Excuse me for my shameless plug:

Please watch a movie I co-produced called HORRIBLE BOSSES starring Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day and Jamie Foxx.

Here's the trailer and a review from Entertainment Weekly: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20483133_20483529,00.html

It opens this friday July 8th

I'm a Cal alum and as you can see by my post count, a loyal Cal fan.

At any rate, even if you want to watch Transformers or Harry Potter, at least pay for a ticket for Horrible Bosses and sneak into the other movie.

If you watch HORRIBLE BOSSES and Facebook/Tweet about it, Shaq Thompson and Bryce Treggs will surely commit to us!

GO BEARS!!!

John aka calwinsagain
twitter: MrJohnCheng

Good to know you're doing well! Awesome! Will definitely watch.

Comments to come.
Go Bears!!!

Executive Producer Cheng -

I promise to do all I can promoting Horrible Bosses if, merely as a show of good faith, you'll help bring to fruition Joss Whedon's hugely anticipated Dr Horrible Singalong Blog sequel, objectively continuing the absolute best and far and away most popular musical of 2008, as confirmed by IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?genres=musical&num_votes=1000,&release_date=2008,2008&sort=user_rating,desc

Marginally better than Nina Paley's TERRIFIC Sita Sings the Blues, or any of the other pretender musicals that year: Repo! The Genetic Opera, Mamma Mia!, or (ugh) High School Musical 3.

But if you fall short Dr Horrible wise, as repechage opportunity, merely reboot Firefly, ok? Please!?

If only for ailing Mo "Nobody's Asian In The Movies [commentary track]" Tancharoen's sake.

#ResurrectPenny! #HorriblesUnited #OskiAndWhedonAreGod

calwinsagain;526775 said:

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Excuse me for my shameless plug:

Please watch a movie I co-produced called HORRIBLE BOSSES starring Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day and Jamie Foxx.

Here's the trailer and a review from Entertainment Weekly: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20483133_20483529,00.html

It opens this friday July 8th

I'm a Cal alum and as you can see by my post count, a loyal Cal fan.

At any rate, even if you want to watch Transformers or Harry Potter, at least pay for a ticket for Horrible Bosses and sneak into the other movie.

If you watch HORRIBLE BOSSES and Facebook/Tweet about it, Shaq Thompson and Bryce Treggs will surely commit to us!

GO BEARS!!!

John aka calwinsagain
twitter: MrJohnCheng

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Is it true Jennifer Aniston was topless in the film? Just asking.

Saw the trailer the other day. Looked funny. Now that I know a Cal fan produced it, I will be sure to go see it. Good luck!

I appreciate all the support!

ok let me try to answer a few questions:

thank you UCBerkgrad. I hope you enjoy it!

SitkaBear, if you are Sunny fan, you will love Charlie Day in this even more!

okaydo. Aniston is not topless but she does get pretty close. She plays a character that she has never done before and you will definitely be shocked and surprised with what comes out of her mouth!

lafayettebear: thanks for supporting. sorry, who is maxer?

sinical: you are hilarious. i do know some people who worked on Dr. Horrible. I will ask them and tell you what they say.

Yosemitebear: hope you and the mrs enjoy. it's Rated R so please be ready for some off color humor. it's pretty dirty. but on par with Bridesmaids, The Hangover and Wedding Crashers.

EchoofSilence. Thank you! Hope you enjoy it.

Thank you everybody else! GO BEARS!!!

Ok, ok, I'm in. Not coincidentally Ebert weighed in this morning with an upbeat review, snipped:

*** Horrible Bosses (R)
"Horrible Bosses" (R, 100 minutes). Very funny and very dirty in about that order. Involves three horrible bosses and three employees who vow to murder them. The movie works because of how truly horrible the bosses are, what pathetic victims the employees are, and how bad the employees are at killing. Kevin Spacey and Jennifer Aniston stand out in a strong cast that includes Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx and Charlie Day. Three and a half stars (7/6/11)

Absolutely! What a star-studded cast. You are getting good results on rottentomatoes at a cool 74% of critics:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/horrible_bosses/

I'm a big Jason Sudekis fan on SNL. He's like that every character that could be in all the skits, like Will Ferrell was.

