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Aspiring Scorseses Can Get Schooled in Film at Terranea Resort's Kids Camps

Where: 100 Terranea Way [map], Rancho Palos Verdes, CA , United States, 90275

Hollywood seems drawn to the Terranea Resort's scenic location. Although the hotel's new, its oceanfront site is a veteran in the movie biz, serving as the backdrop for blockbusters such as the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Aviator, Pearl Harbor and the Charlie’s Angels reboot. The Hollywood hubbub inspired the hotel to create new movie industry-themed camps for kids and teens.

The camps, available during winter, spring and summer breaks, will cover movie production, video game creation, stunt work and fashion design. Here are the options for your little filmmaker.

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Inside The Plush Screening Room At theWit Chicago

Where: 201 North State Street [map], Chicago, IL, United States, 60601

What are the hot hotel amenities right now? Forget heated towel racks and pet concierges, the screening rooms are it. In New York, the newest private screening room can be found in the Crosby Street Hotel, but the 40-guest "Screen" venue in theWit Hotel in Chicago has it beat by a clear mile; it's no wonder the NYT loved their stay here so much.

Now we've been in the Sony screening rooms and other private movie niches in New York, and our peek at theWit's Screen had us craving popcorn and a good drama far more than any other. For one, the seats fully recline with footrests, cupholders and swing-out trays for your nachos. In the last few rows, the chair are replaced by full-fledged couches with throw pillows and sidetables. If we could come to Screen whenever we wanted, we'd never watch a movie in our living room again.

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Lost in Translation: Park Hyatt Tokyo

Where: 3-7-1-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-Ku, Japan, 163-1055

Follow in Bill Murray's footsteps, or contemplate your life like Scarlet Johansson's character did in the hit movie, Lost in Translation.

The Park Hyatt Tokyo, where the movie was filmed is offering up three ways you can get a "Lost in Translation Experience."

For 55,000 JPY, roughly $521, you can get one night's stay, comp breakfast, spa use, a cocktail, and "Map of sites featured in the film (karaoke bar, arcade, nightclub, shrine, etc.)"

If you want to stay five night's like in the movie, and get bennies like a shiatsu massage, it'll run you between $3600 - $5,000.

NOTE: According to Newsweek, the movie is not scheduled to release there until May.

Also: check out "Sophia Coppola loves the Park Hyatt Tokyo"