Celebrities and their big-budget films complicate the picture for Australian stories
ABCSince the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the US, film and TV producers have been trying to figure out how to keep the content pipeline flowing. He said the writers, directors and producers who were the "engine room" of the local screen industry, creating Australian-owned content that could be sold globally, could be disadvantaged by the foreign boom. "So, you've got $100 million budget, and they're getting 30 or $40 million," Mr Murray said of some large foreign film productions. "Without those productions coming to Australia, then we wouldn't have been able to skill up the crew which has now made it possible for some of these people to have big international careers," she said. Matthew Deaner, chief executive of Screen Producers Australia, said nobody wanted to see the opportunity that came from international work diminish, and some Australian businesses, like animation studios, got extra work when foreign productions arrived.
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