The Starf**king Compass

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And the first version was so majestic. Darn.

Zombies! Kidman! Craig!

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I can't tell whether the bloody streaked zombies make this poster entirely awesome, or if the weirdly silly photoshopping on Nicole and Daniel make this poster entirely shit.

I'm leaning more towards positive, but something just seems... off. Especially with the image of Nicole. Does anybody else feel that? I dunno. I can't put my finger on it. Maybe with a different movie still it wouldn't look so... awkard? Hmmm. I'm going to need to ponder this one a bit more.

When Bad Posters Strike: Margot at the Wedding

I now present to you an open letter to all professional poster designers.

Dear Professional Poster Designers,

My name is Glenn Dunks and I wish you would listen to what I have to say as I'm not sure you have heard me clearly. I have a mere two words for you that I wish would become your daily mantra.

Here we go. Are you ready?

Try. Harder.

Love,

Glenn Dunks

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Take, for instance, the newly released poster for Noah Baumbach's Margot at the Wedding. This movie stars Nicole Kidman, aka one of the movie world's biggest stars. It also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, aka sadly not one of the movie world's biggest stars, but who is a recognisable talent to film fans. It also stars Jack Black, one of the movie world's most recognisable stars and is probably quite popular too, although I am not a fan (which is neither here nor there).

Margot at the Wedding also, apparently, stars a whole lot of white space. That's the only explanation I can come up for a poster of a movie starring Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black to be almost entirely white space filled with nary an "Academy Award Winner/nominee" tag in sight or anything.

And then when you actually do look at the images used I could swear my eyes are playing tricks on me. Have they actually made Jack Black blurry? Have they actually made Kidman and Leigh look washed out and flat?

I adore the profile picture of Kidman with her adorable fuschia hat, but that image should take up the majority of the poster space, not just a small little section at the bottom. And I totally get what the designers must have been going for (twee! folksy! indie!) and I understand the use of simple plain font (to give it that simple "we don't need a fancy design to entice viewers" vibe), but mixed with the abundance of nothingness, the entire poster is rendered utterly pointless. There is nothing here whatsoever to entice people to see Margot at the Wedding other than the names of the cast.

Look, I'm not asking for much. Just a little bit of ingenuity. A bit of visual pinache. A flourish of design. I hate to bring out the tired ol' "I could've designed this myself" argument, but it's a blatant fact that even an idiot with only passing skills in Photoshop could have made this poster with a movie still and a default font of Ariel.

I'm sure this is only a "teaser" poster of sorts as there are no credits, nor is there even a tag line (seriously!) but that still doesn't excuse lazy workmanship. This poster is out there as a means of advertising Margot at the Wedding and I can't imagine anyone seeing this hanging up in the foyer of their local cinema and thinking "Oh, that looks good! Let's see that." Seriously. Would you? I doubt it. When the final design (if there is one, natch) arrives I doubt much will have changed. Movies like this don't often much in the way of advertising changes and tend to revolve their advertising around one focal recurring imagine - in this case, Nicole and her pink hat - and while that image may work on a 200x200pixel ad box in a sidebar on some website, it doesn't work hanging up in a cinema lobby.

I intend to watch Margot going to this wedding she is apparently going to, but it won't be because of this invitation.

Happy 40th Nicole!

Today is the 40th birthday (!) of Nicole Kidman. She of one of the most amazing resumes of the 21st century - Birth, Moulin Rouge!, Dogville, The Others and her Academy Award winning The Hours being the prime suspects, plus Eyes Wide Shut from 1999 just missing the cut. She, surely, has another entrant into that cannon with the upcoming Margot at the Wedding plus the much discussed Baz Luhrmann epic Australia alongside Hugh Jackman, which I have a hunch will add at least another Oscar nomination to her belt.

So, go watch one of Nicole's movies and celebrate! She deserves your worship.

Scary Trailers

Two movie trailers for you guys to devour, courtesy of the ace Movie Marketing Madness blog.

First we have the trailer for the upcoming Oliver Hirschbiegel's The Invasion starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. Word has it that the movie is terrible and the trailer doesn't have a "this is bad" vibe about it, but sci-fi/horror can always turn out to be debacles. It's usually amplified when they bring in other people to redirect endings and rewrite beginnings (which, I believe, happened to this movie. There are a few moments in the trailer I quite like. There's the bit with the people jumping off the building - kind of creepy. You can see the moment when Nicole got into her on-set accident and I also like the very very end. I always like a good doppelganger, don't you?!



