"Australia" to Top "Titanic"?
Marcos Oliveira, head of 20th Century Fox in Australia, told the Sydney Morning Herald that he believes the upcoming Australia, starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman and directed by Baz Luhrmann will become “the biggest [film] of all time” in that country. That’s saying a lot, since Titanic came out of that studio, as well. Further fueling my interest in this film is Jackman’s comment at the Australian International Movie Convention. He called his part in the film “the rol

‘Australia’ Delayed
The film was originally set for release on November 14th, but now they’re moving it to November 26th, five days after Harry Potter would have debuted on the 21st, had it not been moved. Without the Potter juggernaut to steal your cash, Australia doesn’t have to worry about trying to get its share before Potter hits theaters. It’ll be easier fending off Bolt and Twilight, which are now opening on the 21st instead.  Makes sense, Potter is such a huge movie, all the others need to scoop up the

Keith Urban: Being Mr. Mom Is 'Beautiful'
Diaper duty is no sweat for hands-on new dad Keith Urban, the singer tells CMT Insider. In fact, he says, he relishes his role as full-time dad to 2-month-old Sunday Rose while wife, Nicole Kidman, is filming. "When my wife's working and I've got time off, I'm just Mr. Mom during the day, taking care of the little girl," said Urban, 40, who also called fatherhood "beautiful." The Kidman-Urban family spent time in Australia while Kidman, 40, filmed the Baz Luhrmann epic Australia, and

Video: First "Australia" trailer
20th Century Fox has finally released the first theatrical trailer for Baz Luhrmann's upcoming epic, Australia. The film stars Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown. A romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior to World War II, Australia centers on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Jackman) to drive 2000 h

'Australia' to close Stockholm
Film Festivals: Lurhmann epic to end film festival -- Baz Luhrmann’s epic “Australia,” starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, will close Sweden’s Stockholm Film Festival, running Nov. 20-30.

Curl, Interrupted: Do Frizzy Coifs Equal Frazzled Psyches?
In the upcoming film The Women, a remake of the 1939 George Cukor classic that’s been re-imagined by writer-director Diane English, Meg Ryan’s hair could be billed as a supporting character to its gaggle of stars: Annette Bening, Cloris Leachman, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Candice Bergen, Eva Mendes and, of course, Ms. Ryan. When we meet her character, Mary, she’s a kind of superhero suburban mom—stretched violin-string-thin between charitable committees, parenting and grouting her bathroom

Famous weddings: Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban
Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman and country singer Keith Urban tied the knot late in the sunny afternoon of 25th July 2006, Australian standard time, in the beautiful beachside suburb of Manly. The couple’s wedding took place in a traditional Catholic ceremony in the sandstone Cardinal Chapel on the grounds of the Saint Patrick’s Seminary. It was Nicole’s second wedding. Her adopted kids with ex husband Tom Cruise attended the ceremony with daughter Isabella acting as bridesmaid and son

Steamy New Photo From Baz Luhrmann's 'Australia'
''It's romantic, adventurous, and huge in scale,'' says Hugh Jackman of Baz Luhrmann's WWII-era epic Australia (out Nov. 14). Jackman stars as a rough-hewn Aussie cowboy who falls for a prim Englishwoman (Nicole Kidman) while helping her reclaim her dead husband's cattle farm.

Fox moves 'Australia' release back
Fox is shifting its big-ticket Outback romance “Australia” to Nov. 26. Pic was slated for Stateside release on Nov. 14, about 48 hours after its Nov. 13 world preem Down Under, but now the Oz date will also shift to tally with the U.S. Warner Bros. recently moved its next “Harry Potter” movie from Nov. 21 to next summer. Saga of an English woman (Nicole Kidman) who comes to remote Australia and falls for a rugged cattle driver (Hugh Jackman) is set against the backdrop of WWII. Pic lens

Kidman, Jackman Pic Shifts Dates
The latest change is Baz Luhrmann's Australia, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. Fox has shifted the date 12 days -- from November 14 to November 26, which puts the release alongside Jason Statham's Transporter 3 and Four Christmases, starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon. Source: The Hollywood Reporter Next Showing: Australia opens nationwide November 26, 2008. Posted 08/29/2008 by Jeff Nicole Kidman | Baz Luhrmann | A

New Australia Artwork Online
Baz Lurhmann has a history of making things look perty and the director of such lavish eye-candy as Moulin Rouge! and Romeo + Juliet is expanding his pallette with his epic new flick Australia. A love-letter to his homeland set during World War II and concerning the adventures and amour of an English aristo (Nicole Kidman) and a rugged ranger (Hugh Jackman), it's shaping up to be one of the most gorgeous affairs in recent memory. To sate the appetite of romantics around the world, a bunch of new posters

New Australia Posters and Photos
20th Century Fox has provided ComingSoon.net with three new posters and more photos from the Baz Luhrmann-directed epic Australia, opening in theaters on November 14 and starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown. In the romantic action adventure, set during the explosive brink of World War II, an English aristocrat (Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land

New Images from AUSTRALIA
20th Century Fox has released new images from AUSTRALIA starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. "Australia" is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's

Burning Q’s: Slick Jonas Duds & Baby-Pic Dollars (E! Online)
E! Online - I feel like a total creep asking this (I’m too old to be thinking about them!), but I’m a fashion student and I simply must know: Do The Jonas Brothers have a stylist? What are some of the labels they wear most?

