Warners, Yari clash over 'Veil'

December 18, 2006 Debates between the filmmakers and Warners over the final cut of the film -- in which China, where the movie was shot, had final say -- delayed delivery of the finished print. Warner Bros. president Alan Horn said the studio has faith in the movie, and the Oscar campaign has been hampered only by the delays stemming from the deal producers made to shoot in China. "Veil" is a lushly mounted $21 million period drama, shot on location deep inside China, based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel about a British doctor and his wife and how their marriage is tested when they travel to a remote Chinese village in the midst of a cholera epidemic.

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