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Cutting Edge: sets up in Melbourne, becomes a tri-city enterprise
Cutting Edge, originally from Brisbane but with a Sydney operation as well, is entering the Melbourne marketplace, and resurrecting a…
MIFF 2013: box office sign of the times
430 sessions, 170 of them totally sold out. The figures mask some heartening trends in audiences for one of the…

Movie moguls combine to make film choice easier
Three major film distributors have combined to make it easier for consumers to choose their movies, copying an initiative from…

MIFF 2013: Age Critics Award announced as we find a remarkable similarity between local films
Of the six Australian features on offer, Zak Hilditch's These Final Hours took the critic's gong. Beneath the diversity, there…
Movie Ticketing: big three create joint venture in wake of smaller players
With the Independent Cinemas Association of Australia nearly two years ahead, the three major exhibition conglomerates have seen the value…

Kate Winslett: an English rose for an Aussie outback story
Kate Winslett will play opposite Judy Davis in a big-budget film of 'The Dressmaker' to begin shooting early next year.

Screen Australia: Three more feature investments
$4.4m on three projects, with total budgets of $25m.
Sue Maslin: All dressed up and ready to go
Sue Maslin's latest film, The Dressmaker, is now fully financed and slated to shoot in early 2014 with Kate Winslet…

Film Victoria: some new shows and a horse that refuses to die
In the first production round, Film Victoria has put $3.2m into eight projects, one of which is pretty close to…
Tim Winton's The Turning: insert happy adjective here
Tim Winton’s The Turning, the group film produced by Robert Connolly and Maggie Miles, emerged from its cone of silence…