Increased interest in 4K documentaries has helped Sydney-based international distributor Flame secure more than 65 hours of sales after MIPTV.
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The director of documentary Chasing Asylum has offered Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull a free ticket and a box of popcorn to entice him to the cinema after the film collected $144,236 at the box office.
The five-part web series began life as a Victorian finalist in SBS's Comedy Runway initiative, where it was one of 12 finalists each awarded $20,000 to create a web pilot.
The sequel to 2010's Alice in Wonderland narrowly beat Fox's X-Men: Apocalypse at the Australian box office over the weekend.
The War that Changed the World: The Making of a New China consists of two episodes of fifty minutes each, covering the period from the Japanese invasion to the Japanese defeat and utilising footage from Chinese archives not previously seen outside the mai
Slack Bay premiered in official competition, and is about the disappearances of tourists from a picturesque coastal community in the north of France in 1910, and the increasingly bizarre behaviour of the local townsfolk.
The film had a theatrical release in the UK and Ireland earlier this year through Universal Pictures, where it had the highest opening ever for an Irish documentary.
The latest installment of the X-Men series, again directed by Bryan Singer, bowed on 272 screens and rang up around $6.4 million over the weekend.