Australia's taxpayers have reasons to be mad about 'Furiosa'

Unlimited public funding for Hollywood film productions makes little sense

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A promotion for "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" in Sydney on May 1: Exact figures for government financial support for the film are unclear. (AAP Image)

Amanda Lotz is a professor and leader of the Transforming Media Industries research program in the Digital Media Research Centre of Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and the author of "Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-funded Video on Demand."

The back-of-the-envelope math does not look good. It now appears that much of the budget for "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga," the most expensive film ever made in Australia, was funded by Australian taxpayers.

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