By Jason Apuzzo. Because we’ve been following both of these films extensively here at Libertas, I wanted to mention that the ‘Aussie Red Dawn‘ picture Tomorrow When the War Began and Mao’s Last Dancer both took home prizes last week at Australia’s IF Awards.
Tomorrow won for Best Feature Film, while Mao won a special box office achievement prize – as that little indie production has currently made about $15 million worldwide thus far, which is fantastic. Read more about this at Hollywood Reporter.
And did you catch the early grosses on Call of Duty: Black Ops? $650 million, according to the LA Times … yowza.
Incidentally, Call of Duty is apparently set during the Cold War, and based around a special operative who saves the US from a communist plot (oddly enough, without Angelina Jolie’s assistance). The operative travels between Cuba, Vietnam and Russia – and there’s even apparently a segment of the game in which players can go on a mission to bag Castro! Hola! (The Cuban government is apparently pretty upset at this.)
I like the sound of this game. Of course, you just wonder whether it occurs to anyone in Hollywood that this extremely popular game might make for a viable movie adaptation. (Just doing a little thinking outside the box, here!)
We’re always hearing how ‘money rules’ in Hollywood, rather than politics. Here’s another nice occasion to prove it.
Posted on November 22nd, 2010 at 4:14pm.
If Hollywood ever comes out with a movie about Special Ops being heroic and amazing and not pitiable and/or psychotic, it will surely be a huge hit. But it would be against the conventional non-wisdom, so I’m not holding my breath. Might take up gaming instead.
I think we’re all going to have to take up gaming! 🙂
It’s great to see Tomorrow When The War Began picking up more awards against some pretty tough contenders. It also won Best Script for Stuart Beattie, Best Music and Best Actress (Caitlin Stasey who plays Ellie) at the Inside film awards.
Thanks for that info, V.