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Things have been pretty low key on set in Kununurra, though the stars have been spotted out and about town. The most public event was when director Baz Luhrmann and actor David Ngoombujarra attended a celebrity tree planting event on Sunday August 12, 2007. The pair each planted a Boab tree and Baz graced the 200, or so, large crowd with a speech about his filming in the outback.
The lull in news has given us a few spare moments to get some more content on the site. We have recently updated the time line of filming for Australia, Cast and Crew biographys including a much more extensive cast list. Finally, as a special treat we have opened a new section of the site, with wallpaper for your desktop. Be sure to check it out!
As always we’re still speculating and posting away at the australiamovie.net forum, so be sure to drop by and say g’day.
sources: Thanks to Pauline for sending in her Baz photograph & thanks to curious_cookie for donating new scans to the gallery
August 17th, 2007
Australian author Richard Flanagan, is a historian, novelist and film director from Tasmania, Australia. The 1998 film The Sound of One Hand Clapping, directed by Flanagan, was nominated for best film at the Berlin Film Festival and his latest work is a novel entitled The Unknown Terrorist.
Past accreditations aside, he is also Baz Luhrmann’s co-writer for the screenplay of Australia. Recently during a promotional interview for The Unknown Terrorist Flanagan discussed the task of working with Luhrmann and describes how he met Nicole Kidman during costuming screen tests. Visit our multimedia section and listen to a snippet of his interview with ABC North Coast radio.
Additionally, with thanks to curious_cookie and Project Mugetsu we’ve got a batch of new scans in the gallery. Be sure to check in all the time for the latest additions.
If you have any pictures of the cast, crew, set or scans from local newspapers regarding the filming of Australia, please feel free to send them in to 
source: abc.net.au
image: (top left) Jane Munro
July 29th, 2007
The cast and crew of Australia are back in the big smoke, Sydney. They have returned to film at Fox Studios for the next two weeks. Following this they’ll head off to Kununurra in Western Australia’s Kimberly region.
Kidman and Jackman have been spotted around town over the weekend, taking advantage of the downtime with their families.
“It is just beautiful for me to be making a film here and him (Keith Urban) touring here at the same time . . . that’s a pretty big deal for us,” Nicole told The Courier Mail. “It’s just lovely that coming from the same country gives you so much to draw from and bonds you in a way that people just don’t understand. When you come from different countries you really don’t bond in the same way,” Kidman said of her relationship with Urban.
While in town Nicole has spent time catching up with her sister Antonia Kidman. The pair, who share a love of horse-riding, saddled up over the weekend for an outing in Centennial Park along with Nicole’s husband, singer Keith Urban.
Meanwhile Hugh took advantage of a morning off. He bundled up children Oscar (7) and Ava (2) and headed out to breakfast on a crisp Sydney morning with wife, Deborra-Lee Furness.
+ A new video has been added to the media section of Hugh, Nicole & Baz filming their brief stint in Darwin.
sources: The Courier Mail
July 23rd, 2007
Check out the multimedia section for the latest on location. Two new videos have been added of Hugh’s arrival and presence in Darwin, as well as some great audio downloads.
If any Darwinites were lucky enough to be involved in, catch some of the filming at Stokes Hill Wharf or meet Hugh and Nicole around the traps, be sure to shoot us off an email. We’d love to hear from you, particularly if you have photographs!
Speaking of photographs, be sure to check out our gallery for a new batch of images from down at the wharf. Beware, the gallery images may now contain spoilers.
For the latest info, especially some rather delicious images of Lady Sarah Ashley & The Drover, be sure to drop by the forum for images, articles, plot discussion and news as it breaks!
July 13th, 2007
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
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Things have been pretty low key on set in Kununurra, though the stars have been spotted out and about town. The most public event was when director Baz Luhrmann and actor David Ngoombujarra attended a celebrity tree planting event on Sunday August 12, 2007. The pair each planted a Boab tree and Baz graced the 200, or so, large crowd with a speech about his filming in the outback.
