Daily Variety articles from December 2011

Daily Variety archives from December 2011

Rocky B.O. ride: 2011 domestic haul dips as int'l gain offsets pain.(box office)
December 29, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Despite terrific results for tent-poles, plus some specialty and mid-level films, domestic box office for 2011 is down 3% versus last year, while admissions are down 5%. Bizzers are bummed, but there are factors...

Clear field for pic holdovers.
December 29, 2011... New Year's box office is historically light on new entries, leaving Christmastime holdovers with room to grow during what can be a solid moviegoing weekend. That's certainly the case this year, as Paramount's "Mission: Impossible--Ghost...

Digital free-for-all looms for H'wood: Netflix dominated the headlines, but rivals with different business models for content distribution are poised to enter the fray.(2012: THE YEAR AHEAD)
December 29, 2011... Netflix loomed so large over digital distribution this year that its shadow may have obscured the emergence of a more diversified ecosystem feeding off of Hollywood content. It was hard to escape the Los Gatos, Calif.-based streaming service...

'X' exits on high note.
December 29, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Most of primetime's entertainment series had d up the year prior to last week's holiday flame, but two newcomers that stuck around--Fox's "The X Factor" and FX's "American Horror Story"--finished their seasons on a...

Batting for the majors.(A few moments with Bennett Miller)(Interview)
December 29, 2011... Bennett Miller says Brad Pitt was the main reason he decided to mull "Moneyball"; a shared vision for what the story of the Oakland A "s manager should be onscreen clinched it. Miller spoke with Variety's Christy Grosz about tempering one's...

SAG exec stays put: merger or not, White remains to 2015.(David White of the Screen Actors Guild)
December 29, 2011... David White, the top exec at the Screen Actors Guild for the past three years, is signed to remain in that post until at least 2015--whether or not SAG merges with the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists. A SAG spokesperson...

MSG, TW Cable near deal deadline.
December 29, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MSG Network and Time Warner Cable seem ready to duke it out to a bitter year-end deadline, with New York sports fans pawns in the battle between the host of the Knicks, Rangers, Sabres, Islanders and Devils and the New...

'Best Man' books Schoenfeld.
December 29, 2011... The incoming Broadway revival of"Gore Vidal's The Best Man" has booked the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater for a March start, with thesps Jefferson Mays, Dakin Matthews and Donna Hanover all signed on to join the cast. Mays, who picked up a Tony...

'Empire' tops ASC's TV lenser noms.('Boardwalk Empire' at the 26th annual awards of the American Society of Cinematographers)(Brief article)
December 29, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" led the TV nominations for the American Society of Cinematographers' 26th annual awards, with lensers David Franco and Jonathan Freeman among the five nominees for one-hour episodic television....

Camera rivals eye court.
December 29, 2011... In a saga worthy of a Hollywood thriller, allegations of email hacking and industrial espionage have surfaced in the camera industry in a lawsuit filed by digital camera maker Red against rival Arri. In the suit filed Dec. 21 in federal court...

Oscar opts for ballyhoo.(Oscar Award poster design)(Brief article)
December 29, 2011... The 84th Academy Awards poster aims to evoke the emotional connections auds have with movies, per the Acad. The design features iconic images from pics spanning eight decades: "Gone with the Wind" (1939), "Casablanca" (1943), "Giant" (1956),...

Irish eyes smiling: U2's 360 tour was top '11 roadshow.(Brief article)
December 29, 2011... In concert tracker Pollstar's wrap of the 2011 concert biz, U2's 360 tour was the dominant roadshow internationally, grossing $156 million in North America and $231 million worldwide. The top 25 North American tours grossed $1.19 billion...

Buble disc dominates.
December 29, 2011... Scoring big in the yuletide run-up, Michael Buble's "Christmas" maintained its hold on the No. 1 position on the U.S. album chart despite a formidable holiday surge by Adele's best-selling "21 ." Buble's Warner Bros. collection topped the...

Spanish B.O. slightly down.
December 29, 2011... Total box office in Spain fell 2.7% to 628 million [euro] ($823 million) in 2011, bucking the upward trend seen in other major European territories this year. Admissions edged down 2.2% to 95.5 million, according to provisional figures from...

