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29 August 2008 12:47 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

It's a big ol' round of musical chairs this fall movie season. It began, technically, months ago, when J.J. Abrams decided to move Star Trek out of the Christmas slot to May 2009. That was followed a couple of weeks ago by the biggest news: Harry Potter vacating the week before Thanksgiving and moving to the middle of July.

That move left an opening for an opportunistic Twilight on November 21st, and 007 took advantage of Potter's absence as well, moving from November 7th to November 14th, which was the same weekend Baz Luhrmann's ambitious Australia was hitting theaters. Until now.

Fox has announced it will move Australia back 12 days, pushing the epic to the day before Thanksgiving (November 26th). Fox domestic distribution president Bruce Snyder said that "recent shifts in the release dates of other pictures created an opportunity for us." More to the point, it created an opportunity away from Quantum of Solace.

Colin Boyd

28 August 2008 2:27 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

This coming November is quite the chaotic month as far as theatrical release dates go. First, Warner Bros. moved David Yates’ “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” to July 2009.  Then Summit followed by moving up the release of Catherine Hardwicke’s “Twilight” to Nov. 21.

Walt Disney also quickly followed by changing the release of “Bolt” from Nov. 26 to Nov. 21 as well. And last week, Sony entered the game by pushing back Marc Forster’s James Bond adventure “Quantum of Solace” to Nov. 14.

Still following? Okay, so far so good. Today, 20th Century Fox announced its plan to shift Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming romance “Australia” to Nov. 26, according to Variety. The film was originally set for Nov. 14.

Starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, “Australia” centers on an English aristocrat who teams up with a stockman to drive her cattle across Australia’s most unforgiving land, only to face the Japanese bombing of the city of Darwin.

Franck Tabouring

28 August 2008 1:43 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Typically end of year release date movement is due to award season and Oscar positioning. This year it all appears to be thanks to Warner Bros. moving Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from its November release to summer 2009. This, of course, freed up approximately $280 million holiday dollars and rival studios are looking to take advantage. Twilight, looked to be the Harry Potter successor (though it won't be), already snatched up the old Potter release date. The next James Bond flick, Quantum of Solace, moved to a week earlier, Universal's comedy Role Models moved to a week earlier on November 7 and Disney's Bolt also jumped into the Potter date. Today Variety tells us Baz Luhrmann's Australia is the latest flick to do the November shuffle, moving from November 14 to Wednesday November 26 for the Thanksgiving holiday. The Variety article says it will give Luhrmann a little extra time to finish

Brad Brevet

28 August 2008 12:07 PM, PDT | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news

Not wanting to fall behind the latest release date shifting as a result of Harry Potter moving to next year trend, Fox has decided to give Baz Luhrmann's epic period drama Australia a mini-bump from it's previous November 14th release to November 26th, pitting it up against the Jason Statham starring actioner sequel Transporter 3 and the Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn starring comedy Four Christmases. Further, this bump only applies to the Us, Canada and Australia. In all other...

Omar Aviles

28 August 2008 7:12 AM, PDT | From Filmonic.com | See recent Filmonic news

20th Century Fox have announced they are pushing the release of Baz Luhrmann’s Australia from November 14th, back to November 26th. The film stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman and is a romantic epic set in northern Australia before World War II. The move is likely to be another ripple effect from the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince…

Liam

28 August 2008 1:12 AM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

Those who are eager to see the latest period epic drama from prominent filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, "Australia", on the big screen apparently have to wait longer. According to Variety, the theatrical release date of the movie starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman has been pushed nearly two weeks back from its November 14 schedule to November 26.

The 20th Century Fox's decision on the shifting of the flick's release date allegedly has some connection with the 'pick-ups' filming currently done by Luhrmann in Down Under with lead thesps. With the delayed release, the "Moulin Rouge!" helmer will have more time in finishing the movie.

