On the road again, the cast and crew of Australia have braved the extreme London cold on the 10th of December to premiere their film at The Odeon Leicester Square in the United Kingdom. Looking stunning in a white sequined dress Nicole Kidman battled against the frosty weather before finally succumbing to her warm designer jacket. The Aussies clearly needed more time to acclimatise.
Providing some assistance to Nic and grateful female television reporters was Hugh Jackman sporting great big bear hugs, though he admits they were for his own benefit also!
Australia will be released on December 26th in the UK.
Brits, on your TV tonight The Culture Show on BBC2 will be airing a half hour special on director Baz Luhrmann. This is new interview footage so be sure to tune in.
Those in the region can also watch a snippet on The Culture Show website, unfortunately the site is region locked and restricted to UK residents only.
WHAT: The Culture Show, feat Baz Luhrmann WHERE: BBC2 WHEN: 9th December 10pm and repeated 12th December.
Also the London premiere of Australia is not far away so keep your eyes peeled for news and pictures!
Well, we’re back, and just in time by my watch as in less than an hour it is about to tick over to November 26th, the day many of us have been waiting for!
I’d like you all to take a brief moment to read this important news update. Almost two weeks ago the fever-pitch surrounding this majestic film grew so large that our site drained our webhost of power. Needless to say this did not make them happy. Essentially, our site was so popular that we were forced to close!
How did we re-open? With the outlay of A LOT of money, we’ve been able to upgrade to a server of our own. This means we will be able to host lots more content and hopefully handle all the wonderful visitors that this film can throw at us.
However, when I say that it cost a lot of money, I mean A LOT! It was a tough decision, pay the high price or just let this amazing site and source of information from over the last two years disappear? With so much passion and commitment to this movie, we elected to keep the site open, however we’re opening up the money jar and hoping that our visitors will help out where they can.
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To lighten the mood, australiamovie.net is so prominent that its closure was even featured in this news story on TV…albeit as part of a crazy conspiracy theory to do with the film’s ending!! …
Due to the recent and unscheduled downtime of this site, we need to get everyone caught up with some videos that came about during this time. Here’s a quick re-cap of some important TV appearances and online footage! Please let your friends and fellow fans know that we’re back!
The TV talkshow circuit is about to undergo an all Australian invasion. Most proximate is an Oprah special with Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman in studio and Baz Luhrmann via satellite. Be sure to watch the episode on Monday, but if you can’t wait that long, here’s a small teaser video.
NOVEMBER:
10th – Oprah: Hugh and Nicole (with Baz via Satellite)
20th – The Tonight Show [Leno]: Hugh
21st – Jimmy Kimmel: Baz
24th – The Late Show [Letterman]: Nicole
28th – The View: Nicole
DECEMBER:
4th – Jimmy Kimmel: Hugh
5th – The View: Hugh
SITE UPDATES:
- Check out our collection of wallpapers
- Plenty of new magazine scans and hi res screencaps in the gallery
- Nicole Kidman on Kiss.FM with Ryan seacrest in our multimedia section
- If you’re attending a screening, or interested in talking about the film, please join our forum!
The CNN network have aired another great feature on Australia. This time as part of the Scene By Scene documentary.
Scene by Scene is a groundbreaking two part documentary, about the diverse and vibrant film industry across the Asia Pacific region.
The 7 minute segment on Australia featured a candid Luhrmann talking about aspects of filming on location, and the very real affects it had on cast and crew. Not only are we treated to Luhrmann’s insights, but we’re also given a glance at a new scene featuring dialogue with David Wenham and passionate embrace between our two leads Drover and Sarah. “They’re damn sexy together. I want burning passion…and they’re on fire,” comments Luhrmann when talking about Jackman and Kidman’s on screen chemistry.
Check your local listings for re-runs of Scene By Scene on CNN, or visit our multimedia page to download the video.
Also take a look in our stills gallery for a bundle of new images!
Richard Flanagan, Australia script contributor is the featured subject of ABC tv show, Australian Story.
The program seeks to make Australians, in their diversity and individuality, more understandable to others. In this episode Richard talks about writing, campaigning to protect Tasmanian forests, and working with Baz Luhrmann on the keenly awaited ‘Australia’.
View a sample of Monday’s episode here, in which you’ll see Baz Luhrmann himself talking about his time spend with Flanagan.
Australian Story is televised on ABC (Australia) Mondays at 8.00 pm and repeated on Saturdays at 12.30 pm. Some episodes are broadcast on their website, so keep an eye out.
MEDIA:
NOVEMBER:
The 7 minute segment on Australia featured a candid Luhrmann talking about aspects of filming on location, and the very real affects it had on cast and crew. Not only are we treated to Luhrmann’s insights, but we’re also given a glance at a new scene featuring dialogue with David Wenham and passionate embrace between our two leads Drover and Sarah. “They’re damn sexy together. I want burning passion…and they’re on fire,” comments Luhrmann when talking about Jackman and Kidman’s on screen chemistry.