- ‘Michael Clayton’ keeps drawing
Its box office numbers fell only 24.7 percent this past weekend compared with a week earlier - a very low number for a movie that's already been out four weeks. That suggests strong word of mouth (when I saw it yesterday the theater was at least two-thirds full). By the way, writer/director Tony Gilroy says that the biggest - and most unanticipated - hassle in making the movie was trying to find a NY law firm where they could shoot. Here's what he told Premiere.com:
The days shooting in New York were very expensive. And finding those locations was just critical — hanging onto them once we found them, too. And so we really had to make it a positive experience for the law firms. It's interesting. Lawyers don't perceive this movie as being anti-lawyer at all. And I don't perceive the movie that way. So lawyers look at the script, see the movie and go: "Well yeah, that's real. I recognize that and those are the kind of compromises." But there's nothing evil that the law firm itself does. The malignancy there is cultural — not what they do. So they don't see it that way. So there was no problem sort of vetting the script. The real problem is: "Can we bring 80 people in and disrupt your law firm for four or five days?" And there's a law firm in New York called Dewey Ballantine. I had a personal connection through a friend, and we just went in and begged them. We also were really diligent about how we treated our locations and everybody [there]. So every time we left a place, the next place knew that we were going to leave them in better shape than we found them.
By the way, the conference room scenes that open the movie were shot in Dewey's 22nd floor room that runs the entire length of its Sixth Avenue building. That's the biggest space Dewey has. (ABA Journal)
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