While Men In Black actor Will Smith unboubtedly makes the official uniform of the franchise's secret government agency look good, it's recently been revealed that the Fresh Pince who played Agent Jay for the first three films in the series wishes that he could erase the Mib sequel from your memory. Appearing on Thursday’s The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, Smith clued viewers…...
- 1/10/2020
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson are the Men in Black for a new generation — and for a new geographical location. Sony released the “Men in Black: International” trailer on Thursday, and like original new recruit Agent Jay (Will Smith) once famously boasted, new agents M (Thompson) and H (Hemsworth) “make this look good.”
The mysterious Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this London-based adventure, the new recruits tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organization. That’s Sony’s description at least.
Watch the trailer via the video above.
Also Read: 'Hellboy' Trailer: David Harbour 'Smashes Things Real Good' in First Look (Video)
In addition to Hemsworth and “Westworld” actress Tessa Thompson, “Men in Black: International” also stars Rebecca Ferguson, Kumail Nanjiani, Rafe Spall, Laurent Bourgeois, Larry Bourgeois, Emma Thompson and Liam Neeson.
The mysterious Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this London-based adventure, the new recruits tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organization. That’s Sony’s description at least.
Watch the trailer via the video above.
Also Read: 'Hellboy' Trailer: David Harbour 'Smashes Things Real Good' in First Look (Video)
In addition to Hemsworth and “Westworld” actress Tessa Thompson, “Men in Black: International” also stars Rebecca Ferguson, Kumail Nanjiani, Rafe Spall, Laurent Bourgeois, Larry Bourgeois, Emma Thompson and Liam Neeson.
- 12/20/2018
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Broder Webb Chervin Silberman Agency's production department has rejected company plans to merge with ICM. A team of production reps, led by veteran Agent Jay Gilbert, instead is in the process of setting up shop at Paradigm. Gilbert is in final negotiations to join Paradigm as co-head of production with the agency's Frank Balkin. Balkin and Gilbert together will oversee Paradigm's physical production department, with the latter overseeing film and the former handling television. Making the movie with Gilbert are former BWCS agents Gil Harari and Lesley Feinstein. BWCS senior agent Hillarie Roope is not expected to make the transition. The status of her clients was uncertain Monday. Paradigm's production department now is expected to employ seven agents while representing about 200 clients. The agency also recently hired commercial and music video rep Jeannine Angelique, who joined Balkin, Jason Pagni and Pattie Lofton in the production department.
- 9/12/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tom Cruise gets religion in "Jerry Maguire", starring as a slick, big-time sports agent who decides that his high-powered, cutthroat profession needs a more caring and sensitive approach. With Cruise perfectly cast in this penultimate role of wheeler-dealer, Sony should ink a strong opening weekend bonus, but the film's long-term contract at the boxoffice looks less promising. While it will surely score some big numbers based on Cruise's star appeal, this smart but decidedly squishy sports-world saga, replete with an old-movie-style love subplot, is likely to have its steadiest fans among women who read Cosmopolitan rather than men who watch ESPN.
As "plastics" was the defining word in "The Graduate", "shoe contracts" says it all in "Jerry Maguire", as writer-director Cameron Crowe etches a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes look into the juggernaut jock world of sports agenting, a world where teenage kids become instant millionaires and whose immature whims and excesses drive the lives of all those around him. The athletes are the cash cows, and it's the agents' job to milk every last penny out of their short-term sports careers.
SMI sports agent Jerry Maguire (Cruise) is not only caught up in this world, he's been a driving force in shaping it. Then one day -- klonk -- he sees the error of his ways. He sees it in the look of a little boy whose hockey-star father has suffered yet another concussion and whom Cruise, with commission signs flashing in his eyes, encourages to get back on the ice as soon as possible.
Feverish with insight, Jerry goes home and writes a long memo and drops it in the mailboxes of all his company's employees. Not surprisingly, it's greeted with the same kind of enthusiasm that any out-of-the-blue personal conversion is regarded. However, unlike talent agencies, whose power-peoples' behavior can be shaped and softened by in-house psychologists, SMI promptly fires Jerry. The only one who sides with him is Dorothy (Renee Zellweger), a staff secretary who quits to work with him. Jerry and Dorothy soon learn that loyalty is not a trait among Jerry's spoiled-jock clients, as only a mouthy, second-tier star footballer (Cuba Gooding Jr.) decides to stick with Jerry.
Essentially, "Jerry Maguire"'s narrative game plan revolves around Jerry's struggles to keep his one client and set up an honorable, and yet profitable, business. Crowe's sharp insights into the business side of the sports world, coupled with a truly decent sensibility, team to flesh out a good-hearted story.
Unfortunately, Crowe's script tends to be preachy and downslides into a touchy-feely mode that, ironically, detracts from its thematic power. In football lexicon, Crowe is best when he drills home his points rather than when he puts too much touch on them. Indicative of its wind-aided trajectory, it clocks in at 135 minutes. Additionally, the film's romantic subplot is nicely old-fashioned, but in this case it seems more a plot contrivance and more a relationship of mutual desperation than one based on real love. Accordingly, the romantic scenes between Cruise and Zellweger are surprisingly flat.
