Monday
23Jun2008
Will Stallone and Schwarzenegger Open a Chain of Planet Bollywood Restaurants, Too?
Monday, June 23, 2008 at 10:02AM 
Bollywood is set to invade Hollywood, signing
Sylvester Stallone as the first major American
actor to star in an Indian film. The news gets even better, fans of the bizarro
world, because
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will also play a
role in the film.
Variety reports that Bollywood
stars
Ashkay Kumar and
Kareena Kapoor headline Incredible Love,
about an Indian stuntman who travels to Hollywood, becomes one of the best in
the business, but is overwhelmed by sadness because he can't find true love. I
say, don't worry, friend, Jennifer Aniston will be on the market again in no
time.
Incredible Love will be the first Bollywood flick
shot at Universal Studios and will have the highest budget in that country's
history. Granted, Stallone isn't the star he was 15 years ago and Arnold is
probably only in it for a couple of scenes - which he agreed to do no doubt
because he saw the filming of an expensive foreign film in California as an
economic stimulus for the state - but it's worth noting because this has been an
active year for Indian cinema coming together with Hollywood.
Anil Ambani, one of the world's ten richest
men, has this year kicked in hundreds of millions of dollars to help Steven
Spielberg re-establish Dreamworks as an independent studio, and he's also cut
production deals with Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Nicolas Cage in
the ballpark of $1 billion.
As an extra bonus for Bollywood, I think we've even
offered to burn every last print of The Love Guru, which would be good
news for everybody.
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