00:00You know, I kind of, I almost blew it.
00:02In what way?
00:03As soon as I got on the set and there was all three Spider-Mans,
00:06I was like this.
00:07Ah, we up in here, baby.
00:09About to go live.
00:15Guys, good to see you again.
00:16How are you doing?
00:17Back at you, man.
00:18Back at you, baby.
00:19You both have experience bringing original movies
00:22to Netflix.
00:24And streaming is the way that so many audience members
00:26are taking in new films.
00:27Jamie, I'm curious.
00:28Is opening day any different for a streaming movie
00:31versus when it's going to theaters?
00:33Do you hear from more people who are telling you
00:35that they're checking your new movie out?
00:36It depends on how good it is.
00:37It depends on how good the trailer is.
00:39I tell them all the time, we're not in the movie business.
00:41We're in the movie trailer business.
00:42Our trailer for this movie overperformed.
00:47It did 19 million views in less than 24 hours.
00:50That's pretty big when you look at the landscape
00:55of all these movies that come out.
00:58And I think it's because J.J. Perry,
01:01whose forte is action, and that opening scene
01:05of me pulling the shotgun and shooting the old grandmother,
01:09people are like, what is this?
01:10So it had a real wow factor.
01:11So there is a difference, though.
01:13When you're trying to get people to the theater,
01:15of course, there's more elbow grease,
01:17and especially coming out of a pandemic
01:19and things like this.
01:20But you'd be surprised.
01:22You can't take the audience for granted.
01:24You can't even take an audience for granted
01:25that's sitting at home.
01:27So we want to do as much as we can
01:28to get people to hit that subscription
01:30and see something we think is just really like,
01:34I think it's really amazing in first time.
01:37We dropped power on Netflix around the same time
01:41this movie is dropping.
01:43Works every time.
01:44So I'm excited to be in J.J. Perry's debut movie.
01:50And I'm also excited to be with this young man next to me
01:52who I said, I'm not going to do the movie
01:54unless he's in the movie,
01:55because he brings so much to it.
01:57And to watch his talents flourish in this
01:59has just been amazing.
02:00No, no, no, no, no.
02:02It ain't what you think it is.
02:04I swallowed it.
02:05Dave, at one point in Day Shift,
02:07you referred to your characters as a team
02:09as crockin' in tubs.
02:10And I'm just curious,
02:12if you're referring to the 2006 Michael Mann masterpiece
02:15and you think Bud just looks like Jamie Foxx,
02:17the actual actor.
02:19There was some thought that went into that.
02:21I mean, you know, the movie's a little cheeky.
02:24It kind of fits the tone of the movie
02:27for people who kind of dig deep like that.
02:30But yeah, I mean, the movie, from the get-go,
02:33it's like, it doesn't take itself too seriously.
02:35It wants you to have a good time.
02:37It's got practical effects that are a little campy
02:41in the best way possible.
02:42It feels a little old school, a little throwback.
02:44And so I think that specific joke
02:47just tied in nicely with it all.
02:49Welcome to the Day Shift, motherfucker.
02:52Hi, J.J., how are you?
02:53What's up, Sean?
02:54What's up, my brother?
02:55Can you do me a favor
02:56and take me through the conversations
02:58of how you guys tried to figure out
02:59how many different ways you can behead someone?
03:02Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
03:04You know, all the years of being on the road
03:06as an action director and action guy,
03:08I pitched so many directors so many things,
03:11and a lot of them go, no, no, no.
03:13I just throw them back in my bag of tricks.
03:15And you know, after 32 years of having this bag of tricks,
03:19when I dumped it out on the floor,
03:20there were a lot of nuggets in there, brother.
03:22And I didn't use them all.
03:23So hang on till we get to,
03:25if we get a sequel, I'm gonna take it up another level.
03:28All the heads are coming off.
03:30It's all, heads are gonna roll, baby.
03:32It's not Eclipse, New Moon, Breaking Dawn,
03:35part one, it ain't like that, all right?
03:37Why do you know the names
03:38to all the specific Twilight films?
03:40You do a shot in this movie
03:42that I had to go back and rewatch about a half dozen times.
03:44It's in the middle of a car chase,
03:46and it comes out of the sunroof of the car.
03:49Walk me through that.
03:50How did you do that?
03:51And why did you choose to do it in that moment?
03:53So I've been doing a lot of car chases in my career,
03:57and the Russian Arm is a pursuit or a precision vehicle
04:01that has a crane arm and a remote head on it.
04:04Became a tool in the cinema in the mid 80s, I believe,
04:08or late 80s.
04:09So that changed the perspective of car chases,
04:12of vehicular chases.
04:13And it was the gold standard up until three years ago,
04:17until the FPV drone hit.
04:20Nobody's quite nailed it.
