Elizabeth Debicki in 'The Kettering Incident'.
While local films were quiet at the box office last year, Aussie TV drama boomed. If catches up with industry leaders to reflect on 2016 and canvass the challenges of the year ahead.
Off the back of a record year in 2015, Aussie films totalled only $24 million (1.9 per cent market share) in 2016 compared to the previous year.s $88 million (7.2 per cent share)..
However, the last couple of months have seen something of a surge. Lion is now the fifth highest grossing Australian film of all time at the local box office, and Australia films earned 13 Oscar nominations across.Hacksaw Ridge, Lion and Tanna.
This year holds further promise with Breath, Dance Academy, Sweet Country, Three Summers, and Hotel Mumbai expected for release..
According to Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason, the industry needs to look at local box office performance over a three year cycle.
While local films were quiet at the box office last year, Aussie TV drama boomed. If catches up with industry leaders to reflect on 2016 and canvass the challenges of the year ahead.
Off the back of a record year in 2015, Aussie films totalled only $24 million (1.9 per cent market share) in 2016 compared to the previous year.s $88 million (7.2 per cent share)..
However, the last couple of months have seen something of a surge. Lion is now the fifth highest grossing Australian film of all time at the local box office, and Australia films earned 13 Oscar nominations across.Hacksaw Ridge, Lion and Tanna.
This year holds further promise with Breath, Dance Academy, Sweet Country, Three Summers, and Hotel Mumbai expected for release..
According to Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason, the industry needs to look at local box office performance over a three year cycle.
- 3/27/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Nicole Kidman has joined the cast of Strangerland.
Memento's Guy Pearce and The Matrix actor Hugo Weaving also star.
Strangerland will follow a couple whose teenage children go missing in the Outback, Variety reports.
Rush's Kim Farrant will direct from a script by Tangle writers Fiona Seres and Michael Kinirons.
Molly Connors, Christopher Woodrow, Maria Cestone, Sarah E Johnson, Andrew Mackie and Richard Payten will serve as executive producers on the Australian film.
Kidman will next be seen in the 2014 biopic Grace of Monaco. The film's release was bumped last month.
Watch Nicole Kidman in the Grace of Monaco trailer below:...
Memento's Guy Pearce and The Matrix actor Hugo Weaving also star.
Strangerland will follow a couple whose teenage children go missing in the Outback, Variety reports.
Rush's Kim Farrant will direct from a script by Tangle writers Fiona Seres and Michael Kinirons.
Molly Connors, Christopher Woodrow, Maria Cestone, Sarah E Johnson, Andrew Mackie and Richard Payten will serve as executive producers on the Australian film.
Kidman will next be seen in the 2014 biopic Grace of Monaco. The film's release was bumped last month.
Watch Nicole Kidman in the Grace of Monaco trailer below:...
- 10/20/2013
- Digital Spy
For the second consecutive year, Encore has chosen a select group of screen professionals who have achieved new heights in 2010/2011, whose decisions influence and shape Australia’s audiovisual industry, and whose work has stood out from the crowd. These are our Power 50.
1. Emile Sherman – Producer
Last February, Sherman became the first Australian producer to receive an Academy Award for Best Picture, alongside his See-Saw Films partner Iain Canning, and Bedlam Productions’ Gareth Unwin. It also won at the BAFTAs and the Producers Guild of America, in addition to the many other honours for its cast and crew.
While technically a UK production, the Australianness of the film is undeniable – and so is its success; with a modest U$15m budget, The King’s Speech has grossed more than $405m worldwide – one of the most successful independent films of all time. Read Emile Sherman interview
2. Baz Luhrmann – Director, writer, producer
There...
1. Emile Sherman – Producer
Last February, Sherman became the first Australian producer to receive an Academy Award for Best Picture, alongside his See-Saw Films partner Iain Canning, and Bedlam Productions’ Gareth Unwin. It also won at the BAFTAs and the Producers Guild of America, in addition to the many other honours for its cast and crew.
While technically a UK production, the Australianness of the film is undeniable – and so is its success; with a modest U$15m budget, The King’s Speech has grossed more than $405m worldwide – one of the most successful independent films of all time. Read Emile Sherman interview
2. Baz Luhrmann – Director, writer, producer
There...
- 6/9/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
As thousands of screen professionals do business at this week’s Miptv in France, Antony I. Ginnane (Spaa president), Charlotte Mickie (Evp of international sales at eOne Films International), Andrew Mackie (Transmission Films), Nicole O’Donohue (producer, Griff the Invisible) and Lizz Watts (producer, Animal Kingdom, Laid) reminisce about their first experience at an international film market, and describe how those events have changed since.
Antony I. Ginnane
What was your first market?
The 1973 Cannes Film Festival Marche, when I attended with Richard Franklin to advise on foreign sales for The True Story of Eskimo Nell. A lot has changed since then. There was no video or DVDs for screeners so you either got buyers to your market screenings or you shipped them a 35mm print to view. And buying decisions were made on the basis of primary theatrical value with some TV underpinning in some territories.
The Palais was...
Antony I. Ginnane
What was your first market?
The 1973 Cannes Film Festival Marche, when I attended with Richard Franklin to advise on foreign sales for The True Story of Eskimo Nell. A lot has changed since then. There was no video or DVDs for screeners so you either got buyers to your market screenings or you shipped them a 35mm print to view. And buying decisions were made on the basis of primary theatrical value with some TV underpinning in some territories.
The Palais was...
- 4/6/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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