S&R Films boards global sales for Luke Sparke’s Fight For Your Life

Scatena & Rosner Films (S&R) has locked worldwide sales rights to the supernatural action film Fight for Your Life, from writer and director Luke Sparke, with plans to present the title to buyers at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Coming off Sparke’s recent successes with the sci-fi action franchise, Occupation (Saban Films), Devil Beneath (Vertical Entertainment, sold by…

Luke Sparke has announced his new horror Scurry starring Barry Pepper

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment and Luke Sparke’s Sparke Films announce the brand new, genre-raising horror film, Scurry. Barry Pepper (Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile) will take on a lead role with further casting announcements to come. The film will…

Occupation filmmaker Luke Sparke developing Axis of Time trilogy

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Sparke Films has secured the television rights to the Axis of Time trilogy, the best-selling novels by John Birmingham. The epic drama television series, tentatively titled Weapons of Choice after the first book in the series, is in late development with…

Hold onto your seats! The new Occupation: Rainfall trailer is one hell of a ride

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Occupation: Rainfall, the spectacular new Australian alien invasion blockbuster, produced entirely independently, will release in Australian cinemas on 28 January 2021. The film will open across more than 120 screens, reaching a wide audience of sci-fi adventure lovers and will be distributed…

Occupation: Rainfall – See the epic new trailer and our exclusive images!

Help us continue to cover more Australian films and festivals by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. The teaser trailer for Occupation: Rainfall, one of Australia’s biggest ever sci-fi films has today been released ahead of the film’s World Premiere screenings at Monster Fest 2020 on Friday 30 October in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Australian distributor Monster Pictures will…

Ken Jeong, Vince Colosimo, Lawrence Makoare and Tamala Shelton join the cast of Luke Sparke’s Occupation: Rainfall

Hot on the heels of breaking box office records around the world, Crazy Rich Asians star, Ken Jeong is heading to Australia to shoot a starring role in Occupation: Rainfall, the sequel to the 2018 Australian sci fi blockbuster Occupation. Jeong will touch down in early October, shooting in locations across Australia including the Hunter Valley and the Gold Coast. Jeong joins Temuera Morrison…

The official world premiere of Occupation is happening next month

Highly anticipated Australian sci-fi action film, Occupation, will have its World Premiere at Sydney’s Ritz Cinema on Tuesday July 10, ahead of its Australian release in cinemas on July 12th 2018 and New Zealand on July 26th 2018. Following on from sold-out advance screenings in Brisbane, Melbourne and the Gold Coast, it’s Sydney’s turn to…

Genre fans rejoice: An Occupation sequel has been announced!

Occupation 2 is in the works – a month before the release of Occupation in cinemas across Australia on July 12. The announcement comes after two sell-out screenings of the Australian-produced, sci-fi thriller last week. The Occupation sequel is set to serve as an anthology-type film set in the aftermath of an Alien invasion, with the focus…

Occupation – On Set Exclusive #1: Zachary Garred

Last year Cinema Australia was invited to visit the set of Luke Sparke’s new Aussie Sci-Fi, Occupation. While we were there we caught up with a handful of cast to discuss their roles in the new film. In part one of our series, we speak with actor Zachary Garred. Zachary’s previous credits include General Hospital, Home…