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\n\tEXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: Filming is underway in Australia on\u00a0Saccharine<\/a><\/em>, with Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em> and The Sex Lives of College Girls<\/em> star Midori Francis<\/a> within the lead position.<\/p>\n \n\tThe under-the-radar mission marks the third movie from writer-director Natalie Erika James, following Julia Garner horror Apartment 7A\u00a0<\/em>and breakout horror hit\u00a0Relic\u00a0<\/em>with Emily Mortimer. <\/p>\n \n\tJames once more companions with producers Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw of Carver Films, whose credit embrace Relic<\/em>, Run Rabbit Run<\/em> and\u00a0Snowtown<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tThe film follows Hana (Francis), a lovelorn medical scholar who turns into terrorised by a hungry ghost after collaborating in an obscure weight-loss craze: consuming human ashes. <\/p>\n \n\tStarring alongside Francis are Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$<\/em>) enjoying Josie, Hana\u2019s finest good friend, and Madeleine Madden (The Wheel of Time<\/em>) as Alanya, a private coach and health influencer.<\/p>\n \n\tThe mission is a Carver Films and Thrum Films manufacturing. Production funding comes from Screen\u00a0Australia, XYZ along side IPR.VC, and Stan, in affiliation with VicScreen. Co-producer is Ben Morgan.<\/p>\n \n\tPic can be distributed theatrically in\u00a0Australia\u00a0and New Zealand by Maslow Entertainment and can launch\u00a0as a Stan Original Film on Stan. XYZ Films is dealing with world gross sales.<\/p>\n \n\tSaccharine<\/em>\u00a0is at the moment filming at Docklands Studios Melbourne and varied places round Melbourne.<\/p>\n \n\tNatalie Erika James mentioned of the mission:\u00a0\u201cThere is so much toxic messaging around weight and appearance that permeates every corner of our culture.\u00a0Saccharine<\/em>\u00a0is an intimate look into one woman\u2019s struggle with body image, self-worth, and shame-driven compulsion, told through a supernatural body-horror with a queer lens and an edge of the absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tProducers Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw of Carver Films added:\u00a0\u201cSaccharine<\/em>\u00a0explodes off the page with Natalie\u2019s bold vision. To team with her again is such a sweet pleasure for us. We can\u2019t wait to see Midori, Danielle and Madeleine bring these incredible women to life.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMidori Francis is represented by\u00a0William Morris Endeavor, Circle Management + Production, and Johnson Shapiro;\u00a0Danielle Macdonald is represented by CAA and Justice & Ponder; and Madeleine Madden is represented by Sue Barnett & Associates\u00a0Australia.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] EXCLUSIVE: Filming is underway in Australia on\u00a0Saccharine, with Grey\u2019s Anatomy and The Sex Lives of College Girls star Midori Francis within the lead position. The under-the-radar mission marks the third movie from writer-director Natalie Erika James, following Julia Garner horror Apartment 7A\u00a0and breakout horror hit\u00a0Relic\u00a0with Emily Mortimer. James once more companions with producers Anna […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[79,263,1638,100,2355,7038,7040,7039],"class_list":{"0":"post-134648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood","8":"tag-director","9":"tag-film","10":"tag-francis","11":"tag-horror","12":"tag-leading","13":"tag-midori","14":"tag-relic","15":"tag-saccharine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}