What is Australia if not the land of delayed film releases? We asked two experts to dish on the reasons it can sometimes take days, weeks or months until international films make it to our cinemas.
Of the 10 films up for Best Picture at this year's Oscar awards, half were released in Australia in an entirely different calendar year than in the US.Just three of the films were released in Australia before they aired in US cinemas. And, even then, Australian audiences only gotHistory reveals a very good reason for the delayed cinematic releases we grew up with
But that all changed with the advent of digital cinema. These days, distributors each have their own digital film master files."With the big Hollywood films and the big studio blockbusters, it's become more and more essential to release them on what we call 'day and date', which is a simultaneous day and date release," Ms Flekser says.relentless
Martin Scorcese's Killers of the Flower Moon was one of three 2024 Best Picture-nominated films that enjoyed a simultaneous release — out of 10."We often lead audiences to believe they're hard done by in Australia and the result of that is often a sense of resentment about cinema, and it also leads people to feel more entitled about piracy due to the idea there's a lack of care that results in films not being released here," Ms Flekser says.
So that's possibly part of the reason a film that is all about Christmas ended up being released here on January 11."Generally, won't want to release films at a period of high competition. The Barbie-Oppenheimer moment was really interesting," says Dr Gaunson.
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