Netflix has announced that Matthew Aldrich has come on board to oversee the development and creative live-action adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ beloved The Chronicles of Narnia series Aldrich will work across both series and film and serve as a creative architect on all projects under the deal. Aldrich most recently co-wrote COCO for Disney and…
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Sara Pascoe to star in The Last Woman on Earth for BBC Two
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BBC Two has commissioned a new two-part series fronted by comedian and writer Sara Pascoe (Sara Pascoe Live: LadsLadsLads, Travelling Blind, Animal). In The Last Woman On Earth (from Talkback, part of Fremantle) Sara will travel the world on a mission to track down the world’s most endangered jobs, in a bid to become a…
Rocketman
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Director Dexter Fletcher Starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden Rated MA Score 6/6 A musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John’s breakthrough years. For those of you who might be interested John Reid was portrayed by Aidan Gillen in the 2018 Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, and by Richard Madden in Rocketman.…
Looby – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Directors Iain Knight and Nick Garner Score 4/6 Looby is the story of what happens when an artist chooses to speak out. For Australian painter Keith Looby, it cost him almost everything. Winner of prestigious art prizes and collected by major galleries at home and abroad, Keith’s addiction to speaking his mind has left a…
Dogs Best Friend – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Eryn Wilson Score 3/6 Profile of Jacob Leezak’s Canine Behaviour Expert Dog Psychology Centre, located in outer Sydney, a place where traumatised dogs and traumatised humans can heal one another. Dogs. People like Dogs and people have strong feelings about traumatised and neglected dogs. So, it won’t surprise me if a lot of people…
ABC and Screen Australia Announce DisRupted Films
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ABC and Screen Australia are pleased to announce the three successful films selected for DisRupted following a nation-wide call out in October 2018. The films being Rocky and Me, And Then Something Changed and The Legend of Burnout Barry. The films are all led by young Australian creatives with disability and supported by some of…
Who is Your Favourite Voice Assistant?
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Hollywood star and now British royalty, but the voice of Meghan Markle is a turn off when it comes to which celebrities Aussies would choose to be their voice assistant, the largest study into how Australian’s use voice assisted technology and smart speakers has revealed. While the Duchess of Sussex ranked as having the least…
Netflix Announces Thelma the Unicorn Animated Musical
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Netflix has announced that Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre) will adapt a screenplay based on the novel Thelma the Unicorn by Aaron Blabey into an animated musical, Jared Hess will direct. Thelma the Unicorn has sold over 1.6 million copies to date and has been distributed in 14 countries around the world.…
Dreamworks Announces Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous
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DreamWorks Animation today announced Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, an animated action-adventure series, is set to debut globally on Netflix in 2020 as part of an ongoing multi-year agreement with Netflix to produce original animated kids and family programming. Set within the same timeline as the 2015 blockbuster film, Jurassic World, the Netflix original series is…
Netflix Announces Magic: The Gathering Animated Series
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Netflix is joining forces with Joe and Anthony Russo, Wizards of The Coast, and Hasbro’s Allspark Animation to bring the worldwide phenomenon of Magic: The Gathering to the screen for the first time in the iconic franchise’s 25-year history with an animated series Magic: The Gathering. The Russos will oversee the creation of an all…