Don 2.(Movie review)
December 29, 2011... Don 2 (India) A Reliance Big Pictures release of a Reliance Entertainment, Excel Entertainment presentation of an Excel Entertainment, Film Base Berlin production. Produced by Ritesh Sidwani, Shah Rukh Khan, Farhan Akhtar. Executive...

A Gang Story/Les Lyonnais.(Movie review)
December 29, 2011... A Gang Story (Les Lyonnais) (France-Belgium) A Gaumont release and presentation of an LGM, Gaumont, France 2 Cinema, Hatalom, Rhone-Alpes Cinema, Nexus Factory, Ufilm production, in association with Canal Plus, Cine Plus, 13eme rue,...

Nielsen primetime ratings report.(Statistical table)
December 29, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Top shows in 18-49 1. Sunday Night Football (NBC) 7.7/23 2. Monday Night Football (ESPN) 6.4/19 3. The X Factor finale-Thu. (Fox) 3.8/11 4. The X Factor-Wed. (Fox) 3.3/10 5. The Big Bang...

'Bambi,' 'Lambs' join Film Registry.
December 28, 2011... "Forrest Gump," Disney's "Bambi," "Norma Rae," "The Silence of the Lambs," "War of the Worlds" and Charlie Chaplin's first full-length pic, "The Kid," are among 25 movies selected by the Library of Congress to join the National Film Registry...

Hungry for hits: studios look to tentpoles for turnaround.(2012: THE YEAR AHEAD)
December 28, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Summer tentpoles "The Avengers," "The Amazing Spider-Man" and "The Dark Knight Rises," and bankable fall entries such as the final "Twilight" and first "Hobbit" pics have the biz looking...

Fest chiefs do Lido shuffle.
December 28, 2011... A power play at the Venice Film Festival has prompted the appointment of Alberto Barbera as the Lido's new artistic director, replacing Marco Mueller, who has been ousted after successfully heading the fest for the past eight years. ...

Helmer's on patrol.(A few moments with Oren Moverman)(Interview)
December 28, 2011... Oren Moverman's collaboration with Woody Harrelson earned the thesp a supporting actor Oscar nom for 2008's "The Messenger" and a Spirit nom for "Rampart." Moverman recently spoke with Variety's Christy Grosz about how he uses the editing room...

Is print-TV marriage too late to work?(TUNING IN)
December 28, 2011... In 2000, Tribune Co. announced merger plans with Times Mirror. At the time, the company touted the inherent synergies--pairing big-city newspapers in the New York area, Los Angeles and Chicago with powerful TV stations--while public-interest...

The Darkest Hour.(Movie review)
December 28, 2011... (U.S.-Russia) A Summit Entertainment (in U.S.) release presented with New Regency Enterprises of a Jacobson Co./Bazelevs/New Regency production. Produced by Tom Jacobson, Timur Bekmambetov. Executive producers, Amon Milchan, Hutch Parker, Bob...

Mediaproduccion exits bankruptcy.
December 28, 2011... Spain's Mediaproduccion, producer of Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" and Roman Polanski's "Carnage," has emerged from voluntary bankruptcy protection. Mediaproduccion, the content subsidiary of Mediapro, sought protection from creditors in...

N.Y. awaits tourists: 'Godspell' gains as most shows slow.
December 28, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Broadway sales slipped slightly last week--but then, a number of shows were saving up for this week. Of the 34 productions on the boards, 20 of them only played seven perfs rather than the usual eight during the...

Broadway top 10: Dec. 19-25, 2011.
December 28, 2011... Broadway Top 10: Dec. 19-25, 2011 Show Week's gross receipts (Theater)(Prod. category) (Seats) Potential gross receipts Wicked $2,107,015 (Gershwin)(M)(1809) ...

Kaufman's a 'Common' man.
December 28, 2011... Roundabout Theater Company has booked Moises Kaufman to helm an Off Broadway staging of "The Common Pursuit," the 1984 play by the late Simon Gray. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Play, which follows 20 years in the lives of six friends who launch...

