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Sir Michael Elias Balcon (19 May 1896 – 17 October 1977) was an English film producer known for his leadership of Ealing Studios in West London from 1938 to 1955. Under his direction, the studio became one of the most important British film studios of the day. In an industry short of Hollywood-style moguls, Balcon emerged as a key figure, and ...
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Jul 11, 2010 · Australia. (2008) As the landscape teems with the dust of a thousand cattle stampeding towards him, Nullah (Brandon Walters) takes a stand on the edge of a precipice. At this moment, it is not just courage and the strength of his ancestors that he summons, but this vista recalls certain “storylines” running through Australian cinema. By ...
Producer: The Ladykillers. Michael Balcon started in films as a distributor, then a producer from the early 1920s, helping to launch the career of Alfred Hitchcock. In the 1930s, Balcon was prominent in building up a huge annual production programme of films for both Gainsborough and Gaumont-British. Head of MGM-British, 1936-38, then in charge ...
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Oct 18, 2023 · Baz Luhrmann explains why he revisited and recut his 2008 film Australia into the new six-part Hulu film Faraway Downs and talks about the new ending.
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the ...
Language. English. Budget. $130 million [2] Box office. $211.8 million [2] Australia is a 2008 epic adventure drama film directed by Baz Luhrmann [3] and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with Ronald Harwood and Richard Flanagan.
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- Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Knapman, G. Mac Brown
Jill Balcon. Career: 1919—founder, with Victor Saville, Victory Motion Pictures, distributing company; 1921—first film produced, the documentary The Story of Oil ; 1924—founder, with Graham Cutts, Gainsborough Pictures, Islington; 1926—organized Picadilly Pictures with Carlyle Blackwell; 1928—founder, with Maurice Ostrer and C. M. Wolf, Gainsborough Pictures Ltd.; 1931–36—in ...
