Amid turbulent times for the sector, Screen Australia has some positive news, announcing production funding for three feature films, four television series, a children’s series and two online projects.
Thomas M Wright has cast Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris as the leads in 'The Unknown Man', a thriller inspired by a real-life Australian sting operation.
Jennifer Kent's 'The Nightingale' was honoured as the Best Film at Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards yesterday evening, with the film's star Aisling Franciosi also awarded Best Actress.
Hal (Timothée Chalamet), wayward prince and reluctant heir to the English throne, has turned his back on royal life and is living among the people. But when his tyrannical father dies, Hal is crowned King Henry V and is forced to embrace the life he had previously tried to escape. Now the young king must navigate the palace politics, chaos and war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life — including his relationship with his closest friend and mentor, the aging alcoholic knight, John Falstaff (Joel Edgerton). Directed by David Michôd and co-written by Michôd and Edgerton, THE KING co-stars Sean Harris, Ben Mendelsohn, Robert Pattinson, and Lily-Rose Depp.
"I don't think it's any secret that the distribution and exhibition space for movies that aren't tentpole is getting tougher and tougher all the time. People want to watch things at home. I like to watch things at home. And people's TVs are amazing."
Shannon Murphy's debut feature 'Babyteeth', a bittersweet comedy starring Ben Mendelsohn, Essie Davis, Eliza Scanlen and Toby Wallace, will have its world premiere in official competition at the Venice International Film Festival.
Australian journalist Trent Dalton’s debut novel, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in Brisbane in the 1980s, is to be turned into an international TV drama series.
Joel Edgerton’s gay conversion therapy drama Boy Erased was named outstanding film in limited release at the GLAAD Media Awards presented in New York on on Saturday night .