Next we have the trailer for the upcoming vampire movie 30 Days of Night. The plot descriptions sounds exactly like the quite awesome Pitch Black (back when nobody had heard of Vin Diesel and he hadn't had the chance to become a star and then to almost disappear entirely up Hollywood's arse) - A place that's constantly light (Alaska in 30 and a planet with multiple suns in Pitch) placed into darkness (Alaska is like that in general, and in Pitch it was due to a total eclipse), which results in monsters coming out from hiding (vampires and flying creatures respectively). It surprises me more movies don't make use of Alaska's sporadic daylight, but it's a fabulous premise for a scary flick. The only worry is Ben Foster who I can't stand at all. And I'm not the biggest Josh Hartnett fan either, but I can live with him. But, ugh. Ben Foster. And he's A-C-T-I-N-G like always. I do like Melissa George though. Anyway, the movie looks kind of awesome enough for me to get past him and to plant down my $11 for a ticket.



One common link between them (other than they're "scary movies") is that they both seem to use a piece of music (not the same one, mind you) that sounds like it belongs on a Snow Patrol album more than on the trailer for a horror movie. Or is that just me?

Some Pictures

I'm annoyed at myself. I was reading the Sunday Herald Sun at work yesterday and there was this amazing production still from Baz Luhrmann's Australia featuring Nicole on horseback and I meant to bring it home and scan it for your guys, but like the knobhead that I am, I forgot to. You can check out some similar photos over at SplashNews (as if the god awful image-ruining watermark didn't clue you in - seriously, there are so many sites that I don't visit because they throw giant hideous watermarks or logos on top of everything. Even stuff they didn't get themselves.)

But this picture from the newspaper was just so good. No hideous logos. Nicole was looking amazing and reminded me a lot of Elizabeth Taylor in Giant, and those a big cattle-ranch boots to fill. I've been searching for the picture for a while now but cannot find it. And because I've decided to permantly ban any pictures with giant watermarks on them, the picture below is from Just Jared (who has the decency to not cover the picture with a watermark/logo). Something about the images coming out from the set make me even more certain that this movie is going to be amazing and that Nicole has another Oscar nod directly in her future (I don't think she'll get one for this year's Margot at the Wedding by the way).


By the way, check out the recently-discovered-by-me Cameron Laird's site for a big giant photo gallery of Australia (including the Bowen cattle drive sequence). Plus there's pictures of Hugh at the beach from just the other day so... ya know. That's pretty good to. I figured I'd respect Laird and his site though and not publish pictures from it. Well, I could have if I paid for it, but I think I'll just let you check out the site for yourself.

Someone over at the Media Boulevard forums for Hugh scanned this image from a recent WHO Weekly edition. It has an image of Hugh in the sleeveless version of his ranching outfit (there are more sleeveless pics at Laird's site). I'd suggest you hang around that forum if you want the very latest in Jackman/Australia pictures.

Ithinkijustdiedalittle

Seriously. Hugh Jackman. STOP PLAYING WITH MY MIND! Thanks to Ja for compiling these images from JustJared of Hugh on the set of Australia. I am blatantly stealing them, but whatever. There are also some lovely pictures of Nicole Kidman (with Keith Urban in a few) such as the one to the left.

And because Hugh Jackman is always better with clothes off rather than on, dlisted has some photos of Hugh at Bondi. I really need to move there. He always seems to be shirtless around that place!




Seriously. SEXY. AS. FUCK.

Also, the Brisbane Times has an article about Baz Luhrmann's reaction to the recent overhaul of Australian film funding, which I previously discussed here. The news is really all good for the Australian industry. Here's hoping we really can start making more large-scale films (obviously not the size of Australia and it's $100mil budget) that will reach more people both here and overseas.

Dancing with the Stars

I'd be remiss if I didn't post these pictures from JustJared of Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman rehearsing their dancing feet for a sequence in Baz Luhrmann's Australia. This is from the same scene where Hugh was dressed in a tux. I assume that because they showed a clip on the news last week of them filming an outdoor party scene where Nicole was on a stage looking at all the guests. The scene was decorated with lots of Chinese-inspired lanterns (as in those). So, I assume that Nicole holds a party at her ranch (her husbands?) and dances with the rough-hewn herder who is wearing a tuxedo a few sizes too small. They look so happy in these shots though, don't they? I LOVE IT and I can't wait!

