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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The state government of Australia’s New South Wales has reversed some of its recently announced plans to cut subsidy to the film and TV industries. NSW Minister for the Arts, John Graham said on Tuesday that three important screen industry programs – the post digital and visual effects (PDV), the digital games development rebate program and the ‘Made in NSW Fund’ – will continue on existing terms for eligible projects. His statement followed some two weeks of lobbying by screen industry workers, guilds and companies which argued that the government’s proposed budget cuts would damage a large and growing industry. New South Wales, which includes Sydney, is the biggest hub for the film, TV and post-production sectors in Australia. The funding cuts, worth about A$60 million ($40 million), were made by the previous government prior to the state election in March, and that they were included in this month’s budget.

CinemaCon attendees Wednesday got a first look at Focus Features’ second film with Robert Eggers, Nosferatu, a dark and gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her which causes untold horror in its wake.

EXCLUSIVE: Bluestone Entertainment has preemptively acquired rights to The Support Group for the Possessed, the original horror short story written for Assemble Media by J. Preston Witt, with plans to produce a feature adaptation alongside Assemble.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Robert Eggers‘ long-in-the-works remake of “Nosferatu” will haunt theaters next Christmas. Focus Features has scheduled the movie for Dec. 25, 2024.

Focus Features‘ second movie with filmmaker Robert Eggers, Nosferatu, will be hitting cinemas on Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024.

After 38 days in theateres, Amazon Studios, Skydance Sports, Mandalay Pictures, and Artists Equity’s Air will stream on Prime Video on May 12 in more than 240 countries.

Jack Harlow continues his giant leap into the world of acting.

EXCLUSIVE: Ving Rhames, Alfred Molina and Ron Perlman are the latest additions to Apple Original Films’ The Instigators starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck. The A-list ensemble also includes Hong Chau, Paul Walter Hauser and Michael Stuhlbarg. Doug Liman is directing.

Michael Stuhlbarg is set to join Matt Damon and Casey Affleck in The Instigators for Apple Original Films. Hong Chau and Paul Walter Hauser are also on board with Doug Liman on board to direct.

The Ben Affleck-directed Nike film Air from Amazon Studios, Skydance Sports and Mandalay Pictures is set to close out the SXSW Film Festival in a surprise showing ahead of its global April 5th theatrical release, Deadline can confirm. The screening is expected to take place at Austin, TX’s Paramount Theatre at 6:30 p.m on March 18.

EXCLUSIVE: After earning rave reviews on the Apple limited series Black Bird, SAG-nominee Paul Walter Hauser is returning to the studio as he joins Matt Damon and Casey Affleck in The Instigators for Apple Original Films. Hong Chau is also on board with Doug Liman on board to direct.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson has joined the cast of Robert Eggers’ re-imagining of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 classic “Nosferatu,” according to an insider with knowledge of the project.Focus Features is now behind the project, with Jeff Robinov, John Graham, Robert Eggers, Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus producing.

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Eggers long awaited Nosferatu pic is full steam ahead at Focus Features with Aaron Taylor-Johnson rounding out the all-star ensemble. Simon McBurney and Ralph Ineson are also joining the cast that included Lily Rose-Depp, Bill Skarsgard, Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe and Emma Corrin. Eggers is writing and directing the pic with production currently under way in Prague. Focus will distribute the film domestically and Universal Pictures International will handle international distribution.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer One of Austin’s hometown filmmakers is bringing his next movie to SXSW. Director Robert Rodriguez will screen a work-in-progress cut of his crime thriller “Hypnotic,” starring Ben Affleck, for fans at the SXSW Film Festival in the Texas capital on March 12. In the film, written by Rodriguez and Max Borenstein (“Godzilla vs. Kong,” HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty”), Affleck plays a detective who is investigating a series of inexplicable crimes while searching for his missing daughter, whose disappearance is somehow involved with a secret government program.

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off her Oscar-nomination for her role in A24’s The Whale, Hong Chau has found her next project as she is set to join Matt Damon and Casey Affleck in in The Instigators for Apple Original Films. Apple recently landed the coveted package, which has Doug Liman on board to direct.

EXCLUSIVE: Emma Corrin, the award-winning star of The Crown, My Policeman and Lady Chatterley’s Lover, is joining the cast of Robert Eggers’ vampire movie Nosferatu.

