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By Ben Goldsmith
Informative and interesting, this account is an interesting behind-the-scenes examine the Gold Coast—Australia’s first neighborhood Hollywood—and the worldwide festival to host cellular movie and tv productions. reading every little thing from position and tale environment to monetary funding, this e-book uncovers the variety and intensity of foreign productions made in Queensland and attracts parallels among Hollywood and the Gold Coast within the Nineteen Eighties, whilst the leisure and relaxation infrastructure replaced and elevated dramatically. because it identifies the modern dispersal of Hollywood productions and the destinations worldwide outfitted with the amenities, assets, political will, and tax platforms that allure and host high-budget productions, this exam is bound to attract motion picture buffs who're attracted to all features of the movie undefined.
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The Japanese investments in Hollywood sought synergies between their hardware and the studios’ ‘software’, and although things didn’t pan out as Sony and Matsushita might have hoped, they and the other media corporations would learn and refine the new ways of doing business. That year also saw the mega-merger between Time Inc. , and an ultimately failed attempt by an Australian company, Qintex – run by future fugitive and Gold Coast resort developer Christopher Skase – to buy another Hollywood major, MGM/UA.
This chapter considers Village Roadshow’s evolving corporate strategies and its quest for synergies among its operations in shaping the trajectory and competitiveness of the Gold Coast as a film and television production location. We show how a local agent’s involvement in co-financing, co-producing and managing projects was important to enable international productions, and we also outline the constantly shifting rather than static trajectories of such companies. indd 34 11/06/10 1:49 PM Global and Local Hollywood 35 then it is equally important for a range of other agents (including service providers, owners of valued filming locations, state, local and federal governments, and hospitality companies) to work effectively together to present a united front to international producers.
So, too, places bring to the table different natural and industrial endowments. Governments may have different strategic priorities for supporting involvement in international production and favour particular kinds of collaborations and settlements. Firms – whether Hollywood majors, mini-majors or local producer-distributor-exhibitors as in the case of Village Roadshow – even when operating within the same sector may, as Henderson et al. 2 Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation’s stewardship of Fox Studios Australia (hereafter Fox Studios) in Sydney was very different from the Melbourne-based Village Roadshow’s carriage of Warner Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast.