Photos: Baz Luhrmann's Australia

Several new production photos now are available for Baz Luhrmann's upcoming movie, "Australia," which stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. It's a period picture set in Australia during World War II.

As always with Week in Rewind, click on the above photos to enlarge them. What you'll note in the photo in which Kidman kisses Jackman is that she's totally locking on to the space between his nose and upper lip. Bogus!

"Australia" is currently in production and will open in theaters on Nov. 14, 2008, thus suggesting it's planning a major push for awards consideration.

This synopsis from the IMDB:

Luhrmann's film is set in northern Australia prior to World War II and centers on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man (Jackman) to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.