Natalie Miller.
The Australian films and feature documentaries released in cinemas this year including holdovers collectively have grossed $39.7 million.
So while the calendar year total will fall short of 2018’s $57.4 million, it should be noted Peter Rabbit was the top local title last year, grossing $26.7 million, which alone could explain the year-on-year decline. Sony Pictures is due to launch Peter Rabbit 2 next March, so that is virtually certain to be a big contributor to the 2020 revenues.
As Cinema Nova has supported almost every Australian release, If asked co-executive director Natalie Miller to assess the overall commercial and critical appeal of this year’s Oz slate.
“It’s not bad but it’s not great,” says the veteran exhibitor/distributor, who gives high marks to Ride Like a Girl, Top End Wedding, Storm Boy, Palm Beach and the feature docs 2040, Mystify: Michael Hutchence and The Australian Dream.
Among the...
The Australian films and feature documentaries released in cinemas this year including holdovers collectively have grossed $39.7 million.
So while the calendar year total will fall short of 2018’s $57.4 million, it should be noted Peter Rabbit was the top local title last year, grossing $26.7 million, which alone could explain the year-on-year decline. Sony Pictures is due to launch Peter Rabbit 2 next March, so that is virtually certain to be a big contributor to the 2020 revenues.
As Cinema Nova has supported almost every Australian release, If asked co-executive director Natalie Miller to assess the overall commercial and critical appeal of this year’s Oz slate.
“It’s not bad but it’s not great,” says the veteran exhibitor/distributor, who gives high marks to Ride Like a Girl, Top End Wedding, Storm Boy, Palm Beach and the feature docs 2040, Mystify: Michael Hutchence and The Australian Dream.
Among the...
- 12/4/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Little Monsters.’
When Abe Forsythe conceived the idea of Little Monsters, he intended the film to be screened in cinemas, reaching a far wider audience than his black comedy Down Under.
That’s not how it turned out, much to the disappointment of the writer-director. The Sundance Film Festival hit starring Lupita Nyong’o, Alexander England and Josh Gad is restricted to one-night only screenings at around 30 cinemas for just three weeks before it lands on Foxtel Store and iTunes.
Meanwhile Proud Mother Pictures’ Genevieve Bailey is criss-crossing the country, staging 20 Q&a screenings for her feature doc Happy Sad Man, an exploration of masculinity and mental health. Bailey is handling theatrical bookings for her film which is having an exclusive run at Melbourne’s Cinema Nova before it starts rolling out in Sydney locations on Wednesday.
Film Ink Presents is sub-distributing Little Monsters for Universal Pictures. The weekend take...
When Abe Forsythe conceived the idea of Little Monsters, he intended the film to be screened in cinemas, reaching a far wider audience than his black comedy Down Under.
That’s not how it turned out, much to the disappointment of the writer-director. The Sundance Film Festival hit starring Lupita Nyong’o, Alexander England and Josh Gad is restricted to one-night only screenings at around 30 cinemas for just three weeks before it lands on Foxtel Store and iTunes.
Meanwhile Proud Mother Pictures’ Genevieve Bailey is criss-crossing the country, staging 20 Q&a screenings for her feature doc Happy Sad Man, an exploration of masculinity and mental health. Bailey is handling theatrical bookings for her film which is having an exclusive run at Melbourne’s Cinema Nova before it starts rolling out in Sydney locations on Wednesday.
Film Ink Presents is sub-distributing Little Monsters for Universal Pictures. The weekend take...
- 11/4/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Emu Runner’, which debuted at Tiff, will screen as part of Adelaide’s feature competition.
Adelaide Film Festival launched its full program today, including a variety of highlights direct from Venice, Toronto and Telluride.
Among the films announced today are Venice’s Golden Lion winner Roma, from director Alfonso Cuarón; the Coen Brothers’ best screenplay winner The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate, for which Willem Dafoe won best actor.
Overall this year’s program includes more than 130 features, documentaries, shorts, virtual reality and installation works, including 17 world premieres and 30 Australian premieres.
