The Sapphires is set to be Hopscotch/eOne's most ambitious local release since Mao's Last Dancer in 2009
Hopscotch Features is joining forces with Colin Farrell's new production company and 'The Favourite' producer Lee Magiday for a screen adaption of Irish crime novel 'The Ruin'.
Hopscotch Features' Troy Lum and Andrew Mason have joined forces with UK producer Gabrielle Tana to form a new production house, Brouhaha Entertainment.
In a further sign of consolidation in the independent film sector, Universal Pictures International will take over the theatrical marketing and distribution of Entertainment One (eOne) releases in Australia and New Zealand.
Former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko will star opposite Russell Crowe in historical drama The Water Diviner, which will mark Crowe's feature directing debut.
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.
Five years after Hopscotch Features' Troy Lum and Andrew Mason optioned a book on pioneering American World War II photojournalist Lee Miller, the feature film is financed and set to shoot in 2021.
Rachel Griffiths and Kathy Baker have joined the cast of drama Saving Mr Banks, which has begun principal photography in Los Angeles