Blockbuster patriotism
Has me pumping the air with my fist and yelling FUCK YEAH! like I’m a bogan at Summernats [...] Hollywood style cutting and big action played out with Aussie accents front and centre. I feel almost patriotic.
Precious Egg on the teaser for Tomorrow When The War Began.
Not Quite SBS
Not Quite Hollywood producer Craig Griffin sent a letter to Encore, expressing his frustration over what he sees as a lack of promotional support from SBS.
I am writing as an aggrieved producer after the near silence from SBS on the eve of the Australian television premiere of Not Quite Hollywood on March 27. Read more »
Avatar comes to QLD
Mount Warning has in part inspired the official title of the film, which will be Avatar II: Blue Mountain Love [...] Film crews would have to cut down “a few football fields” worth of rainforest to make way for production.
Tweednews.com.au, did anyone say April Fools Day?
Forum delivered X factor
The forum itself is not a bad idea: I’m constantly surprised by how little first time feature directors and (I kid you not) producers know about the film business beyond financing.
Matt Riviera’s fantastic blog post on the Screen Australia market intelligence forum.
Battlers only on film
Australian expats love it when the annual Aussie Film Festival at the Barbican rolls around. It’s a chance to escape home for an hour or two, eat Cherry Ripes and Burger Rings [...] I just wish more films would reflect the reality of Australia as it is today, instead of some clichéd, soft-focus dream of tough times on the farm.
East London Local on the Aussie movie experience in London.
Their kitchen rules
Network Ten has sold advertising and sponsorships worth $25 million in revenue for the second series of MasterChef.
Reports The Australian. Not bad at all for an old recipe.
Creating pointlessness
Some people say they don’t get Warwick Thornton’s film, Samson and Delilah. And some people who say they do get it, don’t.
Germaine Greer on Samson & Delilah, at The Guardian.
Master of suspense
A notorious fraudster [...] crafted a false identity for himself as grandson of director Alfred Hitchcock [...] claimed to be a film producer and head of a film financing house about to launch a major production company in Australia
The Age on a man’s elaborate plot to seduce women.
No love from indie
“A nicely shot film about a young impoverished Aboriginal couple that adds nothing new to the canon of movies about Aboriginal life.”
Unfortunately indieWIRE didn’t ‘get’ Samson & Delilah.
Hit and miss
It was great fun doing it, but as a filmmaker who was trying to get his career started, it was a colossal mistake. I painted myself into a corner as a ‘Mr Lowbrow yobbo’. It was a disaster which put me out of work for years.
Bruce Beresford reminiscing about The Adventures of Barry McKenzie.