News Feature by: David Tiley
Friday 12 March, 2010
Ahead of the new terms of trade agreement, Screen Australia has conducted a routine revision of the program guidelines. But even tinkering around the edges can change the world for an applicant.

News Feature by: Alex Prior
Friday 12 March, 2010
Omnilab Media and Screen Queensland have reached an out of court settlement over In Her Skin - but hush, gentle reader, it's all a really, Big, SECRET!. A $2.3 million secret. Or maybe a bit less.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Friday 12 March, 2010
Sally Riley, who ran the Indigenous Branch at the AFC and now Screen Australia, has perhaps the best track record of any person in a government development role in Australia. Now she is moving to the ABC - which signals a very interesting change in a traditional culture.

News Feature by: Anne Richey
Friday 12 March, 2010
Melissa Kelly is a very busy producer. She has a film in post, two in development, a busy TVC business and two kids aged three and six months. 'Blame', her first feature as a producer, was co-produced with husband Ryan Hodgson, and Michael Robinson. It has just entered post after shooting for four week, mainly in a house in the Roleystone area of the Perth hills.

Friday 12 March, 2010
The digital channels managed to pick up 15% of the audience last night.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Thursday 11 March, 2010
Maurice Newman gave a speech to senior staff on Wednesday which covered the ABC's role in a changing world, and slid sideways into climate denialism and the playbook of the sceptics.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Thursday 11 March, 2010
What is happening inside the Melbourne International Film Festival? Karl Quinn, Age journalist, has a swag of allegations, which have been tipped onto page five with a juicy headline.

Thursday 11 March, 2010
'Customs' and 'Criminal Minds' managed to beat the news.

Wednesday 10 March, 2010
Reviews, a workhorse of Variety, with enormous brand cut through, will no longer be written by full time staff. And we are not supposed to care.

News Feature by: Rachael Turk
Wednesday 10 March, 2010
The Australian Film Television and Radio School popped a question that makes the screen sector mumble and look at its collective feet. Why doesn’t Australia make Romantic Comedies? Rachael Turk watches a certain determination to not get personal...

Wednesday 10 March, 2010
What's the Problem with Nudity beat Hitler's Bodyguard, but not in the regions where viewers much preferred Big Bang in Tunguska about a large explosion in a useless piece of countryside.

Wednesday 10 March, 2010
Alice In Wonderland sucked $10,377,137 from Australian pockets, as our contribution to the largest opening weekend evah.

Wednesday 10 March, 2010
Wellington is about to erect a 28m by 3.5m sign on a hill - WELLYWOOD. Sadly, it is not a homage to the local boot industry, but an embarrassing genuflection to a terrible pun about cinema. We think they should have gone for THE SHIRE.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Wednesday 10 March, 2010
Move to Los Angeles, get the career choofing, spend too long in traffic, decide to make an indy feature - the story of Michael Bond, Cameron Daddo, László Baranyai and a carload of invisible ninja crew on the freeway is truly wonderful.

Wednesday 10 March, 2010
It's cooking over cars, but not by much.

Wednesday 10 March, 2010
The Scientologists bump 'Four Corners' into 15th place.

Wednesday 10 March, 2010
Apple debuted [deeboooted?] the iPad advertising at the Oscars. You think this thing won't roooool your world?

News Feature by: Tina Kaufman
Monday 8 March, 2010
Rani Mukherjee is one of the biggest stars in world cinema, but few people in Australia know she exists, and the media is seemingly uninterested in her arrival this week to open Bollywood and Beyond, the Indian Film Festival for 2010.

News Feature by: Rachael Turk
Monday 8 March, 2010
With films like Valentine's Day and It's Complicated charming the box office, and a soggy history of cheery love in the Australian cinema, the Australian Film Television and Radio School provided an emergency box of ideas in a week-long course on creating the Romantic Comedy.

News Feature by: David Tiley
Monday 8 March, 2010
Andrew Ogilvie and Trevor Graham are constructing the industry equivalent of a marriage, and it is a symbolic moment for the wider sector.

Monday 8 March, 2010
After the Mary and Max and Samson & Delilah moments of gross injustice, the focus on the golden man is subdued for us this year. So far, it hasn't got any better..

Monday 8 March, 2010
TVNZ has now released a little more detail around the launch of its new Sky-platform channel Heartless, clarifying concerned speculation on some issues raised on Friday.

Monday 8 March, 2010
'Hogan's Heroes' beats 'Twilight'.