Joe Bodolai.(Obituary)(Brief article)
December 28, 2011... Joe Bodolai, a former writer for "Saturday Night Live," committed suicide in a Hollywood hotel room, according to the Los Angeles coroner's office. He was 63. Coroner's office spokesman Craig Harvey said room service staff found Bodolai's...

Pedro Armendariz Jr.(Obituaries)
December 28, 2011... Mexican character actor Pedro Armendariz Jr., a near constant presence on screens big and small for more than four decades, died Monday of eye cancer in New York City. He was 71. Armendariz, the son of Mexico "golden age" movie star Pedro...

Robert Easton.(Obituaries)
December 28, 2011... Character actor and Hollywood dialect coach Robert Easton, whose successes include teaching Forest Whitaker to speak like Idi Amin in the 2006 movie "The Last King of Scotland," died of natural causes on Dec. 16, at his home in the San Fernando...

Don Sharp.(Obituaries)
December 28, 2011... Don Sharp, an Australia-born film director who was brought in to revive Hammer Films' sagging horror franchise in the mid-1960s--and succeeded--despite having no experience in the genre, died Dec. 14 in Cornwall, England. He was 90. Though...

Some cablers more able: nets faced varying challenges.
December 28, 2011... The end of the year brings accountability to the cable universe. Some of the major networks met key goals in 2011, while others missed out on opportunities or fell short of achieving stated priorities. AMC Ratings remained strong at AMC,...

Current crafts election strategy.
December 28, 2011... Current TV made headlines early in the year for hiring Keith Olbermann on the heels of his messy exit from MSNBC. Bringing Olbermann into the fold was the start of a remake from a network centered on docus and user-generated material to a more...

Kino believes in 'Kumare'.(Kino Lorber Inc.)(Brief article)
December 28, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kino Lorber has bought U.S. rights to the documentary "Kumare," the story of a bogus guru who gains sincere followers for his made-up philosophy. Pic's directed by Vikram Gandhi and produced by Brendan Colthurst and...

Weekend at the B.O.
December 28, 2011... Weekend at the B.O. $196.9 million Dec. 23-26, 2011 +5.0% vs. last year +46.0% vs. last weekend Screen scene The weekend's top 10 engagements: Theater, city (circuit) Gross 1 Mission: Impossible......

Daily Variety: film box office wrap for the weekend of Dec. 23-26.
December 28, 2011... DAILY VARIETY Film box office wrap for the weekend of Dec. 23-26 Ranking This Last Week Week Title (Distrib/Financier) 1 3 Mission: Impossible--Ghost Protocol (Par) 2 1 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (WB) 3 ...

Changes in financing? Bank on it.(2012 THE YEAR AHEAD)
December 27, 2011... From dashed hopes to confidence boosts, the year's biggest players finance stories revealed new players and strategies in funding the movie industry. Wall Street may have fled Hollywood in the wake of the economic collapse, but players like New...

Joyous holiday B.O. yule frame beats '10.
December 27, 2011... Headed into the Christmas frame, some bizzers worried that six wide releases would cannibalize each other at the holiday box office. That didn't happen at least, not entirely. Thanks to hearty four-day returns from top players "Mission:...

Santa good to specialty pix.
December 27, 2011... Upscale auds continued to hit cinemas in force over the long weekend, checking out Christmas opener "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" and supporting holdovers "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Warner Bros.' "Extremely Loud" scored a solid...

Artists seek digital coin.
December 27, 2011... The ongoing legal battle between artists and labels over digital royalties widened late last week, as two new suits alleging gross underpayments to acts were filed. On Friday, singer-guitarist Peter Frampton sued A&M Records, a unit of...

Oscar voting demystified.(THE VOTE)
December 27, 2011... As the nomination ballots for the g4th annual Academy Awards hit the mail today, voters are wondering about how the preferential system will work with this year's rule changes When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences decided in...

