Former Disney Chief Sets Asia Pacific Hub in Melbourne, Announces Two Projects1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDick Cook, the former chairman of Walt Disney Studios, has struck a deal to establish the Asia Pacific headquarters of Dick Cook Studios at Melbourne and announced two projects that authorities said would inject A$200m (SGD $187m) into the state of Victoria.
At the same time it emerged that Docklands Studios Melbourne is to build a new “super stage” at its facility that is expected to be ready by late 2021. Construction will not affect work at the other five sound stages and filming will continue into 2020 on Apple TV+ show Shantaram, and Netflix’s Clickbait.
Australia’s federal government and Victoria’s premier Daniel Andrews said the first two projects for Cook are Ranger’s Apprentice, based on the book series by Australian author John Flanagan, and The Alchemyst, an adaptation of the first book in six-novel series The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel, by Irish author Michael Scott.
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