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		<title>It&#8217;s NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD, and Mike loves it!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's hard to like documentaries. Unlike fiction films which create their own reality, documentaries attempt to manipulate this one and that doesn't always make for good viewing. It can lead to things like the recent AMERICAN TEEN which are clearly just poorly orchestrated versions of reality, there are boring commentaries on reality that just rope in anyone to become a pundit (these are usually reserved for television and often massacre historical subjects with mundane musings), and there are excessively politicized diatribes like those produced by Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock.

So when I watched NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD it was like a breath of fresh air. Here is a documentary that is many things, all of which should be attractive to a movie fan and none of which are in any way boring, bland or manipulative. This is because NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD is all about the forgotten world of Australian genre films, that heady group of movies that sprung up at the birth of the nation's film industry and provided a welcome antidote to the arthouse world that was believed to be so necessary to the character of a national film industry.

Collecting an awesome team of commentators, some amazing anecdotes and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hugh Jackman won&#8217;t play Marc Antony in Soderbergh&#8217;s CLEO but which British hard man will play Julius Caesar?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sizable failure of Baz Luhrmann's sweeping love story epic AUSTRALIA may have cost Stephen Soderbergh his leading man for his equally ambitious $30 million historical 3-D rock musical CLEO.

Variety report that Hugh Jackman has dropped out of talks for the film, presumably turned off by the reaction of AUSTRALIA and not wanting to put his career on the line by starring in another big budget risk for an unusual genre effort.

The trades say "inside scheduling conflicts" is the reason, which could equally be true. We know he is set to play Houdini on stage in 2011 and will want plenty of prep time for it which I've heard may also be shot as a movie at the same time.

Soderbergh now has the arduous task of finding a replacement for Jackman, he needs an actor with the same kind of presence, stature and acting chops who can also sing and dance to play opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones' Cleopatra. Not easy.

But that talks is for another time because the trades have gotten word that Ray Winstone, suddenly one of Britian's most in demand actors for big budget movies is in talks to play Julius Caesar. Wow, if you thought Winstone playing Beowulf ...]]></description>
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		<title>Phil says AUSTRALIA is epically boring!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epic in scope but pitifully small-minded, Baz Luhrmann's AUSTRALIA wants to cast the same romantic spell over viewers that films like GONE WITH THE WIND or TITANIC have in the past, but the film it most readily recalls is Michael Bay's PEARL HARBOUR. Like Bay, Luhrmann is a director who obsesses over stunning images but who has no idea how to assemble those images in a way that's coherent or satisfying. He simply hurls everything he's got at the screen with a feverish intensity, swamping his film with glossy visuals, but his pictures have no depth beyond what we see on the screen. They are exhaustingly shallow, particularly when Luhrmann takes over two and a half hours to tell his story, as he does with this ridiculously overcooked national epic.


AUSTRALIA'S biggest failing is the way Luhrmann squeezes in enough content for three or four films while barely managing to generate enough drama for one. At its core, the film is a very old-fashioned love story, with two people from different classes and opposite sides of the globe falling for each other, as seismic historical events gradually creep up behind them. Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) is the prim, uptight Englishwoman ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mike thought the 2 hour 45 minute AUSTRALIA was boring too!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been mixed opinions surrounding this film. A huge, lengthy, effects-laden and cliche-riddled extravaganza that is sumptuous to look at as it is pointless to think about. Baz Luhrmann's film is a ridiculous amalgamation of several (very unoriginal) plots and genres that tangle incoherently in this sweeping 'epic'. Perhaps the most telling signs that it isn't going to be the most cohesive film are the tags attached to it by imdb. Whilst not something I'd like to rely on to judge films generally, when the genre tags say 'Adventure &#124; Drama &#124; War &#124; Western' you know all is not well.

Starting out as a drama about an English noblewoman who sets out to Australia to organise her husband's business affairs only to find him dead, the film evolves into a strange outback comedy, before becoming a love story, and then ending up as a war epic.



It seems like a lot of the budget was spent on scenery. The grand canvases of the raw outback and the fiery destruction of the Japanese warplanes were all completed with intricate detail. However, they completely undermined their own goals by being so obviously computer-generated that they looked like those crappy desktop backgrounds from ...]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas comes early but AUSTRALIA needs Oscar help</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Audiences were more ready for the Christmas holiday than I expected. The awful looking and loaded with on set problems between it's co-stars Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, festive rom-com FOUR CHRISTMASES made a massive $31 million over the weekend, that's $46.7 million Wednesday to Sunday for Warner Bros' newly owned New Line Cinema.



For Witherspoon, it's her biggest opening since SWEET HOME ALABAMA in 2002 and the movie propels Vince Vaughn back to normality after the slight mis-fire that was FRED CLAUS.



1

Four Christmases (2008)
$46.7M
$46.7M


2

Twilight (2008/I)
$39.5M
$120M


3

Bolt (2008)
$36M
$66.9M


4

Quantum of Solace (2008)
$28.1M
$142M


5

Australia (2008)
$20M
$20M


6

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
$19.6M
$160M


7

Transporter 3 (2008)
$18.5M
$18.5M


8

Role Models (2008)
$7.81M
$57.9M


9

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
$2.19M
$5.16M


10

Milk (2008)
$1.87M
$1.87M


Though it really needed an opening like this. Vaughn and Witherspoon are two of the highest paid actors in the business, this rom-com was made for a huge $80 million (which can't have gone on the special effects) which no doubt will include nice paychecks for the supporting players Sissy Spacek, Robert Duvall, John Favreau and Jon Voight.

