Josh King
略歴
Politically Correct
Whenever friends moon about what a great job Josh King has, the 1st AD repeats a line (attributed to Austin Powers star Mike Myers) that goes something like: “We all suffer so others may laugh.” King, whose partial resume includes movies starring Myers, Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, says running comedy sets is rarely all fun and games.
“What’s funny on paper may often not be on the set,” he says. “So ‘find-ing the funny’ can take time, which makes it hard to schedule the day.”
King says more improvisation (aided by digital cameras) has complicated his job. “A scene on The Campaign [this past summer’s political satire] where Will [Ferrell] opens the door and Zach [Galifianakis] asks to come in, reads as an eighth of a page. Then those guys started winging it, and ten minutes later we were still shooting.”
Politically themed movies, of which King has done two in a row with director Jay Roach, typically feature large crowds for debates and rallies. “While shooting Game Change [about Sarah Palin’s run for vice president] in Baltimore, we had to bring in extras from Virginia, New York, and Philadelphia,” King recalls. “McCain’s big rollout of Palin was shot in a college gym, where 500 extras were scheduled but only 300 showed up. The only option was to push the familiar faces to the back and tell Jay we just couldn’t shoot as wide as planned.”
DGA -Directors Guild of America
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リンドン・ジョンソンがＪＦＫ暗殺の直後に大統領に昇格してから、翌年の大統領選で当選するまでの３４７日を描いた実話ドラマ。
当時副大統領だったリンドン・ジョンソンが、ＪＦＫ暗殺によりエアフォース・ワンで大統領就任宣誓を行ってから、翌年大統領選で当選するまでを描いた実話ドラマ。ブロードウェイで上演されトニー賞を受賞した舞台をスティーヴン・スピルバーグの製作総指揮で映画化。舞台でも主演し、トニー賞主演男優賞を受賞したブライアン・クランストンが、『トランボ ハリウッドで最も嫌われた男』のジェイ・ローチ監督と再タッグを組んだ。
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After their first adventure with the "Hot Tub Time Machine," Lou and Nick are living very well off their ill-gotten gains, while Jacob still cannot rely on Lou to be a positive role model. When an unknown assailant breaks into Lou's mansion and shoots him, Nick and Jacob take him for another trip in the hot tub. They emerge in the year 2025, where they must figure out who shot Lou and prevent it from happening again.
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Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
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During the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists.
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Rising executive Tim Conrad works for a boss who hosts a monthly dinner in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. Tim plans on not attending until he meets Barry, a man who builds dioramas using stuffed mice. Barry's blundering but good intentions send Tim's life into a downward spiral, threatening a major business deal and possibly scuttling Tim's engagement to his fiancee.
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Rising executive Tim Conrad works for a boss who hosts a monthly dinner in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. Tim plans on not attending until he meets Barry, a man who builds dioramas using stuffed mice. Barry's blundering but good intentions send Tim's life into a downward spiral, threatening a major business deal and possibly scuttling Tim's engagement to his fiancee.
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Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal, Craig is a henpecked husband, and Jacob does nothing but play video games in his basement. But they get a chance to brighten their future by changing their past after a night of heavy drinking in a ski-resort hot tub results in their waking up in 1986.
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Two salesmen trash a company truck on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard time or spend 150 service hours with a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn't look half bad.
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建築士のマイケルは、大切な家族を幸せにしたいと思うあまり、仕事に追われ家族との時間さえも持てない忙しない日々を送っていた。そんなある日、彼は人生さえも早送りや巻き戻しできる不思議なリモコンを手に入れるのだった。
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ドクター・イーブルの世界征服計画は、まだまだ健在だった。隕石を地球に誘導する「プレパレーションH」計画を進めるイーブルだが、オースティンによってあえなく計画は阻止される。ところが、イーブルの差し金で、オースティンのパパスパイ、ナイジェルが謎の悪党ゴールドメンバーにより1975年へ連れ去られてしまう。早速自分もタイムスリップしたオースティンは、パートナーのフォクシーと共にナイジェルを探し出し、ゴールドメンバーの正体を暴き出す。
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A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based T.V. cop show.
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ブロンド・ヘアーが災いしてフラれたエルは、猛勉強して名門のハーバード大学に入学。しかし、彼女の試練は終わったワケじゃなかった……。観るだけで元気が出るキュートなコメディ映画。出演はリーズ・ウィザースプーン、ルーク・ウィルソンら。
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フレッチャー・リードは自他共に認める一流の弁護士。どんなに無理な依頼でも、彼は得意の“嘘”で無罪を勝ち取ってしまう。そのいかなる時も嘘をついて切り抜ける姿勢は私生活でも変わらず、そんな彼に妻のオードリーは愛想を尽かして息子のマックスを連れて出て行ってしまう。それでも彼は嘘をつくことをやめず、マックスの誕生日パーティをすっぽかし、またも適当な嘘でごまかすのだった。その夜、傷ついたマックスは「パパが一日だけでも嘘をつきませんように」と神に願う。するとフレッチャーは絶対に嘘をつけないようになってしまった。そして順調だった彼の人生は一変する。
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裏社会で名をはせていたジミーも今は静かな街デンバーで堅気の事業をしている。だがある日かつてのボスに弱みを握られ悪事を働くことに。計画に失した彼に、冷酷なボスの制裁が迫る。
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A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once rebuffed him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but a horrific accident leaves her at his mercy.
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In Montana, naive teenager George longs to escape from his broken home before his dysfunctional parents push him over the edge. When George meets pretty drifter Lucy, she easily convinces him and his friend Claude to join her on a road trip to Montana in hopes of breaking her brother out of jail.
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Three criminals run into complications when they attempt to smuggle emeralds across the Mexican border.
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The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the in's and out's of the business in LA and with some help from Mo Fuzz, they soon become hot property. But not all goes smoothly when they try to resurrect the career of their favorite R&B duo, the Swanky Modes.
Location Manager
Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his girlfriend. But as his star rises, Valens has conflicts with his jealous brother, Bob, and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of a plane crash just as he begins his first national tour alongside Buddy Holly.
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A caucasian prospective grad student's affluent family won't pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to qualify for an African-American scholarship at Harvard. He soon gets more than he bargained for, as he begins to learn what life is really like for blacks in America.
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ゾンビ映画の元祖「ナイト・オブ・ザ・リビング・デッド／ゾンビの誕生」で描かれた事が実際にあったという前提で作られた間接的な続編。ロスにある科学資料庫の地下で発見された謎のタンク。そこから吹き出した特殊なガスには死者を蘇らせる作用があった……。
