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Apr 11 2013 08:30 AM ET

Connie Britton to romance Adam Driver in all-star 'This Is Where I Leave You' -- EXCLUSIVE

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Connie Britton will be the latest addition to the super-cast being assembled for director Shawn Levy’s This Is Where I Leave You, a dark family comedy that also features Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, and Jason Bateman.

The film, based on the 2009 novel by Jonathan Tropper, is about four combative siblings from the Foxman family who reunite at their childhood home for a week after their father dies, dredging up long-buried hostilities and problems.

Fey, Bateman, Corey Stoll (Midnight in Paris, House of Cards) and Adam Driver (Girls, pictured above) play the siblings, while Fonda is their newly widowed mother.

The Friday Night Lights, American Horror Story, and Nashville star Britton will appear as the age-inappropriate girlfriend of Driver’s character — the baby of the family who has grown into perhaps the most troubled of the lot.

Though her character’s presence is part of what antagonizes the family, she is also well-suited for analyzing their various neuroses: She’s a therapist.

Of course, that only makes the situation worse.

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Mar 11 2013 07:43 PM ET

Casting Net: Sudekis, Bateman, and Day reunite for 'Horrible Bosses 2'; Plus Adam Driver, James Gandolfini, more

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• After a reported six months of negotiations, Jason Sudekis, Jason Bateman, and Charlie Day are set to reprise their roles as Kurt, Nick, and Dale for Horrible Bosses 2. The first film grossed over $200 million worldwide on a $35 million budget, so it’s no surprise that New Line was eager to try out a sequel. Business aside, this seems like great news. Not only is the cast remaining intact, we’re getting the same writing (John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein) and directing (Seth Gordon) team, and Jamie Foxx is still in talks to reprise his role as  Motherf—– Jones too. Filming is scheduled to begin this summer. [THR]

• Adam Driver (Girls) is in talks to join the ensemble cast of Shawn Levy’s film adaptation of This Is Where I Leave You, about a group of siblings in the wake of their father’s death. If his Girls schedule allows, Driver would play Bateman’s character’s rebellious brother. Jonathan Tropper wrote the book and the screenplay. [THR]

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Mar 1 2013 03:30 PM ET

'Disconnect' trailer: Jason Bateman stars in the movie that will delay every teen's first cell phone by 3 years -- VIDEO

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Tomorrow is the National Day of Unplugging, but after you watch the new trailer for Disconnect, you might yank the cord before midnight. The feature debut from documentary director Henry Alex Rubin (Murderball), Disconnect feels like a cyber version of Crash, in which Jason Bateman, Alexander Skarsgard, Paula Patton, and several others are predator and prey in various internet scams that lead to real-world disaster. A high-school kid gets catfished Manti Te’o'd on Facebook, a reporter gets too close to her online-sex-selling subject, and a couple loses all their savings when their online identity is stolen.

Watch the new trailer below (and then change all your online passwords immediately!) READ FULL STORY »

Mar 1 2013 10:32 AM ET

Tina Fey in talks to join Jason Bateman in 'This Is Where I Leave You'

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Steel yourselves, comedy nerds: Liz Lemon might be playing Michael Bluth’s sister.

EW has confirmed that 30 Rock star Tina Fey is in early talks to star in This Is Where I Leave You opposite Jason Bateman. The film, based on Jonathan Tropper’s 2009 novel, follows a dysfunctional family that comes together to mourn the death of its gruff, withholding patriarch.

Bateman will play Judd, a middle child reeling over the recent implosion of his marriage; Fey would play his older sister Wendy, who is caught in an unhappy marriage of her own. Kathryn Hahn and Ari Graynor are rumored to be up for roles as well, though their involvement has not yet been confirmed. Shawn Levy, who previously directed Fey in Date Night, is attached to helm the film, which also features a script written by Tropper himself.

Fey’s next movie, Admission, hits theaters March 22. She will also appear in the Muppets sequel The Muppets… Again! that is currently filming in Europe.

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Feb 9 2013 02:05 PM ET

Box office update: Soderbergh's 'Side Effects' is no match for 'Identity Thief'

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Identity Thief persevered in spite of winter storm Nemo, with an $11.2 million Friday opening. The R-rated Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy vehicle from director Seth Gordon opened wide in 3,141 theaters, and may be on track for a $35 million weekend. Bateman and Gordon scored big with Horrible Bosses, which had a $9.9 million Friday opening in July and went on to gross $117.5 million domestically. This is McCarthy’s first starring role, and could bode well for The Heat, which was pushed back to a June release. McCarthy also recently started a production company with her husband Ben Falcone and already has three projects in the works.

Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects fared less well, opening Friday in 2,605 theaters at $2.8 million–almost exactly on track with Soderbergh’s Haywire, which opened in late January 2012 with a $2.9 million Friday and a $8.4 million weekend. Channing Tatum’s last three movies, 21 Jump Street (March), The Vow (February), and Magic Mike (June), all had Friday grosses exceeding $10 million. Rooney Mara’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opened decently the weekend before Christmas in 2011, but fizzled after that.

The area affected by Nemo represents about 12% of the country’s box office. AMC alone closed 43 theaters in the northeast corridor including in Boston, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. New York theaters will attempt to open Saturday night, but Boston theaters are planning to remain closed through Sunday.

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Feb 7 2013 07:44 PM ET

Box office preview: 'Identity Thief' will steal No. 1 spot from 'Side Effects'

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It’s no surprise that the 2013 box office has been cold in the first few weeks of the new year. That tends to be the case in January, when R-rated horror flicks and long-on-the-shelf action stinkers take up multiplex screens. But this weekend, the film industry is set to get even chillier due to a massive snowstorm that’s expected to bring much of the Northeast to a standstill.

