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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a movie spoof you have to watch, even though WME would prefer you didn’t. The agency often puts together presentations for its quarterly meetings. The lit department made this short film, and debuted it this morning. They hoped it would not go beyond agency headquarters, but Deadline got it and felt obliged to share. The short was directed by Dave Green, and the Ari-esque agency head is played by Miles Fisher. The WME agents who took part include Dave Wirtschafter, Rob Carlson, Kim Bilek, Simon Faber, Jason Spitz, David Karp and David Lubliner. Plus a Rob Cohen cameo.
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This was great!
Now we know why ETCH – A – SKETCH THE MOVIE is a reality.
That’s pretty funny! Not sure why they wouldn’t want it to get out though – it is the truth, but it’s not offensive.
Love This!
Completely derivative and lamely executed. Small wonder WME didnt want it out of the building. Embarrassing…
OOooooooOOOOoooooo!! “Completely derivative…”, huh?!?! Still bitter that shitty spec you wrote hasn’t garnered you an ounce of interest?!?! “Completely derivative…” . DUDE, quit your Story Analyst gig, stop writing, don’t go to another movie and bury your head back in the sand.
Cute. The guy in charge is like a Les Grossman only less gross.
This is hilarious! So true!
I’m buying the “they hoped it would not go beyond agency headquarters” as much as I buy the “I didn’t think my sex tape would end up on the internet”.
At least I now know what would happened if Jerry Maguire didn’t have a conscience.
you’re right, of course…they planted it, hoping it goes viral. This thing is the equivalent of a sloppy wet sneeze with no mouth coverage. Very deriv, moderately funny at best…but the lead guy, with his Air Gold-cum-Tom Cruise-like psychotic intensity has a future in this town, baby…
Totally UNoriginal. The agent stuff done to death in Entourage, the looking around for words in the title done in both Mrs. Doubtfire and The Associate. No wonder these movies do so poorly when the agents who set up these deals just rehash the same crap like stirring a bowl of yogurt until it looks slightly different.
that was the point of the video, dumb ass.
Mrs. Doubtfire was 20 years ago which may as well be 200 years…and it’s a parody *of* crass commercialism and unoriginality. Schmuck.
Well Dave, we all have YOU to thank for bringing us YOUR “originality”. I honestly LOVE IT when people complain that something is “totally unoriginal”. Makes me realize how totally clueless they really are. This business is about entertainment you dolt. NOT originality. If you want originality, go film a Dutch whore defecating on a Japanese business man with THE BICYCLE THIEF playing in the background and call it “performance art”. Good luck with your distribution.
Awesome. Loved it. Just chill haters.
“It’s sour, it’s sweet. You want to know what it tastes like? It tastes like fucking profits!” Awesome.
I really wanted to say this sucks, but I enjoyed it.
And now I’m getting some Pinkberry.
Fuck.
Miles Fisher does two things well. Tom Cruise and Christian Bale. Fisher did a pretty amazing cover of The Talking Heads “This Must Be The Place” while channeling Bale via American Psycho. The video he made for it is definitely worth a watch. Fisher also played Tom Cruise in Superhero Movie, spoofing Cruise’s Scientology video. His scenes are easily the best part of that film. As someone already pointed out, the character he plays in this short is a lot like Cruise’s Les Grossman character, only less gross (clever!). So my question is, who is the real Miles Fisher, or is he just famous cause he looks like someone famous?
He was pretty sweet as the pot-dealing frat guy on Mad Men.
He’s not famous. I do like that Talking Heads cover though. It’s like someone in high school telling you you look like a famous actor and trying to build a career off it. This guy doesn’t have the charisma, looks or talent of Tom Cruise. Plus I saw him at a bar once with some mutual friends and he looked at me like the snobbiest disgusted look I have ever received. Its like you’re not the only WASP in this town buddy, I know all your blue collar friends are buying your schtick but I’m not.
Stupid fun.
Douchebags. DZW = King Douchebag.
Miles Fisher is great… I hope looking and sounding so much like Tom Cruise’s younger brother isn’t ruining his career.
It’s been done before. It’s called THE STUFF and it starred Michael Moriarty.
Not that a lack of originality would stop anyone in this town…
Great call, I’ve been trying to convince some clients to go after the remake rights to that film for the past few months, it’s ripe for a redo and Pinkberry fits the bill.
87% Tomato
Good to see some agents actually have a sense of humor. Enjoyed it.
Jennifer:
EXACTLY! There’s going to be a lot of ‘bridge-and-tunnel’ bitching and moaning in these comments about this, that and the other thing, but that’s why we should all be a just a little psyched about the creation of this thing (whether or not its circulation was as ‘accidental’ as the Vivid acquisition of the Kim Kardashian sex-tape): some of the real players (and, love ‘em, hate ‘em or unaware of ‘em, they are) in our little sand-box have demonstrated at least a little bit of a sense of humor about themselves.
I LIKE IT! (Or at least what it symbolizes…just sayin’)
I would have thought that David Wirtschafter would prefer to be lower profile.
that is funny!
Carvel The Movie would kick its ass. no one can beat Fudgie the Whale..
definitely not hip enough for those in the biz but for those of us on the fringe, that was definitely fun and quite sweet actually…..miles fisher is perfection.
“those of us on the fringe” enjoy a good laugh regardless of the source and the video delivered.
this is very fun, I have to admit. well done and always nice to see us agents making fun of ourselves (and this moment in the business). i work at a “rival” agency and I wish we did shit like this. well done WME. The Bay photo polish was genius.
Pinkberry seems to give me the worst sugar crash. I just don’t get how people keep that crap product in business?
Once again, the movie is better than the product. Just like Air Bud, Ford Fairlane and Transformers…Well, maybe not Transformers.
Bah, Pinkberry is dead, long live Yogurtland. The proof is right on San Vincente Blvd in Brentwood where Pinkberry and Yogurtland are directly across the street from each other. Guess who has the longer wait time?
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Coat