Australia
The Mule
This Australian film may be bypassing cinemas, but the crime comedy-drama is one audiences needn't strain to enjoy.
Ratings: Summary for week 47, Nov 14-21
We were covering SPA last week; here is a quick roundup of the basic numbers while we were otherwise engaged.
ABC Cuts: beyond the desolation, the city of dreams
As the ABC holds ugly meetings with staff around Australia, Mark Scott sticks to the need for program cuts in…
Tokyo Tribe
The iconic and inimitable Sion Sono applies his particular talents to a ridiculous and riveting underworld opera of sorts.
SPA 2014: Selling formats - two models and a bastard amid a haze of detail
Selling format rights into the US market is like selling ice to the Inuit - great bragging rights and a…
SPA 2014: ABC under pressure, ups original content
ABC Head of TV whistles insouciantly at budget cuts with low cost comedy.
SPA 2014: Foxtel: continues to increase local production, and local formats
SVOD, FTA or Foxtel? In that battle for brand loyalty, Foxtel knows that local content is an increasingly handy weapon.
SPA 2014: freeze frame on the post revolution
VFX truly is the producer's friend, in the battle to contain costs and control the vasty deeps.
SPA 2014: When Did ‘New Media’ Become So Antiquated?
Digital content is about building parallel universes - but do any of them have a cash economy? The jury is…
SPA 2014: Graeme Mason meditates in public
Screen Australia (mildly) contemplates a white label future