Entertainment One has acquired the North American distribution rights to Wish You Were Here
The Marvel Studios film had the eighth biggest opening weekend in Australian history
Wish You Were Here received mostly glowing reviews from US critics and copious publicity last week, centred primarily on lead actor Joel Edgerton whose profile has rocketed after The Great Gatsby and Zero Dark Thirty.
Kieran Darcy-Smith is set to direct a US revenge action thriller, his first film since his 2012 debut Wish You Were Here.
Kieran Darcy-Smith’s By Way of Helena, a revenge thriller set in a West Texas frontier town, is getting an even stronger Aussie flavour.
Claudia Karvan nd Marcus Graham have signed to star alongside Guy Pearce in the next installment of Jack Irish.
Based in the US for the past three years, Kieran Darcy-Smith had not seen the Jack Irish telepics when he was offered the gig as set-up director of the spin-off series starring Guy Pearce as a former criminal lawyer turned private investigator.
Australian director Kieran Darcy-Smith moved to LA off the back of his first feature, 'Wish You Were Here', written by his wife, Felicity Price. This year saw the release of his first film since, 'The Duel', a western starring Liam Hemsworth and Woody Har