This may turn out to be a premature and fanciful call but 2014 is shaping as potentially one of the strongest years for Australian films, commercially and critically, in recent memory.
Australian cinema is facing a crisis because the distribution model for most Oz films is no longer viable, according to Troy Lum.
Barring a break-out hit or at least several strong performers, the B.O. total of Australian films this calendar year is highly unlikely to match 2013's $38.5 million.
Actor Ewan McGregor will appear in crime thriller Son of a Gun, which is set to shoot in Western Australia in early-2013
Writer/director Julius Avery’s debut feature Son of a Gun will be released in nearly every major territory worldwide.
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.
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.
Kriv Stenders is set to follow-up hit film Red Dog with the Western Australian-set thriller Kill Me Three Times.