Allan Clarke's 'The Bowraville Murders' is a feature documentary which investigates one of Australia’s worst unsolved serial murder cases.
Independent cinema operators are cautiously optimistic about the road ahead as they push forward with their SCREEN Fund applications.
Alternate content releases 'Koko: A Red Dog Story', 'Standing Up for Sunny' and 'A Boy Called Sailboat' premiered in Australian cinemas last weekend, together with the conventionally-released 'Kairos'.
Ticket sales at Australian cinemas plunged to a new low last weekend as coronavirus-wary audiences ignored almost all the new releases.
The good news for Australian cinema: Last year ranks as the third biggest ever for Oz films and feature docs released theatrically in the home market
The box office results for the Australian films and feature docs released in cinemas this year underline yet again the deep polarisation in the indie film market between the higher earners and the also-rans.
With Disney/Fox’s 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' invading cinemas this Thursday no distributor was brave – or foolish – enough to launch potentially lucrative titles last weekend.
'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.