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Market Study Australia & New Zealand 2010-2016, published Nov 2017, by Split Screen for German Films 1

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND (Pop: 24.5 million & 4.7 million) (1) AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: THEATRICAL MARKET OVERVIEW 2010-16 AUSTRALIA 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Screens 1,994 1,991 1,997 2,057 2,041 2,041 2,121 Theatrical admissions (millions) 92.4 85.0 85.9 82.0 78.6 90.2 91.3 Per capita attendance 4.10 3.80 3.80 3.50 3.30 3.80 3.73 Box office (EUR millions*) 820.9 866.8 879.0 712.3 725.6 841.79 861,9 Average ticket price (EUR*) 9.75 9.82 10.33 8.69 9.20 9.13 9.44 Releases 328 343 423 422 407 418 528 Domestic releases 29 38 26 26 28 25 34 US releases 137 155 160 183 149 159 178 European releases** 33 128 162 94 91 69 80 German releases 6 4 6 5 9 6 4 Domestic market share 4.53% 4.74% 4.27% 3.50% 6.90% 7.18% 1.9% German market share 0.24% 0.33% 0.47% 0.18% 0.27% 0.16% 0.04% *EUR equivalents are calculated throughout at the exchange rate for December 31 of the year in question. ** Excluding German majority films


NEW ZEALAND 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Screens 324 409 407 407 408 417 407 Theatrical admissions (millions) 15.3 14.2 14.5 14.5 14.9 15.5 16.0 Per capita attendance 3.48 3.19 3.20 3.3 3.3 3.8 3.4 Box office (EUR millions)* 99.1 101.7 109.8 111.1 117.0 120.55 134.00 Releases 287 306 317 330 355 340 414 Domestic releases 6 7 7 6 6 2 8 US releases 150 128 148 123 126 142 180 European releases** 62 63 68 60 48 45 62 German releases 3 4 4 4 6 3 2 Domestic market share 5.24% 1.60% 2.91% 2.11% 2.16% 0.9% 8.7% German market share 0.61% 0.56% 0.46% 0.51% 0.47% 0.14% 0.17% *EUR equivalents are calculated throughout at the exchange rate for December 31 of the year in question. ** Excluding German majority films


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(2) AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: THEATRICAL RELEASES OF GERMAN FILMS, 2010-2016 TITLE DISTRIBUTOR RELEASE DATE $AUS 2010 German films in Australia (100% or majority co-productions) THE LAST STATION (Ger/Rus/UK) Becker Film Group 01.04.10 1,397,342 SOUL KITCHEN (Ger/Fr/It) Sharmill Films 06.05.10 495,330 DAS WEISSE BAND (Ger/Aut/It/Sp) Paramount Pictures Australia 06.05.10 322,475 WÜSTENBLUME (Ger/Aut) Madman Entertainment 09.12.10 288,656 FRIEDLICHE ZEITEN (Ger) Potential Films 14.01.10 61,624 NORDWAND (Ger/Aut/Swz) Rialto Distribution 18.02.10 12,411 2010 German films in New Zealand (100% or majority co-productions) $US THE LAST STATION (Ger/Rus/UK) Rialto Distribution 03.06.10 772,615 SOUL KITCHEN (Ger/Fr/It) Rialto Distribution 05.08.10 41,174 DAS WEISSE BAND (Ger/Aut/It/Sp) Paramount Pictures New Zealand 26.08.10 21,382 2010 German minority co-productions in Australia $AUS MÄN SOM HATAR KVINNOR (Swe/Ger/Nor) Rialto Distribution 25.03.10 5,842,943 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (UK/Ger/US) Sony Pictures Releasing Australia 14.10.10 4,554,070 FLICKAN SOM LEKTE MED ELDEN (Swe/Fr/Ger) Rialto Distribution 23.09.10 3,122,065 THE GHOST (Fr/Ger/UK) Hoyts Australia 12.08.10 2,379,442 LE PÈRE DE MES ENFANTS (Fr/Ger) Palace Films 26.08.10 441,579


MARIA LARSSONS EVIGA ÖGENBLICK (Den/Fin/Nor/Swe/Ger) Icon Film Distribution 12.08.10 156,712 LEBANON (Isr/Fr/Ger) Rialto Distribution 02.12.10 79,812 ENTER THE VOID (Fr/Ger/It) Transmission Films 02.12.10 27,548 VED VERDENS ENDE (Den/Ger/Aus) Filmways Distribution 12.08.10 1,509 2010 German minority co-productions in New Zealand $US FLICKAN SOM LEKTE MED ELDEN (Swe/Fr/Ger) Rialto Distribution 29.07.10 795,909 LUFTSLOTTET SOM SPRÄNGDES (Swe/Den/Ger) Rialto Distribution 09.12.10 687,709 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (UK/Ger/US) Sony Pictures New Zealand 28.10.10 494,381 THE GHOST (Fr/Ger/UK) Hoyts Distribution NZ 11.11.10 343,884 MAX MANUS (Nor/Den/Ger) Rialto Distribution 18.02.10 25,533 LEBANON (Isr/Fr/Ger) Rialto Distribution 18.11.10 17,236 ARN – TEMPELRIDDAREN (Den/Nor/Swe/Fin/Ger/UK) Metropolis 25.03.10 4,757 2011 German films in Australia (100% or majority co-productions) $AUS THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Ger/Fr/UK/US) Hoyts Australia 20.10.11 2,937,017 PINA (Ger/Fr) Hopscotch Films 18.08.11 320,073 THE FUTURE (Ger/US) Madman Entertainment 17.11.11 91,867 EL BULLI – COOKING IN PROGRESS (Ger) Madman Entertainment 13.10.11 31,141 2011 German films in New Zealand (100% or majority co-productions) $US THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Ger/Fr/UK/US) Hoyts Distribution NZ 13.10.11 571,757 WÜSTENBLUME (Ger/Aut) Madman Entertainment NZ 13.01.11 83,277 PINA (Ger/Fr) Hopscotch NZ 20.10.11 76,190 EL BULLI – COOKING IN PROGRESS (Ger) Madman Entertainment NZ 08.12.11 6,305


