news.com.au - 11/8/2008
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Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman in Australia Happy ending ... Baz Luhrmann has changed the ending of his film Australia , which stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, to make it more uplifting.
guardian.co.uk - 11/10/2008
news.com.au - 11/10/2008
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news.com.au —
STILL in the editing room for his big-budget
epic Australia with two weeks until the premiere, Baz...
Luhrmann has bowed to studio pressure for a happy ending. Luhrmann's initial cut - which ran for more than three hours - ended with Hugh Jackman's ...
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Baz Luhrmann agrees to happy ending for Australia | ...
theaustralian.news.com.au - 11/1/2008
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theaustralian.news.com.au —
THE most expensive Australian film ever made is
due out in weeks - and it's still not...
finished. So what exactly does Baz Luhrmann have up his sleeve? In The Weekend Australian Magazine , Christine Jackman reports on Baz's big gamble. Here is an ...
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Baz Luhrmann's epic gamble
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Australia Altered
Awards Daily —
... This story claims that Baz Luhrmann was forced to change the ending of Australia to give it a more upbeat ending, this news breaking a few weeks before the film is set to be released. It also says Hugh Jackman steals the show. A teaser clip of a shirtless and sculpted Jackman appeared on Thursday’s Grey’s Anatomy. The story gives a spoiler to the film’s ending so perhaps they are trying to leak the info that it isn’t going to be a downer. ...
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Wired David Lynch's upcoming web series Sunday Telegraph Australia test screening / editing changes *SPOILERS* Quiet Earth Terminator: Salvation featurette Marie Claire Jennifer Connelly turned on Rough Type evolution of the blogosphere / Film on the Splatter art exhibition in London (on the impossibility of death in cartoons) Lou Lumenick an unfortunate target of the Prop 8 fallout and Mormon Boycott: the Sundance Film Festival Guardian What ...
Fox Does it Again: Luhrmann Forced to Alter 'Australia' Ending
RopeofSilicon.com —
... and News.com.au tells us Luhrmann agreed to rewrite the final scenes to keep alive The Drover, Kidman's love interest, played by Hugh Jackman. The decision came "after 'intense' discussions with officials at 20th Century Fox" reports Richard Luscombe at "The Guardian". The decision is said to have been made after negative responses following initial test screenings in which one reviewer is quoted saying, "There is no reason to kill off Wolvie." Considering the person being quoted refers to Jackman's character as he is known in the X-Men franchise of films leads me to ...
Australia: Luhrmann Changes Ending, Kidman and Jackman Do Oprah
Thompson On Hollywood —
... Trying to staunch a tide of bad publicity in the wake of Down Under reports that Australia director Baz Luhrmann had succumbed to studio pressure and changed his ending, on Tuesday Fox put ...
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Baz Luhrmann's 'Australia' Ending Altered
aceshowbiz.com 11/10/2008 — Baz Luhrmann has agreed to alter the conclusion of 'Australia', his upcoming epic drama where Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman fall in a 'rule breaking' romance.
He'll Die on the DVD
hollywood-elsewhere.com 11/10/2008 — An 11.10 Herald Sun article is reporting that with a little more than two weeks before the big opening, Australia director Baz Luhrman "has bowed to studio pressure for a happy ending" by letting Hugh Jackman's character live instead of...
Brand New Beautiful Pics from ‘Australia’ —
Reel Suave
This film will surely turn out to be one of the most beautiful movies for the year. Fox just sent over ten more pics from Baz Luhrmann’s Australia and as expected they look fantastic.
Australia hits theatres on November 26 th and stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman as Lady Sarah Ashley and ...
Watch two fake but funny 'Australia' trailers —
The Screening Log
Two links to some funny YouTube clips found their way to may mailbox recently, and I encourage you to check out the clips right after the jump.
What you'll be seeing are two fake trailers for Baz Luhrmann's upcoming drama "Australia," which stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. Someone ...
Nicole Kidman’s Racy Sex Scene - VIDEO —
Film Gecko
Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman have some sultry scenes in their new movie, “Australia.” In this video from Access Hollywood , Kidman explains how she learned about the birds and the bees.
Tags: access hollywood , australia , celebrities , celebrity sex scenes , ...
Fan Rant: 24 Hours of Aronofsky —
Cinematical
(from left to right) Sean Gullette in Pi , Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream , Hugh Jackman in The Fountain , and Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler I had been writing a rambling introduction to this piece, but to make a long anecdote short, I decided to re-watch the works of writer-director ...
‘Australia’ gets a happy ending —
Cut Print Review
When you inevitably go along to see Baz Luhrmann’s big budget epic Australia at the end of the month, which is still in the editing room (yikes!), just remember that Hugh Jackman’s character was originally meant to die in the closing scenes. After the initial 3 hour long cut was recently ...
Australia Poster —
The Movie Blog
We have a poster to show you today for the upcoming Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman film Australia. We get the hook up from Kris Tapley over at In Contention.
Beard Romance.
23 Days Until Australia Opens... —
Film Experience Blog
...and how many more after that until someone gives Hugh Jackman a movie musical role at last? Here he is performing Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard on Australian television some years back... It may not be much of a song but he still sells it. Bless him.
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