A successful US scheme which enables moviegoers to select a title from a library and screen it at a participating cinema is being introduced to Australia.
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Writer-director Sarah Spillane's debut film Around the Block will test the viability of a short window between theatrical and home entertainment release.
The Weinstein Co. paid a reported US$2 million for North American rights to The Railway Man after its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last September -but has waited more than six months to launch the film in the US.
South Australian filmmakers Jenny Walsh and Lesley Hammond's Sneezing Baby Panda will get a wide release in Chinese cinemas.
The profile of Australian films in the US looks set to rise in the next two months with the debuts of Wolf Creek 2, The Railway Man and Tracks.
The traditional 120-day holdback between theatrical and home entertainment release looks like being shortened for a limited number of films.
The explicit sex in Nymphomaniac has earned an R18 classification for Lars von Trier's provocative drama
CMD Distribution has acquired US rights to The Playbook, an Australian drama about a basketball coach whose life is torn apart after a tragic accident