David Smith

David Smith is an award-winning video games journalist with over a decade of experience in newsrooms around the country. He was previously the managing editor of Kotaku Australia and ABC Gamer, and a digital editor at SBS News.

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Industry News

Australian box office crosses $1 billion milestone for first time in 7 years

The Australian box office has had a very good year – but there's a catch.

Author Bri Lee. Photo: Saskia Wilson. The Work
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Bri Lee novel The Work heads to TV via Rose Byrne’s Dollhouse Pictures

Bri Lee’s bestselling novel The Work is set to become a TV series, with local Hannah Lehmann as showrunner.

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Toni Collette to lead Lenni, Apple TV’s Sydney-made take on Norwegian hit Pernille

Production is underway in Sydney on Lenni, Apple TV's darkly comic family drama starring Toni Collette as a welfare worker…

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Maya Hawke drafted for Magic: The Gathering movie, Blackberry's Matt Johnson to direct

Magic: The Gathering becomes the second tabletop game from Hasbro to jump to the big screen.

PlayStation games tipped into a waste basket with a PS5 console sitting beside it
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PlayStation’s all-digital move just earned it one of Australia’s least wanted awards

Australia's leading consumer rights group is no fan of PlayStation's digital future.

Photo: Syed Qaarif Andrabi.
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ABC and Screen Australia join forces to build First Nations careers, from creatives to the executive suite

The ABC has faced hard questions after the closure of its First Nations department in August.

A still from The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel trailer showing a gold scroll covered in desert sand. A blue gem sits in the centre.
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Eight years after its first teaser, The Elder Scrolls 6 finally has a name

The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel will take players back the famed desert regions where the series began.

A still from the movie Scream 7 that features actor Neve Campbell, a middle aged woman with dark hair dressed in a striped jumper.
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Neve Campbell interview slip confirms Scream 8 return

She must really like scary movies.

A still from the movie Digger, featuring an old man with grey hair in a dark blazer with white shirt and red tie scowls at someone off camera.
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Digger star John Goodman pans critics' response: 'They kind of killed us'

Digger, one of the year's most polarising films, has been a box office flop.

Wolfram. Image: Bunya Productions.
Industry News

Australian documentarian Allan Clarke named director of Indigenous film festival in Paris

Allan Clarke becomes only the second person to program the Festival du Cinéma Aborigène Australien.