Julian Crowley
Australian films don’t come around often, but when they do they’re often good. Mad Max, the futuristic, dystopian motorbike action movie, brought in $99.75 million worldwide, with the revenue lost due to the fact that it was banned in Sweden and New Zealand possibly compensated for elsewhere by the notoriety such a measure generated. The budget was a mere $200,000, giving a percentage return of almost 25,000%, and leading the way for the penetration of Australian new wave cinema into the wider world film market.
