Word: china
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...much china did you throw in that explosive argument scene...
...didn't have a big budget, so we didn't have a lot of china. I remember the props people grabbing plates and putting bits back together again. It went great when we filmed it. And then three days later they said, You've got to film it again. Because it got ruined in the bath - that's what it's called when the film is sent off to get processing. It happens once in a blue moon that it gets destroyed. So we had to shoot that scene, and the whole day's work again. That was devastating...
...Nevertheless, Western studios' ongoing efforts to make successful Indian films in Bollywood have yet to bear fruit. Sony's $9 million love story Saawariya fell off the radar after a short run in late 2007. Last January, analysts dismissed Warner's $9 million kung-fu comedy Chandni Chowk to China as Bollywood's most expensive flop ever, and the 2008 Disney animation flick Roadside Romeo, co-produced with a major Indian studio, only mustered a three-week run. Despite their high production values, all three films were short on content, say analysts...
...envy of its developing neighbors in southeast Asia. In the last 20 years, GDP growth has fallen only once below 5%, typically hovering around 8% as the single-party state has attracted tens of billions of dollars in foreign investment and seen poverty rates drop below that of India, China and the Philippines...
...level executives after the airline, a Vietnamese and Australian partnership, reported a $31 million loss from bad bets on fuel futures, agreements on the future price of oil that committed Jetstar Pacific to paying above market rates for their jet fuel after oil prices dropped. (See pictures from the China-Vietnam border...