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Russell Crowe rallies behind independent Aussie films and local jobs with new Coffs Harbour film studio - 9TheFIX

Russell Crowe rallies behind independent Aussie films and local jobs with new Coffs Harbour film studio - 9TheFIX

Russell Crowe rallies behind independent Aussie films and local jobs with new Coffs Harbour film studio - 9TheFIX
Jun 17, 2021 1 min, 21 secs

Russell Crowe has opened up about his plans for a bespoke film production facility to be located in Coffs Harbour, a city on the north coast of New South Wales.

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The Thor: Love and Thunder star said that major studios across Australian cities are currently booked out, so he's trying to create "a facility that's a bit more bespoke" to support local independent films that would otherwise have nowhere else to go.

"So we're not trying to compete for the major tent-pole films, but if you've got an independent film with a 10 million dollar budget or all the way up to a 100 million dollar budget, our studio facility is the type of studio facility that you'd be looking for," the Gladiator star said.

Crowe said that independent Australian films are important to showcase "our skillset to the world.".

"It's the smaller independents like the [Crocodile Dundee films] and the [Stork (1971) film] and the films that I've been involved in like Proof [1991] and Romper Stomper [1992] and things like that, that actually take our skillset to the world, so that's what this production facility is about," the A Beautiful Mind actor said.

Circling back to the more serious side of things, Crowe said that the federal, state and local government can see the opportunity that the new film studio brings

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