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.
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.
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.
Magnolia Pictures has acquired US rights to The Little Death, the sex comedy which marks Josh Lawson’s feature directing and writing debut.
Shooting started in Sydney today on The Little Death, the debut film from Ticket to Ride, a low-budget production and financing offshoot of See Pictures''Jamie Hilton and Michael Petroni.
A comedy about sex, love, relationships and taboo, The Little Death is a laugh-out-loud funny, honest and ultimately moving look at the secret sex lives of five ordinary couples.
The Australian films premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival are getting a fair bit of love from critics, and the occasional brickbat.
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.