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Exclusive: Agathe Rousselle, who broke out in 2021 Cannes Palme d’Or winning body-horror Titane, and Sallie Harmsen (Blade Runner 2049) have joined the cast of Apple TV+ heist series 12 12 12, alongside Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, who also produce.

Co-produced by Skydance Television and Anonymous Content, 12 12 12 unfolds across three timelines of a heist: the 12 months of planning, the 12 hours of the heist, and the 12 days following the heist.

The series follows a disgraced FBI agent (Mackie) and an American career criminal (Dornan) who play a zero-sum game of cat and mouse across Europe. At the center of it all is the daring, epic raid on a bank vault deep beneath the streets of Zurich.

The show is created and written by Dudi Appleton and Jim Keeble, who will also executive produce.

Kari Skogland will direct the pilot, as well as executive produce. Mackie executive produces via his Make It With Gravy production company alongside Jason Spire for Inspire Entertainment.

The casting announcement comes hot on the heels of news last week that Ólafur Darri Ólafsson has also joined the cast.

French actress Rousselle, who splits her time between Paris and San Francisco, and Dutch actress Harmsen have signed for regular roles in the series.

In the meantime, Rousselle will next be seen in French director Laurent Slama’s Paris 2024 Olympics-set and shot drama A Second Life, which world premieres in Tribeca in June. She co-stars opposite Alex Lawther (The End of the F**ing World) as a depressed woman working for a holiday lets concierge company, whose life changes when she meets a free-spirited traveller.

Other credits since Titane, in which Rousselle played a psychopath with a titanium plate in her head, have included French Netflix Original Feature Gold Brick and Australian drama How To Make Gravy, while she also appeared in Last Days, an opera based on the Gus Van Sant film, directed by Matt Copson, and performed at both the Royal Opera House in London and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Sallie Harmsen gained international attention in Blade Runner 2049 (2017) opposite Jared Leto, Devils (2020), The Postcard Killings (2020), directed by Oscar-winner Danis Tanović and the BBC-series Delia (2024).

She also starred in Drawback (2023) opposite Claes Bang and will soon be seen in a leading role in the series, Suga, for Amazon Prime Video. She’s been nominated for a Dutch Academy Award (Golden Calf) twice in The Netherlands.

Rousselle is is repped by CAA and Adéquat and Sallie Harmsen is represented by No19 Talent Management and United Agents.

12 12 12 is a co-production between Anonymous Content and Skydance Television. Skogland, Appleton, Keeble, Mackie, Dornan, and Spire will executive produce alongside David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Matt Thunell for Skydance Television, and David Levine and Garrett Kemble for Anonymous Content. Samantha Corbin-Miller also serves as executive producer.

Big changes to the content game in Australia, where Alison Hurbert-Burns is exiting pay-TV and streaming giant Foxtel Group after six years.

Hurbert-Burns is known for leading original program development at the pay-tv service Foxtel and streamer Binge during a period when the content company launched the likes of comedy hit Colin From Accounts, legal drama The Twelve and original movie How to Make Gravy.

She has overseen the commissioning and production of 25 original series in total as Executive Director for Commissioning and Content, and was the launch content chief for Binge in 2020.

Replacing her will be Wendy Moore and Stephanie Quinn, whose roles are being expanded. Moore will become Executive Director – Entertainment Content, overseeing scripted and unscripted originals. Quinn has been named Executive Director – Content & Commercial Partnerships, leading on deals with studios and taking on acquisitions.

Lana Greenhalgh, Howard Myers Rifai and Chris Hearn will now report to Moore,...

Paul Kelly’s song “How to Make Gravy” captures a deeply personal story of family tension and redemption. The film adaptation by Nick Waterman and Megan Washington expands the track’s emotional landscape, transforming its compact narrative into a broader cinematic experience.

The adaptation skillfully sidesteps literal interpretation. Instead of direct song quotations, the directors craft a nuanced backstory for Joe (Daniel Henshall), a troubled father who ends up in prison after a violent confrontation with his brother-in-law.

This narrative approach allows exploration of complex themes like family dynamics and personal struggle. The film examines Joe’s internal conflicts and attempts to reconnect with his family, creating a rich emotional terrain that echoes the song’s raw sentiment.

While the expanded narrative sometimes feels stretched, the central emotional thread remains compelling. Joe’s journey of self-reflection and potential redemption drives the film’s dramatic core, staying true to the spirit...

by Travis Cragg

Robbie Williams v. Furiosa v. Beloved Aussie Christmas Song v. Demon Possession. That’s the general gist of this year’s Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) film nominations. The satirical musical bio-pic Better Man achieved the most nominations (16), but Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and How To Make Gravy (15 each) and Late Night With The Devil (14) are not that far behind. The nomination total for Better Man is a record breaker, so the fact that three other films are very close to its indicates that the number of films that managed any nominations this year is low. There’s also a more significant artistic precedent that has been set this year amongst the acting nominees which we'll discus.

The list of nominations and comments after the jump…...

The Robbie Williams biopic “Better Man” has taken center stage in the 2025 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) Awards nominations.

“Better Man” earned a record-breaking 16 nominations, the most ever received by a single film in the awards’ 66-year history. Directed by Michael Gracey, the musical film secured nods across key categories, including Best Film, Best Direction, and Best Screenplay, as well as multiple acting, technical, and creative honors.

