Game of Thrones stars Daniel Portman and Keisha Castle-Hughes are heading down under as special guests for Oz Comic-Con in Sydney and Brisbane this September! In case you need a refresher, you’ll recognise Portman as Tyrion Lannister turned Brienne of Tarth’s loyal squire, Podrick Payne, and Castle-Hughes as the deadly Obara Sand, one of the three Sandsnake sisters from Dorne. Portman and…
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Bounty Films and Frankie’s By The Slice are teaming up for the ultimate event screening of the award-winning New Zealand horror/thriller Blood Punch. Blood Punch follows brilliant chemistry student Milton (Milo Cawthorne) who breaks out of court-mandated rehab, in the company of Skyler (Olivia Tennet), on the premise of producing enough meth to set the…
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Imagine Entertainment, in collaboration with White Horse Pictures and Apple, released a teaser trailer and poster this week for Academy Award-winner Ron Howard’s highly anticipated documentary feature The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years. The authorised documentary features rare and exclusive footage, documenting the early career (1962-1966) of the famed band with…
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Event Cinema’s ‘In the House’ cult screenings return to their George Street location in Sydney this July, bringing cult classics from the last 40 years back to the big screen. Audiences can catch screenings of films like Francis Ford Coppola’s seminal gangsta flick The Godfather (1972), Ridley Scott’s nightmare Aliens (1979) in 70mm and fantasy cult classic Big Trouble…
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Following its Australian premiere at this year’s Sydney Film Festival, Fergus Halliday sat down with director Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami to talk about her award-winning documentary, Sonita. Winner of the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Ghaemmaghami’s documentary explores Sonita’s journey as a young undocumented exile living in Tehran, with big dreams of breaking into the rap industry. What drew…
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Palace Cinema’s third annual Scandinavian Film Festival, sponsored by Volvo, opens around the country this July, offering a selection of 22 films from Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Finland. Director Rune Denstad Langlo‘s sharp and insightful black comedy, Welcome to Norway will open the festival. The film follows an aspiring hotel owner who turns his half-built…
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Crowdfunded sci-fi action comedy, Lazer Team is making its way down under. The cinematic lovechild of Youtube’s Rooster Teeth, Lazer Team, is releasing to home video in Australia following box office success through its partnership with the cinema-on-demand platform Tugg. Lazer Team follows four small-town friends who stumble upon an alien crash site containing a segmented alien…
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Ahead of its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival, Fergus Halliday sat down with Swiss director Jan Gassman to talk about his latest film Europe, She Loves. A frank and intimate documentary-hybrid, Europe, She Loves, documents the lives of four couples across Europe. The Iris: Such a fascinating and incredibly ambitious movie. How did Europe, She Loves begin?…
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The celebrate the screening of the Oscar-nominated A War at this year’s Sydney Film Festival, Danish actor Pilou Asbæk sat down with Fergus Halliday to chat about everything from the rules of engagement to Game of Thrones and the American election. I won’t take up much of your time so, I’ll jump right into it. The thing that, sort…
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Sharmill Films has acquired director Bruno Dumont‘s French comedy Slack Bay (Ma Loute) for cinematic release following its new-in-competition premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Set in the north of France in 1910, Slack Bay explores the mysterious disappearance of tourists from a picturesque coastal community and the increasingly odd behaviour of its local…
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Presto announced yesterday, that NBC’s period crime drama Aquarius will return to the online streaming service in a special triple episode premiere event. Episodes one to three of the 1960s drama will stream express from the U.S on Friday June 17. Following the three-episode premiere, episodes will continue to steam week-by-week, direct from the U.S…
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Online streaming service Stan this week announced its first feature-length project, The Second, to be funded by Screen Queensland. Billed as a psychological thriller, The Second will be given a cinema release before streaming exclusively on Stan (jointly owned by Nine Entertainment Co and Fairfax media). Mumbrella reports that the film will follow “two female…
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Melbourne WebFest, this week, announced the program and official selection for its fourth annual run this July. The festival will screen 55 web series from around the globe as part of their official selection, hand-picked from a festival record of 230 submissions. The festival has 23 awards on offer for the 55 nominees, raised from…
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Sydney Film Festival’s 2016 Travelling Film Festival announced its return to Newcastle this coming July, unveiling a program of international cinema direct from their premieres at Sydney Film Festival. Newcastle cinema-goers will be treated to screenings of the Festival’s opening and closing night films: Goldstone and Love & Friendship. Award-winning filmmaker Ivan Sen’s Goldstone, starring…
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After its initial announcement last year, Tetris The Movie is finally beginning to take shape. The project is shaping up as an $80 million co-production between Chin and the U.S under Threshold Global Studios. The result of a joint venture between Larry Kasanoff’s Threshold Entertainment Group and Bruno Wu’s Seven Star Works, Threshold Global Studios…