2011 German minority co-productions in Australia $AUS UNKNOWN (US/Ger/UK/Fr) Warner Bros. Entertainment Australia 17.02.11 5,654,148 LUFTSLOTTET SOM SPRÄNGDES (Swe/Den/Ger) Rialto Distribution 03.03.11 2,434,850 HANNA (US/UK/Ger) Universal Pictures International Australia 28.07.11 1,944,267 ANONYMOUS (UK/Ger) Sony Pictures Releasing Australia 03.11.11 983,571 MELANCHOLIA (Den/Swe/Fr/Ger) Madman Entertainment 15.12.11 635,152 CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (US/Fr/Ger/Can) Rialto Distribution 22.09.11 465,494 THE WHISTLEBLOWER (US/Can/Ger) Hopscotch Films 29.09.11 386,770 THE ILLUSIONIST (UK/Ger) Potential Films 28.07.11 196,112 LA RAFLE (Fr/Ger) Sharmill Films 05.05.11 171,840 THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER (Isr/Ger/Fr) Potential Films 05.05.11 156,600 CHALET GIRL (UK/Ger/Aut) Paramount Pictures Australia 01.09.11 135,698 LA PRINCESSE DE MONTPENSIER (Fr/Ger) Madman Entertainment 19.05.11 127,093 CARLOS (Fr/Ger) Madman Entertainment 28.04.11 47,661 LE QUATTRO VOLTE (It/Ger/Swz) Potential Films 03.03.11 26,339 HAPPY EVER AFTERS (Ire/Ger) Hopscotch Films 07.07.11 17,793 MY SON MY SON WHAT HAVE YE DONE (US/Ger) Umbrella Entertainment 19.08.11 5,329 A MATTER OF SIZE (Isr/Ger/Fr) Umbrella Entertainment 01.12.11 1,473 2011 German minority co-productions in New Zealand $US UNKNOWN (US/Ger/UK/Fr) Roadshow Entertainment NZ 17.02.11 686,079 HANNA (US/UK/Ger) United International Pictures (NZ) 01.09.11 366,724 MELANCHOLIA (Den/Swe/Fr/Ger) Madman Entertainment NZ 22.12.11 247,496 CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (US/Fr/Ger/Can) Rialto Distribution 13.10.11 180,591 THE WHISTLEBLOWER (US/Can/Ger) Hopscotch NZ 24.11.11 132,249 ANONYMOUS (UK/Ger) Sony Pictures New Zealand 03.11.11 78,471 LA RAFLE (Fr/Ger) Rialto Distribution 29.09.11 38,030


CHALET GIRL (UK/Ger/Aut) Paramount Pictures New Zealand 22.09.11 32,695 HAPPY EVER AFTERS (Ire/Ger) Hopscotch NZ 06.10.11 20,741 2012 German films in Australia (100% or majority co-productions) $AUS RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (Ger/Can) Sony Pictures Releasing Australia 13.09.12 3,984,322 A DANGEROUS METHOD (Ger/Can/UK/Swz) Paramount Pictures Australia 29.03.12 1,150,860 LORE (Ger/Aus/UK) Paramount Pictures Australia 20.09.12 315,645 WUNDERKINDER (Ger) Umbrella Entertainment 06.09.12 65,357 VINCENT WILL MEER (Ger) Umbrella Entertainment 15.03.12 38,655 KADDISCH FÜR EINEN FREUND (Ger) Jiff Distribution 01.12.12 3,894 2012 German films in New Zealand (100% or majority co-productions) $US RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (Ger/Can) Sony Pictures New Zealand 13.09.12 580,155 A DANGEROUS METHOD (Ger/Can/UK/Swz) Paramount Pictures New Zealand 26.04.12 50,365 WUNDERKINDER (Ger) Umbrella Entertainment 06.09.12 28,813 VINCENT WILL MEER (Ger) Umbrella Entertainment 23.02.12 12,056 2012 German minority co-productions in Australia $AUS THE VOW (US/Brz/Fr/Aus/UK/Ger) Sony Pictures Releasing Australia 09.02.12 11,332,109 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (UK/Fr/Ger) Universal Pictures International Australia 19.01.12 6,664,618 HYSTERIA (UK/Fr/Ger/Lux) EOne Entertainment/Hopscotch Entertainment 12.07.12 1,598,894 EN KONGELIG AFFÆRE (Den/Cz/Swe/Ger) Madman Entertainment 21.06.12 1,597,138 HODEJEGERNE (Nor/Den/Ger) Rialto Distribution 08.03.12 619,994 DEN SKALDEDE FRISØR (Den/Fr/It/Swe/Ger) Madman Entertainment 13.12.12 618,211 STREETDANCE 2 (UK/Ger/It) Hoyts Australia 19.04.12 569,348 LE HAVRE (Fin/Fr/Ger) Sharmill Films 29.03.12 513,546


