NITV and ABC Children’s are proud to announce Thalu has commenced production on location in the Pilbara, Western Australia. Energetic, inventive and funny, this new five-part children’s series received principal production investment from Screen Australia in association with Screenwest and the Western Australian Regional Film Fund and was financed with support from NITV, ABC and…
Sony and Aniplex announce Anime Streaming Merger
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Sony Pictures Television, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., and Aniplex Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., have announced they have combined multiple Sony-owned Anime streaming businesses. France’s Wakanim, Australia’s Madman Anime Group and US-based Funimation will form a joint venture to be owned by Aniplex and Sony Pictures Television. The…
Calm Conditions Forecast For AFL Grand Final
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The Bureau of Meteorology’s forecast for Grand Final Day in Melbourne is dry, so does that mean Richmond will romp in – or will the GWS Giants enjoy a fairy-tale finale? Statistically speaking Richmond thrive in dry grand finals, but in terms of temperatures there’s no strong signal either way. The Bureau is forecasting a…
Blue Peter’s Music Badge Designed by Ed Sheeran
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Blue Peter is launching its first ever music badge in collaboration with BBC Music Day on Thursday with lifelong Blue Peter fan and multi award-winning singer/songwriter, Ed Sheeran, designing the latest iconic shield. Ed, who received a Gold badge last year – the show’s highest accolade – has watched Blue Peter since he was a…
Election Bunting Have Your Say
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Election bunting on polling day has become part of the experience for Queensland voters – but the Palaszczuk Government is asking if you want it to stay that way. Queensland Attorney-General and Minister for Justice Yvette D’Ath wants to hear from Queenslanders about what they think of polling stations being swamped with signage on election…
Two Films From M. Night Shyamalan For Universal
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Universal Pictures recently announced two new projects from writer/director/producer M. Night Shyamalan. Following Universal’s highly successful partnership with the filmmaker on films including The Visit, Split and Glass, the studio plans to release the first Untitled M. Night Shyamalan Thriller on Friday, February 26, 2021 and the second on Friday, February 17, 2023. “M. Night…
Sony Pictures Classics Acquires The Burnt Orange Heresy
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Sony Pictures Classics announced recently that they have acquired all rights in all media, excluding airlines, in North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Latin America, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Thailand to Guiseppe Capotondi’s THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY. Based on the novel by Charles Willeford, the film stars Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Mick Jagger…
KISS Teams up with Penrite Racing
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Rock’n’roll legends KISS will run their legendary logo and colours on the Penrite Racing Supercars of David Reynolds and Anton De Pasquale in a world-first partnership to promote their Newcastle show and the band’s ‘End of the Road’ Australian Tour in November. KISS has endorsed a landmark agreement for their globally celebrated KISS logo and…
Rambo: Last Blood
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Director Adrian Grunberg Starring Sylvester Stallone, Paz Vega, Yvette Monreal Rated R Score 5/6 Rambo must confront his past and unearth his ruthless combat skills to exact revenge in a final mission. I really wasn’t sure what I was expecting from Last Blood but going by the ending of Rambo 4 I would have been…
Netflix Announces Series Based on Equinox 1985 Podcast
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Netflix has announced the new Danish Netflix Original series, Equinox – based on the well-known podcast, Equinox 1985. The six-part series will be created by Tea Lindeburg and executive produced by Piv Bernth (The Killing, The Bridge and Follow The Money) and her company Apple Tree Productions, which is backed by ITV Studios. Production is…
Life-sized statue of Johnathan Thurston for New North Queensland Stadium
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Townsville artist Jane Hawkins has been commissioned to sculpt a life-sized statue of NRL star Johnathan Thurston to stand in the northern entry plaza of the new North Queensland Stadium. Jane will team with Dean Rusling, owner and operator of Chalkos Fine Arts Foundry, the same company that fabricated the bronze statues of the football…
Men in Black: International
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Director F. Gary Gray Starring Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Kumail Nanjiani Rated M Score 3.5/6 The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organisation. I really wasn’t sure…
Stark
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Director Nadia Tass Starring Ben Elton, Jacqueline McKenzie, Colin Friels, Deborra-Lee Furness & Derrick O’Connor Rated M Score 5/6 Australian billionaire, Sly Morgan is invited to join the Stark Conspiracy, a group of the world’s richest people who plan to save themselves from the Earth’s impending environmental doom. Colin Dobson, or CD to his friends,…
Sydney Underground Film Festival – Independence, Rockets & Borsch (Shorts)
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Fabulous squirt is one of the strangest movies that I have seen that is going to be screened at the Sydney Underground Film Festival. It started off as you would expect any serious news or current affairs report and then it took a turn that I really wasn’t expecting. The idea of My Little Pony…
Sydney Underground Film Festival – Ozploit! (Shorts)
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It has been awhile since I last got the opportunity to sit down and watch some short films, so I was glad when I got the opportunity to check out the Ozploit collection, some really clever movies have been selected for this collection and I hope to see more movies from the directors in the…
Netflix Enters into Overall Deal with Kuku Studios
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Netflix has entered into a multi-year overall agreement with Kuku Studios, under which its key members – Alex Woo, Stanley Moore, Tim Hahn, and Erik Benson – will exclusively produce animated films and series for Netflix members worldwide. Their credits include Ratatouille, Wall-e, Toy Story 3, Monster’s University, and Finding Dory, among others. Kuku Studios’…
Young Wallander Series Coming to Netflix in 2020
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The filming of Young Wallander has just begun the new Netflix original series based on Henning Mankell’s best-selling Kurt Wallander novels. The cast includes Adam Pålsson (Kurt Wallander), Richard Dillane (Superintendent Hemberg), Leanne Best (Frida Rask), Ellise Chappell (Mona) and Yasen Atour (Reza). The series is created by Yellow Bird UK, a Banijay Group company,…
Sydney Underground Film Festival – Greener Grass
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Directors Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe Score 0.5/6 Suburban soccer moms find themselves constantly competing against each other in their personal lives as their kids settle their differences on the field. This is supposed to be a comedy, personally I did not see it. Greener Grass is probably one of the oddest and the most…