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Larysa Kondracki, the director of Picnic at Hanging Rock, has inked a deal to become an executive producer on Amazon’s original horror event series Them: Covenant. Kondracki, who signed a first-look television deal with Amazon Studios in 2018, also will direct multiple episodes of the Little Marvin-created show…

EXCLUSIVE: Australian up and comer, Madeleine Madden, is set to co-star in Paramount Players' live action, Dora the Explorer, opposite Isabela Moner and Eugenio Derbez.  James Bobin is directing from a script by Nick Stoller and Danielle Sanchez-Witzel for a release on Aug. 2, 2019.  Madden’s role is under…

EXCLUSIVE: Larysa Kondracki, who co-wrote and directed the Rachel Weisz sex-trafficking drama The Whistleblower and is currently showrunner of Amazon’s just-released limited series Picnic At Hanging Rock, has signed with WME. The director-writer-producer also helmed the pilot of the six-episode series starring Natalie…

If you thought Natalie Dormer could gut her opponents with a glance on Game of Thrones, the actor will leave you impressively chilled in the new version of Picnic at Hanging Rock. Launching on May 25, Amazon's six-part limited series based on Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel set in 1900 Australia is a lush, often haunting…

"The original material of the novel is such a great story, and it has so much to give, then, like a lot of stories that we revisit in the industry, it lends itself very easy to a wider interpretation," Natalie Dormer says of Amazon's adaptation of Picnic At Hanging Rock, which of course was also a seminal film from…

The BBC has picked up FremantleMedia's Natalie Dormer-fronted Australian drama Picnic at Hanging Rock. The deal follows an agreement by SVOD service Amazon to pick up the crime thriller in the U.S. It is the latest Australian series to air on the British pubcaster following deals for shows including The Slap and…

Amazon has acquired Picnic at Hanging Rock, the upcoming six-episode Australian drama series starring Game Of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer, for a 2018 premiere on Amazon Prime Video US. The series, a re-imagining of Joan Lindsay's classic Australian novel, hails from director Larysa Kondracki and distributor FremantleMedia…

Foxtel has cast numerous roles in Picnic at Hanging Rock, its 21st century re-imagining of Joan Lindsay’s literary classic. Game of Thrones‘ Natalie Dormer will star as English headmistress Mrs Hester Appleyard in the project produced by FremantleMedia Australia and co-financed by Screen Australia and Film…

Game of Thrones alumna Natalie Dormer has been tapped to star in Picnic At Hanging Rock, a drama series based on Joan Lindsay’s classic novel, from FremantleMedia Australia. Production is scheduled to get underway later this month in Victoria, with premiere set for later this year on Australia’s Foxtel. The six-part…

Australia's Foxtel has greenlit a drama series based on the classic novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic At Hanging Rock. FremantleMedia Australia will produce it as a re-imagining of the book which Peter Weir turned into a 1975 Bafta-winning feature. Eyed as a six-part event series, with investment from Screen Australia, it…