The Australian International Movie Convention is set to return its pre-pandemic home at The Star, Gold Coast this October, and this year aims to put a spotlight on the talents of local industry.
'M3GAN' and 'Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre' each enjoyed healthy debuts over the weekend, though 'Avatar: The Way of Water' remains far and away the main attraction at the box office.
'Avatar: The Way of Water' has proved the bumper summer hit exhibitors hoped it would be. Some four weekends in, the James Cameron sequel - with a cume of $66.7 million - is already the the sixth highest grossing film to ever be released in Australia.
Disney's 'Avatar: The Way of Water' absolutely dominated cinemas in its opening weekend, capturing an 87 per cent market share.
Ahead of the opening of 'Avatar: The Way of Water' on Thursday, the national box office plummeted to a new post-2021 lockdown low last weekend.
'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever'
remains far and away the main event at the box office, out-performing the next highest grossing title, 'Black Adam', by nearly tenfold. 'She Said' was the best performing new title, drawing a bigger crowd in Australia, pro-rata, than in North America.
Factual production company WildBear Entertainment has moved into the streaming space, launching dedicated history documentary service Chronicle.
UK-based distributor DCD Rights has announced a line-up of pre-sales for the second series of Warner Bros. International Television Production Australia’s 'Love Me', currently in production in Melbourne.