All Feature Films
Spend in Australia
Amount and proportion of expenditure in Australia by Australian and foreign features, 1994/95–2020/21
Next update December 2022
Since 1994/95, when the monitoring of this indicator began, the overall trend for expenditure in Australia, on both Australian and foreign features, has been upwards.
Annual expenditure in the second half of the 1990s averaged $186 million, and by the conclusion of the 2000s had reached $320 million (including PDV-only). In the 2010s, average annual expenditure was $492 million (including PDV-only).
Stand-out years:
- 2003/04 recorded annual expenditure of $449 million (excluding PDV-only) for all productions. Notable high-budget titles that commenced production that year include the Australian animated feature Happy Feet and the US features Son of the Mask, Star Wars – Episode III and Stealth.
- In 2008/09, there were no US productions taking place in Australia for the first time since production recording started in 1988.
- 2009/10 recorded annual expenditure of $453 million (including $10 million of PDV-only work) which can be attributed to the comparatively greater number of titles (53 including PDV-only titles) that commenced production in that year as well as those with a high budget, including foreign titles The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, as well as local titles Killer Elite and Sanctum.
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