Juno

Juno (2007)

Timing: 1:36 (96 min)

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Release date

2007-12-05

Country

United States

Production

Fox Searchlight Pictures, Mandate Pictures, Mr. Mudd Production, Mandate International

Genre

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Budget

$7 500 000

Revenue

$232 372 681

Website

https://www.searchlightpictures.com/juno

Director

Jason Reitman

Actors

Elliot Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, J.K. Simmons, Allison Janney, Olivia Thirlby, Eileen Pedde, Rainn Wilson, Daniel Clark
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Scenario

Diablo Cody

Producer

John Malkovich, Jim Miller, Brad Van Arragon, Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick, Kelli Konop, Russell Smith, Joseph Drake, Nathan Kahane, Daniel Dubiecki

Operator

Eric Steelberg

Composer

Mateo Messina

Artist

Audition

Mindy Marin, Kara Lipson

Editing

Dana E. Glauberman
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• The hamburger phone belongs to Diablo Cody, who wrote the screenplay.
• At Ellen Page’s suggestion, Juno was a fan of Kimya Dawson and The Moldy Peaches’ music.
• When Juno is looking for a father for her future child, she says, "He has to be someone cool, like a graphic designer." In real life, Ellen "Juno" Page's father and the ex-husband of screenwriter Diablo Cody are both graphic designers.
• If you look closely, you can notice a "hamburger phone" in the background and in Michael Cera's character's room.
• Before one of the scenes where Juno visits Jason Bateman's character, he is sitting at a computer reading the real blog of screenwriter Diablo Cody.
• This is the first film from Fox Searchlight Pictures to surpass the $100 million mark at the box office.
• The project was initially supposed to be titled "Junebug," but that option ultimately had to be abandoned to avoid a repeat of the title of the 2005 film starring Amy Adams.
• Filming period: February 14 – March 27, 2007.
• Initially, Brad Silberling was supposed to direct, but he left the project due to creative differences.
• The hamburger-shaped phone belongs to Diablo Cody, who wrote the screenplay.
• When Juno is looking for parents for her future child, she says, “They have to be someone cool, like a graphic designer.” In real life, Elliot Page’s father and Diablo Cody’s ex-husband are both graphic designers.
• J.K. Simmons later recounted that he liked the script so much that he was willing to play the teacher even without any lines – just to be cast in the film.
• It was not easy to show all four seasons within 30 shooting days, and to achieve this, the filmmakers had to resort to various tricks. In particular, in the relevant scenes, bright spring flowers were darkened using digital technology to make them look like summer blooms, and off-screen crew members ensured the fall of artificial leaves during autumn scenes. A snowstorm unexpectedly hit Vancouver (which is extremely rare in March), and before the fallen snow melted, three different scenes were filmed in one shooting day, contrary to the pre-arranged shooting schedule. This saved the filmmakers a significant amount of money that would have been spent on artificial snow.
• Jennifer Garner agreed to a lower-than-usual fee in favor of percentage points from box office revenue, and as it turned out, she didn't miss out at all, as the film was commercially extremely successful.
• The scene in which Juno, played by Elliot Page, pulls the car over to the side of the road and cries was filmed after the shooting period had ended, when Page had already had their hair cut. If you look closely, you can see hair extensions.