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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Director Luke Sparke’s Australian-produced Sci-Fi action film, Occupation, has today released its official trailer, and Pinnacle Films announced it will release the highly-anticipated film in cinemas nationally from July 12, 2018. The trailer features ‘Storms’ a track from Powderfinger’s lead guitarist and songwriter, Darren Middleton. The film’s plot follows a group of civilians after their…
Brisbane audiences are set to get an exclusive advance screening of Occupation as Luke Sparke’s new Sci-Fi/Action film secures the opening night spot of Monster Fest’s annual Brisbane event Friday, May 25 Experience first contact in the last place you would expect: Occupation is the highly anticipated new film featuring an outstanding cast of Australian and international names including Dan…
The first teaser trailer for writer/director Luke Sparke’s Occupation dropped late last week and has already had a quarter of a million views. There’s so much in the trailer to be excited about – those aliens look badass – but the trailer also leaves us with a lot of questions. We invited Spake to breakdown…
