Kidman, Jackman's Australia to boost tourism Down Under
News
oi-Staff
By Super Admin
Monday,
October
08,
2007
Sydney
(ANI):
Australian
tourism
bosses
are
relying
on
the
epic
romance
'Australia" starring
Nicole
Kidman
and
Hugh
Jackman
to
give
tourism
a
boost
in
the
country.
The
last
film
that
had
hordes
of
tourists
turning
up
down
under
was
the
1986
comedy
'Crocodile
Dundee".
Sources
revealed
that
the
country's
tourism
body,
Tourism
Australia,
is
in
talks
with
the
director
of
the
film,
Baz
Luhrmann,
to
collaborate
for
a
large-scale
marketing
campaign,
by
roping
in
the
film"s
cast
to
tout
Australia
as
a
tourist
destination.
"Romance
and
adventure
aren't
necessarily
the
way
that
we
have
portrayed
Australia
in
the
past," Smh
quoted
a
source,
as
saying.
Confirming
the
talks,
a
spokesman
for
the
film's
distributor,
20th
Century
Fox,
Steve
Newman
said
that
the
director
would
be
delighted
to
tie
up
with
the
tourism
body.
The
film
is
set
in
the
years
leading
up
to
World
War
II,
centres
on
the
affair
between
an
English
aristocrat
(Kidman)
and
a
cattle
drover
(Jackman).
The
film
is
scheduled
for
a
2008
release.