Last Cab To Darwin cost nearly $4 million to make and it’s expected to attract $8 million in ticket sales from Australia and New Zealand alone. So how come nobody got rich?

Where does the finance for TV drama come from? How do producers put together budgets for individual projects? How has this changed compared to ten years ago?

Screen Australia’s data paints a picture of a typical recent year of production compared with ten years ago.

A glimpse of Screen Australia's tracking of overseas sales of films and programs in which it has invested in.

You bet it’s entertaining. But it’s also expensive. The 47 dramas that went into production in the 2014/15 financial year cost $332 million. Where did all this money come from?

The Dendy/Icon Group team behind Last Cab to Darwin's success discuss the journey behind the release.

Last Cab To Darwin’s producers Greg Duffy and Lisa Duff get frank about the film’s budget.

Many options for format rights to Australian shows have been sold abroad in the past five years, but that’s been the end of the road for the majority. Where production has occurred, very few have gone to a second series in the same territory, and generally that has to happen for there to be any chance of real upside.

Ian Collie, partner/Head of Scripted at Essential Media and Entertainment, on the format rights to Rake - which have been optioned in the US and France.

Tracey Robertson, CEO and executive producer at Hoodlum, on optioning the rights for Secrets & Lies to US television network ABC.

Jason Burrows, managing director and executive producer at Jungle, discusses A Moody Christmas’ format sale to CBS in the US and talks surrounding No Activity.

Go Back To Where You Came From has been remade in Denmark, The Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland. And it's been optioned in a dozen other territories too.