After a difficult year for exhibitors, Palace Cinemas CEO Benjamin Zeccola is pleased to end 2020 on a positive note with the official opening of Coburg's Pentridge Cinema next week.
In many respects, the screen sector today is virtually unrecognisable from three and a half years ago, and not just because the coronavirus pandemic has devastated sections of the industry.
After spending five months in Morocco and London directing Fox Networks’ espionage thriller 'Deep State', Robert Connolly plans to shoot a movie in another exotic location.
The team behind the award-winning film 'The Dry' has begun production on another Jane Harper feature adaptation in Victoria, with Eric Bana reprising his role as Aaron Falk and Robert Connolly returning as writer and director.
After 'The Dry' made more than $20 million in 2021, it was perhaps inevitable the creative team would look to adapt the next book in Jane Harper’s Aaron Falk series, 'Force of Nature', for the big screen. Writer, director and producer Robert Connolly talks to IF about the follow up – and hints there may be a third film yet.
Feature films directed by Robert Connolly, Jeremy Sims, Kriv Stenders and first-time directors Maziar Lahooti and Natalie Erika James have received production investment from Screen Australia.
Screen Australia's head of content Sally Caplan rates 2019 as a good year for Australian films at home and abroad - and she is even more optimistic about the 2020 slate.
The Victorian Government has unveiled a new $191.5 million, four-year strategy for the state's screen industry, which it says has the potential to inject more than $1.2 billion back into the economy and support more than 40,000 jobs.