Seth Rogen and James Franco
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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Michael Cera
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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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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Jake Gyllenhaal courtesy Paramount Pictures
"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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Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have set up two new comedy projects at rival networks, says the Hollywood Reporter. For the CW, the marrieds who proffered All of Us are shepherding a look at divorced mothers who reside in a large apartment complex. Over at ABC, the premise revolves around a conservative, upper-class African-American man and his liberal, lower-middle-class Jewish wife.... Arrested Development alum Michael Cera has been tapped to write, produce and star in The Good Life, a scripted short-form series for CBS' Innertube broadband channel.
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A Little Game Without Consequence, a dramedy that would have reunited Jim Carrey with Mask costar Cameron Diaz, has lost its two leads "due to amicable but substantial creative differences," the studio says in a statement. Carrey and Diaz reportedly wanted the film to retain a dark tone, while the studio was dead-set on something more commercial. This marks the third consecutive Carrey film to get sidelined.... Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte and Martin Short are in talks to join The Spiderwick Chronicles, playing the central kids' mother and a pair of otherworldly creatures, respectively.... Hard Candy's Ellen Page has the title role in Juno, a coming-of-age comedy also starring Arrested Development's Michael Cera.... Hustle & Flow helmer Craig Brewer tells the AP that he and Terrence Howard are working on a biopic about country crooner Charley Pride, which Howard will headline.
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Michael Cera, Arrested Development
It's been a bittersweet week for Arrested Development fans. We got to see the cast reunited at the Emmys, though everyone knew a win for Fox's dearly departed comedy was a long shot. Then Season 3 was released on DVD this week, but for many, this, too, is a reminder of the show's premature demise. To ease our pain, TVGuide.com called Michael Cera (aka painfully awkward teen George-Michael Bluth), who was back at home in Toronto and has apparently recovered nicely from AD's cancellation.
TVGuide.com: Um, do you know that Warrant's "Cherry Pie" plays on your phone line before you answer?Michael Cera: Yeah, I get a lot of calls from people who hang up right away after hearing that, thinking they've called some weird wrong number. I
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Question: I'm dying for news on Season 3 of Veronica Mars. Please tell me you have something. There might be some Diet Snapple in it for you if you do.
Answer: I have something — but it's a bit of a downer. It doesn't look like Arrested Development's Michael Cera will be making a return trip to Mars. Per Rob Thomas, Cera booked a movie and is unavailable. "We're very bummed, but surviving," Rob tells me. "We're hoping to get him in the show after his movie wraps, but the boy has many projects, so we're not banking on it." On a brighter note, Rob says Tina Majorino (Mac) is close to inking a deal to become a series regular. "She wants to b
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Question: Is there a possibility that Michael Cera and Alia Shawkat might return to Veronica Mars, since Arrested Development has officially gotten the ax?
Answer: That is Rob's hope, yes.
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