Guess it's still Fool's Day on US time On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 08:31, $ Pavan Kumar $ <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > http://www.bollyspice.com/view.php/4700-twilight-cast-in-bollywood-movie.html > > > There were tremors in the comfortable gated compounds of Bollywood last > night when it emerged that a Hollywood company had teamed up with Sony > Pictures to produce a Bollywood-style musical, produced in LA and filmed in > Vancouver. “Following the success of movies such as *Mamma Mia, High > School Musical* and *Sweeney Todd*, it’s clear there’s a new appetite for > musicals in the west that has been neglected,” said a spokesman for *New > Moon*. > > *Happy Days and Nights* is a big budget production slated to star *Robert > Pattinson* and *Kristin Stewart* from *Twilight* in a story said to be > loosely based on Romeo and Juliet. AR Rahman has promised to produce a > fusion musical score that will span the world. Two versions will be made – > one with a tragic ending for western markets and the other with a happy > ending for the North African, Middle East and South Asian markets. “The > rapidly growing economies of the east provide an avenue for revenue that > western production houses are only just waking up to,” explained Phyllida > Lloyd, the director. “This is just the first of a proposed series of three > musicals that New Moon will put into production this year.” > > *Miley Cyrus* and *Mitch Musso* are scheduled to appear in *Fast Lane*with > *Billy Ray Cyrus* and *Angelina Jolie* scheduled to play the parents of a > troubled teenager who gets led astray by a fast-living party-girl, who has > to face tragedy before discovering true friendship. Up-and-coming singer > *Paloma > Faith* is scheduled to star in *Destiny*, a movie about an innocent young > woman from Ciudad Juarez, who is kidnapped by people traffickers and forced > into prostitution before eventually being rescued by her childhood friend > who never gives up hope of finding her after she disappears. But is the > woman he finds the same woman he lost? “Isn’t it significant that this major > announcement should have been made on this day of all days,” asked an > industry spokesman. > > > >
