"This was a movie that was always incredibly audience-focused. From the point of idea, to every day in my writing, on set and in post. I'm always thinking about audience."
Female-led Australian feature films and content-related technology start-ups are the focus of a new company launched by entrepreneurs Deanne Weir and Olivia Humphrey.
Australian cinema made a welcome return to box office top three on the weekend as Madman's Fremantle-shot 'How To Please a Woman' came in behind Marvel juggernaut 'Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness' and 'Downton Abbey: A New Era'.
Female directors have taken the lion's share of nominations for this year's Australian Directors' Guild awards, with Sian Davies and Stef Smith each securing three nods and their counterparts dominating the feature film categories.
Seems Disney/Pixar's 'Lightyear' hasn't quite reached infinity and beyond - at least not yet, with the animated film trailing 'Top Gun: Maverick' and 'Jurassic World Dominion' at the box office last weekend.
Two feature films, three television dramas, one children’s series, and one online project will share in $5.9 million of production funding from Screen Australia.
Paramount Pictures' 'Top Gun: Maverick' will be one of the first films presented to exhibitors at next week's Australian International Movie Convention.
'Blaze', 'How To Please A Woman', 'Sissy' and 'Sweet As' will contend for the best original feature prize at this year’s AWGIE Awards, while 'Mrs Harris Goes to Paris', 'The Stranger' and 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson' are up for the adapted gong. 'The Newsreader' leads in television with two nominations alongside 'Total Control', 'Firebite', 'Bump' and 'Heartbreak High'.