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CinefestOz Announces Short Film Cash Prizes
For the first time in its 13-year history, CinefestOZ will include a Short Film Competition with four cash prizes up for grabs. The competition is supported by both the Festival and Screenwest. Prizes will be awarded at a special presentation evening, to be held August 29 in the South West of WA and live streamed throughout Australia. The prizes being presented as part of the Short Film Competitio...
Nolan’s TENET gets a new trailer and is coming out July 16
There’s not many directors that have the amount of power in the industry as Nolan does, he asks Warners for $150m plus and they give it, he also gets final cut so in a world of remakes and reboots its always refreshing to see something well… fresh! Today we get to see the brand new trailer for TENET which looks rather brain melty but I can’t wait to see it, with all the covid tal...
“Muppets Now” to Premiere July 31 on Disney+
Disney+ has announced the new original series “Muppets Now” will premiere July 31 on the service. Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and the gang joined in the fun sharing their own unique spin on the series’ original key art (as you can see here). “Muppets Now” is The Muppets Studio’s first original series for Disney+. In the six-episode season, Scooter rushes to make his delivery deadlines and upload t...
Trailer Debut – Tim Winton’s DIRT MUSIC starring Kelly Macdonald, Garret Hedlund and David Wenham.
The first trailer for Tim Winton’s DIRT MUSIC has arrived; filmed in Western Australia via Dampier, Perth and Esperance. The film stars Kelly Macdonald, Garret Hedlund and aussie David Wenham. Before you say it, yes! we know that the two leads are played by a Scot and an American. Was there no Australian talent available to play Aussies in the adaptation of a best-selling Australian novel? W...
The Assistant Trailer
A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.
The King of Staten Island Premieres in June
Pete Davidson is the well-known 26-year-old comedian whose work on television’s Saturday Night Live has given him a high profile and whose brief engagement to singer Ariana Grande gave him as even higher profile. His dedicated young fan-base love him for his use and advocacy of marijuana and the way he takes his real-life mental health challenges and dysfunction as the subject of his comedy. The f...
Trailer Debut – WA Made film RAMS starring Sam Neill & Michael Caton!
Screen Legends Sam Neill & Michael Caton are finally together in the one film RAMS which was shot in Mt Barker in the south west of Western Australia at the end of 2018. The trailer has now been released for the film which looks great directed by Jeremy Sims and co-starring Wayne Blair (Director of The Sapphires), Travis McMahon (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries), Leon Ford (The Letdown), Asher ...
Streaming the Original Production of Hamilton
The Walt Disney Company and Lin-Manuel Miranda announce that Disney+ will fast track the premiere of the filmed version of the original Broadway production of “Hamilton,” bringing the 11-time-Tony, GRAMMY, Olivier and Pulitzer Prize-winning stage musical to homes around the world on July 3, 2020. The film is a leap forward in the art of “live capture” which transports its audience into the world o...
New Star Wars Projects Announced
May the 4th has come and gone but in the world of Star Wars its usually when some news drops and in fantastic news we have two new star wars movies announced. See the full press release below. Academy Award® winner Taika Waititi, who recently won Best Adapted Screenplay for Jojo Rabbit and directed the widely-acclaimed first season finale episode of The Mandalorian on Disney+, will direct and co-...
Hugo Weaving – Hearts and Bones
Ben Lawrence’s feature film debut Hearts and Bones is about to hit VOD May 6th which stars Hugo Weaving who needs no real introduction. We were lucky enough to get to chat to him about the film plus a few other tidbits – you will figure out pretty quick he loves to give long answers so for me it was great to sit back and just listen. I was lucky enough to see Hearts and Bones at Cinefe...
Hearts and Bones Trailer
A war photographer has just returned home to prepare for his latest exhibition when a South Sudanese refugee appears at his door with a request – that he not exhibit any photographs of the massacre in his village, taken 15 years earlier. What emerges is an unlikely friendship between the two men. While sifting through the photographer’s archive, they make a startling discovery – the refugee’...
Free Frankenstein Times Two
The Royal National Theatre in London famously staged a production of Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller. This was back in 2013. It was directed by Danny Boyleand made its mark on audiences who celebrated the powerful performances and the ground-breaking decisions made in the inventive production. Film director Boyle decided to shake up our usual understanding Mary Shelley’...