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Filmmaker BAZ LUHRMANN hopes his new movie Australia will match the LORD OF THE RINGS’ success in boosting tourism for the country.
The Oscar-winning director hopes his film - starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman - will have a similar impact on Australia’s tourism industry as the Lord Of The Rings had on New Zealand - the scene of the trilogy’s spectacular setting.
He says, "It was a little bit of Asia, a little bit of the Wild West, a little bit of Africa - all mixed in creating a natural and truly unique environment.
"It takes it to another level because it becomes globally mythologised.
"If the film does play, if it’s half good, I mean Lord of the Rings is the best example in the world … the response as far as tourism was unprecedented and unimaginable."

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