Shooting for the Stars

LUKE SPARKE’S OCCUPATION: RAINFALL AND THE ELUSIVE AUSTRALIAN BLOCKBUSTER

In a screen industry that largely shuns big-budget genre films, Luke Sparke’s science fiction sequel is a rarity: an Australian production that attempts to follow the path of the Hollywood action blockbusters that dominate the box office. As David Michael Brown contends, the film’s special effects and set pieces are nothing to sneeze at, but eliciting enthusiasm from local audiences remains a significant challenge. No-one could have predicted that the tumultuous year that was 2020 would lead to Australia becoming a major hub of Hollywood production. With the US in turmoil due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the major studios have looked further afield to safer pastures. The result? Australia’s film studios have never been busier. Tom Hanks is headlining Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic on the Gold…

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