Bruce Beresford’s 'Ladies in Black' opened impressively last weekend, considering that the primary target audience - mature cinemagoers - don't normally rush out to see films in the first weekend.
The editors of 'Ladies in Black', 'Bloom' and 'The Final Quarter' were among the honorees of the Australian Screen Editors' annual Ellie Awards presented on Saturday night at the Eternity Playhouse in Darlinghurst.
Set in Sydney in the summer of 1959, 'Ladies in Black' is the story of suburban schoolgirl Lisa, who takes a summer job at a large department store where she works alongside a group of saleswomen who open her eyes to a world beyond her sheltered existence
Universal’s 'First Man' has an Academy Award-winning director in Damien Chazelle, an Oscar-lauded writer in Josh Singer and stars two-time Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling. But that combination did not catapult the Neil Armstrong biopic to great heights.
Four Australian films - 'Ladies in Black', 'Gurrumul', 'Breath' and 'Mary Magdalene' - have received nominations for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, to be held in Brisbane in November.
The critics hated 'Venom', blasted as a “puddle of simplistic, sanitized PG-13 drivel” and clumsy, monolithic and fantastically boring. Audiences must be watching a different movie.
Here is a rarity: Australian exhibitors are extremely positive about the upcoming line-up of Australian films, with one circuit chief rating it as the most commercial in years.
Australian box office takings last year totaled $1.245 billion, up 3.6 per cent on the previous year, as a record 758 titles flooded the market