Geoffrey Rush Wins $2 Million Appeal Against Australia’s Daily Telegraph

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefVeteran producer Lucas Foster (“Ford v Ferrari,” “Mr. and Mrs.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Australian federal government will offer some $280 million ($400 million AUD) to attract large inbound foreign film productions. The measure was announced Friday local time by Prime Minister Scott Morrison.The new Location Incentive plan will provide cash grants over the next seven years.

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.

God Friended Me star will succeed Ruby on the show, playing a new misfit character named Ryan Wilder, the Australian actress took to the social media site to react.OMG!! This is amazing!! I am so glad Batwoman will be played by an amazing Black woman. ❤️ I want to congratulate Javicia Leslie on taking over the bat cape.

LOS ANGELES — A Black woman will star in the television series “Batwoman,” a first for the superhero in live-action television or film, the CW network said on Wednesday.

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.

God Friended Me star Javicia Leslie will replace Ruby Rose as Batwoman, Warner Bros has announced.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorRose Byrne has demonstrated fierce comedic timing in movies like Bridesmaids, Spy, the Neighbors franchise and this year’s Like a Boss. But the Australian native’s turn as feminist trailblazer and Ms.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterFrom July 10, visitors to England from 50 countries classified as “low risk” in regards to the coronavirus will no longer have to adhere to the nation’s mandatory two-week quarantine period, the UK government has confirmed.You can see an image of the full list, published on the government’s website, below. Key countries on it include: Germany, Spain, France, Italy, South Korea, and Australia.

Geoffrey Rush as a result of the actor's defamation lawsuit, according to multiplereports.In April 2019, Rush was awarded damages to the tune of AU$2.9 million (approximately $2 million) after suing Sydney's over articles it ran accusing the actor of past inappropriate behavior toward a theater production co-star.The newspaper — along with publisher Nationwide News, owned by Rupert Murdoch — appealed the ruling, but its appeal was rejected Wednesday by three federal court judges, BBC

The Daily Telegraph’s parent body, Nationwide News, has lost its appeal against the Geoffrey Rush defamation case’s verdict. The Australian federal court upheld its original decision today (July 2), ordering that the news organisation pay the actor $2.87million AUD (roughly £1.6million) in damages.

Peter White, Bruce Haring UPDATE: An appeals court has upheld the decision to award actor Geoffrey Rush a record amount of damages for being defamed by two publications.Rush won the largest defamation payment awarded to a single person in Australia in 2019 after a court found Sydney’s Daily Telegraph defamed the actor by accusing him of inappropriate behavior towards a former co-star.

CANBERRA, Australia -- An Australian court on Thursday rejected a newspaper publisher’s appeal against Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush’s $2.9 billion Australian dollars ($2 million) payout for defamation. Three Federal Court judges ruled that articles published by Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph newspaper in 2017 conveyed the imputation that Rush was a pervert and that the trial judge had correctly included the actor's loss of earnings in calculating damages.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefPre-production has started on “Aftertaste,” an Australian comedy drama series starring Erik Thompson as a celebrity chef who has fallen from grace. The show is the first to have made use of a production risk assessment tool for the post-coronavirus era.A Closer Productions show, “Aftertaste” will shoot in Adelaide and the Adelaide Hills, with broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation next year.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Australian federal government said on Thursday that it would provide the film and industry with $34.4 million ($A$50 million) as a post-coronavirus relief measure.