Almost 45 per cent of the films in the line-up are Australian. They include, as previously announced, some of the most anticipated local films of the year, such as Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, which just won Venice’s Special Jury Prize and the Marcello Mastroianni award for star Baykali Ganambarr; Anthony Maras...
Adelaide Film Festival launched its full program today, including a variety of highlights direct from Venice, Toronto and Telluride.
Among the films announced today are Venice’s Golden Lion winner Roma, from director Alfonso Cuarón; the Coen Brothers’ best screenplay winner The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate, for which Willem Dafoe won best actor.
Overall this year’s program includes more than 130 features, documentaries, shorts, virtual reality and installation works, including 17 world premieres and 30 Australian premieres.
Almost 45 per cent of the films in the line-up are Australian. They include, as previously announced, some of the most anticipated local films of the year, such as Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, which just won Venice’s Special Jury Prize and the Marcello Mastroianni award for star Baykali Ganambarr; Anthony Maras...
- 9/12/2018
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Six Australian films have secured $4.2 million in philanthropic funding through Good Pitch 2 Australia at the Sydney Opera House.
The films forged more than 60 new strategic partnerships across both the not-for-profit and business communities. ..
Along with funds committed, these partnerships, will support production, build audiences and ensure the lasting positive impact of the films.
The power of Good Pitch has been demonstrated following last year.s inaugural event, with three films so far presented in 2014 . That Sugar Film, Gayby Baby and Frackman . garnering large audiences and influencing policy and social change..
That Sugar Film has become the highest grossing Australian film of all time at the Australian cinema box office.
Good Pitch, an international forum for documentary filmmaking, brings together filmmakers with foundations, not-for-profits, campaigners, philanthropists, policymakers, broadcasters and key players in the film industry, around leading social and environmental issues, to forge coalitions and campaigns that are good for all these partners,...
The films forged more than 60 new strategic partnerships across both the not-for-profit and business communities. ..
Along with funds committed, these partnerships, will support production, build audiences and ensure the lasting positive impact of the films.
The power of Good Pitch has been demonstrated following last year.s inaugural event, with three films so far presented in 2014 . That Sugar Film, Gayby Baby and Frackman . garnering large audiences and influencing policy and social change..
That Sugar Film has become the highest grossing Australian film of all time at the Australian cinema box office.
Good Pitch, an international forum for documentary filmmaking, brings together filmmakers with foundations, not-for-profits, campaigners, philanthropists, policymakers, broadcasters and key players in the film industry, around leading social and environmental issues, to forge coalitions and campaigns that are good for all these partners,...
- 9/17/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Twelve Australian films have been released in Us cinemas this year led by Mad Max: Fury Road, which has raked in $147.5 million but is fast running out of gas and may finish with a bit more than $150 million.
That brings the action-adventure.s global total to $US357 million, including South Korea.s $30 million, the UK.s $27.1 million, France.s $16.7 million, Russia.s $13.7 million, Brazil.s $10.9 million, Germany.s $9.5 million, Mexico.s $8 million and Japan.s $6 million in 10 days.
In Australia George Miller.s film has grossed a fine $21.4 million. Village Roadshow Pictures has declined to comment on the prospects of a sequel.
The Water Diviner conjured up nearly $4.2 million in the Us, part of a worldwide haul of $35.4 million, which includes Turkey.s $6.1 million, Spain.s $2.7 million, the UK.s skimpy. $2 million and Italy.s $1.2 million..
Russell Crowe's drama misfired in France and Germany, earning $620,000 and $308,000 respectively, according to Rentrak.
That brings the action-adventure.s global total to $US357 million, including South Korea.s $30 million, the UK.s $27.1 million, France.s $16.7 million, Russia.s $13.7 million, Brazil.s $10.9 million, Germany.s $9.5 million, Mexico.s $8 million and Japan.s $6 million in 10 days.
In Australia George Miller.s film has grossed a fine $21.4 million. Village Roadshow Pictures has declined to comment on the prospects of a sequel.
