Disney has chosen to film on location in Queensland, Australia, for its fantasy sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The movie will get a filming incentive payment of AUD 21 million and production will also take place at Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast.
Screen Australia will sign an agreement with the Korean Film Council to better facilitate co-productions between the two countries. Australian movie Kill Me Three Times, featuring British comedian Simon Pegg, is among the films showing at the Busan International Film Festival.
An Australian version of the UK reality show I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! will film in a jungle location in Africa. The format puts minor celebrities in a ‘remote’ jungle camp where they complete trials for privileges and are gradually voted off until one is crowned the winner.
Australia has offered Disney a filming incentive payment of a little over AUD 20 million in a bid to lure Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The studio reportedly plans to shoot the fifth film in the adventure franchise next year but the filming location has not yet been confirmed.
Upcoming TV miniseries ANZAC Girls has filmed entirely on location in and around Adelaide in South Australia for a story set during the Gallipoli campaign of World War I. The drama focuses on the New Zealand and Australian nurses who served at Gallipoli and elsewhere on the Western Front.
Irish actor Michael Fassbender will join Rachel Weisz to film drama The Light Between Oceans on location in New Zealand and Australia. Set on a remote Australian island in the years following World War I, the story follows a couple who discover an infant on a boat washed ashore.
Historical drama miniseries The Secret River is to film on location in Victoria and New South Wales in Australia. Based on the award-winning novel by Kate Grenville, the drama follows the exploits of some of the first European colonists in New South Wales in the early 19th Century.
World War I television miniseries Deadline Gallipoli has started filming on location in South Australia using Adelaide Studios as a base. Australia previously hosted American World War II drama miniseries The Pacific, which filmed largely in Queensland.
The head of the Sydney-based animation house that worked on hit film The Lego Movie has called for a stronger filming incentive in Australia. Zareh Nalbandian runs Animal Logic and has been made an international ambassador for the New South Wales (NSW) creative industries.
A new episode of US sitcom Modern Family that spent two weeks filming in Australia has been a ratings hit and could help boost film tourism in the country. The comedy follows the show’s extended family as they holiday in Sydney and on the Great Barrier Reef.