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Lionsgate has released the long-awaited trailer for The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee. In the meta-comedy, Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee) plays a heightened version of himself, along with some of his good friends. Hogan is reluctantly thrust back into the spotlight as he desperately attempts to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted in the comedy that also stars John Cleese (Monty Python and the Holy Grail), Chevy Chase (Caddy Shack), Olivia Newton-John (Grease), and Jacob Elordi as Hogan's son (Euphoria). The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee is set to premiere on Digital and On Demand December 11th from Lionsgate.

Retired in L.A. and overshadowed by his Crocodile Dundee character, Hogan is offered a knighthood by the Queen of England in The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee. But before he can accept it, Hogan gets caught up in a series of comical scandals that dominate gossip shows and social media feeds.

‘The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee.’

The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee, one of the local films to have its cinema release impacted by the pandemic, will now premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in Australia and New Zealand on July 17.

The comedy, directed by Dean Murphy, explores a fictional version of Paul Hogan as he is thrust out of quiet retirement and back into the spotlight. When his granddaughter Lucy (Charlotte Stent) finds out he’s been offered a knighthood for services to comedy and tells all her friends, Paul reluctantly accepts the offer and has six weeks to stay out of trouble before the ceremony. But wherever Paul goes, trouble follows.

Starring alongside Hoges and Stent are John Cleese, Chevy Chase, Olivia Newton-John, Shane Jacobson, Julia Morris, Rachael Carpani, Jim Jefferies, Reggie VelJohnson and Wayne Knight. Murphy, who co-wrote the script with Robert Mond, also produced the film alongside Nigel Odell.

Crocodile Dundee actor Paul Hogan is back in the new poster for his upcoming movie The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee. Rather than stepping back into the boots of his most well-known character, however, Hogan will be playing himself in the new meta-comedy movie. On the poster, Hogan can be seen smiling as he brandishes two inflatable crocodiles, acknowledging his iconic role. "He's back, whether he likes it or not," the movie's tagline reads, teasing the long-awaited return of Hogan to pop culture.

Several other familiar faces will appear in The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee, with a handful of them shown on the poster standing behind Hogan. This includes Chevy Chase (Vacation), John Cleese (Monty Python), Olivia Newton-John (Grease), Shane Jacobson (Australia's Got Talent), and Jacob Elordi (Euphoria). As revealed on the poster, the movie also stars Rachael Carpani, Charlotte Stent, Reginald VelJohnson, Wayne Knight, and Kerry Armstrong. Comedian Jim Jeffries...

Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Unjoo Moon at the Tiff premiere of ‘I Am Woman.’

In a sign of the times for independent distributors, Transmission Films expects to release approximately nine films in cinemas this year, down from 13 in 2019.

The more selective, cautious approach to acquisitions is Transmission’s response to the tightening market across-the-board for indie films, which co-founder Andrew Mackie estimates has dropped by 10-20 per cent.

That said, Mackie and co-founder Richard Payten are very confident about the 2020 slate, not least Unjoo Moon’s I Am Woman and Dean Murphy’s Paul Hogan comeback comedy The Very Excellent Mr Dundee.

Transmission has dated Moon’s Helen Reddy biopic starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey as the pioneering Australian feminist singer, which premiered at Toronto, on May 21.

Mackie says the release date for the film produced by Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight and scripted by Emma Jensen avoids the “post-Oscar season crush and allows...

Robert Mond overcomes a small budget to produce an antidote to the standard cookie cutter superhero flick that’s full of good, if not fully realised, ideas

In Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel Fight Club – and to a lesser extent, director David Fincher’s 1999 film adaptation – the author floated the possibility of a being that was omnipotent but not benevolent. “You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you,” said Tyler Durden. “In all probability, he hates you.”

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Writer-director Robert Mond.s debut feature The Subjects will be released worldwide on multiple platforms in October.

The thriller.s novel concept revolves around eight misfits who are paid handsomely to take part in a secret trial to test a new drug. Locked in a room for eight hours, each person discovers he or she suddenly has assumed superhuman powers.

So the tension mounts as each is forced to make a choice: to become a superhero or a supervillain.

Shot in Melbourne last July/August, the film was financed by David Redman.s Instinct Entertainment, a consortium of investors, the producer offset and the UK.s Head Gear, which cash-flowed the offset.

Instinct Distribution is releasing the film worldwide in October, with launches planned at Comic-Con in Sydney and New York and other Comic-Con events around the world.

Mond, who has written and directed numerous short films, produced with Redman,...