6 Jan – Top Hollywood actors Robin Williams and John Travolta star in the comedy "Old Dogs" as Dan and Charlie, a couple of single guys who run a sports marketing firm. The film's "old dogs" - long-time friends and business partners in their 50s - are set in their ways for a fun-filled mayhem. Dan discovers that he's the father of fraternal twins that he never knew about, the result of a hasty one-day marriage, where eventually both men, who have never had children, are forced to deal with two 7-year-old kids. The relationship between Travolta and Williams was also as real as it portrayed on screen. "I've known Robin for 30 years and consider him to be an old friend," says Travolta. According to the production notes, it appears that one of the more challenging shooting days occurred at Shea Stadium, where filming took place during an actual ballgame. "Shooting during a live Mets game was a good idea on paper," says director Walt Becker. "This was probably as close to combat as I've ever come. We had 15 minutes to shoot the entire thing. It was kind of guerrilla, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants filming. There were fans throwing stuff, taking pictures." "We also did one of the bravest things ever tried in a production, which was to show our actors live on the Jumbotron," Becker continues. "It was amazing, because you see Dan and Charlie up there and everybody's on the screen waving. There were our two old dogs in the middle of 40,000 cheering people and the Jumbotron read 'Happy Grandparents Day.' Just priceless." Cinema Online's "Old Dogs" contest winners attended the preview screening on 5 January at Cathay Cineplex e@Curve, where we later asked them "What they thought of the movie and how many laughs would they give it out of five.
"Old Dogs" is now sneaking into cinemas!