“Better Man” is joined in the Best Film category by George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” and “How to Make Gravy,” both with 15 nominations, the horror standout “Late Night with the Devil” with 14, the animated feature “Memoir of a Snail” with 11, and “Runt,” which received four.

For the first time, the Aacta Awards have recognized motion capture and voice performances in acting categories. Jonno Davies received a nomination for his motion capture portrayal of Robbie Williams in “Better Man,...

Musicals may be having a moment at the box office but its music-based films have led the charge in 2025 Aacta nominations today, with Michael Gracey's upcoming Robbie Williams-inspired 'Better Man' and Nick Waterman's adaptation of Paul Kelly's 'How To Make Gravy' securing 16 and 15 nods, respectively.

The post ‘Better Man’, ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ top Aacta nominations appeared first on If Magazine.

This soupy Christmas drama based on Paul Kelly’s song tips into corny sentimentalism – and comes dangerously close to suggesting that gravy is actually magic

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How to Make Gravy is a rare example of a film that originated as a song – in this case, the beloved ballad by Paul Kelly. Maybe, given the entertainment industry’s addiction to recycling pre-existing IP, transforming popular tracks into movies will one day become a thing. Not that I’m looking forward to it: this soupy Christmas drama from first-time feature director Nick Waterman demonstrates how lyrics can become a series of reference points, with an obvious temptation to be very visual and literal – to give us that shot of a gravy boat being passed reverentially around the dinner table.

Waterman deploys the gravy early in the runtime, staging it as a moment of quasi-religious significance. This...

Megan Washington and Hugo Weaving share how Kelly’s anthem inspired a ‘beautiful opportunity for redemption’, while Kelly reveals he’s ‘playing around with a sequel’ to his song

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There’s a stunning sleight of hand to How to Make Gravy in that it’s almost impossible to pin the film down to an era. An earthy, 70s colour palette. The fashion and cars are 90s shabby. The backyard trestle table, tinselled up for Christmas lunch, and the screen doors, banging more insistently as the red wine flows, are perennial. Eventually I spot a vape, but the overall effect is to drench the brain with nostalgia.

Binge commissioned How to Make Gravy as its first original feature film, based on the 1996 Paul Kelly song of the same name. Its creators have been loyal to those early fans who vividly remember discovering the song...

Exclusive: Smile breakout Caitlin Stasey and The Bikeriders and Better Man actor Damon Herriman have been set to star in Killing Breed, a survival thriller from actor turned writer-director Matt Day.

Killing Breed pits a family, desperately fighting for survival at an isolated Outback lodge, against a raging bushfire, out of control and consuming everything in its path, and three savage dogs, trained to kill and now unleashed into the wild.

Architect is handling worldwide sales and has launched the film to buyers ahead of the American Film Market. Pic is due to shoot in Australia in May 2025 and was developed with the financial assistance of the South Australian Film Corporation.

Kristian Moliere produces for Triptych Pictures, alongside Grant Hardie, Ian Kirk, and Phil Hunt, as part of a genre slate collaboration between Monster Pictures Studios and Head Gear Films, with Charlie Kemball executive-producing for Head Gear.

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The movie, adapted by musician Meg Washington and director Nick Waterman, involves expanded stories of all the Christmas anthem’s characters

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The first trailer has been released for How To Make Gravy, the upcoming film based on the much-loved song by Paul Kelly that has become an Australian Christmas anthem.

Kelly’s lyrics, which take the form of a letter from a man named Joe who is writing home from prison four days before Christmas, contain a whole host of characters including Joe’s brother Dan – the recipient of the letter – and Joe’s wife Rita.

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Exclusive: Stuff the British Stole, the Australian-Canadian doc series about the impact of British colonialism, is being remade as a six-part scripted heist caper.

Anchuli Felicia King, who wrote on HBO’s The Sympathizer and The Baby and Deadloch for Prime Video, is creating and writing the series, which is coming out of Australia and billed by producers as “an exploration of the the nuanced debate around repatriation through a sharply funny lens.”

Ben Chessell (The Great, Giri Haji, Doctor Who) is attached to direct and write episodes, with Kacie Anning and award-winning First Nations writer and playwright Dylan Van Den Berg also on the creative team.

Aussie indie Wooden Horse, which made Disney+ series The Clearing, is co-producing with Warner Bros International Television Production (Wbitvp) Australia, known for the likes of The Twelve, on which King was a writer, and Love Me.

Exclusive: Teresa Palmer, Miranda Richardson and Danielle Macdonald and a host of other names have joined Nicole Kidman’s light-hearted Australian drama series The Last Anniversary.

The Foxtel drama for Aussie streamer Binge has gone into production in Sydney with Helen Thomson, Susan Prior, Claude Scott-Mitchell, Charlie Garber, Uli Latukefu and Jeremy Lindsay Taylor also attached to appear.

Based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel, The Last Anniversary is billed as “a wickedly funny, heartfelt dramedy wrapped in a gripping mystery about family, motherhood and the women who define the generations that come after them.”

Set on the mysterious Scribbly Gum Island, where a young couple disappeared decades before,...