To see all of them click the link I gave you towards the top.

Invasion Teaser

Here comes the official teaser, and first of any kind, poster for the new Nicole Kidman-Daniel Craig sci-fi flick The Invasion (courtesy of Coming Soon. Ja just posted some new pics of the film as well and it looks smashing, Nicole looking swell, and possibly scary. The major worry though is that director Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall) was taken off the film when it went into reshoots earlier this year (when Nicole had her accident) and was replaced by, ugh, James McTeigue (V For Vendetta) who filmed reworked scenes by the Wachowski Brothers (y'all know them). I almost don't want to know why they thought they would be good people to rope in, but anyway...

Australia Bound

So, everything is gearing up for the official start of production on cinematic visionary Baz Luhrmann's romantic opus Australia. The town of Bowen is gearing up (more here, continued here). Below is a scan from the magazine article linked to above that I found via the Media Blvd forums.


The must read website about the film linked to an article about Australia co-star David Wenham who is doing publicity for his latest film 300.

But Diver Dan and Faramir may soon be consigned to the past, for some fans at least, thanks to Wenham’s role in Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming epic, Australia.

Set in the 1930s and ’40s, the film will tell the story of an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) who inherits a huge Northern Territory cattle station, her journey across the country with an enigmatic drover (played by Hugh Jackman) and their subsequent experience of the bombing of Darwin in 1942.

Wenham will play the film’s antagonist, station hand Neil Fletcher, who plots to relieve the aristocrat of her inheritance.

With filming commencing in locations around the country only this month and the release date not expected until at least the latter half of next year, the buzz surrounding the film is akin to that of the Second Coming.

“Well, it’s going to be the biggest Australian film ever made,” says Wenham, who first worked with Luhrmann on Moulin Rouge!

“He asked me if I’d like to be involved and, after considering his offer for all of about two seconds, I said I was in.”

EEEE! Doesn't this just make you so excited. Baz had $50mil to utilise on Moulin Rouge! so I have no idea how he's going to spend $130mil, which seems a bit high (I'm scared that people will then call the film a disappointment if it doesn't make a bazillion dollars), but whatever.

Lastly, Just Jared has had a few entries lately with pictures of Hugh preparing for his role by taking horse riding lessons (including the image below). I hope his "rough hewn" character gets to include the facial hair. He looks mighty fine with it, if you ask me.

Happy Australia Day! Part IV

I'm feeling really crook today (I'll spare you the gruesome details) so you're not gonna get much outta me, unfortunately. I've compiled a few YouTube clips relating to Australian films. Enjoy.


A nifty clip from an Australian Film Institute awards show several years back. It's a montage of tiny clips from Australian films. That scream from Picnic at Hanging Rock is just freaky! And speaking of Picnic at Hanging Rock...


...here's a tiny tiny clip from it. Man, that movie is brilliant.


Nicole Kidman and Baz Luhrmann discussing Moulin Rouge! after their wins at the Golden Globes back at the start of 2002. The interesting thing is when Baz says that he's happy to know there's an audience for a musical around the world, because in 2001 people were like "a musical!? FLOP!" but now everyone just expects them to be big huge successes for some reason. I love these two so much. How awesome is Australia going to be? VERY awesome, I predict.

Nicole: You're speaking really fast!
Baz: ...I'm Australian

I speak fast! Me and Baz are like brothers! Okay, not really...

The Saviour - Part 1


The Saviour - Part 2

This is the Academy Award nominated short feature Saviour. It was nominated this year and I found it on YouTube, so have a gander. It's pretty good. It's about a young mormon who is having an affair with an athiest. I never thought Rhys Muldoon would ever be in something Oscar-nominated, that's for sure.

Happy Australia Day! Part III

So, yeah, I'm not just celebrating Australia Day but the entire Long Weekend. Here's a succulent little (well, no, not little) morcel of delicious candy for you guys to chew on. Is the Hugh Jackman/Nicole Kidman smooch in Baz Luhmann's Australia going to be the most erotically exciting moment of 2008? Probably.


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If that image of Nic and Hugh doesn't become some iconic moment of lust, which I assume Luhrmann will be intending it to be, then I'll be shattered. God... Just look at those two. That should be on the poster y'all. Who wouldn't want to see a movie where Hugh Jackman gets all rugged and sweaty and then macks on Nicole?

