De Laurentiis himself would ultimately be forced to stand down as President. These financial troubles forced his withdrawal from Australia just before the official opening of the studio in Impossible and a new series Dolphin Cove.
Impossible moved to Melbourne for a second series, while Dolphin Cove only lasted a single season. Impossible represented the first strategy to develop the Gold Coast as a location for international production. Village Roadshow targeted opportunistic international producers looking for cheap production services, favourable exchange rates, and local financial incentives to minimise production costs. Later strategies involved making its own feature films for international distribution, producing series for Australian television while retaining an eye to international markets, and co-producing international series.
One of the keys to its success as a film and television production location is that from an early stage the Gold Coast seemed to understand the importance of private investment and transnational corporations in mediating the development, governance and future of the city.
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The city has been defined by large-scale, entrepreneurial developments often as part of public-private partnerships reliant on sympathetic planning regulations and soft loans from public coffers. The city has been developed, remodelled and re named to invo ke and juxtapose other places—there are parts of the Gold Coast called Southport, Miami Beach, Sorrento, the Isle of Capri—or to evoke images of idyllic luxury and exotic exclusivity—Surfers Paradise, Sanctuary Cove.
The city survives and thrives on its capacity to produce new ideas and new experiences for tourists and prospective investors.
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It is relentlessly present- and future-focused, attuned to the fulfillment and anticipation of desire. It was the cornerstone of the infrastructure necessary to create an industry on the Gold Coast. It was built to service and facilitate international production, and to establish a commercial cinema in a country where since the revival in the early s filmmaking had relied on support from the public purse.
On the Gold Coast, as in Vancouver, Canada, where a similar satellite industry had been established in the mids, Hollywood was not considered an obstacle to the development of a film industry, but rather a means to build local production capacity through the development of a range of services to film production.
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While the industrial and financial situation forced strategies for the studio to change, and while the facility would struggle for a number of years, a critical mass of crew and ancillary services began to grow and the Gold Coast gradually established itself as an important site of Australian and international film and television production. But we found in our research on the Gold Coast that the Global Hollywood approach did not entirely account for the variety of motivations and interests at work in the Gold Coast development.
Indeed, the Gold Coast has become since an important satellite centre for Hollywood originated or designed films and television programs, but to look at the evolution of the industry on the Gold Coast solely from the perspective of migrating productions or of Hollywood is to miss much of what has happened on the Gold Coast. Instead, if we look at the particular local circumstances which led to the studio development we find a different picture that is also instructive for thinking about other places in the world that like the Gold Coast seek to compete to host and service some of the high profile and highly mobile international film and television production.
Often this will be done in conjunction with a major film industry figure or firm. Their role was undeniably important, but just as critical was the role and ambitions of local players: The pursuit of the Gold Coast location interest over the last twenty years has much to teach other centres in both its successes and failures. The ways in which the Gold Coast contributed to the development of the split location production system that is now the norm around the world provide valuable precedents for aspiring and established centres.
In short, the Gold Coast story has much to teach industry practitioners, policymakers and scholars about the workings of contemporary film and television production, about the need for and consequences of particular types of policy settings and attitudes to production, about the approaches we must take to the study of locating international film and television production, and about the local aspects of Global Hollywood.
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