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Angels and Demons

Set In Vatican City, Shot In LA

October 30, 2008 at 4:38 PM | 0 Comments

The trailer for the film "Angels and Demons" just came out, and you'd think they'd actually shot it in Vatican City. But Ron Howard's cast and crew were locked out of the Holy See because church officials didn't really care for "The Da Vinci Code."

Instead, a mock-up St. Peter's Square was built in LA for filming. Producers also got access to the super-swanky Royal Palace in Caserta, Italy to use as a stand-in for interior shots.

Real Vatican or not, there's no doubt that the film will inspire a new batch of movie tourists, eager to see the place that the Illuminati are supposedly trying to destroy with antimatter. The film opens May 15, 2009.

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Celeb Travel

Celeb TV Travel: Bike with Ewan McGregor This Summer

July 15, 2008 at 9:00 AM | 0 Comments

Now here's a reality show we actually want to watch: Actor and avid motorcyclist Ewan McGregor turned up at the Television Critics Association yearly press tour to talk about his new documentary "Long Way Down," which chronicles a ride he took with best friend Charley Boorman from Scotland all the way to South Africa.

The bike trip, which took place last summer, isn't even McGregor's first long race. Being rear-ended, devoured by mosquitos and getting held at gunpoint ensued on a 2004 trip across Europe and Asia and over to New York, but McGregor, currently bouncing between the Canadian set of the Earhart biopic "Amelia" and the Rome set of "Angels and Demons," wasn't deterred. And this time, his wife even learned to ride a motorbike so she could take a stage with them.

To find out what happens when a major star embarks on a "Road Rules"-style adventure, catch "Long Way Down" on August 2 on FOX Reality.

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[Photo: Scottish Actors]

Celeb Travel

Ewan McGregor Completes 20-Country Motorcycle Tour

August 13, 2007 at 9:00 AM | 0 Comments

Ewan McGregor has just wrapped up his 15,000 mile, 20 country motorcycle trip with his buddy Charley Boorman. Even though the three month trip sounds a bit more Mad Max than Star Wars, we'd still love to follow in his footsteps. He and a friend, British actor Charley Boorman, left Scotland on motorcycles and rode south through Africa, stopping in Uganda and Malawi among other countries, drumming up good will for UNICEF.

Surprisingly, this isn't the first time McGregor has taken an ultra-long bike trip: In 2004, he rode east from London, across Mongolia and in to New York City, a journey that was turned into a book and TV show.

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[Photo: AFP]