"It’s a story set in Australia about Australian characters. It’s about our great land, and it’s about our history. It’s about who we are,'’ Jackman said. “It’s so good to see Aussies in tuxedos,” he told the assembled Australians. “It’s like the cast of Happy Feet.”

From AustraliaMovie.net.

Also, I updated Part II of my Australia Day celebration. I added some more titles to the list of Aussie films for 2007, although as I clarify at the end, a lot will probably be relegated to 2008, so...

Anyway, titles added include $9.99 (stop-motion!), Burke & Wills (strange male bonding!), December Boys (Harry Potter likes girls!), Gone (The Australian outback is fucked up!), Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger (Toni Collette!), The Jammed (Human traffiking ensemble!), Noise (Sundance hit!), The Plex (Revenge comedy!), Romulus, My Father (Eric Bana and Franke Potente!), Storm Warning (Australia is filled with screwy wackos!), Ten Empty (Family Secrets always come out!) and West (Cousins falling in love... no really! Okay, not really!)

And lastly, because nothing says "AUSTRALIA" quite like a middle-aged woman in medievil garb protecting special glowing power-source stones from kids from the future who travelled back to a mythical moment in time (or, wait, did they travel to the future? Oh I don't know. Simon? Any reminders?)...
ASHKA!!!!!

Get Well Soon, Nicole!

Okay, so I know a stunt man broke his arm and leg (or whatever), but NICOLE!!!!! On the set of her 2007 film The Invasion was involved in a car crash when the stunt truck that her car was on, during a scene involving her trying to get through an attack by mutant killer zombies, crashed into a pole. There's video of it over here at TMZ. She was takent to hospital but released soon after suffering only shock. In the video she does look a bit dazed and confused.

Anyway, she went back to work, so all is well. But, still... my Nicole!

BTW, how funny is it that Nicole and Daniel Craig are together in two 2007 films (The Invasion and The Golden Compass) and in The Invasion Craig plays a doctor (or so the picture at the top would suggest). And earlier in filming of The Invasion Nicole and Daniel were involved in another car-related incident when Nic forgot to put the car into park and it started to role backwards or something. It's on the trivia page at IMDb.

Baz's Australia

I'm not sure if you have heard (I read it a couple of days ago, but neglected to mention it, stupidly) but Baz Luhmann has decided to go against titles such as Great Southern Land (another nickname for our country, like "Down Under" *shudders*) and Faraway Downs (one of the settings) and name his upcoming romantic epic... er, Australia.

Very simple. I'm not sure if I like it (atm I would have prefered Great Southern Land but that's just me), but I definitely see where he's coming from in trying to express the grandoise nature of it all and Australia has pathetic state names ("South Australia", "Western Australia", "Northern Territory") and he couldn't very well name it one of those, could he?

After an epic journey across country, she and rough-hewn drover Hugh Jackman are caught in the Japanese bombing of Darwin during World War II.

I'm a huge fan of Baz, as if y'all didn't already know, and am eagily awaiting Australia but I know not to get too excited because it won't be out until 2008 at the earliest. I trust him doing this. Hugh Jackman totally fits into this plot and while Nicole sorta fizzled in Cold Mountain (probably the most comparable), I'm sure Luhrmann (ever the perfectionist, I assume) wouldn't cast her purely out of gratitude.

"I'm taking the perspective of the rest of the world to this film how they might view Australia," Luhrmann said. "When you say Casablanca or Oklahoma! it means big. It means vast … I'm not saying this film is Australia. It's a metaphor for a state of mind, for the faraway."

Check out the entire article at The Age, by clicking here

Birth - A Requiem in Three Acts

I saw Birth in 2005 when it finally opened in May. I came out of the cinema with a strange feeling washing over me. I wasn't entirely sure what it was I was feeling, but I liked it. Nay, I loved it. At the time I said to my friend "I really liked it." Really. I had to really accentuate that word because, much like the character of "Sean" in the film, the film bewitched me. It put me under a magical spell and never let go. From those opening frames of a man running through Central Park as Alexandre Desplat's music plays over the top, I was hooked. Mesmerised. Dazzled. Whatever you look up a thesaurus and find alongside those words, that's what I was. As I said, I couldn't explain it. I still can't for the most part. But I'll try.


