Richard Harris' first priority as the incoming head of Screen Australia's newly formed business and audience department will be to rejuvenate if not reinvent the tainted Australian cinema brand.
Would lower ticket prices encourage more people to see Australian films in cinemas?
Australian cinema is facing a crisis because the distribution model for most Oz films is no longer viable, according to Troy Lum.
Margaret Pomeranz thoroughly enjoyed Son of a Gun while David Stratton reckoned it was competent and mostly well shot but highly improbable, peopled with uniformly unlikable characters.
Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman were terrific as a long-married couple who overcame adversity in The Railway Man but Australian audiences aren’t buying their latest on-screen pairing.
Australian films seem to be inhabiting parallel universes. At home only three films have grossed more than $1 million this year while a broad slate of Oz titles has been sold to distributors around the world.
Writer-director Julius Avery's debut feature Son of a Gun will have its international premiere in official competition at the BFI London Film Festival next month.
This year’s CinéfestOZ is set to go off with a bang at the Australian premiere of the much-anticipated edge-of-your-seat heist thriller SON OF A GUN.