Australia’s Screen Sector Is Booming. Now Comes the Harder Work

May 13, 2026 2:16am PT Australia’s Screen Sector Is Booming. Now Comes the Harder Work

By Naman Ramachandran

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The boom is real. The ambition is bigger.

When the Robbie Williams biopic “Better Man” needed to recreate Stoke-on-Trent – a gritty English industrial city with little obvious resemblance to the Pacific – the production simply decamped to Queensland. “Nothing looked like Australia and we were able to execute that,” says Craig McMahon, CEO of Forte Corp Holdings, which co-financed the film. “And that was still an Australian film, and it was made here. We have the capabilities to do that here.”

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