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Eggers and his Lighthouse starWillem Dafoe have found their next project to collaborate on as Dafoe is in talks to join Eggers’ Nosferatu movie at Focus Features. Lily Rose-Depp, Bill Skarsgard and Nicholas Hoult are already on board with Eggers writing and directing. Jeff Robinov, John Graham, Robert Eggers, Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus are producing.

EXCLUSIVE: After planning plenty of robberies in the Ocean’s Eleven movies, Matt Damon and Casey Affleck are ready to plan another heist as two thieves in The Instigators for Apple Original Films. Apple recently landed the highly coveted package which has Doug Liman on board to direct and Damon and Ben Affleck producing through their newly announced banner Artists Equity, along with Jeff Robinov and John Graham through Studio 8 and Kevin Walsh through his The Walsh Company.

EXCLUSIVE: Nicholas Hoult is in negotiations to join the ensemble of Robet Eggers next pic, Nosferatu, which Focus Features is producing. Bill Skarsgard is attached to play the titular character with Lily-Rose Depp also in talks to star. Eggers is directing and penning the script. Jeff Robinov, John Graham, Robert Eggers, Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus are producing.

Nosferatu from director Robert Eggers.As reported by Deadline, Skarsgård is said to be attached to play the lead vampire, while Depp is in talks to play the lead human role.Eggers – known for films The Witch, The Lighthouse and The Northman – will write and direct the upcoming project. Jeff Robinov, John Graham, Eggers, Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus will serve as producers.A description for the film reads: “In the new reimagining, Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him.”As reported in March this year, Harry Styles dropped out of the remake over scheduling concerns.

One of the more famously troubled projects in recent memory, Robert Eggers’ re-imagining of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 classic “Nosferatu,” is finally happening, this time with a new backer, TheWrap can confirm.Focus Features is now behind the project, with Jeff Robinov, John Graham, Robert Eggers, Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus producing.

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Eggers’ long-awaited new take on the Nosferatu is gaining some serious momentum as sources tell Deadline that Bill Skarsgard is attached to play the titular character and Lily-Rose Depp is in talks to co-star. The pic now is set up at Focus Features, with Eggers directing and penning the script. Jeff Robinov, John Graham, Robert Eggers, Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus are producing.

Angelique Jackson Robert Eggers’ long-awaited “Nosferatu” is starting to take shape, with Bill Skarsgard in talks to play the title character with Lily-Rose Depp as his co-star. Eggers is set to write, direct and produce the new imagining, which follows the gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman (Depp) in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire (Skarsgard) who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him.

EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Green (The Outpost) is the latest addition to the cast of Ben Affleck’s Nike drama for Amazon Studios, Skydance Sports and Mandalay Pictures, in which Affleck will star opposite his Good Will Hunting collaborator Matt Damon.

Gallery: 'I remember he took the foil off of this bottle and put it on my ring finger. . . ' The lovers who fell for Amber Heard (BANG Showbiz)Joe - whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage - first met John while they were both behind bars in Fort Worth, Texas, in February 2021 - explained that while prison life is "tough", he believes that he and John were "in love" at one point and he intends to keep in touch with him in the future.

Joe Exotic is rekindling an old flame following his split from fiancé John Graham. Exotic's attorney tells ET that the incarcerated star of Netflix's true-crime docuseries, , has gotten back together with his ex-boyfriend, Seth Posey.«Joe is thankful that Seth is back in his life.

Joe Exotic's engagement has come to an end. The incarcerated star of Netflix's true-crime docuseries, , revealed that he and his fiancé, John Graham, have called it quits.Attorney Autumn Blackledge, who represents Exotic — whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage -- tells ET, «Joe has shared with me that prison is a very tough place to be... you meet all kinds of people in prison and that most are really good.