ELENA (Rus/Ger) Palace Films 21.06.12 497,085 CARNAGE (Fr/Ger/Pol) Sony Pictures Releasing Australia 01.03.12 485,443 ET SI ON VIVAIT TOUS ENSEMBLE? (Fr/Ger) Madman Entertainment 26.07.12 339,968 IRON SKY (Fin/Ger/Aus) Hoyts Australia 10.05.12 289,931 UN AMOUR DE JEUNESSE (Fr/Ger) Palace Films 05.04.12 206,127 HOLY MOTORS (Fr/Ger) Icon Film Distribution 23.08.12 122,703 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK (Fr/Ger/Bel) EOne Entertainment/Hopscotch Entertainment 22.11.12 119,394 IN DARKNESS (Pol/Ger/Can) Village Roadshow 26.07.12 109,105 SKOONHEID (SA/Fr/Ger) Palace Films 02.08.12 103,519 NOBELS TESTAMENTE (Swe/Ger) Rialto Distribution 20.09.12 15,889 SIMON OCH EKARNA (Swe/Den/Ger/Nor/NL) Champion Pictures 01.03.12 15,502 BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO (UK/Ger) Madman Entertainment 27.12.12 14,766 2012 German minority co-productions in New Zealand $US THE VOW (US/Brz/Fr/Aus/UK/Ger) Sony Pictures New Zealand 09.02.12 1,271,484 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (UK/Fr/Ger) United International Pictures (NZ) 19.01.12 1,225,535 HYSTERIA (UK/Fr/Ger/Lux) Hopscotch NZ 06.09.12 561,840 EN KONGELIG AFFÆRE (Den/Cz/Swe/Ger) Madman Entertainment NZ 21.06.12 271,761 LE HAVRE (Fin/Fr/Ger) Rialto Distribution 31.05.12 191,561 STREETDANCE 2 (UK/Ger/It) Hoyts Distribution NZ 12.04.12 187,123 HODEJEGERNE (Nor/Den/Ger) Rialto Distribution 08.03.12 163,192 DEN SKALDEDE FRISØR (Den/Fr/It/Swe/Ger) Madman Entertainment NZ 13.12.12 111,503 THE MOST FUN YOU CAN HAVE DYING (NZ/Ger/Fr) Rialto Distribution 16.04.12 69,303 NOBELS TESTAMENTE (Swe/Ger) Rialto Distribution 31.05.12 61,192 CARNAGE (Fr/Ger/Pol) Sony Pictures New Zealand 12.04.12 50,752 IRON SKY (Fin/Ger/Aus) Hoyts Distribution NZ 09.08.12 35,338 I, ANNA (UK/Ger/Fr) Madman Entertainment NZ 29.11.12 22,718


2013 German films in Australia (100% or majority co-productions) $AUS CLOUD ATLAS (Ger/US) Warner Bros. Entertainment Australia 28.02.13 1,302,008 BARBARA (Ger) Madman Entertainment 07.03.13 326,779 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (Ger/Swe/Por) Pinnacle Films 05.12.13 291,502 V TUMANE (Ger/Lat/NL/Belarus) Sharmill Films 14.03.13 48,017 ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY (Ger/US) Curious Films 20.06.13 9,461 2013 German films in New Zealand (100% or majority co-productions) $US BARBARA (Ger) Madman Entertainment NZ 11.04.13 411,060 DIE VERLORENE ZEIT (Ger) Arkles Entertainment 13.06.13 236,246 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (Ger/Swz/Por) Pinnacle Films 05.12.13 81,798 MR. MORGAN’S LAST LOVE (Ger/Bel/Fr/US) Umbrella Entertainment 28.11.13 59,316 2013 German minority co-productions in Australia $AUS HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS (US/Ger) Paramount Pictures Australia 07.02.13 8,071,213 RUSH (US/UK/Ger) EOne Entertainment 03.10.13 4,304,179 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES (US/Ger/Can) Village Roadshow 22.08.13 3,857,487 SONG FOR MARION (UK/Ger) EOne Entertainment 25.04.13 1,223,171 AMOUR (Fr/Ger/Aut) Paramount Pictures Australia 21.02.13 1,211,279 TABU (Por/Ger/Brz/Fr) Palace Films 16.05.13 443,465 KON-TIKI (Nor/UK/Den/Ger) Paramount Pictures Australia 11.04.13 337,501 ELLES (Fr/Pol/Ger) Palace Films 07.02.13 239,252 THE GATEKEEPERS (Isr/Fr/Ger/Bel) Madman Entertainment 05.09.13 195,243 THE GRUFFALO (UK/Ger) Village Roadshow 30.11.13 21,384 THE FLAT (Isr/Ger) Jiff Distribution 08.08.13 5,341


