Entertainment
Australians Took Over Hollywood. Their Own Box Office Had to Wait. – The New York Times
In a rare feat, three locally made movies are the biggest hits in Australia, thanks in part to stars intent on homegrown stories. It only took a pandemic.
Bruna Papandrea, whose Made Up Stories banner produced the adaptations of both The Dry and Penguin Bloom, said there was no way The Dry could have been Americanized in the way the Australian author Liane Moriartys Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers were reset as series, which she also produced.
The landscape was such a massive character in The Dry, she said. Its not to say that couldnt have been California, because I think California climate-wise does mimic Australia in so many ways. But…
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