Tag Archives: Australian Film Industry
I Get Asked What I Think Sometimes…
12.8 million For Hugh, Nothing For You The news this week for film industry types is that Hugh Jackman is going to bring his next Wolverine production back to Sydney. Because the degree of my jadedness – my ad-jade-ment if … Continue reading
Filed under Cinema, Film, General, Movies, Uncategorized
Still Staying Away In Droves
Here We Go Again! Pleiades sent in this link today. It’s the aftermath of the AACTA Awards. The Australian Academy is, by all reports, the brainchild of cherished Australian actor and current Australian of the Year Geoffrey Rush. It emerged … Continue reading
Hollywood On The Ropes
Problems On The Horizon I stumbled upon this interesting article that talks about how Hollywood is narrowing and therefore shrinking in significance. A generation of directors who thought they owned the business as kids in the 1970s had to decide … Continue reading
Bad Governance In Film Bureaucracies
$45,000 Farewell Party? Sure Why Not? Today’s entry also owes to Pleiades sending something in. When Film Victoria boss Sandra Sdraulig left the funding agency after nearly a decade in the job, Film Victoria’s board decided to throw her a … Continue reading
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What Will They Do Without Him?
Bill Hunter Is Sick Apparently he has cancer. Family and friends have gathered around Australian acting legend Bill Hunter, who is gravely ill in a Melbourne hospice. Hunter’s manager Mark Morrissey confirmed this morning that his 71-year-old client’s health had … Continue reading
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Sleeping Audience, Angry Critics
A Typical Australian Film I won’t judge the film sight-unseen, but ‘Sleeping Beauty’ beauty sounds like it’s quite a difficult film to watch. Here’s an early report from Cannes. Watched by a capacity audience on the opening night, the work … Continue reading
Here We Go Again
You Can’t Judge Film by Its Audiences But you can sure judge a flop by its dismal figures. It proved to be a disastrous weekend at the box office as three Australian films – Griff the Invisible, The Reef and … Continue reading
Corporate Welfare
Excuse Me While I Punch This Ticket This one came in from Pleiades today. It’s about how our tax dollars end up helping Hollywood productions and how awful this is. Confirming Sir Humphrey Appleby’s famous principle that you should “never … Continue reading
Australian Content
No Explaining This One Away Baz Luhrmann’s going to bring his Great Gatsby production to Sydney. Strikes me that he’s missed the point already, but be that as it may he’s bringing it down under, and he’s going to qualify … Continue reading
Autopsy?
Check This Out …And make up your own mind. They don’t really come at anything structural. They just talk about what worked for them.
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