The Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace has closed today for an indefinite period, the day after Palace Cinemas temporarily shuttered its 17 sites.
Roadshow will launch Robert Connolly's 'The Dry' on January 1 and Glendyn Ivin's 'Penguin Bloom' on January 21, raising exhibitors' hopes of a strong start to the year on the proviso that a raft of Hollywood titles are not postponed.
Transmission Films launched Justin Kurzel's 'True History of the Kelly Gang' on 17 screens last Thursday, playing on limited sessions before the Australia Day premiere on Stan.
Studiocanal's road rage thriller 'Unhinged' was the top choice again for cinemagoers in its second weekend while R&R Films' 'Black Water: Abyss', director Andrew Traucki’s sequel to his 2007 cult-horror 'Black Water', had a limited release in Oz and the US.
'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.
'Sonic the Hedgehog 2' has powered back to the top of the box office, toppling last weekend's number one, 'The Lost City', and well ahead of new additions 'The Northman' and 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent'.
Unjoo Moon's 'I Am Woman' will premiere on Stan as a Stan Orginal on August 28 - the latest in a growing list of Australian films to bypass cinemas as the pandemic continues to depress the theatrical market.
Ticket sales at Australian cinemas plunged to a new low last weekend as coronavirus-wary audiences ignored almost all the new releases.