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Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road
The third and fourth Mad Max movies – Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road – were released 30 years apart. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) co-starred Mel Gibson and Tina Turner and was co-directed by...
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Mad Max 2 and 3: Costumes by Norma Moriceau
Costume designer Norma Moriceau drew on her background in the London punk scene when creating iconic costumes for Mad Max 2 and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
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Vale George Ogilvie
George Ogilvie – widely recognised as one of Australia's most acclaimed theatre, film and television directors – passed away peacefully on 5 April 2020.
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: miniature Sydney
One of model coordinator Dennis Nicholson's crew members is working on a miniature of a Sydney skyscraper in this production still. These sets were used for the final sequences in Mad Max Beyond...
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: Sydney Harbour Bridge
Dust and sand are fanned across the miniature set of a ruined Sydney while a camera does a fly-through to film the closing sequences for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. These miniatures were created by...
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: Sydney city model
One very common usage of miniature sets is to take a real-world location and – devastate it! At the end of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Jedediah flies Savannah and the other children away from...
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: aeroplane set
This production still shows the cast and crew on the set of a crashed aeroplane for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. The photo amply illustrates the increased budget that production company Kennedy Miller...
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: Sydney miniature
Perhaps emboldened by the success of the previous two Mad Max films, the Kennedy Miller production team had no qualms about creating an obvious Australian location for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. The...
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: Tina Turner as Aunty Entity
While Mad Max and Mad Max 2 did not feature any international stars in the cast, directors George Miller and George Ogilvie cast veteran American entertainer Tina Turner as Aunty Entity, the central...
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: Mel Gibson and Tina Turner
This production still shows Max (Mel Gibson) in conversation with Aunty Entity (Tina Turner) in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.  Aunty Entity is in charge of Bartertown. Having started as a benevolent...
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