Scenes we'd like to see play out in '12.(REMODELING: Exploring the industry's evolving business models)
December 27, 2011... Looking back on my formative years, it's hard to overstate how much of my world view, my sense of humor and taste for twisted satire was shaped by Mad magazine. One of my favorite features in the mag I waited eagerly for every month was the...

Probe clears SAG's plans.(Screen Actors Guild Producers Pension and Health Plans )
December 27, 2011... An investigation into allegations of misconduct and financial problems at the Screen Actors Guild Producers Pension and Health Plans has found that the accusations are mostly baseless. In a letter to plan participants posted Thursday on...

FCC eyes reg loosening.
December 27, 2011... The FCC is looking to ease its long-standing restriction on simultaneous ownership of a TV station and newspaper in the nation's largest markets. The proposal to loosen the cross-ownership ban in place since 1975 was part of a 99-page Notice...

Rogen a starter on Disney's 'B Team'.(Seth Rogen in The B Team)(Brief article)
December 27, 2011... Seth Rogen is joining "The B Team," coming on as a producer on Disney's spy comedy, with an eye toward starring. Disney had no comment about the project, currently in the development stage. Project's centered on a top secret agent being...

Jones to Relativity post.(Relativity Media's Liz Jones)(Brief article)
December 27, 2011... Relativity Media has tapped Liz Jones, a veteran of the mobile and entertainment industries, as senior VP of digital marketing, a position that wig see her creating and executing marketing campaigns across all digital platforms for Relativity's...

Nat Geo in film reorg: Hyde Park to produce branded pics.
December 27, 2011... National Geographic's feature film operation has reorganized, consolidating its existing partnership with Image Nation to include Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment, The joint venture--to be headed by Amritraj and headquartered at Hyde...

'Haven' pushed to 2013 slot.(Safe Haven)(Brief article)
December 27, 2011... Relativity Media has pushed back the release of its Nicholas Sparks adaptation +'Safe Haven'+ to Feb. 14, 2013, positioning the Lasse Hallstrom-directed love story for success over Valentine's Day weekend, Pic was originally skedded to open...

A 'Hunger' for music.(The Hunger Games)(Brief article)
December 27, 2011... Taylor Swift, Win Butler, T Bone Burnett, the Civil Wars, the Decemberists and Regine Chassagne of Arcade Fire have contributed songs to the companion album for Lionsgate's upcoming franchise tentpole "The Hunger Games." Lionsgate and...

Graboff circles CKX: ex-NBC exec poised for prexy post.
December 27, 2011... Private equity giant Apollo Global Management is ready to step up its media and showbiz investing activity now that it is poised to name NBC alum Marc Graboff as prexy of its CKX unit. CKX is the holding company that owns "American Idol"...

News Corp. to name legal chief.
December 27, 2011... News Corp. is said to be close to naming veteran Washington, D.C., attorney Gerson Zweifach as its top corporate lawyer, a more crucial post than ever before for the conglom as it continues to face a host of legal challenges stemming from the...

Viewers give holiday welcome to NBA.
December 27, 2011... NBC's "Sunday Night Football" dominated viewing on Christmas night, but sports fans also were looking to hoop it up. A quintet of NBA games featuring the league's marquee teams delivered strong ratings for ABC, ESPN and TNT, which are happy...

'American Horror' houses new frights.(American Horror Story)(Brief article)
December 27, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nothing's scarier than change, but FX's freshman horror series "American Horror Story" will be set in a new house with a (mostly) new cast for season two, according to network topper John Landgraf and series creator...

'Whale Wars' finds foes.
December 27, 2011... Animal Planet's "Whale Wars" has been renewed for a fifth season after months of back-and-forth over whether the show's protags, a militant animal-rights group called the Sea Shepherds, would be able to find any whalers to chase away after...

Berlinale chief Kosslick to reup.(Berlin Film Festival's Dieter Kosslick )(Brief article)
December 27, 2011... Dieter Kosslick is set to continue as director of the Berlin Film Festival after his current contract expires in 2013 Germany's commissioner for culture and the media has asked Kosslick, who took the reins at the Pest in 2001, to slay on for...