2013 German minority co-productions in New Zealand $US THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES (Can/Ger) Roadshow Entertainment NZ 22.08.13 705,242 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS (US/Ger) Paramount Pictures New Zealand 31.01.13 564,052 SONG FOR MARION (UK/Ger) Hopscotch NZ 09.05.13 532,511 AMOUR (Fr/Ger/Aut) Madman Entertainment NZ 22.01.13 253,082 KON-TIKI (Nor/UK/Den/Ger) Madman Entertainment NZ 16.05.13 168,806 THE PATIENCE STONE (Arg/Fr/Ger/UK) Rialto Distribution 22.08.13 15,162 2014 German films in Australia (100% or majority co-productions) $AUS LOVE, ROSIE (Ger/UK) Studiocanal Australia 06.10.14 1,772,364 DIE BIENE MAJA – DER KINOFILM (Ger/Aus) Studiocanal Australia 01.11.14 256,164 HANNAH ARENDT (Ger/Lux/Fr/Isr) Curious Films 13.03.14 234,447 HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS (Ger/Can) Becker Film Group 23.10.14 223,725 MR. MORGAN’S LAST LOVE (Ger/Bel/Fr/US) Umbrella Entertainment 06.03.14 183,394 THE GREEN PRINCE (Ger/Isr/UK) Madman Entertainment 04.12.14 118,714 TARZAN 3D (Ger) Icon Film Distribution 11.09.14 100,953 LAUF JUNGE LAUF (Ger/Fr/Pol) Jiff Distribution 27.11.14 20,139 FEUCHTGEBIETE (Ger) Madman Entertainment 04.09.14 18,571

2014 German films in New Zealand (100% or majority co-productions) $US LOVE, ROSIE (Ger/UK) Studiocanal NZ 23.10.14 289,525 TARZAN 3D (Ger) Roadshow Entertainment NZ 26.06.14 227,345 HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS (Ger/Can) Becker Film Group 30.10.14 99,922 HANNAH ARENDT (Ger/Lux/Fr/Isr) Curious Films 13.03.14 36,503 DIE BIENE MAJA - DER KINOFILM (Ger/Aus) Studiocanal NZ 30.10.14 13,009 DIE GELIEBTEN SCHWESTERN (Ger/Aut) Curious Films 02.10.14 6,050


2014 German minority co-productions in Australia $AUS THE BOOK THIEF (US/Ger) 20th Century Fox Australia 09.01.14 14,068,804 THE MONUMENTS MEN (US/Ger) 20th Century Fox Australia 13.03.14 8,788,272 POMPEII (Can/Ger) Icon Film Distribution 20.03.14 1,385,604 WADJDA (Saudi/Ger) EOne Entertainment 20.03.14 716,706 KIS UYKUSU (Tur/Ger/Fr) Sharmill Films 08.11.14 234,723 KVINDEN I BURET (Den/Ger/Swe) Madman Entertainment 31.07.14 200,576 NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME 1 (Den/Ger/Fr/Swe/Bel) Transmission Films 27.03.14 123,352 BETHLEHEM (Isr/Bel/Ger) Jiff Distribution 07.08.14 70,280 MAPS TO THE STARS (Can/US/Fr/Ger) EOne Entertainment 20.11.14 67,356 GRZELI NATELI DGEEBI (Geo/Ger/Fr) Palace Films 25.09.14 51,249 MY SWEET PEPPER LAND (Fr/Ger) Sharmill Films 22.05.14 50,020 EYJAFJALLAJÖKULL (Fr/Ger) Pinnacle Films 26.06.14 38,146 THE CONGRESS (Isr/Ger/Pol/Fr/Bel) Madman Entertainment 04.12.14 15,441 2014 German minority co-productions in New Zealand $US THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (US/Ger) 20th Century Fox New Zealand 10.04.14 2,081,934 THE BOOK THIEF (US/Ger) 20th Century Fox New Zealand 09.01.14 1,832,436 THE MONUMENTS MEN (US/Ger) 20th Century Fox New Zealand 13.03.14 1,182,136 THE LUNCHBOX (Ind/Fr/Ger) Madman Entertainment NZ 18.09.14 388,250 POMPEII (Can/Ger) Roadshow Entertainment NZ 20.03.14 226,647 WADJDA (Saudi/Ger) EOne NZ 20.03.14 175,808 ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (UK/Ger/Fr/Cyp) Madman Entertainment NZ 01.05.14 104,482 A MOST WANTED MAN (UK/US/Ger) Roadshow Entertainment NZ 23.10.14 68,990 KVINDEN I BURET (Den/Ger/Swe) Madman Entertainment NZ 04.09.14 27,009 EYJAFJALLAJÖKULL (Fr/Ger) Pinnacle Films 26.06.14 23,004 NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME 1 (Den/Ger/Fr/Swe/Bel) Madman Entertainment NZ 03.04.14 20,670


