World premiere of Baz Luhrmann’s Australia

November 18 2008: Sydney came to a bit of a standstill earlier today for the world premiere of Baz Luhrmann's Australia, the most expensive film ever produced in the country. Actors Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman joined a host of Australian stars for the jamboree
  
  


Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman at the world premiere of Baz Luhrmann's Australia
Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman greet each other at the world premiere of Baz Luhrmann's Australia at the George Street Greater Union Cinemas today in Sydney. The film opens in the UK on December 26 Photograph: Ezra Shaw/Getty
Still from Baz Luhrmann's Australia
The epic romance follows the story of Lady Sarah Ashley, an uptight English aristocrat played by Kidman, who inherits an Australian cattle station called Faraway Downs in the mid-1930s and ends up falling for the rough charms of a cattle drover played by Hugh Jackman Photograph: PR
Brandon Walters at the world premiere of Australia
Thirteen-year-old Brandon Walters plays Nullah, a half-caste Aboriginal boy who forms a bond with the English woman who is out of her depth in Australia Photograph: Jenny Evans/EPA
Baz Luhrmann with Nicole Kidman at the world premiere of Australia
Australia was directed by Baz Luhrmann (left), the mercurial director who also made Strictly Ballroom, Moulin Rouge! and Romeo + Juliet. Australia is his second film to feature Nicole Kidman as his leading lady Photograph: Tim Wimborne/Reuters
Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin at the world premiere of Australia
From left: Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman with Australia director Baz Luhrmann and his wife, Academy Award-winning costume designer Catherine Martin, at the film's world premiere. Martin co-produced Australia as well as designing the costumes and the production Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP
Deborra-Lee Furness and Hugh Jackman at the world premiere of Australia
Hugh Jackman with his wife, fellow actor Deborra-Lee Furness, at the world premiere of Australia in Sydney. Furness starred in another acclaimed Aussie film, Jindabyne Photograph: Jenny Evans/EPA
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban at the world premiere of Australia
Nicole Kidman with her husband, singer Keith Urban, at the world premiere of Australia. The couple welcomed their first child, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, in July Photograph: Mark Baker/AP
Hugh Jackman, Brandon Walters, Nicole Kidman and David Gulpilil
From left: Hugh Jackman, Brandon Walters, Nicole Kidman and David Gulpilil pose for photographers after a press conference for the world premiere of Australia. Gulpilil is probably the best-known Aboriginal actor in the world, with starring roles in such films as Crocodile Dundee, Rabbit-Proof Fence and The Proposition Photograph: Greg Wood/AFP
Some of the cast and crew of Baz Luhrmann's Australia
Some of the cast and crew of Baz Luhrmann's Australia pose in front of the Sydney Opera House before the world premiere of the film. Said to cost US$130m (£86m), the film is the most expensive ever produced in Australia and was shot in the stunning Kimberley region of the country's far north. Tourism Australia is hoping the film will be a shot in the arm for its moribund industry Photograph: Greg Wood/AFP
 

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