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Mad Max is an Australian media franchise created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy.It centres on a series of post-apocalyptic and dystopian action films.The franchise began in 1979 with Mad Max, and was followed by three sequels: Mad Max 2 (1981; released in the United States as The Road Warrior), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015); Miller directed or co-directed ...
Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller, who co-wrote the screenplay with James McCausland, based on a story by Miller and Byron Kennedy. Mel Gibson stars as "Mad" Max Rockatansky , a police officer turned vigilante in a dystopian near-future Australia in the midst of societal collapse .
Mad Max: Fury Road premiered in Los Angeles on 7 May 2015, and was released in Australia on 14 May. The film grossed $380.4 million at the worldwide box office, making it the highest-grossing Mad Max film.
The International Film Festival of India (IFFI) has tapped Australia as its Country of Focus for its upcoming 55th edition, set to run Nov. 20-28 in Goa. The selection comes on the heels of a ...
It is the third installment in the Mad Max franchise. The film stars Mel Gibson and Tina Turner, and follows a lone roving warrior who is exiled into the desert. It was Gibson's last performance as "Mad Max" Rockatansky. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome was released in Australia on 10 July 1985. The film received generally positive reviews from critics.
Byron Kennedy was born in Melbourne. At the age of 18, he formed his own production company named Warlok Films and produced many amateur short films under this logo. In 1970, at the age of 21, he won The Kodak Trophy, Australia's Ten Best on Eight, for the short film Hobson's Bay, a short documentary film about the Melbourne port suburb of Williamstown.
In Mad Max, Max Rockatansky is a Main Force Patrol (MFP) highway patrolman tasked with maintaining law and order on the roads of a dystopian Victoria, Australia.Max is quiet, rarely speaking to any great extent, and never paying much attention to his steadily increasing reputation.
It is responsible for some of Australia's best-known and most successful films, including the five Mad Max films, the two Babe films, and the two Happy Feet films. Kennedy Miller Mitchell is one of Australia's oldest existing film production companies, and the most successful internationally.