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Speaker 1: I had to go see it again. This movie is

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Speaker 1: one of the most Australian movies I've seen for a

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Speaker 1: very long time, and you've got an opportunity to do

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Speaker 1: it in cinemas now the dry We love this man

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Speaker 1: to death. Happy New Year, Eric, but.

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Speaker 2: Welcome today with a good morning fellows. How are you mate.

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Speaker 3: It'm always must come with a sense of pride to

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Speaker 3: do an Aussie film.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, absolutely absolutely, and you know in this case

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Speaker 2: it comes with the with the extra excitement of just

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Speaker 2: how incredibly well the public is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's it's congratulations mate.

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Speaker 2: Thanks very much, guys, and thanks thanks for your support

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Speaker 2: early on as well.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's you know what it's I thought, well, you

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Speaker 1: see all these big blockbusters from Hollywood that are delaying.

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Speaker 1: Now we've got the new Bond movie. They're delaying as well.

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Speaker 1: People are and a lot of it there's they're saying that

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Speaker 1: they're not going to get their money back on these movies.

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Speaker 1: I think this is a testament that it's a if

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Speaker 1: you've got a great movie, Eric, it's people are going

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Speaker 1: to watch it. And for anyone out there, fifteen million

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Speaker 1: dollars now you've taken at the box office, I don't

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Speaker 1: think anyone would have predicted that before it came out, Eric,

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Speaker 1: So congratulations.

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Speaker 2: No, thanks guys. Yeah, we thought, you know, ten was

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Speaker 2: a pretty high reasonable estimate, especially in COVID time. So

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Speaker 2: to get to fifteen and it's still going, it's just

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Speaker 2: it's amazing for the industry and also in particularly for

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Speaker 2: all the cinema owners around Australia who've done it really

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Speaker 2: really tough, and so you know, it's also about getting

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Speaker 2: back to your local cinema and making sure that they're

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Speaker 2: doing okay and that they're sort of keeping on because

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Speaker 2: they've had very limited products for so long, and so

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Speaker 2: we're just thrilled that people have chosen this film as

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Speaker 2: the one to kind of galvanize themselves back into the cinema. Unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: The interesting thing is too, when you look at you know,

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Speaker 3: what's out there, and sure the cinemas have quietened down

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Speaker 3: and COVID shook the whole world, but the streaming services

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Speaker 3: have been huge in the demand for content is bigger

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Speaker 3: than ever. How much is coming across your desk these days,

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Speaker 3: with how many outlets there now.

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Speaker 2: Is, Yeah, it's it's kind of weird because there's very,

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Speaker 2: very little being shot at the moment, and we're sort

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Speaker 2: of overrepresented because we keep seeing photos of American actors

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Speaker 2: arriving into Australia. You know, it's it's kind of skewing

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Speaker 2: the reality of how little is happening right now. So

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Speaker 2: a lot of stuff that's across the desk, you know,

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Speaker 2: you know, with a promise that it's going to be made,

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Speaker 2: but no one really knows how they're going to how

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Speaker 2: they're going to make it. But I think there'll be

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Speaker 2: a deluge at the end of this year, for sure.

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Speaker 2: That's just a matter of weather in the storm.

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Speaker 1: Really, it's based on Jane Harper's book. I read an

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Speaker 1: interview that you did recently that your wife is a

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Speaker 1: big reader. Now, she was the one that read The

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Speaker 1: Dry and she recommended it to you, loved it so much,

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Speaker 1: and she was one of the reasons why you took

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Speaker 1: this role, Eric. Have you She's got three other books out,

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Speaker 1: The Survivors, The Lost Man, and Force of Nature. How

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Speaker 1: many of those has she sold Hollywood already? I heard

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Speaker 1: she's already got movie deals for some of those. Is

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Speaker 1: that correct.

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Speaker 2: I'm not exactly sure. I think she's working on a

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Speaker 2: on a couple of deals. But you're right, my wife

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Speaker 2: has a far high success rate than I do in

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Speaker 2: the bedroom when it comes to books and stuff that

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Speaker 2: go into adaptations. None of the motorcycle magazines that I've read.

