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.
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.
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.
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.
Aiming to cash in on the anticipated global success of 'Occupation Rainfall', filmmaker Luke Sparke is developing a raft of features and TV series spanning horror, drama, time-travel and comedy.
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.
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.
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.