With school holidays ending and only a smattering of new releases in the market, the national box office plunged last weekend to the lowest point since mid-August 2020.
According to Numero, total receipts for all films tallied just $2 million. Some $1.8 million of that came from the top 20 titles, a result that is down almost 48 per cent on the previous weekend.
The last time the figures were so low, cinemas were only just emerging from the first wave of lockdowns, ahead of the release of Tenet.
This weekend will hopefully see a pick-me-up, with all cinemas in Nsw finally able to open at 75 per cent capacity. This includes the Sydney market, which has been closed since late June. Cinemas in Melbourne, parts of regional Victoria and the Act remain closed.
Read our interviews with major and independent exhibitors about their reopening plans.
A further boost should come again when major releases start...
According to Numero, total receipts for all films tallied just $2 million. Some $1.8 million of that came from the top 20 titles, a result that is down almost 48 per cent on the previous weekend.
The last time the figures were so low, cinemas were only just emerging from the first wave of lockdowns, ahead of the release of Tenet.
This weekend will hopefully see a pick-me-up, with all cinemas in Nsw finally able to open at 75 per cent capacity. This includes the Sydney market, which has been closed since late June. Cinemas in Melbourne, parts of regional Victoria and the Act remain closed.
Read our interviews with major and independent exhibitors about their reopening plans.
A further boost should come again when major releases start...
- 10/11/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Eva Orner’s Burning is the winner of Sydney Film Festival’s inaugural Sustainable Future Award.
Selected from eight nominees, the $10,000 cash prize will be presented to the Amazon Australian Original for deepening the knowledge and awareness of the impact of the global climate emergency.
The award, which has been funded by climate activists, is philanthropically motivated.
Burning, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), looks
at the unprecedented and catastrophic Australian bushfires of 2019-2020 from the perspective of victims of the fires, activists and scientists.
Produced by Propagate Content, Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films and Amazon Studios, the film marks Amazon’s first feature-length Australian documentary commission. In addition to directing, Orner produces with Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, and Jonathan Schaerf.
Burning was selected as the winner by a jury of filmmakers and climate advocates: school student and Strike4Climate activist Natasha Abhayawickrama; documentary filmmaker Bettina Dalton...
Selected from eight nominees, the $10,000 cash prize will be presented to the Amazon Australian Original for deepening the knowledge and awareness of the impact of the global climate emergency.
The award, which has been funded by climate activists, is philanthropically motivated.
Burning, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), looks
at the unprecedented and catastrophic Australian bushfires of 2019-2020 from the perspective of victims of the fires, activists and scientists.
Produced by Propagate Content, Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films and Amazon Studios, the film marks Amazon’s first feature-length Australian documentary commission. In addition to directing, Orner produces with Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, and Jonathan Schaerf.
Burning was selected as the winner by a jury of filmmakers and climate advocates: school student and Strike4Climate activist Natasha Abhayawickrama; documentary filmmaker Bettina Dalton...
- 10/10/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
When a volunteer firefighter drives his car into almost certain death during the worst fires in Australian history, he does it because he ‘has a job to do’. Three months later, the fires are out but his nightmares are just beginning. What’s tormenting him, however, isn’t the memory of flames.
Turning a sensitive lens on the unprecedented devastation of Australia’s 2019/2020 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires, from a country-wide emergency to the astonishing stories of help that emerged, Finch’s A Fire Inside, directed by Justin Krook and Luke Mazzaferro, presents an inspirational look at the way people respond to crisis and its true cost to the human spirit.
In cinemas from today via Icon Film Distribution. A Fire Inside will also screen at Sydney Film Festival, where is one of the 12 titles competing for the Documentary Australia Foundation (Daf) Award for Australian Documentary.
The post ‘A Fire Inside’ (Trailer) appeared first on If Magazine.
Turning a sensitive lens on the unprecedented devastation of Australia’s 2019/2020 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires, from a country-wide emergency to the astonishing stories of help that emerged, Finch’s A Fire Inside, directed by Justin Krook and Luke Mazzaferro, presents an inspirational look at the way people respond to crisis and its true cost to the human spirit.
In cinemas from today via Icon Film Distribution. A Fire Inside will also screen at Sydney Film Festival, where is one of the 12 titles competing for the Documentary Australia Foundation (Daf) Award for Australian Documentary.
The post ‘A Fire Inside’ (Trailer) appeared first on If Magazine.
- 10/7/2021
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
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