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GEORGE Clooney and Julia Roberts’ new romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise has scored $6.4m in federal funding to bring it to Australia.

The Oscar winners have added their names to the boom in international productions coming Down Under.

Filming around Queensland’s Whitsundays is scheduled to start this year.

Clooney and Roberts (pictured) are set to play a divorced couple who team up and travel to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago.

Federal Arts Minister Paul Fletcher said the production w was expected to inject $47m into the Australian economy and create more than 270 j jobs for local cast and crew.

“I’m so pleased to support Ticket to Paradise with a $6.4m grant as part of our highly successful Location Incentive Program,” he said.

“To date, we have distributed more than $216m under the Location Incentive to attract 22 productions to Australia, providing more than 12,700 employment opportunities for local cast and crew, and generating work for over 13,500 businesses that support these big productions.”

Secured by the Queensland government via Screen Queensland’s Production Attraction Strategy, the blockbuster would be “huge news” for the state and its global reputation for TV and film production, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said.

“Because of our strong health response and through the efforts of all Queenslanders in dealing with the global pandemic, we’ve emerged as one of the safest places in the world to film,” she said.