The Lost Thing has won Best Animated Short at the 2011 Academy Awards
The studio was looking for an Australian story - to do for Australia what Kung Fu Panda did for China, according to Cripps.
Margot Robbie, Ben Mendelsohn, Jacki Weaver, Josh Lawson, Ewen Leslie and Damon Herriman are also onboard.
The film was set to feature 72 Outback animal characters, all of them speaking in an Australian accent, and the project had attracted a stellar Australian cast, with Margot Robbie, Hugh Jackman, Naomi Watts, Rose Byrne, Ben Mendelsohn, Jacki Weaver, Josh
Alethea Jones’ first reaction when she was informed she was among the winners of this year’s Screen Australia Breakthrough Award from Australians in Film could not have been more self-effacing.
Tim Minchin, Jacki Weaver, Miranda Tapsell, Mandy McElhinney, Damon Herriman, Sam Simmons, Andrea Demetriades, Wayne Blair, Christiaan Van Vuuren, Justin Rosniak and Jenna Owen are set to star in 'Squinters'.
Tim Minchin has joined the voice cast of Australian animated feature Arkie, a fantastical adventure about a girl who sets out to rescue her father from an evil scientist.
Musician, comedian, writer and actor Tim Minchin will lead the cast of Lingo Pictures’ eight-part series 'Upright', a co-commission between Foxtel and Sky UK which will shoot in SA and WA in October.