Spain may end subsidies.
December 27, 2011... Comments Born Spain's new culture minister have created considerable concern in the local movie industry about the future of state film subsidies. Spain's new center-right Popular Party government will "promote sponsorship for culture,...

'Guard' sells Spanish rights.
December 27, 2011... Arthouse producer-distributor A Contracotdente Films has snagged all Spanish rights to irish black comedy "The Guard," starring Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadie. "Guard," which has earned Gleeson a Golden Globe nomination for his turn as a...

97 in tune with Acad: 'Drive,' 'Marilyn' fall outside rulebook.(THE VOTE)
December 27, 2011... Although the Academy released on Thursday a list of 97 scores that are eligible for nomination for the 201 I Oscars, what's more interesting is the list of the ones that were disqualified, including the music for "'Drive" and "My Week With...

P.S. fest loves 'Yemen'.
December 27, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 23rd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival will open on Jan. 5 with a gala screening of "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," the fest announced Thursday. Director Lasse Hallstrom's "Salmon Fishing," which CBS...

NARAS will fete Iovine.
December 27, 2011... The Recording Academy's Producers & Engineers Wing will honor Interscope-Geffen-A&M chairman Jimmy Iovine at a 2012 Grammy Week event recognizing his commitment to excellence in recorded music Iovine began his music biz career as an...

Rulings will roil H'wood in 2012: from indecency to Viacom vs. YouTube, the biz braces for key court decisions.
December 22, 2011... At the start of the new year the expectations among entertainment law mavens are that the next 12 months will turn out momentous, precendential decisions that will dramatically change the way the Hollywood does business. Then the biz gets mired...

Ford to play sci-fi 'Game'.(Harrison Ford in Ender's Game)
December 22, 2011... After confronting extraterrestrials in "Cowboys and Aliens," Harrison Ford is ready to take on another alien race in OddLot Entertainment's sci-fi tentpole "Ender's Game" along with Abigail Breslin and Hailee Steinfeld. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

Showbiz shores up: media ready for rally after 2011 turmoil.
December 22, 2011... It's been a wild ride for markets and showbiz stocks this year as the U.S. economy threatened to tip into another recession and Europe spread gloom. Heading into 2012 there's a glint of hope the worst may be over. But media optimism is...

'Tattoo' makes first mark.
December 22, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kickstarting a packed Christmas frame, Sony's "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" earned $1.6 million from latenight Tuesday screenings, starting at 7 p.m. "Dragon Tattoo" broadened Wednesday to 2,914 locations--not...

Free reign for Fremaux.(Cannes Film Festival's Thierry Fremaux)
December 22, 2011... Thierry Fremaux, the Cannes Film Festival's delegate general since 2007, looks set to take full control at the world's premier film lest. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The new balance of power, approved by Cannes' board of directors Tuesday, also...

It's digital's domain, but many love film.(TECH BYTES)
December 22, 2011... A few weeks ago I moderated the Q&A that followed the Variety screening of "Jane Eyre." I asked director Cary Fukunaga if he'd shot with a digital camera or on film, and he replied that he always prefers to shoot film. The audience...

Microsoft logs off at CES.
December 22, 2011... Microsoft's appearance at next month's Consumer Electronics Show will be its last. The tech giant has announced via its corporate blog that it will not host a booth or deliver the show's annual keynote speech after 2012. "Our industry...

Court rules for Veoh in UMG case.
December 22, 2011... Bringing a four-year legal battle between Universal Music Group and video-sharing site Veoh to a likely close, an appeals court in Pasadena Wednesday upheld an earlier decision in favor of Veoh, which UMG sued for copyright infringement in 2007....

Lionsgate Asia leap: Saban provides coin for Sino pact.(Celestial Tiger Entertainment and Saban Capital)(Brief article)
December 22, 2011... Lionsgate now has a foothold in China as its Tiger Gate Entertainment is joining forces with Celestial Pictures to create Celestial Tiger Entertainment. Saban Capital, Lionsgate's partner in the Asian TV distribution venture Tiger Gate, will...

