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2009-06-22T22:18:00.001-07:00

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2009-06-22T22:15:00.000-07:00

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2009-06-22T20:36:00.001-07:00

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2009-06-22T20:35:00.001-07:00

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2009-06-22T20:35:00.000-07:00

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2009-06-22T20:06:00.001-07:00

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2009-06-22T20:05:00.000-07:00

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2009-06-22T20:04:00.000-07:00

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2009-06-22T18:24:00.000-07:00

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2009-06-22T18:23:00.004-07:00

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2009-06-22T18:23:00.003-07:00

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2009-06-22T18:23:00.001-07:00

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2009-06-22T18:02:00.000-07:00

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2009-06-22T18:00:00.002-07:00

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2009-06-22T18:00:00.001-07:00

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2009-06-22T18:00:00.000-07:00

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2009-06-22T17:59:00.000-07:00

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{allmovies} Twilight's Peter Facinelli Wins Twitter Bet

2009-06-22T17:11:00.000-07:00

Peter Facinelli is the latest celeb to win a Twitter bet.

The Twilight star recruited 500,000 followers by his Friday deadline. If he didn't, he would have handed over the backing of his movie set director's chair to best friend Rob "Rob D." DeFranco.

But since he succeeded, Mr. DeFranco is now forced to dance down Hollywood Boulevard in a bikini while singing Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" (Joe Jonas, watch out) and holding a sign that says, "Twitter Me."

Since the bet began, Facinelli's follower count had been fluctuating...

It had hit more than 500,000 by Friday, but after an hour it dipped below.

"What I had heard was that Twitter was treating the followers like spam because so many were coming in, so they were getting tossed off," Facinelli wrote in an email to yours truly. "So at the end of the day, I'll never know if my follower count is right, but I do know that we had over 500,000, which was the magic number for Rob doing the bikini dance."

DeFranco is set to hit the streets on June 30. He tweeted over the weekend about trying on bikinis, going on a crash diet and getting manscaped with a wax.

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2009-06-22T16:44:00.001-07:00

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2009-06-22T16:43:00.001-07:00

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{allmovies} Alec Baldwin to pen parenting guidebook?

2009-06-21T23:20:00.001-07:00

Alec Baldwin is considering writing a parental guide book.

The actor, who was vilified in the media after an answer machine message of an attack on his teenage daughter Ireland was leaked online, insists he's the perfect person to pen a modern look at parenting.

Baldwin admits he was shocked by the letters and emails he received from fans who revealed they'd never been able to shake harsh things their parents had told them - and, as a result, opted to treat their own kids with kindness at all times.

As a result, he fears parents have stopped parenting.

He tells Playboy magazine, "It will be ironic for some people, but I'm going to write a parenting book.

"We're at... an awful place right now in terms of parenting. People are raising their children with the belief that we need to be friends with our children.

"Kids have too much power and call too many of the shots, telling their parents what they will and won't do."

Baldwin blames the economy and other social issues for the way parents have gone soft: "People are working hard to make money and manage their feelings about what the country's going through. We live in stressful times.

"People come home, walk up the driveway, put the key in the door, and they can't do another hard job. Parenting your children effectively is a tough job."

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{allmovies} Indian films in New York create Bollywood-on-Hudson

2009-06-21T19:16:00.000-07:00

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Millions of moviegoers in India recognize the neon signs of Times Square as easily as the Taj Mahal, due to the growing popularity of "Bollywood" movies shot in the United States, particularly in New York.

By making movies in one of the world's most expensive cities, producers risk big losses but can score big rewards by appealing to India's fascination with foreign worlds.

Despite its high costs, New York, more than any city outside India, offers easy access to resources such as Indian extras, trained Indian dancers and Indian production teams, say experts on Bollywood, the $2 billion-a-year industry known for movies featuring elaborate music, costumes and sets.

