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Hulu has revealed the official trailer for Last Days of the Space Age, an eight-part series that will premiere on the streaming service on October 2, 2024.

Starring Radha Mitchell and Jesse Spencer, Last Days of the Space Age is a dramedy series set in 1979 Western Australia, when Perth was at the center of the world’s headlines.

A power strike threatens to plunge the region into darkness while the city hosts the iconic Miss Universe pageant and the US space station, Skylab, crashes just beyond the city’s suburbs.

Against this backdrop of international cultural and political shifts, three families in a tight-knit coastal community find their marriages, friendships, and futures put to the test.

The series is led by Radha Mitchell (Olympus Has Fallen) and Jesse Spencer (Chicago Fire) as wife and husband, Judy and Tony Bissett. Deborah Mailman (Total Control) and Linh-Dan Pham (The Beat That My Heart Skipped...

Exclusive: Matt Brolly’s thriller novel The Alliance is getting the small screen treatment. A mixed Korean/English language television adaptation is in development at Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group, with Kim Bo-tong, attached to write.

Based on Brolly’s book published in April by Thomas & Mercer, The Alliance is a spellbinding global thriller set off by four simultaneous murders in different cities that are broadcasted on the web, puzzling authorities and sending shockwaves across the world, per the official logine. The key might be in the blindfolded witness that each crime left behind. Inexplicably, these witnesses are returned to their respective lives, unharmed, but with a dark mission they can’t refuse. Through them, the Alliance sets off a dangerous and provocative game that will ensnare an audience around the world. All hope rests on Shannon, who will lead the most...

Shift, Radiant Red, the Dead Lucky and more unite in a crucial chapter of the Catalyst War. What started with Radiant Black just became the comic event of the summer. Supermassive 2024 One-Shot #1 arrives from Image Comics on July 24.

The next big comic event isn't coming from Marvel or DC Comics, but instead Image Comics and its ambitious Supermassive universe. The ever-expanding Massive-Verse is a huge modern success story, originally spinning out of the critically beloved Radiant Black.

Now, Image Comics is ready to take the Massive-Verse to a new level this summer with the Supermassive 2024 One-Shot 50-page comic, set to come out on July 24. The comic will cover a major battle within the ongoing Catalyst War, with several iconic heroes leading a daring rescue mission.

Supermassive 2024 One-Shot #1 (2024)

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July 24, 2024

Writer:

Kyle Higgins, Melissa Flores, Ryan Parrott and Mat Groom

Artists:

Stefano Simeone

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Stefano Simeone, Kelly McMahon...

Aussie crime series offer a gritty and specific twist on the classic police procedural, showcasing Australia's unique storytelling capabilities. Australian crime dramas blend English sardonic tone with American plotlines, set against visually stunning oceanic backdrops for a captivating experience. These shows, like Deadloch and Mystery Road, explore diverse narratives with dark humor, societal issues, and captivating mysteries, worth a watch.

A great Aussie crime series features every aspect of what normally goes into a classic police procedural but with a specificity and grittiness that only the country/continent can produce. While Australia is an excellent setting for post-apocalyptic productions, there is plenty more to the country than barren wastelands filled with souped-up cars and men in masks praying to gasoline gods. Australia's thriving crime series industry has shown the country can produce just as thrilling crime drama TV shows as its British and American counterparts.

What Australia offers, besides actors...

Exclusive: Chinese-Kiwi actor Yoson An has signed with Sovereign Talent Group. Sovereign will rep An’s writing and directing work.

An is best known for his breakout role in Disney‘s live-action Mulan. In the pic, he played Chen Honghui, a military recruit, and Mulan’s love interest. Born in China, An migrated to New Zealand as a child.

His other feature film credits include The Meg, Mortal Engines, and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. His TV credits include the HBO Asia mini-series Grace, where he played Ricky Wu. He was a series lead on Sbs TV’s crime thriller Dead Lucky. He featured in the Warner Bros. comedy series Fresh Eggs, shot in New Zealand, and most recently played Sook in the BBC’s The Luminaries.

After originally working in theatre, An’s first role on-screen was in the short film Death Note (2012). He next starred in Kiwi filmmaker David Blyth...

Paradise Australian Spinoff

Filming has begun on “Return to Paradise,” an Australian spin-off series of the global hit murder mystery franchise “Death in Paradise.” With filming in locations across Sydney and the Illawarra coastal region, the six-part whodunit is produced by BBC Studios Productions Australia with Red Planet Pictures for the ABC in association with the BBC. The BBC will screen the series on BBC One and iPlayer in the U.K. It will be distributed globally by BBC Studios.