I said up there that I was "bewitched". I think that's a good word to describe the film. Bewitching. It really does cast a spell on the viewer if you're willing. You really have to be willing in order to fully accept director Jonathan Grazer's sophomore film. You don't need to suspend belief - like you're watching a science-fiction movie - that a person could be reincarnated. You need to be able to accept that a perfectly normal put-together woman such as Anna (played by Nicole Kidman) could suspend belief. And the film conveys her inner and outer turmoil perfectly. Nicole Kidman has the steely rock hard form of Anna down pat. She's still grieving (10 years after the death of her husband) and she seems slightly at odds with her decision to remarry (this time to Joseph, played by Danny Huston) so when a boy with the same name as her ex husband, who's the correct age and who has an uncanny ability to expel information about "himself" and Anna, it seems downright acceptable that this could really be her dead husband. But again, it's not whether you, the viewer, believe "Sean" is really Sean. It's if you believe Anna really believes it. And, in all honesty, I really did.


They key scene, which I'm sure you're all aware of if you have seen the film, is a scene at the Opera. After a confrontation with the boy Sean's father, Anna and Joseph arrive late to the Opera. They take their seats and sit down. What happens next is crucial and will prove to be one of the crowning achievements of Nicole Kidman's career. In a single two minute take we watch Kidman perform one of acting's hardest things: an internal monologue. Without one single word in the scene, Kidman's acting really does convince us that she is convinced the boy is her dead husband reincarnated. Her eyes, her flaring nostrils, the slightly twitch of the head. It's superb acting. Earlier this year I said I though Kidman's performance in Lars Von Trier's Dogville was her best, but as my brain goes towards the film more and more, so too does my belief that Birth is actually her number one performance. Her voice throughout barely goes above a whisper, but you learn so much about Anna. She wants to believe what's happening. She does believe it eventually. She then must come to the realisations and ramifications that are born out of the situation. And Kidman has zero false moments. You believe every second.


Elsewhere, there is one other performance that is also truly excellent. Anne Heche is an actress that I geniunely like, but who rarely finds work that truly works with her overtly odd sense of being. Her role as Clara is one that I wasn't originally fond of to any spectacular degree, but just like the film itself, it continues to show itself with each subsequent viewing (which, may I add, for me the number is approaching somewhere around 15). I now truly believe it's one of the decade's great supporting turns. She shows up briefly, but with only a few scenes she single handedly tells us everything we need to know. She doesn't appear to be anything more than a second-hand role that the producers thought they could get a kick out of seeing a formerly popular actress in. But then in one fell-swoop she threatens to steal the movie right out from under Kidman, just as her character pulls the rug out of the character of the boy Sean. Just listen to the way she speaks to Sean. "See how dirty my hands are?" Her confrontation with Sean and the schoolbag is phenomenal. Of course, not giving Cameron Bright his due is criminal. He works hard as Sean to make Anna believe. Lauren Bacall is typically matriachal as Anna's mother. Danny Huston fits like a glove. And character actors such as Peter Stormare, Cara Seymour, Alriss Howard, Alison Elliot, Zoe Caldwell and Ted Levine add bonus support.


Technically, the film is stunning. Musical scores this perfect are extremely rare, but Alexandre Desplat (who is garnering a long list of exquisite scores) does it masterfully. The score is so perfectly in tune to the movie. The (here's that word again) bewitching almost fairy-tale spriteness of it all just washes over you. At the very start "Prologue" with it's horns and flutes introduces the themes that you hear throughout. Just bliss. Harris Savides' cinematography is equally beautifully grounded in the real world as it is magically other-worldy. And the contemporary costume design and art direction (by John A Dunn and Jonathan Arkin respectively) feels just right with it's mixing of Upper Class Central Park West with Lower Class residential. Editing by Sam Sneade and Claus Wehlisch is tight and precise - the film is only 100 minutes long. The feel of New York City just works so completely.


Birth is a film that I find myself constantly thinking about, over a year since I saw it. The slightest trigger can set it off. When I was in New York City earlier this year it was a big trigger - Central Park. The place that features so prominantly throughout the film (sort of as a juxtaposition. The crazy New York reincarnation story versus nature). Other times I may be listening to my iPod and on comes Alexandre Desplat's sublime original score. Whenever I think of it my mind races. I try to remember all the scenes, down to the dialogue and character movements. There are so many memorable scenes in this movie. From the Opera sequence, to Clara's confrontation, to the opening scene in Central Park, to the bathroom sequence, to the perplexing and thought-provoking ending. What does that finale mean. I think there are several interpretations - Perhaps when the boy Sean says they will meet in the "next life" he commits suicide and Anna's sudden change of mood at her wedding is an indication that she felt it as it was happening as if was her husband all over again. That's the far out theory that I like to believe, because it has so many repurcussions. The film continues to climb higher and higher on my personal canon of films each new time I watch it.

