The 63rd Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is thrilled to announce that the 2014 Festival will open with the Australian Premiere of the Spierig Brothers' new feature Predestination.
The life of a time-traveling Temporal Agent. On his final assignment, he must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time.
When two Australian films open on the same weekend after getting mostly positive reviews at MIFF and generate copious publicity for the stars and filmmakers, the industry might have expected both to post solid opening figures.
Predestination, The Babadook and Wyrmwood featured prominently in the Toronto After Dark Film Festival awards.
Michael and Peter Spierig's Predestination has won the $10,000 John Hinde award for produced science fiction.
US reviewers have lauded the Spierig brothers' Predestination, which launched in cinemas and on-demand platforms last Friday.
Responding to the tough outlook for most independent films, Pinnacle Films is moving away from releasing a large slate of small theatrical titles and instead plans to focus on two or three wide-release commercial films per year.
In the US Jennifer Kent's The Babadook has raked in more than $US950,000 at cinemas and been viewed online, legally, more than 360,000 times.