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  • Welcome to the virtual tour of movies starring A-List celebrities shot on location throughout

  • Las Vegas!

  • Caesars Palace

  • You have probably seen this iconic landmark in lots of movies. This is exactly where the

  • famous scene fromRain Mantook place, in which the Tom Cruise character and his

  • savant brother, played by Dustin Hoffman, beat the casino at blackjack through the illicit

  • technique of card-counting.

  • This very scene was subsequently parodied in the comedyThe Hangover”, where a

  • group of friends, led by Bradley Cooper, attempt to deal with the crazy consequences of a bachelor

  • party gone wrong after they all wake up with no memory of the previous raucous night.

  • Mike Tyson?

  • Robert Downey Jr., as multi-millionaire superhero Tony Stark, played dice here as well in

  • the firstIron Manshot by Jon Favreau. Favreau also hilariously played his bodyguard

  • in the film.

  • Can I ask you a couple of questions?

  • [whispers to Stark] She's cute. [whispers to Favreau] She's alright?

  • Hi Yeah

  • It’s the fabulous Flamingo hotel!

  • This is one of many strange stops in the psychedelic trip of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson,

  • as masterfully played by Johnny Depp, in a drug-induced colorful scenes that takes place

  • in a suite of this hotel duringFear and Loathing in Las Vegas”.

  • Mirage

  • The Griswold family's vacation goes wild at the Mirage Hotel in the movieVegas Vacation.”

  • The family is faced with the danger of gambling, puberty and charm of Wayne Newton. At the

  • end it is family values that cure all this Vegas madness.

  • Steve Martin’s “Sgt. Bilkogathered together his entire platoon at the Mirage

  • and hits the craps table in the eponymous movie.

  • Is there anything we can do for you?

  • Yes, go down to your vault and tell the rest of your money to be patient, we'll be together soon.

  • On the right side you can see the Treasure Island hotel

  • in the movieKnocked Up,” a phenomenally high Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd come to watch

  • Cirque du Soleil’s Mystere. But they soon realize that it was not the best of ideas.

  • Sandra Bullock inMiss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulousmanages to save Miss

  • America andWilliam Shatner from a sinking ship in Treasure Island’s outdoor pirate show.

  • Venetian

  • In the third part of the film adaptation of the computer gameResident Evil,”

  • an action packed, scary post-apocalyptic story, a dramatic zombie attack on a caravan of survivors,

  • with Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter, took place here near the replica of the Rialto Bridge

  • inResident Evil: Extinction.”

  • This same hotel was featured as the starting point inRat Race,” where a wild race

  • for a 2-million dollar prize takes place, all for the kicks of eccentric millionaires.

  • The challenge was accepted by 8 characters portrayed by the likes Whoopi Goldberg

  • Seth Green, Cuba Gooding Jr and the English comedian Rowan Atkinson.

  • Race! It's a Race!

  • I hope I win...

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  • The Martians in Tim Burton’s movieMars Attacks!” all stayed here to witness the other-worldly

  • performance of Tom Jones singing his famous songIt’s Not Unusual.”

  • You're Tom Jones Right? "It ain't unusual",

  • Tom, Tom! Can I have an autograph? Anybody got a pen?

  • In the neighboring casino of the Mandalay Bay

  • Sylvester Stallone is once again

  • The Italian Stallion,” as the 60-year-oldRocky Balboaputs on boxing gloves for his final

  • fight against heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver.

  • at the MGM GRAND hotel

  • In a movie Now You See Me, four talented magicians played by Jesse

  • Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson and Dave Franco rob a bank in France and distribute

  • 3 million Euros to the audience during their performance... but of course Morgan Freeman

  • explains to the police how they all did it.

  • Downtown Las Vegas

  • At the Golden Nugget casino, Jason Statham comes to take revenge for his girlfriend on

  • the son of gangster played by Milo Ventimiglia, showing off his stunning fight skills inWild Card.”

  • It is here that veteran Vegas magicianThe Incredible Burt Wonderstone

  • and his partner, played by Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi, meet their main competitor

  • The tricky street magician played by Jim Carrey who shows off his shocking and, to

  • put it mildly, unconventional tricks.

  • In the movieLucky You,” Eric Bana plays a professional poker player living in Las

  • Vegas. He takes part in the main event of the World Series of Poker in Binion’s Casino.

  • After beating all the world’s poker stars, he

  • gets to the final table where he plays against the two-time World Champion,

  • who also happens to be his father.

  • (Luke) Noooooooooooo

  • It was Downtown LV where a final climactic scene takes place in which the characters

  • played by Nicolas Cage and John Cusack chase down escaped convict Cyrus, played by John

  • Malkovich, in the now classic action movieCon Air.”

  • And it was also here that Brendan Fraser, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck flee from the gun-toting

  • Yosemite Sam inLooney Tunes: Back in Action.”

  • Wynn

  • Kevin James brings the unstoppable mall copPaul Blartto life at the Wynn hotel

  • in his fun popcorn movie. Accidentally discovering a plot about a robbery, he decides to personally

  • apprehend the criminals with hilarious results.

  • Also, this hotel was utterly destroyed in the disaster movie “2012.”

  • At the Aria hotel

  • Three friends, played by Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline, all go to the wedding

  • of their childhood friend, played by Michael Douglas, in the movieLast Vegas.”

  • They decide to turn the clock back and arrange an exclusive stag-party where even rapper

  • 50 Cent is turned away.

  • May i coming for little bit?

  • O, no it's a private party.

  • In the Planet Hollywood casino, the events of yet another movie about card counters called

  • “21” takes place. In this critically acclaimed film that’s based on a true story,

  • the character of the MIT lecturer, played by Kevin Spacey, assembles a crack team of five talented

  • students to beat the casino. The security officer, played by Laurence Fishburne,

  • tries to foil them.

  • British singer Aldous Snow, played charismatic Russell Brand, arranges a rock-star party,

  • together with Jonah Hill, in a luxury suite complete with furry walls. Sex, drugs, fights,

  • and a fire started by P. Diddy, all result in the characters fleeing Planet Hollywood

  • It was also at this hotel inWhat Happens in Vegas,” that the characters of Cameron

  • Diaz and Ashton Kutcher meet each other and, after a night of revelry, discover that they

  • somehow got married. Everything becomes even more complicated when Ashton wins a jackpot

  • of three million dollars and Cameron’s character wants half of it as his newly minted wife!

  • Bellagio

  • And, finally, perhaps the most epic of all Las Vegas movies reenacts the most daring

  • casino heist in history. In a movie Ocean’s eleven. Professional thief Danny Ocean, played

  • by George Clooney, and his 11 friends, including Brad Pitt and Matt Damon, attempt to steal

  • $160 million from the depositary at The Bellagio.

  • And, of course, we cannot forget the legendary escape of Chao, fromThe Hangover, Part III"

  • I love cocaine!

  • And the hotel was destroyed in the movie 2012... Well... all of them were destroyed in 2012...

  • just like in Godzilla.

  • Thanks for watching and we hope you liked our trip through Las Vegascinematic history.

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