The boom is real. The ambition is bigger. When the Robbie Williams biopic “Better Man” needed to recreate Stoke-on-Trent – a gritty English industrial city with little obvious resemblance to the Pacific – the production simply decamped to Queensland. “Nothing looked like Australia and we were able to execute that,” says Craig McMahon, CEO of Forte Corp Holdings, which co-financed the film. “And that was still an Australian film, and it was made here. We have the capabilities to do that here.” It is not the first time Australia has pulled off that trick. When Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” needed to rebuild Memphis from scratch – including a five-block recreation of Beale Street on a former Gold Coast city dump – the production did it entirely in Australia, with 100% Australian visual effects work. The recreations were so convincing that visitors from Tennessee believed the film had shot on location.…