I always wonder how and why movies like Mirror Mirror get green-lit. I mean, teen boys aren’t exactly clamoring for Snow White as a super-heroine, aliens don’t blow shit up, there are no car chases starring cool Ryan Gosling. So who persuades who that such a film needs funding? Perplexing. Yet Mirror Mirror succeeds, I…
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How not to work with the local community: embarrassed officials said that when the crew of Julia Robert’s new movie, “Eat, Pray, Love“, rocked up in Bali’s Bentuyung village a month ahead of schedule, locals blocked roads and demanded 32,000 dollars…….. “There was a misunderstanding. The crew came in 20 trucks… earlier than their scheduled…
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It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years since Julia Roberts graced the streets of London in Notting Hill. It was on TV again over the weekend: a “what happens” when a megastar meets and falls in love with quite a normal chap. Even if the chap is floppy Hugh Grant. What happens when a…
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