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  1. Kevin Messick (born August 21, 1966) is an American film producer. [3] [4] He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Picture for the films Vice and Don't Look Up . [5] [6]

  2. 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). Menu.

    • Producer, Writer, Executive
    • June 21, 1966
    • Kevin J. Messick
  3. Mar 22, 2022 · Producer Kevin Messick’s Don’t Look Up journey was bookended by history-making events. On Jan. 6, 2021, as rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Messick was in Boston preparing to film a riot ...

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    “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...

  5. Mar 10, 2022 · Kevin Messick makes no bones about his role as producing partner to industrious multi-hyphenate Adam McKay. “My job is to do as many things as possible that let Adam purely enjoy his job as a ...

  6. Sep 18, 2023 · 'Winning Time' executive producer Kevin Messick talks about HBO's Lakers series ending before the team's 1980s NBA dynasty began.

  7. Mar 5, 2022 · March 5, 2022 10:43am. Adam McKay is known for, among other things, his blistering satires, Vice and The Big Short among them. His latest, the four-time Oscar-nominated Don’t Look Up, takes aim ...

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