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QPIX STUDENTS ARE TROPFEST FINALISTS
Graduates of QPIX’s 2011 Diploma of Production course have won their way into the finals of TROPFEST, the world’s largest short film festival, with their student production PHOTOBOOTH. Set in the Afghanistan conflict, PHOTOBOOTH is one of a sequence of...
'Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu' Out February 10
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Over The Fence Comedy Film Deadline
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Rottofest 2012: Call For Entries Now Open!
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Geoffrey Rush Joins Tropfest
The acclaimed actor and newly-crowned Australian of the Year, Geoffrey Rush, will be a key player in 2012’s Tropfest activities.
Naomi Watts To Play Princess Diana
The Aussie actress is set to play the people’s princess in an upcoming film that chronicles the final two years of Diana’s life.
Sullivan Stapleton Signs On To ‘300’ Prequel
The Aussie actor has beat out the competition to land a role in the upcoming blockbuster.
James Cameron Loses Long Time Australian Collaborators
Producer Andrew Wight and cinematographer Mike deGruy lose their lives in a helicopter crash.
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Will Australia see Australia fall?
All of our industry hopes, it seems, are riding on the success of Baz's new film.
It's been debated in film circles ad infinitum: what will the fate of the Australian film industry be in the wake of Baz Luhrmann's Australia?
"For me and Nicole and Baz, and perhaps even the industry here, it's definitely something that we're counting on working," said leading man Hugh Jackman in FILMINK'S November issue. Never before in our turbulent film history have so many tongues been wagging about what one film could mean. Perhaps never before has a film had this much sway.
Talk among industry players is that if the film doesn't make the profit that we are all expecting, the hopes of other studios investing in our great Australian drawl will be quashed. Baz Luhrmann is even rumoured to have changed the film's original ending in order to improve the film's chances in foreign markets. Could this, however, just be a publicity stunt? After all, Baz didn't care much about killing off Nic in Moulin Rouge or Leo and Claire in Romeo & Juliet (although he had little choice with that one).
Since so many Australian films have been released of late with little more than a whimper, surely if Australia is an outstanding success, or a terrific failure, then it will at least have made enough noise to put our country well and truly back on the cinematic map.