Industry News Stories
Writers off the record
Mandy Sayer for The Australian I don't know why writers do it, but they do: indulge in a little romance with readers and/or fans before hot-footing it to the airport and on to the next city. OK. I do know why, but boy, it sure is dangerous. Years ago, a famous...
read moreFive Very Good Books That Made Very Bad Movies
-- Marie Arana The Washington Post Maybe it was seeing "There Will Be Blood," a magnificent movie made from Upton Sinclair's hair-raising Oil!, that started me thinking about how some works of fiction make the leap to the screen gracefully, and others just fall flat...
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Doctor’s script for film recovery
A yearning for better times ... director George Miller. Australia's film industry is not in terminal decline but it needs urgent treatment, George Miller tells Garry Maddox. A more aggressive approach to film financing, more creative training, more emphasis on film...
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Screen Australia and YouTube create Map My Summer Initiative
By Sam Dallas Screen Australia and online video powerhouse YouTube have joined forces to expand Australian content online. Launched early this morning, the national agency’s new channels will offer behind the scenes footage on productions, footage of local filmmakers...
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When adapting a book, screenwriters have some horror stories
By Lewis Beale September 28, 2008 "BLINDNESS," Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's 1997 allegorical novel about an epidemic of sightlessness that threatens to destroy society, is told in a stream-of-consciousness style that reads like a fever dream. Not exactly...
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By the book
by Jonathan Coe In the course of their famous book-length interview, Francois Truffaut once asked Alfred Hitchcock about his approach to literary adaptation. Hitch's response was as magisterial, worldly and mischievous as one would expect: "What I do is to read a...
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Jack Thompson’s focus on Coast awards
Veteran Australian actor Jack Thompson and young film-maker and director James Khehtie on the eve of the Asia Pacific awards on the Gold Coast. Photo: Mike Batterham THE Asia Pacific Screen Awards focuses on feature films, but veteran actor Jack Thompson is hoping...
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Hobbit to stay in New Zealand
Protests were held in New Zealand over the decision. (Getty) Peter Jackson's "Hobbit" movies will be made in New Zealand after the government struck a deal with Hollywood studio Warner Bros., Prime Minister John Key said Wednesday. Ending almost two months of...
read moreNew Australian Film Stories Workshop
In partnership with Blackheath firm Ink-to-Screen, Macquarie Group Foundation LongLines brings you the opportunity to apply for a LongLines New Australian Film Stories Workshop. How would your novel –published, unpublished, or just carefully worked out – work on the...
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