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As you’ve surely noticed filming has begun in the Queensland town of Bowen and the Australian media has flocked with a vengance!
With the assistance of our wonderful forum members we’ve been gladly gathering whatever media we can to provide to site visitors who, for a variety of reasons, are unable to view or listen to media coverage. Visit our Multimedia section to download some treats.
Recent Additions:
- 7 Videos pre-production & production
- 3 Audio Interviews
- Gallery Images, keep checking the gallery for regular updates including magazine and newspaper scans
If you have access to any video, audio or image content not already featured on the site, please contact us as we’d love your assistance in building our collection to share.
Meanwhile it’s not just the fan community who have enjoyed the content provided by this site. We were quite ‘chuffed’ to learn that the Queensland government’s own site for the Bowen shire has linked to our site and are displaying photographs taken by australiamovie.net’s very own Bowen correspondent photographer!
May 16th, 2007
Baz Luhrmann has recently snuck in and out of Bowen for another preliminary scouting tour of vacant land. Recall the pictures we exclusively showed you earlier this year? Well that’s precisely where Baz and Co. were to finalise some ideas for the shooting. It seems, unlike the residents of Bowen, the local wildlife weren’t as impressed by presence of Hollywood names. Click on the image to see a cartoon of Baz being swooped by a pair of nesting plovers, and visit our gallery for photographs of the event. As we all know it takes more than a few birds to stop Baz and he dutifully continued working.
However, on an unrelated note, wife and co-worker, Catherine Martin told Today in a TV interview that shooting has now been postponed a fortnight and will see filming begin in ten weeks. Visit our media section to download the interview.
Do you house a lot of rusty old cars from the 30’s and 40’s in your yard? Are people always saying that you’re crazy for keeping them? Well, Geoff Naylor, the action vehicle supervisor from Bazmark Films Pty Ltd, is looking for vehicles from pre-1938 and pre-1942.
“…we’re still looking for larger military type vehicles backwards from 1942. There’s a big scene of a military convoy leaving Darwin after the bombing”.
Bowen is being used to represent Darwin in 1936-38 when Lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman) arrives to take possession of a cattle station left to her in the Kimberley. “So we need vehicles back from 1938 and we’ll dress the streets of Bowen with these vehicles to make it look like Darwin,” he told the Townsville Bulletin. He also revealed that Nicole Kidman’s character does not return from the Kimberley until 1942 when Darwin is bombed.
If you have a vehicle you think Mr Naylor might be interested in please phone 0418 485 036. Please, legitimate vehicle enquires only.
sources: Townsville Bulletin, The Bowen Independent, BowenGirl
February 22nd, 2007
Today, the 26th of January, is Australia Day. Appropriately it also marks the birthday of Australia crew member Catherine Martin, to whom we send our best wishes!
As our Australia Day gift to you we have finally opened the site gallery! Obviously at this stage the collection of images is not enormous, however we do have a pretty good collection and more on the way!
As an enticement, like you need it, here is a hot off the press image of our two leads in a steamy lip lock, (previously mentioned) as shown by Hugh during the G’Day USA promotional video. View the bigger version and one other from the same evening in the Australia gallery.
Be sure to check it out. You can rate your favourite or worst images, send e-cards and more. Don’t forget to click on the intermediate images to view the bigger image in a pop up window where available!
January 26th, 2007
Though our website gallery is still in the process of being created, we can show you exclusive pictures taken for our website by BowenGirl. These pictures show a variety of locations throughout the small Queensland town of Bowen. The images range from empty lots where set construction will take place, to breathtaking landscape that will likely feature in the film.
Hover over the images for a brief description, click for a closer view.
Also be sure to check the previous updates for some important and interesting information!
source: BowenGirl
January 13th, 2007
Welcome to the very first website dedicated to the Baz Luhrmann film simply entitled, Australia.
As you can tell just by the very creation of this website months before production has even begun, there are a lot of people eagerly anticipating this motion picture. Three of those people happen to be working on this website, vampvan, IgotEwbabe and rougevelvet. All togther you have an Aussie expat., an American and a current Australian resident. We have been following the ‘progress’ of the screenplay into a film for years and are thrilled that it finally is all coming together; first with the announcement of two great A-list Aussie actors, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, but now it also finally has a title!
A name, what’s in a name? Why choose such a title for a film? It’s a country name, hardly inspiring or memorable, you may say. Well, at first glance one could argue you’d be right, but Mr. Luhrmann certainly does have the ability of using his words and stories to help us see things his way…
“I’m taking the perspective of the rest of the world to this film how they might view Australia,” Luhrmann said. “When you say Casablanca or Oklahoma! it means big. It means vast … I’m not saying this film is Australia. It’s a metaphor for a state of mind, for the faraway…”
This is definitely going to live up to its previous untitled status of, The Australian Epic. One look at the first verse to the Australian national anthem and you can just feel the rich colours and scenery that Baz has envisioned to showcase to the rest of the world.
“Australians all let us rejoice
For we are young and free
We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil,
Our home is girt by sea:
Our land abounds in nature’s gifts
Of beauty rich and rare,
In history’s page let every stage
Advance Australia fair”
So with that in mind, we hope you too have a thirst for information on this movie and we aim to be your #1 stop for all print news, media, videos and more!
Also if you’d like to join in discussion and perhaps end up contributing to the site, why not drop by our Australia forum?!
Hoo Roo! (Um, that would be Australian for ‘good bye’ 
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November 23rd, 2006
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