What Just Happened
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During the course of an ordinary week in Hollywood, movie producer Ben must navigate his way through shark-infested waters as he struggles to complete his latest projects.A demanding studio boss demands extensive changes to a movie starring Sean Penn, while another chief won't greenlight a project unless star Bruce Willis shaves his beard.
- Director
- Barry Levinson
- Worldwide
- $7M
Who's in it
Cast
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Story overview
What It's About
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During the course of an ordinary week in Hollywood, movie producer Ben must navigate his way through shark-infested waters as he struggles to complete his latest projects. A demanding studio boss demands extensive changes to a movie starring Sean Penn, while another chief won't greenlight a project unless star Bruce Willis shaves his beard. Meanwhile, Ben tries to reconcile with his wife and maintain a relationship with his young daughter.
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Box Office & Release
What Just Happened returned 0.3× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $25M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $7M
- Release date
- Oct 17, 2008
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English, French
- Country
- United States of America
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