Features
Brief: Google knows film's box office before it is even shown
Google still owns the enticement process for film audiences, much more than Twitter or Facebook, or probably word of mouth.…
Screen Australia: documentary production for August 2013
$3.2m invested, total budget of $10m, on ten documentaries, adding up to 20 hours, with only four one offs.
Ratings: Wednesday 7th August 2013
Nothing really broke through though Offspring at 1.07m gave Ten a surprisingly high 23.4%.
Ratings: Thursday, 8th August 2013
SBS on 8.3%. Maybe the boys were ugly because Seven only took 619,000 out of the prospect of marrying them.
Brief: a generation quivers as Melbourne Demon rises for one night only
Hayden Keenan and Gai Steele have created a truly remarkable moment to celebrate the presentation of their four part documentary,…
Film Victoria: some new shows and a horse that refuses to die
In the first production round, Film Victoria has put $3.2m into eight projects, one of which is pretty close to…
Tim Winton's The Turning: insert happy adjective here
Tim Winton’s The Turning, the group film produced by Robert Connolly and Maggie Miles, emerged from its cone of silence…
Judy Adamson: funeral details
Judy Adamson, a stalwart of Film Australia, died last Friday at the age of 84.
Open Channel: launched into permanence, pumped up with training money
Open Channel, the Melbourne Screen Resource Centre, officially opened its new premises on the Docklands Studio site, with a federal…
Amanda Higgs: getting Lost With The Boys
Amanda Higgs (Time Of Our Lives, Secret Life Of Us) thinks that broadcasters are wrong about the appeal of teenage…