Stan Original film 'A Christmas Ransom' may invite comparisons to the streamer's last festive collaboration with Every Cloud Productions, Christiaan Van Vuuren's 2020 comedy 'A Sunburnt Christmas', but a lot has changed behind the scenes in the past two years.
Writer Keir Wilkins will have his work featured across Netflix and Stan this year, having contributed to the second season of 'Surviving Summer' and upcoming dark comedy 'Totally Completely Fine'.
In Adele Vuko’s Christmas Ransom, Matt Okine stars as the struggling owner of beloved toy store Harrington and Sons, who is taken for ransom when a pair of bumbling criminals hijack the store.
Nearly 30 projects will share in $975,000 of story development funding from Screen Australia, including a television series inspired by the 1999 film 'Two Hands' from director Gregor Jordan, and a family feature film from the producers of 'Bluey'.
Stan has unveiled five Stan Originals – two drama series, a true crime docuseries, a film and a comedy special – as part of an ambitious plan to ramp up local commissions,
Within just six short years of graduating NIDA’s MFA Writing for Performance course, Gretel Vella has been nominated for an AWGIE, written and co-produced an international series for Hulu, and served as showrunner on her own series.
Tony McNamara has reunited with 'The Favourite' director Yorgos Lanthimos for an adaptation of Scottish author Alasdair Gray's Victorian-set satire 'Poor Things', about a fully grown woman who has been implanted with the mind of an infant.
Stan is again getting into the festive spirit, starting production on a new holiday-themed original film starring Matt Okine, Miranda Tapsell and Ed Oxenbould.