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What to Say When Your Movie Flops, Australia Edition [Didgeridon't]
Posted on December 01, 2008
What do you do when your big sweeping Oscar-hopeful epic that cost $130 million dollars does a shallow swan dive at the box office? You completely change the party line on the entire movie! Well, that's what Fox is doing about Australia Baz Luhrmann's continental Nicole Kidman/Hugh Jackman period romance at least. Though the film initially was being thrust at us as Titanic but with Aborigines and a lot more plastic surgery, it's now been shifted (or downgraded) to an artsy adult (not that kind of adult) flick. So its disappointing $20 million Thanksgiving numbers aren't disappointing at ...
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