While older audiences remain difficult to lure back to cinemas, Universal's 'Book Club 2: The Next Chapter' - squarely aimed at an older female demographic - opened much better in Australia, pro-rata, than it did in the US.
Our 'Location, location, location' series canvasses leading location managers from across the country to find out their favourite places to shoot. First up is Mary Barltrop, based across NSW and Queensland, whose recent credits include 'Extraction' 1 and 2, 'Poker Face', 'Blaze' and 'The Artful Dodger'.
Warwick Thornton's 'The New Boy' is heading direct from Cannes to Sydney Film Festival, where it will be the opening night film for the event's 70th edition.
After more than a decade of lobbying by Ausfilm, crew, studios and other service businesses, the government announced at the Federal Budget it has decided to permanently lift the Location Offset to 30 per cent from July 1 this year.
Independent Cinemas Australia has appointed Brett Rosengarten its new CEO, succeeding Adrianne Pecotic.
Disney/Marvel's 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' scored the best opening for the franchise and the second highest opening of the year so far behind 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie'.
Jacki Weaver, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana and French actor Dominique Pinon are among the voice cast of writer-director Adam Elliot's next stop motion feature, 'Memoir of a Snail'.
The Australian Cinematographers Society named Mandy Walker cinematographer of the year at its national awards in Sydney Saturday night, marking the first time the society’s Milli Award - presented since 1968 - has ever been won by a woman.