Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge, starring Nicole Kidman, is breaking box-office records in Australia, where it was filmed (and which is the birthplace of the director and star). It earned $1.9 million over the weekend on 252 screens for an average of more than $7,500 per screen, shattering a record set by Crocodile Dundee II in 1987. The film opens wide (2,300 screens) domestically on Friday. In its second week playing in only one theater in New York and Los Angeles, the film earned a sensational $254,098 over the four-day holiday.
