Nicole Kidman's career goes straight to DVD

Oscar winning Nicole Kidman's career has officially hit all time low. Her star power had no magic on the box office. The movie, 'Trespass', is going straight to video.

Nicole Kidman's name and her star power once used to be the sole attraction for movie lovers. Her movies would easily make B-line to multiplexes and a lavish promotional campaign always on the cards but it now faces the indignity of being dumped in the movie graveyard.

It's a mainstream thriller co-starring another Oscar-winner, Nic Cage. Kidman and Cage plays the role of a wealthy couple whose fractured relationship is tested when a group of ruthless criminals invade their house and take them hostage.

It's the kind of movie Hollywood rely upon to make a decent return at the box-office. And the name of two big stars see the cash flowing.

Kidman's stars hasn't been shinning bright lately. her lastest film, Just Go With It, grossed more than $100m at the US box office but she wasn't the star. Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston had the last laugh and the spot light. She didn't even get billing on the posters. Her last 4 Hollywood films were box office disappointments. The last Kidman movie that made any decent money was in 2006 animated movie 'Happy Feet'.

Trespass's producers are releasing the film in US cinemas on the same day as making it available on video on demand - and putting it out on DVD only a few weeks later. This has been seen by many as their lack of confidence in Kidman or Cage's ability to attract a sufficient audience.

Embarrassingly, Kidman's next projects are a TV movie and another film bankrolled by Millennium.

Nonetheless Kidman still rules the heart of the Academy Awards - she was nominated for best actress for her moving performance in Rabbit Hole.

Many movie stars have indeed bounced back from a string of box office flops. But the current realities of movie-making, where franchises like Transformers and Batman, not stars, rule the box office, suggest that Nicole Kidman could be in the graveyard for quite some time.

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