The Water Diviner conjured up nearly $4.2 million in the Us, part of a worldwide haul of $35.4 million, which includes Turkey.s $6.1 million, Spain.s $2.7 million, the UK.s skimpy. $2 million and Italy.s $1.2 million..
Russell Crowe's drama misfired in France and Germany, earning $620,000 and $308,000 respectively, according to Rentrak.
- 7/2/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Seven Australian films have been released in Us cinemas this year led by The Water Diviner, which has grossed a decent $US2.5 million in 12 days on 320 screens.
The other six titles all had limited theatrical exposure as a platform for VOD and DVD sales. Predestination, for example, premiered in January on 20 screens and earned $68,372.
Not so with George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road, which Warner Bros. is launching on May 15 (May 14 in Australia) after the Cannes Film Festival premiere..
A little-heralded success is Genevieve Bailey's I Am Eleven, which has had a staggered roll-out since last September and amassed $301,000 so far, including nearly $100,000 this calendar year.. In Australia the feature doc has grossed an admirable $330,000.
However most other producers contacted by If have not yet been given B.O. figures and digital sales results from the Us distributors, which could suggest tardy reporting practices.
Magnolia launched Kriv Stenders...
The other six titles all had limited theatrical exposure as a platform for VOD and DVD sales. Predestination, for example, premiered in January on 20 screens and earned $68,372.
Not so with George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road, which Warner Bros. is launching on May 15 (May 14 in Australia) after the Cannes Film Festival premiere..
A little-heralded success is Genevieve Bailey's I Am Eleven, which has had a staggered roll-out since last September and amassed $301,000 so far, including nearly $100,000 this calendar year.. In Australia the feature doc has grossed an admirable $330,000.
However most other producers contacted by If have not yet been given B.O. figures and digital sales results from the Us distributors, which could suggest tardy reporting practices.
Magnolia launched Kriv Stenders...
- 5/7/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Here's how an 11-year-old French girl describes the future. "There are flying cars, dogs who eat screws and batteries, and aliens have captured the world," she gushes. But then she slows, thinks harder, folds her arms, kicks her legs in their black leggings. Inspiration strikes: "And every human being has a huge house, and human beings don't have to do anything because the robots do everything." Her forecast is paranoid and utopian, imaginative and shopworn, a goony improvisation and possibly revelatory in the manner of play-therapy. Rather than explore it, or ask a follow-up, director/interviewer Genevieve Bailey just cuts away, to another kid elsewhere in the world, talking about wanting to grow up to be an actress. Bailey's I Am Eleven travels the world,...
- 9/10/2014
- Village Voice
Genevieve Bailey.s documentary I Am Eleven will play in multiple Us cities starting next month, among the widest releases in that market for an Australian title.
The Melbourne-based Diy filmmaker has signed deals with a theatrical distributor and an on-demand cinema platform which will make the film available progressively throughout the Us.
.We.re aiming big in the Us so it took a lot of time to work out the right partners,. Bailey told If.
New York-based International Film Circuit has booked the film into the AMC Theatres circuit, launching in Gotham on September 12 followed by a staggered roll-out in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago and Washington DC, before a national expansion. The progressive release will enable Bailey to host Q&A screenings and arrange publicity in the key cities.
Separately the distributor is dating the film in art houses in cities including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
The Melbourne-based Diy filmmaker has signed deals with a theatrical distributor and an on-demand cinema platform which will make the film available progressively throughout the Us.
.We.re aiming big in the Us so it took a lot of time to work out the right partners,. Bailey told If.
New York-based International Film Circuit has booked the film into the AMC Theatres circuit, launching in Gotham on September 12 followed by a staggered roll-out in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago and Washington DC, before a national expansion. The progressive release will enable Bailey to host Q&A screenings and arrange publicity in the key cities.
