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Oscars - hopes dashed, dreams turn to ashes.
Rolling out the most intense, most venal, most undignified cultural prize in the English-speaking world. Also the most addictive, and…

Box Office - all the energy of a dead kipper
Green Book, The Favourite, Stan and Ollie, What Men Want, Wandering Earth - all have their lessons at the world…

Producing for the Screen - initiating the emerging producer
Most producing handbooks are cures for insomnia. This one is lively, local and clear as it shares key information between…

Box Office: Alita is a savage angel while What Men Want has viewers intrigued
A slow weekend as fans wait breathlessly for the Oscars next Monday. Alita is the only really big, noisy English…

Neil Peplow to leave AFTRS
The AFTRS CEO Neil Peplow will leave in the middle of 2019 to return to London.

AIDC 2019 - program out, change and excitement all around
'We are just settled after a time of digital disruption. It is not the end of the world. Where to…

Our favourite Ozsters heading for the Big O?
The Academy is now voting for The Oscars. The Australians are hoping they go for verve rather than strictly conventional…

Box Office: Wandering Earth, Storm Boy and a collapsing market (for now)
The latest Chinese success story is doing gobsmacking numbers per cinema here and is unnoticed in the US.

Screenwest completes management team with new Chair
Screenwest is now headed by a fierce combination of veteran management, PR talent and quokka protection as John Driscoll is…

Box Office: Storm Boy hits week three while minor commercial films prosper
There are some lively films in the pipeline but Storm Boy has not set us up for a bumper year,…