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Following speculation last month, musician Sir Elton John has taken to Instagram to confirm his place in the upcoming Kingsman: The Golden Circle. While John gives nothing away regarding the specifics of his role, he captioned the image, a Kingsman poster featuring his signature sunglasses, with a reference to his last on-screen feature film role in…
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Kristen Stewart‘s latest film, Personal Shopper, or better known as the film that was horrifically booed at the Cannes Film Festival this year, has an international trailer. While Personal Shopper was the boo-er’s choice for this year, to put things in perspective, Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives were all…
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Shockwave Entertainment this week announced the DVD release of their documentary David Bowie: The Man Who Stole the World, profiling the life and legacy of David Bowie. The documentary features exclusive footage and interviews spanning Bowie’s lengthy career, as it reflects on Bowie’s artistic legacy and pays tribute to the life of the iconic performer. Check…
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Arguably one of the worst-kept secrets of Star Wars: The Force Awakens was Daniel Craig‘s not-so-secret secret cameo. In case you missed it, the James Bond actor appears as a stormtrooper, codename JB-007, during Rey’s interrogation scene. Craig was among several notable stars to cameo as stormtroopers/glorified extras. A report via Making Star Wars this week…
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Kathryn Bigelow, director of Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker, is turning her attention to the historic Detriot Riots, with English Actress Hannah Murray (Skins, Game of Thrones) in talks to play a key role in the untitled true crime drama. Though few details are known about the plot, and details of Murray’s specific role…
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The creative team behind last year’s sci-fi drama (or comedy, if you’re The Golden Globes) The Martian, are reuniting to adapt writer/director S. Craig Zahler’s novel Wraiths of the Broken Land. Twentieth Century Fox has picked up the rights to the revenge-fueled Western, with Ridley Scott set to direct and Drew Goddard to pen the script. Zahler’s 2013…
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Australian comedy-drama, The Dressmaker, starring academy-award-winner Kate Winslet, is proving to be a huge favourite with at-home audiences, with sales of the film hitting 140,000 units in Australia in the first seven weeks of release. To put that in perspective, that makes The Dressmaker the 4th highest selling drama over the past six years and highest selling…
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The 63rd Sydney Film Festival announced their new Beyond Cinema programme this week, including three free immersive film experiences combining cutting edge screen culture with new technologies designed to challenge and inspire. At the heart of the programme, in Sydney’s Lower Town Hall, the virtual reality installation Down the Rabbit Hole will screen nine virtual…
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The second instalment of Paramount Picture’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-action reboot was given a new trailer this week. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows sees the four titular turtles, Leonardo (Pete Ploszek), Raphael (Alan Ritchson), Michelangelo (Noel Fisher) and Donatello (Jeremy Howard), fight their way out of the shadows to battle a roster of…
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The Office alum Stephen Merchant is set to join Hugh Jackman in director James Mangold‘s Wolverine 3, according to The Wrap. Merchant is yet to be tied to a specific role but is best known for his comedic work, often collaborating with Ricky Gervais on titles including The Office, An Idiot Abroad and Extras. Merchant will join Richard…
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Production of Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus sequel, Alien: Covenant is well and truly underway and now there’s a picture to prove it. While there’s no sign yet of Michael Fassbender (reprising his role as David) or any titular aliens, the picture, via the film’s twitter page, does give a brief glimpse of what’s to come. The image…
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Deadline reported this week that Sense8‘s Aml Ameen has abruptly quit the show. The Brish actor, who played Capheus in season one of Lilly and Lana Wachowskis’ Netflix original drama, will be replaced, for season two, by upcomer Toby Onwumere. According to Deadline, the circumstances surrounding Ameen’s departure are still vague but previous reports indicate a conflict of creative…
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Netflix and the BBC have teamed up to produce a four-part miniseries adapting Richard Adam‘s novel and childhood heart-breaker, Watership Down. The star-studded voice cast for the animated series includes John Boyega, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Gemma Arterton and Ben Kingsley. Watership Down was originally published in 1972 and follows a band of rabbits as they search…
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This week the St. Kilda Film Festival announced the finalists for their upcoming SoundKILDA music video competition celebrating the collaborative combination of film and music. Presented by the City of Port Phillip, SoundKILDA will showcase sixteen clips featuring collaborative and feature work from the some of the country’s top artists including Missy Higgins, Vance Joy, Boy…
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Sydney’s Golden Age Cinema and Bar will showcase the cult-classic work of Charlie Kaufman next week to celebrate the release of his stop-motion animated feature, Anomalisa. Written and co-directed by Kaufman, Anomalisa, follows Michael Stone (voiced by David Thewlis) a motivational speaker on customer service techniques who sees everyone around him, including his wife and…
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