Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin on the red carpet.

The traffic came to a halt while thousands of fans waited for hours in the rain in central Sydney. The enthralled crowd cheered after a long wait while Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman walked the red carpet for the world premiere of “Australia”.

The 3,000 invited guests walked down the carpet  while George Street in Sydney’s CBD was closed for the premiere of one of the most predicted local films ever.  Nicole was seen strolling gracefully with her co-stars like Hugh Jackman, Bryan Brown, David Wenham, 13-year-old Brandon Walters, Jack Thompson, director Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin.

Kidman mention in a candid conversation that Australia may be her final film as she would now like to concentrates on motherhood. “I’m in a place in my life where I have had some great opportunities. I may just choose to have some more children”, Kidman said.

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Twilight

“Twilight” saw a grand opening with teenagers shouting at the top of their voices to get a glimpse of the author. It sure sounds a massive affair. Like never before, Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series of books, draws screams and lunging teenagers as she signs autographs and takes pictures before walking into the theater. Twilight’s World Premiere rocked Los Angeles with thousands of fans in every corner of the Westwood Village. Surely they were loud.

For a vampire love story tickets are literally selling like hot cakes. The upcoming midnight shows are being sold and at a random pace.Summit Entertainment film has already sold out hundreds of performances four days before its Friday opening in about 3,400 locations. Movie Ticket sellouts were definitely more than 400  of various show times.

Going by the ticketers the movie has more than 85% of pre-sales. With industry hearsay suggesting an overdose of spice is already ringing with spectacular advance ticket sales.

Several marketing heads of the industry are simply awestruck at the tremendous effect and with the film itself. Until now Summit Entertainment was just another name with no such movie to go by. With dim and modest success streak with its martial arts film “Never Back Down,” the teen comedy “Sex Drive,” Summit Entertainment had nothing to fall back on. BUt this time around Summit Entertainment has an amazing ace up its sleeve - “Twilight.”

Robert Pattinson Kristen Stewart

“Twilight” is the first in a series of enormously popular vampire love stories written by Stephenie Meyer. They now rest in peace before the final show stealing and probably one of the hottest Hollywood literary franchises since “Harry Potter.” The film, directed by Catherine Hardwicke stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, Oscar winner Jamie Foxx and the band Paramore, who have a song on the soundtrack. The young actors,Stewart and Pattinson are treated with The Beatles style mania by fans. Last week, 10,000 kids literally mobbed them in a Dallas mall. They’ve been on the cover of Entertainment Weekly and several teen tabloids as well as all over MTV. Before the film actually hits the masses the stars are a real hit.

Industry speak suggests that half of Hollywood’s biggies missed “Twilight” and just let it go. The project was stalled for over a year. Twilight” was originally at Paramount’s MTV Films. Paramount reportedly wasted two years in developing before actually letting it all go. Paramountallowing the film slip through its hands brought it good times for the film. Former Paramount benefactors helped the film to develop. Karen Rosenfelt, a longtime Paramount production executive, and a veteran became attached with “Twilight” as a producer in fall 2006. There were several others like Summit Chief Executive Friedman, who’d been a top Paramount executive for years who came together. And the rest of “Twilight” remains to be seen if a history is in the making.

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Angelina Jolie

Brad and Angelina are proud parents. Their kids have already started to shine. The star couple has twins who are only four months old. But Knox and Vivienne’s doting parents have already started seeing growth and maturity in their kids. They insist that their kids are already shaping up into characters of their own in spite of their unbelievable age.

Angelina has proudly revealed, Knox and Vivienne are “starting to get very smiley,” “They’re at that [stage] where their personality really starts to shine.”

Jolie was talking to reporters about her new film “Kung Fu Panda”. She talked about her kids and how great they are and “…still so little, but they do [have their own personalities],” at the DVD launch for Kung Fu Panda. She said her children loved her new film. She could see it in them. She said, “I think it’s a great film, and it’s brought a lot of joy to children – and to my children, absolutely,” Overjoyed Jolie could not hold back her excitement surrounding her film and new found happiness of motherhood. She said : “My kids love it. They’re very very proud, they’ve got mom [Tigress] dolls.” Kung Fu Panda’s premiere was held at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. There were furry Panda characters all over the place. Costars Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman chatted with fans and press. A $1 million cheque was presented by DreamWorks’ Jeffrey Katzenberg. The money went for the Conservation International in support of their efforts for the preservation of pandas in their natural habitat.

Jolie declined to comment on any question asked about President Elect, Barack Obama. She looked like one gorgeous mom who was slim in her long-sleeved black dress and beige pumps with spiked heels. She just said that she was happy with the election last Tuesday.
She did not bring out anything about her plans for January inaugural balls under President-elect Barack Obama.

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James Gray Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow seems to set the red carpet straight. She dared to wear a see through black and white dress at the premiere of “Two Lovers” in Paris.

The dress was no where near subtle. Nothing more was left to imagine. revealing dresses are a part of tradition on the red carpet. But this time around Paltrow took it a bit far.

The 36-year-old was in loss of her usual pseudo-dignity. Her Pris premiere marks her return to work having two children Apple, four, and Moses, two with husband Chris Martin, frontman of Coldplay.

She seemed desparate to show off and was seen smiling and waving off to fans standing beside U.S. director James Gray. She arrived at the Publicis cinema in Paris seemingly in a do not care attitude.

She had once admiited to being apprenhisive to return to the “cut-throat world” of Hollywood. She said: “Hollywood is pretty cut-throat and everybody’s got a short memory and there’s always somebody younger or hotter … or prettier or whatever.” So her dress fits the bill.

Her revealing outfit at the premieres is suggestively publicising her role in the film where she shows off one of her breasts.

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