“Return to Paradise” follows detective inspector Mackenzie Clarke who reluctantly returns from the U.K. to Australia and the small town where she ditched her fiancé. But once a case lands on her desk, her tenacity and endurance means she can’t rest until the killer is in handcuffs.

Taking charge as the franchise’s first lead female detective is Anna Samson. Unravelling the murder mysteries alongside her is the ensemble cast of Lloyd Griffith,...

Exclusive: Mark Strong (TÁR), Jahleel Kamara (Nanny), Marvin “Krondon” Jones III (Black Lightning), Natalia Reyes (Terminator: Dark Fate), Yoson An (The Plane) and Ed Quinn (The Oval) have signed on for roles in Lionsgate’s action-thriller Shadow Force, from director Joe Carnahan, which has entered production in Colombia. The actors join an ensemble led by Kerry Washington and Omar Sy, which also includes Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Cliff “Method Man” Smith, as previously announced.

The film penned by Leon Chills and Carnahan follows Kyrah (Washington) and Isaac (Sy), who were once the leaders of a multinational special forces group called Shadow Force. They broke the rules by falling in love, and in order to protect their son, they go underground. With a large bounty on their heads, and the vengeful Shadow Force hot on their trail, one family’s fight becomes all-out war.

Details as to the roles the film...

Production has begun in Sydney on the television drama “After the Verdict,” with Michelle Lim Davidson and Tess Haubrich joining the cast.

The six-part series follows four people who have just finished jury duty on a high-profile murder trial. As they return to normal life, they begin to question their verdict and take matters into their own hands, investigating the murder themselves.

The show was created, written and executive produced by Subtext Pictures’ Ellie Beaumont and Drew Proffitt. The completed series will premiere on the 9Network in Australia with Entertainment One (eOne) handling international sales. The production also received major investment from federal body Screen Australia in association with region screen agency Screen Nsw.

Lim Davidson (“The Newsreader”) and Haubrich (“Wolf Creek”) join the previously announced Sullivan Stapleton, Magda Szubanski and Lincoln Younes in the show’s main cast. Other roles go to Virginia Gay (“Judy and Punch”), Emma Diaz...

Watch The trailer for the upcoming movie Reminiscence.

From writer/director/producer Lisa Joy, Warner Bros. Pictures’ action thriller starS Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson and Thandie Newton.

Nick Bannister (Jackman), a private investigator of the mind, navigates the darkly alluring world of the past by helping his clients access lost memories. Living on the fringes of the sunken Miami coast, his life is forever changed when he takes on a new client, Mae (Ferguson). A simple matter of lost and found becomes a dangerous obsession. As Bannister fights to find the truth about Mae’s disappearance, he uncovers a violent conspiracy, and must ultimately answer the question: how far would you go to hold on to the ones you love?

Alongside Oscar nominee Jackman, Ferguson and Newton, (“Solo: A Star Wars Story”), the film stars Cliff Curtis, Oscar nominee Marina de Tavira (“Roma”), Daniel Wu, Mojean Aria (TV’s “See...

When Mojean Aria was asked to teach a week-long acting workshop for the Australian Institute of Performing Arts (Aipa), he agreed on one condition: they offer a free place to an aspiring young actor of Middle Eastern or North African (Mena) background.

As such, a scholarship has been established for one student (aged 12-18) from the Mena community to cover all meals, accommodation and classes during Aria’s six day, five-night residential masterclass next month.

Throughout the week, students will work with Aria – who stars with Jason Momoa in AppleTV’s See and will next be seen with Hugh Jackman in Lisa Joy’s Reminiscence – covering topics such as scene work and building a character. Industry professionals from the US will also Zoom in to give advice, guidance and feedback.

Of Iranian heritage, Aria pushed for the scholarship in order to spread awareness in the communities he grew up in...

BAFTA Execs To Speak At British Urban Film Festival

Exclusive: The British Urban Film Festival (Buff) has set BAFTA Chair Krishnendu Majumdar and BAFTA Film Committee Chair Marc Samuelson for a 90-minute ‘in conversation’ session at this year’s festival, which is taking place later than usual and online as a result of the coronavirus lockdown. The pre-recorded Q&a, titled The Changing Faces of BAFTA, will be moderated by Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe and streamed via the festival’s website next month. Viewers will be able to submit questions in advance of the Zoom session via the Buff Facebook page. Actor and producer Femi Oyeniran will once again helm the annual Buff awards ceremony. Winners last year included Noel Clarke, Terry Pheto and Aki Omoshaybi. The festival’s full program is due to be announced in coming weeks.

