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The story of a TV pilot as it goes through the network TV process of casting, production and finally airing.The story of a TV pilot as it goes through the network TV process of casting, production and finally airing.The story of a TV pilot as it goes through the network TV process of casting, production and finally airing.
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- TriviaSigourney Weaver's character was written as a man. It wasn't until late in pre-production that it was decided that the studio executive role could actually be a woman instead. Still, no line was re-written for the gender change, although at one point she politely kisses a male associate at work. Even the name Lenny was kept.
- Crazy creditsDuring the end credits an elimination round from the fictional reality show "Slut Wars" plays, featuring Seth Green as the host.
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Duchovny has produced a couple shows himself at this point. Sigourney Weaver. Justine Bateman. Simon Helberg from bang theory. Phil Rosenthal, who produced Raymond. Here, Lenny (Weaver) and the writer Mike (Duchovny) are producing a pilot for the network. It's a show within a show. They bring in several actors to read. And of course, there's a major disagreement between Mike and Lenny over which male lead is best. Will Mike back down to get the show made? And now they want the suicide of one of the characters to disappear. But the lead actor is supposed to be affected by that. The "team" is already trying to get Mike to sell out, but he's not sure if he wants to go along with that. And now there are more changes. They do the up-fronts, and Mike is downing booze and pills. Clearly, he's not happy that his project is so changed. But honestly, i DID want to see what happened in ep two! But it's a film. Maybe this WILL be made into a series. Lenny is the over the top president of the network, and she is SO inappropriate. But has no idea. Written and directed by Jake Kasdan; with Apatow producing.
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- Gross US & Canada
- $265,198
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $34,531
- Apr 8, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $265,198
- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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