'Carmen', 'Foe', 'Limbo', 'Shayda', 'Streets of Colour', and 'The Royal Hotel' will contend for Feature Film Production of the Year at next year's Screen Producers Australia (SPA) Awards, to be held on the final night of Screen Forever on the Gold Coast.
First-time narrative feature directors Noora Niasari and Gracie Otto will vie against Warwick Thornton, Jeffrey Walker and Colin and Cameron Cairnes for the top prize at the Australian Directors' Guild Awards next month.
Once upon a time, last weekend would have seen the launch of 'Dune: Part Two'. Instead, it proved to be the slowest yet for Australian cinemas in 2023.
'Five Nights at Freddy's' easily boasts the best opening for a horror film this year, having generated $6.2 million last weekend.
'Killers of the Flower Moon' snared the no. 1 position at the Australian box office on the weekend, outpacing 'Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour'.
Swifties made up almost half of all cinemagoers in Australia last weekend, with 'The Eras Tour' easily landing at the top of the box office.
While no one could accuse 'The Exorcist: Believer' of setting the box office on fire, it still mustered enough to knock 'PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie' from no. 1 last weekend.
When Tehran-born writer-director Noora Niasari told producer Vincent Sheehan about the time she spent living in a women's shelter during her childhood, on which her film 'Shayda' was to be based, he realised he was being told a "distinctly Australian" story, but one he had never seen on the screen before.