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.
John Jarratt's serial killer Mick Taylor squared off against Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Eric Bana and Emile Hirsch as Navy SEALs in Afghanistan in Australian cinemas last weekend.
The long-standing etiquette among filmmakers here and internationally is that they don't usually bad mouth each other's work.
Wolf Creek director Greg McLean has backed upcoming genre film Territorial as executive producer.
Producer Helen Leake has been appointed to the Screen Australia board for a three-year term.
Films from Australia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Italy, Malta, Romania, Wales, Ireland, Canada and Columbia, will feature as part of the 2013 Adelaide Kids Film Festival program.
Wolf Creek and Django Unchained's John Jarratt has written and plans to star in an Aussie comedy Western.
The actor appears in Quentin Tarantino's western Django Unchained