Thirteen months after 'Mary Magdalene' perished at Australian cinemas, the Biblical saga directed by Garth Davis probably did not have a prayer of getting a warmer reception in the US.
Warwick Thornton, Garth Davis, Joel Edgerton and Anthony Maras have been nominated for best direction in a feature film budgeted at $1 million or more in the 2019 Australian Directors’ Guild Awards.
Director Paul Williams and producer Shannon Swan's portrait of the late blind Indigenous musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, 'Gurrumul', won Best Documentary Feature Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), held in Brisbane last night.
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.
Film4 executive Nicky Earnshaw has joined Iain Canning and Emile Sherman’s See-Saw Films as head of film and TV production in the UK.
The local feature films and feature documentaries released in cinemas in the first four months of this year, plus a few holdovers, have collectively grossed $32 million.
The Australian opening of 'A Quiet Place' did not match its thunderous US debut but the silent horror/thriller achieved the Oz market’s biggest per-screen average last weekend.
Eighteen feature films and documentaries were released in Australian cinemas in the first quarter, including a handful that had limited exposure via Q&A screenings.