Article from The Budapest Times about film-making in Hungary[....] what has Hungary achieved in the mean time?
The investment of money and effort paid off, and soon big name Hollywood stars and directors set foot on Hungarian soil. The tabloids wrote about nothing else but foreign celebrities and their presumed affairs. Robert Redford, Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, and yes, Robert Pattinson – who is the flavour of the moment among Hollywood’s leading men – all spent time in Hungary. The theory is that the bigger is the fuss around these stars, the more renown Hungary gets. And there was fuss. Pattinson’s mere presence provided a gravity field that pulled a considerable number of young ladies of various nationalities to a single square in Budapest.
