The Sapphires is now the 14th most successful Australian film at the box office
The biggest Australian film at the box office in 2010, Tomorrow When the War Began, has had its premiere on local free-to-air TV
Simon Baker will make his feature directing debut, Matchbox Pictures will adapt another Christos Tsiolkas’ novel for the ABC and Endemol Australia will produce a female-driven drama for the Nine Network in projects funded by Screen Australia.
Veterans Sibylla Budd, Deborah Mailman, James Stewart and Alison Bell are joined by relative newcomers Molly Daniels, Narek Arman, Jon Prasida, Madeleine Clunies-Ross, Madeleine Madden, Andrew Creer, Fantine Banulski and Keith Purcell.