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The Belanglo State Forest, scene of Ivan Milat.s grisly serial murders, is such a forbidding place the producers of the Seven Network.s Catching Milat chose to avoid the area.

Only director Peter Andrikidis and DoP Joe Pickering visited the area south of Berrima but they used a drone camera to film the location.

.It.s such an eerie place I didn.t want to go there when they did the tech survey,. Kerrie Mainwaring, who produced the two-part Shine Australia miniseries with Rory Callaghan, tells If.

Instead, the cast and crew shot the crime drama in Terrey Hills, St Ives, Balmain, Glebe, Wattle Grove and Parramatta.

As the title suggests, the focus is not on Ivan Milat but on the marathon investigation into the 1990s backpacker murders that led to his arrest and conviction.

Callaghan came up with the idea and Shine optioned the book Sins of the...

Alcohol licensing laws which prohibit screening of films with a sexual nature stops arthouse cinema from screening Palme D'Or winner

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For lovers of arthouse cinema it stands as one of the year's most highly anticipated and controversial films, a startling three-hour Palme D'Or winning saga of sapphic passion whose stars later denounced their director's working practices and vowed never to work with him again. But as Us filmgoers sit down to view Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue is the Warmest Colour later this month, they may just spare a second or two to pity their counterparts in the mountainous rural state of Idaho, where the explicit French drama has effectively been banned.

Carole Skinner, owner of the Flicks theatre in Boise, said the cinema was unable to show the film because its...

Lesbian coming-of-age drama Blue Is the Warmest Color has gotten plenty of attention since its Palme d'Or-winning premiere in Cannes in May. And while it's finally opening in U.S. theaters on Oct. 25, Abdellatif Kechiche's film won't be hitting the big screen in at least one state -- Idaho. The Flicks Theatre, which is Boise's arthouse staple, won't be showing the film because of its Nc-17 rating.  Photos: The Dirty Dozen: Films that Narrowly Avoided an Nc-17 "It isn't because we're prudes," Carole Skinner, owner of the theater, tells The Hollywood Reporter. 

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