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"All you need... is within you." Saban Films has revealed an official US trailer for The Secret Kingdom, a CGI-filled fantasy adventure movie from filmmaker Matt Drummond. He is the same Australian filmmaker behind the CGI movies My Pet Dinosaur and Dinosaur Island, and this new one already opened in Australia a few weeks ago. It's getting a US release in select theaters in June, and it'll be on VOD to watch as well. Join the Pangolin Pling, Elwyn, Mendax the Dragon, Ego and Ergo and all of the characters on the greatest family adventure. Siblings Verity and Peter's trip to the old family mansion takes a turn when the floor of their room suddenly gives way and they fall into an underground chamber where they are met by a civilization of creatures. The adventure stars Sam Everingham, Alyla Browne, Alice Parkinson, Chris Gabardi, Darius Williams, and Beth Champion. This...

"Do you really think that five children would stand against the end of the world?" FilmInk in Australia has debuted an official trailer for an Australian fantasy adventure family film titled The Legend of the Five, marking the feature directorial debut of actress Joanne Samuel (she played Jessie in the original Mad Max movie!). This looks very much like a fun-for-all-ages kind of fantasy story, campiness and all. When a group of misfit teenagers encounter an ancient relic during a school trip to a museum, they find themselves caught up in a magical world, with elemental powers beyond their belief, and the responsibility of stopping an age old evil from destroying the world. The movie stars Lauren Esposito, Gabi Sproule, Leigh Joel Scott, Nicholas Andrianakos, Deborah An, Beth Champion, and Tiriel Mora. This seems like it's straight out of the 90s, but that may be a good thing considering the...

Joanne Samuel and Lauren Esposito.

After making her Hollywood debut in James Wan’s The Conjuring 2, Lauren Esposito will play one of five teenagers who encounter an ancient relic in Australian fantasy/adventure The Five: Earth.

Veteran actor Joanne Samuel, who launched her career in Mad Max, is making her feature directing debut on the film which starts shooting in the Blue Mountains on Monday, produced by Benjamin Jon Creative Media and Jah Media.

It’s also the first feature for screenwriter Peter McLeod, based on a concept by Samuel’s son Jesse A’Hern, alongside Amy Benjamin, who is also the production designer, and McLeod.

“We decided to self-create a film, we had five different ideas and this one felt right,” says Samuel, who is partnered with her husband Nick A’Hern in Jah Media.

The plot follows the misfit teens as they get caught up in a...