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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)
- Producer
- Jill Messick
- August 21, 1966 (age 57), California, U.S.
Producer. Writer. Executive. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. 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). More at IMDbPro.
- Producer, Writer, Executive
- June 21, 1966
- Kevin J. Messick
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...
Mar 10, 2022 · Features. Kevin Messick on his thriving filmmaking relationship with ‘Don’t Look Up’ director Adam McKay. By John Hazelton 10 March 2022. Adam McKay’s producer partner Kevin Messick, now a...
Mar 5, 2022 · With McKay on the panel were his frequent collaborators, producer Kevin Messick and composer Nicholas Britell. Messick said his working relationship with McKay is “really fun,” adding, “I am in...
Sep 18, 2023 · Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty. 24 Comments. 'Winning Time' executive producer Kevin Messick talks about HBO's Lakers series ending before the team's 1980s NBA dynasty began.
