Ubisoft will also use its in-house production studios to create visual effects for the movie, in a bid to save costs.

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The one-bedroom Japanese guesthouse in the Hollywood Hills was landscaped with waterfalls, pebbled pathways and vintage movie-house seating around an outdoor theater.

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The boxes, named and decorated for flowers, had been sheared off the walls in the 1940s during the theater's movie-house phase as Cinerama.

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Then we moved into the screening room, where he only reinforced the impression by giving his attractive Soho House audience, sprawled out in typical movie-mogul loungers, a bit of the project's history.

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As it happens, the man who helped me originally edit my movie at a Boston post-production house in the late 1980s, George Mauro, worked at Pixar.

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The movie-star couple bought the house after spotting it whilst horse riding in the area.

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That's a problem when "The Road" is done as a movie: It's like a zombie thriller drowning in tastefully severe art-house gloom.

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The movie itself mutates from one thing to another, throwing in beer slobs for the frat-house crowd, fart jokes for the preteens, and so on.

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The house she and dad (Tate Donovan) are renting in Los Angeles once belonged to the old-time movie star Julia Draycock ("old-time" being relative: she was discovered dead in her swimming pool 25 years ago, shortly after re-emerging from an unexplained absence).

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