Sue Smith has received the 2018 Australian Writers’ Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of the enduring mark her work has made on the Australian cultural landscape.
Judging Australian films' success or failure by their local B.O. results is unfair and misleading, according to several academics who have devised a new formula for measuring the global impact of individual titles.
The Australian creative elements involved in Saving Mr Banks and The Book Thief no doubt contributed to impressive openings for both films last weekend.
Disney's movie about Walt Disney's struggles to bring Australian author P. L. Travers' novel Mary Poppins to the screen has earned a decent but not dazzling $US37.8 million after 10 days in wide release in the US.
The US opening of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug last weekend failed to match that of the first film.
Author P. L. Travers reflects on her difficult childhood while meeting with filmmaker Walt Disney during production for the adaptation of her novel, Mary Poppins.
The world premiere of Saving Mr Banks got a rousing reception from the audience as the closing film of the London Film Festival on Sunday night and mostly favourable reviews.
Rachel Griffiths and Kathy Baker have joined the cast of drama Saving Mr Banks, which has begun principal photography in Los Angeles