US and Latin American rights to writer-director Jennifer Kent's The Babadook have been acquired by IFC Midnight, which released Snowtown in the US.
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The tactic of launching writer-director Jennifer Kent's The Babadook at the Sundance Film Festival is paying off with a multi-territory deal.
Matt Saville's thriller Felony, which stars Joel Edgerton, Tom Wilkinson, Jai Courtney and Melissa George, will get a cinema release in the US via a new distributor.
Several producers who have had the common experience of finding it hard to negotiate deals with increasingly risk-averse Australian distributors have taken the bold step of launching their own distribution company.
North American distributor Kino Lorber is showing plenty of faith in Kim Mordaunt's The Rocket, which premieres in New York City on Friday in a roll-out which will encompass 24 cities through late February.
The gamble of launching The Railway Man in the ultra-competitive Boxing Day slot has paid off for the producers and distributor Transmission Films.
Studiocanal Australia CEO Robert Slaviero is hiring and reshuffling staff in an expansion of the sales and marketing teams
The producers of Australian prison drama Convict aim to cash in on the growing trend to stage special screenings with key cast conducting Q&A sessions.