04:23Ambulance did a good job.
04:24I think we did pretty good.
04:25But what I've done now is I've been working
04:27with that drone company,
04:29and his name's Tommy Tibiato.
04:31We've been R&Ding things.
04:32I just had him in Puerto Rico on this other second year.
04:35I will reinvent vehicle chases with that drone
04:38when I get my next movie.
04:40It's coming.
04:41I've already R&Ded the shots.
04:42I can't tell you
04:43because the other action directors listening
04:45will steal it from me.
04:47But that perspective of being in the over,
04:50in the back seat, in and over,
04:51throwing it out,
04:52and all of a sudden, the whole world is, you know, you're done,
04:55and then diving back in on it,
04:56that, for me, it was a game-changer.
04:59And, you know, I asked the kid, Tommy,
05:01I was like,
05:01-"Hey, Bubba, so if I was in the back seat of a car with gloves on,
05:04could I throw the drone out of the car if it checked up in a slide?"
05:06And he goes,
05:07-"Well, yeah, I think so."
05:10I said, -"Let's go try it."
05:11And we tested it. I have all the tests on my phone.
05:12So that's where it was born.
05:14It was born at Starbucks in Culver City talking about ideas.
05:19You know what I see when I see a van?
05:21Big old dollar sign.
05:24Jamie, you talk about bringing people back to theaters.
05:26This movie, Over My Shoulder, did just that.
05:28And we covered a lot of stories about Andrew Garfield,
05:30Tobey Maguire going back and seeing themselves.
05:32Did you get to go back and see No Way Home with an audience?
05:35The return of Max Dillon.
05:38Man, it was crazy.
05:38It was like a rock concert when we did that film.
05:44It was like,
05:46and I thought Sony did a fantastic job of mystique.
05:49Holding things, keeping things.
05:52I almost blew it.
05:53In what way?
05:54As soon as I got on the set,
05:55and there was all three Spider-Mans,
05:57I was like this.
05:58Ah, we up in here, baby.
06:00About to go live.
06:01And somebody just dove on me like I was a fire.
06:03I was like, man, what the hell?
06:05No one's supposed to know.
06:06Okay, my bad.
06:06Okay, we ain't supposed to know that all three of them are here.
06:10But I think they did a great job in doing that,
06:12bringing some mystique.
06:13And I think that that's what was needed
06:15to get people back in the theater.
06:17And I think that same muscle that's flexed in Spider-Man
06:21gets flexed here,
06:22where you see these incredible stunts,
06:25you see this incredible comedy,
06:27and you see incredible cast like Snoop and us
06:31all in the same situation.
06:34And so that's why we're happy.
06:37No matter where it is,
06:39we're just happy that our art is getting out there.
06:42So what's on the agenda today?
06:45My eyes are closed.
06:48Like every day, hunting vampires.
06:53It just strikes me that,
06:54because Jamie and Dave both have recent experience directing.
06:58So I'm curious if that meant
07:00that they were over your shoulder a ton
07:01and asking a bunch of questions or absorbing.
07:03No, so I welcomed that
07:06because I feel like the more directors you have on set,
07:10especially, let me rephrase it,
07:12the more good directors you have on set
07:14that care about the project,
07:15that care about every frame that you're shooting,
07:18the better, you know?
07:20So Jamie is not just an amazing talent,
07:22singer, actor, entertainer.
07:24He was also a producer on my film,
07:26and he was also a huge asset
07:28in shooting the film and in post.
07:30And Dave too, like always coming with great ideas.
07:32And, you know, I have a very open forum
07:35as far as, you know, ideas.
07:38Look, I don't pretend to be the smartest guy in the room.
07:40I think if you're in the smartest guy in the room,
07:41you're in the wrong room.
07:43And I always end up in the right room
07:45because I always end up somehow
07:46being the dumbest guy in the room.
07:47So I ended up okay on that one.
07:49I can't wait to see both of you guys
07:50continue as directors.
07:52I'm really intrigued by both of your
07:53storytelling abilities.
07:54Jamie, when are we gonna see something
07:55from All-Star Weekend?
07:57Man, it's been tough, you know,
07:59with the lay of the land when it comes to comedy, man.
08:04You know, we're trying to break open
08:08those sensitive corners
08:09where people go back to laughing again.
08:12And that's why I think even in this film,
08:15which is great, is like the one thing
08:17we kept hearing in the screen
08:18is how much people were laughing.
08:21So hopefully we'll keep them laughing
08:23and run them into All-Star Weekend
08:25because we were definitely going for it.
08:27God help me!
08:32Vampires just tried to kill me
08:34and now I just pissed my favorite fucking house.
08:37Everybody pisses himself the first time.
08:39Really? Did you?
08:40No, I didn't.
08:41But listen, you did.
08:45Vamp!
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