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| ‘The Carrie Diaries’ to debut on January 14 Posted: 10 Nov 2012 07:42 AM PST  'The Carrie Diaries' stars Anna Sophia Robb. — Warner Bros pic Only two months to wait to discover what Carrie's formative years were like. The plot's starting point is 1984, when Carrie was 16. She decides to leave New England to try to make it in the Big Apple, where her knowledge of fashion leads her to meet a reporter from Interview Magazine. Anna Sophia Robb took up the challenge to succeed Sarah Jessica Parker in the title role. Viewers can get a first glimpse of how well she fits the role on December 17: a first trailer is set to air during the finale of Gossip Girl. — AFP-Relaxnews |
| Ang Lee says Taiwan made ‘Life of Pi’ movie possible Posted: 10 Nov 2012 05:18 AM PST
"The movie couldn't have been shot if it hadn't been in Taiwan... it couldn't have been done in Los Angeles," Lee said in Taipei during a visit to promote the movie which will hit US and Taiwanese theatres on November 21. He said the decision not to shoot the movie in Hollywood had allowed him and his crew to think outside the box. "If we had been in Hollywood, the tech team would probably think they were know-it-alls but in Taiwan they didn't and they were exploring from the start." About 70 per cent of the movie was shot in Taiwan, including a now-abandoned airport in the centre of the country where Lee's team built a specially designed wave-generating tank. The movie is based on the Booker prize-winning novel by Yann Martel about an Indian boy adrift on a lifeboat in the Pacific with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a tiger. It features a newcomer, 17-year-old Suraj Sharma from India, in the lead role of Pi Patel, who was chosen out of 3,000 candidates during casting sessions across India. "The movie depends on Suraj. I would not shoot the film if it weren't for this person and his talent," Lee said. "He is very spirited... I was moved by his sincerity." The filmmaker, who is based in New York, was hailed as the "glory of Taiwan" after becoming the first Asian to win a best director Oscar for his gay cowboy drama "Brokeback Mountain" in 2007. — AFP-Relaxnews |
LOS ANGELES, Nov 10 — Oscar-winning Taiwanese-American director Ang Lee said Wednesday he could not have made his new 3D film "Life of Pi" if he had opted for Hollywood as the shooting location rather than Taiwan.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: Showbiz To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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