Piracy: new moves, as the audience speaks

A flurry of piracy news adds some new research, sees some justice delivered, and raises some older questions.

Ratings: Wednesday, 13th August 2014

A bunch of new shows made locally arrive on the ABC and Ten, to mixed results.

Web Series: international co-pro meets branded entertainment meets dreams of empire

Toronto: relief at latest announcements

Could we have been stuck with but a single film screening at Toronto in 2014? Not so, to the relief…

Box Office: Tuesday 12th August 2014

Surely the final hours for These Final Hours.

Ratings: Tuesday, 12th August 2014

It is a miracle! Ten is back over 20%. But not joyously, since their tribute to Robin Williams did the…

Ratings: Monday, 11th August 2014

As The Block still beats The X Factor by 159,000 nationally, Nine takes the evening by 2.6%.

Stranger With My Face: Celia, Laos and Tasmanian Gothic

Behind the mask of small-island Tasmania, what savagery lurks, and how strangely is it nurtured and expressed?

MIFF 2014: Mid point feast for Australian cinema tragics

MIFF is a festival, a market and an intensive development experience - and they all bubbled up together in the…

ITV Studios: blue chip with an animal snarl

ITV Studios Australia is slowly revealing the international scale competitor which has parked its muscle in Sydney.