Ben’s (Robert De Niro) life is an unmitigated mess. First of all, the famous Hollywood producer has a couple of projects coming apart at the seams. The first, titled “Fiercely,” starring Sean Penn (played by Penn himself), has already been completed. But it has fared so poorly in test screenings that the studio head, Lou (Catherine Keener), is pressuring Ben to change the depressing ending during which the dog dies. This development doesn’t sit well with the movie’s drug-addicted director (Michael Wincott), an artistic purist who insists on leaving his masterpiece as is. Nonetheless, Lou threatens to pull rank and hire someone else to re-shoot the scene, since under the contract she has reserved approval of the final cut.Ben’s other headache is Bruce Willis (played by Willis himself), who has signed on to play the leading man in his next picture. The problem is that Willis has not only shown up overweight and out of shape, but sporting a full beard that he’s refusing to shave. Unfortunately, Ben’s personal life is even more of a mess. He has two ex wives, and is still attached to one of them, Kelly (Robin Wright Penn). She, however, flaunts in his face, the fact that she’s sleeping with a scriptwriter (Stanley Tucci), while their teenage daughter (Kristen Stewart) is equally-estranged from her father.

Actor Bruce Willis and his production company are being sued in Los Angeles for $4 million for breach of contract.The lawsuit filed Friday alleges Willis Brother Films agreed on a contract with three companies to produce the feature film “Three Stories About Joan,” which Willis was to star in and direct.The lawsuit alleges that on Sept. 29 Willis quit as director without notice in violation of the agreement.Phone calls to Willis’ publicist and attorney were not immediately returned.Henry Gradstein, attorney for the companies suing Willis, says the courts will resolve the matter. He had no further comment.The plaintiffs include Foresight Unlimited, Signature Entertainment Group and Three Stories Productions. [Source]

Starring: Robert DeNiro, Bruce WillisPlot: A Hollywood satire about a movie producer trying to save two films he is working on from falling apart while also trying to manage his personal life and his two ex-wives.The movie earned $1 million domestically .Extras: Making-of featurette, deleted scenes, a commentary track and casting sessions. $29.98. Magnolia Home Entertainment. (R ) C- [Source]

The Movie:Any time you’re watching a film that’s satirizing the inner workings of Hollywood, you should be bound for an interesting time. The only thing left to discover is just how entertaining it’s going to be. Films like The Player and The Big Picture show the inner workings with quite a level of frankness that filmgoers hadn’t been previously exposed to. These films were more cynical about the process than anyone had seen before. When What Just Happened came along, based on the memoir by Hollywood producer Art Linson, the potential for spoofing what Linson had to tolerate could have been big. After all, this man, who’s produced such films as Fast Times at Ridgmont High, The Untouchables and Heat, and has been around the business for a long time. He’s acutely aware of his role in the relationship bridge between an artist who wishes to maintain principle and a studio looking for a box office smash. What’s depressing is that having that knowledge and not sharing it with the cinematic world.Linson wrote the screenplay that Barry Levinson (Rain Man) directs. The main mistake that Linson makes is creating this fictional universe where Robert De Niro (Wag the Dog) plays a Linson-esque character named Ben. Ben is juggling two ex-marriages; one where his oldest daughter Zoe (Kristen Stewart, Twilight) seems to have a life that Ben doesn’t know about, and the other where his more recent ex Kelly (Robin Wright Penn, Beowulf) might be having an affair with a colleague from work. He tries to juggle these relationships as best he can, but honestly, Ben has more important issues than that. He’s the producer of a Sean Penn-starring film, and at a test audience for the film, the end sequence (where Penn’s dog is gruesomely killed) repulses the crowd, and they say so in the post-screening feedback cards. This is problematic for Ben because not only does the studio head (Catherine Kenner, Being John Malkovich) want the ending to be changed, but for the changes to be made before the film premieres at Cannes in two weeks. If that’s not bad enough, a film that’s about to begin production experiences trouble when its star Bruce Willis appears days before filming with the thickest of beards and a spare tire around his midsection. The studio wants the beard shaved, or they shut down the production and sue Ben. Just another fourteen days of Ben’s crazy life.

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