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SBS Box Office: week 6, ending on Feb 5th
SBS, Oztam
Tuesday 9 February, 2010 (Australia)

Regional SBS viewers, wondering about their unexercised urban brethren, have flocked to Why are Thin People Not Fat? rather than Mythbusters or Man vs Wild.

Critic Plagiarism: US critic Paul Fischer outed for stealing from.. um.. press releases
Vancouver Sun
Tuesday 9 February, 2010 (U.S.A.)

We've quoted glowing reviews from Fischer for Australian films. At the time we believed him. Scroll down to the bottom of the comments for a particularly lovely line from someone monickered up as "film publicist".

MIFF: moving on from Richard
[Screen Hub Feature]
Screen Hub
Tuesday 9 February, 2010 (Australia)

Richard Moore, the Ciceronian head of the Melbourne International Film Festival, is today contemplating his future as the Berlin Film Festival ramps up and the street temperature moves up towards zero.

India and Adelaide: short film gets political twist, broadcast to world
ABC
Tuesday 9 February, 2010 (India)

Student filmmakers in Adelaide made a short about star-crossed lovers, one from Australia and the other from India. With the hysteria about the horrid attacks on Indians in Australia, it rides a timely escalator to pay-TV screenings across the region.

Ten Conditions of Love: ABC embroiled in row
[Screen Hub Feature]
Screen Hub
Tuesday 9 February, 2010 (Australia)

Dealing with Ten Conditions of Love, the film about the Uighar minority in Western China from John Lewis and Jeff Daniels, is like being bitten by a ferret. It won't let go, and the room fills up with hunting dogs in a frenzy.

The Nothing Men: interview in Santa Barbara
SB City
Tuesday 9 February, 2010 (Australia)

Low gbudget film The Nothing Men from Alchemy Film Productions, runs at the Santa Barbara Film Festival and director Mark Fitzpatrick is interviewed on camera.

Ratings: Monday 8th February
Oztam
Tuesday 9 February, 2010 (Australia)

'Australian Story' with Red Symons came in 4th, while 'My Kitchen Rules' caught pretty much the same audience as last week.

Ann Rodwell Brown: funeral arrangements
[Screen Hub Feature]
Screen Hub
Monday 8 February, 2010 (Australia)

Ann Brown, known to the screen sector mostly through her husband, Geoff Brown, will be laid to rest this Friday.

Box Office: week ending February 8th
[Screen Hub Feature]
Screen Hub
Monday 8 February, 2010 (Australia)

Life is peaceful in the multiplexes. With so many airconditioners in private hands, punters don't have to go to the mall to get cool any more.

Sucker Punch: Animal Logic and 75 jobs
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Screen Hub
Monday 8 February, 2010 (Australia)

The NSW government is chuffed that it helped secure the VFX work on Sucker Punch, but we reckon Animal Logic will be happy as well.

Vizard: now just a cheap videographer for Danii Minogue
Herald Sun
Monday 8 February, 2010 (Australia)

V has been following D with a camera. Must be his doppelganger developing his huge St Kilda home.

Sleuth 101: insurance as comedians go under pressure
SMH
Monday 8 February, 2010 (Australia)

It seems that Australian comedians are too feral for a gentle quiz show, so Auntie found a New Zealander. The voice of sanity, really.

Kyle Sandilands: inherited personality
Herald Sun
Monday 8 February, 2010 (Australia)

Kyle's grandfather has been harrassed as well. ""Then they rang because Woman's Day had come around to their house and scared her banging on the door. So, my grandfather, who only has one arm, he lost one in the war, chased them out of the yard with a steel rake."

The Lab: positive change and growth
Monday 8 February, 2010 (Australia)

Major new appointment, more investment and senior management take wider responsibilities. (They seem to have re-Mapped the whole joint).

Carolynne Cunningham: up for Oscar too
The Age
Monday 8 February, 2010 (Australia)

Almsot overlooked by the patriots, Australian Carolynne Cunningham is the NZ based co-producer of District Nine, nominated for Best Picture. And that, fellow marsupials, is very excellent.

ASTRA: new Manager, Marketing & Member Communication
ASTRA
Monday 8 February, 2010 (Australia)

It's Thunderbirds a go-go for Julie Jensen in her new ASTRA role.

Children's TV Standards: lawyers explain in clear language
Mondaq
Monday 8 February, 2010 (Australia)

Jamie Nettleton and Andrew Dawson try for lucid technicalities on behalf of Mondaq.

Logies: to stay in Melbourne, with government support
Gold Coast News
Monday 8 February, 2010 (Australia)

Disappointed Gold Coast news sources reveal failure of determined Queensland bid, which has shaken Vic government money loose from the incentive tree. We shall see.

Ratings Season: blasting off in comparative secrecy
The Australian
Monday 8 February, 2010 (Australia)

Here come the commercial channels in a blaze of dust and insults..

Adelaide Ratings: networks can bleed through smaller markets
Adelaide Now
Monday 8 February, 2010 (Australia)

Nine news ratings in Adelaide - surely the most Nine-ish market in Australia - are pitiful, proving that local management issues can send a shiver through a national organisation.

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