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Disney’s marketing machine got the bright idea to invite Hollywood agency assistants last night to an advance screening of the Touchstone Pictures comedy The Proposal starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds (who hosted the screening and can be seen in the above photo). The packed house in Century City included assistants from WMA, ICM, UTA, CAA, and APA. “The guys laughed throughout the film,” my spy tells me about the overwhelmingly male crowd. The pic, which opens June 19th, is about a high-powered book editor (Bullock) who, facing deportation, declares she’s engaged to her unsuspecting assistant (Reynolds) whom she’s tormented for years. He agrees to the charade. Hilarity supposedly ensues. But the best ever tormented assistant pic is Swimming With Sharks. (Because it was written by a tormented Hollywood assistant.)
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“zowie! What a great bunch of good lookin’ men.”
It’s a job requirement, Andrew.
@concernedmoviegoer: Ryan Reynolds was in screenwriter John August’s directorial debut, “The Nines”, which screened at Sundance. If you haven’t seen it, you should check it out:
http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/23/sundance-the-nines-movie-review/
I’d love to know who was afraid to invite the Endeavor assistants.
Re: Has Ryan ever made a good movie?
“The Nines”.
Is that Trey Swann over there? That guy is Hot!!!
this is funny
today’s assistants, tomorrow’s monsters……
The few women in the audience look like they want to kill themselves.
People have commented on the lack of women in the audience…I noticed the same thing on the WGA East comedy writers panel. One woman.
Anonymous writes: “The number of blacks in the oval office is equal to the number of blacks in this photo.”
Actually, the three guys on the left in the second row all look black. Which would mean, that of the 11 assistants visible in the first two rows, four appear to be black. That’s nearly 40%, or nearly three times the ratio of blacks to whites in the general population.
If you’re going to cry racism, lay out a plausible case. Your brand of weak, whiny thinking gives all of us true liberals a bad name.
Yeah I’m flabby, so? —
Let’s let the funny ‘Bill Murray types’ be the ones we see at home every night, yeah?
@concernedmoviegoer: I thought Adventureland was a pretty good flick and Ryan was appropriately smarmy.
I was an agent when Swimming With Sharks came out and I remember thinking that the Spacey “Sweet-n-low” scene could have been verbatium from a Monday staff meeting. Brilliant.
We need one black one, an asian, a white one, a persian, filipino, ok one more white guy, uh, a latino, a light skinned brotha, move along people, leave no empty seats, women please take the back seats, we’re on a tight schedule…
APA over Innovative or Paradigm…wow either someone at Disney forgot to invite them or they just know there worthless anyway.
I was at that screening last night. A couple of comments:
1) Disney promoted the event specifically as a “Guys Night Out” so the few women who attended were infiltrators (ie the “+ 1″ guests of invitees)
2) Ryan Reynolds was pretty much in and out. He made a brief welcoming statement, took a few publicity photos and was out the door before the film started. As far as I know he was not around during the pre-film networking reception.
3) The movie itself was very funny. Not surprisingly, Betty White practically stole the show. And yes, Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock both gave fine performances. (BTW, SB is credited as an executive producer on the film)
4) Even though the film doesn’t open until late June, Disney has been hosting publicity screenings for over a month now. Very interesting that they’d be doing word of mouth screenings so far in advance of the release date.
Did you notice all the black and brown faces in the audience? So nice to see minorities get a foothold and they are the future Top Dog Hollywood exects.
On the lack of women in the audience. The invite that was sent out was sent mostly to male assistants and even called it a “Guys Night Out” I think we knew we were walking into a sausage fest, but there was free food and booze. Everyone knows assistants are physically incapable of turning that down.
Frank,
Perhaps you haven’t been into a decent sized Agency lately. If so, ANONYMOUS wouldn’t need to spell out an explanation for you. I didn’t interpret a cry for Racism. I don’t remember seeing that in any post. In reading the posts, what was called for was DIVERSITY! But since you asked, how is this for a cause: “Good ole boys club” + ego maniacs = We do it better than anyone else.
I am African American and came out of the Agent Training programs and the truth is undeniable. Your response is the typical response of a questionable impostor of Liberalism. Instead of taking the comment in context, you would rather interpret it as an extreme thus stripping the issues of its obvious integrity and importance. So I say, watch the rhetoric YOU spew, and be careful you aren’t the cause to giving US true liberals a bad name. Like Grandma use to say “Sometime the truth will hit ya, where the God Lord split ya!”
Oh, and Frank there is only one (possibly 2) persons of color in this picture. Adjust that monitor buddy
Well Frank, your lack of vision gives us with eye balls a bad name. Are you drunk? 1) I’m not a liberal I am just someone who can fucking see! 2) they are not black. I suppose the operative word in your sentence would be “look”, 3) Why in the hell would I only count the first 11 assistance? Can you not see the additional 15 to 20 faces in the background as clearly as I can? Are you a moron or something? 4) “lay out a plausible case”? Oh I’m sorry Mr. Kofi, didn’t know Nikki was liaising with the UN after reading her blog. I’ll get started on that doctrine on Hollywood prejudice right now, I’m sure everyone will be shocked considering no one has ever said anything like that before. 5) The one black guy you see in the picture is my big brother and he told me himself about the lack of minorities in the room! Your retarded thinking and terrible attempt of trying to correct someone gives everyone with an opinion a bad name. Frank, I’m sorry to tell you, but I doubt if you serve the world any purpose, please show yourself out.
Frank, Frank, Frank, no I am not even a liberal Frank.I am just someone who can fucking see! 2) they are not black. I suppose the operative word in your sentence would be “look”, 3) Why in the hell would I only count the first 11 assistance? Can you not see the additional 15 to 20 faces in the background as clearly as I can? Are you a moron or something? 4) “lay out a plausible case”? Oh I’m sorry Mr. Kofi, didn’t know Nikki was liaising with the UN after reading her blog. I’ll get started on that doctrine on Hollywood prejudice right now, I’m sure everyone will be shocked considering no one has ever said anything like that before. 5) The one black guy you see in the picture is my big brother and he told me when he got home about the lack of minorities in the room! Your retarded thinking and terrible attempt of trying to correct someone gives everyone with an opinion a bad name. Frank, I’m sorry to tell you, but I doubt if you serve the world any purpose, please show yourself out
Lol @ Frank…he doesn’t even know what black people look like…lol, don’t worry. The agencies don’t either. Take it easy with the figures John Nash, you are embarrassing yourself.
Eric Pertilla,
Keep an eye on him,
Hes going places.
The movie scored 97% top two boxes for women over 25, and nearly that high for women under. So Disney knows they have women. They’re trying to make sure the movie feels guy-safe so it can play to men as well.
The movie will be huge.
Yeah Weinstein! Nice photo op!
Frank, you must be some new form of moron. The three on the left “LOOK(!?)” Black? 40% of the assistants in the first two rows “APPEAR” to be Black, so therefore, there’s no racial discrimination going. There’s an entire room full of people, why are you only looking at the first two rows. And you say anonymous needs to lay out a plausible case? Your attempt at a response is laughably idiotic.
Hey, Frank, how about this: 100% of the guys sitting in the second seat from the right in the first row are Black, so I guess everything is great. What’s funny is you have no idea how grotesquely stupid you are. The attorney general was right when he talked about cowards in dealing with the issue of racism. Why do people try so hard, to the point of sounding mentally defective (I’m looking at you, Frank), to avoid dealing with this issue? It’s sad.