Thrilled with The Dressmaker’s opening weekend, producer Sue Maslin is confident a US deal for Jocelyn Moorhouse’s dramedy will be signed this week.
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Jocelyn Moorhouse’s The Dressmaker rules the Australian B.O. after earning $560,000 on Thursday plus $416,000 in previews and the Adelaide Film Festival screening.
Australian films are certain to sail past $70 million at the national B.O. next week helped by The Dressmaker.
Cinema on-demand platform Tugg Australia is growing month-by-month, delivering tidy sums to the producers of hot-button documentaries and incremental revenues for narrative features.
Director Peter Andrikidis probably never dreamt his name would appear in the same sentence as Steven Spielberg, but that was before he knew their films would open in Australian cinemas on the same day.
A group of young Indigenous women from Western Sydney will make their silver screen debut on November 4 with new web series, Kasey is Missing.
On Friday one Australian distributor looked at the abysmal opening day figures for four new films and muttered, “It’s a bloodbath.â€
Sticky Pictures’ Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts Lane is among the first acquisitions by a new US online comedy channel..