Sbs Begins “Most Ambitious Drama Yet”

Oz broadcaster Sbs has begun its “most...

Maria Angelico, Lydia Rui Huang, Sarinah Masukor.

Screen Australia today announced funding for 15 Enterprise People talent opportunities and one Enterprise Business & Ideas project, with all to share in over $480,000.

The Enterprise Business & Ideas program allows an Australian entity to apply for funding to develop and deliver an innovative screen business proposal, hire a company placement and/or access business-building services, while the Enterprise People strand allows both emerging and experienced creatives to apply for funding for a domestic or international career placement, and/or other professional development opportunities.

Screen Australia head of development Nerida Moore said: “We’re excited to support a wide range of bespoke career development opportunities through Enterprise People, including a number of substantial international opportunities. As the screen industry becomes increasingly global, we were pleased that creatives are exploring ways to make connections in the Australian, European and North American markets, building industry knowledge with the...

Daniel Henshall (Photo credit: Alex Vaughan).

Daniel Henshall and Ian Meadows have joined the cast of Clickbait, the Netflix-commissioned eight-part thriller shooting in Melbourne.

Co-created by Tony Ayres and Christian White, the Us-set series explores the ways in which dangerous and uncontrolled impulses are fueled in the age of social media and the ever widening fractures between virtual and real-life personas.

As If reported, Zoe Kazan stars as Pia Brewer, a young woman who is desperate for answers in the search for her missing brother in a case that has become a media sensation.

Betty Gabriel and Adrian Grenier play Sophie and Nick Brewer, a couple in Oakland who get caught up in a bizarre crime, with Phoenix Raie as Roshan Amir, an Oakland detective who investigates the case.

Henshall portrays Simon Oxley, a traumatized social media moderator who is looking for a way to gain some control over the situation.

Exclusive: Abraham Lim (The Catch), Jessica Collins (Revolution), Ian Meadows (Dead Lucky), Daniel Henshall (Okja), Motell Foster (Foxhole), Jaylin Fletcher (Snowpiercer) and Camaron Engels (Malibu Rescue) have joined the cast of Clickbait, Netflix’s eight-episode character-based thriller series from Tony Ayres (The Slap), David Heyman, NBCUniversal International Studios and Australian-based Matchbox Pictures. Principal photography is underway in Melbourne, Australia.

Co-written by Ayres and Christian White, Clickbait explores the ways in which our most dangerous and uncontrolled impulses are fueled in the age of social media and reveals the ever widening fractures we find between our virtual and real-life personas.

Lim will play Ben Park, a ruthlessly ambitious junior news producer who lives for clicks, likes, and views. Ben is willing to wade into ethically murky waters if it means getting what he wants.

Collins will portray Emma Beesley, a seemingly successful...

Mojean Aria with Marilee Talkington in ‘See.’

Mojean Aria is in the midst of filming the biggest role of his career in a Warner Bros sci-fi thriller alongside one of his heroes in Hugh Jackman, plus Rebecca Ferguson, Thandie Newton, Cliff Curtis and Daniel Wu.

Jackman stars in Reminiscence as Nicolas Bannister, a war veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas who has a special power: offering clients the chance to relive any memory they desire.

His life changes when he meets and embarks on a passionate affair with Ferguson’s Mae. But when another client’s memories implicate Mae in a series of violent crimes, he must uncover the truth about the woman he fell for.

Shooting in New Orleans, the film marks the directing debut of Westworld executive producer Lisa Joy, who wrote the screenplay and is producing with her Kilter Film partner Jonathan Nolan...

Sue Masters.

After five years as Sbs’s head of scripted, Sue Masters is set to depart the broadcaster to pursue independent drama development.

Having led the drama commissioning team, Masters leaves a legacy that includes the International Emmy Award-winning Safe Harbour, Sbs’s most successful drama ever, The Hunting, Robbie Hood, Sunshine, The Principal, The Family Law, Deep Water, Dead Lucky, On The Ropes, and the upcoming Hungry Ghosts.

Until recruitment for the position commences in 2020, Amanda Duthie has joined Sbs as acting head of drama. Most recently Duthie was the head of production and development and studios at the South Australian Film Corporation, and prior to that was the creative director/CEO of the Adelaide Film Festival and head of arts & entertainment at ABC.

Masters will continue to work across some Sbs initiatives, including The R.I.D.E Feature Film Fund, a feature film project and partnership with Screen Queensland,...

Antony Partos.

Antony Partos won the prize for best TV theme for Bloom and shared the awards for best music in a TV series or serial, also for Bloom, and feature film score for I Am Mother at the Screen Music Awards in Melbourne on Wednesday night.