Thus, this weekend’s two new releases, Identity Thief and Side Effects (which, almost unbelievably, are already the 10th and 11th R-rated wide releases of the year), are expected to perform moderately over their first three days in theaters. Here’s how the box office might shake out:

1. Identity Thief – $21 million

Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy teamed up for Universal’s $35 million comedy, which will easily top the chart over the Friday-to-Sunday period. Bateman has scored comedic hits with ensemble films like Horrible Bosses ($117.5 million) and Couples Retreat ($109.2 million), but he’s proven unreliable as a main selling point in films like 2011′s The Change Up, which opened with $13.5 million on the way to a $37.5 million total. McCarthy isn’t a tested box office lead, but she became the breakout star of Bridesmaids, and audiences may be curious to see her first leading role on the silver screen. READ FULL STORY »

Feb 5 2013 03:35 PM ET

Jason Bateman, Salma Hayek, Rashida Jones among presenters at Indie Spirit Awards -- EXCLUSIVE

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Wondering who will wind up on stage at the Indie Oscars? This much we know: Jason Bateman, Salma Hayek, Common (LUV), and New Girl star Jake Johnson (Safety Not Guaranteed) will be among the presenters at the 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards, EW has learned. Two cast members from Parks and Recreation, Rashida Jones (Celeste and Jesse Forever) and Aubrey Plaza (Safety Not Guaranteed), also will log some podium time at the Santa Monica-based ceremony.

The awards show, which airs Feb. 23 (IFC, 10 p.m.), will be hosted by SNL alum Andy Samberg, who stars with Jones in Celeste and Jesse Forever. Silver Linings Playbook and Moonrise Kingdom lead all films with five nominations each.

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Jan 30 2013 12:43 PM ET

Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy's comedy 'The Heat' pushed back to June

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You’re going to have to wait a little longer for the Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy buddy comedy The Heat. The movie’s release date has been changed from April 5 to June 28, EW has confirmed.

In the movie, McCarthy stars as a freewheeling FBI agent and Bullock plays her more serious co-worker. The film is directed by Bridesmaids‘ Paul Feig and written by  Parks and Recreation scribe Katie Dippold.

If you can’t wait to get your McCarthy fix, she also stars in Identity Thief with Jason Bateman, which opens Feb. 8.

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Dec 18 2012 01:56 PM ET

'Identity Thief' trailer: Melissa McCarthy cowboys up with Eric Stonestreet

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Next year is shaping up to be the Year of Melissa McCarthy. Two years after her scene-stealing role in Bridesmaids, the Mike & Molly star is lined up for two buddy comedies: The Heat with Sandra Bullock and Identity Thief with Jason Bateman. In the newest trailer for the latter, we get to see much more of the duo in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles mode, as Bateman’s mild-mannered Colorado dad drags the outrageous woman who’s stolen his identity and maxed out his credit cards across the country in order to clear his sullied name.

There’s lots of footage overlap from the first trailer, but Eric Stonestreet makes his first appearance as an amorous cowboy interested in McCarthy’s “Sandy” — not Bateman’s “Sandy.” Bet now: Does Stonestreet’s good ol’ boy wear boxers or briefs? READ FULL STORY »

Nov 2 2012 10:28 PM ET

Casting Net: Jude Law joins Werner Herzog's 'Queen of the Desert.' Plus: Kim Basinger, Nick Nolte, Soairse Ronan, Jason Bateman

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• Jude Law (Anna Karenina) has joined the cast of Werner Herzog‘s Queen of the Desert, co-starring Naomi Watts and Rob Pattinson, announced Sierra/Affinity, which will handle international sales of the film, on Friday. The period biopic written and directed by Herzog revolves around writer, archaeologist and British Empire attaché Gertrude Bell (Watts), and T.E. Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia (Pattinson). Principal photography is set to start in Morocco in March 2013.

• Jason Bateman (Horrible Bosses, Arrested Development) will star in his own directorial debut Bad Words alongside Allison Janney, Kathryn Hahn (Our Idiot Brother), Rohan Chandz (Jack and Jill), and Melissa McCarthy’s hubby and Bridesmaids lust object Ben Falcone, about 41-year-old high school dropout Guy Trilby (Bateman) who, through a loophole, is able to enter the National Quill Spelling Bee and is hit with the outrage of the spelling contest’s director (Janney), according to a press release Friday. Guy advances to the nationals, where he meets a contestant hopeful (Chandz). Andrew Dodge penned the original script.

• Kim Basinger has joined the aging fight comedy Grudge Match, about two boxers (Sylvester Stallone and Robert DeNiro) who come out of retirement to go head-to-head for one last match. Pete Segel will direct from a script by Tim Kelleher that was spruced up by Entourage creator Doug Ellin. Let the bloody brawl begin! [Variety]

• Nick Nolte, Jeremy Irons and Thomas Jane (Hung) will headline thriller Western indie Magnificent Death From a Shattered Hand, with Jane directing from his own script co-written by Jose Prendes. The movie is about a man’s journey through the violent West, which includes an ex-soldier being sought for the rape-murder of an upper class woman. [Variety]

• Saoirse Ronan (The Host, Hanna), always adding a dash of sharpness to any project, has signed on to star in Wes Anderson‘s highly anticipated The Grand Budapest Hotel, with longtime Anderson muses Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray, plus Ralph Fiennes and Owen Wilson, also attached. Details are still cloudy, but the movie is reportedly set in a Hungarian hotel. Anderson, who snagged accolades for this year’s sweet, funny coming-of-age Moonrise Kingdom, is directing from his own script. [Variety]

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