Hollywood

Arts & Culture

Zanuckville: Australia’s strangest suburb?

In the 1950s, the Hollywood Western came to Australia, but the cast and crew needed somewhere to stay. The South Australian government came up with ‘Zanuckville’

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Podcasts

How to create Oscar-nominated visual effects

Special effects artist Genevieve Camilleri describes how her work makes movie monsters ‘real’ and her Best Visual Effects nomination for the 2021 Academy Awards

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Book extract

Has Hollywood run out of original ideas?

With remakes of Mulan, Dune, The Witches and The Invisible Man all due out this year, a new book answers the big question: what justifies a remake?

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Cannes vs Netflix: A screen battle of blockbuster proportions

As the curtain opens on 2018’s Festival de Cannes, without any Netflix entries, there’s an economic side as well as a cultural one to this cinematic wrangle

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Looking for a break in La La Land

A group of University of Melbourne graduates are chasing their dreams in Hollywood

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Suicide Squad is far from painless

Finally, we have some evidence that DC’s superhero juggernaut is changing course, but it’s moving very slowly

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Captain America is a Marvel to behold

Were Disney and Marvel to go head to head with superhero rivals Warner Brothers and DC, the former would win hands-down

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Holy mixed-bag! Batman v Superman

Take two titular superheroes, add a dash of Wonder Woman, some over-the-top effects, and relax – or run from the cinema faster than a speeding bullet