“Dancing With the Stars” Season 9, Week 2: TV Recap: PHOTO
A recap of the latest episode of "Dancing with the Stars," with director Baz Luhrmann as guest judge.

Baz Luhrmann - Luhrmann Predicts Big Things For Young Australia Star
Director Baz Luhrmann has tipped NICOLE KIDMAN's 12-year-old AUSTRALIA co-star to become the country's next big thing. Aboriginal boy Brandon Walters was hand-picked ...

New Trailer for ‘Australia’
The newest trailer courtesy of MovieWeb. Another masterpiece from Baz has Oscar written all over it. Kidman and Jackman were made for this type of epic movie. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Tagged under | australia, Baz Luhrmann, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website

Baz Luhrmann - Kidman And Jackman Snubbed At Afi Awards: PHOTO
Baz Luhrmann's epic Australia has been nominated for six Australian Film Institute awards - but stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman have been passed over for the country's most prestigious ceremony. The $130 million (

New ‘Australia’ trailer
I’ve been hearing some good things about Hugh Jackman’s performance all along, but for some reason, he’s never cracked my Best Actor chart.  It’s a crowded field, but anyway, this is a great trailer.  I’m a Baz supporter through and through, and I’ve been told this isn’t the straight-up epic it appears to be from the materials released so far.  It isn’t Baz restraining his vision for the sake of a style of film he hasn’t tackled yet; it is very much a

New Trailer for Luhrmann’s Australia
I haven’t seen a good, sweeping romance since 2006’s The Painted Veil and even that seems small potatoes compared to the grandness of Baz Luhrmann sweeping Australia. I’ve already gushed and moaned at how badly I want to see this film and this new trailer only adds to my already heightened level of excitement. Granted, not much new to go on here but it features even more footage from the film and a score that doesn’t really work for me but I’m willing to overlook that one smal

Baz Luhrmann Ads Propose Australian Tourism as Salve for Shattered American Lives [Untruth In Advertising]
Baz Luhrmann's boundless ambition may have met its match in a new pair of TV spots commissioned by Tourism Australia, an organization still reeling from its failure to entice international visitors two years ago with its bikini-clad representative scolding, "Where the bloody hell are you?" This time around, the tourism board opted for the more cheerful specter of an Aboriginal child whose fistful of fairy dust cures everything from burnout to bipolar disorder, all graphically allayed against the backdrop of

TECH SUPPORT: Best Costume Design — Volume I
The Academy Award for Best Costume Design recognizes, shock of shocks, the clothes and accessories worn by actors in a film.  Clothing can add to the story and express the nature and situation of the characters who wear them. If a single word could be used to describe this category, it would be “period.”  31 of the 40 nominees here this decade were period pieces.  This is not altogether surprising.  Period clothes automatically draw attention by not being the sort of fashion we see every d

TECH SUPPORT: Best Sound Mixing — Volume I
Those words from Al Jolson forever changed filmmaking in 1927, ushering in “talkies” and bringing about the beginning of the end of the silent film era. The Academy Award for sound mixing recognizes the artists who fashion a film’s audio side.  It must be distinguished from Best Sound Editing, which is the integration of artificially created sound effects into the mix.  Mixing is the blending of those effects, along with dialogue, music and any other noise captured during filming.  The Oscar a

Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby
According to Nikki Finke, Moulin Rouge and Romeo and Juliet director Baz Luhrmann (we’ll pretend Australia never happened) has signed on to helm a big screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve never read F. Scott’s 1922 novel or seen any of the many movie adaptations (one of which starred Robert Redford and Mia Farrow with a script by Francis Ford Coppola and another starring… Paul Rudd?), so I’ll re

I am not a Baz Luhrman fan and I am not usually a Nicole fan but Australia looks amazing!!
Hugh and NicoleThere are two kinds of people in this world. People who loved Moulin Rouge and people who didn't. I was in the latter category. I don't like movies where I feel like I am tripping on drugs unless I am actually tripping on drugs. However, I think Baz may have calmed down a bit for his newest film, "Australia." Yeah apparently they were affected by World War II also so this is a story about that. Nicole Kidman plays her usual character: rich, gorgeous woman who has to take care of a farm and fa

Movie review: 'Australia' too big to be controlled
Up to now, no movie was big enough to hold director Baz Luhrmann's overflowing emotions -- not the maniacal jukebox of "Moulin Rouge!," not even Shakespeare's young lovers in "Romeo + Juliet." With "Australia," a grand epic set in Luhrmann's native country, Luhrmann finally should have found a subject as big as his use-every-crayon-in-the-box sensibility. Instead, the opposite happens: The massive panoramas of wild Australia suddenly make Luhrmann's wild flourishes look puny. The story begins in September

Swept Up to Down Under, Baz Luhrmann style
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQGMuxJ0vCc[/youtube] Thanks to Australian reader, David M., for pointing us to two new Oz Tourism ads directed by Baz Luhrmann and featuring Brandon Walters, the 12-year-old kid costarring in Australia who Luhrmann says is destined to become the country's next leading man. "Our next leading man is about four-foot ...

