Showing posts with label Baz Luhrmann. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baz Luhrmann. Show all posts

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Flop of the Year Alert

I've been saying for weeks, and will say again here, that I have the distinct feeling that Baz Luhrmann's epic Australia is going to be a massive flop. And now, just a few days before its premiere in... Australia... the film isn't even finished yet:
Luhrmann renewed the debate over exactly how unfinished the film is on the LAT's The Envelope blog, revealing that at the end of the "emotional cinematic banquet" there will be a death of some kind, even if he's not quite sure yet who buys it. Meanwhile, Fox co-chairman Tom Rothman tried to dismiss the controversy over the $130 million dollar film's "six endings." This barely counts as optimism when it comes to the film's still-ongoing editing process. Since they are shutting down a street in Sydney for the premiere, should the local authorities prepare for a riot or can Luhrmann deliver in time?
Seriously, though: apart from Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge, when is the last time Nicole Kidman was in a hit movie? To Die For?