The Most Expensive Film in Australia

Actress Nicole Kidman is shown in a scene from director Baz Luhrmann’s new film Australia. The most expensive film ever produced in Australia.

Australian actors from left, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman and Brandon Walters applaud as Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil, right, arrives for a press conference.

Fans stand in the rain as they wait for the stars of the movie Australia to walk the red carpet during the world premiere. Set in northern Australia before World War II, it is the story of an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch and drives cattle across Australia with a handsome stockman in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot.

Australian actor Nicole Kidman waves as she walks the red carpet with her husband Keith Urban. The actress plays an English aristocrat who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland.

Actors Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman pose before a news conference in Sydney. The actors, who are long-time friends in real life, play a mis-matched couple who fall in love while driving cattle across the Outback.

Nicole Kidman walks in the rain under an umbrella held by director Baz Luhrmann. Kidman, who previously starred in Luhrmann’s musical Moulin Rouge, describes the director as her ’creative soul mate’ and agreed to star in Australia without reading the script.

Nicole Kidman walks the red carpet during the world premiere which stopped traffic in Sydney. No fewer than 15 babies were born to cast and crew during the course of the very long filming, one being Kidman’s daughter Sunday Rose.

Australian actor Brandon Walters arrives on the red carpet. Critics are saying Brandon, who makes his acting debut in Australia, deserves an Oscar nomination for his performance and Baz Luhrmann thinks the 13-year-old is destined for major success.

The all-star cast of Australia:

(left to right) David Ngoombujarra, Jack Thompson, Hugh Jackman, Brandon Walters

(front), Nicole Kidman, Bryan Brown (partly obscured), David Gulpilil and David Wenham join director/producer/writer Baz Luhrmann (fourth right) and other cast members in Sydney.

Australian actors from left, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Brandon Walters and David Gulpilil. Filming took nine months and is the most expensive and highly-anticipated movie to be made in Australia.

Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland

Funeral Convention and Expo

Rochelle Riston, left, as Cinderella and Cindy Joachim as Snow White, pass out information for Funeral One, a personalization, technology and aftercare company for the funeral service profession, at the National Funeral Directors Association Convention and Expo in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008. Beyond the convention center filled with glistening hearses, beyond the rows of perfectly arranged caskets and bottles of embalming fluid, funeral directors await perhaps their greatest windfall ever: The death of the baby boom generation.

A casket with the logo of a Major League baseball team on display by the Eternal Image company at the National Funeral Directors Association Convention and Expo in Orlando, Fla.

A casket with a college team emblem and colors on display by the Eternal Image company.

Charlene and Joseph Paquelet, left, look over an urn as Batesville Casket Company representative Kris Reynolds, explains how after it is planted it becomes a tree, at the National Funeral Directors Association Convention and Expo in Orlando, Fla.

A casket, designed by the Batesville Casket Company, for firefighters on display.

Attendees at the National Funeral Directors Association Convention and Expo look over a casket designed for motorcycle enthusiasts by the Hot Rod Caskets company.

Cynthia Beal, left, with Natural Burial Company, shows off various caskets and urns made of nautral products such as willow, bamboo and seagrass, to an attendee at the National Funeral Directors Association Convention and Expo in Orlando, Fla.

Cadillac hearses on display at the National Funeral Directors Association Convention and Expo in Orlando, Fla.

iPhone Hype in NY

Those pictures here were during the iPhone first been released. You can see how 'aggresive' those New Yorkers rushing to be the early bird!! Are you amoung one of them in the pictures below...?!!

P/S: Malao is waiting for the release of gPhone (Google Phone)... ;)

Are you there...??