page_title: Smosh: The Movie
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Smosh: The Movie / Production
caption_attribution_description: English: Alex Winter at TechCrunch Disrupt 2013
context_page_description: Smosh: The Movie is a 2015 American adventure comedy film directed by Alex Winter starring the YouTube comedy duo Smosh with appearances from other YouTube stars, such as Jenna Marbles, Grace Helbig, Markiplier, and Harley Morenstein. This is Smosh's first full-length film and revolves around the duo going inside YouTube virtually to alter a clip that will ruin Anthony's chances of winning over his crush, Anna Reed.
  The film premiered in Los Angeles at Vidcon 2015 on July 23, and was released in the United States on July 24, 2015, to generally polarized reviews, with criticism of its writing, acting, and humor, but praise for the performances of the two leads. It was then released in the United Kingdom, by Lionsgate through distribution on-demand through Vimeo and Netflix.
context_section_description: On September 18, 2014, Lionsgate announced that it has picked up the international distribution rights to the movie, while 20th Century Fox picked up U.S. distribution rights to the movie,  with production jointly financed by DreamWorks Animation's AwesomenessTV, and Defy Media. The picture was written by Eric Falconer, creator and executive producer of Blue Mountain State and writer of How I Met Your Mother. The film's executive producers are Padilla, Hecox, Barry Blumberg of Defy Media, Brett Bouttier, Joe Davola and Shauna Phelan. AwesomenessTV founder Brian Robbins serves as producer. Winter was signed to direct the film. It was entirely shot in YouTube Space in Los Angeles, California.
caption: Director Alex Winter
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