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'.

Friday 5 March, 2010
Wendy Levy, facilitator of the weekend's Doc Lab, ran a long Monday afternoon session reporting on the Lab and discussing the challenges and opportunities of “new media”. She invited the audience to interrupt with questions, but spoke so fast and authoritatively that for 45 minutes nobody dared – not even the other panelists.

Friday 5 March, 2010
Like Australians, New Zealanders grapple with a definition of national identity in the funding system. Screen Australia's Julia Overton presided over a session which aired strong feelings about the Kiwi-ness of Kiwi funding.

News Feature by: Alex Prior
Friday 5 March, 2010
World Wide Entertainment, the Victorian low-end doc producer which last year listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, has reported a 92% collapse in profit from a 32% collapse in revenue for the half year to December, 2009.

News Feature by: Ellenor Cox
Friday 5 March, 2010
In Sydney at the Media 2010 ‘elite international debrief’ on Friday 19th February, some of the smartest 'digirati' and media’s most influential powerbrokers from around the world came together to discuss the new decade’s ‘rules’ for attracting audiences and running profitable media businesses.

Friday 5 March, 2010
Already inspired by one International Digital Emmy, Hoodlum Entertainment is quietly admitting it is up for another one, this time for Primeval Evolved

Friday 5 March, 2010
With winter on the way back, plenty of people tuned in to 'Getaway.'

News Feature by: David Tiley
Friday 5 March, 2010
BBC Worldwide as just spent £17m to extricate itself from the remains of a deal which seemed clever in that halcyon time before the Global Economic Meltdown. In the process, it reveals something of its own raw economic muscle, and the changing online economy.

Friday 5 March, 2010
Holy moley, birds with human eyes.. show this to the kids in 3D IMAX and they will go home and lay eggs.

News Feature by: Mark Poole
Thursday 4 March, 2010
Ruth Harley and her team are on the road, seeking input about the issues we believe are important for the future of the industry, no less.

Thursday 4 March, 2010
How did Nicolas Chartier get to cause so much paranoia? Movie City News expert David Poland goes head to head with Nikki Finke and her busy (alleged) informants.

Thursday 4 March, 2010
It is the fate of all good screen ideas to be turned into a dog food commercial.

News Feature by: Natasha Phillips
Thursday 4 March, 2010
Along with the hallowed name, sorry .. brand.. of BBC Storyville, BBC Scotland and BBC World News laid out their spaces defined by a changing monolith.

News Feature by: Natasha Phillips
Thursday 4 March, 2010
Amanda Duthie is head honcho of Arts and Entertainment at ABC TV, and is in her third year in this role. She is responsible for both arts documentaries and nurturing emerging filmmakers - both hot button topics for producers with challenging projects.

News Feature by: Andrew Einspruch
Thursday 4 March, 2010
Just when you thought you might have finally gotten your head around the idea of Web 2.0, suddenly they’re talking Web 3.0. In a session called “Beyond Social Media: Documentary and the Intelligent Web”, delegates got a taste of some of the latest web-oriented thinking.

Thursday 4 March, 2010
When we talk about “re-creating reality” in a documentary, most of us tend to think of a “dramatised reconstruction”, where actors are often chosen more for their resemblance to the real person they’re playing than their acting skill. But this seminar showed us that this conception is far too narrow.