Saturday, November 7

• Simon Pegg Updates Paul

  There hasn't been much word regarding Simon Pegg's newest film, Paul, about two British slackers who decide to go to Area 51 in search of aliens after a trip to Comic-Con only to discover an actual alien. There's been one still released, which doesn't really show very much, and actor Jason Bateman talked about getting a gift from his Paul co-stars, but that's about it.

  Apparently, even Pegg is aware of the lack of news, because he recently offered an update to his fans in the forum of his web-site.

  Hi all

  Thought you might like to hear how things are going on the Paul front. It's been a while since we wrapped now and with the absence of Lance B's video blogs, I guess things must seem to have gone very quiet. Rest assured the good (space)ship Paul is progressing apace. Our venerable and brilliant director Greg Mottola [Superbad], is currently ensconced in an edit suite in NYC with Oscar winning editor, Chris Dickens (Slumdog Millionaire ... and Spaced, Shaun and Fuzz), putting together the first pre f/x cut. The next phase of the process will see Greg and Chris continue to hone and cut the movie and will of course entail the complex process of bringing Paul himself to life, combining the efforts of ace f/x wizards, Double Negative and further work with The Green Hornet himself, Mr. Seth Rogen. Rest assured all is going well and we're all very excited. More news of a kind as we encounter it.

  Simon

  Paul also stars Sigourney Weaver, Bill Hader, Blythe Danner, Jane Lynch and Rogen as the voice of Paul.

  
  
  Next Showing: Paul is expected to debut in the U.K. in 2010

  Posted 11/07/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Jason Bateman | Simon Pegg | Shaun of the Dead | Hot Fuzz | Paul

Sunday, September 27

• Jason Bateman's Amazing Paul Wrap Gift

  Jason Bateman recently wrapped shooting on Paul, the latest Simon Pegg comedy about two comic book nerds (Pegg and Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz compatriot Nick Frost) who meet an alien (voiced by Seth Rogen) while traveling cross country across the U.S. Bateman told Collider that before he left the Paul set to fly home, Pegg and company gave him the ultimate present.

  He and Nick and Joe Lo Truglio and Bill Hader and Kristen [Wiig] and the director, Greg Mottola, gave me the Japanese one-sheet from Teen Wolf 2. Which was pretty fantastic. And they all signed it with really clunky, semi-funny wolf puns like, "it's been a howl working with you" or crap like that. It's very, very funny and beautifully framed and very tasteful — which was sort of hilarious too. But the real joke was me trying to get it home. I don't know how you check something like that. I couldn't carry it on. So it cost me a lot to ship it back, but I'll bill them for that.

  Has Bateman hung the poster in a prominent place in his house?

  No. You can probably bid on it on eBay right now. I don't know where I'm going to put it. I told them immediately as I saw it, "my wife's never going to let me put that up in the house." So we're going to have to wait till we can afford a house with a room where fun stuff goes. It was pretty cool of them though, they're a nice group.

  Paul is scheduled to open sometime in 2010. To see a first-look poster of Paul, head here.

  
  

  Posted 09/27/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Jason Bateman | Nick Frost | Simon Pegg | Teen Wolf Too

Friday, September 25

• Extended Clips from Couples Retreat

  Couples Retreat, the latest comedy from Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau, focuses on four couples who head to a tropical resort where couples therapy is mandatory. The trailer shows how Jason Bateman and Kristen Bell convince the other couples (Vaughn and Malin Akerman, Favreau and Kristen Davis, and Faizon Love and Kali Hawk) to join them at the retreat using a PowerPoint presentation.

  The group soon learns that Bell's pitch is far from the truth once they learn truth about the Eden resort from Peter Serafinowicz.

  The following clip has an extended look at the couples yoga session teased in the movie's trailer.

  
  
  Next Showing: Couples Retreat opens October 9
  

  Couples Retreat - Trailer

  A new comedy written by Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn

  Posted 09/25/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Faizon Love | Jason Bateman | Jon Favreau | Vince Vaughn | Malin Akerman | Peter Serafinowicz | Kristen Bell | Kali Hawk | Kristen Davis | Couples Retreat

Thursday, September 24

• No Jason Bateman in Hancock 2

  Hancock director Peter Berg has said that "everybody's going to come back for a sequel," but apparently that message never made its way to Jason Bateman. Bateman told Collider that he has "not been contacted" and doubts he will be a part of the proposed sequel.

