BINGE and Screen Ireland Announce New Drama Series

BINGE, Screen Australia and Screen Ireland have announced a new original drama, Mix Tape – an international co-production between the Foxtel Group, acclaimed Australian production company, Aquarius Films and one of Ireland’s leading TV and film production companies, Subotica. Mix Tape is a four-part event miniseries adapted from the popular and critically acclaimed novel by…

Netball NSW Announces New Premier League Netball Team

Netball NSW has proudly announced a new Premier League netball team, South West Mounties Magic, the next step for elite sports within Mounties Group. In a partnership between the group’s health and wellbeing offering, Mounties Care and Liverpool City Netball Association, the introduction of an additional Premier League netball team will offer a clear pathway…

12 Rounds

Director Renny Harlin Stars John Cena, Ashley Scott, Aidan Gillen Rated M Score 3/6 Detective Danny Fisher discovers his girlfriend has been kidnapped by an ex-con tied to Fisher’s past, and he’ll have to successfully complete 12 challenges in order to secure her safe release. I do remember watching this one around the time it…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Gelato Flavors

Gelatissimo’s newest collaboration to celebrate the release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, in cinemas September 7.  From August 25, Gelatissimo are unleashing an army of flavour obsession to celebrate with 5 awesome flavours: the all new ‘Mutant Madness’, ‘Donatello’s Dragonfruit and Lychee’, ‘Leonardo’s Lolly Wonderland’, ‘Raphael’s Raspberry’ and ‘Michelangelo’s Mango’. “Teenage Mutant Ninja…

CIT Woden Development

The development application for the main building at CIT Woden is now approved, cranes are place, and construction is ramping up on the main structure which is due for completion in 2025. “We’re investing in this transformational infrastructure project to support the future skills our city needs, but it has also been a game changer…

Screenrights Announces Annual Cultural Fund Funding Totaling $265,763

Screenrights has announced six projects will be supported by the 2023 round of its annual Cultural Fund, to total $265,763 in funding for this year’s focus of ‘New Visions’. “It’s wonderful that the Screenrights membership is able to support the wider creative community through the Cultural Fund,” Screenrights Board Director and Cultural Fund Working Group…

The Machine

Director Peter Atencio Stars Bert Kreischer, Mark Hamill, Iva Babic & Jimmy Tatro Rated MA Score 4.5/6 Bert’s drunken past catches up with him 20 years down the road when he and his father are kidnapped by those Bert wronged 20 years ago while drunk on a college semester abroad in Russia. I suppose I…

HelloFresh Favorite Cuisine Survey

Cuisines from around the world are becoming ever-present around the dinner table and now, new research by Hellofresh has revealed Australia’s favourite cuisine. The survey by HelloFresh revealed that on average, Australians eat 2.6 different cuisines per week, with almost 9 in 10 (88%) saying they eat their native Australian cuisine once a week or…

Hoyts Launches ‘See the Big Picture’ Campagin

With over 113 years of delivering a world-class cinema experience, HOYTS launches a new brand positioning, See the Big Picture. To capture the excitement of going to the cinema and the essence of why cinema is still thriving, HOYTS has worked with creative agency Today the Brave and production company MOFA on its new See…

Australian Wine Surplus

Even early removal of Chinese anti-dumping tariffs would not be enough to prevent Australia’s wine industry facing several years of oversupply, Rabobank says in its newly-released Wine Quarterly Q3 2023 report. Improving trade relations between the two countries and the recent removal of Chinese tariffs on Australian barley has led to optimism that five-year tariffs…

PROCLIVITAS Selected as 2023 Recipient of Screenwest’s West Coast Visions initiative.

Screenwest and Screen Australia are pleased to announce writer/director Miley Tunnecliffe and producer Kate Separovich’s debut feature film, PROCLIVITAS has been selected as the 2023 recipient of Screenwest’s highly coveted West Coast Visions initiative. PROCLIVITAS is the first West Coast Visions film to receive $1,250,000 production funding (historically $750,000), thanks to Screenwest’s new partnership with…

2023 MIFF Shorts Award Winners Announced

The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has announced the recipients of the 2023 MIFF Shorts Awards presented by Campari, which reward filmmakers with a prize pool worth $50,000. An in-person ceremony was held at ACMI on Saturday evening with seven out of the 75 films in the program accoladed by a jury consisting of filmmaker…

National Book Week with George the Farmer

Rabobank’s Rabo Community Fund has partnered with ‘George the Farmer’ again on ‘his’ mission to help educate children about where their food and fibre comes from in both a fun and educational way during this year’s National Book Week – August 19 to 26. The specialist agribusiness bank and George the Farmer – a fictional…

Angels of the Sky

Directors Josh Berman, Trent McGee Featuring Robert Barney, Walter Drake, George Emerson, Harry Sellig, Ed Stapleton Score 4.5/6 The true-life story of WWII pilots from the 8th Air Force, who were shot down over German territory and became POWs…told through the survivors themselves. For those of you inspired to track this one down, Angels of…

Zoe Pepper’s Birthright Headed into Production

Screen Australia and Screenwest have announced that Western Australian feature film Birthright, is set to head into production in WA this year having now secured support from Screenwest, Screen Australia and Madman. Birthright is a 90-minute dark comedy feature film from writer/director Zoe Pepper (Lift, The Big Spaghetti), producer Cody Greenwood (Under The Volcano, Girl…