Blinky Bill the Movie
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| Directed by | Deane Taylor |
| Produced by |
Jim Ballantine Barbara Stephen |
| Written by | Fin Edquist |
| Based on |
Blinky Bill by Dorothy Wall |
| Starring |
Ryan Kwanten Rufus Sewell Toni Collette David Wenham Deborah Mailman Richard Roxburgh Robin McLeavy Barry Otto Barry Humphries |
| Music by | Dale Cornelius |
| Edited by | Simon Klaebe |
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StudioCanal (Australia) Shout! Factory (United States) Enchanted Animation (United Kingdom) |
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93 minutes |
| Country | Australia United States India |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $4,057,115 |
Blinky Bill the Movie is a 2015 Indian-Australian-American computer-animated adventure-comedy film based on the Blinky Bill character, an anthropomorphic koala created by Dorothy Wall for a children's book series in 1933. The film was produced by Flying Bark Productions (formerly known as Yoram Gross Films Studio, which also produced Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala, a 1992 traditional-animated film featuring the character), and co-produced by Assemblage Entertainment (India) and Telegael (Ireland).
The film will be followed by a 26-episode TV series, The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill, which will air on the Seven Network.
This is the town of Greenpatch in Australia, Blinky Bill (Ryan Kwanten) tells the story about his father, Bill Koala (Richard Roxburgh) to rescue the animals, he and his wife Betty Koala (Deborah Mailman) say goodbye when Blinky's dad tells his son he went to the sea of white dragons to look after to his mum and he'll be back soon. Then Blinky and his friends Splodge (Cam Ralph), Robert (Cam Ralph), and Marcia (Charlotte Rose Hamlyn) see Mayor Wilberforce Cranklepot the Goanna (Barry Otto) with the fruit bombs at the town but Betty warns Blinky not to get worried about Cranklepot and to be good and off they go, then Cranklepot tells what he found at Greenpatch and he has the goal to become the new king and rename Greenpatch to "Goannasburg", but Blinky caused the disaster of destroying a Statue and Cranklepot chases Blinky who heads to the big rainforest. Then Blinky saw the mark that his dad left but Cranklepot grabs him back to his house to his mother, Cranklepot tells Blinky to return first thing tomorrow where he'll be sealing up his place from the outside world and he turn their tree in this his castle and to start packing, when he came back they better be out, Betty expresses anger at Blinky and made him promise to be good to his friend Marcia, but Blinky tells her to go save his father as Cranky will shut down the valley and they will be cast off at the sea of white dragons but his mom tells her son that his father's not out there in the desert and she has been begging to go. but Blinky feels very upset to his mother he angers at her that he'll never see him again and he never gives up and he ran back to his room, then in his bedroom Betty, knocking the door, she tells him to give him the message but Blinky is not listening to his mom, he's been very upset but he saw him made it of the sea of white dragons painted on the wall.
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