He left two-thirds of his Horrible Bosses cast out of Identity Theft, but now director Seth Gordon is preparing to make things right with them and, indeed, the world, with One Night on the Hudson. THR reports Gordon will direct his former stars Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day in the film, which is being described as a thriller despite expectations for hijinks. The two would play cops--by-the-books rookie and jaded veteran, naturally, near-identical ages be damned--attempting to protect a federal witness in transport from Jersey to Manhattan. Hey, that's where the Hudson River part comes in! On the way, crooked cops and criminals get in their way and allow for maybe a Jason Bateman cameo.
As a reminder, Gordon also once directed King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, back before he got exclusively into the genre of comedic television actors driving and screaming.
As The Hangover, Part II has shown us all, it's completely reasonable for a trio of friends to commit the same rote, drunken buffoonery over and over again for as long as sequels remain profitable. So it only makes sense that, with Horrible Bosses pulling in over $200 million worldwide, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, and Charlie Day will apparently once again have a few drinks and somehow come up with another ill-advised plan involving terrible superiors. New Line is reportedly in talks with Seth Gordon to return to direct Horrible Bosses 2, and it's expected that all three stars will be coming back to... kill another set of bosses, or something? That much isn't really worked out yet, but the original film's writers, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, have already signed a deal to to put something or other on paper that will match up with a recognizable title involving the words "horrible" and "bosses." Maybe with an added group of female characters with identical personalities to the men? It worked for Alvin and the Chipmunks.
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy's title may be a bit misleading. Yes, it's about a group of people fucking, but this isn't your usual fast-forward-past-all-the-talking-then-clean-yourself-up orgy film we're most accustomed to. In fact, this is basically the antithesis of that: an orgy film that seemingly focuses entirely on the preparations one takes as they and their friends prepare to make it forever awkward to hang out as a group ever again.
Written and directed by Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck--former writers for Letterman's talk show, Garry Shandling's fake talk show, and more--the film focuses on a group of longtime friends that appear to frequently hold "dress up like a hick" parties at Jason Sudeikis's family vacation home in the Hamptons. When Sudeikis's dad, Don Johnson, decides to sell the place, the friends eventually come to agree that the best way to say goodbye to their summer retreat is to ruin it like so many sweatsocks: with sweat, friction, and jism. That's about all you get from this trailer, but given the writers' joint résumé and the cast--which includes Will Forte, Lake Bell, Martin Starr, and others--it might be worth giving it a try.
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If, for your tastes, the previous trailer for Horrible Bosses did not have enough vulgarity, slapping, references to dongs, references to coconut-dipped testicles, loud rape accusations, iPad product shots, or instances of Fantastic Four star Ioan Gruffudd urinating, this R-rated trailer would like to take the make-up test.
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From Empire, here is a new set of Horrible Bosses posters, each proclaiming their pictured supervisor's appropriate derogatory labels. Sure makes me glad Jesus is my boss!
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9 to 5's trio-committing-a-boss-kidnapping premise is taken to its natural next level when comedy everymen Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, and Charlie Day all decide, simultaneously, they should team up and murder each of their title bosses and just hope the cops never put together that three best friends all had their superiors die within the same few days. The reason these bosses are so horrible? Greasy dirtbag Colin Farrell keeps insisting Sudeikis create a workplace of only the most able-bodied, forcing him to fire the overweight and disabled; Kevin Spacey won't stop reprising his character from Swimming with Sharks for some reason; and Jennifer Aniston eyeballs Charlie Day's junk and photographs simulated sex with him when he's knocked out on anesthesia, which doesn't really seem all that bad except that I guess the guy's engaged or something, so whatever, might as well off her too.
Well, as is typical when your murderous intent is worked out at a bar, with only the aid of a scalp-tattooed Jamie Foxx and alcohol, things don't go exactly according to plan for these guys, and therein we find all the laughs that make team serial killing seem like sort of a fun way to bond with friends and get ahead at work.
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Answer: because that's how we're advertising Hall Pass, okay?
Under the cut: Jason Sudeikis, his head not on an Arrested Development character's body, but still on a 40-Year-Old Virgin background, which is the background that most informs me something will make me laugh out loud.
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Yikes, marriage! You know? Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis sure know. They're married to Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate, respectively, and while those two may seem like perfectly decent partners to you and me, these guys can't help but constantly think about effing every passing generic sorority girl. Thankfully, they're given just such a chance when one of the The View's viewpoints tells the wife characters to go ahead and give their men a week off to do all the effing they want--thereby curing them of their dog-like ways when they realize generic sorority girls don't want them, and that they love their wives, and other morals--which she and trailer the repeatedly insist is called a "hall pass," because they would love for that to enter bro parlance prior to the film's release.
Joining Wilson and Sudeikis: Curb Your Enthusiasm's J.B. Smoove, Extras's Stephen Merchant, and According to Jim's "Jim Belushi's Friend," providing the variety of a black guy, a lanky British guy, and a fat guy. No Ken Jeong?
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They fall in love, then she moves away and call each other and talk because they're still in love but it's hard because long-distance relationships are hard, then they get to see each other again and they're still in love, and it's especially darling because Drew Barrymore and Mac are (were?) a real-life couple, and isn't that the most truly unbearable thing you could imagine? Here it is manifested as a trailer:
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Being a blogger allows one a lot of luxuries you don't get when you have to go into an office. You can stay in your pajamas as long as you want; play loud and/or obnoxious music; work anywhere with an internet connection; and, when the occasion calls for it, you can watch half an episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood while you eat a bowl of Kashi, like I did yesterday. Since most of you probably weren't afforded this extravagance, let me give you a brief synopsis: Mr. Rogers visited a couple of EMTs. A firm believer in "show, don't tell," Rogers was placed in a neck brace, strapped to a gurney (he was first instructed to "hug himself," to give more of the illusion of a corpse), and thrown in the back of an ambulance--just like he really broke his neck! The entire time, a huge grin was spread across his face, as he asked questions like, "Do you have something smaller to strap a kid into?" (They did.)
As is probably apparent, it was utterly terrifying--particularly when they actually brought out the child-size straps and showed how they'd velcro in a kid's limp head. But, as Fred would later explain, the point was never to give children (or me) nightmares of a dead Mr. Rogers, the sheet slowly being drawn over his permanent grin; he just wanted to prepare us in case we break our neck.
Similarly, I now present you with the trailer to The Rocker, starring The Office's Rainn Wilson, Jeff Garlin, Will Arnett and some other funny, talented people. I show you this not because it's so worth watching, but because it looks very mediocre-at-best, and it's better you know that now than to feel the shocking disappointment in theaters. I assure you, it's much less scarring than the Fred Rogers death simulation I watched yesterday.
'The Rocker' Trailer [Yahoo!]
Imagine if American Beauty had been written and directed with the sensibilities of a romantic comedy. It probably would have turned out something like Meet Bill, a film that strips the darkly comic elements from the loser-doormat-of-a-husband redemption story and replaces them with slapstick and poignant feel-good moments (the precocious protégé adjusts a banner of Bill's head, proclaiming, "I'm fixing your head. Get it?). But despite its saccharine flavor, Bill actually looks pretty enjoyable, helped by its charming lead (Aaron Eckhart) and a supporting cast that includes Jason Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig, Elizabeth Banks, and, unfortunately, Jessica Alba, who continues to convince me she's just a sexy mannequin. Next time the script calls for "hot girl", could they try to find someone whose face isn't a permanent plastic grin?
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