STREAMING Amazon Freevee has unveiled the first trailer for the new chapter of long-running Australian soap Neighbours. The continuation of the series about the lives, loves and challenges of the residents on Ramsay Street in Erinsborough, Australia, a fictional suburb of Melbourne will pick up two years after the finale in 2022.
Neighbours ran for more than three decades and nearly 9,000 episodes before being canceled in 2022 when the shows primary funder, U.K.s Channel 5, pulled out. Freevee then picked up the rights from Neighbours producer and distributorFremantle.
The new series will star Alan Fletcher, Annie Jones, Candice Leask, Emerald Chan, Georgie Stone, Jackie Woodburne, Lloyd Will, Lucinda Armstrong Hall, Lucinda Cowden, Marley Williams, Naomi Rukavina, Rebekah Elmaloglou, Riley Bryant, Ryan Moloney, Sara West, Shiv Palekar, Stefan Dennis, Tim Kano, and Xavier Molyneux as series regulars. April Rose Pengilly, Guy Pearce, Ian Smith, Jodi Gordon, Melissa Bell, Mischa Barton and Trevor the Dog will feature as guest stars.
The series will return to screens on Sept. 18, with new episodes releasing daily, Monday-Thursday, on Freevee in the U.K. and the U.S. The series will also stream on Prime Video in Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Australias Network 10 will retain first-run rights in Australia for the new chapter of the series.
Watch the trailer here:
THEATRICAL RELEASES Following its world premiere at Berlin earlier this year, Vertical acquired U.K. and Ireland distribution rights from Embankment Films to Guy Nattivs Golda and will release the film theatrically on Oct. 6, in partnership with Met Film Distribution. Written by Nicholas Martin, produced by Jane Hook, Michael Kuhn and Nicholas Martin, Golda stars BAFTA and Oscar winner Helen Mirren (The Queen), Liev Schreiber (Spotlight) and Camille Cottin (Call My Agent!). The film follows then Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir and the controversial decisions that she faced during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
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Meanwhile, Sky will release Todd Haynes May December in U.K. cinemas on Nov. 17 and on the Sky Cinema channel on Dec. 1 and Michael Manns Ferrari in U.K. cinemas on Dec. 26 and on Sky Cinema in 2024.
May December, which premiered at Cannes in May, follows married couple Gracie and Joe Atherton-Yoo (Julianne Moore and Charles Melton) whose 23-year age gap sparked a tabloid scandal. Their marriage comes under renewed strain when Hollywood actor Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman) comes to spend time with the family to better understand Gracie, who she will be playing in a film about the scandal.
Ferrari follows Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari during the summer of 1957. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. The fates of the protagonists converge in one race, the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the Mille Miglia. The cast also includes Penelope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Patrick Dempsey and Jack OConnell.