Indie director Seth Gordon (THE KING OF KONG) who makes his debut studio movie here, will hopefully have now made enough money for himself to pursue more challenging work in the future.

TWILIGHT has now made $119.7 million worldwide (it ...]]></description>
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		<title>20th Century Fox force Luhrmann to change AUSTRALIA ending?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian report that 20th Century Fox have forced Baz Lurhmann to change the ending to his soon to be released $120 million epic AUSTRALIA after "intense discussions" resulted in a more commercial friendly ending being shot.

It would seem audiences at test screenings weren't happy with the ending Luhrmann originally intended.



I won't spoil details about it for you but if you visit the news source at the above link, you can find out for yourself what the issue was.

Rope of Silicon spoke "at length" with a rep for Fox yesterday who it's suggested that indeed the ending was changed but it was Luhrmann who instigated it.
Baz Luhrmann is a "final cut" director and the studio has always been supportive of his choices.
Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman star in the movie which has used CASABLANCA style imagery to promote this as being a love story on epic proportions. New poster from ROS...



The movie opens Nov. 26th in the U.S. and Dec. 26th in the U.K. ]]></description>
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		<title>AUSTRALIA becomes a Thanksgiving release</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baz Luhrmann's first film since 2002's Moulin Rouge will now open on Thanksgiving Weekend.

The WW-II love drama Australia will now bow on November 26th, one week after it's original November 14th date. It is the latest switch around for late 2008 which was caused by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince moving very late in the game to next Summer.


The reason for the move is obvious. The 22nd James Bond film Quantum of Solace which has huge momentum as the first "true sequel" in the franchise was recently moved to that date in the U.S. to fill the void left by Potter.

Variety also suggest that Luhrmann's movie is still not yet complete and he is still shooting for pickup scenes with the leading actors down under and a good deal of editing still has to be done. This extra week gives him slightly more time.

Australia will now open directly against Transporter 3, The Road, Four Christmases and Milk. ]]></description>
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		<title>AUSTRALIA trailer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 06:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unsurprisingly epic, with heavy emphasis on character, visuals, set designs and music (did I hear a little of Morricone's score from The Good, The Bad &#38; The Ugly in there?).

It's the trailer for Australia, the long awaited return to the big screen of Baz Lurhmann (Romeo &#38; Juliet, Moulin Rouge) and stars Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman in a romantic action-adventure flick set during the northern area of the country during World War II.

It centers on the story of an English aristocrat (Kidman) who joins forcer with a cattle driver (Jackman) to drive her 2,000 heard of cattle across the country's unforgiving land whilst it's being bombed by the same Japanese forces who attacked Pearl Harbour some months prior.

Looking pretty good, I can't honestly say I'm sold on this film yet but I did enjoy the trailer. From what I've heard the movie is nearly all a two actor show, so it's a real challenge for Kidman and Jackson to keep our interest for what will no doubt be a very long movie.

VISIT AUSTRALIA IN HD HERE!
This one opens in November and will no doubt have some heavy Oscar hopes next year. ]]></description>
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		<title>Images from Kidman/Jackman/Luhrmann&#8217;s epic AUSTRALIA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you name a movie after a country the size of Australia - then you better damn well make sure your film is epic as hell.

Thankfully Baz Luhrmann is one of the kings of epics. His productions (too big to be called just films) of Romeo &#38; Juliet and especially Moulin Rouge were marvellous artistic ventures that felt like classical theatre plays that came to life on film.

I expect Australia to be the same. If you were like me and thought Atonement was a vastly over-rated piece of mediocre cinema then keep your eye on this one. It's not due out till November (probably December UK) but I'm pretty excited. I would take Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman over James McAvoy and Kiera Knightley any day of the week.





MORE PHOTO'S HERE BUT THEY AREN'T QUITE THE SAME QUALITY! 

source - if you can't tell by their photoshop work... is IESB. ]]></description>
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		<title>First pic of Jackman in Baz Luhrmann&#8217;s Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Our first image of any kind from the set of Baz Luhrmann's first movie in seven years has found it's way online at Just Jared found through Coming Soon. The movie titled Australia is an epic drama set around the backdrop of a pre-WWII Australia.
The images show Hugh Jackman wearing a Bond like white tuxedo and a pornstar like mustache. Remember Jackman was cast in the movie after Russell Crowe dropped out because of salary demands and the film will see him work with Nicole Kidman for the first time.

The movie is already filming and won't wrap up until October which is typical Lurhmann who likes to do things on such an epic scale.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE PICS AS OUR SERVES ISN'T WORKING ]]></description>
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		<title>Baz Luhrmann names his latest epic&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baz Luhrmann has only managed to direct two movies in ten years, so whenever he annouces a new project it is big news. His next movie is set to be titled Australia and is an epic set around the period prior to World War II down under starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.

More info from Coming Soon...

"[Australia].. 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".

Russell Crowe was originally cast in Hugh Jackman's role but the actor reportedly said... "I do charity work, but I don't do charity work for major studios." in regards to the salary offered for his role in the film. I've said it before... one of the greatest actors that ever lived (IMO) but an absolute asshole.

With it's $100 million budget the epic will be one of the most expensive movies ever made and will be entirely shot in ...]]></description>
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