<P> Dustin Hoffman appears in the video rental store in an uncredited cameo as Jack Black talks about the score from The Graduate . According to Hoffman, this was unscripted and unexpected . He was going to Blockbuster for a movie, saw all the light and came over to see what was going on . He knew director Nancy Meyers, who scripted a short scene with him in it . Lindsay Lohan, who had made her motion picture debut in Meyers' remake of The Parent Trap (1998), and James Franco, a friend of Meyers, make uncredited appearances in the trailer of the fictional movie Deception, which Amanda and her team finish at the beginning of The Holiday . </P> <P> Production on The Holiday began in Los Angeles, then moved to England for a month before completing filming back in California . Principal photography began in the Brentwood area on the Westside of Los Angeles, where real Santa Ana winds reportedly gave Meyers and her team a winter day as warm as scripted in the screenplay . Although Amanda's home is set in Brentwood, the exterior scenes at the gated property were actually filmed in front of Southern California architect Wallace Neff's Mission Revival house in San Marino, a suburb adjacent to Pasadena . Neff had built the house for his family in 1928 . The interiors of Amanda's house were filmed at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City . Other Los Angeles locations included Arthur's house in Brentwood and Miles' house, designed by Richard Neutra, which is situated on Neutra Place in L.A.'s Silver Lake area, near downtown . </P> <P> The UK part of the film was partially shot in Godalming and Shere, a town and village in the county of Surrey in South East England that dates back to the 11th century . Filming began January 2006 </P> <P> The film opened at number three on the United States box office, raking in $12,778,913 in the weekend of December 8, 2006 . Altogether, The Holiday made $63 million at the North American domestic box office, and $142 million at the international box office . The film grossed at total $205,135,175, worldwide, against a production budget of $85 million, and an estimated advertising spend of $34 million . The Holiday became the twelfth highest - grossing film of the 2000s to be helmed by a female director . </P>

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