Sparke made his feature debut last year with 'Red Billabong'. Next month, the director will kick off the shoot for his second film, action sci-fi 'Occupation', on the Gold Coast and northern NSW.
Clay Epstein's Film Mode Entertainment acquired the international rights and screened the film at the American Film Market, resulting in a raft of deals with distributors in the US, Japan, China, Vietnam and other Asian markets.
Embarking on a sequel to a film which hasn’t been released yet may be a bold move for Luke Sparke but the filmmaker he is confident of the franchise potential of Occupation.
Writer-director Luke Sparke’s 'Occupation' launched on 17 screens last week, sparking dozens of complaints from people around Australia who can’t see the alien invasion thriller.
In a casting coup writer-director Luke Sparke has signed 'Crazy Rich Asians' star Ken Jeong to play the lead in 'Occupation: Rainfall'.
Four weeks into the 12-week shoot for 'Occupation: Rainfall', writer-director Luke Sparke declares the sequel will be four times bigger in scale and ambition than the original.
Producer, director and screenwriter Geoff Murphy, a leading figure in New Zealand cinema’s renaissance of the late 1970s and early 1980s, died in Wellington on Monday. He was 80.
Luke Sparke's Occupation: Rainfall, the sequel to his 2018 sci-fi thriller Occupation, will have its world premiere at Monster Fest in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.