Disney's The Jungle Book also continues its charmed run at the Australian box office, dropping only four percent over the weekend to pull in $5.7 million. Jon Favreau's film is about to crack $20 million overall, at 304 locations across the country.
Disney's Zootopia narrowly beat out the combined might of Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Jessica Chastain and Emily Blunt over the weekend, with Huntsman: Winter's War debuting on 262 screens for an overall take of $2.7 million.
Jen Peedom’s Sherpa has won the prize for best documentary at the 59th BFI London Film Festival.
Phil Craig is departing as chief creative officer of Discovery Networks International (DNI) just eight months after joining from the ABC.
Jennifer Peedom’s Sherpa and Gillian Armstrong’s Women He’s Undressed will screen at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival next month.
This is a golden era for Australian feature documentaries as typified by the five critically-acclaimed titles in contention for the best feature doc prize at the fifth Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards.
Before Struggle Street premiered on SBS, writer-producer Marc Radomsky expected some controversy from its depiction of the hard scrabble lives of the disadvantaged residents of Mount Druitt.
Lisa Nichol's Wide Open Sky has won the Foxtel Movies Audience award for best documentary feature at the Sydney Film Festival.