Nicole Kidman, Rob Cowan among stars helping Village Roadshow Studios celebrate 30th birthday

AN A-list rollcall of filmmakers feature in a happy birthday show reel to mark the 30th anniversary of Hollywood on the Gold Coast — movie making hub Village Roadshow Studios.

NICOLE Kidman has filmed a special birthday message for Village Roadshow Studios as the iconic complex known as Hollywood on the Gold Coast celebrates its 30th anniversary.

“Happy 30th birthday, love from me,” the Oscar-winning Aquaman actress says in an all-star video filmed to mark the occasion.

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Well wishers congratulating the Oxenford complex’s president, Lynne Benzie, who has worked at the studios for 28 years, on the milestone also include US producer Rob Cowan, who has made two blockbusters — San Andreas and Aquaman — on the lot.

Filming on San Andreas at Village Roadshow Studios. The film’s producer Rod Cowan says he’d love to come back and make another movie on the Gold Coast. Picture: Supplied courtesy Village Roadshow Studios.

“I just want to say it’s a world-class facility,” Cowan says in the clip.

“I’d come back there in a minute to make any movie I could.

“I just want to wish a happy anniversary and all the best to Lynne (Benzie) and Graham (Burke) and everyone at Village Roadshow.

“Thankyou for having me and I look forward to coming back again.”

The studios have hosted more than 155 productions since they first opened on July 22, 1988b — at least 10 of them lured to the Coast to film thanks to the complex’s water tank, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Ms Benzie says those projects have a combined production budget value of more than $3.6 billion dollars, of which $1.8 billion “has been physically spent in the state”.

An aerial view of Village Roadshow Studios with the recently added Sound Stage 9 on the left. Picture: Supplied courtesy Village Roadshow Studios.

Daybreakers, Railway Man and Bait producer Chris Brown, from Pictures in Paradise, says the studios are ‘a great hub’ and ‘a wonderful place to work’ — “with 30 more years hopefully to go”.

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“Thankyou for all the years here for Pictures in Paradise,” he says.

“Thankyou for looking after my vampires, for my sharks and for my intense drama and I’m sure my crew would like to thank you for the enjoyment and for the employment as they say.”

Village Roadshow Studios’ outdoor tank during filming on The Shallows Picture: Supplied courtesy Village Roadshow Studios.

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Actor John Jarrat says the studios show smaller Australian productions as much support as international projects such as recent blockbusters Pirates of the Caribbean: Deadmen Tell No Tales, Kong: Skull Island, San Andreas, Thor: Ragnarok and Aquaman.

Village Roadshow Studios President Lynne Benzie and Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop at the Oxenford lot. Picture: AAP Image/Dan Peled.

Other well wishers in the clip include The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader director Michael Apted, actor John Jarrat, Village Roadshow Themeparks CEO Clark Kirby, AusFilm chief Debra Richards, New York Film Academy students, location manager Duncan Jones and.