  I cannot imagine I'd be a part of that. [Will Smith and Charlize Theron are] both immortal, and so they can kind of live in any time period, and they don't age, but I do, so why would they include me? I don't know.

  So despite a mention of Bateman's return in a recent Variety article about the Hancock sequel, Bateman reiterated that he is not involved.

  I don't know where that writer gets their information from as I haven't been contacted, nor have my representatives.

  The return of Smith and Theron still seems probable, and necessary since the sequel will focus on the home planet of the two immortals. Shield writers Adam Fierro and Glen Mazzara have been hired to pen the screenplay.

  
  

  Posted 09/24/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Jason Bateman | Peter Berg | Glen Mazzara | Hancock 2 | Hancock

Thursday, September 3

• Relax, an Arrested Development Movie Is on Its Way

  

  With a little less to report about the big-screen adaptation of TV show Arrested Development, Jason Bateman has grown tired of press speculation that no news about the movie is bad news. On a press tour for the upcoming Extract, Bateman pleaded for patience regarding the movie's development.

  I've always felt bad that I never had more information to give people when they asked me about it, but I guess people kind of got frustrated by that and they just started kind of making up their own sort of, "Well, we haven't heard that much" or "news hasn't changed so it must be going away." I don't know. It sort of took a life of its own on and fatigue started to set in I think about the whole story of it.

  I mean, there's really no need to write anything about it at all until [series creator Mitch Hurwitz is] done writing it. Once he writes it then, just like any movie, then it becomes something a little bit more real and then you try to figure out scheduling and you try to figure out people's deals. I mean, it's got the same life that any other project would have. It has just as much a chance of happening as it does of not happening really.

  The silence over Arrested Development shouldn't have taken anyone by surprise after an interview with director Ron Howard confirmed the movie was going to be made, while revealing that Howard and company were "asked to stop offering any details."

  
  

  Posted 09/03/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Jason Bateman | Mitchell Hurwitz | Extract | Arrested Development

Wednesday, September 2

• Beavis and Butt-Head Help Promote Extract

  Mike Judge rounded up his old pals Beavis and Butthead to help him promote his latest movie, Extract. Judge's two animated characters introduced a clip from Extract, a workplace comedy that Butt-Head describes as having "a chick with big boobs, a dude who gets his nuts knocked off, and then a dude who's paid to have sex."

  What more could you need? A clip with Jason Bateman and Kristen Wiig? OK, then watch it below:

  
  
  Next Showing: Extract opens September 4, 2009
  

  Extract - Interview

  Jason Bateman & Mila Kunis discuss the latest from Mike Judge.

  Posted 09/02/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Jason Bateman | Mike Judge | Kristen Wiig | Extract

Thursday, July 2

• Forbes Lists Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston as Top Female Moneymakers in Hollywood

  

  According to The Hollywood Reporter, Forbes announced Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston as the biggest female moneymakers in Hollywood this past year. Many people are, of course, already taking note of the Brad Pitt connection. From June 2008 to June 2009 Jolie pulled in $27 million, while Aniston earned $25 million.

  Jolie's big paycheck comes courtesy of Wanted, which grossed $341 million worldwide, and an advance for her role as a CIA agent in Phillip Noyce's upcoming Salt. Aniston's money comes from box-office winner Marley & Me, as well as her role in SmartWater commercials. She also received an advance for The Baster, where she will star alongside Juliette Lewis, Jason Bateman, and Jeff Goldblum.

  Completing the top 10 are Meryl Streep, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cameron Diaz, Sandra Bullock, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Drew Barrymore, and Renée Zellweger.

  THR also noted that the $183 million earned by the Top 10 women falls well short of the $393 million taken in by the Top 10 men. Harrison Ford topped that list with $65 million.

