'Five Nights at Freddy's' easily boasts the best opening for a horror film this year, having generated $6.2 million last weekend.
Umbrella Entertainment will release Luke Sparke's 'Scurry' in Australia and New Zealand next year, with the Gold Coast-shot horror now in post-production.
South Australia's Wallis Cinemas has launched a distribution arm, with its first acquisition Marion Pilowsky's documentary 'Isla's Way'.
'The Marvels' has proven a box office disappointment both in Australia and abroad, with one of the lowest ever starts for a film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' may not have opened at the heights seen for the rest of the franchise, but it still gave exhibitors a needed boost last weekend.
Despite never playing on more than 14 screens around the country on any given weekend, music documentary Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party has grossed $155,203 in four weeks - a solid result given the scale of the release, and one that puts Label Distribution into the black.
Ridley Scott's historical epic 'Napoleon' emerged the victor at the box office last weekend, outpacing 'Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes'.
Sally Aitken and Aline Jacque's SAM Content has struck an output deal with French production and distribution company ZED, with the aim to maximise opportunities for global co-production.