variety.com - 12/19/2008
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'Australia' director buys rights to famed novel Baz Luhrmann may jump from pre-WWII Australia to America's Jazz Age. The "Australia" helmer has purchased the rights to "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald's tome of the Roaring Twenties. While a script does not yet exist, Luhrmann intends to ...
deadlinehollywooddaily.com - 12/18/2008
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deadlinehollywooddaily.com —
He just paid tribute to his home country
in the epic Australia, but director Baz Luhrmann is...
landing next on Long Island. Yes, it's true: I can report that Baz Luhrmann's next project is definitely The Great Gatsby for 20th Century Fox. The Aussie ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Baz Luhrmann Going 'Gatsby'
news.yahoo.com - 12/15/2008
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SYDNEY, Australia Fans of the skintight purple suit
rejoice: the Phantom is back. An Australian production company...
on Monday announced it had secured the rights to " The Phantom Legacy," a follow-up to the 1996 film, "The Phantom," which starred ...
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Sequel to 'The Phantom' to be filmed in Australia - ...
hollywoodreporter.com - 12/19/2008
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Baz Luhrmann's "Australia" may be doing some middling
U.S. boxoffice, earning about $38 million since it opened...
Thanksgiving weekend, but the director is unrepentant as the movie nears its first month of release stateside. In one of his first ...
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Luhrmann rushes from 'Australia' to 'Gatsby'
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Luhrmann Will Try to Make Gatsby Great
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Well, the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby looked nice…
Variety reports that Baz Luhrmann has picked up the rights to make a new big screen version of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic, The Great Gatsby.
Long regarded as one of the greatest American novels, Gatsby hasn’t enjoyed similar success in other media. There’s been a stage version, and an opera that while reasonably well-received, hasn’t been regarded as brilliant (I saw it and yeah, good, not, umm, great). There have been three film versions, including a silent one, a 1949 try starring Alan Ladd, and the most famous ...
Tom Cruise Sticks To Valkyrie Writer, Themes. Trade Roughage 12/19/08
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Tom Cruise is potentially re-teaming with Valkyrie screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie on up to three projects, including another WWII flick that would put Cruise in the pilot seat again, Flying Tigers. Cruise is likely happy with the initial reception of Valkyrie, though sticking with McQuarrie for so long may keep him from diverse roles. The other two projects include the espionage drama The Tourist and the adaptation of the 60s TV show The Champions, which deals with super-powered spies.
Frank Miller is re-teaming with Odd Lot Entertainment for a dark Buck Rogers ...
Luhrmann picks up film rights to The Great Gatsby
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... From the dusty landscapes of the Australian outback, Baz Luhrmann's next project will take him to the gilded Jazz Age interiors of the American east coast as he tackles The Great Gatsby, reports Variety. ...
Baz Buys ‘Gatsby’
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Baz Buys ‘Gatsby’ Great Gatsby Another hokey and decadent period in modern Western history is up for the Liberace treatment with news of a report from Variety that Australia that director, Baz Luhrmann has bought the rights to the classic 10th grade novel, The Great Gatsby . Although there is no script as of yet, Luhrmann has purchased the rights to F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘s American-cannon classic, and would ostensibly begin the process after promotion for Australia has ended. When you think about it, it’s easy to see why Luhrmann went after the property. The luscious roaring twenties would be an easy visual transition for the guy who brought ...
The Great Gatsby: Baz Luhrmann buys rights to a new film of classic American Novel
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... pre-WWII Australia to America's Jazz Age. The "Australia" helmer has purchased the rights to "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald's tome of the Roaring Twenties. While a script does not yet exist, Luhrmann intends to focus on it after "Australia's" awards run. No studio is attached yet. Fitzgerald's novel of American excess has spawned a Broadway play and multiple films, including Jack Clayton's 1974 pic starring Robert Redfordand scripted by Francis Ford Coppola. From VARIETY ...
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guardian.co.uk 12/19/2008 — From the dusty landscapes of the Australian outback, Baz Luhrmann's next project will take him to the gilded Jazz Age interiors of the American east coast as he tackles The Great Gatsby, reports Variety . Luhrmann, who is currently fulfilling ...
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news.com.au 11/10/2008 — 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 ...
Baz Luhrmann's Australia is good, but not a masterpiece
theaustralian.news.com.au 11/18/2008 — BAZ Luhrmann's eagerly awaited Australia is certainly the epic that we all expected. It's very ambitious, it has enormous sweep and scope as it tells a story that takes place in the Northern Territory between 1939 and 1941. VIDEO: Australia trailer | ...
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Welcome to Australia. An epic and exciting new trailer for Baz Luhrmann's Australia has debuted this morning. At long last we finally get to see what this movie is really all about - the "rule breaking" romance between Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. I've said it before when the first ...
“Australia” Reviews
filmofilia.com 11/20/2008 — Some early reviews have criticised the length of the “ Australia. ” At the media conference, Baz Luhrmann said he didn’t expect everyone to like it but was hoping it would become a classic. “It is between the film and the audience,” he said of the reviews at ...
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