First time nominee Piers Burbrook de Vere is now a first time Screen Music Awards winner as his work on Abe Forsythe’s zombie comedy Little Monsters was named best soundtrack album at the awards hosted by Justine Clarke at the Forum.

The guest presenters were actors Susan Prior, Amali Golden, Mark Coles Smith and Damon Herriman and screen composer Burkhard Dallwitz.

In her welcoming address Australian Guild of Screen Composers (Agsc) president Caitlin Yeo said: “The Agsc is stronger, more unified and more able to advocate for everyone’s interests because of your dedication, hard work, and service.

“This year I have...

Top: Anthony Partos, Brett Aplin and Bryony Marks. Bottom: Caitlin Yeo, David Bridie.

Bryony Marks, Caitlin Yeo, Antony Partos, Brett Aplin and David Bridie have received three nominations each for the upcoming Screen Music Awards, staged by Apra Amcos and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (Agcs).

They are among a group of 40 composers who have been nominated across 12 award categories, spanning more than 36 works. The awards will be held in late November in Melbourne, hosted by Justine Clarke.

Nominated for Best Feature Film Score of the Year is Yeo for Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan, Partos and Dan Luscombe for I Am Mother; Aj True for Jirga and François Tétaz for Judy & Punch.

Yeo is also nominated for Best Television Theme for The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill and also the category of Best Music for an Advertisement, while Partos is nominated...

Rachel Griffiths. (Photo: Lisa Tomasetti)

Actor, director and producer Rachel Griffiths will deliver this year’s Hector Crawford Memorial Lecture at Screen Producers Australia’s (Spa) Screen Forever conference.

An Academy and Emmy Award nominated and Golden Globe winning actress, Griffiths’ feature directorial debut, Michelle Payne biopic Ride Like A Girl, is due in cinemas later this month. She also stars in and co-created ABC/Blackfella Films’ Black Bitch, the first two episodes of which will premiere today at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Griffiths got her big break in 1994 with P.J. Hogan’s Muriel’s Wedding, after which she headed to the Us and became well-known for roles in long-running series Six Feet Under and Brothers & Sisters. Her role in Hilary & Jackie earned her an Oscar nod for Best Supporting Actress.

In film her credits include My Best Friend’s Wedding, Hacksaw Ridge,The Hard Word, Blow, Step Up,...

Rebel Wilson and David Wenham will star in Australian drama series “Les Norton.” Adapted from the novels of Robert G. Barrett, the show is presented by The Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Screen Australia.

Set in 1985, the series will follow the exploits of a country bloke from outback Queensland, played by rising star Alexander Bertrand. On the run from a troubled past, he blows into Sydney where he lands a job as a bouncer at an illegal casino. A classic fish out of water who is desperate to get home, he soon finds himself seduced by the city’s illicit charms and dragged into a web of underground criminality.

The series will be directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, Fadia Abboud (“Australian Gangster”), David Caesar and Morgan O’Neill. It was created for television by Morgan O’Neill, working alongside writers Christopher Lee Samantha Winston Shanti Gudgeon Malcolm Knox and Jessica Tuckwell.

It...

Rebel Wilson..

The ABC has commissioned 10-part Roadshow Rough Diamond drama Les Norton, based on the best-selling novels by Robert G. Barrett.

Set in 1985, the series will follow the exploits of Les Norton, a country bloke from outback Queensland. On the run from a troubled past, he blows into Sydney where he lands a job as a bouncer at a notorious illegal casino in Kings Cross. A classic fish out of water who’s desperate to get home, he soon finds himself seduced by the city’s illicit charms and dragged into a web of underground criminality.

Rebel Wilson and David Wenham will headline the cast together with up-and-coming actor Alexander Bertrand, who will play Norton.

Daniel and John Edwards will produce the series created by by Morgan O’Neill, who will work alongside writers Christopher Lee (Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo), Samantha Winston (Wentworth), Shanti Gudgeon (Wolf Creek...

‘Terrified’

The streaming market in Australia and New Zealand will soon become even more cluttered and competitive as AMC Networks announced its direct-to-consumer services Sundance Now and Shudder will launch in both countries later this year.

Specialising in genre entertainment covering thrillers, suspense and horror, Shudder will cost $4.99 a month or $49.99 per year. AMC did not disclose the fees for Sundance Now, which costs $US6.99 a month in the Us.

The expansion builds on both services’ growth in subscribers in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, Germany and Austria.

“Our continued expansion of Shudder and Sundance Now speaks to our success in offering audiences exclusive and original content they can’t get anywhere else along with an unparalleled user experience,” said Paul Rehrig, executive VP of business development for AMC Networks.

