Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012) on Netflix
Schlaaang gives Tim and Eric a record billion dollars for their first movie. They spend it on everything but the film, then buy a failing mall to repay the debt.
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Plot summary
Tim and Eric are handed a record one billion dollars by the corporation Schlaaang to make their first feature. The money goes instead to personal makeovers, ten-course lunches, real diamonds and a weekly salary for their shopper and guru Jim Joe Kelly, and the finished movie, Bonjour, Diamond Jim, runs three minutes. Schlaaang's executives hold the pair responsible for the entire sum and threaten legal action. Tim and Eric fire Jim Joe and, after a night of partying, see an advertisement offering the S'Wallow Valley Shopping Mall and Pizza Court for sale. Owner Damien Weebs claims the mall can bring in a billion dollars. Rebranding themselves as businessmen, the two leave Los Angeles to buy it.
Cast
- Noah Spenceras Jeffery
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Before release, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim launched the Billion Dollar Pledge, asking fans and celebrities to promise not to illegally download the film and not to see its box-office competition The Lorax; signers included Ben Stiller, Bob Odenkirk, Weird Al Yankovic, Josh Groban and Maroon 5.
- Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim had planned to use an entire town for the film, but budget forced them to scale it back to one mall; they shot at the abandoned Desert Fashion Plaza in Palm Springs, California, standing in for the S'wallow Valley Mall.
- The idea for the film's dying shopping center came from Monroeville Mall, of Dawn of the Dead fame, and Hunt Valley Mall in Maryland, which really was redeveloped from top to bottom, its interior walkways converted to open-air.
