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On May 2nd, Saban Films and Blue Fox will be giving the shark thriller Fear Below a digital, On Demand, and limited theatrical release – and with that release date right around the corner, a trailer for the film has dropped online! You can check it out in the embed above.

Directed by Matthew Holmes, who also wrote the screenplay with Gregory Moss, Fear Below has the following synopsis: When a gang of ruthless criminals loses their stolen gold in a river, they turn to a team of desperate, down-on-their-luck divers to retrieve it. What begins as a high-stakes recovery mission quickly spirals when the divers soon find themselves in the company of a vicious bull shark, but the dangers in the water are only a fraction of the dangers that wait for them above. What helps make this movie stand out among the many shark thrillers we get every year...

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The Legend of Ben Hall. Matthew Holmes.s The Legend of Ben Hall will get a national theatrical release from December 1, courtesy of Pinnacle Films.

The biopic tells the story of one of the most wanted men in Australian outlaw history. After years on the run in the outback, Ben Hall and his infamous band of outlaws decide to ride again in order to steal enough cash and gold so they can flee to America and greener pastures.

The reunited gang prove unstoppable until one fateful day, when holding up a mail coach, a police sergeant is shot dead. With the bounty on their heads growing and nowhere to go, Ben and his gang must now fight to the bitter end.

The Legend of Ben Hall, shot across regional New South Wales and Victoria, stars Jack Martin, Jamie Coffa (Gallipoli, The Lucifer King), William Lee, Joanne Dobbin (Neighbours, Swimming Upstream...

Melbourne-based filmmaker Matthew Holmes is in the throes of post-production on his latest film, the handsomely mounted bushranger tale The Legend of Ben Hall. It.s been a long time coming.

.I went straight out of high school into a job at an animation company called Anifex in Adelaide, and I was there for quite a number of years as an animator and a sculptor., Holmes told If.

During that time, the filmmaker made his first feature, 2007.s Twin Rivers, over the course of six years.

Twin Rivers was about two brothers travelling by foot across Australia at the tail-end of the 1930.s. Holmes' fondness for the Australian landscape and the hardscrabble types who populate it is given free rein in Ben Hall, the story of the twilight days of the Nsw bushranger who flourished in the 1860.s..

Shortly after leaving his animation job, Holmes moved to Melbourne, where he...

Melbourne-based South Australian filmmaker Matthew Holmes is in the throes of post-production on his latest film, the handsomely mounted bushranger tale The Legend of Ben Hall. It.s been a long time coming.

.I went straight out of high school into a job at an animation company called Anifex in Adelaide, and I was there for quite a number of years as an animator and a sculptor., Holmes told If.

During that time, the filmmaker made his first feature, 2007.s Twin Rivers, over the course of six years.

Twin Rivers was about two brothers travelling by foot across Australia at the tail-end of the 1930.s. Holmes' fondness for the Australian landscape and the hardscrabble types who populate it is given free rein in Ben Hall, the story of the twilight days of the Nsw bushranger who flourished in the 1860.s..

Shortly after leaving his animation job, Holmes moved to Melbourne,...

Jack Martin as Ben Hall.

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When writer-director Matthew Holmes raised $78,000 on Kickstarter last year to fund a short film on Ben Hall, his ultimate aim was to use the short as a stepping stone to a feature about the notorious bushranger and his gang.

Holmes is getting his wish as The Legend of Ben Hall is due to start principal photography in regional Victoria on March 23.

Wolf Creek creator Greg Mclean has joined the project as executive producer and mentor to Holmes, whose debut feature Twin Rivers, which he self-financed and produced over six years, told of two brothers (played by Matthew and his brother Darren) who set off on an 800 km trek across South-Eastern Australia in 1939.

Most of the cast and crew of the Ben Hall short will work in the feature, led by newcomer Jack Martin as Hall, who led the most notorious bushranger gang in Australia's history...

Wolf Creek director Greg McLean has backed upcoming genre film Territorial as executive producer.

His company, Wolf Creek Pictures, will now produce the horror-thriller-western with Odin.s Eye Productions, the production arm of sales agent Odin's Eye Entertainment.

Territorial was penned by director Matthew Holmes and Alex James and has previously received development support from Film Victoria.

In a statement announcing his involvement, Mclean said: "I and Wolf Creek Pictures (currently in production on Wolf Creek 2) are thrilled to be working with director Matthew Holmes to bring his exciting, genre-splicing horror film Territorial to the big screen. Similar to Red Hill and Crawlspace, Territorial is highly original cinema that will give full reign to Matthew's creative skills as a prodigiously talented filmmaker and storyteller."

Holmes first feature was Twin Rivers, released in 2007, and he has also directed short indie feature comedy The Biscuit Effect (2005) and spin-off web series Crooked (2009). McLean,...