With the new schedule, it will be making its way to the theaters less than a week after Walt Disney Pictures' "Bolt" and Summit Entertainment's "Twilight" debut in theaters on November 21. It will also be contesting against Jason Statham's action movie"Transporter 3" and Viggo Mortensen, Robert Duvall

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26 August 2008 11:56 PM, PDT | From The Entertainment Zone | See recent The Entertainment Zone news

I saw Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Strictly Ballroom’ several years after it came out in 1992. In college, I was taking a summer intro to dance course or something like that, and one of the movies he showed us was ‘Strictly Ballroom.’ I instantly and immediately fell in love with it. I loved its outrageous humor mixed with romance and heart, not to mention the dancing/choreography, soundtrack and direction. I am a sucker for a movie with dance! I had no idea who the director was or how to classify his style. All I knew was that there was something unique about it that touched my heart, and it is still a movie I watch to this day. Not too long after seeing ‘Strictly Ballroom,’ I saw the trailers for ‘William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet’ and knew I had to see this version in the theatres. His irreverent choices to place

Stacy Swim

22 August 2008 7:42 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Nicole Kidman's baby daughter has been distracting the cast and crew of the actress's new movie. Kidman, who gave birth to Sunday Rose with husband Keith Urban last month, has been taking the new arrival onto the set of new film Australia. However, director Baz Luhrmann has reportedly "put his foot down" after she and co-star Hugh Jackman spent too much time focusing on the baby rather than their work. A (more)

By Beth Hilton

21 August 2008 7:19 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

Though highly-anticipated by many, the 22nd James Bond movie, "Quantum of Solace", unmistakably won't be greeting its fans on the big screen as scheduled. On Thursday, August 21, Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures have released an announcement about their decision to make a change in its theatrical release date pushing it back a week later than its original plan.

Initially slated to hit theaters on November 7, "Quantum" is now bumped to November 14, the same day Baz Luhrmann's romantic drama starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman, "Australia", and MGM comedy "Soul Men" get their wide release. The Marc Forster-directed spy action film was moved back to take advantage of the forthcoming Thanksgiving holiday as it sees to debut one week closer to Thanksgiving weekend.

On the delay, the studios explained, "The strategic move places the highly-anticipated James Bond adventure one week closer to the prime movie-going holiday window and takes

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21 August 2008 5:16 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

With Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince opting to move to July 2009, now comes word that Quantum of Solace (the highly-anticipated sequel to the James Bond reboot Casino Royale) has pushed its U.S. release date back one week from November 7th to November 14.

I guess that honestly shouldn’t be considered a surprise - what with the Potter sequel being its only real competition!

And although it will face off directly against the likes of Baz Luhrmann’s Australia and the “Meh!” looking comedies Role Models and Soul Men, I seriously doubt they’ll stand in the way of 007’s box-office domination that weekend. Hopefully this isn’t the start of a trend: fluid release dates.

My buddy Phil Gee (who lives in the U.K.) is probably laughing knowing he’ll have seen the film now 2 weeks before I will!

Quantum of Solace will grace the silver screen on

Jamie Williams

21 August 2008 4:39 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Now that David Yates' "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and Catherine Hardwicke's "Twilight" have been moved to a new release date, it's time for James Bond to join the club.

According to Variety, Sony and MGM have decided to push back Marc Forster's "Quantum of Solace" to Nov. 14, 2008.

The story of “Solace” is strongly tied to “Casino Royale” and follows James Bond (Daniel Craig) on his quest to uncover the truth behind the betrayal of Vesper.

Bond's competitors on this new release date are Baz Luhrmann's "Australia," David Wain's "Role Models" and Malcolm D. Lee's "Soul Men."

Waiting one more week for the return of Bond? What did we do to deserve that?

Franck Tabouring

21 August 2008 10:03 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

It was kind of a hush-hush thing, but I was privileged to see a two-and-a-half-minute Australia featurette last night. It was kind of an alternate trailer, really, but Fox hasn't released it publicly yet. Hopefully, we'll get that for you pretty soon. I also saw close to 150 production photos for Baz Luhrmann's upcoming epic, and it just looks more and more magnificent with each new picture. Even without the proper context, the photos are staggering, colorful, and full of life. Couple their impact with the short compilation I saw, and its position as a prohibitive Oscar hopeful is pretty much secured, at least in my eyes.

There was one other fascinating nugget I learned last night: Every stitch of Australia has to earn Luhrmann's approval. That means every shot in every trailer, every publicity photo, and every poster gets his seal of approval before it's released to the public.

