John Cusack's new movie opens as it films in Sofia Bulgaria this week.
Films in Sofia Bulgaria John Cusack's satire against Iraq war,"War,Inc" filmed in Bulgaria, hits the screens this week in Sofia, Bulgaria. Actor John Cusack's political satire against the US-led war in Iraq - "War, Inc" - which was filmed in Bulgaria, premiered earlier this week at New York's Tribeca Film Festival.
Ben Kingsley, Marisa Tomei and Hilary Duff also appear in the film, which Cusack says is meant to offend. "I think the movie should be kind of offensive. I'm shocked at how much good reaction we're getting," he told Reuters. 
"Sometimes with a serious, somber movie, even though they're great and well intentioned, it just doesn't allow you to be outraged because you just get depressed," he said. "This allows you to actually feel like, 'Let's do something subversive.'"
Another celebrity to recently film in Bulgaria is Scarlett Johansson. More on the interview with Scarlett here....... In Bulgaria, the film was shot in Trimontium Hotel in the city of Plovdiv, which changed its name to Freedom Grand Hotel for the movie, and on the sets of Nu Image in Boyana, near Sofia, starting October 2006. The movie is being marketed through myspace.com and will be released in New York and Los Angeles cinemas on May 23. Distribution could expand to other areas if those shows sell out, Cusack said on the movie's official site.
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