I recently came across a film magazine called 'Filmink' which is distributed free in many cinemas here in Australia. I wento to their website and discovered that they have a film club called Clubink which is quite good value. You pay $A55 ($US28) and get 12 double passes to a variety of films during the year, an annual home subscription to Filmink and various other goodies. Cool.
Yesterday my package arrived in the mail including double passes to 'No Mans Land' and 'Van Wilder' and a couple of copies of Filmink. Today I started browsing through the latest issue and found some information that will be of interest to those who enjoyed 'Moulin Rouge'. It's not on the Internet so I have reproduced tha article as follows
Cloudland
Following on from the international success of Moulin Rouge, comes the announcement of a new Australian musical film called Cloudland. Executive produced by Dean Elijah, the film centres on the legendary Cloudland Ballroom, which opened in Brisbane's Bowen Hills in 1939 and closed its doors in 1982, after hosting the likes of Buddy Holly and Johnny O'Keefe. Cloudland follows three usherettes who begin working at the ballroom in the early 50s and follows their lives over the next three decades. Elijah's company Rising Son Productions is currently courting Baz Luhrmann to direct, and Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks and Village Roadshow Pictures to get behind the screenplay, which is currently in third draft."
The idea of a ballroom based musical had some appeal to me until that name Luhrmann (Get thee behind me Luhrmann!) came up. The idea of another overblown musical with fast editing, actors pretending to be real singers, confused direction and rehashed Gold 104 music made my heart sink. Here's hoping he is too busy.
By the way there was also another article in the same publication (Filmlink April 2002) and I feel compelled to reproduce it.
From the Dumb Ideas Department
The name is Luhrmann... Baz Luhrmann
After reinventing the musical with Moulin Rouge, and devising a new method of torture in the process, Australian dirctor Baz Luhrmann has stated that he might like to direct the next James Bond movie. Will Bond be a dancing man? Will Richard Roxburgh star as a dentally challenged villain. Will Nickers Kidman be the unsexiest Bond girl ever? "I have to think not really what I want to do, but rather what I need to do to continue making life so rich so that I can grow in the journey" says the down-to-earth Baz-man. "Now it might be that I need to make a James Bond film. That could happen. Anything could happen"
Maybe he WILL be too busy.
cheers Peter
Here's a link explaining what became of the Cloudland Ballroom.
cheers Peter