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Jason Bateman Going ‘Insane Laws’ Route With Vince Vaughn

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 9, 2011 @ 3:06pm PDTTags: Jason Bateman, Jeremy Garelick, Neal Moritz, Universal Pictures, Vince Vaughn
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures is in early talks with Jason Bateman to star with Vince Vaughn in The Insane Laws, a comedy that will mark the feature directorial debut of screenwriter Jeremy Garelick. Universal picked up the project in March after Sony Pictures put it into turnaround. Neal Moritz and his Original Film banner is still producing it, and Vaughn has been eyeing it for some time. He and Garelick have been close since Garelick co-write the Vaughn-starrer The Break-Up. Garelick also did uncredited script work on The Hangover. The plan is for Bateman and Vaughn to play longtime best friends, who’ve shared everything, from college to the time both got married and had kids at the same time. Cut to when those kids are away at college, and, unbeknownst to their parents, falling in love. The best friend relationship is sorely tested when the daughter of Vaughn’s character gets pregnant. The actors just did a read-through of the material, and it could be in production by the fall. Studio is high on Bateman after he starred with Ryan Reynolds in the David Bobkin-directed role-changing comedy The Change-Up, which opens Aug. 5. CAA and 3 Arts rep Bateman, while UTAnd Principato-Young rep Garelick.

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Hot Red Band Trailer: ‘The Change-Up’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 20, 2011 @ 4:36pm PDTTags: David Dobkin, Jason Bateman, Jon Lucas, Ryan Reynolds, Scott Moore, The Change Up
Mike Fleming

Universal Pictures has released a Red Band trailer for the raunchy body-switching comedy The Change-Up, where Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman switch identities and have to deal with the ramifications. Scripted by The Hangover scribes Jon Lucas and Scott Moore and directed by Wedding Crashers helmer David Dobkin, the film … Read More »

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Who Are The Most Sought-After Actors This Pilot Season?

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 2, 2011 @ 6:00am PSTTags: Becki Newton, Christina Applegate, Debra Messing, Ethan Hawke Exit Strategy, James Spader, Jason Bateman, Jason Isaacs, Kyle Chandler, Lizzy Caplan, TV, TV Pilot Casting, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

It is the end of January, and pilot offers to actors are going out fast and furious. Like every year, there are several actors that attract the lion’s share of … Read More »

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Another Casting For Uni’s ‘The Change-Up’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday September 21, 2010 @ 12:32pm PDTTags: Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Movies, Ryan Reynolds, The Change Up, The Change Up Casting

Leslie Mann has signed on to play the lead female role in Universal’s The Change-Up opposite Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman.

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A ‘Change Up’ For TV Doctor Olivia Wilde

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 15, 2010 @ 11:30am PDTTags: Jason Bateman, Jon Lucas, Movies, Olivia Wilde, Ryan Reynolds, Scott Moore, The Change Up, The Change Up Casting, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

In between rounds as House doctor, Olivia Wilde is spending more and more time on the big screen. She has signed to join Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman in The Change Up, the David Dobkin-directed Universal Pictures comedy. Bateman plays a married man who switches bodies with slacker best friend (Reynolds). Wilde will play the married guy’s law firm co-worker, who’s an impetus for the body switch. The comedy, written by The Hangover scribes Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, films this fall. Neal Moritz is producer. Wilde will next be seen in the Paul Haggis-directed The Next Three Days opposite Russell Crowe, Read More »

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Comic-Con #14: The ‘Paul’ Panel

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday July 25, 2010 @ 9:52pm PDTTags: Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Greg Mottola, Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Joe Lo Truglio, Kristen Wiig, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Shaun of the Dead, Sigourney Weaver, Simon Pegg

Luke Y Thompson is covering the Con for Deadline:

PAUL is a road-trip comedy written by (and starring) Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, who are treated like absolute royalty by fans here. (Proof that what plays well at Comic-Con doesn’t always make it huge elsewhere; see also: “Filion, Nathan”). But PAUL is a perfect Comic-Con movie, because it actually begins at Comic-Con, as our lead duo take a road trip from San Diego to Area 51, where they pick up an escaping alien called Paul. Read More »

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Kevin Spacey: Another Horrible Boss Turn

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday June 27, 2010 @ 5:20pm PDTTags: Casting, Colin Farrell, Horrible Bosses, Jamie Foxx, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey
Mike Fleming

spacey-headshot2Now here is perfect casting. Kevin Spacey has joined the roster of Horrible Bosses, the Seth Gordon-directed New Line comedy that stars Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis. Donald Sutherland has also joined the cast–playing a nice … Read More »

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