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Exclusive: Signature Entertainment is launching global sales on Australian family-adventure film Don’t Go Below ahead of the virtual Cannes market.

Signature has acquired global rights (excluding Australia and New Zealand) to the fantasy film which is written and directed by Dinosaur Island and My Pet Dinosaur filmmaker Matt Drummond and produced by Matt Drummond and Megan Drummond.

Currently in post-production, the movie is one of the first independent features to employ Unreal Engine to create all the VFX and animation.

The film tells the story of anxious Peter (12) and his sister Verity (9), taken underground by a garrison of armoured pangolin. They soon learn that Peter is their prophesied King, who must reunite five sacred lost artefacts that will give him the power to destroy an ancient enemy called the Shroud.

Starring are Sam Everingham as Peter and Alayla Browne (Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers) as Verity, with additional voice cast due to join soon.

Its always an absolute pleasure to wake up to a cheeky email from our good friends in La-la-Land about a new movie they would like us to check out. Today was no different when we received a trailer for My Pet Dinosaur. Accompanying the trailer were phrases like “Spielbergian” or “E.T meets Pixar” says the Hollywood Reporter, and well I am totally going to check that trailer out. And you can too below:

When a boy finds the remnants of a failed military experiment his troubled town is plunged further into chaos as he accidentally makes a new friend.

I think My Pet Dinosaur looks great and definitely has a ton of potential to be a great 2017 family film not to be missed. There is a hugely endearing quality to the trailer that does instantly draw comparisons to movies like E.T, 2016s Pete’s Dragon or dare I...

"Can we keep it?" That question is a lot harder to answer when the found pet in question is a dinosaur growing at an exponential rate.

That's what a few kids face in the trailer for My Pet Dinosaur, an Australian film that is being billed as E.T. meets Pixar. The film is from director Matt Drummond, who also helmed 2014's Dinosaur Island.

The film takes place in a town where a military experiment gone wrong has some unexpected consequences. Against that backdrop, a young boy discovers and befriends a dinosaur, even as a military leader seeks to kill it.

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The 'fluffy' T-Rex of Dinosaur Island.

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Dinosaur Island, the Aussie family film that has already caused controversy because of its depiction of feathered dinosaurs, will be exhibited theatrically by Hoyts.

The film follows the plight of Lucas (Darius Williams) a 13 year old boy who, through a series of extraordinary circumstances, finds himself stranded on a strange island populated by prehistoric creatures alongside abandoned objects from different times. It.s here he meets a young girl (Kate Rasmussen) who claims she is from the 1950s. Together they set out on a quest to get home, while uncovering secrets that have the power to change the future.

The concept was conceived three years ago by Emmy award winning creature effects expert Matt Drummond while he was living in Vanuatu.

.I had been working on a string of documentaries featuring dinosaurs for American cable networks such as National Geographic, History and Discovery Channels (Prehistoric America,...

Mark Lazarus is departing as a drama investment manager at Screen Australia to join Arclight Films as head of creative and acquisitions in Australia.

He succeeds Michael Wrenn, who joined Arclight in 2012 as a consultant and is pursuing his own projects including Ben Elton.s The Wiggles- Pandamonium!, Eron Sheean.s End of Animal and Stephan Elliott's Madams, co-produced with Julie Ryan, based on the true story of two Australian con-women who took on the British "horsey". set and nearly got away with it. Arclight. reps The Wiggles movie and Madams internationally. .

Wrenn is also Ep on Gillian Armstrong's recently completed documentary Women He's Undressed, a behind-the-scenes look at the Australian Oscar-winning costume designer Orry-Kelly.

In five years at Screen Australia Lazarus has been involved in numerous films handled by Arclight internationally including Kimble Rendall.s Bait 3D, the Spierig brothers. Predestination and Patrick Hughes. Red Hill.

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