Australia
January 9, 2009
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In an interview with Sydney’s radio station 2day FM, she said, "I can't look at this movie and be proud of what I've done.” She went on to say that she felt uncomfortable at Sunday’s premiere in Sydney. She told them, "I sat there, and I looked at Keith and went, 'Am I any good in this movie?’”
But Nicole’s not dragging her co-stars down with her. She was quick to add, "But I thought Brandon Walters and Hugh Jackman were wonderful. It's just impossible for me to connect to it emotionally at all."
But this harsh self-assessment could be because Nicole isn’t used to seeing herself on the big screen. She says, "I don't usually see my films, but because of Baz I had to see it. I saw Moulin Rouge. I've really only seen that and this in my whole career. It gets worse as I get older."
It sounds like Nicole suffers from the same self-consciousness everyone has and it’s nice to hear that she’s actually human, and can admit to having faults! Did you see the movie? Is Nicole as bad as she thinks in it?
December 15, 2008
The Day the Earth Stood Still: $31 million
Four Christmases: $13.2 million
Twilight: $8 million
Bolt: $7.5 million
Australia: $4.2 million
Quantum of Solace: $3.8 million
Nothing Like the Holidays: $3.5 million
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: $3.2 million
Milk: $2.6 million
Transporter 3: $2.2 million
December 8, 2008
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Four Christmases: $18.1 million
Twilight: $13.1 million
Bolt: $9.6 million
Australia: $7 million
Quantum of Solace: $6.6 million
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: $5.1 million
Transporter 3: $4.5 million
Punisher: War Zone: $4 million
Cadillac Records: $3.5 million
Role Models: $2.6 million
December 1, 2008
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1. Four Christmases: $31.6 million
2. Bolt: $26.5 million
3. Twilight: $26.3 million
4. Quantum of Solace: $19.5 million
5. Australia: $14.8 million
6. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: $14.5 million
7. Transporter 3: $12.3 million
8. Role Models: $5.2 million
9. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: $1.6 million
10. Milk: $1.3 million
November 25, 2008
The UK Times Online had this to say: Australia the movie, however, has one huge problem. It stars Nicole Kidman. Big mistake. Big, big mistake. At a stroke, the world's female cinemagoers will say as one: "I'm not going to see it if she's in it."
Kidman is one of those women who turns other women off. And no, not just because she's pretty and we're jealous. It is because we perceive, and men don't, that she's one of the most overrated actors in the world, a woman who has been the kiss of death in practically every movie she has starred in.
Kidman is exquisitely accomplished at being awful. Did anyone see Cold Mountain? The sweeping American epic (note: another epic) foundered on the rocks of her gormless mirror-gaze. She can't act. Instead, she drifts around films like a lost porcelain doll, looking frozen, brittle and vapid, staring at the camera with her oh-golly-look-how-I'm-looking-interesting blue eyes.
The Chicago Tribune wrote:
Australia offers everything from a cattle drive to Nicole Kidman's rendition of "Over the Rainbow" to hordes of Japanese Zeros zeroing in on screaming children during the early 1942 attack on Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory, two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The only thing missing is an iceberg. It's hard, with Australia, to invest in a romance so synthetically preordained, featuring an orphan who is less a person than a history lesson. At times the film appears on the verge of morphing into a singing-cowboy musical. With Zeros.
Not a good start! And the film isn't even out yet!
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