Great to see a Hollywood exec not only as a Cal sports fan, but posting on Bearinsider.

Go Bears!

LafayetteBear;526818 said:

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CalwinsAgain: I will definitely take in this movie. BTW, are you personally acquainted with Maxer?

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I don't think John knew my screen name on here until today, but we are indeed acquainted.

Go see his movie!

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DO calling for restraint. :rollinglaugh:

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That should tell you something.

I was planning on seeing it and now that I know that a Cal Bear co-produced it, I will make sure to bring lots of friends.

Awesome, nice to know a Cal alum was involved - was going to see it anyway.

And what exactly does an executive producer do?

XTasy;527513 said:

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Awesome, nice to know a Cal alum was involved - was going to see it anyway.

And what exactly does an executive producer do?

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Donate money to Bear Backers?

yes i do know the Maxer! just didnt know his screename.

GO BEARS!!!

calwinsagain;526775 said:

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Support Cal Alum in Entertainment!
Excuse me for my shameless plug...

I'm a Cal alum and as you can see by my post count, a loyal Cal fan.

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Shameless plug, fine. But there'd better be a script Cal in the background of at least one scene!

TouchedTheAxeIn82;528020 said:

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Shameless plug, fine. But there'd better be a script Cal in the background of at least one scene!

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If only Tom Hanks, John Cho or Leo DiCaprio weren't in it. We'd have some Cal swag in there for sure.

As a current Film Studies major here at Cal, I'm glad to see a Cal grad achieving success in the film industry! I've been planning on watching this movie for a while too...looks hilarious! Have any advice for a Cal student aspiring to be a part of Hollywood?

I told u if people watched horrible bosses, we'd get treggs!!!

Pm me frank

Hey...do we need to "like" the movie to get the commits? I like Spacey. I think Aniston is a nice lady with a narrow acting range (not a grad of the Actors' Studio)...relies on cuteness and probably drives a BMW.

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get down on your knees?

Really? Well sort of.

Get to LA. Go down there. Dreaming about being film production gets you nowhere hanging out as a hipster in Oakland.

Do anything short of selling your body. The film business is a connections business, the more people you know that are impressed by your modicum of intelligence (believe me LA is full of idiots) the greater chance you have of getting jobs that move you up the ladder.

To succeed it's mostly like all businesses, except in LA the faces are mostly prettier and the minds are mostly dumber.

PS, and don't message board your inequities. Send a private message to Maxer and the Cal dude/co-producer trying to pump his movie. I'm sure at least one out of two of those guys will give you a great response and much needed contacts.

:gobears:

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It depends what path you want to take, whether you aspire to an executive position in the film business, or if your interest in film is primarily on an artistic level (though the two aspects are not completely independent). If you're more interested in the latter, hanging out with the hipsters in Oakland might actually help. Xavier Dolan, a 20-yr old hipster from Montreal won the Cannes top award in '09 with his first long feature ("I killed my mother"), a movie he did on a shoestring budget.

"Mr. Dolan's blend of hubris and nerves have struck many in his short directing career. Before Cannes, he was probably most recognized in Quebec for playing a precocious six-year-old in a series of TV ads for Jean Coutu pharmacies.

"When he said we'd go to Cannes, I couldn't be a killjoy and tell him he was dreaming in Technicolor, it was such a beautiful thing to have such dreams," said Ms. Dorval.

"He's got a special quality, not quite confidence, more like conviction that comes with hope. An innocence that eventually gets crushed in most people. Not him."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/qubcois-filmmaker-electrifies-cannes/article1151287/

Dolan is now doing his third film, at age 22.

Nah if u just watch the movie, we'll get shaq. Sone will love the movie and some won't.

calwinsagain;528845 said:

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Nah if u just watch the movie, we'll get shaq. Sone will love the movie and some won't.

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I saw it. Loved it. Just read it opened to 28.1 million, 2nd only to Transformers for the weekend. Better than expected and also read was given a mix of A-/ B+ by most. It only took 37 mil. to make so you are on your way to a great start. Congrats. Go Bears

Thanks for watching Dave! Glad u liked it!