After their successful collaboration on Backyard Ashes, the producers and Umbrella Entertainment are teaming up on another sports-themed comedy with a topical, dramatic twist.
Film Victoria is supporting six new projects through its Production Investment Attraction Fund – Post, Digital and Visual Effects, and the Regional Location Assistance Fund.
Scare Campaign, a horror movie from the brothers Colin and Cameron Cairnes, and Jungle, Greg Mclean's true-life drama set in the Bolivian jungle, have secured funding from Screen Australia.
Screen Australia announce today it will invest nearly $10.7 million in 11 television and film projects which will trigger production worth almost $59 million.
After co-starring with Radha Mitchell in Greg Mclean's US supernatural thriller 6 Miranda Drive, Kevin Bacon is set to collaborate again with the director again in true-life drama Jungle.
When Screen Australia funded the development of the thriller Jungle in 2011, the Spierig brothers were attached to direct and co-write the screenplay with Justin Monjo.
Omnilab Media is no longer working with The Jim Henson Company to produce a live-action 3D sequel to 1982 cult classic The Dark Crystal
Financing, weather and casting issues have waylaid the ambitious action-thriller