Thanks to Screen Queensland's Enterprise Funding, Meg O'Connell is adding two execs at her banner Unless Pictures to help drive her slate and grow the business.
Netflix and Peacock are co-commissioning partners for Matchbox Pictures and NBCUniversal International Studios' 'Irreverent', set to shoot next month in Mission Beach.
Netflix has commissioned a third season of teen drama 'Heartbreak High', which it says will be the series' last.
Netflix ANZ will work with Tony Ayres Productions, Easy Tiger, and Ronde on two new drama series, and has greenlit a documentary on drill rap group ONEFOUR as part of its next phase of Australian production.
Netflix has bolstered its Australian presence with the appointment of Ben Cox as the director of business development.
Netflix has ordered Brouhaha Entertainment's adaptation of Trent Dalton's 'Boy Swallows Universe', more than two years after publisher HarperCollins announced it had sold the screen rights to the author's debut novel.
Netflix is signalling a bigger commitment to commissioning Australian productions by hiring Que Minh Luu as director, local originals for Australia.
Actor and comedian Celeste Barber will executive produce and star in new Netflix ANZ comedy drama, 'Wellmania', based on the book by author and journalist Brigid Delaney.