  
  

  Posted 07/02/2009 by Rich Z

  Related: Brad Pitt | Cameron Diaz | Drew Barrymore | Harrison Ford | Jason Bateman | Jeff Goldblum | Jennifer Aniston | Juliette Lewis | Liev Schreiber | Meryl Streep | Phillip Noyce | Reese Witherspoon | Sandra Bullock | Tom Cruise | Nicole Kidman | Angelina Jolie | Sarah Jessica Parker | Renee Zellweger | The Baster

Wednesday, July 1

• First Couples Retreat Trailer Online

  Couples Retreat, a new comedy written by Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, has its first trailer online. The movie stars Favreau and Vaughn, along with Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman, Faizon Love, Kristin Davis, and Kali Hawk, who, as the title suggests, are four couples that go to a exotic retreat to work on their marriages.

  Peter Billingsley, the little boy from A Christmas Story and a longtime friend of Vaughn and Favreau, directs. Watch the trailer below:

  
  
  Next Showing: Couples Retreat opens October 9, 2009

  Posted 07/01/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Faizon Love | Jason Bateman | Jon Favreau | Peter Billingsley | Vince Vaughn | Malin Akerman | Kristen Bell | Kali Hawk | Kristen Davis | Couples Retreat | A Christmas Story

Thursday, February 26

• Michael Cera Agrees to Arrested Development?

  Oh happy day. An increasing diva-like Michael Cera has reportedly agreed to do the Arrested Development movie. Sources tell E! that Mitchell Hurwitz is writing the script and Ron Howard will direct for Fox Searchlight.

  This follows optimistic news from the Oscars, where Howard told Ryan Seacrest, "It's looking very much like we're going to make [the movie], but we've now been asked to stop offering any details. It's cloaked in a little mystery, but it's looking good."

  Cera was allegedly that last holdout amongst the cast, with Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett, Tony Hale, Jessica Walter, Jeffrey Tambor, and David Cross reportedly already having agreed to do the flick.

  
  

  Posted 02/26/2009 by Hailey

  Related: David Cross | Jason Bateman | Jeffrey Tambor | Tony Hale | Will Arnett | Jessica Walter | Michael Cera | Portia de Rossi | Ryan Seacrest | Mitchell Hurwitz | Arrested Development

Friday, February 6

• Jennifer Aniston to Get Inseminated

  You've got to give it to Jennifer Aniston. Having been left for the beautiful Earth Mother goddess and her flock of babies, a weaker actress might have rethought the direction of her career. She might have eschewed starring in petsploitation films (Marley and Me) or He's Just Not That Into You. And a weaker woman definitely would have avoided signing onto a movie where she gets impregnated by a turkey baster, while Brangelina trots the twins 'round the world. But, God bless her, not Jen. Girlfriend is like, "Screw it."

  Aniston has signed on to star opposite Jason Bateman in The Baster, a fertility comedy from the dudes who brought you Blades of Glory. Aniston plays a neurotic woman who wants to have a baby via artificial insemination. Bateman plays her best friend who secretly replaces her donor's semen with his own.

  We can't wait for the press tour on this one. We can already imagine the mag covers, the awkward moments talking turkey basters with Letterman, the tabloids seizing on a fresh opportunity to dredge up the Jen vs. Angie stories yet again. Oh the movie magic!

  
  

  Posted 02/06/2009 by Hailey

  Related: Jason Bateman | Jennifer Aniston | The Baster | He's Just Not That Into You

Tuesday, December 2

• Still in Development Hell: The Arrested Development Movie

  At the Independent Spirit Award nominations this morning, Jason Bateman told us that an Arrested Development movie will likely start shooting in the summer of 2009. While not every cast-member has signed on for the movie, Bateman also implied that no one has issued an outright "no" yet either. Still, if the producers can't get all the Bluths to reunite -- yes, that means you, Michael Cera -- perhaps they can use a Brady kid instead? They're usually available and eager for more work.

  
  

  Posted 12/02/2008 by reelz

  Related: Jason Bateman | Michael Cera | Arrested Development

Wednesday, October 15

• Faizon Gets No Love in Favreau's Couples Retreat

  Rising stars Kristen Bell and Malin Akerman have joined Sex and the City's Kristin Davis as the female leads in the romantic comedy Couples Retreat. The script is from Jon Favreau, who somehow found the time to pen a screenplay while working 20-hour days on the Iron Man set. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Couples Retreat's story revolves around "four couples who go to a tropical island resort, with one couple working on their marriage and the others sucked into the resort's couples therapy." One can only hope that a series of grisly murders ensues. Now that would be funny.

