Hancock

By Sean Gandert at 10:20 AM on August 7, 2008

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

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Update: Arrested Development movie plans progressing

By Michael Saba at 11:06 AM on June 27, 2008

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

By Sean Gandert at 1:56 PM on May 19, 2008

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

By Rebecca Bowen at 12:00 AM on April 29, 2008

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...  read more

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Mitch Hurwitz reunites Arrested stars for series

By Nikki King at 5:11 PM on April 15, 2008

[Above: Jason Bateman's guest spot on King of the Hill] When Arrested Development went off the air, for those who loved the show, it was kind of like being dumped. If nothing else, no amount of cash is too great to hear Will Arnett’s sweet voice again. That said, prepare to do little mental cartwheels, as Mitchell Hurwitz has pitched a new Fox series called Sit Down, Shut Up that features three former cast members: namely, Arnett, Jason Bateman and Henry Winkler. The series is an animated concept based on a live-action sitcom from Australia that followed a dysfunctional high...  read more

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Jason Bateman to direct The Inn pilot for Fox

By Julia Reidy at 3:07 PM on April 2, 2008

The comedy just doesn't quit with this guy. Jason Bateman, star of the most arresting Arrested Development, will soon direct a comedy pilot for the Fox network called The Inn. News of the upcoming pilot comes after Bateman confirmed the existence of a potential Arrested Development movie. The Inn is aptly set at a hotel in New York and will film for 20th Century Fox TV, Reveille and Principato-Young. It's set to star Niecy Nash of Reno 911! fame. Bateman was most recently seen in Paste's favorite film of 2007 and in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. He will soon appear...  read more

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