More movies coming to shoot in Prague. Here are some of my recent reports for Screen Daily.
- Location Prague attracts two new US productions
- Dreamworks joins Prague production influx
- Van Helsing locates to Prague for winter shoot
Of these, Terry Gilliam's Brothers Grimm (see first and most recent link) sounds quite interesting. Producers are talking to Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Robin Williams and Jonathan Pryce to star, according to this post on Dreams: The Terry Gilliam Fanzine. Apparently Damon and Ledger would play the brothers, who run around the German countryside fooling local villagers into believing in enchanted creatures and then pulling off the fake exorcisms themselves. Things go awry when they encounter a genuine magical curse. Action and adventure ensue. This would be Damon’s second Prague shoot; he was here once already for The Bourne Identity. Gilliam = ex-Monty Python genius who directed 12 Monkeys and Brazil.
The other movie, First Daughter, sounds like a sickly sweet teen romantic comedy about a U.S. president’s daughter who comes to Prague and runs amuck, eluding her Secret Service minders and falling into the Vltava. Sounds suspiciously like Jenna Bush, who was here last summer. It stars Mandy Moore, a teen singer/pop sensation of whom I have only the vaguest knowledge. (One-liner: “I like older boys, but they think, 'She's under age.'”) The most interesting thing about this film is that Forest Whitaker is directing another movie with the same exact title and almost the same exact (dumb) plot.
Meanwhile, Kevin Costner was in Prague this week (article in Czech only) -- apparently not to scope out locations for a new movie, but rather to record a soundtrack (for Open Range?). Turns out he was at a fashion event at Stara Celnice shopping center last Friday, which, coincidentally, I almost crashed. (Apparently Costner is friends with the founder of the modeling agency that sponsored the party, Wolfgang Schwartz. This useless information was garnered through original reporting, thinking I could write a news brief on it, but there's really nothing there.)
Costner was spotted at a Prague “discotheque” called the Golden Tree. Folks, the Golden Tree is not a discotheque. It’s a titty bar.
- Location Prague attracts two new US productions
- Dreamworks joins Prague production influx
- Van Helsing locates to Prague for winter shoot
Of these, Terry Gilliam's Brothers Grimm (see first and most recent link) sounds quite interesting. Producers are talking to Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Robin Williams and Jonathan Pryce to star, according to this post on Dreams: The Terry Gilliam Fanzine. Apparently Damon and Ledger would play the brothers, who run around the German countryside fooling local villagers into believing in enchanted creatures and then pulling off the fake exorcisms themselves. Things go awry when they encounter a genuine magical curse. Action and adventure ensue. This would be Damon’s second Prague shoot; he was here once already for The Bourne Identity. Gilliam = ex-Monty Python genius who directed 12 Monkeys and Brazil.
The other movie, First Daughter, sounds like a sickly sweet teen romantic comedy about a U.S. president’s daughter who comes to Prague and runs amuck, eluding her Secret Service minders and falling into the Vltava. Sounds suspiciously like Jenna Bush, who was here last summer. It stars Mandy Moore, a teen singer/pop sensation of whom I have only the vaguest knowledge. (One-liner: “I like older boys, but they think, 'She's under age.'”) The most interesting thing about this film is that Forest Whitaker is directing another movie with the same exact title and almost the same exact (dumb) plot.
Meanwhile, Kevin Costner was in Prague this week (article in Czech only) -- apparently not to scope out locations for a new movie, but rather to record a soundtrack (for Open Range?). Turns out he was at a fashion event at Stara Celnice shopping center last Friday, which, coincidentally, I almost crashed. (Apparently Costner is friends with the founder of the modeling agency that sponsored the party, Wolfgang Schwartz. This useless information was garnered through original reporting, thinking I could write a news brief on it, but there's really nothing there.)
Costner was spotted at a Prague “discotheque” called the Golden Tree. Folks, the Golden Tree is not a discotheque. It’s a titty bar.
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