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Thor has swooped in to help with Australian wildfire relief efforts. Actor Chris Hemsworth and his family have donated $1M  to the crisis, which has destroyed an area the size of South Korea. The Australian actor announced the donation on Twitter and called on others to “chip in” and contribute funding. He joins a…

UPDATED with video from speech: Russell Crowe won a Golden Globe Award on Sunday in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television category for his role in The Loudest Voice. Crowe, who played late Fox News boss Roger Ailes in the Showtime miniseries, didn’t attend the…

Nicole Kidman and husband Keith Urban are among the celebrities offering help to those affected by the wildfires ravaging Australia. The actress and country superstar, who are native Australians, took to Instagram Saturday to announce that they plan to donate $500,000. “Our family's support, thoughts and prayers are…

Amazon has scheduled its first scripted Australian Amazon Original series, Back to the Rafters, which will launch on Prime Video in Australia and around the world. Production on the series is expected to start next year. Back to the Rafters offers the next chapter in the story of the Rafter family, who appeared for…

It’s not a googly or a doosra, but it is a video that Amazon Prime hopes that audiences find a lolly. The Test: A New Era for Australia's Team is an exclusive new docuseries following the Australian Men's Cricket Team that will be coming to Amazon Prime Video in Australia and more than 200 countries and territories in…

From Trevor Noah’s vantage point, President Donald Trump appears to be melting down over the House impeachment saga. For proof, The Daily Show host turned to the president’s Twitter feed. “What started as a scandal about a call to Ukraine is now snowballing bigly,” Noah quipped Monday night. “I don’t know how Trump is…

Amazon has announced a series of 10 stand-up specials featuring Australian comedians to premiere exclusively on Prime Video in early 2020. Set to be filmed this month at the Coopers Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne, the specials will feature performances by Lano & Woodley, Zoë Coombs Marr, Judith Lucy, Tommy Little…

Tubi TV, the top ad-supported, on-demand video service, will launch September 1 in Australia in the first leg of a planned global expansion. The initial offering will encompass 7,000 movie and TV titles, but will eventually grow to the catalog of 15,000 included in Tubi’s service in the U.S. and Canada. Ad-supported st…

Animal Logic has launched Truant Pictures, a new production company that will act as a subsidiary of the successful Aussie animation outfit with a focus on live-action genre films for the Australian market. Truant will be headquartered at Animal Logic's Sydney-based studios and also operate out of its Los Angeles…

In a move that took international markets by surprise overnight, Australia’s Nine Entertainment announced a $3 billion takeover of Fairfax Media. The TV net will take a controlling 51.1% stake in the newly merged company, which will be renamed NEC, or Nine Entertainment Company. The deal creates the country’s largest…

Paramount’s live-action Dora The Explorer movie will shoot in Australia after a last-minute tax break concession from local authorities. The movie’s presence in Australia was cast in doubt on Friday when Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison rejected Paramount’s request for a one-off increase from the standard 16.5…

International commissions are coming thick and fast for the BBC's recently unleashed production division, this time in Australia. BBC Studios is set to produce a new season of science series Stargazing for local public broadcaster ABC. The news comes a week after it secured wildlife doc The Red List for U.S. cable…