Review: 'A Girl Cut in Two'
Impeccably made and uncompromisingly adult, Claude Chabrol's " A Girl Cut in Two" is unquestionably the work of a master. As well it should be, given that the celebrated French filmmaker has produced more than 50 features in a full half-century of directing. If you don't believe all that experience can come in handy, this involving and intelligent film will change your mind. The standard critical line on Chabrol is that he's a maestro of suspense, a kind of Gallic Alfred Hitchcock, but as he's gotten ol

09.08.08: 'Bangkok' Takes the Box Office?!, Eastwood and Spike Lee "Cool," Will Smith Walks Like an Egyptian
Nicolas Cage's Bangkok Dangerous, a remake of the 1999 action thriller from the Pang Brothers, took the top slot in last week's especially sleepy box office. Dangerous took in a meager $7.8 million in what the Associated Press referred to as "the slowest weekend at the box office in five years." Tropic Thunder, The House Bunny, The Dark Knight, and Traitor rounded out the top five. Read more. Check out Premiere's list of the best and worst of Nicolas Cage here. Eastwood

Hollywood Privacywatch: Ellen Pompeo, 'Staten Island Prostitute' [Hollywood Privacywatch]
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our millions of Defamer operatives. We'd like to remind you that this feature is powered by you, so if you want to see more installments of PrivacyWatch, then all you've got to do is to send us your sightings. Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line so we don't lose them) and tell everyone about the time you saw Ellen Pompeo at the Century City Mall looking like (and we quote) "a Staten Island prostitu

Is Hollywood Lacking In "Manly" Men? [Gender Benders]
Are there any tough guys left in America? Over on Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch Blog, Mandi Bierly links to a piece in Variety written by Anne Thompson, in which Thompson asks, "Where have the manly movie stars gone?" She claims the Hollywood machine has churned out nothing but boy-men. Johnny Depp? "Fey." Brendan Fraser? "Goofy." Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruise? Just not macho enough! When a studio wants a real manly type, they turn to the UK, Australia or Europe: Christian Bale, Gerard Butler, Hugh Jackman

PAGE TO SCREEN: “Gran Torino” by Nick Schenk
“I didn’t buy all this stuff blockhead.  I’ve lived here for fifty years.  A man stays in one place long enough he tends to attract a decent set of tools.” There are a lot of admirable things about “Gran Torino,” a simple yarn precariously told by screenwriter Nick Schenk.  It wallows unforgiveably in the bigotry of its central character, Walt Kowalski (to be played by Clint Eastwood), pushing that boundry to laughable distances at times.  But thematically, it works.

Clint Eastwood Blasts Spike Lee: ‘A Guy Like Him Should Shut His Face’
Clint Eastwood has hit back over comments Spike Lee made about him during the Cannes film festival last month. During a late-May interview, Lee, who is in the process of promoting his own film, “Miracle at St. Anna,” about an all-black division of soldiers during World War II, lashed out at Eastwood for not including African American faces in two of his movies covering the same time period. “He did two films about Iwo Jima back to back and there was not one black soldier in both of those films,�

Reading ‘Gran’
I’m about half-way through Nick Schenk’s script “Gran Torino,” the Clint Eastwood surprise of 2008 waiting to jump up and bite us all in the ass this December.  So far it’s a really casual, satisfying read.  Some bumps in the first act as Schenk has some trouble settling into the style of the narrative, the consistent racial slurs and the hard-ass Walt Kowalski character (to be played by Eastwood), but it settles in soon enough. Kowalski is an interesting mix of Paul Newman&

Wouldn't You Like A Nice Alien Tentacle Massage? [Found Footage]
newVideoPlayer("/megtillycreepy_io9.flv", 506, 423,""); Meg Tilly gives her husband a nice soothing massage, so he can fall asleep and be replaced by a pod person, in Abel Ferrara's 1993 Body Snatchers film. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter has nodded off in the bath and is slowly being podded as well. It's a supremely creepy moment from a masterfully creepy film, with the sensuality of Tilly's hands gliding over Terry Kinney's oiled skin feeling more and more disturbing, until the tentacles sliding into

Dustin Hoffman: Teen Angelina Jolie Was "Thin, Gawky, Mouth Full of Braces"
Dustin Hoffman admits he didn't think Angelina Jolie would go far. While promoting their No. 1 toon Kung Fu Panda, he told reporters about first meeting the actress when she was 16. He said her father Jon Voight (who co-starred with him in Midnight Cowboy) brought Angelina and her brother James Haven to the set of his 1991 movie Hook. "He called me up and said, 'My kids are dying to meet Captain Hook. Are you in costume? Can I come over with the kids?'" "'Yes, sure. Come over,'" Hoffman told him

Hugh Jackman & His Girls
Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborra pick up their 3-year-old daugther, Ava, from play group before shopping for groceries at Macro Wholesome Foods at Bondi Junction in Australia. Photos: Pacific Coast News SIMILAR ENTRIES Hugh Jackman & Famly Enjoy A Day At The Beach In Sydney! Hugh & Family Hugh Jackman Spends The Day With Oscar & Ava Thanks for taking the time to comment on our site! We strive to create

The Mummy - Weisz Tops Lesbian Love List
THE MUMMY star Rachel Weisz has topped a new list of sexy stars as voted for by lesbians. The new mum, 36, beat Nicole Kidman after 4,000 lesbians were asked to vote for ...