Joe Exotic’s latest wedding is off — and he’s back with ex Seth Posey, he confirmed to fans.The reality TV star, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, detailed the latest twist in his complicated prison romances in an audio message “update on my love life for curious minds.“He said he wanted to “set the record straight” amid false rumors he was back with estranged husband Dillon Passage.In fact, he insisted, he had only dumped Posey because he was “young and very handsome” and the 59-year-old inmate “didn’t want to end up with another Dillon.” The reality star, who is serving a 21-year sentence for an attempted murder-for-hire case, said he then “took the chance” on fellow inmate John Graham — “because he was older and rock bottom.”“But unfortunately it turned out to be all fake,” he said of his engagement to Graham, with his divorce attorney, Autumn Blackledge, confirming to TMZ that their planned wedding was off.“Me and Seth have decided to pick up where we left off,” Exotic revealed, calling his no-longer ex “twice the man as the last two in my life.”“I don’t expect anyone to respect this but I would like to have everyone let me just be happy for a change,” he said in the audio.The star — still battling to overturn his sentence — said that his beau will now “have to get used” to life in the spotlight.“And if doesn’t work out, all I can say is it’s Carole f—ing Baskin’s fault,” he said of the bitter zoo-keeping rival at the heart of his murder-for-hire plot.His attorney, Blackledge, also gave an update Wednesday on the reality star’s divorce from Passage, saying that although it was “hitting a little bit of a lull” it was “still trucking away.”The biggest delay, she insisted, was the focus on trying to get the

ahead of Michael Jordan in the 1984 NBA Draft.Affleck and Damon are also producing alongside Peter Guber, Jason Michael Berman, Jeff Robinov, Madison Ainley, and David Ellison. Executive producers include Jon Weinbach, Jesse Sisgold, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger, Kevin Halloran, Michael Joe, John Graham, Drew Vinton, Jordan Moldo and Peter E.

Joe Exotic is planning to marry his fiancé John Graham wearing a specially designed wedding suit costing $11. 500. The 'Tiger King' star - who is currently doing time after being found guilty of a murder-for-hire plot against rival Carole Baskin and violations of animal welfare law - is preparing to met John Graham, who he met in prison in February 2021 when they were both behind bars in Fort Worth, Texas, and he's enlisted the services of Odain Watson of Otaingerous to create outfits for himself and his partner.

Joe Exotic is said to be engaged to a fellow inmate after finding love behind bars. Joe – real name Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage – was sentenced to 22 years in prison in January 2020, but has since had a year shaved off his lengthy sentence. The 59 year old was convicted for attempting to hire two different men to kill animal rights activist Carole Baskin.

Joe Exotic is bewitched by his new fiancé, John Graham.  published a letter sent from the  star, which detailed their relationship, including how they met, how often they speak and the witchcraft Graham practices — something Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, likened to the mystical powers of the Cullen family in .In the letter, sent from Maldonado-Passage's North Carolina prison, the reality TV star tells his attorney, Autumn Blackledge, that he met Graham following his release from solitary confinement, when they were housed in the same prison unit. The pair started seeing each and by August 2021, Maldonado-Passage says the pair was engaged.While Maldonado-Passage is still behind bars, it appears that Graham is a free man, with the 59-year-old sharing that he speaks to Graham on the phone three times a day, in addition to the litany of letters they write each other.What sets Graham apart from Maldonado-Passage's ex, Dillon Passage, seems to be Graham's old soul.

Tiger King star Joe Exotic has reportedly found love behind bars with a fellow inmate. Exotic became a household name following the first season of Netflix’s Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem And Madness, which was released in March 2020 at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Joseph «Joe Exotic» Maldonado-Passage is moving on in the love department even from behind bars! The 59-year-old star filed for divorce from his estranged husband, Dillon Passage, last month, and now ET has learned that he has another man in his life.Autumn Blackledge, Maldonado-Passage's attorney, tells ET, «Joe's new love interest is a man named John Graham, and the prison romance is the reason Exotic recently filed divorce docs from jail.»The reality star tells ET of the romance, «God works in amazing ways.»John Graham, Joe Exotic's new boyfriend in prison.In court docs previously obtained by ET, Maldonado-Passage said that his and Passage's marriage is «irretrievably broken.» Maldonado-Passage is requesting alimony in the divorce, as well as for Passage to be dropped from his name, the docs show.Passage responded to the filing in a statement to People, with his manager, Jeff Duncan, telling the outlet, «Dillon is pleased to get some finality to the divorce. Previously, his attorneys drafted the necessary paperwork on two separate occasions which were not signed by and then ignored by Joe.

Gerard McMurray (The First Purge) will write and direct an adaptation of the comic book Black for Studio 8 and Warner Bros., Deadline has confirmed.

EXCLUSIVE: It’s officially a hot project palooza this AFM. We can reveal that Daisy Ridley (Star Wars) is set to star in futuristic thriller Mind Fall with Mathieu Kassovitz (La Haine) attached to direct the script from Graham Moore (The Imitation Game).