Hoosta Magazine

Major Hollywood movies are shot in the finest hotels worldwide. Dreamers, it’s easy to identify yourself with the actors. The problem? Hard to know what hotels they are at, unless one has the patience to wait for the end generic. Hoosta has done the work for you. This week, five luxury hotels that have made the happiness of super American productions.

The Bellagio in Las Vegas
The Bellagio Hotel is synonymous with casino, rhinestones and sequins. It is also one of the most filmed hotels. No fewer than six films in six years! George Clooney and his “Ocean’s Eleven” opens the way in 2002, followed by “Head of state” with Chris Rock in 2003. For “Ocean’s Twelve”, Clooney’s team returns to the Bellagio in 2004, and 2007 for the third part of the series “Ocean’s Thirteen”. In 2004, Ben Stiller discovers the Bellagio hotel in his film “Dodgeball”, and in 2007, the beautiful Katherine Heigl will shoot few scenes from “Knocked up”. The favourite hotel of the directors? Stay tuned.

Villa del Balbianello in Italy
Located on the shores of Lake Como, surrounded by green mountains, the Villa del Balbianello is sublime, and offers a breathtaking view. No wonder that two U.S. blockbusters stoped there to shoot romantic scenes. In 2002, George Lucas shoots the kissing scene between Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen, the young and sexy couple of his “Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones”. In 2006, the couple Daniel Craig & Eva Green who succumbed to the beauty of the site in “Casino Royale”, and James Bond finally falls in love (us too).

Roosevelt Hotel in New York
This hotel is in two Hollywood films, but under different names. In “Maid in Manhattan” in 2003, it is called the Beresford Hotel and is home to a tumultuous love comedy where a hotel chambermaid (Jennifer Lopez) and a politician (Ralph Fiennes) fall in love. In 2008, for the thriller “1408”, John Cusack receives a postcard from the Dolphin Hotel, from Samuel L. Jackson, the general manager. The Beresford Hotel and the Dolphin Hotel are actually the Roosevelt Hotel in New York.

Hotel Regina in Paris
The hotel served as a background for two very good movies, released one year apart. The first in 2001, “Kiss of the dragon” with Jet Li and Bridget Fonda. The second in 2002, when Matt Damon takes the role of Jason Bourne in “The Bourne Identity”. His love affair with the female caracter of the film, Franka Potente, took full swing in the city of lights.

Grand Hotel Pupp in Czech Republic
Again, this is the very good James Bond, “Casino Royale” in 2006, which invests this luxury hotel in the Czech Republic. The hotel is cast under the false name of Hotel Splendide in Montenegro.

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