It's a rare occurrence for a kid's film to really touch you emotionally - especially with the assault of CG animated features which just keep coming and kids seem to lap up like ice cream. I'm thinking of The Bee Movie, Valiant, Madagascar - even Pixar's offerings are getting stale and saccharine. The kid's 'effects' [...]
A new partnership has just been announced which will shape the future of Australia's digital film industry in the coming years. Australia's leading production company - Kennedy Miller Mitchell - has announced it will partner with the Omnilab group to advance the future of digital cinema creation in Australia. George Miller made the following statement [...]
Saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on the weekend and was transported by the design, performances, visual effects and the sound. But what's with Voldemort's nose? There were quite a few shots where the digital prosthetics work looked decidedly smudgy. I don't usually watch for these things but this one really took [...]
Just finished reading Richard Harris's essay in the Platform Papers series - 'Film in the Age of Digital Distribution: The Challenge for Australian Content'. You can find out more about this paper by clicking here. That was the advertisement, now for the critique. Don't get me wrong, it's timely for a paper like this to [...]
I was lucky enough to speak at a panel tonight with director George Miller about the future of film. George lamented the fact that good stories just aren't surfacing as much any more in cinema - either because studios are averting risk by financing sequels (rather than original content) or maybe because we have mined [...]
Seems like the whole Australian animation and film industries breathed a huge sigh of relief when Happy Feet opened in the US taking $40 million US in its opening weekend. And there was follow on box office success during Thankgiving meaning the film was on par with what Madagascar achieved this time last year (a [...]