'Backtrack' cleaned up at Sunday's Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards, picking up the Soundtrack of the Year, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Design and the Members’ Choice Award.
A new distributor owned by one of America’s richest men has bought US rights to writer-director Michael Petroni’s Backtrack after its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Michael Petroni's supernatural thriller Backtrack will have its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival.
Madman Entertainment is for sale. Toy, clothing and confectionery company Funtastic, which bought the distributor for $34.5 million in 2006, told the ASX it expects to finalise the sale before it announces its first half results.
Michael Petroni is understandably chuffed by the B.O. results of The Book Thief, his adaptation of the Marcus Zusak novel- particularly in Australia.
Adrien Brody, Sam Neill, Bruce Spence, Robin McLeavy and Anna Lise Phillips are shooting Backtrack, a psychological thriller from writer-director Michael Petroni.
Australian author Markus Zusak, screenwriter Michael Petroni and Geoffrey Rush can take a bow- and maybe look forward to recognition at the Oscars.
This may turn out to be a premature and fanciful call but 2014 is shaping as potentially one of the strongest years for Australian films, commercially and critically, in recent memory.