Founded in January 1997 in Australia, Dark Horizons® is not only one of the world’s top sources for online entertainment news, but one of the most widely respected and well regarded with experience in this medium that few can match.
With a focus squarely on the industry rather than celebrity gossip, and a predilection for genre fare, the site has amassed a very large and intensely loyal readership over the years including corporate professionals, early adopters, influential industry insiders, marketing & PR departments, and film and tech journalists.
Said readership is matched only by its internal industry reputation as one of the most fair, balanced and objective sites in the field, one that avoids the hyperbole of over editorialising. It also delivers the news with a voice of authority and experience thanks to its editor Garth Franklin who has blazed the trail in the online publishing field since the Internet’s early days back in the mid-1990’s. If you have a scoop you’d like to submit, please use the Contact Us form already provided.
Garth Franklin
Editor, Writer, Designer, Webmaster, Creator
One of the very first online entertainment journalists, Sydney-based Garth Franklin has clocked up more hours, stories and experience in this field than the entire staff of various other sites combined and his work has been recognised with a Webby Award nomination, along with coverage about his efforts across multiple major media outlets.
Franklin founded, designed and operated the very first Dark Horizons® incarnation on geocities.com back in April 1996 and has steered it through at least four major redesigns, two recessions, hundreds of interviews, thousands of screenings, and around two hundred thousand articles – often single-handedly maintaining a sustained daily output across news, features, analysis pieces, reviews and interviews for thirty years.
In addition to editorial responsibilities, he has overseen the site’s development from a hand-built project to an established digital publication, with hands-on involvement in coding, publishing systems, site management and day-to-day operations.
Garth’s has regularly consulted with and/or worked alongside publicists, journalists, managers, producers, studio VPs, agents, filmmakers and celebrities in the US, UK, Europe and Australia. His work has taken him all over the globe for assignments and consultations in places like Auckland, Albuquerque, Atlanta, Bangkok, Baton Rouge, Berlin, Calgary, Chicago, Dallas, Edmonton, Harare, Hwange, Honolulu, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Nadi, Naples, New York, Paris, Perth, Prague, Rome, Rotorua, San Diego, San Francisco, Siem Reap, Singapore, Surfer’s Paradise, Suva, Toronto, Vancouver, Venice and Wellington.
Franklin, who is also a ‘Top Critic’ on Rotten Tomatoes and member of the Australian Film Critics Association, has also contributed columns for several outlets including Empire Magazine Australia, Cinescape Magazine and AOL, served as a film critic on both Foxtel’s Channel V and ABC Radio 702 with Angela Catterns, contributed content or towards pieces for numerous outlets ranging from IGN to USA Today to the U.S. Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, and guested on several in-person panels for film festivals and Comic Cons as well as podcasts including One Heat Minute, The Leaky Cauldron, Smodcast’s Team Jack, Pod Save Our Screen, The Take, The Sinner Files and Hell is for Hyphenates.
Contact: Mail, Facebook, Twitter
Blake Howard
Former Australian Contributor
A Michael Mann fanatic all the time, Blake Howard is an Aussie film writer, editor and member of the Online Film Critics Society. Co-founder of the acclaimed Australian film website Graffiti with Punctuation, he offers articulate analysis across the gamut of cinema from blockbusters to indies galore.
A former co-host of That Movie Show 2UE, he’s also behind the top-rating film podcasts such as Pod Save Our Screen and The Debrief, a freelance contributor to outlets from Penthouse to ABC News 24, and a co-host of the weekly ‘Gaggle of Geeks’ on 2SER radio.
Drew Turney
Former Australian Contributor
A hard-working Australian journalists who has written for publications and institutions throughout Australia including The West Australian, Penthouse, The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian MacWorld, Xpress Magazine and The Seaside Observer.
Along with writing general features on everything from celebrities and business to ideas and culture, he’s written over 15 novels, dozens of short stories, poetry, and a journal now in its 20th year.
Further Contact Information
DarkHorizons.com is wholly owned and operated by Dark Futures Pty. Limited (ACN: 081244171) based in Sydney, Australia. Dark Horizons® is a registered trademark of Dark Futures Pty. Limited. Contact details below:
Phone: +61 417 467 238
E-Mail: garth@darkhorizons.com
Past contributors have also included: Paul Fischer, Maria Lewis, Brian Orndorf, Jeff Otto, Josh Hylton and Tom Brennan.