Lost in the Air - The Jason Reitman Press Tour Simulator

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Three months. Three hundred interviews. My press tour of North America and Europe with Up In The Air. A complete and utter blur.

Jason Reitman, during the press tour for his film Up in the Air, took pictures of every interviewer with his iPhone, saying he was working on a project. He also posted a pie chart on his twitter account, showing the frequency of questions about different topics, George Clooney getting the biggest piece of the pie.

Can you catch Jimmy Fallon, Roger Ebert and Charlie Rose flash by in the video? I also spotted the tunnel to terminal C at O'Hare. It's really fun how he turned the camera on all the people interviewing him, and made the whole mind numbing process at least a little interesting for himself by documenting the frequency of questions, etc.

Up in the Air Trailer

George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a 35 year old a career transition counselor at a Denver-based management consulting company, Integrated Strategic Management (ISM). Ryan travels around the country to terminate corporate employees. He does not have a personal life and he numbs himself with sex, booze and drugs. His life on the road comes to a halt when his company downsizes its travel budget. He is required to spend more time at home just as he is on the cusp of a goal hes worked toward for years: reaching five million frequent flyer miles and just after hes met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.

This movie is getting a lot of good Oscar buzz. It was a sneak premiere at Telluride and wins raves for George Clooney. Anne Thompson:

Writer-director Jason Reitman (and obsessive airline mile collector) played the crowd like a pro, hoping that the movie would live up to their expectations. He didn’t need to worry. The director, who debuted Juno here two years ago at the same theater, delivers a winner.

Here's another short clip:


Up in the Air will be out December 4th.