Made Up Stories managing director for Australia Jodi Matterson has departed the company after seven years, ending her creative partnership with fellow principals and married couple Bruna Papandrea and Steve Hutensky.
Abe Forsythe was six when Paul Verhoeven's 'RoboCop', which starred Peter Weller as a terminally ill cop turned powerful cyborg, opened in cinemas in 1987.
Antony Partos won the prize for best TV theme for 'Bloom' and shared the awards for best music in a TV series or serial, also for 'Bloom' and feature film score for 'I Am Mother' at the Screen Music Awards in Melbourne on Wednesday night.
When Abe Forsythe made 'Little Monsters', he intended the film to be screened in cinemas, reaching a far wider audience than his black comedy 'Down Under'. That’s not how it turned out, much to the disappointment of the writer-director.
'Little Monsters' follows Dave (Alexander England), a washed-up musician who volunteers to chaperone his nephew’s kindergarten class field trip after taking a serious liking to the fearless schoolteacher, Miss Caroline (Lupita Nyong’o).
Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o shines bright as a ukulele-playing, zombie-slaying kindergarten teacher in Abe Forsythe’s sweetly hilarious zom-com 'Little Monsters'.
The 2019 Melbourne International Film Festival is being touted as the largest yet, with some 259 features, 123 shorts and 16 VR experiences, including Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood'.
The 18 Australian films and feature docs released in cinemas since the start of the year, plus holdovers, have racked up a modest $14.3 million.