It's no longer the hot season for Hollywood extravaganzas - a Bond or a Batman is now much more likely to appear in summertime.

They were weighing whether to see "Superman Returns," the latest big-budget, Hollywood extravaganza to come hurtling out of the gate.

The wedding has been portrayed in the press as a quintessentially Hollywood extravaganza, with millions of dollars pouring into the gown, flowers, champagne and security.

The look was also a homage to movies of his childhood, Hollywood extravaganzas like "Samson and Delilah" and "The Ten Commandments."

It also inspired three Hollywood extravaganzas, almost the sum total of cinematic interest in Tahiti.

For Zicu, 44, to have a spa like this is the equivalent of plucking an indie-film extra to carry a $100 million Hollywood extravaganza.

That said, he continued, "some of that very meaning is lost when the flame becomes part of a Hollywood extravaganza, with every Olympics trying to outdo the one before."

He was involved with one of the most notorious Hollywood big-budget extravaganzas, "Waterworld."

As a child I learnt every word of every song from a raft of Hollywood extravaganzas from High Society and Singin' in the Rain to Oliver!

Mr. Miike's combination of computer-generated effects with elaborate costumes and what looks like old-fashioned stop-motion animation is nowhere near as slick or seamless as the latest $100 million Hollywood extravaganza.