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South Australian Anthony Frith’s close encounter with “Sharknado” prodco The Asylum in “Mockbuster” is among five handpicked titles to be showcased at the Adelaide Film Festival Goes to Cannes showcase, held at Cannes Marché du Film on May 17.

The five works in progress range from queer adult anime, comedic doc, and traditional non-fiction to family dramas, helmed mostly by newcomers, and reflect the dynamic filmmaking community of Southern Australia, set to tempt potential co-financiers in Cannes.

So far two titles have received international backing. “Mockbuster” has been pre-sold to Giant Pictures and Drafthouse Films for North America, on top of domestic distribution in Australia via Umbrella Entertainment; Kelly Schilling’s drama “With or Without You,” handled locally by Icon Film Distribution, has been picked up by global sales agent LevelK.

Aimed at bringing together selected South Australian creators and producers with global industry delegates and to promote South Australia as a filmmaking hub,...

Beloved actor Stanley Tucci and Game of Thrones alumni John Bradley are the latest recruits to climb aboard the world-saving spacecraft for director Roland Emmerich's upcoming disaster flick, Moonfall. They join the likes of Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, and Charlie Plummer, who will all contribute to saving the Earth when the Moon is suddenly knocked out of orbit.

Stanley Tucci has signed on to play Tom Phillips, a wealthy car dealer, who is married to the ex-wife of Brian Harper, played by Patrick Wilson. The actor is one of the most well-liked around, and has become known thanks to roles in the likes of Maid in Manhattan, The Terminal, The Devil Wears Prada, Captain America: The First Avenger, and The Hunger Games franchise.

John Bradley, who best known for his role as Samwell Tarly in the HBO hit series Game of Thrones, will play Kc Houseman, who has been...

Exclusive: Stanley Tucci and John Bradley will star alongside Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, and Charlie Plummer in Moonfall, Liongate’s space epic from director and screenwriter Roland Emmerich.

Slated to begin production this month in Montreal, the plot is set off by a mysterious force that knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. With mere weeks before impact, and against all odds, a ragtag team launches an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving behind everyone they love and risking everything to land on the lunar surface and save our planet from annihilation

Tucci will play Tom Phillips, a wealthy car dealer, who’s married to Brian Harper’s (Wilson) ex-wife, while Bradley is Kc Houseman, an eccentric and unkempt genius who discovers that the moon has fallen out of its orbit. Josh Gad was originally...

Kate Fox.

After serving as location coordinator on Stan’s The Gloaming and location manager on season 4 of the ABC’s Rosehaven, Kate Fox aims to take her career to the next level with two comedy webseries.

Screen Tasmania is funding the development of Gasp, with Rosehaven’s Shaun Wilson attached to direct, and Papped.

Fox, a former journalist at Pacific Magazines, has written a rough Bible/series outline for Gasp (6 x 8′), which stands for Grammar and Spelling Police.

The plot centres on a a fictional task force within the real police, who enforce the correct use of the English language. Wilson will also be part of the writing team together with Ben Morton, Emesha Rudolf and Pip Kennedy.

Papped (6 x 5′) will star Jane Hamilton-Foster as Jane, a paparazzi photographer in a male-dominated industry. She’s also an actor waiting for her big break.

Post-covid-19, Tasmania becomes a bucket list travel destination,...

Renee Young, Tom Phillips and Aiden English are set to call tonight’s “SmackDown” on Fox, TheWrap has learned exclusively. The trio are acting as replacements for regular announcers Michael Cole and Corey Graves, who are among the large number of WWE wrestlers, employees and members of the production crew that have been “delayed” in their return from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s “Crown Jewel” pay-per-view event, as TheWrap reported earlier Friday.

“More than 175 Superstars, production crew and employees boarded a 747 charter flight back to the United States on Thursday,” WWE said in a statement Friday morning. “After the door closed, due to several aircraft problems including mechanical issues, all passengers sat on the tarmac for more than six hours.”

In an attempt to make it back for tonight’s “Friday Night SmackDown” in Buffalo, N.Y., several wrestlers chartered their own plane, WWE said at the time. But, “Due to unforeseen issues,...

E3, the games industry’s largest, most anticipated event of the year, is just around the corner and as usual, pre-show rumors have begun circulating at a dizzying pace. Rocksteady’s reported Superman title, further adventures in Capcom’s Dead Rising series, even the potential appearance of Grand Theft Auto 6 – claims and suspicions are all over the internet, making the task of separating fact from fiction a genuine nightmare.

It’s absolutely likely that many of the above will turn out to be the latter, but one leak currently doing the rounds has a hefty amount of weight behind it. CD Projekt Red’s critically acclaimed RPG The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, it seems, is on course to see a release on Nintendo Switch, an announcement that’s looking increasingly likely to occur at next week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo.

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‘The Projectionist’

Marcus McKenzie’s The Projectionist won five prizes at the 21st annual South Australian Screen Awards, which celebrate the best short works made by the state’s up-and-coming filmmakers.

Starring Chris Haywood as a recently widowed pensioner who discovers he can travel into the world of his old Super 8mm home movies, McKenzie’s film collected the awards for best male performance, editing (Daniel Principe), production design (Annalisa Francesca), hair and make-up (Bec Buratto) and music composition (Chris Larkin).

Sam Matthews’ Unboxed, where six gender diverse artists share their experiences while creating an artwork based on the theme “unboxed” won the Grand Jury Prize and best documentary. Rebecca Elliott, who produced the doco with Kirsty Stark, took home the emerging producer award.

The second annual presentation of the Mercury Award, a $3,000 cash prize, which celebrates an individual’s outstanding achievement and contribution to the Sa film industry, went...