Haven't we all at some point in time fantasized about stepping through a cinema/TV screen and into the world of our favourite movies and television shows? I certainly have!

With its modern, urban setting and stunning harbour, it is easy to see why Sydney leads the way as an ideal and versatile shooting destination. Movies shot here have been set in New York (Godzilla: Final Wars, Kangaroo Jack), Chicago (The Matrix and sequels), London (Birthday Girl), Seville (Mission Impossible 2), Bombay (Holy Smoke), Darwin (Australia), Myanmar (Stealth), Mars (Red Planet) and the fictitious city of Metropolis (Superman Returns, Babe: Pig in the City).

Whether popular landmarks or off the beaten track locations that are often hard to find, you can now explore Sydney in a fun and unique way with the SYDNEY ON SCREEN walking guides. Catering to Sydneysiders as much as visitors, the guides have something to offer everyone, from history, architecture and movie buffs to nature lovers.

See where productions such as Superman Returns, The Matrix and sequels, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Candy, Mission Impossible 2, Mao's Last Dancer, Babe: Pig in the City, Kangaroo Jack, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Muriel's Wedding, The Bold and the Beautiful, Oprah's Ultimate Australian Adventure and many more were filmed.

Maps and up-to-date information on Sydney's attractions are provided to help you plan your walk. Pick and choose from the suggested itinerary to see as little or as much of the city as you like.

So, come and discover the landscapes and locations that draw filmmakers to magical Sydney, and walk in the footsteps of the stars!

A GREAT ALTERNATIVE TO EXPENSIVE TOURS, YOU CAN NOW ENJOY EXPLORING SYDNEY FOR UNDER $10 WITH THE SYDNEY ON SCREEN WALKING GUIDES. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT US AT SYDNEYONSCREEN@HOTMAIL.COM

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Click on the picture above to see a preview of all four walking guides and on the picture below to see larger stills of Sydney movie and television locations featured in the slideshow!

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Cast of AFL film take giant leap into training

Footy film Blinder is currently being filmed in Torquay.  Pictured at Torquay Football Oval.
Skills on the up: Actors in the football movie Blinder, which is being filmed at Torquay, work on their sporting prowess. Photo: Rebecca Hallas


Karl Quinn, The Age, reports

When Glenn Archer signed on as one of the producers of the footy film Blinder, he fully expected to contribute his expertise as well as his dollars. But on his first day on the Torquay set of the movie yesterday, the former North Melbourne great was relieved he'd had second thoughts about the skills training.

''It's pretty exciting that we're doing this but gee, it's a bit boring,'' Archer said of the interminable waiting around that constitutes the typical working day on a movie set. ''I'm glad I decided to handball the training.''

Archer outsourced the task to his old mate Michael Tout, a former Fitzroy player. ''I had them all last week for three or four hours a day, working mostly on kicking and marking,'' says ''Touty'', as he is universally known, of his cast of mostly AFL virgins. ''We don't start shooting the footy scenes until April, so I'll be working with them whenever I can until then, to get their skills up to scratch.''

Blinder tells the story of Tom, a promising footballer (Oliver Ackland, who played the young soapie star Rhys on TV drama The Slap) who gets caught up in a scandal. The phrase ''St Kilda schoolgirl'' seems to hover over proceedings, but Kiwi actors Rose McIver and Anna Hutchison, who play the sisters at the heart of the scandal, are admirably tight-lipped on the details. Tom flees to America, becomes a kicker in the NFL and a decade later comes home to try to clear his name.

The genesis of Blinder was a script written in 1998 by Scott Didier. He worked with a number of directors over the years trying to develop it, but it wasn't until he met Richard Gray that the project finally took off.

''He was commercial, and that really mattered to me,'' says Didier. ''I couldn't ask people to invest in it if I didn't think there was a chance they'd get a return.''

Gray was fresh off his cinema debut Summer Coda and on his way to America to make his second, a thriller called Mine Games. Blinder - which Gray and his wife Michelle Davis-Gray have co-written with Didier - is the third film the 31-year-old has made in the past two years, an astonishing feat in an industry where directors can often wait a decade between drinks.

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