Australia

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=20314

Report From the Australia Set
Source: HF
May 10, 2007


The Daily Telegraph has published a report on the upcoming filming of Baz Lurhmann's epic Australia in Bowen, Queensland. Here's a clip:

With filming due to begin on Monday, the set is currently a flurry of activity - with dozens of workmen hurrying to and fro carrying anything from shop signage to drink containers for the 750 head of cattle making an appearance in the film.

To read the full article and view the photos, click here.

Australia is a romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior to World War II, centers on an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Hugh Jackman) to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[Cinemaman]

I wonder how Jackman could put on this suit

 

[Darth Elektra]

New Photos From the Australia Set

http://www.abc.net.au/northqld/stories/s1925852.htm

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2007/05/24/nicole-kidman-hugh-jackman-australia/

 

[Darth Elektra]

Kidman/Jackman Film Causes Controversy

Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman's new movie Australia has sparked a storm of controversy on location Down Under over plans to use a World War I memorial for a cattle stampede scene. Moviemaker Baz Luhrmann offended locals in tiny Bowen, where the film is shooting, when he continued shooting as his actors clambered all over the statue. The director has been forced to cut the controversial sequence after a film extra and former serviceman threatened to quit the film if Luhrmann didn't rethink his plans. The upset extra, Brian Germain, says, "We were supposed to be standing along the fences watching the cattle come down the main street and we were waving them along. Later on they changed it and had two guys standing beside the replica and they actually climbed on top of it and I told them that was wrong." Germain contacted a local Vietnam Veterans Federation and urged them to help him fight the plans. A spokeswoman for the film tells the Sydney Daily Telegraph the incident was accidental and would not be used in the final cut of the film.

 

[danoyse]

I can't wait for this movie...it will be fun to see Hugh actually play an Australian for once.

 

[Galactus]

Australia Set Floods
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald July 2, 2007


The Sydney Morning Herald reports that a set for Baz Luhrmann's epic Australia has flooded causing the production to change around the schedule for the Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman-starrer:

It was meant to be the dusty, outback homestead playing host to Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman - but the romantic set of Faraway Downs, the homestead at the heart of Baz Luhrmann's Australia, has been flooded in a remote region of Western Australia.

Because of the flooding Luhrmann has pulled the pin on filming at the homestead, in Kununurra, in the Kimberley Region, within the next fortnight as planned.

Instead, the stars of the film, Kidman and Jackman, will travel from Darwin back to Sydney to shoot interior scenes while waiting for the expensive set to dry out.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/australia/photos.php

 

[Darth Elektra]

Cool photos.

 

[Galactus]

Baz's epic may premiere in Top End

KASEY BRUNT

12Jul07

THE premiere of Australia may be held in Darwin, director Baz Luhrmann told a local audience last night.

Luhrmann appeared at Darwin's Deckchair Cinema for a question and answer session before a special screening of his film Moulin Rouge.


Speaking to the media before his appearance he said the Australian premiere of Australia could "possibly'' be held in Darwin.


Luhrmann said he would also consider filming a movie in Darwin again.


"I would (work in Darwin) again, for sure,'' he said.


About 300 people turned up to hear Luhrmann speak before the screening of his 2001 film Moulin Rouge, which also starred Nicole Kidman.


Luhrmann said he expected Australia to be released in November 2008.


"Filming finishes in November, and post production takes about a year,'' he said.


"So if I don't fall horrendously behind it should be out in November next year.''


Film-goers quizzed Luhrmann about his film making skills, with most people wanting to know how he came up with the idea of making both Moulin Rouge and Australia.


"You have a passion and that passion becomes your life,'' he said.


"With (Moulin Rouge) it was about how to tell a story using music as the predominant language in this point of time.''


Deckchair Cinema manager Jett Street said she was thrilled Luhrmann spoke to the audience last night.


"He is passionate about his films and the chance to hear him talk about his work is amazing,'' she said.

 

[Galactus]

Baz Luhrmann's Australia to Wrap Friday
Source: Sunday Herald Sun December 18, 2007


The Sunday Herald Sun reports that director Baz Luhrmann's highly-anticipated Australia, starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman, will wrap filming on Friday.

Shooting on the epic began in Sydney at the end of April. Since then filming has moved to Bowen in Queensland, Darwin, Kununurra in West Australia and back to Fox Studios in Sydney.

According to the newspaper, it is expected more scenes will be shot next year to complete the film.

The film is a romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior to World War II. It centers on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Jackman) to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

Shooting is expected to begin on Jackman's next film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in Sydney in less than a month. Pre-production has been underway for the past three months, with filming set to last until June.

 

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[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=41556

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=41727

Luhrmann's Australia Set for November
Source: ComingSoon.net
February 7, 2008

20th Century Fox has set a November 14, 2008 release date for Baz Luhrmann's epic Australia, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.

Set in northern Australia prior to World War II, the film centers on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Jackman) to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

The only other movie scheduled for the date so far is director Tim Story's The Patriots, a drama with Forest Whitaker, but a week earlier, on Nov. 7, Madagascar: The Crate Escape and Quantum of Solace open. A week later, on the 21st, comes Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

 

[Galactus]

[URL="http://www.comingsoon.net/ne...images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/1.gif[/IMG] Tim Story's The Patriots, a drama with Forest Whitaker, but a week earlier, on Nov. 7, Madagascar: The Crate Escape and Quantum of Solace open. A week later, on the 21st, comes Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

No doubt that this November will be bigger than November last year when it comes to box office numbers

 

[Catman]

The only other movie scheduled for the date so far is director Tim Story's The Patriots, a drama with Forest Whitaker, but a week earlier, on Nov. 7, Madagascar: The Crate Escape and Quantum of Solace open. A week later, on the 21st, comes Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

In other words...this movie will flop.

 

[the a1ant]

uh oh...

 

[Galactus]

In other words...this movie will flop.

I have a feeling it will be one of those movies that are a lot more succesful on the international market than in America. And in its home country I think this can be a contender for biggest movie of the year.

 

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[danoyse]

There's also an official site now up: http://www.australiamovie.com/

The photography for this movie is beautiful.

 

[Gotham]

Looks quite good.

 

[Gotham]

Beautiful. Downright beautiful.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=45187

 

[DBZ2cool]

holy crap!

That looks beautiful in every way possible.

I just realized that everything about this movie is australian. FOX, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman and Baz Luhrman. The movie is titled Australia too.

This is the first big oscar contender of the year.

 

[Avangarde]

Yes we rock