Australia's Phryne Fisher fans can now download copies of Every Cloud Productions' 'Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears' on iTunes, Google Play and other digital platforms for $24.99.
The ABC is worried that the government's classification review could result in a new nationwide system that impinges on its independence and would encompass content screened on ABC iview.
The emerging crisis around local content results from repeated inaction by government to develop 21st century policy frameworks, write University of the Sunshine Coast's Anna Potter and Queensland University of Technology's Amanda Lotz. Here, they recommend three ways government can encourage local production and break the policy inertia
The Classification Review Board would be abolished and the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) would oversee the classification of commercially-provided content across all platforms if the federal government accepts the ACMA's submission to the classification review.
Netflix has acquired worldwide rights excluding Australia to Stateless, the six-part drama about four strangers whose lives collide in an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert, co-created by Cate Blanchett, Tony Ayres and Elise McCredie.
Kodi Smit-McPhee and Thomasin McKenzie ('JoJo Rabbit') have been added to the cast of Jane Campion's Netflix-commissioned 'The Power of the Dog'.
When Netflix announced it had commissioned Clickbait last year, director Matt Richards began lobbying co-creator Tony Ayres, Matchbox Pictures and Film Victoria to seek a director's attachment.
Australian writer-director Emma Sullivan's true-crime documentary 'Into the Deep' has been praised as more chilling than some of the horror movies which screened in the Sundance Film Festival's Midnight section.