Jason Bateman Gossip

Straight off his surprise win for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series at the Emmys, Jason Bateman is in talks to direct his first feature film, a remake of the board game movie Clue. Bateman is also up for a role in the film, which would put him up against Ryan Reynolds, who is also producing. Reynolds’ regular collaborators, Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese—the Deadpool writers—are writing the script. Full Story

Pusha T released his new album, Daytona, produced by Kanye West, on Thursday night and he calls out Drake for the ghostwriting thing on a track called "Infrared". Drake would not allow Pusha one full to enjoy positive feedback. Less than 24 hours later, on Friday afternoon, just before Duana and I started podcasting this week’s episode, he released "Duppy Freestyle" – which is EXACLTLY what you do when someone f-cks with you. Full Story

My biggest issue with the Scarlett Johansson’s dead body comedy, Rough Night, is that it doesn’t commit to its premise and go as far as it needs to in order to actually work. Full Story

Game Night opens this weekend, a comedy for those who might not want to see Black Panther (for the third or fourth time). I posted about Game Night Full Story

The first trailer for the upcoming comedy, Game Night, has just been released. Maybe it’s because all we’ve gotten over the last 5 weeks out of Hollywood has been an onslaught of grossness but… I like it. I think I like it a LOT.  But then again, I was predisposed to liking it. Full Story

(With light spoilers) Lainey last wrote about Jason Bateman when he received his Walk of Fame, and made note of his hair. Specifically, how full it is. Jason’s career renaissance is often attributed to his youthfulness and his comedic timing – Arrested Development and quirky indies, mixed in with the occasional studio film. Full Story

After Brange became Brange and Jennifer Aniston rounded out one of the most infamous love triangles in Hollywood history, it used to be that when one showed up somewhere or did something, the other would inevitably counter back with an appearance or a quote or a moment. Full Story

I know you people enjoy it when I have to sit through bad movies, so here is the first trailer for Office Christmas Party, a future probably-bad movie I’ll have to sit through. It stars Jason Bateman Full Story

I know I’ll catch hell from the Frozen fans for this, but Zootopia is the best move from Disney Animation since The Lion King (it also just set a box office record).  First of all, animals wearing people clothes is always the best, and every movie could be improved by the presence of an animal who thinks it’s people. Full Story

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been hit in the face with a backpack on the train.   This woman hit me with this balloon 18 times on the subway. Full Story