Posts Tagged ‘Jason Bateman’

Short Take: Simple and Funny. Perhaps too cathartic for some.

Director: Seth Gordon

Screenwriters: Michael Markowitz, John Frances Daley

Cast: Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Jaimie Foxx

Length: 1 hour, 40 minutes

Synopsis: Three men decide to kill their bosses when the constant abuse they suffer at work pushes them over the edge. Dave Harken (Spacey) passes up Nick (Bateman) for a promotion, Bobby Pellitt (Farrell) threatens to destroy the chemical company Kurt (Sudeikis) once hoped to run, and horny dentist Julia Harris (Aniston) sexually terrorizes Dale (Day). Though their plans fail in increasingly absurd ways, the results are not necessarily bad.

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Fox Searchlight and Imagine Entertainment are teaming together to produce a feature-length version of their hit TV show Arrested Development.

“Arrested Development” creator Mitchell Hurwitz and his co-executive producer James Vallely are working on a screenplay for the long-debated feature version of their short-lived Fox series. Even as they prep a new Fox comedy series with “Arrested” star Will Arnett, the writers are spinning more bizarre encounters for the eccentric, spoiled Bluth clan for possible feature production in the spring.” – Hollywood Reporter

Hurwitz reportedly claimed that he wont invest his time into writing the script until the entire original cast had signed on and committed themselves to the project. It is unknown which or how many cast members are interested in returning.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Extract

Director: Mike Judge (Office Space, Idiocracy)

Screenwriter: Mike Judge (Office Space, Idiocracy)

Cast: Jason Bateman (Juno, Arrested Development), Mila Kunis (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), J. K. Simmons (Juno, Spider-Man trilogy), Kristen Wiig (Adventureland), Ben Affleck

Length: 1h 31m

Synopsis: Joel (Bateman) owns a factory that manufactures cooking extracts, and reluctantly manages the workers of that factory with loyalty and patience despite their continual incompetence and insolence. One day an accident occurs which leaves one worker permanently scarred. Being a loyal worker he at first only accepts a large insurance payment from the factory, but after crossing paths with a seductive and opportunistic young thief named Cindy (Kunis) who decides he’s her next mark, he threatens to sue the factory into bankruptcy.

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