Director Mimi Leder made the step up from
television for her first big feature (she had directed
numerous episodes of ER, starring Clooney and executive produced by Dreamworks's Steven Spielberg) and it received reasonable notices, though I can't really think why (it was nowhere near as good as the other big, dumb action movie of that year, Air Force One).
At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed
numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and
numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and
Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for
numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.
As of 2014, the Pokemon franchise has produced more than 260 million copies of its games, 21.5 billion trading cards, and
numerous spinoffs including more than 800
television episodes and 17 movies.