Colin Boyd

21 August 2008 12:05 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

In preparation for Baz Luhrmann's Australia I went ahead and watched Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge to get acquainted with the director. I had actually not seen any of those three films and when I judged the Australia teaser trailer based on the CG aspects of it I didn't realize Luhrmann was a director that emphasized style just as much as substance. Moulin Rouge is now one of my favorite films of all-time, that is a film that is just fantastic! On renting it from Netflix I watched it about four times, none of which were to listen to the audio commentary, I will wait until Fox goes ahead and releases it on Blu-ray for that and if they are smart they will do that soon because if any film will benefit from high-definition it is that one. As for Australia, it stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman

Brad Brevet

19 August 2008 1:24 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Hugh Jackman has revealed that Russell Crowe was the first choice for the lead in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming epic Australia. The actor claimed that Crowe rejected the chance to play Nicole Kidman's lover after a dispute over pay. However, he insisted that he has no qualms with being second choice, saying: "I don't mind if I'm off the bench, second or third reserve. I just didn't want to miss out on being a part of the film." The (more)

By Beth Hilton

19 August 2008 12:07 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

I was trolling for news on a fairly uneventful Monday night when I spotted three smallish posters for Baz Luhrmann's homeland epic Australia over at First Showing. Sport that he is, Alex Billington pointed everyone who saw the posters to Movies Online, which in turn pointed the way to Reel Suave. So thanks to all of them.

I know it's a recklessly hip thing to consider The Dark Knight a front-runner for every Oscar under the sun (it probably won't be come December), but there are a few movies that are already starting to distance themselves from what looks like a fairly average awards season crop of new releases. Certainly The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has to be high on everyone's list, and I would think if it's as good as it looks you might see nominees for Best Actor, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay,

Colin Boyd

18 August 2008 7:00 PM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

A few early teaser posters for Baz Luhrmann's Australia have been discovered courtesy of MoviesOnline. We've been featuring various gorgeous photos from Australia over the past nine months and these three posters have that same beautifully epic look to them. They seem fairly legit, but they didn't come from any trusted studio source and are quite low quality, so I can't say they're 100% confirmed. That "A" logo in the lower right and lack of any other wording or logos is also quite peculiar, but they still look good. Take a look now and hopefully we'll see finalized versions from Fox sometime in the near future. Thanks again to MoviesOnline for finding these. You can see them just a bit bigger over there, but this is really the only quality currently available. We'll update this post once we get better copies soon. A romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior

Alex Billington

18 August 2008 4:30 PM, PDT | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news

Director F. Gary Gray (The Italian Job) is going to borrow a page from both Shakespeare and Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet) with a contemporary version of Julius Caesar, based on the Oni Press graphic novel Julius. In the book (released several years ago), writer Antony Johnston and artist Brett Weldele transplanted the Bard’s conspiratorial play to the volatile world of criminal enterprises in modern-day London’s East End. In this version, Julius is about to be offered...

Dave Davis

17 August 2008 5:27 AM, PDT | From ReelSuave.com | See recent Reel Suave news

Australia is the new film starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman in the main roles. The film is written and directed by Baz Luhrmann. This the second time both will be working together after the successful musical Moulin Rouge. The story takes place during the bombing of Darwin in Australia during the World War II. Principal photography for the film was wrapped up last year it is now in the post production stages. Most of the film was shot in Sydney and then moved on to Bowen. The first trailer for the movie raised alot of shutterbugs. Recently a picture on the vogue also surfaced of how the film will look.

It is surely going...

(more...)

John

16 August 2008 5:40 PM, PDT | From Filmonic.com | See recent Filmonic news

MovieCityNews got the first set of posters for Baz Luhrmann's Australia starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. We have seen the same images before, however they have now been converted into teaser poster form. The filming for this movie took a few days less than that of Titanic, which was 20 days short of 6 months. Fox is gearing up a major campaign for this film, which will likely have the full…

Liam

6 August 2008 7:03 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban and their baby daughter Sunday Rose have arrived home in Australia, after a round-the-world trip.

The trio was greeted in Sydney on Wednesday (06Au08) by a mass of photographers and fans, before heading off to Kidman's home in the city.

The trip gives Kidman and Urban's parents the first opportunity to meet Sunday, who was born in the celebrity couple's adopted Nashville, Tennessee on 7 July.

The actress also has work commitments Down Under - she's partly there to shoot additional scenes for Baz Luhrmann's epic movie Australia.

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