Clementine Ford’s ‘Fight Like a Girl’ Set as TV Series at Aquarius Films (EXCLUSIVE)

2 min read Saturday Night Live (SNL) star Kate McKinnon, veteran actor Dennis Quaid and Hedwig and the Angry Inch star John Cameron Mitchell will star in the upcoming TV show about ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic and filming is expected to get underway in Brisbane, Australia in coming weeks.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefFemale-led independent production company Aquarius Films has hired Miranda Culley as the company’s new MD and Erica Harrison as head of development, with effect from July 1, 2021.Culley is replacing Rachel Okine who is leaving Aquarius to become the new head of features and development at Australian streaming service, Stan. Culley has 25 years of experience, including eight years working with Phillip Noyce, stints at Sonar Music and Screen Australia.

Rebel Wilson has shared some new snaps showing off her amazing weight loss as she enjoyed a day out in Atlanta, America.The Australian actress has focused the last year on getting fit and healthy, and has often said how she was determined to make the change. Fans were utterly floored when the 41 year old first unveiled her weight loss, having shed a whopping nearly five stone.

Vivienne Chow Sam Neill, Christoph Waltz and Patrick Gibson will head the cast of “The Portable Door,” a fantasy adventure film adapted from the series of novels by Patrick Holt.The film is now shooting in Queensland, Australia, with Jeffrey Walker (“Ali’s Wedding,” Sky’s “Lambs of God”) directing from a script by Leon Ford (“Griff the Invisible”).The story sees two lowly, put-upon interns at a mysterious London firm, J.W.

Lorde has given further details on her upcoming album ‘Solar Power’, comparing its sound to “a little bit” of S Club 7 and TLC mixed with Fleetwood Mac.In a June 22 radio interview on the Smallzy’s Surgery show on Australia’s Nova FM, Lorde discussed her excitement to release her third studio album, which she also described as a cross between folk and bubblegum pop.“I really think it’s such a good record. I feel so proud of it so I’m keen to get out there,” she said.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMemento International (“Call Me By Your Name”) has closed a raft of sales on Leah Purcell’s Australian revenge tale “The Drover’s Wife,” and Alex Camilleri’s “Luzzu” which world premiered at SXSW and Sundance, respectively. After selling North American rights to “The Drover’s Wife” to Samuel Goldwyn, Memento has sold “The Drover’s Wife” to the U.K.

It has been a while since we heard any new music from Selena Gomez, but that's because the singer has been working on a new show titled Only Murders In The Building. The upcoming series was being shot in New York and Selena has been snapped on several occasions on set.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorThe leading sales, finance and production outfit Beta Cinema will present first footage from the upcoming Australian comedy drama “How to Please a Woman” at next week’s Pre-Cannes Screenings.

Big Brother Australia star Tilly Whitfield has revealed she was left with scars on her face and vision loss after attempting a TikTok beauty hack.The blonde Australian reality star has since spent £8,500 in medical bills to correct the damage caused by the hack.Tilly tried to re-create a beauty tip she saw on the video platform, which uses sewing needles and ink to give the effect of freckles across her cheeks and nose.

Courier Mail on Tuesday.  Pointing out that his longtime cinematographer Steve Windon hails from Sydney, Lin said, 'He knows it’s going to happen and I know it’s going to happen.

The much-loved ITV show I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! is set to be back in its home country of Australia after the washout version set in Wales last year due to the coronavirus restrictions on travel. Production staff of the show have been advised by ITV bosses that they should be working towards a return to Oz for the 2021 series.

Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. just twinned with her momma Serena Williams!

Rebel Wilson, 40, is taking it back to high school! The Australian born actress was in full character on-set of her new film Senior Year in her latest Instagram photo, where she plays a cheerleader who was in a coma after a whopping 20 years. Posing in a bowling alley, Rebel wore a fuzzy, light, pink mini dress with an embroidered red heart across the chest.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAMC Studios and See-Saw Films have partnered to co-produce the original series “Firebite,” which will debut exclusively on AMC Plus.The series will be filmed in Australia this summer for a planned debut on AMC Plus later this year. The series is set in a remote desert mining town, a hive for the last vampire stronghold shipped from Britain to Australia in 1788 by the colonial superpower to eradicate the Indigenous populations.