A MAJOR film studio is closing a $12m deal to tell the remarkable story of Hobart man Saroo Brierley. The Weinstein Company will again join the team behind the 2010 film The King’s Speech to make the ...

Warning: this is full of spoilers. At Monday night’s SAG Awards, Nicole Kidman was asked what was the hardest part about her turn in LION. She thought for a moment and then replied, “Playing a real ...

Since establishing their UK-Australian production banner See-Saw Films in 2008, Iain Canning and Emile Sherman have had a career trajectory that most young independent producers can only dream of.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE -In this May 10, 2012 file photo, Fatima Munshi, mother of Saroo, holds up a photo from their reunion in February 2012 at her ...

The story of Saroo Brierley, told in his 2013 memoir “A Long Way Home” and in the new film “Lion,” is hard to believe. In 1986, finding himself separated from his older brother — after they had ...

From the streets of India to the Oscars Red Carpet. "We're collectively amazed," he says during the E! red carpet show. "We never thought something like this would ever come around, so we're just over ...

Saroo Brierley woke up feeling lost every day, even long after most people considered him found. Like many of us did when we were little kids, a five-year-old Brierley got separated from his family in ...

The real mother and son from ‘Lion’ take us inside the year’s most moving Best Picture nominee. Warning: Contains spoilers. Editorial Director Saroo Brierley may be the subject of the Best Picture ...

Stories of family separation seldom have happy endings, and searches for missing family members that are carried out decades after the incident typically come to a standstill due to faded memory and ...

Growing up in Tasmania, Saroo Brierley had a map of India on his wall. “The map’s hundreds of place names swam before me in my childhood,” he recalls. “Long before I could read them, I knew that the ...

This podcast is an interview with Saroo Brierley, portrayed by actor Dev Patel and his Australian parents John and Sue Brierley portrayed by David Wenham and Nicole Kidman in the Weinstein Company ...

Saroo Brierley’s search for his birth mother is a story about unwavering determination against incredible odds, the strength of the human spirit and one man’s faith in the capabilities of Google Earth ...