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Kevin Messick (born August 21, 1966) is an American film producer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Picture for the films Vice and Don't Look Up. Selected filmography. Surviving the Game (1994) Batman Forever (1995) The Babysitter (1995) Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997) A Lot like Love (2005) The Answer Man (2009)
Kevin J. Messick. Producer: Don't Look Up. Kevin J. Messick was born on 21 June 1966 in California, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Don't Look Up (2021), Vice (2018) and Succession (2018).
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Mar 10, 2022 · By John Hazelton 10 March 2022. Adam McKay’s producer partner Kevin Messick, now a best picture Oscar and Bafta nominee for Don’t Look Up, sees his role as creating the space to let the writer...
Mar 22, 2022 · ‘Don’t Look Up’ Producer Kevin Messick Says the Film’s Ending “Twists the Conventions of the Traditional Hollywood Disaster Movie” The producer tells THR about the "six-dimensional chess" of...
- Saving “Don’t Look Up”
- “How Do You Do It Safely?”
- The New Gold Standard
- Pivoting, and Pivoting Again
“And then we all came home, like the rest of the world,” said Messick during a recent Zoom interview. “The virus had different pockets in different timelines. So at a certain point, it felt crazy to shoot in winter in Boston, and LA was safe. And then by the time we got to the summertime, LA spiked, and that’s why ‘Winning Time’ got pushed off unti...
“Usually, we would be more involved,” said Messick. “But Adam and I read scripts and watch cuts and give notes. We like to usually have a presence there, but it just wasn’t possible. You couldn’t bounce back and forth between cities or productions. The biggest challenge: We made those shows before vaccines were invented. Which seems crazy.” As a si...
The cast and crew stayed within its production bubble, putting up with eight-day quarantines and constant testing. Messick’s team worked with a mobile-lab testing company that could perform “gatekeeper tests” rather than wait 24 hours for PCR lab results. “It became a gold standard for us, and for other productions,” said Messick. “I brought them t...
“We were able to go down to Long Beach and sit there with 300 people having a blast,” said Messick, “yelling and screaming and having fun. That was a Friday-night date movie. It was a bummer when the theatrical marketplace — as great as Daisy and Sebastian are — became a calculated risk. There just weren’t a lot of opportunities for a theatrical re...
Jul 26, 2023 · Winning Time executive producers Kevin Messick and Salli Richardson-Whitfield discuss shooting the basketball scenes and fatherhood in season 2. Summary. Winning Time Season 2 covers the intense Lakers-Celtics rivalry of the 1980s, highlighting the emotions and narratives behind iconic basketball moments.
Jul 15, 2021 · July 15, 2021 · 1 min read. Adam McKay. ’s Hyperobject Industries has signed a first-look, multiyear feature film deal with Apple, an individual with knowledge of the contract told TheWrap. McKay’s...
