Oleh Arnold

25 November 2013

Posted: 25 Nov 2013 03:00 AM PST

Business was a bit slow this past weekend as all the holdovers suffered heavy falls and none of the new releases caught fire. 1.85 million tickets were bought over the frame, down almost 20% from last year. The market share was evenly spread as local releases took a thin edge with 51%, this was down from 72% this time last year. Title Release Date Market Share Weekend Total Screens 1 Friend 2 11/14/13 25.60% 472,874 2,337,196 699 2 Hunger Games: Catching Fire (us) 11/21/13 20.40% 397,200 474,365 630 3 Marriage Blue 11/21/13 16.1% 312,407 394,181 520 4 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (us) 11/21/13 12.60% 252,105 263,821 544 5 Thor: Dark World (us) 10/30/13 8.30% 164,806 2,908,576 355 6 The Five 11/14/13...

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SERPICO, WINGS And WHITE DOG Headline Masters Of Cinema 2014 Q1 Slate

Posted: 25 Nov 2013 02:30 AM PST

It is always an exciting day when Eureka Entertainment announces their upcoming titles for its Masters of Cinema series, and with today's announcement, they might have just outdone themselves. Sidney Lumet's seminal police thriller, Serpico, starring a top-of-his-game Al Pacino leads the pack, followed by William A. Wellman's silent classic Wings, Ted Kotcheff's brilliantly bizarre Australian outback nightmare, Wake In Fright and Sam Fuller's racially charged White Dog. We will also see Andrew Bujalski's delightfully eccentric Computer Chess released on the label, as well as Francesco Rosi's Hands Over The City, which arrives alongside Federico Fellini's love letter to his home city, Roma. As a little cherry on the top of their already gloriously glazed announcement, Eureka annouced that they will be releasing Robert Altman's ensemble epic,...

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20 Of The Greatest Action Movie Heroines

Posted: 24 Nov 2013 05:00 AM PST

Katniss Everdeen, the reluctant survivalist and revolutionary at the heart of The Hunger Games, returns to our screens this week in Catching Fire. In tribute to this positive female role model embedded firmly in the action genre, we would like to look back at some of the other great Women of Action in films from around the world.Almost immediately this project throws up hurdles and questions and tough decisions had to be made. The "final girl" of many a great horror movie has been excluded, as have the beautiful yet often-ineffectual Bond girls. Other decisions were also made along the way that may have seen your own personal favourite heroine omitted, such as not including "villains" - so you won't find the black widows from...

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