‘What If The Future Never Happened?’ Trailer: Daniel Johns’ Sci-fi Pop Short Film Is “A Hell Of A Trip”

Katherine Tulich Lukas Dhont’s “Close,” which won the Grand Prix in Cannes last month, picked up the Sydney Film Prize, the top prize at the Sydney Film Festival, on Sunday evening.Accepting the award via video message Dhont said: “It’s a film that comes from our hearts, that we worked on for a lot of years with many people.”The international jury consisted of Australian actor David Wenham, Australian director Jennifer Peedom, writer-director-producer Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Bangladesh), Berlin Golden Bear winner Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey), and the executive director of the Kawakita Memorial Film Institute in Tokyo, Yuka Sakano (Japan). Twelve titles in the official competition included Carla Simon’s “Alcarras”, Hlynur Palmason’s “Godland”, Colm Bairead’s “The Quiet Girl” and Del Kathryn Barton’s “Blaze.” The winner is awarded AUD$60,000 ($41,600).

EXCLUSIVE: London and Paris-based production and sales company Film Constellation has inked pre-sales on family adventure animation The Last Dinosaur following its Cannes market launch.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentStudiocanal has signed a film output deal with Scanbox Entertainment, one of the Nordics’ leading all-rights distribution banner. The pact will see Studiocanal’s current slate of films released in the Nordics, including Cédric Klapisch’s “Rise” (pictured), Claude Zidi Jr.’s comedy “Tenor,” Eric Lartigau’s coming-of-age story “This One Summer” based on the New York Times bestseller graphic novel of the same name, and Isaki Lacuesta’s “One Year, One Night” which was produced by Studiocanal’s Bambú Producciones and world premiered at Berlin.

Rebel Wilson has received an apology from the Sydney Morning Herald reporter who wrote an article about trying to write an exclusive story about her new relationship.

Veteran international media exec Kathryn Fink has become Director of Television at public broadcaster SBS in her home country, Australia.

star Stephanie Matto says she'll never let the hit franchise's cameras document her relationship again. The 31-year-old reality star, who's been making headlines for her unique business ventures including selling her farts and boob sweat, is currently dating a man from France, but has no plans to ever let viewers back into her dating life.Stephanie, who identifies as bisexual, made history with her now ex-girlfriend, Erika, for being the first LGBTQ couple to be featured in the franchise. Cameras saw her travel to Australia to meet Erika, though their relationship was troubled from the start and came to a dramatic end.

Coronation Street fans are set to see Simon Gregson as they've never seen him before. The actor is, of course, best known for playing Steve McDonald in the ITV soap but he'll be swapping the cobbles for the stage as part of Lorraine Kelly's new ITV show.

Planning for the future. Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson are thinking about taking the next step in their relationship and moving in together.

Big Brother house after Farmer Dave blindsided everyone by nominating him for elimination, but the one-time winner says there’s no hard feelings.WATCH: Trevor Butler is evicted from Big Brother 2022“It’s all about strategy,” he tells WHO, revealing that he didn’t love the show’s new format which definitely put him at a disadvantage.With a new focus on physical challenges and secret strategizing, the 48-year-old admits there wasn’t as much of the fun banter and goofing around that he remembered from his BB experience in 2004.READ NEXT: Who wins Big Brother for 2022? We think we know!“There was no none of that strategic talk out in the open and that's one thing that I didn't really like,” he says.“That’s all part of it now, it's not a popularity contest anymore and it's not up to Australia.”Trevor was surprised by the show's new format in 2022.While he enjoyed the physical challenges, being one of the oldest and heaviest housemates put him at an obvious disadvantage in tasks based on body weight and endurance.“That last one we were holding up our own body weight. I was like, ‘great, I'm the heaviest one here.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAustralian production and distribution firm Arcadia has begun development of non-fiction best-selling book “Stephanie Alexander and Maggie Beer’s Tuscan Cookbook” as a feature film.Envisaged in the style of “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” or “Under the Tuscan Sun,” the feature film is currently in development and is being written by Australian film and television writer Katherine Thomson (Amazon TV series “A Place to Call Home,” feature documentary “Women He’s Undressed,” StudioCanal’s upcoming film “Helena!”).Written by two of Australia’s most celebrated cooks and food writers, and published by Penguin, “Tuscan Cookbook,” took readers on a journey, beginning in 1977 when the pair left Australia to open a cooking school in a villa outside of Siena. It records their time in Italy, the dishes cooked, the places visited, people who made it happen and the guests who joined for the ride.

Yosi, The Regretful Spy will go deeper into the international intelligence world on Amazon Prime Video.

Former Coronation Street star Michelle Keegan ’s latest on-screen project has been revealed. The 34 year old, who recently sparked rumours she’s returning to Our Girl when she jetted off on an “adventure”, has secured a role in the new six-part series Ten Pound Poms. Created by the team behind Netflix's Sex Education, the BBC period drama will tell the story of a group of Brits who have swapped post-war Britain for a new life in Australia during the 1950s.

Daniel Ricciardo would be welcome with open arms in the V8 Supercars Championship world should he choose to leave Formula One, as long as he's prepared to take a significant pay cut. The Australian's future in the sport looks increasingly in doubt, amid reports McLaren are already planning for life without him. Ricciardo finished 12th at the Spanish GP in Barcelona on Sunday and has scored only 11 points through the first six rounds of the championship.