Kath and Kim. Photo / Supplied
Foxy hornbags Kath and Kim are headed for the big screen.
Screen Australia has announced funding for The Kath and Kim Filum in which Australia's favourite mother and daughter duo Kath Day-Knight (Jane Turner) and Kim Craig (Gina Riley) venture overseas on a "vajazzling ... whirlwind tour of love, lust
and revolution".
Billed as A Fountain Lakes Fairytale, the feature will be directed by Ted Emery, the funding body said in a brief statement.
Kath and Kim premiered on the ABC in 2002, before switching to the Seven Network in 2007. Turner and Riley also made a 90-minute telemovie, Da Kath and Kim Code, in 2005.
While they were on hiatus in 2009, Turner told AAP it was important for them to recharge the batteries before diving back into their characters.
At the time, she said she wasn't sure if their new project would be a new series or a stage musical, but it appears the big screen beckoned.
The Kath and Kim Filum is one of several funding announcements made by Screen Australia on Tuesday.
The body has injected AUS$9m (NZ$12.3m) into three other feature films, one low-budget TV series and ten documentaries. These projects will trigger production worth almost AUS$29m (NZ$39.6), Screen Australia said in a statement.
Oscar-nominated short film director Peter Templeman will turn the biological clock debate on its head in his debut feature, a romantic comedy called The 20-Something Survival Guide about a young guy who finds out his fertility runs out in a month.
Holly Valance will star in another romantic comedy, Big Momma's Boy, about "life, love and lasagne" and a theatrical documentary called The Last Great Apes about the plight of the world's great apes has also been slated to be made in IMAX format.
Low-budget drama series God Squad will be produced for SBS and the production team behind Chris Lilley's Summer Heights High and John Safran's Race Relations will produce a new documentary series, Sporting Nation, that will take a look at Australia's obsession with sport.
-AAP
