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Leigh Whannell's The Invisible Manis officially getting a new streaming home.

Per Peacock, 2020's The Invisible Man starring Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Harriet Dyer, MIchael Dorman, and Oliver Jackson-Cohen is slated to join the streaming platform's library of tv shows and feature films in the coming weeks. The Invisible Man will make its debut on the platform on March 19.

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Written and directed by modern genre icon Leigh Whannell, 2020's The Invisible Manwas the latest in a long line of adaptations of H. G. Wells' iconic 1897 novel of the same name. The film stars Moss as Cecilia Kass, an architect whose life is violently turned inside-out by her abusive ex-boyfriend,...

Intentionally or not, Sleeping Dogs invites comparison to Memento. In Adam Cooper’s steadfastly self-serious directorial debut, a bedraggled ex-homicide detective, Roy Freeman (Russell Crowe), is tasked with solving a brutal murder that he can’t recall due to his memory loss. But the comparison to Christopher Nolan’s breakout doesn’t do Sleeping Dogs any favors. For one, we know we’re in trouble from the moment we see Freeman stumbling through a decrepit apartment, its otherwise sparse walls adorned with handwritten messages that exist as much for his benefit as ours, like the unfortunately hilarious “You Have Alzheimers.”

From the start, the film lays it on thick. Freeman’s apartment has all the markers of someone whose mind is slowing deteriorating: staplers that have been left in water glasses, melted pieces of technology in the microwave, and half-eaten meals on top of furniture. The man wears the thickest...

AMC Networks’ streaming service Sundance Now has snapped up the rights to Playmaker Media’s The Commons for the US and Canada, to premiere December 3.

It is the fourth Aussie drama the streamer has picked up this year, with the thriller to sit alongside other acquisitions Bad Mothers, The Secrets She Keeps, and Upright.

Distributed by Sony Pictures Television, the somewhat prophetic series, created and written by Shelley Birse and originally commissioned by Stan, is set in a Sydney of the near future, one that is at “the crossroads of climate change and the cutting edge of biotechnology”.

Joanne Froggatt leads the cast as Eadie, a neuropsychologist who longs to have a child her vector biologist husband, Lloyd (David Lyons). However, multiple unsuccessful IVF treatments have put her dreams of motherhood on hold. Meanwhile, the world around her is in chaos, as global warming and parasitic diseases have made the...

Rupert Penry-Jones in ‘The Commons’. (Photo: John Platt)

British actor Rupert Penry-Jones, Ryan Corr (Bloom) and David Lyons have joined the cast of Stan/Playmaker Media’s The Commons.

They join the previously announced headliners Brit Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey) and Damon Herriman, most recently seen on film in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and on Foxtel’s Mr Inbetween.

Additionally, the cast will be bolstered by television stalwart John Waters, Fayssal Bazzi (Stateless), Simone McAullay, Andrea Demetriades, Felix Williamson, Inez CurroĢ (Picnic at Hanging Rock), Dominic Ona-Ariki and Zara Michales (Diary of an Uber Driver).

The eight-part high end drama production was created by Aacta Award-winning showrunner Shelley Birse (The Code), who wrote the series with a team including Matt Ford, Michael Miller and Matt Cameron.

Currently being shot across Sydney, the thriller is directed by Jeffrey Walker alongside Rowan Woods and Jennifer Leacey. Described...

Harriet Dyer in ‘The InBetween’

Currently on screen in the NBC/Foxtel procedural drama The InBetween, Harriet Dyer is the latest addition to the cast of Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man.

Dyer joins Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale), Aldis Hodge and Storm Reid in Universal Pictures’ horror movie inspired by the classic monster character, which will start shooting in Sydney next month.

According to IMDb.com, Zara Michales will play a nurse in the movie written and directed by Whannell.

The producers are Blumhouse Productions’ Jason Blum and Goalpost Pictures’ Kylie du Fresne, their second collaboration following Upgrade.

Universal will release the movie on March 12 in Oz and the following day in the Us. The plot is under wraps.

In The InBetween, which airs here on Universal TV, Dyer plays Cassie Bedford, who was born with the ability to see and talk to the dead as well as help them with unresolved problems.

After starring as a gifted but troubled computer hacker in ABC.s The Code, Ashley Zukerman is set to play a guy whose children have psychic powers in Childhood.s End.

Zukerman joins Charles Dance and emerging star Osy Ikhile in the miniseries for the Us Syfy network, based on a classic Arthur C. Clarke novel, which begins filming in Melbourne next month.

Published in 1953, Clarke.s novel details life on Earth while it is under the benign control of a race of aliens, the Overlords. From their hovering UFOs, the Overlords spend decades turning Earth into a Utopia, which in the process also destroys humanity's identity.

Dance, who plays Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones and starred in Mark Hartley.s Patrick, is cast as an Overlord named Karellen, who is an ambassador for his species on Earth.

Zukerman will play Jake Greggson, an American production designer with artistic...