Add Sucker to the growing list of Australian films that will have event cinema screenings followed a month or so later by DVD and VOD release.
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Mushroom Pictures is staging event screenings this month of an acclaimed documentary on US singer/songwriter Elliott Smith who died in 2003, aged 34.
The Australian films and feature documentaries released this year are set to surpass $80 million in B.O. receipts next week, an all-time record in dollars.
Word of mouth could not be stronger for The Dressmaker, judging by its superb second weekend takings in Australian cinemas.
Australian actor Radha Mitchell will walk the red carpet at the Melbourne premiere of Sue Brooks’ new film Looking For Grace at the Astor Theatre on November 24.
While more Australian films are securing distribution in the US - mostly limited theatrical combined with online release- generally the returns to producers are exceedingly modest.
Writer-director Jesse O’Brien’s debut feature Arrowhead has been sold to distributors in Japan, Germany and the UK.
Sony Pictures Entertainment and MGM announced today that Spectre has shattered box office records in nearly every market in which it has been released, led by the UK.