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In autumn 2011, ‘In Bruges’ director Martin McDonagh will start shooting a new comedy in LA, called ‘Seven Psychopaths’. Colin Farrell will play one of the lead roles, next to other famous actors like Mikey Rourke, Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell.

Like ‘In Bruges’, the script is written by McDonagh himself. The dark comedy centres on Farrell’s struggling screenwriter character who is inspired by the scams of his two oddball friends who decide to kidnap valuable dogs. They get into more trouble than they bargained for when they accidentally steal a psychotic gangster’s Shih Tzu.

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From the 6th of November till the 8th of December, Bruges will be the ‘Chocolate Capital’ of the world. Everywhere in Bruges you’ll find chocolate: in shops, in restaurant and even in wellness centres.

14 quality restaurants like ‘De Karmeliet’, ‘De Jonkman’ and ‘Danny Horseele’ will get creative with chocolate and will offer a special chocolatemenu. Other restaurants like ‘Den Dyver’, ‘De Mangerie’, ‘La tâche’ will offer chocalate workshops too.

In 5 wellness centres, you can get a chocolate-arrangement which contains treatments like chocolate massage, chocolate facials, chocolate scrub…

The main event during this month full of chocalate will be the ‘Choco-Laté-festival’ that runs from 11 to13 November in the Belfry.

More info about Choc’in Bruges: http://chocinbrugge.be/en/

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This week, Bruges was once again a filmset, this time for the movie ‘Hot Potato’. The ‘Hot Potato’ is an exciting new British period ‘caper movie’, in the spirit of ‘The Italian Job’ and ‘Two Way Stretch’ and is based on real events which took place at the end of the 1960’s in London’s East End… The director is Tim Lewiston and the 2 main actors are Ray Winstone (Beowulf, The Departed) and Colm Meany (Startrek). The production filmed mainly around ‘De Dijver’ and also in the bar of hotel ‘De Tuilerieën’. The release of ‘Hot Potato’ is planned at the end of 2011.

Some pictures of the filmset of ‘Hot Potato’ in Bruges:

more info about the ‘Hot Potato’ movie: www.hotpotatomovie.com

© City Film Office Bruges

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The hotel price comparison site trivago has put together a list of ten top-rated hotels, all of which have featured prominently in internationally successful movies. The travellers - who rated the hotels for this list - put the ‘In Bruges’ hotel Relais Bourgondisch Cruyce on the fifth place.

The shooting of the movie ‘In Bruges’ dates from 2008. The crew rented the whole hotel for 3 months to film the room where the characters of Colin Farell and Brendan Gleeson could stay low after a failed job as contract killers.

The top 10 movie hotel list:

1. Hôtel de Paris (Monaco, Film: Iron Man 2, 2010)
2. Hotel Park Hyatt Tokyo (Tokyo, Film: Lost in Translation, 2003)
3. Grand Hotel de Cabourg (Cabourg, Film: Coco Before Chanel, 2009)
4. Hotel Giraffe (New York, Film: Sex and the City - the movie, 2008)
5. Hotel Relais Bourgondisch Cruyce (Bruges, Film: In Bruges, 2008)
6. Budapest Marriott Hotel (Budapest, Film: Munich, 2005)
7. Hotel 71 (Chicago, Film: The Dark Knight, 2008)
8. Hotel de la Reconquista (Oviedo, Film: Vicky Christina Barcelona, 2008)
9. Grandhotel Pupp (Karlsbad, Film: Casino Royal, 2006)
10. Hotel Regina (Paris, Film: The Bourne Identity, 2002)

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This week, ZDF started filming the first scenes of the movie ‘Traum aus Schokolade’ at the ‘Brugs Vrije’, which is located in het left corner of the ‘Burg’. In the fim, ‘Brugs vrije’ will be a fictitious hotel with the name ‘Belle Etoile’ (beautiful star). In real life, this building is the administrative center of the city of Bruges.

update: ZDF will broadcast the movie on Sunday 21/11/2010