UK viewers might know it as Filofax, although the current DVD release sticks with Taking Care Of Business, presumably because the kids aren’t as into Filofaxes as they were at the top of the 1990s. Under the working title Filofax, it ran into a trademark dispute and was eventually renamed for the Bachman-Turner Overdrive song in the States.
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What’s it all about? Car thief Jimmy Dworski (James Belushi) sneaks out of prison to watch his beloved Chicago Cubs play in the World Series and steals the identity of advertising executive Spencer Barnes (Charles Grodin) after happening across his personal organizer.īackground: Abrams sold his first feature film treatment to Touchstone Pictures in his senior year of college and co-wrote the screenplay with Jill Mazursky for Arthur Hiller to direct. “Jimmy Dworski finally got a life… somebody else’s!” Film is a collaborative medium, and one in which screenwriters typically get screwed over in one way or another. In between this and his feature directing debut with 2006’s Mission: Impossible III, Abrams sold and produced a number of screenplays for films that are less well known than his later franchise work. If this doesn’t already sound too good to be true, the two budding filmmakers were 15 years old at the time. Returning a bunch of Spielberg’s personal super-8 home movies that he discovered after his family moved into a house where the director used to live, he and his friend and later collaborator Matt Reeves were hired to edit and catalogue them. You can’t blame him when you hear about his first paid job in the film industry.
He’s more of a household name than most filmmakers of his generation and we sometimes wish we wanted anything as much as he wants that Steven Spielberg status.
Over his career in the movies, he’s written, directed, produced, acted and played a wicked keyboard solo on Cool Guys Don’t Look At Explosions, and through his production company Bad Robot, his name is counted among the credits of massive franchises like Cloverfield, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek, and of course Star Wars. JJ Abrams is one of the most powerful people in Hollywood right now.