The term Bollywood combines the names of India's commercial and Hindi film capital Bombay, now renamed Mumbai, and Hollywood, the global center of commercial movie production.

Such films have occasionally been made in cities such as Miami, Johannesburg and Sydney, but nine mainstream Bollywood movies have been shot in New York since 2003, eight of them since 2006 alone. Two more are in the offing.

That number is significant, given that the scripts are based on stories that could have just as easily been shot at home, experts say.

Coming this month from one of India's largest production houses is a movie titled "New York," which capitalizes on the city's instant recognizability, director Kabir Khan said.

"One shot of New York, and you know this is New York," he said.

Big-budget Bollywood productions, using distinctive backdrops such as the Brooklyn Bridge or Grand Central Terminal, cost between $12 million and $15 million. This is expensive by Indian standards, but just a fraction of the cost of a mainstream Hollywood film, which often tops $100 million.

A similar movie made in India would cost half of that or less, said Atit Shah of New Jersey-based Bollywood Hollywood Productions, which provides crews, equipment, extras and vendor agreements for U.S.-based Bollywood shoots.

One of the earliest hits shot in New York, "Kal Ho Naa Ho" or "Tomorrow May Never Come," cost about $7 million to make, according to director Karan Johar, a pioneer of New York-based Bollywood dramas. The movie made about $13 million.

"Kal Ho Naa Ho" featured a Hindi rendition of Roy Orbison's 1964 classic song "Pretty Woman" shot in the New York Borough of Queens, with dozens of local Indians as extras. The ethnically diverse Queens is home to more than 50,000 Indians.

LOOKING FOR CAUCASIAN DANCERS

Bollywood movies typically have a half dozen songs, and filmmakers look for Caucasian rather than Indian dancers to reinforce the foreign locale, said Pooja Narang, founder of a New York-based Bollywood Axion dance company.

"They usually ask for white dancers trained in a variety of styles, including Indian," she said.

Narang provided dancers for "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna," or "Never Say Goodbye," which included a disco sequence at a New York nightclub, and for "Jaan-E-Mann," or "Sweetheart," which included a song sequence in the streets of Manhattan.

"Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna," also directed by Johar, cost about $12 million to make and earned about $19 million.

While earlier Bollywood movies shot in New York could have been set anywhere, newer ones such as a big-budget film by Johar to be released this fall work the city into their stories.

"The trend is now evolving into one where we shoot in New York because the city is integral to the script," Johar said. "It wasn't like that with my other two movies."

New York City Film Commissioner Katherine Oliver traveled to India in October to meet with key members of the film industry and promote the benefits of filming in New York.

"The success of films like 'Kal Ho Naa Ho' and 'Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna' ... shows that Indian audiences are eager to see the real New York City on screen," she said.

Most Bollywood stars and crews stay at the Radisson Lexington in New York, a hotel run by Sam Bhadha. He has ties to the Indian film industry from working at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai in the 1980s.

"I knew the fathers of these actors and producers then," he said. "The fathers were the celebrities. These people were just kids."

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{allmovies} Harold Ramis looks back at "Year One" from Day One

2009-06-21T19:15:00.001-07:00

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – In the beginning there was nothing. Then Harold Ramis got an idea.

That was in the summer of 2005. His comedy "Year One" opened this weekend via Columbia Pictures with Jack Black and Michael Cera as lazy hunter-gatherers on a Biblical epic road trip after being kicked out of their primitive village. The film opened at No. 4 with a solid $20.2 million.

Inspiration? Mel Brooks' "The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Man."

"I loved the conceit of putting characters with a contemporary consciousness in an ancient world." It all sounded funny to Ramis, who definitely knows "funny" after "Caddyshack" and "Ghostbusters."

Another influence: A mid-'70s PBS documentary he recalled about how Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons co-existed for thousands of years and must have met.

"I was working with John Belushi and Bill Murray at the time at National Lampoon and I directed them in an improv," he told me. Murray's Cro-Magnon was "his usual contemporary hipster and John played the Neanderthal like a moronic thug." There was "a nice Abbott & Costello quality" that stuck in Ramis' head.