2015 German films in Australia (100% or majority productions) $AUS MADAME BOVARY (Ger/Bel/US) Transmission Films 08.07.15 614,425 CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (Ger/Fr/Swz) Pinnacle Films 06.05.15 565,298 PHOENIX (Ger) Madman Entertainment 04.12.15 404,429 CITIZENFOUR (Ger/US) Madman Entertainment 11.02.15 263,507 ELSER - ER HÄTTE DIE WELT VERÄNDERT (Ger) Studiocanal Australia 23.07.15 106,574 OOOPS! DIE ARCHE IST WEG (Ger/Ire/Bel/Lux) EOne Entertainment 18.09.15 81,430 2015 German films in New Zealand (100% or majority productions) $US MADAME BOVARY (Ger/Bel/US) Madman Entertainment NZ 10.07.15 98,291 CITIZENFOUR (Ger/US) Madman Entertainment NZ 02.12.15 45,601 ELSER – ER HÄTTE DIE WELT VERÄNDERT (Ger) StudioCanal NZ 10.09.15 33,647 2015 German minority co-productions in Australia $AUS THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 2 (US/Ger) Village Roadshow 20.11.15 20,890,943 HITMAN: AGENT 47 (US/Ger) 20th Century Fox Australia 19.08.15 2,512,728 SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY (US/Ger) The Walt Disney Company Australia 26.08.15 211,948 DIPLOMATIE (Fr/Ger) Madman Entertainment 05.07.15 166,595 GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM (Isr/Fr/Ger) Jiff Distribution 16.07.15 88,775 LIFE (UK/Ger) Transmission Films 10.09.15 71,265 EN DUVA SATT PÅ EN GREN OCH FUNDERADE PÅ TILLVARON (Swe/Fr/Nor/Ger)Madman Entertainment 30.10.15 70,810 FABERGÉ: A LIFE OF ITS OWN (UK/US/Swz/Rus/Monaco/Ger/Fr) Sharmill Films 12.08.15 59,194 MITA TOVA - THE FAREWELL PARTY (Isr/Ger) Jiff Distribution 06.08.15 50,742 SEPIDEH (Den/Nor/Swe/Ger/Iran) Madman Entertainment 15.01.15 21,425


2015 German minority co-productions in New Zealand $US THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 2 (US/Ger) Roadshow Entertainment NZ 19.11.15 3,200,713 POINT BREAK (US/Ger) Roadshow Entertainment NZ 31.12.15 757,827 BRIDGE OF SPIES (US/Ger/Ind) 20th Century Fox New Zealand 22.10.15 764,117 HITMAN: AGENT 47 (US/Ger) 20th Century Fox New Zealand 20.08.15 406,783 KIS UYKUSU (Tur/Ger/Fr) Rialto Distribution 08.01.15 15,497 SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY (US/Ger) Walt Disney NZ 20.08.15 33,693 2016 German films in Australia (100% or majority productions) $AUS IM LABYRINTH DES SCHWEIGENS (Ger) Madman Entertainment 31.03.16 214,976 FRANCOFONIA (Ger/Fr/NL) Madman Entertainment 07.10.16 106,404 VICTORIA (Ger) Madman Entertainment 31.03.16 75,020 AUF DAS LEBEN! (Ger) Jiff Distribution 14.07.16 46,472 2016 German films in New Zealand (100% or majority productions) $US PHOENIX (Ger) Madman Entertainment NZ 14.04.16 122,407 IM LABYRINTH DES SCHWEIGENS (Ger) Madman Entertainment NZ 23.06.16 109,226 HEIDI (Ger/Swz) StudioCanal NZ 15.12.16 5,837 2016 German minority co-productions in Australia EDDIE THE EAGLE (UK/US/Ger) 20th Century Fox Australia 21.04.16 8,176,211 POINT BREAK (US/Ger) Village Roadshow 01.01.16 5,677,304 THE DANISH GIRL (UK/Bel/Ger/US) Universal Pictures International Australia 22.01.16 2,790,993 SNOWDEN (US/Fr/Ger) The Walt Disney Company Australia 23.09.16 1,676,661 MUSTANG (Fr/Tur/Ger) Madman Entertainment 23.06.16 632,776


MIEKKAILIJA (Fin/Ger) Palace Films 24.11.16 401,029 ELLE (Fr/Ger/Bel) Sony Pictures Releasing Australia 03.11.16 364,898 AN (Jap/Fr/Ger) Curious Films 28.04.16 156,848 REMEMBER (Can/Ger) Umbrella Entertainment 12.05.16 79,252 UN TANGO MÁS (Arg/Ger) Sharmill Films 24.03.16 74,544 A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING (US/Ger) The Walt Disney Company Australia 28.07.16 63,197 MAPPLETHORPE: LOOK AT THE PICTURES (US/Ger) Curious Films 22.09.16 18,659 CEMETERY OF SPLENDOR (Thai/Fr/Ger/UK) Madman Entertainment 13.01.16 17,025 MONSIEUR MAYONNAISE (Aus/Ger/Fr/US) Antidote Films 01.12.16 16,621 MR. GAGA (Isr/Swe/Ger/NL) Indies 30.06.16 8,053 MORE THAN HONEY (Swz/Ger/Aut) Antidote Films 14.01.16 7,386 EVA HESSE (US/Ger) New Farm Cinemas 26.08.16 5,403 2016 German minority co-productions in New Zealand $US EDDIE THE EAGLE (UK/US/Ger) 20th Century Fox New Zealand 28.04.16 800,521 THE DANISH GIRL (UK/Bel/Ger/Den/US) Paramount Pictures New Zealand 28.01.16 303,538 REMEMBER (Can/Ger) Umbrella Entertainment 14.07.16 82,308 AN (Jap/Fr/Ger) Curious Films 17.03.16 36,971 UN TANGO MÁS (Arg/Ger) Rialto Distribution 08.09.16 8,738 ELLE (Fr/Ger/Bel) Sony Pictures Releasing New Zealand 22.12.16 3,333


