The Night Before | Anatomy of a Movie

AOM hosts Sara Stretton (@Sara_Stretton), Phil Svitek (@PDSvitek), and Demetri Panos (@DMovies1701) and discuss the 2015 movie The Night Before. The Night Before (initially in production as X-Mas) is a 2015 American Christmas comedy film directed by Jonathan Levine, written by Levine, Evan Goldberg, Kyle Hunter, and Ariel Shaffir, and produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The film stars Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Anthony Mackie, and is about an annual reunion of three childhood friends on Christmas Eve. Principal photography began on August 11, 2014, in New York City. Good Universe and Point Grey Pictures produced the film, which Columbia Pictures released on November 20, 2015.