Angelina Jolie Lovin’ it at McDonald’s

Or maybe the school’s executive staff just wanted the $$$$$ that came with using their school as a shooting site, and to hell with everything else?
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I think that happend. I can’t wait till they get the hell of out india, this month has been a PAIN IN THE ASS. Also the local staff (production, security, press) was a mess too, this movie was to big for them.

Morning to all my fellow BAMZS Fans

I cannot wait for the JPs to get the hell out of India, no offense to any people from India here, but the Indian Press to me have it in for the JPs and their security people, they are always ready to print the negative stories but hardly anything positive, and I am sure that this latest story did not happened the way there are saying it did. I hope that this is the last week of filming for the AMH and they can just leave that country.

check out perez hiltons first post right now, Angie got sexiest woman of the year and the picture is hot

I think it’s just one of the ‘catch everyone’s attention’ tactics. They took permission to shoot. I think they’ll finish shooting by Friday. Why did they say Pune when they are supposed to be in Mumbai?

I totally Agree with everyone who says they will be glad when the Jolie Pitts, live that country, It makes me sick how only negative press is following them there. They do not deserve this press, This is a perfect example of bad things happening ot good people.

susie Says:

November 16th, 2006 at 10:01 am
check out perez hiltons first post right now, Angie got sexiest woman of the year and the picture is hot

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I just saw it, and it is HOT,, Boy this woman has it all. Love her

No, it’s Angelina’s fault because they’re HER English THUG bodyguards.

^^The pix is definitely hot, but I really really don’t appreciate Perez calling her a ****! Confusing Angie with his airhead namesake, maybe?
Or, maybe Perez sold out already to the Huvanistons???

NEW THREAD!!

No prob, Susie

susie Says: November 16th, 2006 at 10:27 am

Clearly Perez is a BAMZ hater and Haggiston fan, but he post has a great picture.

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Not true. As vile, putrid and downright disgusting as the man can get, he adores Angelina AND Brad, and has a hate on for Jennifer A. the likes of I havent seen from a gossip site owner.

Perez is most definitely NOT a Angie hater. He worships her. He absolutely loathes Jennifer Aniston. I am sure he was just trash talking when he said “Congrats *lut.”

Oldie Says: November 16th, 2006 at 9:50 am

As the names of Jolie & Pitt raised the profile of this film shoot, I wonder how other producers in Hollywood will now look at India.

I read before that Bollywood is keen on attracting Hollywood to shoot movies in India, but the news from the AMH shoot seems not be positive. Will the money savings justify the aggravation that the actors and crew have to go through?

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Lurking here a few mths back somebody put up this article about filming there and Im so happy it got saved.

Passage India rough for foreign filmmakers
Bharti Dubey

[ 23 Oct, 2006 0057hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

MUMBAI: Two road accidents, numerous fisticuffs and schedules gone awry. These jottings in the Brangelina tour diary of Pune’s heat and dust say it all. Will the reel-life Mr and Mrs Smith ever return to India to shoot a film?

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt may have realised by now why veteran Hollywood director Oliver Stone didn’t shoot his controversial movie ‘Alexander’ in India, despite his much-publicised reconnaissance trip.

They may even sympathise with the British crew who were not on talking terms with their Indian counterparts towards the completion of the Oscar-winner ‘Gandhi’ almost three decades back.

The truth is that Bollywood’s countryside is different from Planet Hollywood. Here, postponements are nothing out of the ordinary and laptops are alien to film sets. In contrast, Hollywood teams stick to schedules and juggle their production needs with computers. Stone flew out the moment he hit Indian red tape.

Worst, say actors who have been part of western filmmaking, there is a tendency to make a quick buck from unsuspecting foreign crews. When Hollywood actor Matt Damon and the ‘Bourne Identity’ crew came down for a shoot in Goa, they overshot the estimated budget by almost a double. Bollywood lore has it that room rates were overstated and so were local manpower costs. Hollywood teams depend on desi line producers, who keep accounts on paper unlike their Hollwood counterparts. Richard Attenborough’s ‘Gandhi’, too, had gone over budget.

Recalls a unit member of the film, “The total budget allotted that time was Rs 6.5 crore, but the amount was exhausted in making half the film.” Thankfully, the government of the day backed the project and the film was completed.
In hindsight, the unit member feels the British crew didn’t understand the Indian crew’s way of functioning, leading to costs spiralling. “But there is no denying the tension between the British and Indians. More often than not, they didn’t communicate with each other, which again affected the film,” he insists.
Twenty-four years later, the storyline is the same. The Indian line producers are still not able to handle the budgets allotted to them. Not surprisingly then, the Hollywood production ‘Marigold’, which boasts of an Indian star, has gone over budget.

India’s greatest defeat in this regard has been its failure to come up with efficient service providers a concept that has made countries like Thailand and South Korea a favourite with Hollywood. Service providers are literally people who hold the foreign crew’s hand through local paperwork and jargon.

In the absence of such professionals, Hollywood crew depend on word-of-mouth recommendations. The reccomendations are not always apt. Says Udayshankar Pani, who has worked for ‘Gandhi’ and has been a line producer for many German films shot in India, “There are not enough service providers and Indian film schools don’t treat production as a serious subject.”

Gulshan Grover, who has worked in many Hollywood films, feels both sides are to be blamed for the communication gap. He says, “We have some of the most talented guys who are good at multi-tasking despite the poor infrastructure, but a few among us have the habit of getting more out of the dollar-spending guys.
The foreign crew, too, have to shoulder a bit of the blame. They treat us very badly and behave as if they are doing us a favour.” German filmmakers like Michael Enke confess that though their companies are ready to invest in India, many are put off by their previous experiences.

Enke was helped by Pani for his film, but says that many other filmmakers are at the mercy of tour operators who double up as service providers. Hollywood’s favourite locales Goa, Kerala, Ladakh and Rajasthan in fact, have many such tourist operators doubling as service providers and making a hash of the job.
Says Dilip Borkar, who has been a service provider for Indian and foreign film units for 15 years, “Most often these so-called service providers fleece the foreign producers who are ignorant about India. The stories float around and international film producers prefer not to return because of the negative stories.”
But Arjun Bagga of Nora Films, who was the production manager for Omar Sharif’s ‘One Night With The King’, refuses to take a dim view of things. He feels we need to start by clearly revealing the ground realities of our country.
“For instance, it takes four days to get equipment cleared from the customs. If the foreign crew is informed about this and organises itself accordingly, lot of heartburn will be avoided,” Bagga adds.

source - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/article…975,curpg-1.cms