(3) AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: TOP 10 GERMAN FILMS (THEATRICAL), 2010-2016 AUSTRALIA ADMISSIONS BOX OFFICE (EUR) RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (2012) 304,147 2,666,846 THE THREE MUSKETEERS (2011) 228,206 2,314,369 LOVE, ROSIE (2014) 130,321 1,339,907 THE LAST STATION (2010) 109,510 1,067,569 CLOUD ATLAS (2013) 97,092 843,701 A DANGEROUS METHOD (2012) 87,852 906,878 MADAME BOVARY (2015) 45,705 412,402 CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (2015) 42,051 379,428 PHOENIX (2015) 30,085 271,452 BARBARA (2013) 24,443 211,753 NEW ZEALAND ADMISSIONS BOX OFFICE (EUR) THE LAST STATION (2010) 83,526 576,578 RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (2012) 59,810 439,511 THE THREE MUSKETEERS (2011) 60,503 439,813 BARBARA (2013) 41,106 297,870 LOVE, ROSIE (2014) 26,325 239,277 DIE VERLORENE ZEIT (2013) 23,625 171,193 TARZAN 3D (2014) 20,668 187,888 PHOENIX (2016) 13,910 128,527 IM LABYRINTH DES SCHWEIGENS (2016) 12,412 104,025 HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS (2014) 9,084 82,580


(4) AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: DISTRIBUTORS OF GERMAN FILMS, 2010-2016 AUSTRALIA 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 TOTAL Madman Entertainment 1 2 - 1 2 2 3 11 Jiff Distribution - 1 - 1 - 1 3 Paramount Pictures Australia 1 - 2 - - - - 3 Studiocanal Australia - - - 2 1 - 3 Umbrella Entertainment - 2 - 1 - - 3 Becker Film Group 1 - - - 1 - - 2 Curious Films - - 1 1 - - 2 Pinnacle Films - - 1 - 1 - 2 Sharmill Films 1 - 1 - - - 2 EOne Entertainment - - - - 1 - 1 Hopscotch Films 1 - - - - - 1 Hoyts Australia 1 - - - - - 1 Icon Film Distribution - - - 1 - - 1 Potential Films 1 - - - - - - 1 Rialto Distribution 1 - - - - - - 1 Sony Pictures Releasing Australia - 1 - - - - 1 Transmission Films - - - - 1 - 1 Warner Bros. Entertainment Australia - - 1 - - - 1


NEW ZEALAND 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 TOTAL Madman Entertainment NZ - 2 - 1 - 2 2 7 Studiocanal NZ - - - - 2 1 1 4 Paramount Pictures New Zealand 1 - 1 1 - - - 3 Umbrella Entertainment - - 2 1 - - - 3 Curious Films - - - - 2 - - 2 Rialto Distribution 2 - - - - - - 2 Arkles Entertaiment - - - 1 - - - 1 Becker Film Group - - - - 1 - - 1 Hopscotch NZ - 1 - - - - - 1 Hoyts Distribution NZ - 1 - - - - - 1 Pinnacle Films - - - 1 - - - 1 Roadshow Entertainment NZ - - - - 1 - - 1 Sony Pictures New Zealand - - 1 - - - - 1


(5) AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: THEATRICAL MARKET COMMENTARY Australia is a fully mature theatrical and home entertainment market which punches well above its weight in the film business; despite a population of just 24.5 million (not even in the world Top 50 – although increasing fast), it is nonetheless the fifth largest market in the world for US movies. There is also a well-established arthouse circuit which has changed quite a lot over the past 25 years. Established players like Palace and Ronin have faded; boutique operator Sharmill now mainly handles event-cinema screenings of plays, operas and concerts; and the arthouse market is dominated by brash newcomer Madman Entertainment, set up in 1997, initially specialising in Manga titles but now handling arthouse and crossover films. In 2016, Madman released 43 movies – more than any other distributor except local major Village Roadshow and with the count increasing annually. Madman handled three of the four German films released in Australia in that year. Many of the company’s releases, however, were given a very brief theatrical window before shifting onto DVD and, above all, VOD. The country’s cinematic infrastructure is wholly up-to-date and almost totally digital, with the number of screens increasing slightly (by just 6%) over the seven years surveyed. That amounts to a healthy one screen per 11,500 people. Admissions tailed off marginally in the middle of the period reviewed, then began to climb back in 2014 and ended the period pretty much where they began. Box office similarly remained stable when allowance is made for the fact that totals have been calculated from Australian dollars via US to Euros – three currencies which have shifted considerably in relationship to one another over the past decade. For a medium-sized market, Australia releases a large number of films each year (usually over 400), although that may be because films for a ‘new Australian’ audience are tracked – something which is not the case for ethnic programming in most territories. 115 of the films released (over 20% of all releases), were from India, 33 from China, 18 from Korea, 13 from the Philippines, and 12 from Japan in 2016, virtually all of them popular rather than arthouse. European releases, meanwhile, average between 80 and 90, after boom years (see opening table) in 2011 and 2012. Domestic films generally account for between 4-5% of the Australian market, with fluctuations in years like 2015, when MAD MAX: FURY ROAD helped make that year’s admissions to local films the highest for half a decade. Ticket prices when expressed in Euros likewise reflect the decline in the Australian dollar against that currency by 12% between 2011-2015. Expressed in $AUS, prices have risen by over 50% in the period surveyed. Surveyed over the seven-year period, German films had an average market share of just over 0.25%, with 2016 one of the weakest on record. Of the 40 German films released in Australia between 2011 and 2016, only around a quarter were subtitled, the remainder being either children’s movies (and therefore dubbed) or made in English in the first place. The best-performing titles were also English-language, headed by


RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (2012) and THE THREE MUSKETEERS (2011). Seven German films took over a million AUS$ theatrically: THE LAST STATION in 2010; THE THREE MUSKETEERS in 2011; RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION and A DANGEROUS METHOD in 2012; CLOUD ATLAS in 2013; and LOVE, ROSIE in 2014. No German film released in 2015 or 2016 crossed the million-dollar threshold. The highest grossing German-language film of the period was PHOENIX, with just over 30,000 admissions. Among co-productions, films which took over AUS$5 million at the box office were, with the exception of Scandi noir film MÄN SOM HATAR KVINNOR and French-produced English-language thriller UNKNOWN, all US or UK, with the list headed, not surprisingly, by THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 2, which took over AUS$20 million. With the exception of TARZAN 3D, none of the German-produced children’s animation titles released over the period surveyed drew large audiences, despite the fact that one of them, DIE BIENE MAJA - DER KINOFILM, was a co-production with Australia, where Maja would have been already familiar to young audiences thanks to a regular slot on the ABC network. Insofar as it is possible to draw conclusions from so small a sample, it seems Australian audiences prefer their German films edgy and historical, with WWII and life in the former East Germany a recurring theme. In brief, the conditions exist for German films to be delivered to Australian audiences theatrically as well as on DVD and on VOD. But to date, local buyers’ preference has been for more ‘familiar’ foreign-language films, notably French ones; and it will take a breakthrough title for German titles to find their audience. As a market open to promotion, however, Australia shows considerable promise. New Zealand tends to be lumped together in cinematic terms with Australia, despite the distance between the two countries being the same as that between London and Moscow. In terms of film production, the smaller territory is fiercely independent, but distribution tends to follow similar patterns as across the Tasman in Australia, with eight of the 13 distributors listed in Section (4) being local subsidiaries of Australian companies. As a market it is small, but an annual box office total of EUR 134 million is hefty for a country of less than 5 million people, reflected likewise in a high per capita ratio of cinemagoing. New Zealand, in other words, is a limited but significant and dynamic market which is not easy to predict. Many of the same films show up annually as in Australia (or for that matter Europe), but there are also some surprises, notably the top film of the seven-year period being THE LAST STATION, and the strong 2014 performance of WWII drama DIE VERLORENE ZEIT, a film which hardly registers elsewhere internationally.


(6) AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: GERMAN FILMS ON TELEVISION OVERVIEW Australia’s television set-up is similar to the UK one in ways that might not necessarily have been expected. A state-owned channel (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, or ABC) was launched in the 1930s; TV became a common feature of Australian homes in the 1950s; was supplemented by three commercial networks in the 1970s, and is now dominated by Rupert Murdoch. Indeed, the way in which the Murdoch-owned Fox cornered the cable and satellite market in Australia is very similar to what happened with another Murdoch company, Sky, in the UK; Fox took over its only rivals, Austar and Galaxy, just as Sky took over BSB in the UK. At all events, Foxtel now has a monopoly on Australian satellite TV. Foxtel covers urban and rural areas of Australia, with satellite a necessity given the size of the country and its sparse population outside the major metropolitan areas of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and, to a lesser extent, Adelaide and Perth. The supplier offers a basic package of 123 channels, divided up as indicated in the first chart on the following page. Of the 10 movie channels, most offer the usual mix of recent blockbusters and made-for-TV fillers. The one exception is World Movies, which is programmed by SBS, originally a publicly owned channel set up to serve the cultural interests of ‘new Australians’ from various corners of the globe, especially South-East Asia. As a result, Australian fans of world cinema are offered a much wider range of films on pay-TV than those in most other countries: over the month surveyed in the chart on the following page (June 2017), viewers could choose from 115 films from 45 different countries, all of them repeated three or more times in the course of the month. Areas represented were Europe (63 titles); Asia (23); North America (14); Latin America (6); the Middle East (5); Australasia (2); and Africa (2). The German titles programmed were a mix of cult movies, New German Cinema classics, small-scale dramas and arthouse hits. Specifically, German titles shown in June were ANGST ESSEN SEELE AUF; BEDWAYS; ELSER - ER HÄTTE DIE WELT VERÄNDERT; FADO; HALLAL LOVE (AND SEX); HIGHWAY TO HELLAS; LITTLE THIRTEEN; PHOENIX; SIE TÖTETE IN EKSTASE; WARNUNG VOR EINER HEILIGEN NUTTE; and WILD.


Australia: Foxtel Channels By Content

Free-to-air

News

Sports

Children

Entertainment

Documentary

Music

Australia: Films On Foxtel World Movies By Country Of Origin

Germany

France

Other Europe

Korea

Other Asia

North America

Latin America

Other


New Zealand’s TV set-up is somewhat unusual. Geography cuts the NZ market off from most of the rest of the world, but it seems to prosper as an English-speaking market with a relatively wealthy population whose programming was boosted by cable and satellite in the late 1980s, with a wide range of choice supplementing the limited programming offered by TVNZ and the dramas created for it by a flourishing production industry. Sky remains the dominant force in NZ television, with the most unusual aspect of the set-up being that the range of channels is relatively old-fashioned, with movies on TV the biggest category. Also notable are the channels that have been added to the Fox TV server targeted at new New Zealanders from South-East Asia.

