Friday 3 July, 2009
Trouble in Paradise picks up a handy 1.094, helping give Nine a win for the night.

News Feature by: Tina Kaufman
Friday 3 July, 2009
Chris Landreth, seriously respected Canadian animator, hit a Sydney audience with a strange, strange problem: when CGI characters get too lifelike, we get the creeps. It's called 'The Uncanny Valley'... as Tina Kaufman discovered.

Friday 3 July, 2009
Animation is creeping into documentary through the front door, the back door and the floor boards. Here's another twist on the human head in mainstream history on cable.

News Feature by: Anne Richey
Friday 3 July, 2009
Peter Sumner’s 10 years of writing has paid off. After unsuccessfully shopping the script around in Australia, he thought Spider Dance was dead in its web - but now it has international financing and Lajos Koltai on board as director (at least according to Hollywood Reporter, who previously listed Saul Dibb).

News Feature by: Zoë Harvey
Thursday 2 July, 2009
Subscription TV pushed its documentary commissioning credentials at a Sydney seminar, with just a hint of the tensions between Pay and FTA in form, financing and.. um... aesthetic.

Thursday 2 July, 2009
Steve Ryan really wanted to do a good job reporting on the death of Michael Jackson in Las Vegas. Some local drunk really wanted to be on television. The operative words are 'live television'.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Thursday 2 July, 2009
What happens when unassuming NZ filmmaker shooting in Melbourne for her LA based production company gets swept up in a crazed international tabloid rumour mill?

Thursday 2 July, 2009
Icon Films are pleased to offer Screen Hub subscribers the chance to win one of 10 double passes to see Cheri. Directed by Stephen Frears and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Cheri is based on the novels by Colette.

Thursday 2 July, 2009
The scallywags over at The Chaser are still picking up strong audiences, despite their recent chastisement.

Thursday 2 July, 2009
Best obit is probably at the LA Times. Knows how to honour its own.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Wednesday 1 July, 2009
Faced with a budget cut of $10m, Screen Australia is about to circulate proposals which reduce overall documentary production financing by 18%.

Wednesday 1 July, 2009
We reckon this event is the secret jewel of the Melbourne International Film Festival. Two cultures collide for the purposes of mutual seduction, to create the kind of frenzied crusade which is needed to bring a film to screen, and the underlying book to a stand nearby.

Wednesday 1 July, 2009
The dispute between the Pacific Film and Television Commission and Liberty Films International in the Queensland Supreme Court was adjourned for two weeks on Monday.

News Feature by: Alex Prior
Wednesday 1 July, 2009
Independent filmmaker Jonathan Nolan (Pisces All Media) and finance broker Greg Smith (Myrmidon Enterprises) are suing online forums Filmnet and ZGeek for defamation, claiming that a series of un-moderated online posts cost them a $2.5 million distribution deal.

Wednesday 1 July, 2009
Each key person in an agency changes the culture, and Screen Australia lost a few of those on June 30th. Julian Wu brought some unexpected skills to IT, and the Melbourne office.

Tuesday 30 June, 2009
The MIAF winners have been published on the website.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Monday 29 June, 2009
'Stone Bros', the Indigenous comedy from Richard Frankland, now has a release date and a distribution company. And plenty of anticipation.

Monday 29 June, 2009
Icon Movies are pleased to offer Screen Hub subscribers the chance to win one of 15 double passes to see Winged Creatures, directed by Rowan Woods and starring Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce and Forest Whitaker.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Friday 26 June, 2009
Screen Australia has dramatically reduced the ceiling on its investment in individual feature projects. What difference will this make?

Friday 26 June, 2009
Nine is 0.2 off its real bragging point of 30, and handily ahead of Seven. For no very obvious reason.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Friday 26 June, 2009
MEAA and SPAA are heading for a toe-to-toe over actor's rates for international commercials, just when the industry is being out-competed by everyone. Even New Zealand.

Friday 26 June, 2009
Nine's State of Origin, with over two million sets of eyeballs, affected everyone, but Seven more than Ten.