Nicole Kidman has three children: four-month-old daughter Sunday Rose with husband Keith Urban, and two children she and first husband Tom Cruise adopted.

Nicole Kidman said at the news conference, “In terms of my future as an actor and stuff, I don’t know. I am in a place in my life where … I’ve had some great opportunities and I may just choose to have some more children. I’ve no idea what is in my future but I am very at peace with where I want to be.”

She added, “There are many things I want to do besides act.”

The Danish Girl is based on a 2000 best-selling novel, about real-life Danish husband/wife artists Einar and Greta Wegener.

Nicole Kidman will play Einar, a man who, in the 1920s, posed as a woman for his painter wife Greta (Theron).

When the portraits became popular, Greta encouraged Einar to dress as a woman regularly – and in 1931, he underwent a sex-change operation.

Among the gifts? Chenille baby blankets, fancy schmancy Hermes items and other baby gifts. How’s that for good PR?

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban named the baby girl Sunday Rose Kidman Urban.

A spokesman for the couple said, “Husband Keith was by Nicole’s side, and mother and baby are very well.” Sunday Rose Kidman Urban weighed 6 lbs., 7.5 oz.

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have revealed that their pet names for each other are Evie and Hank, respectively. That is the origin of their otherwise mostly unknown clothing label, Hank Evie. Originally, they sold only concert T-shirts but now they’ll be selling belt buckles, clothing, shoes, bags, boxer shorts and pyjamas. Kidman is already getting big bucks to endorse Chanel No. 5 perfume and a Nintendo computer game for Europe.

Kidman recently admitted to being pregnant, which resulted in Kate Winslet replacing her in the upcoming movie The Reader (Dec 12). The movie Australia (Sep 5) is already in post-production. No word yet on 2009’s Need.

Kidman is also working on Australia this year, and for 2009, Need, and The Lady from Shanghai. No word on whether she’ll drop out of these or whether they’ll be delayed. Maybe this is why she was initially denying being pregnant? It must play havoc with contracts. (Though Julia Roberts was three months pregnant when she did the bikini scene in Charlie Wilson’s War.)

The Golden Compass stars Nicole Kidman (Mrs. Marisa Coulter), Daniel Craig (Lord Asriel) and Dakota Blue Richards (Lyra Belacqua). Sir Ian McKellen offers some voice work. It’s directed by Chris Weitz (American Pie 1 and 2, producer; About a Boy, writer; ), who also adapted the screenplay from Philip Pullman’s novel of the same name.

As you might already know, The Golden Compass is a subject of controversy in the Catholic Church, with the highest authority, the Pope himself, calling it a “godless” movie. It seems to have shown some early promise then tanked in North America, but is doing well overseas.

I have to say that while I have a copy of the book from years ago, I haven’t read it. But the movie’s story – which supposedly toned down the religious elements – struck me as being very odd, and I think I can see why the Pope calls it “godless”.

In many fantastical tales, characters might sometimes have a “familiar”, who is their muse, their confidant. Famliars are sentient creatures said to take the form of animals – often cats. In The Golden Compass, the explanation given (see the video clip below) is that in a parallel world, each person’s soul is not within the body but walks beside them in animal form that are called “demons”.

Why Pullman chose to call them “demons” beats me. (Assuming that is his doing and not Chris Weitz’.) And no God is ever mentioned. This might not be surprising if you know that Pullman is an avowed atheist. But a universe where there are “demons” but not god(s) seems very odd for storytelling purposes. It seems like a world without hope. This is no doubt the reason the Pope called this movie “godless”.

This huge controversy aside, I found the movie to be a mix of impressiveness and disappointment. On the plus side, the CGI creatures were incredible. On the minus side, I couldn’t follow the story. There is far too much whispering going on, especially from Nicole Kidman’s character, Mrs. Coulter. I found her character very confusing: sinister one moment and nurturing the next, without explanation or even apparent motivation. Though I’m surprised to say that Kidman does the sinister part quite well.

There also seem to be far too many protagonists. Maybe the novel reads better than the movie plays out, but The Golden Compass was one of my least favorite “fantastical” movies – computer graphics not withstanding.

If you consider potential future DVD sales, the movie might not do so bad overall. The old way of doing business only looks at the early box office receipts. But with the Internet as a potential distribution vehicle (especially with Apple entering the online movie rental business) to supplement DVD sales, The Golden Compass and other movies that don’t do well in theaters still have a chance.

Though even if they do will in after-theater sales, that doesn’t necessarily justify the making of sequels. Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman reportedly want a lot of money to appear in The Golden Compass’ sequels. Kidman has already been declared one of the most overpaid actors, and this movie won’t help if after-theater sales don’t make up for poor North American box office receipts.

Two more Pullman novels are currently being adapted into movies: The Butterfly Tattoo (2008) and The Subtle Knife (2009). The latter also features the Lyra Belacqua lead character from the Golden Compass, though I don’t know if it’s a sequel.

It’s not nice to talk about this sort of thing, but hey, we are a “movie gossip site”. Nicole Kidman, currently starring as a villainess in The Golden Compass, is delightedly pregnant. While she was still married to Tom Cruise, they had adopted two children. Rumors were that one of the pair were infertile and that this may have precipitated their divorce. But she did in fact have an ectopic pregnancy, which was only revealed shortly after the divorce.

Since then, both have remarried – he to Katie Holmes, she to country and western singer Keith Urban. (Urban, believe it or not, is born in New Zealand and has an NZ accent. Didn’t know they had C+W singers there.). Never mind that the baby Katie Holmes gave birth to – Suri – doesn’t really look like Cruise or Holmes. But Kidman is no doubt happy, and if this is why Cruise divorced her, then she’s vindicated.

Kidman is currently working on Australia and The Reader for 2008, and Need and The Lady from Shanghai for 2009. The video clip is an unofficial trailer from Australia.