Features

The economics of small film festivals
A week doesn’t go by without a special interest film festival somewhere. How do they all make a go of…

Latest Ratings: Week 50, 5 Dec - 11 Dec 2014
Thursday - curry sales are up at the takeaway in honour of the Indian passion for cricket. So it should.

Would you swap dollars for video game points?
Profit share agreements may be old hat, but an Australian video game studio has coined a new way of working.

Australian Box Office: how do we value our films?
How do we decide if a film is successful? How do we beat off the mingy minded creatures who gloat…

The end of the world as we know it - a continuing saga
The ScreenHub crystal ball looks at the deep challenges and transformations facing the sector in 2015.

Box Office: Fat Pizza vs Housos needs truce to go out and find audiences
Exodus seems to be away from the cinema.

Michael Rymer: 'you've got to aim at something big and dramatic'
Director Michael Rymer combines the tiniest of indy films, signficant US sci-fi television and large budget.

AACTA 2014: whole list of combatants
A fascinating spread, which allows high art and small budgets to beat against the doors of fame in the feature…

Box Office: Babadook in the vast maw of the US
The Babadook brings its particularly creepy artwork to the US - in a few, favoured locations.

ABC and SBS: Lewis report is out in the wild
The Lewis report into efficiencies in the national broadcasters finally landed in public, still scarred with a passion for secrecy.