Consistent with his perceptive insights into this sports/marketing world, Crowe has created an array of generally credible supporting characters. However, even people who have an ingrown aversion toward agents may notice that the chief SMI Agent Jay Mohr) is over-the-top nasty. On the jock front, however, Gooding is so believable in his role as Jerry's selfish, pea-brained, wide-receiver client that the Dallas Cowboys might consider signing him up to complement Michael Irvin. Regina King is also a standout as the footballer's fiercely supportive wife and Bonnie Hunt delivers some wonderful verbal hits as Dorothy's man-wise sister.
JERRY MAGUIRE
Sony
TriStar Pictures
A Gracie Films production
A film by Cameron Crowe
Producers Cameron Crowe, James L. Brooks,
Laurence Mark, Richard Sakai
Screenwriter-director Cameron Crowe
Co-producers Bruce S. Pustin, John D. Schofield
Executive producer Bridget Johnson
Associate producer Lisa Stewart,
J. Michael Mendel
Director of photography Janusz Kaminski
Production design Stephen J. Lineweaver
Costume design Betsy Heimann
Editor Joe Hutshing
Music Nancy Wilson
Music supervisor Danny Bramson
Casting Gail Levin
Sound mix Jeff Wexler
Executive for Gracie Films Bridget Johnson
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jerry Maguire Tom Cruise
Avery Bishop Kelly Preston
Rod Tidwell Cuba Gooding Jr.
Dorothy Boyd Renee Zellweger
Laurel Boyd Bonnie Hunt
Marcee Tidwell Regina King
Bob Sugar Jay Mohr
Running time -- 135 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
As "plastics" was the defining word in "The Graduate", "shoe contracts" says it all in "Jerry Maguire", as writer-director Cameron Crowe etches a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes look into the juggernaut jock world of sports agenting, a world where teenage kids become instant millionaires and whose immature whims and excesses drive the lives of all those around him. The athletes are the cash cows, and it's the agents' job to milk every last penny out of their short-term sports careers.
SMI sports agent Jerry Maguire (Cruise) is not only caught up in this world, he's been a driving force in shaping it. Then one day -- klonk -- he sees the error of his ways. He sees it in the look of a little boy whose hockey-star father has suffered yet another concussion and whom Cruise, with commission signs flashing in his eyes, encourages to get back on the ice as soon as possible.
Feverish with insight, Jerry goes home and writes a long memo and drops it in the mailboxes of all his company's employees. Not surprisingly, it's greeted with the same kind of enthusiasm that any out-of-the-blue personal conversion is regarded. However, unlike talent agencies, whose power-peoples' behavior can be shaped and softened by in-house psychologists, SMI promptly fires Jerry. The only one who sides with him is Dorothy (Renee Zellweger), a staff secretary who quits to work with him. Jerry and Dorothy soon learn that loyalty is not a trait among Jerry's spoiled-jock clients, as only a mouthy, second-tier star footballer (Cuba Gooding Jr.) decides to stick with Jerry.
Essentially, "Jerry Maguire"'s narrative game plan revolves around Jerry's struggles to keep his one client and set up an honorable, and yet profitable, business. Crowe's sharp insights into the business side of the sports world, coupled with a truly decent sensibility, team to flesh out a good-hearted story.
Unfortunately, Crowe's script tends to be preachy and downslides into a touchy-feely mode that, ironically, detracts from its thematic power. In football lexicon, Crowe is best when he drills home his points rather than when he puts too much touch on them. Indicative of its wind-aided trajectory, it clocks in at 135 minutes. Additionally, the film's romantic subplot is nicely old-fashioned, but in this case it seems more a plot contrivance and more a relationship of mutual desperation than one based on real love. Accordingly, the romantic scenes between Cruise and Zellweger are surprisingly flat.
Consistent with his perceptive insights into this sports/marketing world, Crowe has created an array of generally credible supporting characters. However, even people who have an ingrown aversion toward agents may notice that the chief SMI Agent Jay Mohr) is over-the-top nasty. On the jock front, however, Gooding is so believable in his role as Jerry's selfish, pea-brained, wide-receiver client that the Dallas Cowboys might consider signing him up to complement Michael Irvin. Regina King is also a standout as the footballer's fiercely supportive wife and Bonnie Hunt delivers some wonderful verbal hits as Dorothy's man-wise sister.
JERRY MAGUIRE
Sony
TriStar Pictures
A Gracie Films production
A film by Cameron Crowe
Producers Cameron Crowe, James L. Brooks,
Laurence Mark, Richard Sakai
Screenwriter-director Cameron Crowe
Co-producers Bruce S. Pustin, John D. Schofield
Executive producer Bridget Johnson
Associate producer Lisa Stewart,
J. Michael Mendel
Director of photography Janusz Kaminski
Production design Stephen J. Lineweaver
Costume design Betsy Heimann
Editor Joe Hutshing
Music Nancy Wilson
Music supervisor Danny Bramson
Casting Gail Levin
Sound mix Jeff Wexler
Executive for Gracie Films Bridget Johnson
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jerry Maguire Tom Cruise
Avery Bishop Kelly Preston
Rod Tidwell Cuba Gooding Jr.
Dorothy Boyd Renee Zellweger
Laurel Boyd Bonnie Hunt
Marcee Tidwell Regina King
Bob Sugar Jay Mohr
Running time -- 135 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 12/9/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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