New Zealand likewise has a good selection of European movies available in the traditional time-slot format thanks to the programming available from independent distributor Rialto (sampled below from 19-26 November 2017), which is itself unusual in being a New Zealand company which has spread to Australia rather than vice versa. German titles programmed were DER NACHTMAHR and TONI ERDMANN.

New Zealand: Fox TV Channels By Content

News & General

Sports

Children

Entertainment

Documentary

Music

Movies


(7) AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND IN OVERVIEW: 2000-2016 The following charts depict a comparative overview of the situation for German films released in Australia and New Zealand between the years 2000-2016.

New Zealand: Films on the Rialto Channel by Country of Origin

US

UK

New Zealand

France

Other Europe

Other


AUSTRALIA

Year

Majority German releases

All German releases

Majority German films

box office (US$)

All German films box

office (US$) All releases

All box office (mlllion

US$)

% releases share,

majority German

films

% releases share, all German

films

% box office share, majority German films

% box office share, all German

films 2000 5 10 635.386 4.557.041 250 385,20 2,00 4,00 0,16 1,18

2001 5 15 1.894.384 9.656.294 245 414,49 2,04 6,12 0,46 2,33

2002 3 20 410.879 29.846.931 258 474,61 1,16 7,75 0,09 6,29

2003 7 26 1.913.186 31.007.497 268 630,98 2,60 9,70 0,30 4,91

2004 5 15 4.141.272 23.591.694 318 708,75 1,57 4,72 0,58 3,33

2005 8 21 3.921.173 18.785.733 329 596,72 2,43 6,38 0,66 3,15

2006 6 20 828.563 12.246.135 333 682,36 1,80 6,00 0,12 1,77

2007 4 12 2.871.034 18.846.553 317 785,44 1,26 3,79 0,37 2,40

2008 1 13 521.377 11.444.756 324 661,12 0,31 4,01 0,11 1,73

2009 2 15 3.149.978 40.254.593 356 979,73 0,56 4,21 0,40 4,11

2010 6 15 2.658.596 19.777.853 328 1.109,69 1,83 4,57 0,23 1,78

2011 4 21 4.484.376 18.147.835 343 1.149,84 1,17 6,12 0,39 1,58

2012 6 26 5.510.280 32.117.935 423 1.172,40 1,42 6,15 0,47 2,74

2013 5 16 1.767.222 19.543.574 422 981,79 1,18 3,79 0,18 1,99

2014 9 22 2.378.646 23.534.817 407 880,98 2,21 5,41 0,27 2,90

2015 6 15 1.432.176 3.806.980 418 895,11 1,44 3,59 0,16 0,43

2016 8 28 272.481 12.505.101 422 937,16 1,90 6,64 0,03 1,33

Average 5 18 2.281.824 19.392.431 339 790,96 1,58 5,47 0,29 2,59

Total 90 310 38.791.009 329.671.322 5.761 13.446,37


NEW ZEALAND

Year

Majority German releases

All German releases

Majority German

films box office (US$)

All German films box

office (US$) All

releases

All box office

(mlllion US$)

% releases share,

majority German

films

% releases share, all German

films

% box office share,

majority German

films

% box office

share, all German

films

2000 1 2 19.029 36.153 128 69,1 0,78 1,56 0,01 0,05

2001 3 4 203.596 229.349 130 73,2 2,31 3,08 0,28 0,31

2002 1 15 10.931 4.813.571 125 86,4 0,80 12,00 0,01 5,57

2003 3 16 267.849 8.014.115 163 97,4 1,84 9,82 0,28 8,23

2004 3 11 915.147 2.849.480 171 94,8 1,75 6,43 0,28 0,97

2005 8 16 775.847 3.461.922 175 137,5 4,57 9,14 0,56 2,52

2006 4 18 171.373 2.779.322 195 140,9 2,05 9,23 0,12 1,97

2007 5 13 1.173.993 4.017.743 191 147,1 2,62 6,81 0,80 2,73

2008 2 13 207.732 5.484.134 234 121,5 0,85 5,56 0,17 4,51

2009 2 14 321.856 6.463.276 257 132,8 0,78 5,45 0,24 4,87

2010 3 7 835.171 2.369.409 287 137,9 1,05 2,44 0,61 5,26

2011 3 7 737.529 1.783.076 277 132,7 1,08 2,53 0,56 1,34

2012 4 9 671.389 4.234.142 291 145,1 1,37 3,09 0,47 2,92

2013 4 14 781.932 2.485.221 273 153,3 1,47 5,13 0,51 1,62

2014 6 11 665.379 2.514.399 262 141,6 2,29 4,20 0,47 1,78

2015 2 8 79.248 4.562.678 307 138,5 0,65 2,61 0,06 3,29

2016 4 12 231.923 1.847.104 361 151,7 1,11 3,32 0,15 0,98

Average 3 11 474.701 3.408.535 225 123,6 1,61 5,44 0,33 2,88

Total 58 190 8.069.924 57.945.094 3.827 2.101,5 n/a n/a n/a n/a


(8) AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CIA World Factbook, xe.com, European Audiovisual Observatory, Motion Pictures Distributors Association of Australia, Rentrak, NZ Film, Lyngsat.com, Foxtel Australia, JustWatch.com, www.channellists.com, Research Informa, Ezy DVD, Netflix Australia, Statistics New Zealand, Sky TV Annual Report, scriblogs.co.nz. With special thanks to Andrew and Louise Urban.

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