Writer-director Jennifer Kent's The Babadook will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next month.
In the US Jennifer Kent's The Babadook has raked in more than $US950,000 at cinemas and been viewed online, legally, more than 360,000 times.
The producers of psychological horror film The Babadook have achieved their goal of raising $30,000 from the public through crowdfunding with just hours to spare before the offer closed
Jennifer Kent's The Babadook has raked in more money in its first weekend in the UK than in its entire theatrical run at home.
Psychological-thriller The Babadook, starring Essie Davis, is currently filming in South Australia
While AACTA's Byron Kennedy Award is typically given to an individual or organisation who demonstrates "outstanding creative enterprise", this year the award will go to a film.
The Babadook producer Kristina Ceyton is teaming with US producer Russell Ackerman to make Cargo, a post-Apocalyptic thriller adapted from a 2013 Tropfest finalist.
Jennifer Kent's The Babadook launched in the US on DirecTV last Friday, hailed by several critics as among the most outstanding horror movies of the year and by one enthusiast as one of the genre's top 25 this century.