What would appear to be one prerequisite for scoring a membership in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences? Working with Judd Apatow.
Frequent Apatow collaborators Seth Rogen, James Franco, Michael Cera, Paul Rudd and Jane Lynch are among the 134 industry names invited to join the elite Hollywood club this year. As members, they would enjoy voting privileges for all future Oscar ceremonies. (Apatow himself was invited to join AMPAS last year.)
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Break out the frozen bananas! The final piece to the Arrested Development puzzle has been put into place.
Michael Cera has reportedly agreed to sign on to the film project after being the only cast holdout for several weeks, according to attorney Bob Loblaw (just kidding! E! Online told us). The rest of the cast ...
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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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"I wish I could quit gravity!" Jake Gyllenhaal is set to star in Doug Liman's untitled project about a private expedition to the moon and the race for lunar colonization.... Also per Variety, Michael Cera (Superbad) and Kat Dennings (40-Year-Old Virgin) are two bridge-and-tunnel teens who fall in love over the course of a sleepless night in Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist.... Eric Oliver Stone will produce and Billy Walsh Antoine Fuqua will direct Escobar, a biopic about the infamous Colombian drug lord (this one not starring Vincent Chase, hopefully). Meanwhile, Javier Bardem is fronting a rival Escobar pic, Killing Pablo, for director Joe Callahan.
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Arrested Development's Michael Cera, who stars in this Friday's Superbad, has joined the cast of Youth in Revolt, a big-screen take on C.D. Payne's novel series.... JAG alum David James Elliott is in production on the indie The Rainbow Tribe, playing a cancer victim who helps out at a camp for troubled youths.... Live Free or Die Hard director Len Wiseman is in talks to helm the Gerard Butler-fronted Escape from New York remake.Related: Gerard Butler Ponders Great Escape
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