Screen Producers Australia is urging the government to further extend the Temporary Interruption Fund (TIF) scheme in order to provide cover for productions in a post-lockdown climate.
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With audiences emerging from lockdown in South East Queensland, Cairns and regional Victoria, DC/Warner Bros.' 'The Suicide Squad' held no. 1 at the box office, narrowly defeating Disney's new sci-fi, 'Free Guy'.
In a sad blow, the Melbourne International Film Festival has announced it will cancel its in-cinema screenings given the current COVID situation in the city.
With 16 million Australians in lockdown last weekend, the box office prospects for James Gunn's 'The Suicide Squad' were fairly slim.
With Sydney's cinemas still shuttered, a snap lockdown in effect in South East Queensland, Victorian and South Australian theatres just reopening, and the Olympics competing for eyeballs, it wasn't going to be smooth sailing for Disney's 'Jungle Cruise'.
With more than half the country's population in lockdown, it followed that the box office would take a tumble, with no title cracking $1 million last weekend.
With Greater Sydney facing another two weeks in lockdown, the growing COVID-19 threat has led to mixed reactions regarding productions in the state as movements become more constricted.