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Opinion
Cameron in Queensland
I have been aware of the Gold Coast studios for many years and I have been budgeting for films here for many years.
Blue-Tongue times
Blue-Tongue, a loose-jointed Australian moviemaking collective, is now flooding American festivals, the awards circuit and those who look for Hollywood’s next big thing with its rough-and-tumble fare, and can now add an Oscar nomination to its résumé.
3D blindness
All of this is rolling forward without any thought to the potential health hazards of continuous, long-term exposure to 3D. None of the television manufacturers have done any health & safety testing around this.
Nice to meet you, Ms. Streep
It is total name drop city.
Oscar nominee Luke Doolan on the Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon.
Bob Ellis: Rough Cut
Bob Ellis on In The Loop and Invictus.Anyone who’s hung round political backrooms (like me) will recognise the terrifying truth of In The Loop, Read more »
Tomorrow captures Australian beauty
“The added colour depth offered by 35mm film helped to accurately capture the beauty of the Australian landscape … an important story point.”
Ben Nott on his Daybreakers digital shoot vs. Tomorrow, When the War Began in 35mm.
Smaller screen, bigger ideas
Television is an avenue we really wanted to explore.
The Spierig brothers may revisit Daybreakers in a new medium.
Billing against piracy
If you illegally download a movie that I am in from the internet, or buy a pirated DVD of Underbelly Two you are stealing from me and everyone who put their investment, talent and effort into that production.
It’s a steal
Australian internet users are facing enormous and ongoing restrictions to their legitimate access to popular content, in terms of both timeliness and price [...] If content providers want to thrive, they will have to start responding to user demands for reasonable, timely and fairly priced content.
The SMH wonders why Gossip Girl costs A$34.99 on iTunes US vs. A$74.75 here.
Unique appeal
What [...] you won’t see in another film: a snake used to replace a broken engine belt, Geoffrey Rush shitting on the side of a road, a condom tree and a hot Aboriginal girl singing ” Stand By Your Man”.
Influential US site Ain’t It Cool news reviews Bran Nue Dae.
Arctic Blast releases poster
The film, directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and produced by Gina Black and Stefan Wodoslawsky, was shot in Tasmania last year.
It is Screen Tasmania’s first feature film; the project is an Australian/Canadian co-production with investment from the state agency.
Set in Hobart, Arctic Blast tells the story of a mega ice fog caused by a rift in the Ozone layer that creates deadly flash freezing. Starring Michael Shanks, lead actor in the hit US Sci-fi series Stargate – SG1, as Jack, a maverick US meteorologist who along with his small team of researchers are the only people that can save the world from destruction.
The film is currently in post-production and will be released later this year.
Comments
2 Feb 10
8:05 pm
It’s Arctic, not Artic.
2 Feb 10
10:52 pm
thanks for pointing out the typo. It’s been fixed.
3 Feb 10
12:50 am
Just a suggestion, but you might want to re-phrase the heading.
Arctic Blast didn’t release the poster – Imagination Worldwide Inc released the poster for “Arctic Blast”. (It went up on their website late last year – big version of the poster is available here: http://www.imagination-llc.com.....st/big.jpg )
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