About the Production For John Cena, 12 ROUNDS is more than another role; it’s his initiation into the rarified air of action movie star. Moreover, the film’s Danny Fisher is the type of action hero that Cena enjoyed watching, as a fan of the genre. “The ’80s was the era of the ‘everyman’ hero,” Cena…
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17 Again Movie Production Notes (2009)
About the Production: Second Chances At 17, Mike O’Donnell is young and in love and thinks he has all the answers. The problem is he doesn’t even know the questions. And years later, he finds himself wishing he could retake the test. But as the saying goes, “Be careful what you wish for.” Zac Efron,…
(500) Days of Summer Production Notes (2009)
And Now for a Comment From Director Marc Webb Before I read 500 DAYS OF SUMMER, I’d completely lost interest in the romantic comedy genre. Somewhere between puberty and when I started paying taxes, I stopped believing in the world these rosy cheeked girls in cute winter knit caps kept promising me. What did it…
2012 Movie Production Notes (2009)
The key for the director, who is well known for box office hits such as Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, would be to find a way to set 2012 apart from those disaster epics. “The more I talked with Harald about the story, the more I realized this is really something people today…