A record six Australian feature films will screen at the Sundance Film Festival, with 'Animals', 'Judy and Punch', 'Little Monsters', 'I Am Mother' and 'Top End Wedding' having their world premieres in the Utah-based festival.
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.
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.
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'.
Bruna Papandrea and Steve Hutensky's Made Up Stories has acquired the rights to The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, the debut novel from Australian author Holly Ringland with plans to turn the coming-of-age drama into a TV series.
Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, 'Beauty and the Beast'’s Josh Gad and 'Offspring'’s Alexander England are starring in 'Little Monsters', Abe Forsythe’s Zombie horror comedy now shooting in Sydney.
Universal Pictures has won a bidding war for a sci--fi comedy from writer-director Abe Forsythe and Made Up Stories which will star Lupita Nyong’o -- the creative team behind Little Monsters.
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.