The casting search has begun in Australia for the supporting roles in The Light Between Oceans, a Hollywood adaptation of Australian author M.L. Stedman’s debut novel set on an island off the coast of WA in 1918.
Writer/director Julius Avery’s debut feature Son of a Gun will be released in nearly every major territory worldwide.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.