'Harry' helmer's new 'Head' space.
December 22, 2011... "Harry Potter" director David Yates has come onboard to direct an adaptation of Emma Forrest's memoir "Your Voice in My Head" for London-based Ruby Films. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ruby, which picked up feature rights to "Voice" earlier this...

'Outrun' hits Open Road this summer.(Brief article)
December 22, 2011... Open Road Films has dated its first summer pic, the Dax Shepard romantic action-comedy "Outrun," for Aug. 24. Pic, which Shepard wrote and co-directed with David Palmer, follows an ex-getaway driver (Shepard) who, after agreeing to drive his...

Bale's China flap shouldn't affect pic.(Christian Bale's The Flowers of War)
December 22, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Chinese government has publicly criticized the star of its foreign-lingo Oscar submission following Christian Bale's attempt to visit one of China's most famous dissidents, Chen Guangcheng, while in the country to...

'Muslim' TV ratings dive as ads drop out.
December 22, 2011... "All-American Muslim" may be disproving the old saying about bad publicity. Although the TLC series hit headlines last week after protests erupted over the withdrawal of advertisers, including home-improvement chain Lowe's, Sunday's episode...

Recording acad sets honorees.
December 22, 2011... The Recording Academy has announced its lifetime achievement, Trustees and technical awards honorees for 2012. Recipients will be acknowledged at a private NARAS event during Grammy Week in February. Next year's recipients of lifetime...

Holiday hits still hot: Buble tops album chart for 4th week.
December 22, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Overall album sales were more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho last week as the Christmas sales season neared its conclusion. Michael Buble's "Christmas" stayed put at No. 1, commanding the top of the chart for a fourth straight...

New Viacom role for Phelps.
December 22, 2011... Julia Phelps is crossing over from Viacom's corporate office to serve as senior veep of corporate communications for Viacom Intl. Media Networks. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Phelps will oversee communications and media relations for...

Helmer 'Raising' project for GMC.
December 22, 2011... Former Tyler Perry Studios exec veep Roger M. Bobb will direct and produce "Raising Izzie," a film that will have a TV premiere on caner GMC in July. Bobb is directing a script from David Martyn Conley that won the GMC Faith and Family...

Gallic court nixes Quinta's Duran buy.(World News)
December 22, 2011... A French court has rejected FilmFunds' bid to acquire Quinta Industries' Duran Duboi, the Paris-based post-production and vfx house that was declared bankrupt last week. Duran, the company's animation arm, has been shuttered; Duboi, the...

Sony signs with Lovefilm.(World News)
December 22, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sony has become the latest Hollywood studio to sign an exclusive U.K. distribution deal with Lovefilm, Amazon's online entertainment service. As with Lovefilm's previous pact with Warners, this deal creates a second...

NTV Takes on Putin: Net Mocks Russo Leader for Vote Rigging
December 22, 2011... With a mass pro-democracy rally scheduled in Moscow on Saturday, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been mocked on national television following widespread allegations of vote rigging by the party he created, United Russia, in this...

Shine gets access to formats.(World News)
December 22, 2011... News Corp.'s Shine has struck a first-look deal with Dutch format house Absolutely Independent for its continental European offshoots Shine Iberia and Shine Germany. Shine Germany and Shine Iberia get access to Absolutely Independent's...

TMG racks un int'l sales.(World News)(Tele Muenchen Group )(Brief article)
December 22, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Entertainment giant Tele Muenchen Group has scored a slew of sales for its in-house and licensed productions, including "Moby Dick" and "Haven." TMG's sales arm TM Intl. sold "Moby Dick," which stars William Hurt and...

Thank you to our sponsors, speakers and attendees.
December 22, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ryan Kavanaugh, Relativity Media [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Broderick Johnson, Alcon Entertainment [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Andrew Kosove, AIcon Entertainment [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Adam Stewart, Google;...

Dirty Old Town.(Movie review)
December 22, 2011... A Blowback Prods. presentation. Produced by Mark Benjamin, Paul Sevigny. Jenner Furst, Daniel B. Levin, Julia Willoughby Nason, Stephanie Porto. Executive producer, Mark Levin. Directed by Jenner Furst, Daniel B. Levin. Screenplay, Furst,...