Australia’s Role In Global Pride

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: UK indie film distributor Signature Entertainment and Australian releaser Rialto Distribution have acquired UK and Australian rights respectively to war drama A Call To Spy.The pic is directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher, who was Oscar nominated in 2014 for documentary Cutie & The Boxer and is also a two-time Emmy winner.

Music executive Andrew Jackson has partnered with Sony Music Entertainment Australia to launch Avoca Drive, a joint venture label with A&R executives in both Los Angeles and Sydney, Australia. Avoca Drive's first signing is Tanisha Tishawiana Sadewo and Osvaldo Rio Nugroho Aritonang's new project Galdive, whose first single ‘Nescience’ drops Friday (July 17).

Gogglebox Australia's Anastasia has taken to social media to share a very emotional post - letting fans know she's been mourning the death of her sister in law who passed away from breast cancer a few weeks ago. "It’s taken me a while to process that you are gone.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorAustralian producer and distributor Beyond International has taken full control of 7Beyond, the LA-based producer that it ran as a joint venture with broadcaster Seven Network.Beyond International has acquired Seven Network’s 50.98% stake in 7Beyond, which makes shows including HGTV’s My Lottery Dream Home and Food Network’s Holiday Gingerbread Showdown.

drowned Wednesday while he was spearfishing in an artificial reef on Australia's Gold Coast. He was 32 years old.A nearby snorkeler first noticed Pullin's body the morning of the incident and reported it to local authorities.

Naman Ramachandran Welsh actor Luke Evans (“Midway”) has revealed details of Hulu’s quarantine plans for the Australia shoot of limited series “Nine Perfect Strangers.”“We all have to be quarantined in a hotel room,” said Evans in an interview for the July 14 episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.”“I can’t see anyone for two weeks. I have to be tested every other day.

Like a cockroach, or a cat with nine lives, Kieran has survived nomination after nomination (six so far, to be exact) and in a recent interview with Nick, Jess and Ducko on Hit 106.9 Newcastle, Marissa reveals his survival streak may continue.

Also Read: Elizabeth Banks Hops Aboard 'The Magic School Bus' Live-Action Film as Ms. FrizzleThe books were published in Australia by Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing and are now available in 10 territories, including North America, where it was recently released by Random House Children’s Books.

While in the house Xavier reveals there was plenty of shenanigans and fun that didn’t make it to air.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterIn response to a spike of COVID-19 cases in Melbourne, authorities in Australia have closed the borders between the country’s two most populous states – Victoria and New South Wales. The move effectively stops travel between its two major film hubs of Melbourne and Sydney.Melbourne, in Victoria, confirmed a record 127 new cases of the virus and two deaths overnight; local health officials have begun shutting down some neighbourhoods in response.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAustralia is to formally close the state border between New South Wales and Victoria in response to a growing resurgence of the coronavirus. The move shuts down all travel between Sydney and Melbourne, the two largest hubs of the Australian film and TV industry.The move was announced Monday afternoon and will take effect from 23.59 local time on Tuesday.

Tom Hanks is hoping to return to Australia by the end of this year to continue filming the forthcoming, currently-untitled, Elvis Presley biopic.As the Sydney Morning Herald reports, Hanks said the production team is tentatively looking at “making this movie in October”, but that date is still up the air.“There is certainly a plan and a desire from the studio’s perspective and from everybody else involved in the movie to figure out a way to make it happen,” Hanks said in a Zoom call.“There are