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Speaker 3: It's annoying, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so she's got a bit of an advantage there

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Speaker 2: technically speak. But no, There's been plenty of films that

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Speaker 2: I've done in the past, you know, Time Traveler's Wife,

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Speaker 2: the Other Brillian Girl, Romulus, my Father. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: could go on and on that have stemmed from my

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Speaker 2: wife reaching over and saying, you need to read this mate.

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Speaker 1: Your advice that with recommendations, you take her advice. But

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Speaker 1: eric does she come And on the other side, does

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Speaker 1: she come to the footy with you sometimes to watch

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Speaker 2: She does occasionally. Yeah, she endures so much yelling and

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Speaker 2: the football because I don't carry it on as much

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Speaker 3: At least you can tie some of that into your movies.

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Speaker 3: Was it Happy People? Was that the movie you did?

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Speaker 3: Funny People?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 3: And you're trying to teach them about IFL It's just

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Speaker 3: the best part of the film. It's just the tall

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Speaker 3: guy and he knocks it down to the smaller black.

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Speaker 2: It's just a little bit swearing, a lot of going

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Speaker 2: and screaming, and that is that is the riguur. And

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Speaker 2: I don't know how the walls still standing, particularly after

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Speaker 2: last year during lockdown and Malcolm watching literally every single

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Speaker 2: game at home and she's concerned for my health like

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Speaker 2: an all serious and she's like this, can't you have

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Speaker 2: to It's intense now, like anyway.

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Speaker 1: It's your passion, mate, it's your passion.

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Speaker 3: Did you feel the do you feel the urge to

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Speaker 3: Eric to get to bar and Bay with everybody else

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Speaker 3: made it felt like half of hollywod have gone there?

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Speaker 3: Did you feel left out?

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Speaker 2: Or I feel like getting a T shirt saying don't worry,

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Speaker 2: I'm not going.

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Speaker 1: I don't need to go now. We don't want to

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Speaker 1: be those guys, but Eric, you know what, like we

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Speaker 1: do we are because in city at the moment, there's

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Speaker 1: a pibic going on. We're talking about filming in the

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Speaker 1: Hollywood Blockbusters thoughts happening at the moment as well. We're

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Speaker 1: actually mate. We're big fans of Matt Damon. He's in

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Speaker 1: the country at the moment. We're trying to track him down.

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Speaker 1: We're going through personal trainers. We're getting close. We're nearly

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Speaker 1: onto Chris Nellly onto Matt Damon. But Eric Banat, have

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Speaker 1: you met Matt Damon before? Have you got any relationship

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Speaker 1: with him?

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Speaker 2: I have zero connection to the Damond big fans. But

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Speaker 2: unfortunately he's not in the talladex mate, and no mutual friends.

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Speaker 3: Does your wife know him? She's across everything else.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to cut yeah at dead end. Oh that's terrible, mate.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know if he's in the cars of bike,

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Speaker 2: so there's no connection there either. And I'm sorry, Well

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Speaker 2: you think.

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Speaker 3: Get a hud?

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Speaker 1: Well, what about this one? You Detroy me Brad. He's

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Speaker 1: good friends with Brad Pick. That's all we need.

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Speaker 2: Now you're getting warmer Warmer.

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Speaker 3: Hand it over, mate, we'll.

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Speaker 2: Do it off of mechanics. I'll give you their phone

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Speaker 2: numbers for if you want a mechanic, mate.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, gotta be awesome, mate, It's just perfect, exactly.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: I took you know the other thing as well. I

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Speaker 1: snuck my eleven year old in to see The Dry,

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Speaker 1: so mate, and you know what, he's really into movies

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Speaker 1: and now at the moment, and he absolutely loved it.

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Speaker 1: So my wife we went as a family and for

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Speaker 1: anyone out there, go and see this movie.

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Speaker 3: It's brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on it made it still in cinemas now. But

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Speaker 1: Eric Banner the Dry, it's great, Thank.

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Speaker 2: You, thanks so much, guys. I really appreciate it. It

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Speaker 2: fits in and Whipper