Separately the distributor is dating the film in art houses in cities including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
- 8/12/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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Gathr Films has announced that the acquisition of both a theatrical and On Demand the distribution rights for the documentaries "The Return to Homs" and "Penton: The John Penton Story" as well as the On Demand rights for "I Am Eleven," another documentary feature. "The Return to Homs," which won the Sundance 2014 World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, was filmed over the course of three years in Homs, Syria and follows the story of two young men who must make difficult life choices in their turbulent country. The film was directed by Talal Derki and will be released in Los Angeles on June 13 and New York on July 7. "Penton: The John Penton Story" is a documentary film narrated by Lyle Lovett that takes a look at the life and career of the motorcycle legend. It will be released On Demand in Kansas City, Indianapolis, Boston, and Detroit starting June 23. More cities will follow.
- 6/11/2014
- by Eric Eidelstein
- Indiewire
Dec. 15
7:30 p.m.
1000 Pound Bend
361 Lt. Lonsdale Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Hosted by: Digital Independent Cinema Exhibition (Dice)
Melbourne, Australia’s Digital Independent Cinema Exhibition — or Dice for short — which seeks to connect local filmmakers with their community presents their third screening.
This time they will be showing their first documentary, Ko Ho Nas, directed by Simon Palomares. The director and his producer, John Hipwell, will attend a post-screening Q&A moderated by Genevieve Bailey, a documentary filmmaker in her own right.
Palomares is both a filmmaker and a comedian and Ko Ho Nas traces his own personal journey back to his native Spain to see how his fellow Spaniards will react to his stand-up routine. Meanwhile, he also has to deal with an especially chaotic family situation.
Watch a trailer for the film:
Read More:Rolling The Dice In Melbourne...
7:30 p.m.
1000 Pound Bend
361 Lt. Lonsdale Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Hosted by: Digital Independent Cinema Exhibition (Dice)
Melbourne, Australia’s Digital Independent Cinema Exhibition — or Dice for short — which seeks to connect local filmmakers with their community presents their third screening.
This time they will be showing their first documentary, Ko Ho Nas, directed by Simon Palomares. The director and his producer, John Hipwell, will attend a post-screening Q&A moderated by Genevieve Bailey, a documentary filmmaker in her own right.
Palomares is both a filmmaker and a comedian and Ko Ho Nas traces his own personal journey back to his native Spain to see how his fellow Spaniards will react to his stand-up routine. Meanwhile, he also has to deal with an especially chaotic family situation.
Watch a trailer for the film:
Read More:Rolling The Dice In Melbourne...
- 12/14/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
DigiSPAA winner Little Deaths will receive a limited theatrical release at Cinema Nova in Melbourne.
The film, produced by Jason Byrne and featuring eleven shorts written by Giula Sandler, will begin this limited engagement on November 4.
In Little Deaths, each story comments on and adds to the ones that came before and after. As a feature film, the story of the lonely tollbooth operator (Abe Forsythe) provides the thread that joins the interweaving tales. Whilst he imagines the love stories of those who pass through his toll gate, he discovers one of his own to explore and ultimately, the stories help guide him toward true love.
The shorts were directed by Ben Chessell, Sian Davies, Melanie Brunt, Giula Sandler, Chris Benz, Fin Edquist, Jarrah Gurrie, Genevieve Bailey, Geoff Hitchins, James Teh and Toby Angwin. The cast includes Magda Szubanski, Adam Zwar, Alexandra Schepisi, Abe Forsythe and even Animal Kingdom director David Michod.
The film, produced by Jason Byrne and featuring eleven shorts written by Giula Sandler, will begin this limited engagement on November 4.
In Little Deaths, each story comments on and adds to the ones that came before and after. As a feature film, the story of the lonely tollbooth operator (Abe Forsythe) provides the thread that joins the interweaving tales. Whilst he imagines the love stories of those who pass through his toll gate, he discovers one of his own to explore and ultimately, the stories help guide him toward true love.
The shorts were directed by Ben Chessell, Sian Davies, Melanie Brunt, Giula Sandler, Chris Benz, Fin Edquist, Jarrah Gurrie, Genevieve Bailey, Geoff Hitchins, James Teh and Toby Angwin. The cast includes Magda Szubanski, Adam Zwar, Alexandra Schepisi, Abe Forsythe and even Animal Kingdom director David Michod.
- 10/4/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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