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What Just Happened (2008) 5.7
Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made. Director:Barry Levinson |
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Cast
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| Robert De Niro | ... | ||
| Sean Penn | ... | ||
| Catherine Keener | ... | ||
| Bruce Willis | ... |
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| John Turturro | ... | ||
| Robin Wright | ... |
Kelly
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| Stanley Tucci | ... | ||
| Kristen Stewart | ... | ||
| Michael Wincott | ... | ||
| Jason Kravits | ... |
Pollster
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| Mark Ivanir | ... | ||
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Remy K. Selma | ... |
Jimmy
(as Remy Selma)
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| Christopher Evan Welch | ... |
Studio Marketing Guy
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| Lily Rabe | ... | ||
| Sam Levinson | ... | ||
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A week in the life of Ben, a powerful Hollywood producer, as he juggles negotiations with a studio head so that his newest picture can open at Cannes in two weeks, with a high-strung director who must make edits to the film, with an actor and his agent because the star has arrived on the set of a new picture with a full beard, and with his most recent ex-wife, Kelly, whom he discovers may have a lover. He also notices that his 17-year old daughter, from another marriage, has probably been crying. What's up? Can Ben keep it all together, get the green light from the studio to go to Cannes, move his new picture past the beard crisis, and maybe return to Kelly's good graces? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Qui a dit que le cinéma était une grande famille? (Who said the movies were one big family?) See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for language, some violent images, sexual content and some drug material | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
31 October 2008 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
What Just Happened? See more »Filming Locations:
California State University Northridge - 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$25,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$192,508 (USA) (17 October 2008)Gross:
$1,089,365 (USA) (12 December 2008)Company Credits
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2.35 : 1
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Ben: Vanity Fair named me as one of the 30 most powerful producers in the business. Power is an elusive term, but in Hollywood it's everything, I don't care what they say, you either have it, want it, or you're afraid of losing it. Where you stand at these things, or who you may be standing next to, may not seem like the most important thing, but it *really* matters.
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Written by Jerry Jeff Walker
Performed by Nina Simone
Courtesy of The RCA Records Label
By arrangement with SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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The film's tagline "In Hollywood, everybody can hear you scream" is a play on Alien (1979)'s famous tagline "In space no one can hear you scream." See more »Quotes
[first lines]Ben: Vanity Fair named me as one of the 30 most powerful producers in the business. Power is an elusive term, but in Hollywood it's everything, I don't care what they say, you either have it, want it, or you're afraid of losing it. Where you stand at these things, or who you may be standing next to, may not seem like the most important thing, but it *really* matters.
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Mr. BojanglesWritten by Jerry Jeff Walker
Performed by Nina Simone
Courtesy of The RCA Records Label
By arrangement with SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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Strange feeling for a French person to sit at a Hollywood movie theater to watch a movie about Hollywood. People around me laughed more than me because, presumably, the joke touches a lot of local nerves. The story is introduced by a score resembling the Nino Rota of "La Dolce Vita" but the similarities with "La Dolce Vita" end there. There is nothing new here other than Robert De Niro's performance, the first in a long time in which there is a notable commitment. I found the characters tiresome and far too familiar. I couldn't care less about any of them. The predicament of De Niro's Ben (a thinly veiled producer, writer Art Linson) left me cold. Living the times we're living, to concern myself with this was too much to ask.