Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman star in the upcoming western epic AUSTRALIA(2008).
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AUSTRALIA Epic Has a Debut Date

20th Century Fox has updated their official 2008 lineup, giving Baz Luhrmann's upcoming western epic AUSTRALIA a new date, for better or worse. The film starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman and David Wenham will now open in theaters on November 14, 2008. This new date has it going up against some pretty stiff competion in November what with Quantum of Solace (Nov 7) and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Nov 21). Director Baz Luhrmann also penned the screenplay alongside Ronald Harwood, Stuart Beattie and Richard Flanagan.

Plot Summary: "Australia," a romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior to World War II, centers on an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Hugh 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.