Neighbors (2014)

Film Type:

Feature

Language:

English

Colour Info:

Color

Sound Mix:

Datasat Digital Sound, Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound

Camera:

ARRI ALEXA M, Red Epic

Frame Rate:

24 fps

Aspect Ratio:

2.35:1

Stereoscopy:

No

Movie Connection(s):

Dubbed into: Neighbors (Hindi)

Filming Locations:

Trivia:

Efron and Rogen first noticed they had great chemistry at the film’s first table read.

Many closely-held fears about married life, getting older, and the possibility of having children have been dealt with in the movie.

Efron used to lift weights intensely in between takes for a lot of the scenes. Stoller says he never touched Efron’s abs during production.

There was ample room for improvisation and trying out of all the bizarre spontaneous ideas in the movie. There were also myriad jokes cracked, especially about penis size!

Barinholtz met Seth Rogen when they did 'Eastbound & Down' a few years ago, and Barinholtz used that connection to land an audition for 'Neighbors'. He plays Jimmy Blevins, who is the best friend of Rogen’s character, Mack.

Apparently, writers usually don’t get treated well on film sets, but since the key players in the movie started out as writers, a very friendly and kind atmosphere was created for the writers of the movie.

An experimental new editing method with Avid was used in the movie to take out actors who are distracting in the background of shots and replace them with their better takes.

Since this was a frat movie, they wanted to make it a hard “R,” so people could say and do whatever they wanted, and always pushed for scenes to be as inappropriate as possible with the fraternity.

This movie was shot with digital cameras because digital allows for more takes, which works better for Stoller’s improvisational style.

Efron and Rogen feel that their characters both do villainous things to each other, but they also can be sympathetic at times. The film has no clear-cut villains or heroes.