  Playing the male leads in Couples Retreat will be Favreau, Vince Vaughn (shocking!), Jason Bateman, and Faizon Love. THR says that "Bell is playing Bateman's wife, Davis plays Favreau's wife, and Akerman plays Vaughn's." Which begs the only slightly ironic question: Where's the love for Faizon?

  Handling the directorial duties is A Christmas Story's Peter Billingsley.

  
  

  Posted 10/15/2008 by reelz

  Related: Faizon Love | Jason Bateman | Jon Favreau | Vince Vaughn | Malin Akerman | Kristin Davis | Kristen Bell | Couples Retreat

Wednesday, December 5

• Exclusive Clip From Juno!

  Everyone is buzzing about the new movie Juno from director Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking) and with good reason - It's a great movie.

  Today we've got an exclusive clip from Juno hosted by it's star Ellen Page and stripper-turned-screenwriter Diablo Cody.

  Juno is out today and we highly recommend you check it out!

   

  
  
  

  Juno Clip

  Diablo Cody Ellen Page host an exclusive clip!

  Posted 12/05/2007 by reelz

  Related: Ellen Page | Jason Bateman | Jason Reitman | Diablo Cody | Juno

Monday, December 3

• BREAKING: Arrested Development movie still not dead.

  You can't keep a good Bluth down. Our very own Jeff Otto, fresh from his exclusive interview with Arrested Development star Jason Bateman at the press day for Bateman's new flick Juno, called in with the exciting news that the prospect of an AD movie is still very much a possibility. Bateman relayed the encouraging news to after a weekend meeting with series creator Mitch Hurwitz.

  The latest statement comes on the heels of our August 24th report, in which Bateman remarked that a big-screen Bluth reunion "is certainly on the table."

  Michael Cera, Bateman's fellow Arrested Development castmember and the co-star of Juno, indicated that he'd be game for an AD movie as well.

  
  

  Posted 12/03/2007 by reelz

  Related: Jason Bateman | Michael Cera | Juno

Monday, September 24

• The rise of Jason Bateman

  For those of us who remember back when Jason Bateman was all teen heartthrobby on Valerie, his virtual disappearance from all things Hollywood was terribly depressing to say the least.

  But in recent years, he's been cropping up again--in Arrested Development, The Ex, Dodgeball, etc. Well, now it seems one of our favorite '80s stars is finally hitting his comeback stride. Not only will Bateman appear in the upcoming buzz-heavy movies, The Kingdom, Juno, and Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, but he also just signed on to costar with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt in their next project. 

  State of Play stars Norton as a congressman implicated in the death of his girlfriend and Pitt as his former campaign manager. Bateman will play one of the reporters on the story.

  Now that is one good-looking bunch of hombres. Can we sign up for the junket now?

  Source: Variety.

  
  
  

  The Kingdom trailer

  Jamie Foxx stars in the latest movie by Peter Berg.

  Posted 09/24/2007 by reelz

  Related: Jason Bateman

Friday, August 24

• Bateman: Arrested Development movie "not dead yet."

  Ever since Arrested Development's premature demise, fans of the short-lived, critically acclaimed series have held out hope that the beloved comedy might somehow resurface, whether as a series on another network or as a feature film.

  "That is certainly on the table and not dead yet; I just don't know when the right time will be," Arrested Development star Jason Bateman revealed today in an exclusive interview with ReelzChannel.com, adding that the surging careers of fellow castmembers Michael Cera and Will Arnett could help the effort. "Maybe by virtue of us doing well, it makes the idea of a re-visit -- whether it be in a movie or whatever -- a little bit more of a viable scenario. Because if none of us had careers after Arrested Development, it would kind of reek of 'Oh, these poor people couldn't let it go,' or 'They need to make a check.'"

  Bateman has several high-profile film projects on the horizon, including Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium and Juno. His latest movie, The Kingdom, opens on September 28th.

  
  

  Posted 08/24/2007 by reelz

  Related: Jason Bateman | Michael Cera | Juno | Superbad | The Kingdom