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SYDNEY (AFP) - The movie "Australia", an outback epic which tourism chiefs hope will spur visitors Down Under, is unfinished weeks before release and completion will be "very close to the wire", its director said Tuesday. Acclaimed film-maker Baz Luhrmann said he will finish the sweeping romantic film, which features Hollywood stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, in time for its November 26 release. But the director admitted that post-production would continue almost right up until then and that the movie, which has a budget of more than 100 million US dollars, would be delivered reel by reel rather than as a completed whole. "We're probably going to hand reels over in a way which probably happens with no other film," Luhrmann told the Sydney Morning Herald. "We have to be that inventive." "Australia" is arguably the biggest... [read full story]
