weblogs.variety.com - 12/8/2008
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Well, Australia's second-weekend drop indicates that it isn't doing well enough with adult audiences to ever make it into a success here.
Here are some of the reasons this movie couldn't make it.
The heart of the movie--the part that works--is the story of the half-breed Aborigine ...
news.yahoo.com - 12/15/2008
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news.yahoo.com —
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 - ...
oscars.org - 12/12/2008
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oscars.org —
Beverly Hills, CA Hugh Jackman will host the
81st Academy Awards telecast, producer Laurence Mark and executive
producer Bill Condon announced today. This will be Jackman s first time center stage at the Oscar show, although he has previously been a ...
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Hugh Jackman to Host 81st Academy Awards®
news.yahoo.com - 12/12/2008
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LOS ANGELES Hugh Jackman will host the 81st
annual Oscars , the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences confirmed Friday. Telecast producers Laurence Mark and Bill Condon called the Australian actor "a consummate entertainer and an internationally ...
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Hugh Jackman to host new-look Oscars - Yahoo! News
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Over at Variety, Anne Thompson, a very fair-minded, careful entertainment journalist, tears the arms and legs off of “Australia.” In order to make a Hollywood epic of big-budget scale and scope, Baz Luhrmann had to embellish that core, adding a western cattle drive, a bodice-ripping romance, wicked villains, an air battle and CG effects. How could any movie sustain all that? This one, in Ms. Thompson’s opinion, most definitely does not. She goes on to deconstruct Nicole Kidman’s lack of star power, Hugh Jackman’s lack of range, the marketing for the film and the brutal ...
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Go Fug Yourself this post on Twilight is bound to become a future classic. lol. Pop Matters Matt looks at the moral ambiguities of The Reader The Film Experience some updates to the compiling of interesting top ten lists Aint It Cool has an interview with Michael Sheen of Frost / Nixon Thompson on Hollywood "Why Australia is a Dud". Good piece on box office/budgets Planet Fabulon has risen from the dead! Wheeee The Guardian Nina Foch ...
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Earlier today the Guardian's David Thomson, a longtime admirer and recent biographer of Nicole Kidman, asked if Ms. Frozen Forehead is "becoming box-office poison." Becoming?...
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