Bittersweet comedy 'Babyteeth' has swept this year's AACTA Awards, picking up seven prizes at Monday's ceremony including Best Film and Best Direction for debut filmmaker Shannon Murphy.
Russell Crowe last week urged his 2.73 million Twitter followers to see 'Backtrack Boys' in Australian cinemas, lauding Catherine Scott’s feature documentary as really special and a great story.
Justin Kurzel’s 'Nitram' dominated the feature film categories at Wednesday's AACTA ceremony, winning eight awards, while the ABC’s 'The Newsreader' led the pack for television with five.
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Russell Crowe is set to go from his role as an Air Force drone pilot in Will Eubank’s 'Land of Bad' to a former homicide detective that is forced to confront his past in Adam Cooper's 'Sleeping Dogs', with the latter to also begin shooting in Australia early next year.
Studiocanal's road rage thriller 'Unhinged' was the top choice again for cinemagoers in its second weekend while R&R Films' 'Black Water: Abyss', director Andrew Traucki’s sequel to his 2007 cult-horror 'Black Water', had a limited release in Oz and the US.
Given the challenging subject, Joel Edgerton’s gay conversion therapy drama 'Boy Erased' opened very respectably in Australia last weekend, its first international market after platforming in the US.