What Just Happened

Inspired by the personal memoirs of Hollywood producer Art Linson, Barry Levinson's fictional showbiz comedy stars Robert De Niro as a struggling movie producer who has just suffered through his second divorce, and slowly finds his soul being ground up in the machinations of the Hollywood machine. ...more

Barry Levinson and Robert DeNiro team up for the screen adaptation of Art Linson’s Hollywood insider account What Just Happened: Bitter Hollywood Tales From the Front Line. In the vein of similar narratives such as The Player, Sunset Boulevard, and, most recently, the television series Entourage, What Just Happened strikes a contrast between the superficial glamour of the movie business and the exigent trivialities that lend themselves to its infrastructure. Contrary to these other films and ...more

It may not be the most pointed, hilarious, or dramatic satire of the Hollywood film industry, but even if Barry Levinson and Art Linson's What Just Happened never really soars to the scathing heights of something like Swimming with Sharks, it nevertheless holds the unique distinction of being the first film where the two main dramas are 1) will a dog get shot in the head, and 2) will a man shave his beard. The story gets under way as harried producer Ben (Robert De Niro) prepares to take part in ...more