"To get the movement you have to be true to the original form, or audiences will see something is off and pop out of the fantasy world we've created, " says Claudia Chung, a simulation supervisor who oversaw the technology for all the film's clothing and hair.

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For fans of former Busted and Fightstar frontman Charlie Simpson, the chance to have the pop-punk hunk play a private gig in your living room may be the ultimate fantasy.

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The notion of a bored Manhattan wife being hit on by a uniformed Russian brute is just the kind of solid, old-fashioned fantasy that Madonna, in her corseted pomp, would have fed into a pop video.

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