Former eOne Asia Pacific Boss Troy Lum Launches Aus/NZ Distributor Kismet With Busy Slate, Foxtel & Sony Deals

Star Wars galaxy to this inspired new series,” James Waugh, executive producer and Lucasfilm Vice President, Franchise Content & Strategy, said in a statement.

ensemble Paramount+ series, which offered some much-needed escapism and comic relief, is back for Season 2 and hasn’t missed a beat in continuing the interwoven stories of five disparate friends who’ve become a closely knit family while living together in the suburbs of Australia (the eight-episode series is shot in and around Melbourne).The action picks up three months after the Season 1 finale, in which friends Ben (Stephen Peacocke), Liz (Kat Stewart), Ainsley (Katie Robertson), Harry (Roy

Australian actor Sam Reid has been tapped to star as Lestat in Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire series for AMC and AMC+. The series, based on Rice’s book, is slated to begin production on its eight-episode first season later this year for premiere on AMC and its sister streamer AMC+ in 2022.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefStreaming platform Disney Plus will be expanded to begin operations in South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan in November this year.The announcement was made on the sidelines of Thursday’s Walt Disney Co. third quarter earnings filings.The current Disney Plus service in Japan will be expanded to feature additional general entertainment content in October 2021.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle apparently considered living in New Zealand when deciding to step away from their royal roles. Governor-General Patsy Reddy, who represents Queen Elizabeth II in New Zealand, claimed the couple spoke with her about their interest in moving to the country during the 2018 royal tour.

Yuoni, the latest game from Japanese studio Tricore, is a hide-and-seek horror launching on August 19 for PC, PS4 and PS5.Yuoni is a first-person narrative game where the player takes the role of Ai, a 10-year-old grade-schooler in 1990s Japan whose “world is about to turn upside down”.Throughout the game, the player will be hunted by “otherwordly horrors” and the only choices you have is to hide, run, or die.The horror game is launching next week on PC, PS4, and PS5 with an Xbox release date

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn the wake of reports of widespread sexual harassment at Sony Music Australia, Universal Music has become the second major label in the country to launch an investigation into inappropriate behavior at its offices, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.The allegations surfaced in posts on an Instagram account called Beneath the Glass ceiling, claiming multiple cases of bullying, harassment, racism, homophobia, discrimination, as well as more serious

I'm a Celeb bosses fear they could lose big celeb names from their cast this year after the show was forced to move back to Wales from Australia, sources tell OK! ITV confirmed that the show had been forced to pull plans to return to Australia for this year's show due to Covid travel restrictions. Ant and Dec will now host the series in Gwrych Castle, after the series took place there last year.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefLee Jeeyoung has been appointed by Discovery Inc. to become its senior VP of Asia-Pacific content strategy and GM for both Japan and Korea.

Adam Demos is enjoying his time in Australia now that he’s out of quarantine!

Digimon Survive has been delayed to Q3 2022.As reported by Gamerbraves, Digimon Survive now has a release window of July 1 – September 30 2022. The information was released in a financial report from Toei Animation, which can be found on their website but is in Japanese.Digimon Survive is an upcoming survival strategy role-playing game that is being developed by Witchcraft and will be published in the west by Bandai Namco Entertainment.

Wigan Warriors head coach Adrian Lam is clinging to the hope that a solution is found to ensure the World Cup goes ahead this year.

Australian soap Neighbours is ‘at risk of being cancelled’ as their weekly episode count is scaled back, new reports claim.The long-running series, which airs on Seven Network in Aus and Channel 5 in the UK, has been airing for the past 36 years. However, it’s been decided that their long-standing five episodes a week will be slashed to down to four, and it's been claimed Channel 5 'isn't happy' with the show which could have a negative impact for it here in the UK.

He was the instantly recognisable 90’s heartthrob known to his legions of Home and Away as Shane Parris.

The Voice is coming back to our screens very soon, with a premiere date much sooner than anyone had hoped for.WATCH BELOW: The Voice 2021 first lookMaking its’ Channel 7 debut this season, the network has announced that the show will be returning at 7pm on Sunday, 8 August.It’s expected to have an all-new look and feel, including three new judges appearing in the big red chairs.Guy Sebastian, who coached last season, will be returning again in search of the perfect winner.He will be joined by