bee Movie, the 3D animated feature adapted from the ABC TV series, in Australian and New Zealand cinemas.
Tim Brooke Hunt has been named president of Flying Bark Productions, re-joining the Australian animation studio where he spent nearly 10 years in the 1990s.
Kodi Smit-McPhee, Richard Roxburgh and Justine Clarke will join the impressive cast line-up of Jacki Weaver, Noah Taylor and Miriam Margolyes for Flying Bark Productions’ first ever animated theatrical stereoscopic release, Maya the Bee Movie.