Maybe Paul Feig hasn't cornered the market on R-rated female-led comedies after all. Sony is moving forward with a sequel to 2011's Bad Teacher, with Jake Kasdan returning to direct. Star Cameron Diaz is still working out her deal, but it's expected that she'll come back as well. While the first Bad Teacher failed to…
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Get ready for Arrested Development's triumphant return this weekend with these four more clips from the new season. Also after the jump: David Fury will return for 24: Live Another Day David Slade will direct Ronald Moore's Helix DirecTV's Full Circle adds Buffy and FNL alums CCH Pounder joins Sons of Anarchy FX's The Bridge…
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It's been a few days since our last TV Bits (sorry!), so we have a ton of stuff to catch up on. After the jump: Alexis Bledel, Kyle McLachlan, Hope Davis, and more get pilots Downton Abbey loses one character but gains six more Jeffrey Wright will be a series regular on Boardwalk Empire A bunch…
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Like the last couple of TV Bits, this one is also chock full of casting news. Also after the jump: Downton Abbey adds a new series regular Patton Oswalt will stop by Parks & Recreation The Newsroom's version of Team Romney expands Michael C. Hall might be done with TV after Dexter Chris Lilley's new show…
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The pilot casting blitz isn't over yet. Also after the jump: Kristen Wiig's Arrested Development role revealed Yeah, NBC is probably going to cancel Up All Night HBO decides not to go with James Gandolfini's pilot HBO's cancelled drama Luck finds new life as a blog Survey says House of Cards is a success for Netflix…
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Sure, moviegoers may love standing in the midnight showing line for The Avengers or arguing over The Dark Knight Rises plot holes at the bar, but what do they turn on when they finally go back to the privacy of their own homes? Rental retailer Redbox knows, and in honor of their ten-year anniversary, they're sharing…
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There's probably a good movie to be made from what Bad Teacher's working with, but sadly, this is not that movie. On paper, I love the idea of Cameron Diaz playing a hilariously, irredeemably selfish teacher who's mean to her students, with a supporting cast of seasoned comedians to back her up. In practice, despite…
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Columbia Pictures have released a green band movie trailer for Bad Teacher. You might recall that a red band trailer was released a couple weeks back. Jake Kasdan's sex comedy Bad Teacher, is about the competition between a teacher 'who just doesn't give an F' (played by Cameron Diaz) and her "overly energetic colleague" played…
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Ah, spring. The time when young peoples' fancy turns to what they've been thinking about all winter. It's a time for red-band trailers promoting sex-themed comedies, and for those trailers to feature snippets of music by those sexy scalliwags, the Eagles of Death Metal. In this case, the movie is Jake Kasdan's Bad Teacher, the…
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Justin Timberlake is really making a play at a dedicated acting career, lack of award recognition for his work in The Social Network be damned. He was great in that film, carrying forward the good work he'd done in Alpha Dog, Black Snake Moan, and, yeah, Southland Tales. He's currently shooting Now for director Andrew…
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Here's news on the release dates for three films that couldn't be more different. Well, we haven't seen any of the three yet, or even trailers for any of them, but do you really expect there will be much common ground between the remake of Footloose, the comedy Bad Teacher and the Steven Soderbergh action/espionage…
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Justin Timberlake, Molly Shannon and Eric Stonestreet have joined the cast of Jake Kasdan's Bad Teacher. The comedy stars Cameron Diaz as Elizabeth Halsey, a foul-mouthed, conniving seventh-grade teacher who is dumped by her sugar daddy, and begins to woo the school's substitute teacher, and starts a bitter rivalry with his girlfriend, her squeaky-clean colleague…
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Jason Segel and John Michael Higgins are in talks to co-star in Jake Kasdan's Bad Teacher. The comedy stars Cameron Diaz as Elizabeth Halsey, a foul-mouthed, conniving seventh-grade teacher who is dumped by her sugar daddy, and begins to woo the school's model teacher, and starts a bitter rivalry with his girlfriend, her squeaky-clean colleague…
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Good news for Drive Angry 3D, the new film from Patrick Lussier that already starred Nicolas Cage and, one would presume, a lot of cars: William Fichtner and Amber Heard are both joining the cast. The appeal of both should go without saying; too bad All the Boys Love Mandy Lane hasn't had a proper…
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When I think "from the director of Remember the Titans" I don't think "supernatural action." But Boaz Yakin is developing Sympathy for the Devil, which just attached Josh Duhamel and Samuel L. Jackson to play partnered cops in Louisiana who are entangled in "a cosmic confrontation between Heaven and Hell." The synopsis, and news on…
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The Hollywood Reporter are reporting (from Hollywood, no less) that Jake Kasdan has signed on to direct Bad Teacher. The screenplay charted on the 2008 Blacklist and was penned by Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, who also wrote the imminent Year One and are at work on the pending draft of Ghostbusters 3. The Bad…
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