Jason Bateman
Funnyman Jason Bateman says his struggle with drugs and alcohol in the 1990s was "like Risky Business for 10 years."
"I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well," Bateman told Details.
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The 40-year-old former child star (The Hogan Family, Silver Spoons) said his substance abuse nearly destroyed his ...
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Jason Bateman
Jason Bateman isn't hurting for work while the Arrested Development flick is in, uh, development.
The actor has joined Up for Air, an adaptation of the Walter Kern novel that will reunite him with Juno director Jason Reitman, reports Variety. George Clooney stars, as a corporate bigwig who is obsessed with accumulating frequent-flyer miles. Bateman plays ...
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Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman
Jason Bateman is going to father Jennifer Aniston's child — onscreen. The actors have signed on to star in the baby-making romantic comedy The Baster, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
Aniston will star as Kassie, a woman who decides to undergo artificial insemination. When her BFF Wally (Bateman) learns of this, he ...
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Michael Cera
The long-awaited Arrested Development movie is happening — but it's currently arrested in development by one of its own.
Michael Cera, aka George Michael Bluth, is the sole cast member who has yet to sign on to the big-screen feature, E! Online reports.
"I know he's thinking about it," Jason Bateman said while promoting his new animated Fox series, Sit Down, Shut Up (premieres April 19 at 8:30 pm/ET). "And we're all awaiting some finality to all of that so ...
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Jason Bateman by Julien M. Hekimian/Getty Images
Finally, an Arrested Development movie is in the offing."It's in the works," costar Jason Bateman told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann last night. "The grown-ups are trying to work out the numbers."He also told the Times of London the movie version — slated for a 2009 release — will have a different feel than the TV series: "When it was on TV, if you missed one word the whole third act could be blown for you. And TV is a different experience. You come home and you've got to finish a call so you miss the first ten minutes or you get snacky and you go to the fridge and you miss another two minutes, so it's a different experience to film." — J.R. WhalenRelated:• Shut. Up! Arrested Development Alums Get Animated• Arrested Development Movie Is "A Good Possibility"
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Jason Bateman by Steve Granitz/ WireImage.com
Jason Bateman (It's Your Move, Arrested Development) has inked a one-year first-look deal with 20th Century Fox TV, under which he will develop TV series as well as produce and direct projects, says Variety.Bateman recently was tapped to to direct the pilot for Do Not Disturb (Fox's hotel-based comedy starring Jerry O'Connell), and he's also lending his voice to the animated series Sit Down, Shut Up. Bateman says he has several ideas kicking around, and hopes to model his producing career on that of Ron Howard. — Matt Mitovich
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Jason Bateman and Will Arnett by Barry King/WireImage.com
Mitch Hurwitz has enlisted three Arrested Development alums — Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Henry Winkler — to voice roles for his new animated Fox comedy. Based on a live-action Aussie series, Sit Down, Shut Up centers on a staff of high school teachers who place their own needs and agendas ahead of the students'. Also among the voice cast are Cheri Oteri, Will Forte, Regina King and Nick Kroll. — MWM
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Denzel Washington will channel Walter Matthau in an update of the 1974 film The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3, in which four hijackers hold a subway train's passengers for ransom. David Koepp penned the screenplay.... Also per Variety, Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac will dance and sing as soul legends begrudgingly reunited on tour in the comedy Soul Men (C. Thomas Howell not included).... Jason Bateman is joining Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in the feature take on the U.K. miniseries State of Play.... Per the Reporter, Ben Kingsley is William Shakespeare in a movie based on Will, a new novel concerning the Bard's deathbed confab with his lawyer.
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Twentieth Century Fox's Fox Walden banner has set four films' release dates:• The Dark Is Rising (Oct. 5), about a young man who learns he is the last in a line of mythical warriors. Stars Ian McShane, Frances Conroy, Christopher Eccleston and Jonathan Jackson.• Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (Nov. 16), a family fantasy starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman and Jason Bateman.• Nim's Island (April 25, 2008), featuring Jodie Foster and Abigail Breslin.• City of Ember (Columbus Day '08), a sci-fi adventure helmed by Monster House's Gil Kenan.
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Per Variety, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, whose only previous cinematic scene-sharing was in 1995's Heat, are cops tracking a serial slayer in Righteous Kill.... Felicity Huffman and Bill Pullman have come on board Phoebe in Wonderland, in which a drama teacher (Patricia Clarkson) tries to tame a rebellious girl (Elle Fanning).... Jason Bateman will produce and star in The Remarkable Fellows, a buddy comedy based on an outline from the Arrested alum, and concerning two brothers who exact revenge for other people.... Frank E. Flowers (Haven) is writing, with eye to direct, a remake of 1981's Taps.... Michelle Williams, Bryce Dallas Howard and Evan Rachel Wood are set to star in the biopic Bronte.
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