The 25th event will be held at Parramatta Park on February 11 next year.
Mark Lamprell is not just a screenwriter (Babe: Pig in the City) and director (My Mother Frank, Goddess), but a novelist as well.
Lamprell is currently putting the finishing touches on his latest film, A Few Less Men, the sequel to Stephan Elliott's 2011 film A Few Best Men.
The pair had a wide-ranging chat at the Chauvel last night as guests of the French Film Festival, of which both are patrons.
The 69th Festival de Cannes coming up in May will be presided over by George Miller as jury president.
Fury Road's action unit director and stunt coordinator Guy Norris is riding high. His team, tallying over 150 performers, took out the SAG Stunt Awards in Los Angeles yesterday, a result which should have suprised precisely no-one.
Subject to how strongly Mad Max: Fury Road performs globally, George Miller says the fifth edition of his action franchise will be called Mad Max: The Wasteland.
The kick-ass heroes and heroines of George Miller's actioner dominated the global box-office last weekend although they were beaten by a bunch of a capella singers in several key markets.