Los Angeles Times
Date: 2012-05-08
Author: Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times

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Author, Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times
Mentioned, Tom Hanks
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Mentioned, Jodie Foster
Mentioned, Robert De Niro
Mentioned, Bradley Cooper
Mentioned, Paul Greengrass
Mentioned, Sir Richard Branson
Mentioned, Janeane Garofalo
Mentioned, Philip Baker Hall
Mentioned, Ben Feldman
Mentioned, Kat Coiro
Mentioned, HBO
Mentioned, FedEx
Mentioned, Verrier
British tycoon Sir Richard Branson has made a career out of bucking conventions opening a recording studio in a country estate, building an affordable, premium airline service with soft violet mood lighting and seat-back entertainment screens, and even launching a space tourism company. Now Bransons Virgin Group is breaking the mold in the movie business. Virgins America, Atlantic and Australian airlines have teamed up with the companys new film and TV company to shoot a half-hour movie filmed and edited entirely aboard regularly scheduled commercial flights believed to be a first. Titled Departure Date, the airborne romance between two people who meet on a plane was shot over nine days and three continents last week during flights from L...(read more)
... British tycoon Sir Richard Branson has made a career out of bucking conventions opening a recording studio in a country estate, building an affordable, premium airline service with soft violet mood lighting and seat-back entertainment screens, and e ...
... movie Cast Away. At the end of the day, the film stands on its own, Felts said. Were telling a real narrative story. Were not overtly trying to promote Virgin. The picture, which cost less than $1 million to produce, tells the story of a young man w ...


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