National
John Landis: from triumph to tragedy in a fedora
The Melbourne Festival has scored an exclusive cinematic coup with zany American director John Landis. It may bend his brain.
Ratings: Tuesday, 1st October 2013
Seven up 3.5% to 36.3% for the evening, Nine down 1.3%, Ten down 1.3% as del, SBS stable. The figures…
MIPJunior 2013: Aussie kids fare growing like Topsy
Our correspondent László Kriston limbers up for MIPCOM by working through the antipodean offerings at MIPJunior. He sees a particularly…
Patrice Chereau: La Reine Margot director dies, aged 68
The French film theatre, and opera director, Patrice Chereau, who won the Jury Prize at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival…
Ratings: Tuesday, 8th October 2013
Ten reaches vainly for 20%, Seven misses 35% by a whisker, Nine dips below 25%, ABC beaten by Ten, SBS…
MIPJunior 2013: hearts, smarts and farts
Picture a bunch of execs talking about making children laugh. Picture our correspondent László Kriston keeping a straight face as…
MIPJunior 2013: your youngest VOD-consumers are 15 months old, but the parents pay for the content
The ubiquity of television even in a baby’s life is overwhelming. Before they can talk, infants are habitually tapping the…
Backlot Films: producers taking to the distributor-for-hire model
Six months after it officially launched it’s distributor-for-hire model, new Melbourne theatrical distributor, The Backlot Studios, is expanding it’s slate…
Cordell Jigsaw: gets International Emmy nomination
Cordell Jigsaw Productions has picked up an International Emmy nomination for the second series of Go Back To Where You…
MIPCOM 2013: weekly bidding wars, fueled by Foxtel and Aussie digi channels, fattens Zodiak’s bottom
One would think that the Aussie TV sector is small in size and purchase power, but that is not the…