Libby Rhys-Jones is departing Sony Pictures Releasing after 10 years as national marketing director.
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The Dressmaker advanced to $15.2 million at Australian cinemas last weekend, propelling the total earnings of Australian films and feature documentaries released this year, plus holdovers, past $84 million.
The Australian Children’s Television Foundation has sold award winning live-action children’s comedy/drama series Lockie Leonard to Bayerischer Rundfunk and ARD in Germany.
Lionsgate and the world’s exhibitors were probably betting that nearly everyone who saw The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 would roll up to the finale.
In the UK some reviews for The Dressmaker were so bitchy and churlish, it’s almost as if the critics were watching a different movie from the one that one million Aussies have enjoyed and appreciated.
Jeremy Sims’ Last Cab to Darwin will break even theatrically in Australia and New Zealand after grossing $8 million and will start to repay investors from ancillary sales.
Spectre, the 24th James Bond opus, rang up $11.3 million last weekend plus $751,000 in previews on 618 screens for a total of just over $12 million.
Hoyts have stuck a deal to build a new cinema complex as part of a proposed multi-million dollar entertainment precinct in Docklands, Melbourne.