Inspiration struck: "Why not do something set in the ancient world and invest the characters with my own consciousness?" Genesis supplied the story.

"I imagined the hunter-gatherers living in a virtual Garden of Eden with one rule -- 'Don't eat the fruit from that tree.'"

Naturally, a guy like Jack Black "would have to eat the fruit. So it's not only the story of every comic hero, it's actually the story of every adolescent."

To Ramis, Genesis is "one epic journey after another as well as one dysfunctional family after another. So I set these characters in motion, expelled them from their Garden paradise."

The first people they meet are Cain & Abel. Genesis doesn't tell us much about them, so Ramis made it a classic sibling rivalry and Cain's a bit of a sociopath.

There was going to be an episode with Noah, but that was scrapped. Not only would it have been expensive to create a flood and build an arc, but "Steve Carell's 'Evan Almighty' had just been out and, I thought, sort of burned a lot of Noah."

But that didn't matter. There's lots of other good stuff in Genesis -- like Abraham & Isaac. "They're the next important people they meet. Despite every warning by Abraham that God will destroy Sodom for its iniquities, it just makes them want to go to Sodom even more."

In November 2005, Ramis was ready for a studio deal. He had "a loose three acts, which is all I ever want to tell anyway. I always feel people pitch too much. As long as a studio feels you can do it, they don't want to hear too many details."

But always give 'em a marketing hook. "It could be the greatest idea in the world, but if they can't sell it, it's no good to them."

Ramis did a half-dozen pitches. "I have friends everywhere and they all wanted to hear it. I think Sony was my last meeting." He had a great relationship there because of "Groundhog Day" and despite "Multiplicity." "Before the meeting was over, (studio honchos) Amy Pascal and Matt Tolmach said, 'Oh, yeah, we'll do that.'"

The deal came together quickly and Ramis started writing in the spring of '06. He didn't want to write alone, but didn't know who to work with "because all the guys who were my age or a little younger that I'd worked with before are all so successful." He'd call writers who'd say, "I have five days in April I can give you." But that's not how he wanted to work.

Gene Stupnitsky & Lee Eisenberg hadn't had any scripts produced yet, but Ramis knew them as production assistants who'd worked for him. "They met on a project of mine and started writing together, were discovered and hired as staff members on 'The Office.'" Ramis felt they were great at that and also liked their spec scripts. Ramis thinking aloud: "Well, why not?"

Added bonus: They're much closer to the audience in age and sensibility "and this can only be good for me."

Ramis had Jack Black in mind from day one. "We sent him the script and I don't think 48 hours went by before his agent called back and said 'Jack wants to do this.'"

One wrinkle: He wanted to play the sidekick! Happy ending: When Ramis questioned it Black decided to play the lead. Michael Cera was cast as the sidekick.

Well, actually, as things evolved it was no longer a main guy and sidekick. "They're really co-equal roles," Ramis said. When Judd Apatow signed on to co-produce with Ramis and Clayton Townsend, he suggested: "You should look at Michael Cera." Ramis to Apatow after seeing Cera in the 2007 comedy "Superbad:" "Well, absolutely, he's the guy."

Shooting began in January '08 for 13 weeks mostly in Shreveport, where Louisiana's filmmaking tax breaks were a big help. They found their Biblical deserts in New Mexico. A week of re-shoots followed test screenings. Ramis puts the budget "in the high-medium range" between $65-70 million.

Sodom was constructed an hour outside of Shreveport on a six-acre set with cobbled streets, stone buildings, a fortified wall and a large temple with a fiery idol.

"They built this ancient city faster than it took to remodel my bathroom," Ramis laughed. "In 10 weeks we were ready to shoot on that set."

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2009-06-21T17:18:00.002-07:00

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2009-06-21T17:18:00.001-07:00

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