Manhattan media maven Bill McCuddy attended a midnight showing of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at the Zeigfeld last night, and reports that the trailer for Baz Lurhman‘s Australia got booed. What does that mean? That Spielberg fanboys have had it up to here with Nicole Kidman…? It can’t be about Luhrman or Hugh Jackman. I’m grasping at straws, but I know that boos from paying audiences are a bellwether that distributors can’t afford to ignore.
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