It’s skite season for the agencies again, with the New South Wales Film and Television Office reporting that $1.8 million in government money has attracted $23.5 million in investment from other government money and some private folding stuff as well.
First is 'MySpace Road Tour, which will follow radio and pay-TV personality Jabba as he tours the country to meet 10 of the website's most eccentric users.'.. with others to come. Most deformed dating site users?
The Toronto International Film Festival is coming, and Australian and New Zealand filmmakers are going to be more front-and-centre than they have been in years – a heart-warming thought given the importance of the festival to the north American market.
The producer's nightmare: make a v. expensive film, and then find out that another powerful studio run by enemy zombies who don't like your friendly zombies at all is suing because some long gone exec forgot to reconfirm a put clause.
10,000 American TV writers have won a class action worth $4.5m (before legal fees) because they are over forty and are discriminated against. That is about $4,000 each, or about two years supply of incontinence pads.
JVC is feeling very happy after intensively workshopping their ProHD cameras in John L Simpson and Michael Joy’s Men’s Group. The cameras were able to overcome their 35mm envy, and apparently have only pleasant memories of the experience. At this rate, they’ll be wanting to work with female cinematographers next.
Matthew Rickettson does his usual thinky piece for The Age: By 2012, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the size of the internet market - and that includes revenue for internet service providers as well as advertising - will be $6.74 billion compared with the size of the newspaper market ($5.85billion) and commercial free to air television ($4.17 billion)".
Director Tonnette Stanford’s film ‘The Vicious and The Delicious’ which received funding from the Metro Screen Network Pitching subsidy, has signed a distribution deal with Salzgeber and Co. Home Entertainment.
WIN Television South Australia has been awarded the Lions Clubs International Foundation’s Melvin Jones Fellowship, the Lions highest honour. WIN SA will be added to the list of individuals whose names are honoured in the Lions Club International Foundation Recognition Room at the International Headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois.
Sydney-based Duke Home Entertainment has acquired the rights to the men''s titles Bikini Destinations and The Extremists from Bennett Media Group. For those who like a travelogue with their semi-nudity.
FremantleMedia Enterprises has picked up the distribution rights to New Wave Entertainment’s (Steve Knapman and Kris Wyld) The Strip. Set on the sun-soaked franchise ghetto that is The Gold Coast, the new crime drama is being made for Nine. Some fictionalisation is bound to occur, as the last time Screen Hub was on the Coast for the SPAA Conference, we noted with some amusement that the strip clubs closed a 9 pm on weeknights. Never happen in the big city.
'Scorched' is set in 2012 in a climate change ravaged world. Sydney has only eight weeks water left and is ringed by bushfires. It hasn't rained for over 200 days. Scorched.tv
The YAWL4Film workflow management system had its first test in the production of feature film Prime Mover. Designed by researchers at Queensland University of Technology in collaboration with Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, it makes the production coordinator's life a lot simpler.
Even in London, the Andrew-Cate duo seems a bit .. unusual. (Most British power people are so unpleasant a relationship outside a bondage dungeon is impossible. Unless its inside the family, like Grendel and his mum.)
Australian publisher and producer Lonely Planet has announced a partnership with Nokia to allow users to download local maps to their mobile phones. Lonely Planet, you will remember, was snapped up by BBC Worldwide within living, alcohol-impaired memory.
Revving engines? Must be the start of a car race! Some day a clever Foley artist will capture the quintessential sound of the media speculating on which Australians will be nominated for an Oscar. No one, of course, will notice if the Foley person gets nominated.
