Continuing the 2015 resurgence of Australian cinema, Oddball vaulted past Last Cab to Darwin last weekend to rank as the fourth most popular local film in cinemas this year
ADVERTISEMENT
Propelled by Oddball and Blinky Bill: The Movie, next week Australian films are set to smash the record for the biggest B.O. total in a single year.
UK distributor Metrodome has bought Simon Stone’s The Daughter after the drama screened at the Venice Film Festival’s Venice Days and in the Toronto International Film Festival’s special presentations sidebar.
Australian writer-producer Tammy Burnstock has been fascinated by the world’s first and only “Smell-o-Vision†feature ever since she interviewed its director/cinematographer Jack Cardiff in 1986.
Boosted by the school vacation and word of mouth, Stuart McDonald’s Oddball flew through its second weekend, beating two new high-profile Hollywood films.
Essential Media and Entertainment has struck a US broadcast deal for its hit pre-school animation series Bubble Bath Bay.
It’s not a done deal but talks between distributors and exhibitors are progressing, perhaps inexorably, towards a far more flexible regime for releasing films theatrically and on home entertainment in 2016.
Billie Piper, Peter Capaldi, Sylvester McCoy and Strax actor Dan Starkey are on their way to Sydney for the Doctor Who Festival.