The production landscape can often seem a zero-sum game, with cost-conscious studios looking to maximize their budget dollars by any means necessary. But Australia, with its combination of solid infrastructure, attractive financial packaging and abundant natural beauty, is enjoying a boom.
Key to this upswing has been a diversified portfolio that courts international mega-productions — that includes the currently lensing “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” directed by “The Maze Runner”’s Wes Ball — as well as recurring television series, such as “La Brea” and “Young Rock.”
“The benefits of working with our highly skilled crew, creative talent, world-class post-production, VFX, facilities and screen-service businesses are widely recognized, and driving record levels of film and television production activity across the country,” Ausfilm CEO Kate Marks tells Variety. “With the…