What Just Happened Page #9

Synopsis: 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?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Barry Levinson
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
51%
R
Year:
2008
104 min
$1,043,419
Website
382 Views


They do.

There's a seat on the jet

if you want to come back with us.

Wheels up, 2 a.m. sharp.

- I'll get you the tail number, the details.

- Good. Okay.

- Nice job.

- Finally got my priorities straight.

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING

IN FILM]

[FOOTSTEPS IN FILM]

[CROWD LAUGHING]

[TIRES SCREECH IN FILM]

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING

IN FILM]

[GUNSHOT]

[SNIFFLES]

[BARKING]

SEAN:
Father, forgive them,

they know not what they do.

[BARKING]

No!

[CROWD GASPING]

[GUNSHOT]

[WOMAN SPEAKING FRENCH]

[GUNSHOT]

[CROWD GASPING]

[GUNSHOT]

MAN 1:

Bravo.

[CROWD BOOING]

MAN 2:

Bravo!

[CROWD CHEERING]

[CAMERAS CLICKING]

[BARKS]

ABA:

Too soon. Too soon.

You know, Lou...

I gotta say

And I've given this

some real thought.

LOU:
You've given it a thought.

Refreshing.

After seeing the movie tonight

with a fresh head.

- . it really kind of grew on me.

- Please.

- And you know what?

- No.

I think the ending

had a lot of courage.

Lot of courage.

That's good to know.

[DRIVER SPEAKING IN FRENCH]

Excuse me?

DRIVER:

It's a beautiful night in Cannes.

Yes.

[PHONE RINGS]

- Hello.

KELLY:
Hello?

- Hello.

- Ben?

- Ben?

- Hey, Kelly.

Hi. Hi.

You know the big sofa chair? It just

came back from the upholsterer.

and when I sat in it,

it made me think of you.

So I thought I'd call and see how

everything went with the screening.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It was okay.

- So the chair came back?

- Yeah, this morning.

What sort of fabric?

It's a beautiful

red boucle fabric. Gorgeous.

Bright red.

You know, I always thought

it was great just the way it was.

I felt like a change.

- Passport.

- He needs also the tail number.

Okay. Yeah, hi.

Just hold on a second.

It's 2112F. Two-one-one-two F.

[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]

[GUARD SPEAKING IN FRENCH]

What's he saying?

What's he saying?

He says the plane already gone.

No, it can't be gone

because I'm on it, so.

DRIVER:
But

BEN:
It's 2112F.

Ben, Ben, Ben.

[BOTH SPEAKING IN FRENCH]

BEN:
No, no, I can't.

- He says this is your plane.

Whoa! Whoa!

Lou. Lou, it's me. Lou, Lou. Wait.

[JET ENGINE ROARING

ON PHONE]

Hey, hey. Lou.

Hey, hey, hey.

Hello, hello, hello.

Ben, what just happened?

- Hello, Kelly?

- Hello, hello.

Oh, yeah, there's a lot of congestion

at the airport.

- You know, a lot of traffic.

- Okay.

Yeah. Yeah, you know, I think that

I'm gonna stay here a couple of days.

I heard about this French bistro

on the water.

I thought, you know,

why not soak up the culture?

Life's not bad.

I'm in France. Life is good.

Well, I'm jealous.

- So the chair came back?

- Yeah, this morning.

Yeah, but red, honey,

I can't picture that.

I like it. It's really pretty.

No, I just well, all right.

No, it's your chair.

I know that now, I know that.

You actually said,

"It's your chair and I know that now."

That's amazing.

Thank you so much for realizing that.

So I'll let you go.

Okay. I'll see you when I see you.

Okay. Okay, I'll call you

when I get back.

Bonjour.

BEN:
Remember

the Vanity Fair photo shoot?

Hey, Todd.

I saw that thing on the Internet

about your preview not doing so well.

- Hey, hang in there.

- Thanks. That's all bullshit anyway.

Went like gangbusters.

Over on the wall

and on the table are charts...

which indicate where

you've been designated to stand.

BEN:
I was promised

that I'd stand between...

...the O and the W, where Stuart is.

But once word leaked out

about the screening in Cannes,

I was sent way over by the P.

Inches away from being

completely out of the business.

WOMAN:
Actually, Ben, the P.

Yeah, you can go over near the P.

Right. The other way. Yeah. No, left.

My left, your right.

It's actually the other side.

If you go right on the other side. That's

good. A little farther. Little farther.

Right. If you'd switch with Todd.

Little farther.

Little farther. Little bit more.

You're near the P.

Great. Yeah, that's right.

On the other side. Yeah.

MAN:

This is Fiercely, 6M-6. Take 3.

MAN:
This is Fiercely,

cue 1 M-1. Take 1.

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Art Linson

Art Linson (born 1942) is an American film producer, director and screenwriter.Linson was born in Chicago, Illinois. He did his undergraduate work at the University of California-Berkeley and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles law school. Art Linson's producing credits range from such commercial and critical hits as The Untouchables, Heat, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Fight Club, and Scrooged, to unusual classics such as Melvin and Howard, The Edge, This Boy's Life and Into the Wild. Linson's producer/director collaborations include Brian De Palma, David Mamet and Cameron Crowe. His directorial debut was the 1980 comedy, Where the Buffalo Roam, which was loosely based on stories by Hunter S. Thompson and starred Bill Murray as the writer. His writing credits include two books, What Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line, which was adapted into a film from his original screenplay What Just Happened and starred Robert De Niro, and A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Hollywood. He is married to British actress Fiona Lewis. For television he is currently executive producer with his son John Linson on Sons of Anarchy. In 2016, Art produced and penned the movie The Comedian directed by Taylor Hackford. The film starred Robert De Niro and Leslie Mann. Also in 2016 Art produced The Outsider, a crime drama film directed by Martin Zandvliet and written by Andrew Baldwin. The film stars Oscar winner Jared Leto and Tadanobu Asano. more…

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