Force of Nature: The Dry 2 has a release date!

Force of Nature: The Dry 2, the follow up to the 2021 Australian box office smash hit The Dry, will hit Australian and New Zealand cinemas on August 24, 2023. The film is based on the bestselling novel by Jane Harper with Eric Bana reprising his character, Aaron Falk. Robert Connolly returns to direct the…

Eric Bana and Robert Connolly return for The Dry followup, Force of Nature

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Made Up Stories, Screen Australia and VicScreen today announced that the team behind the box office smash hit and award-winning feature film The Dry return for the feature film adaptation of bestselling author Jane Harper’s Force of Nature, currently shooting in…

Interview: Andrew Dominik

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. There are few Australian films more quotable than Chopper. “He couldn’t knock the fluff off a cappuccino.” “It’s a bit early in the morning for Kung Fu isn’t it, Jim?” “Keithy seems to have done himself a…

Uncle Chop Chop is back! Chopper 20th anniversary screenings announced

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Mushroom Pictures and Pariah Productions have announced that critically acclaimed and multi award-winning Australian cinema classic Chopper will have a strictly limited re-release in theatres across the country from August 26 to celebrate the iconic film’s 20th anniversary. Never available on streaming services, this…

The Dry gets a release date and a first-look trailer!

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Directed by Robert Connelly, The Dry is an Australian crime thriller based on Jane Harper’s bestselling internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning novel.  Directed by Robert Connelly, The Dry stars Genevieve O’Reilly (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Glitch), Keir O’Donnell (Ray Donovan, Fargo) and…

Recasting Classics: Newsfront

Cinema Australia Original Content: By Matthew Eeles A remake of Newsfront has been announced. This modern retelling of Phillip Noyce’s 1978 classic will be directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, who will again team up with The Dressmaker costume designer Marion Boyce to bring the characters of Len Maguire, Frank Maguire, Amy Mackenzie, Chris Hewitt, Fay and…

Filming begins on The Dry as new cast members announced

Filming has begun on the feature film adaptation of Jane Harper’s bestselling novel The Dry. Genevieve O’Reilly (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Glitch), Keir O’Donnell (Ray Donovan, Fargo) and John Polson (Mission: Impossible II, The Sum of Us) join Eric Bana (Munich, Chopper, Dirty John) in the production from Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories.…

Eric Bana and Robert Connolly team up for The Dry

Actor Eric Bana (Munich, Romulus, My Father, Chopper) has been cast as the lead role of Aaron Falk in the feature film adaptation of Jane Harper’s bestselling and award-winning novel The Dry, producers Made Up Stories announced today. Robert Connolly (Balibo, Paper Planes, Deep State) is set to direct from a script written by Connolly…