"We had $180,000 to spend, and that's all we had. To this day that's all we spent".
Chiang served as visual effects art director on Terminator 2, Ghost, The Doors, The Mask, Forrest Gump, and Death Becomes Her.
Directed by Zack Snyder and starring Ben Affleck as the caped crusader, Batman V Superman opened around the country on 293 screens last week, ringing up just over $13 million including 3D and IMAX showings.
American producer Mark Johnson, whose credits range from Rain Man to Breaking Bad, has landed in WA and is in the thick of pre-production on the film adaptation of Tim Winton's Breath, to be directed by Simon Baker.
Dark Victory will see Saville continuing his working relationship with Felony producer Rosemary Blight, of Goalpost Pictures, who described the film to Variety as "The Insider on the high seas".
The hot-button feature directed by Newton was praised by Variety's Joe Leydon as a "compelling indie drama".
Simon Stone's The Daughter opened on fifty-three screens for a strong take of $423,351 in its first week.
Platon Theodoris is in development negotiations with a major studio after festival screenings of Alvin's Harmonious World of Opposites.