Paramount Pictures' 'Top Gun: Maverick' will be one of the first films presented to exhibitors at next week's Australian International Movie Convention.
Russell Crowe is set to go from his role as an Air Force drone pilot in Will Eubank’s 'Land of Bad' to a former homicide detective that is forced to confront his past in Adam Cooper's 'Sleeping Dogs', with the latter to also begin shooting in Australia early next year.
After success with shorts 'Ophelia' and 'They Grow Up', writer-director Anthony Garland will make his feature debut with sci-fi 'Alternate', due to shoot at Adelaide Studios next year.
Ten New Zealand features and shorts including a record number by female directors will screen in official selection at the Berlin International Film Festival next month while two will feature at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas in March.
Neil Jordan's Byzantium, his return to the blood-sucker genre following Interview with the Vampire, was due to open in Australian cinemas on July 25.
On the reasonable assumption that cinemas are trading in July, albeit with staggered seating, audiences can look forward to a raft of Hollywood films and, perhaps, several new Australian releases.
After playing repressed or relatively stable characters in period dramas such as 'Damsel' and 'Madame Bovary', Mia Wasikowska jumped at the chance to go to the dark side in 'Piercing'.
Zac Efron, Gerard Butler, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Pacino and Eric Bana can all draw sizable audiences but you won't see their most recent movies in Australian cinemas.