Blumhouse Productions and Columbia Pictures have announced that The Craft: Legacy will be available widely on PVOD this Halloween with leading digital retailers for a 48-hour rental period at a suggested retail price of $19.99, and for premium digital purchase at a suggested retail price of $24.99. An international theatrical release is anticipated in several…
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Comedy Web Series Hug The Sun Greenlit
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Taking tongue-in-cheek inspiration from morning children’s television, Hug the Sun follows a fictional children’s show which aired on Western Australia’s community TV stations between 1990 and 1991. The series will feature the bizarre teaching of ‘Oxtos’ (religious teaching that are just thinly disguised grifts), inept hosts and unintentional comedy that is sure to become a…
A Sunburnt Christmas Coming to Stan
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New Stan Original Film A Sunburnt Christmas is currently in production in South Australia starring Daniel Henshall (Snowtown, Bloom) and Sullivan Stapleton (Animal Kingdom, Ride Like A Girl), with Christiaan Van Vuuren (Bondi Hipsters, The Other Guy) directing the Christmas family comedy. Stan have announced that production for a brand new Stan Original Film, A…
Pop Newcomer TAMMA Releases Second Single Tongue Tied
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One of Australia’s most exciting pop newcomers, TAMMA, has released her second single, Tongue Tied. Produced by the award-winning Konstantin Kersting (Tones and I, Mallrat, Jungle Giants, Tia Gostelow), Tongue Tied was premiered yesterday via Pilerats. Of the track, Pilerats said “Tongue Tied is a moment of excellence, something that really elevates TAMMA into the…
Bridging the line Between Science-Fiction and Science Fact
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It’s not rocket science – or is it? A UNSW Sydney astronomer explains how the right sci-fi watchlist can make physics easier to understand. From the morality plays in Star Trek, to the grim futures in Black Mirror, fiction can help explore our hopes – and fears – of the role science might play in…
Italian Ossario Added to Victorian Heritage Register
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Greater Shepparton’s Italian Ossario has been added to the Victorian Heritage Register, as part of commemorations to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two. The site, also known as the Murchison Ossasio, is one of only two foreign war cemeteries in Victoria and the only Australian war cemetery dedicated to Italian…
The 2021 Australian Women’s Health Diary on Sale Now
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Two years ago, Louise received the letter that every woman fears – it was a recall to have further tests following an abnormal result on her routine, breast screening mammogram. Louise and her husband of 45 years were already dealing with his diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer, so when those tests revealed she had…
Palace Cinemas Pentridge to open in December
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Melbourne’s historic Pentridge prison site is set to become the latest home for movie lovers from December 2020. Palace Cinemas, Australia’s largest independent cinema group, will open Melbourne’s newest cinema – Pentridge Cinema – just in time for Christmas. The 15-screen cinema complex will be located within the Pentridge development in Coburg, a site that…
ABC iview Comedy All My Friends Are Racist Headed to Production
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Screen Australia has announced production funding for a new five-part comedy series for ABC iview, with support from Screen Queensland. All My Friends Are Racist follows two Zoomer best friends who make a pact to call their racist friends out, but instead of causing a revolution… they themselves get cancelled. Created and written by Enoch…
Netflix Commissions Microworlds: Reef
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Netflix has announced it has commissioned its first Australian Netflix Original documentary, Microworlds: Reef, with major production investment from Screen Australia in association with Screen Queensland. Filmed in Australia on the Great Barrier Reef, the sophisticated supermacro techniques specifically developed for the film will immerse viewers, for the very first time, in the exquisite world…