Mark Hartley's Patrick will get a theatrical release in the US, handled jointly by Phase 4 Films and Uncork'd Entertainment.
The Cairnes brothers' 100 Bloody Acres has been named best feature film in the Midnight X-Treme Category at Spain's Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia.
Ivan Sen's Mystery Road posted solid results on 16 screens while Mark Hartley's Patrick had a limited opening at six cinemas in Australia last weekend.
Rechristened Patrick: Evil Awakens, Mark Hartley's re-imagining of Richard Franklin's 1978 cult horror film Patrick opens in the US today.
Prolific screenwriter Everett De Roche, who died yesterday, was one of the instigators of the Ozploitation genre movement of the 1970s and 80s.
After focussing on TV dramas, David Caesar plans to direct a conspiracy thriller, his first feature since Prime Mover in 2009.
Antony I. Ginnane has long been concerned about what he regards as a high level of film illiteracy among many writers, producers and directors, both established and emerging.