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Australia: Where is It?
It's pretty unusual for a film that is opening on November 26 not to have been screened yet, anywhere. Actually, last month Oprah's audience got to see an unfinished print without final visual effects--but no press has seen it. (Oprah airs on November 10th.)
"We're not missing a deadline," insists one Fox PR exec. "Let's get the movie open on the 26th. We can't wait to show it."
Fox admits that Baz Luhrmann is hanging onto the movie until the last possible moment before it premieres November 19 in Australia. The L.A. press junket originally scheduled for November 14-15 has been pushed back to the 20th and 21st. L.A. screenings start Wednesday the 19th; New York begins showing the film the Monday after the junket. The New York premiere is November 24. Australia opens wide stateside on Thanksgiving weekend, Wednesday November 26. The December schedule is intense, with Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman and Luhrmann working hard; Fox is screening Australia for the Variety and LAT screening series, the Screen Actors, Producers, Directors, Writers, and Editors Guilds, BAFTA, and the TV Academy.
Fox doesn't yet know the official running time, something between two hours and 30 and 40 minutes (about the same as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button).
Here's a batch of advance press from Australia:
And the Guardian talks to Luhrmann, while the NYT offers a glam slideshow.
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So, what is the problem? If the movie is not finished yet it's a good thing for Fox to let Lhurmann works in peace.
Or for you critics it's better Wensteing bros strategy, isn't it?
Posted by: Mary87 | November 04, 2008 at 07:13 AM
most people don't even know that there's a movie called Australia with Nicole Kidman.
bad timing, Hollywood.
Posted by: DeafBrownTrashPunk | November 04, 2008 at 11:58 AM