"A big theme in this is the body, and our relationships to our bodies - the characters are grappling in different ways with their bodies betraying them."
This year's AACTA Award for Best Film will be a contest between Baz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis', George Miller’s 'Three Thousand Years of Longing', Leah Purcell’s 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', Thomas M. Wright's 'The Stranger', Western Sydney anthology feature 'Here Out West', and Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes' horror 'Sissy'.
Former RGM agents Tracey Silvester and Theresa Huska have launched Independent Management Company with the backing of music and theatre impresario Paul Dainty.
Baz Luhrmann has cast Olivia DeJonge, who starred in the Netflix series 'The Society' and M. Night Shyamalan's horror movie 'The Visit', as Priscilla Presley in the Elvis Presley biopic which will shoot in Queensland early next year.
A host of Aussie actors have joined the main cast of Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley biopic, including Richard Roxburgh, Helen Thomson, David Wenham, and Dacre Montgomery.
Virginia Madsen (Joy, Sideways) and Patrick Warburton (Ted, Family Guy, Seinfeld) have joined the cast of Safe Neighbourhood, currently shooting at Sydney's Fox Studios.
Olivia DeJonge (The Visit), Ed Oxenbould (Paper Planes) and Levi Miller (Jasper Jones) have begun shooting Safe Neighborhood, a thriller directed by Chris Peckover (Undocumented), who wrote the script with Zack Kahn (Mad).