Cornell was new to film producing when he and Hogan went to Kakadu for the shoot after raising the $8 million budget through private investors, including rock singer Michael Hutchence and leading cricketers, under the country’s tax incentives at the time.
“It’s gunna be good,” he told visiting journalists with a showman’s confidence.
He was right. Director Peter Faiman’s comedy about outback adventurer Mick Dundee took a triumphant $US328 million around the world. The only film to sell more tickets that year was
Top Gun.
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Cornell joined Hogan and Ken Shadie in being nominated for an Oscar for the script. In Australia,