This article written with Bronwyn Coate looks at how films from different countries perform in the Australian market. The cinema is repeatedly held to be dead or dying. Evidence to support these claims is practically non-existent. Each year more and more films are made and released around the world. Our data however, does infer that outside the mainstream ecology of US dominated film exhibition and distribution, the increased number of films has had a “cannibalising” effect, in which intensified competition has produced a disproportionately negative impact on the success of non-US film titles, including Australian films. Published in if Magazine on April 18, 2017. Continue…
Only at the Movies? Home Truths About Cinema Ticket Pricing
An article written with Bronwyn Coate and published in The Conversation on April 29, 2014. This article, about the cost of cinema attendance in Australia, created an enormous amount of commentary and was picked up by a number of media outlets. Continue…