Got some more on the set photos from June 13 and June 14 in Tofino, British Columbia, Canada. Pe and Sir Ben Kingsley was seen at a beach filming some romantic scenes on these days.

Surfers and tourists – along with the ever-present paparazzi – have been given a rare glimpse of two Hollywood movie stars frolicking in a sizzling love scene on a Vancouver Island beach.

Sir Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz spent two days at Cox Bay, just outside Tofino, B.C., this week to shoot about three minutes of film for their upcoming movie Elegy.

Against a backdrop of pounding surf and under sunny skies, the actors shot take after take of the same romantic encounter on Thursday while the film crew kept locals and tourists from walking in front of the rolling cameras.

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Oscar-winning US film director Woody Allen has arrived in Barcelona to prepare the filming of his latest film, which will be his first to be shot in Spain during a career that has spanned more than three decades.

Allen, wearing his trademark pleated pants and thick-framed glasses, arrived in the northeastern Mediterranean port city Monday with his wife Soon-Yi and their two daughters.

The 71-year- old refused to answer questions from the media regarding his new movie, which will star Spain’s Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem as well as US actress Scarlett Johansson.

Woody Allen began scouting Barcelona to find spots – among them La Sagrada Familia, a Catholic cathedral that has been under construction here for decades – to film scenes for his next movie.

Sources with the cathedral?  ? ? !” s construction board told Efe that the filmmaker visited the structure designed by the late Antoni Gaudi, one of the Barcelona landmarks that will certainly appear in the film.

Although the film has no title as yet, it will tell the story of a U.S. tourist – Scarlett Johansson – on vacation in Barcelona and the relationships she strikes up with some of the local residents, notably one played by Spanish actor Javier Bardem.

The website TypicallySpanish.com just published an article regarding Pe’s upcoming collaboration with Woody Allen. He has arrived in Spain now for pre-production of the movie.

Woody Allen has arrived in Barcelona to organise the details of his latest film which is to be filmed over the summer in the city and in Oviedo. The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Pen?
? ??lope Cruz and Javier Bardem.

Allen has already met with representatives of Mediapro, the production company which is financing the film, in their offices in the new Agbar tower, and members of his direction team have already spent several weeks in the city finding locations for the film.

On June 14th Allen will also be invested ?  ? ? ? doctor honoris causa?  ? ? !” by the Pompeu Fabra university in Barcelona.

The date comes at the request of Allan who says he will start shooting on the same day.

As you might remember was Pe in Chile some months ago and she even got to meet the president! She was there to shoot some new commercials for Ripley and I just found two new commercials, she looks so beautiful in them You can view captures from both of these videos in the gallery.

Got the promised video clips from Gothika made and you can download a featurette which was on the DVD as well. Pe is making a funny monkey dance in one of the videos I also made captures of the featurette and they can be viewed in the gallery!

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