These Final Hours' Angourie Rice has joined the cast of the movie spin-off of the ABC children's drama Nowhere Boys.
Matchbox Pictures’ Nowhere Boys and Galaxy Pop’s Get Ace are in the running for next year’s International Emmy Kids Awards.
After two seasons on ABC television, the 82-minute family film will bring together Felix (Dougie Baldwin, Andy (Joel Lok, Sam (Rahard Adams) and Jake (Matt Testro) for one final spell when Felix discover a sealed Book of Shadows.
Matchbox Pictures’ Nowhere Boys has scored its first nomination for the British Academy Children’s Awards presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
The film was directed by David Caesar (Dirty Deeds, Idiot Box, Mullet) and written by Tony Ayres, Rhys Graham and Craig Irvin, and has earned $48,186 at the local BO.
The second season of Nowhere Boys won the International Emmy Kids Award for a Series, announced at MIPTV in Cannes overnight, alongside winners from Japan, Norway, The Netherlands and the UK.
Three Aussie productions - Doodles, Ready for This and Wild But True - are up for International Emmy Kids Awards, while Matchbox Pictures' Nowhere Boys has scored its second BAFTA Children's nomination.
Netflix has beefed up its Australian programming by acquiring international rights to all three series of Matchbox Pictures’ 'Nowhere Boys'.