Spanish filmmaker Paco León came across Josh Lawson’s 'The Little Death' via the film’s European distributor Vertigo-Wild Bunch, who offered him the opportunity to make a Spanish version.
The Little Death and the Turkey Shoot reboot had multi-platform launches in the US last Friday, drawing mostly positive reviews.
Josh Lawson's feature film The Little Death as well as two short films and an online documentary will be showcased at the 22nd SXSW next month.
The good news for the producers of The Little Death is more than 160,000 people have watched the sex comedy online in the past few days.
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.
Josh Lawson's sex comedy The Little Death has raked in nearly $127,000 in its first week at 34 cinemas after Tuesday takings improved on Monday's figures.
Josh Lawson’s The Little Death generated a tonne of media coverage and mostly favourable reviews after selling to the US and multiple other territories- so why haven’t Australian audiences been more aroused by the sexy comedy?
Denzel Washington’s films have raked in more than $4 billion at cinemas worldwide but the superstar’s latest movie was beaten in Australia last weekend by a bunch of barely known youngsters.