Rating: Quirky Kate will have you in stitches: Winslet is stunning as a dressmaker bent on revenge in this black comedy An enigmatic outsider rides into a remote one-street town, seeking vengeance. It sounds like a John Ford Western, starring John Wayne or Gary Cooper. But Western...
The Dressmaker fills cinemas for a second $3m+ weekend The total take of the top 20 movies was again just under $10m for what should be the last time for a few weeks. The new Bond movie Spectre opens next weekend and then The Hunger Games:...
EXCLUSIVE: Brian Welsh to direct drama about lead up to D-Day landing. Brian Cox (The Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes) is newly attached to star in Churchill, a UK drama about the build up to the D-Day landings. Brian Welsh, director of BIFA-winning feature In...
The Kate Winslet-starring film’s $2.8m opening dethroned The Martian, which had remained top of the pile for four weeks. The Dressmaker has opened with an impressive $2.8m across Australia and New Zealand ($2.6m at the former, $0.2 at the latter), prompting the film’s team to call...
Bond Brings Brawn But Female-Driven Pics Sew Girl Power – Intl B.O. Postmortem While Spectre is eyeing global domination in the next frame after grossing a spectacular $80.1M in just six territories this session, there’s a sorority of female-driven films that have been performing, and should continue...
THE DRESSMAKER stitched up the No 1 spot at the Australian box office over the weekend ahead of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi blockbuster The Martian and Steven Spielberg’s Cold War thriller Bridge of Spies. Australian director Jocelyn Moorhouse’s gothic revenge comedy, starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam...
EXCLUSIVE: Creatives behind Buried,[REC] (pictured) and Kidnapped join for English-language thriller. [REC] writers Jaume Balagueró and Manu Diez,Kidnapped director Miguel Vivas and producers Adrián Guerra and Núria Valls of Nostromo Pictures (Buried, Red Lights) are joining forces on thriller Inside. Looking to replicate the commercial success of...
Jocelyn Moorhouse’s period drama and George Miller’s glorious return to the blockbuster franchise top award nominations The Australian period revenge drama The Dressmaker and the blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road have bagged the most nominations for the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts awards, billed...
EXCLUSIVE: China-NZ-UK production with Karl Urban, Willow Shields gets cast, finance, director. China-NZ-UK 3D fantasy The Wonder, starring Karl Urban (Dredd) and Willow Shields (The Hunger Games) is currently prepping in China with shoot due to get underway early next month. UK sales outfit Embankment Films has...
TIFF 40 to open with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal. SCROLL DOWN FOR GALAS, SPECIAL PRESENTATION LINE-UPS The 40th anniversary edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) will feature first looks for Jay Roach’s blacklisted screenwriter biopic Trumbo starring Bryan Cranston as well as Stephen...
Principal photography is underway in Europe on Martin Koolhoven thriller. Dakota Fanning (Night Moves) and Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) have replaced Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) and Robert Pattinson (Twilight), respectively, in Martin Koolhoven’s thriller Brimstone, which is now underway in Europe. Also new to the...
Atlas Independent and Unbroken Pictures have sold horror film “There Are Monsters,” starring Zoe Kazan, to A24 for U.S. distribution. The film will be directed by Bryan Bertino from his own script. Embankment Films is selling the feature to international territories at the Cannes Film Festival. Kazan...