Transmission Films' 'Ride Like A Girl', the directorial debut from Rachel Griffiths, has surpassed expectations, topping the Australian box office on its opening weekend.
'Downton Abbey' continues its box office domination, having now taken over $7 million in two weeks and beating out new releases 'Ad Astra', 'Good Boys' and 'Rambo: Last Blood'.
Margot Robbie's performance as Kayla Pospisil, an associate producer at Fox News, in 'Bombshell' has been nominated for the Academy Award for best supporting actress - her second nod after 'I,Tonya' last year.
The 2019 Melbourne International Film Festival is being touted as the largest yet, with some 259 features, 123 shorts and 16 VR experiences, including Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood'.
The Australian films and feature documentaries released in cinemas this year including holdovers collectively have grossed $39.7 million.
Director Rodd Rathjen showed his mettle in his debut feature 'Buoyancy' so he is an obvious choice to direct an asylum seeker drama based on the harrowing experiences of Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani.
Causeway Films will produce writer-director Rodd Rathjen’s debut feature 'Buoyancy', a story set in rural Cambodia that follows a young boy enslaved on a fishing trawler.
Four or five years ago writer-director Rodd Rathjen read a story in an environmental journal about forced labour and exploitation of children in Thailand’s fishing industry.