Films about Organised Crime in Australia (Film Guide) - Underbelly, Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, Animal Kingdom, Tom-Yum-Goong (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 23. Chapters: Underbelly, Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, Animal Kingdom, Tom-Yum-Goong, Underbelly: The Golden Mile, The Combination, Chopper, Mr. Nice Guy, Blue Murder, Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer was Here, Underbelly Files: Infiltration, Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away, Jammin' in the Middle E, Underbelly: Razor. Excerpt: Underbelly consists of a 13-part Australian television mini-series as well as 2 prequel seasons 2 and 3, each season having 13 episodes. Season 1 retells the real events of the 1995-2004 gangland war in Melbourne. It depicts the key players in Melbourne's criminal underworld, including the Carlton Crew and their rival, Carl Williams. The series is based on the book Leadbelly: Inside Australia's Underworld, by The Age journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule, and is produced by the Australian Film Finance Corporation, in association with Film Victoria. The executive producers are Des Monaghan and Jo Horsburgh. The lead-up to Underbelly involved a heavy marketing campaign which covered radio, print, billboards and an increased online presence, including the use of social networking tools. At a reported cost of $500,000, both this marketing investment and potentially millions of dollars in advertising revenue were claimed to be put at risk by the Victorian Supreme Court's injunction, as the series was expected to attract 800,000 to 1 million viewers in Victoria alone. The injunction was put in place to ensure that upcoming criminal trials were not unfair to the accused, because the series contained fictionalised re-enactments of several disputed events. Underbelly began screening on 13 February 2008 on the Nine Network in all states and territories except Victoria. An edited version of the series premiered in Victoria on 14 September 2008 after the injunction w...