Exhibitors despaired as none of the new releases last weekend could catch the fourth frame of Warner Bros' 'Tenet' and no title cracked $1 million.
Claire van der Boom and Todd Lasance are playing a US-based couple whose young daughter is abducted while they are on holiday at an Australian resort in Kidnapped, an unofficial Australian - Canadian co-production.
Georgia Flood and Ezekiel Simat are starring in 'The Dog Days of Christmas', a romantic comedy directed by Tori Garrett, which is now shooting on the Gold Coast.
'Swimming for Gold' follows Claire Carpenter (Peyton List), a 17-year-old elite swimmer who is reluctantly sent to Australia to coach a boys’ swim team. On arrival in Australia, Claire finds herself face to face with long-time rival Mikayla Michaels (Lauren Esposito), and the news that the camp will close if the team loses the next meet. To save the camp, Claire must overcome her fears, put aside her differences with Mikayla and rediscover her passion.
Saskia Hampele and Liam McIntyre are starring in the romantic comedy 'This Little Love of Mine', one of the first feature films to roll in the post COVID-19 era.
Screen production in Queensland is set to restart with the second season of Jonathan M. Shiff Productions’ 'The Bureau of Magical Things' and a rom-com feature from the Steve Jaggi Company.
While production shutdowns are causing mass unemployment among all sectors of the screen sector, some practitioners see an upside.
"The best way to get people to go to the cinema is to embrace the point of difference from television, enhance the cinematic scale of the work and create narrative experiences that are immersive." - Robert Connolly