Production

Michael Lake

Michael Lake is an Australian actor and producer who has over thirty-six years' experience in production and management within the Australian and international film industry. For the past 14 years Lake has run the Warner Roadshow Studios and during this time he has been instrumental in attracting productions valued at $1.6 billion to the Gold Coast, resulting in around $800 million being spent within the region. From 1998 to 2005 he split his time between the Gold Coast and Los Angeles where he was Executive Vice President of World Wide Feature Film Production for Village Roadshow Pictures. In 2006 he returned to the Gold Coast to establish his own production company and consult to Warner Roadshow Studios and Production Services.

Acting credits

Dark City poster
7.3

A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

Dark City

1998

The Pirate Movie poster
5.3

Left behind by her friends on a boat trip, contemporary teen Mabel takes pursuit but is knocked unconscious on an island, where she has a dream involving pirates, sisters, a modern major-general, romance, and adventure.

The Pirate Movie

1982

Sweetie poster
6.1

The buttoned-down, superstitious Kay is attempting to lead a normal existence with her new boyfriend Louis. That’s until Sweetie, her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, returns home after an absence, exposing the rotten roots of their family and placing a strain on Kay and Louis’ relationship.

Sweetie

1989

Young Einstein poster
5.2

Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beatuiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.

Young Einstein

1988

Reckless Kelly poster
4.6

A satirical take on a modern day Ned Kelly who is forced to Hollywood in order to make enough money to save his family's land. As it goes against his belief, he cannot simply rob banks for his own benefit (all money goes to the poor). Ned is forced to find another way to come up with the $1 million required to save his family island.

Reckless Kelly

1993

Doom Runners poster
5.8

In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of children move from one uncertain world to another in their quest for sanctuary.

Doom Runners

1997

Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds poster
5.8

A religious brother and sister endure alone together in the post-apocalyptic Outback, until the sudden arrival of a stranger who helps them build a crude plane to fly out of the desert.

Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds

1988

A Brand New You poster
NR

Grieving young widower Santiago convinces his landlord - a disgraced biochemist with a serious hygiene problem - to help him clone his dead wife, using their female housemate as a surrogate mother.

A Brand New You

2014

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NR

A lonely, pathetic laboratory worker becomes obsessed with a parcel left behind by a beautiful and strange woman on a commuter train.

Desire

1992

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9.0

Debut film appearance of Guy Pearce

Friday on My Mind

1990

In Your Eye poster
NR

A long, long time ago Alex Proyas (Director of 1994's "The Crow", 1998's "Dark City" and 2004's "I, Robot") directed a 1 minute 14 second short movie called "In Your Eye", which was shown on MTV occasionally.

In Your Eye

1989

Behind the camera

12 Rounds poster
5.9

When New Orleans Police Detective Danny Fisher stops a brilliant thief from getting away with a multimillion-dollar heist, the thief's girlfriend is accidentally killed. After escaping from prison, the criminal mastermind enacts his revenge, taunting Danny with 12 rounds of near-impossible puzzles and tasks that he must somehow complete to save the life of the woman he loves.

12 Rounds

2009

The Marine 2 poster
5.9

Rebels seize control of the hotel where a Marine sniper and his wife are staying. Can he save the day?

The Marine 2

2009

Joey poster
5.7

Billy is a boy who is trying to save a baby kangaroo called Joey when it is caught and taken to Sydney. Linda, the young daughter of the U.S. Ambassador is helping Billy in his task.

Joey

1997

Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia poster
5.6

Navy SEALS mount an attack on Colombian special forces to clear their names and rescue a hostage.

Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia

2009

Tarzan and the Lost City poster
4.3

Tarzan returns to his homeland of Africa to save his home from destruction.

Tarzan and the Lost City

1998

Irresistible Force poster
5.4

A police sergeant is hoping for a few quiet weeks before his impending retirement, but his plans are scuppered when he is joined by an over-enthusiastic rookie partner who is assigned to him after failing her field test. To make matters worse, trouble looms when a group of white supremacists hold up a local shopping centre.

Irresistible Force

1993

A Place to Call Home poster
7.0

Sam Gavin decides to relocate his family from Houston, Texas to a sheep station in Australia to protect his eleven children from the "destructive influences" of modern American society. Because of business obligations, he fails to join them and, more or less, abandons his wife, Liz, to the hardships of her new surroundings. Mother and children are determined to make a go of it.

A Place to Call Home

1987

The Facts of Life Down Under poster
6.3

Blair, Tootie, Natalie, Jo, Beverly Ann, and Andy visit the land down under. Blair and Jo are warned of a planned jewel heist; Beverly Ann visits a beau from many years ago; Natalie is stranded in the outback; and Tootie meets a Yale student who pretends to be a young Aborigine.

The Facts of Life Down Under

1987

Hotel de Love poster
5.0

10 years ago at a party, Steven thinks he sees the girl of his dreams, Melissa. Just as he's about to make his move, his twin brother Rick gets to her first and they fall in love. Steven watches his brother's relationship bloom, longing for Melissa all the while. Eventually, Melissa leaves to go to college and the brothers go on with their lives. Steven becomes a workaholic to block out his feelings about Melissa and Rick becomes a spineless bellboy at the Hotel de Love, after a later girl friend stood him up at the altar. Enter Steven and Rick's warring parents visiting the Hotel de Love for their anniversary. Re-enter Melissa with her current boyfriend, Norman. Suddenly Rick and Steven have a second chance at Melissa. Also there's Alison the palm reader, Susie behind the counter, the owner/piano player, and the freshly married couple.

Hotel de Love

1996

Trapped in Space poster
4.7

After an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.

Trapped in Space

1994

Chameleon poster
5.8

A super-killer female cyborg with chameleon-like powers discovers maternal instincts when she protects a child from government operatives in this science fiction tale set in the year 2028.

Chameleon

1998

The Fury Within poster
4.0

A surburban California family is beset by the power of supernatural subconscious. A bone-chilling thriller with electrifying effects.

The Fury Within

1998