Baz Luhrmann Hates Australia
"Australia, we have enslaved the indigenous population and send them through the night to troubled white people in need of vacations around the world with pouches of magical dream dirt and no shoes." "Australia, you better fuck your husband here or he's going to leave you." "Australia, God's Wellbutrin." "Australia, seriously, about the indigenous population. It's horrible what we've done. Come here!" Posted by Gabe at 2:45 PM in Free Advertising Tags: Australia | Baz Luhrmann «

Our favorite former Pink Lady, Olivia Newton John, comes to Carnegie Hall
Photo: Getty ImagesLast night at Carnegie Hall, Aussie actor Simon Burke hosted "G'Day USA: Australia Plays Broadway," part of a week of shameless and celebratory self-promotion for Australian tourism (did anyone see their longest advertisement ever, directed by Baz Luhrmann, earlier this winter?) including crooner David Campbell, rocker Jimmy Barnes, twin cellists Pei-Jee and Pei-Sian Ng, and the 70-member Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.But the reason we here at Popnography were super juiced is we got to see

Latest Celebs: Glitzy crowd for Australia premiere
The London premiere of Baz Luhrmann's new epic, Australia, attracted a glitzy crowd. The stars of the film, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, were joined on the red carpet by Sir Elton John, Twiggy and TV presenter Konnie Huq among other celebrities at Leicester Square's Odeon cinema. Director, writer and producer Luhrmann was joined by his wife, Oscar-winning costume designer Catherine Martin. Luhrmann said: "I think there is a special relationship between Australia and England and actua

Nuova locandina per Australia
Dopo lo spettacolare trailer, ecco una nuova locandina di Australia, il nuovo kolossal di Baz Luhrmann con Nicole Kidman e...

Australia Cures Bi-Polar Disorder With Aborigine Magic Dust
AMERICA. AMERICA! There is hope. You must leave and head to Australia. Baz Luhrmann has a message for you. A small brown boy, possibly called Yvonne, Rolf or Shane, will arrive in your urban sink and sprinkle magic dust onto your hand. Don’t call the cops. The Australians know who he is. And as a brown-skinned kid in [...]

Nuovo trailer per Australia
E' online un nuovo, spettacolare trailer per Australia, il nuovo kolossal di Baz Luhrmann con Nicole Kidman e Hugh Jackman...

Another Great Australia Trailer
I'm not really into that romantic mumbo jumbo, however I am actually quite looking forward to Baz Luhrmann Australia. The previous trailers and imagery we have seen have been quite something, but this latest trailer has confirmed that I will be seeing this when it is released. The trailer starts off casually, exploring the predictable relationship between Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman, and then BAM! The trailer switches. The epic…

Down under: Kidman epic flops at box office
Maybe Crocodile Dundee should have starred in Australia.Twentieth Century Fox appears to have given up on director Baz Luhrmann's latest period epic in North America, and is hoping that foreign sales will rescue the costly picture. The movie has sold just $44.3-million (U.S.) worth of tickets at the U.S. and Canadian box office after five weekends, and is shaping up to be the latest in a line of disappointments for its star, Nicole Kidman. The News Corp.-owned studio says it hopes Australia will

AFI nominations in full
NOMINATIONS for the 2009 Samsung Mobile AFI Awards have been announced in Sydney. Here is the list of film and television nominees in full... FEATURE FILM NOMINEES AFI MEMBERS’ CHOICE AWARD     Australia. Baz Luhrmann, G. Mac Brown, Catherine Knapman     Balibo. John Maynard, Rebecca Williamson     Beautiful Kate. Leah Churchill-Brown, Bryan Brown     Mao’s Last Dancer. Jane Scott     Mary and Max. Melanie...

Monday Morning Link Love #7
Well its another weekend gone by to quickly and a Monday come to fast. But there seems to be great stuff out this past weekend so here we go: Jason Vorhees has been unmasked - The guys over at HorrorBid have a ton of photos of Jason doing his best to scare…

G.W.E.E!: Leonardo “Loverboy” DiCaprio
You may know DiCaprio as the sweet-as-pie mentally challenged kiddo in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, or perhaps you remember him from Titanic — which you may or may not have seen 4 times and cried like a little baby during each and every viewing. These days, Darling DiCaprio is starring in Ridley Scott’s new film Body of Lies, adding the ‘tough guy’ moniker to his already long list of characters.] I’m not embarrassed to admit that when I was in 7th grade, I had 102 pictur

Luhrmann filling in as 'Dancing' judge: PHOTO
Los Angeles, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Australian film and stage director Baz Luhrmann is filling in for judge Len Goodman on U.S. TV's "Dancing with the Stars" this week. Luhrmann's movie credits include "Strictly Ballroom," " William Shakespeare 's Romeo & Juliet" and "Moulin Rouge!" The BBC said he appeared on Monday's edition of the U.S. reality competition show and is expected to return for Tuesday's installment, as well. Goodman usually travels back and forth between Los Angeles and London where...