TAG | BigPond launches Australia movie trailer first – but movies when? |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 19 May 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 BigPond Group Managing Director Mr Justin Milne said the trailer can be accessed at no charge by all broadband users via BigPond.com and by Telstra Next G mobile phone users 24 hours before the preview trailer is publicly released in Australia.“We are delighted to be partnering with 20th Century Fox to be presenting the Australia trailer using our new full-screen digital online player.” “It will be the best quality trailer you can view online in Australia and the streaming technology we are using has already seen trailer viewing on BigPond TV jump by 800% in just a few weeks,” said Milne. “BigPond Movies offers Australia’s most popular online DVD rental and legal movie download businesses, so scoring the exclusive first release of the Australia trailer is a huge endorsement of our commitment to movie fans and Telstra’s position as a media comms company with its eyes firmly fixed on the future,” Mr Milne said. Marcos Oliveira, Managing Director of 20th Century Fox, Australia said “We are absolutely thrilled to present this trailer, in conjunction with BigPond. The trailer presents all the elements of a truly epic movie, in the hands of one of the world’s most visionary directors and two of the world’s biggest movie stars. We couldn’t be more excited.” The synopsis of the movie is as follows: A romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior to World War II, AUSTRALIA centres on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits an outback property the size of Belgium. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Jackman) to drive 2000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country’s most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbour only months earlier. With his new film, Luhrmann is painting on a vast canvas, creating a cinematic experience that brings together romance, drama, adventure and spectacle. The press release says that “AUSTRALIA” will be released in Australian cinemas on 13 November 2008, but, as you’d expect, there’s no mention of when the movie will be released to DVD or online download. Illegal downloads should be available on or soon after November 13, too, but legal downloads and the DVD release likely won’t happen until early 2009. Note: iTWire in no way, shape or form condones piracy. Without content creators being fairly compensated for their work in some way, shape or form, one of the many incentives to actually create content is removed, it’s as simple as that!
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