Tag Archives: Screen Australia
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
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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
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
Spin Control
Meet The F*ckers Pleiades convinced me to go and see what the top Film Bureaucrats had to say for themselves at a function at Trackdown, at an ad hoc event organised by Tristan Milani. Fronting up for their policies were … Continue reading
Dr. George Miller Says…
He Says We’re LAZY Went to the doc today to get loaded up on cough mixture and antibiotics. I’m a little cranky about it all. So I come home and find that I’ve received my weekly ScreenHub newsletter. Well what … Continue reading
Un-Know1ng Benefits
What Precedent? During the week, Pleiades sent in this link about Alex Proyas’ company getting the Producer off-set for producing ‘Know1ng’. : IF you were giving somebody a gift of $20 million, the recipient may want to know about it. … Continue reading
Anthony Ginanne Speech Extract
I grabbed this hot off Screenhub. It’s not the whole thing, but the important bit: In 1988 Australian films took 18% of the box office. The figure hasn’t been above 10% since and lately has been floundering between 3% and … Continue reading
News That’s Fit To Punt – 16/11/09
Making Bigger Movies The banter and ballyhoo in the last week is the cat that was let out by Dr Harley’s bag about putting Screen Australia money into bigger budget films that open in more than 100 screens. The film … Continue reading
Excuse Me?
What Did She Just Say? Screen Hub had this little entry from which I’m going to grab this bit: In an interview with AFR arts editor Katrina Strickland, Harley said that with more limited funds, Screen Australia would focus more … Continue reading
Failing Incentive
A Slight Uptick They Say I wanted to bask in the warm afterglow of the Yankees’ World Series win a bit longer and leave that entry at the top, but reality beckoned. My reality is that I’m in Australia trying … Continue reading
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