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Sunday, November 22, 2009

What Just Happened

The Numbers Rating: 8.00 (1 votes) Rate it - Rating Details
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 54% - Rotten
Theatrical Performance
Total US Gross $1,090,947
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Released October 17, 2008 (limited)
October 31, 2008 (expansion to wide release)
February 24, 2009 (DVD Sale)
Production Budget $27,000,000
MPAA Rating R for language, some violent images, sexual content and some drug materials
Budget Source:THR, 8/29/2008, p. S-26 ("anywhere from $23 million to more than $30 million")
Highest Combined Star Gross523 (see full chart)
Distributed by Magnolia Pictures
Produced by Tribeca Productions
Source Based on Book/Short Story
Major Genre Comedy
Country United States
Production Method Live Action
Creative Type Contemporary Fiction
Director Barry Levinson

Synopsis

What Just Happened is a comedy about two nail-biting, back-stabbing, roller-coaster weeks in the world of a middle-aged Hollywood producer — as he tries to juggle an actual life with an outrageous series of crises in his day job.

Ben is already in over his head trying to balance the tug-of-war of having two ex-wives and two different families with his latest business venture — the boldly "visionary" movie Fiercely starring Sean Penn — when everything that can go wrong goes completely screwy.

Fiercely looks like an audience-offending flop which draws the ire of iron-gloved studio chief Lou, who forces him into tangling with the film's rebellious and drug-addled director Jeremy. Meanwhile, he's confused and bewitched by his ex Kelly who can't make up her mind about him; shocked by his daughter Zoe, who seems to have grown up overnight; infuriated by his screenwriter friend Scott who's trying to make a deal with him while making moves on his former wife; horrified by a hirsute Bruce Willis and flummoxed by Willis' nebbishy agent Dick, who's scared to death of his own clients.

Somehow amidst all the madness, treachery, deceit, runaway egos, rampant commercialism, personal politics and atrocious behavior of America's dream-making machinery, Ben has to find a way not just to make it to Cannes with a finished film, but to cope...

Trailer

Cast

Robert De Niro    Ben
Bruce Willis    Himself
Sean Penn    Himself
John Turturro    Dick Bell
Kristen Stewart    Zoe
Stanley Tucci    Scott Solomon
Catherine Keener    Lou Tarnow
Robin Wright Penn    Kelly
Michael Wincott    Jeremy Brunell
Moon Bloodgood   

Weekend Chart Record

DateRank Gross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossDays
10/17/2008 28 $192,508   36 $5,347 $192,508 3
10/24/2008 37 $130,040 -32.45% 35 $3,715 $395,061 10
10/31/2008 29 $218,876 +68.31% 88 $2,487 $656,183 17
11/7/2008 34 $149,777 -31.57% 86 $1,742 $876,002 24
11/14/2008 43 $58,888 -60.68% 62 $950 $995,155 31
11/21/2008 50 $27,103 -53.98% 39 $695 $1,043,419 38
11/28/2008 59 $15,234 -43.79% 25 $609 $1,067,456 45
12/5/2008 69 $7,316 -51.98% 17 $430 $1,080,914 52
12/12/2008 71 $5,206 -28.84% 12 $434 $1,089,365 59