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The Australian
November 15, 2006
Cinema on life support
No Australian film from the past five years has earned more than $10
million, writes Sandy George
AT a function in Sydney to announce the nominees for this year's AFI
Awards, a trio of film-makers was overheard marvelling at the broad
range of Australian films that were earning respectable box-office
takings.
Ten paces away, an executive from a big cinema chain was bemoaning
the embarrassingly low ticket sales for Australia's dark and drug-
ridden films.
These divergent opinions nicely illustrate how no one can agree on
the state of Australian film.
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Several big films likely to be popular are in planning, including
director Baz Luhrmann's untitled epic and Phillip Noyce's Dirt Music.
There is early buzz around Greg Mclean's nearly finished crocodile
chiller, Rogue, the follow-up to Wolf Creek.
© The Australian 2006
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