Most recently, she worked on the number one Netflix hit Clickbait and the yet-to-be-released Shantaram. Her first Docklands production was Ghostrider in 2005, at the time the biggest feature film shot in Melbourne. “We’re all adrenaline junkies to be honest, we all work under that pressure and stress … it’s possibly not a good thing,” she laughs. Growing up, she was told to steer away from a career in the arts but the advice didn’t stick and her work has taken her all over the world – even up the Eiffel Tower to film Rush Hour 3. Melbourne producer Naomi Mulholland is a 20-year veteran of the screen industry and a familiar face at Docklands Studios. “If you feed them you can control them, otherwise they might just go to the pub,” he jokes. It’s a massive effort to make sets that may only be on camera for a moment, according to Tulloch, but there are big benefits to studio production.įilming on location means having to contend with noise, weather and building codes, and keeping cast and crew well fed during long days of shooting. On one set, a moody streetscape is taking shape, complete with lampposts and cobblestones, autumn leaves and cracked bitumen.įront-on it looks entirely realistic but a step to one side reveals the bricks are merely painted plaster on plywood screens. Walking through the so-called “elephant doors” of each sound stage, it’s possible to get an idea of the large-scale sleight of hand that is the magic of Hollywood – or rather, Docklands. “There’s a whole set of different eyeballs looking at us now because we’ve got 100,000 square feet of stage space available,” he says. Major international production companies are taking notice, according to Tulloch, who is dealing with calls from US and UK filmmakers as AAP tours the studios. The $46 million Studio Six could comfortably fit a four-storey building, has a specially reinforced floor that can support a 20-tonne machine and even a 10m by 20m pit that can be filled for shooting underwater. The recent completion of the biggest studio at Docklands so far means the facility has the floor space to compete with Fox Studios in Sydney and Village Roadshow on the Gold Coast. Production for the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man is underway and the science fiction series Metropolis is slated to begin filming in coming months. These days those products – feature films and TV shows – are world class, including the hit streaming shows La Brea and Clickbait. It’s manufacturing but every product that comes out is different,” Tulloch tells AAP. But inside these soundproof behemoths, new worlds are being built. ![]() These days, he’s in charge of Melbourne’s version of Hollywood.ĭocklands Studios doesn’t have the glamour of the US movie capital motorists on the city’s Bolte Bridge would barely notice the hulking grey sheds metres from the tollway. Antony Tulloch began his career as a lighting assistant.
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