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Two potent local films launch at Adelaide Film Festival
The premieres of Top End Wedding and Animals at the Adelaide Film Festival's Popup stretch from urban tough to Indigenous…

Box Office 8 April 2019: The American appeal of Hotel Mumbai
Hotel Mumbai does well in the US while latest tentpole steals audiences over here.

The Wandering Earth amazes Chinese industry
Has the Chinese industry broken into the richest genre of all? They would love to de-Americanise science fiction but that…

Federal Budget offers only hot air for screen sector
The ABC and SBS stay stuck; the NFSA cops a loss; ACMA gains; Austrade could work better for the sector.…

Box Office April 1 2019 - Fear in Hotel Mumbai, terror in Us
Australia is known to be a tough market for horror, but when it approves the cash comes like a massive…

How will the new Apple TV+ services affect us?
The streaming media wars just got worse as Apple enters the fray. But Apple may be too inward looking to…

David Bridie celebrates the alchemy of music and film
Compendium film project The Wisdom Line celebrates one of our great rock/ethnographic film composers and activists, David Bridie.

Budget rumours cap earlier news about Greens fight and ALP freeze on reform
At last one political party supports the screen sector with concrete proposals - and it is the one party which…

Hotel Mumbai v Women Wrestlers - Box Office 25 March 2019
Hotel Mumbai has not picked up while the palpable sense of horror about Christchurch remains. But the US could do…

Politicians missing in action on local screen activity
We compare the statements by the NSW Liberal Party, the ALP and the Greens to discover a remarkable lack of…