Kate Hudson joins the “Nine” cast
Kate Hudson will be joining the cast of “Nine,” winning the role in Rob Marshall’s big screen version of the Broadway musical.
Hudson beat rival actresses Sienna Miller and Anne Hathaway to win the role of fashion journalist Stephanie.
Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren, Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench are already among the cast.
Shooting on “Nine,” which marks “Chicago” director Marshall’s return to the musical genre, is scheduled to commence in September.
”Australia” New Featurette
In this featurette for ”Australia,” Director Baz Luhrmann shares how he uses the landscape to amplify and express drama in the film ”Australia.”
Director/Writer: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham
Release Date: November 14, 2008
watch the clip after the jump
Nicole Kidman and ”Australia” Photos by Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz traveled to the set of Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming action-adventure epic, ”Australia”, to photograph the film’s stars, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman for a 16-page spread in the July issue of Vogue.
Enjoy!
Doug Liman wants Russell Crowe in Valerie Plame film
Doug Liman, who has already cast Nicole Kidman as the film’s lead, wants Russell Crowe to play Plame’s husband Joseph Wilson.
Liman has revealed that he is lining up Russell Crowe to star in a film about outed CIA spy Valerie Plame. Plame was outed as a spy by The Washington Post in 2003 and forced to quit the CIA. Liman described the incident as “the lowpoint in American history”.
“I’d love Russell Crowe. If you’ve met Joe, he’s a really strong guy. I’ve never met an actor stronger than Russell Crowe” Liman says.
Liman originally had Crowe in mind to star in the Jason Bourne action series and admitted that the actor has an intimidating presence.
“I met with him for The Bourne Identity and I was terrified,” he said.
“The whole time I was in the room with him I was just scared of him. This is a scary dude! Joe is kind of like that.”
”Australia” featurette – Costume Design
In this ”Australia” featurette, Baz Luhrmann and Oscar winning designer Catherine Martin discusse the purpose of costume in the film. And also exposed the extensive amount of research and development inherent in costume design, shows how costumes reveal and change with a character.
watch the clip after the jump
”Australia” New Teaser Trailer
Here’s the new but pretty similar as the first ”Australia” teaser trailer. However, it shows few different scenes and more footage in the second half.
watch the trailer after the jump
‘Australia’ – More Photos of Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman
Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman together in a fascinating epic? We now have two new photos from Baz Luhrmann’s “Australia“.
“Australia” is rumored to have been budgeted at over $100 million and went through several delays, but all is going well with plans of releasing the film on November 14th. Continue Reading…
Daniel Day-Lewis in ‘Nine’
After Javier Bardem withdrew from the upcoming screen adaptation of the Broadway show ‘Nine‘, Daniel Day-Lewis will assume the leading role, reports Weekly Variety.
Day-Lewis will play the Italian film director Guido Contini.
Guido is conflicted by his artistic drive, sexual desires and his Catholicism, and Raul Julia, who was Puerto Rican, originated the role for the musical in 1982. Antonio Banderas, starred in a successful 2003 Broadway revival.
For the movie, Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench have been widely mentioned to star as two of the many women in Guido’s life, while Marion Cotillard, screen legend Sophia Loren and Penelope Cruz have already been cast.
The movie, scheduled for release next year, is to be directed by Chicago’s Rob Marshall. Harvey Weinstein, whose former studio released the 2002 Chicago and 1989’s My Left Foot, which brought Day-Lewis his first Best Actor Oscar, is producing.
I just hope Day-Lewis won’t regret for this move.
‘Australia’ – Movie Stills
Australia’s official site is update with the trailer and new pics.
Take a look at these photos from Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.
You can also watch the trailer HERE
”Baz Luhrmann’s film is set in northern Australia prior to World War II and centers on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man (Jackman) to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country’s most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.”
‘Australia’ – Trailer
While the movie’s release date is still six months away, the trailer is on-line now.
‘Australia‘ stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, along with a supporting cast Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, David Wenham, Barry Otto, Bill Hunter and John Jarrett.
The romantic action-adventure is set in northern Australia prior to World War II, about an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits an outback property the size of Belgium.
When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Jackman) to drive 2000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country’s most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces.
“The trailer presents all the elements of a truly epic movie, in the hands of one of the world’s most visionary directors and two of the world’s biggest movie stars,” said Marcos Oliveira, managing director of 20th Century Fox Australia.
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Writers: Baz Luhrmann, Ronald Harwood
