French production house and distribution company STUDIOCANAL has announced plans to acquire Australasian company HOYTS Distribution
Hoyts Distribution in Australia and New Zealand has been renamed STUDIOCANAL.
Tom Hardy is set to play an American WWII veteran who joins a Yakuza crime family in The Outsider, an action-thriller to be directed by Takashi Miike.
Studiocanal Australia CEO Robert Slaviero is hiring and reshuffling staff in an expansion of the sales and marketing teams
Most of the films on offer at the European Film Market in Berlin were so dull or unappealing more than one Australian distributor came home empty-handed.
The ABC may not seem to be a natural home for the Twilight franchise but the broadcaster has bought all five Twilight movies to screen on ABC2.
Long-time Hopscotch Features/eOne executive Rachel Okine is joining Studiocanal.
Abe Forsythe's black comedy Down Under is set hit Australian cinemas on August 4.