The movie haunts me as a viewer, much like Anna's dead husband haunts her as a woman. He gets in her brain and so when something even remotely linked to him comes along, she wants to grab ahold and go for the ride, because the ride was oh so sweet.


Lastly, for a truly oddly spiritually connected twosome, watch Birth side-by-side with Todd Haynes' Safe. It's sort of scary how similar they are in all honesty. Not in themes or any of that, but in tone, talent and pure bewitchingly other-worldly filmmaking.

From the Desk of Hugh Jackman

Dear Stale Popcorn readers,

I'm sure you know who I am. I'm Hugh Jackman! Today, incase you weren't sure, is my 38th birthday. Yeah, I know! That's pretty big. I'm having a pretty big year in general. Firstly, there's my birthday, I'm finishing up my Boy From Oz tour of Australia, I've had two movies out already (X-Men 3 and Scoop. Did you see them?) and I have another four to be released before the end of the year. I voice characters in Happy Feet (alongside Nicole Kidman) and Flushed Away. And next week I get to go all 18th century on y'all arses as a Magician. I get to star with Scarlett Johansson again. I'm lucky. I also have The Fountain, that cinephile's wet dream of sorts.

I then have another seven titles in some form of production. A Plumm Summer could forseeably become my seventh 2006 release. I have The Tourist with Ewan McGregor. I have two projects with Nicole Kidman rearing to go - Baz Luhmann's untitled epic (the one that Russell Crowe dumped) and Wong Kar-Wai's remake of The Lady from Shanghai! Bonza, right? I know. I then have my Wolverine X-Men spinoff and two movies called Rebound Guy and If You Could See Me Now that have been announced. Phew. I'm exhausted just thinking about it. Not to mention I'm raising my two kids with my wife Deborra-Lee Furness - by the way, did you see her in Jindabyne? She acted up a storm!

Now, today is indeed my birthday - but you know what? Tomorrow is Glenn's 21st birthday, and that's of equal important. We need people like Glenn. Especially since one of my favourite Aussie bloggers retired. Glenn is one of my biggest fans. Always has been. All the way back when I was making Australian movies like Paperback Hero (which, if I say so myself, I looked mighty fine in thank you very much) and Erskineville Kings <-see that one! It proves I'm not just a really really pretty face with a body to die for a killer singing voice. No siree. Oh, and Glenn has been known to talk about me from time to time.

So, today celebrate ME because I'm awesome and you know it. And then tomorrow celebrate Glenn cause he's awesome and you know it (unless you're that guy who e-mailed him saying you'd bash him to the ground because he criticised Hilary Skank Swank.)

Cheers,

Hugh Jackman

Baz + Nicole - Russell - Heath + Hugh = OMG!

So, after this entry was debunked it seemed that Baz' historic Australian romance epic would be leading man-less for much longer than it turned out to be.


While I am at odds to actually believe anything IMDb throws at us (particular in their people news section), I would be neglegent and remiss to not mention what they are reporting today that, yes indeed, HUGH JACKMAN IS TO STAR.

This makes me much happier than Heath Ledger or Russell Crowe to be honest. Heath just didn't seem like he fit once I got to thinking about it (anything to do with Baz and Nicole results in constant thinking from moi), but Hugh makes more sense. Plus, he's closer in age. Baz (apparently) tells the Hollywood Reporter "'He just continues to astound in terms of his range, whether it's The Boy From Oz or Wolverine. He's always been a leading man, but he is moving toward being an iconic leading man, which is perfect for the story we're doing.'"

So, what do y'all think about this latest development? Yeah, I'm happy! Plus, the fact that it's set in Australia's far-north means Hugh Jackman will have ample opportunity to take his confining heat-trapping clothes off and parade around in as little as possible. :p

Plus, the movie's probably gonna be good too.

KU4HJ

I know that in context of the full article it would make sense, but as we've learned in class people tend to assosciate descriptors with the most recent noun.

The magazine calculated Kidman's 2005 earnings to be $22.3 million, in front of Urban's $20 million, tying him equal fourth with Hugh Jackman.

The actor and the country music singer are rumoured to be engaged.

Hugh Jackman's mine Keith.