“We look forward to introducing both services into these new markets as consumer demand for our curated streaming offerings continues to grow.

Platforms currently available in North America, UK, Germany, Austria.

Sundance Now and Shudder, sister streaming platforms under AMC Networks, are to launch in Australia and New Zealand later this year.

The services are currently available in territories including the Us, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Germany, and Austria.

Sundance Now’s roster of original and exclusive dramas includes Australian thriller Dead Lucky and Neil Jordan’s Riviera, and features including documentaries and foreign-language titles.

Programming recently added to the service includes docuseries Jonestown: Terror In The Jungle from Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way, Exeter, the service’s first original scripted podcast,...

A very bad man does very great things in a new series for FX and, in the process, has restored my faith in Australian television.

Yes, Australian.

This week I set out to review a Sundance Now series called Dead Lucky, created in Australia and starring Rachel Griffiths. Two things of note here — Sundance Now usually gets its hooks into really good international fare and Griffiths is a very good actress (and it was a chance to see her with her natural Australian accent).

It didn't go well.

Dead Lucky is just flat-out bad. It's a tired cop ...

After a record number of entries, Australians in Film announced Charmaine Bingwa as the winner of this year’s Heath Ledger Scholarship.

The Australian/Zimbabwean actor is the first woman of color to be honored with the scholarship and the 10th winner of the award which was founded five months after Ledger’s death. The scholarship honors Ledger’s legacy and is awarded to an actor who exhibits distinctive and unique potential. It offers assistance for young and emerging Australian actors to kick-start their careers, break into Hollywood or train internationally.

“I’m completely taken aback and so honored to be 2018’s winner of the Heath Ledger Scholarship,” said Bingwa after receiving the award. “I heard the other day someone say that the most powerful currency you have is the impact you have on other people and I think Heath epitomizes that. Heath personally taught me what the power of a performance can do.

The 2018-19 TV season is around the corner, so here is Deadline’s annual rundown of fall premiere dates for new and returning series. The list covers hundreds of broadcast, cable and streaming shows bowing between September 1 and December 31 and some high-profile one-off programs. Please send any additions or adjustments to erikpedersen@deadline.com. We’ll update the post regularly as more dates are revealed.

September 2:

The Last Defense (Investigation Discovery, new true-crime series)

September 3:

Baked (Food Network, new docuseries)

Twisted Sisters (Investigation Discovery, new docuseries)

September 4:

Mayans M.C.

The Purge (USA/Syfy, new drama series)

Model Squad (E! new docuseries)

September 5:

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

The Bobby Brown Story (Bet, new miniseries)

800 Words (Acorn TV, Season 3B; U.S. premiere)

September 6:

Sunday Night Football

I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman

Bite Club (Food Network,...

Sundance TV and its direct-to-consumer Svod service, Sundance Now, revealed highlights of their fall lineups today at the Television Critics Assn. press tour.

Sundance TV Highlights:

Deutschland 86 (Season 2 premiere; 10 episodes)

Thursday, October 25th at 12a Et / 11p C

Created by Anna Winger and Jörg Winger, Deutschland 86 follows Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay), his Aunt Lenora (Maria Schrader) and their colleagues at the East German foreign intelligence agency (Hva). Long banished to Africa for his sins in 1983, Martin Rauch is called back into the field. Dark deals and a dangerous mission lead him to South Africa, Angola, Libya, Paris, West Berlin, and finally back to East Berlin, where he must make a decision.

The first season of the series (Deutschland 83) won an International Emmy, a Peabody Award, an Adolf Grimme Award and a Golden Camera award in Germany. Jonas Nay was honored with the 2016 Golden Nymph for Best Actor at the Festival de Television in Monte Carlo,...

Svod service Sundance Now has picked up Australian drama Dead Lucky starring Six Feet Under and Brothers & Sisters star Rachel Griffiths from distributor Drg.

The AMC Networks-backed streaming service will air the four-part drama in the Us, Canada, the UK, Ireland and German speaking territories in Europe. The series is complex thriller about two feuding detectives hunting a cop killer who is leaving a trail of broken lives across Sydney. Grace and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny star Yoson An and The Bronx Bull’s Mojean Aria star alongside Griffiths.

The series is produced by fledgling Australian producer Subtext Pictures, set up by House Husbands and Water Rats producers Ellie Beaumont and Drew Proffitt. The show, which has been backed by Screen Australia and Create Nsw, will air on Australian public broadcaster Sbs in July. The show was picked up by Aurelie de Troyer, VP of global acquisitions and co-productions,...