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Script in the Works for Arrested Development Movie

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Since the show's nigh-criminal cancellation in 2006 (unfortunately, the Supreme Court refused to even hear our case), speculation on a possible film version of Arrested Development has been running for nearly as long as the series was on television. There's been some reassuring words from series creator Mitch Hurwitz and various cast members, but with each bit of good news came word of an actor holdout or production snafu....  read more

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Extract

The new film from Mike Judge is a welcome addition to...  read more

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Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader Join Greg Mottola's Paul

Talk about dream casts. Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader have joined Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Paul, the road-trip comedy about a pair of sci-fi geeks who discover an alien in Area 51....  read more

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Update: Ron Howard confirms Arrested Development movie

During a press junket for Universal's upcoming Frost/Nixon, Ron Howard told Maxim that the much-ballyhooed Arrested Development movie was, in fact, on its way to the silver screen....  read more

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Fox's Do Not Disturb becomes first TV casualty of Fall

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Memo to actors: if you find yourself starring in a show alongside Jerry O'Connell, don't expect to be employed for long. Mr. Rebecca Romijn (O'Connell de-Stamos'ed her) will find himself on the short-end of the sitcom stick for the second straight time, with Entertainment Weekly reporting Fox has decided to cancel his Do Not Disturb vehicle after just three episodes....  read more

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Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman to star in Extract

Maybe it's due to his practiced penchant for oration (sometimes successful, sometimes not), but Ben Affleck has been tapped to play an ambulance-chasing lawyer in Mike Judge's upcoming live-action flick, Extract....  read more

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Hancock

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Perhaps the oddest take on superheroes that film has offered yet, Hancock...  read more

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Update: Arrested Development movie plans progressing

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Now the story of an amazing television show that got canceled, and the rabid fans who had no choice but to keep it all together. It's Arrested Development...  read more

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Mike Judge talks live-action Beavis and Butthead, more

While King of the Hill  has been renewed once again, it seems that Mike Judge's mind is elsewhere these days. For once he's looking back, though, at his older creation, Beavis and Butthead, for inspiration....  read more

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Mike Judge, Jason Bateman team up for new office comedy

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Right now, if you search IMDb for Extract (Mike Judge’s newly-announced workplace-comedy starring Jason Bateman), the occasionally dubious website directs you to Beef Extract Room, supposedly a silent documentary short released in 1901. (“AKA Beef Extract Department. No. 1: Filling Jar,” it says, “One of approximately 60 short films produced by Selig for meat-packers Armour & Co.”) There are no memorable quotes. So, until that gets fleshed out a bit more, here’s the basic information. Judge has written, and will direct the film, set to be the first project under the Beavis and Butthead/King of the Hill/Office Space creator’s production...  read more

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