You can't make a movie called Horrible Bosses 2 without a few horrible bosses, so director Sean Anders and studio New Line are looking at a couple of notable names to play the villains. Christoph Waltz and Chris Pine are reportedly being courted to play a nasty father-son boss pair who'll presumably make life hell…
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The best-laid plans of Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis went horribly awry the last time they tried to get revenge on their superiors, but the trio could be gearing up to try again. Horrible Bosses 2 is now officially in the works as screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein sign on to pen…
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The array of home video options generally strikes me as a good thing, but one annoying downside is the effort of sorting through all my movie collections in various formats. I can't watch my DVDs when I travel unless I bring them with me; I can't access my downloaded movies unless I'm at my computer;…
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With Labor Day behind us and school back in session, summer in the US is officially over, at least from a cultural perspective. So it's time to tally the box-office receipts from what has been the biggest movie season over the past thirty years. The good news? Revenue is up from last year. The bad…
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This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam continue the discussion over Terence Malick's Tree of Life, praise indie films like Another Earth, Insidious, and Rubber, and ponder the state of television as art. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. We'll be back on Sunday at 10 PM EST…
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For a movie that hinges on a murder plot, Horrible Bosses feels surprisingly lighthearted. That's because despite the title and the marketing, the film's draw isn't the f***ed-up wish fulfillment of giving your dirtbag superior what he deserves. Instead, its appeal lies in the easy, enjoyable chemistry of its leads -- Jason Bateman, Charlie Day,…
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Because the new standard for raunchy comedy advertising is based on tried and true red light district methods -- show off the goods, in other words -- here's a new red-band trailer for the Jason Bateman / Charlie Day / Jason Sudeikis comedy Horrible Bosses. If you've missed the two previous trailers, the film features…
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This is really more like Horrible Bosses Trailer #1.5, because it is basically the first trailer slightly rearranged, with a few more jokes added to each of the 'boss introduction' segments. So it shows the same setup where three guys (Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day) scheme, in seemingly moronic ways, to knock off…
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The summer of 2011 is looking pretty solid when it comes to comedies. Bridesmaids is already something of a hit, we know The Hangover Part II is going to be a monster and with the recent releases of trailers for films like 30 Minutes Or Less, Friends With Benefits, Crazy Stupid Love, Bad Teacher, The…
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Jason Bateman fans: today is all yours. We just saw a new theatrical trailer for The Change-Up, his body-switching comedy with Ryan Reynolds, and now here's the first trailer for Horrible Bosses. This is a comedy where three friends (Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day) scheme, in seemingly moronic ways, to knock off their…
Read More[No photo] Just a couple years ago Chloe Moretz looked like a munchkin in (500) Days of Summer, and now in this off-set still from Hick, she's looking a bit older than fourteen as she's tarted up for her role as “a 13-year-old Nebraska girl who gets more than she bargained for when she runs…
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Hey, discarding handsome aesthetics in favor of comedy worked for Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder, right? So here's Colin Farrell sporting a Kingpin-style combover, either to star in a secret film where he and Peter Dinklage play twin brothers, or for his role as one of the title characters in the comedy Horrible Bosses, which…
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We've been following the developing cast of Horrible Bosses fairly closely. The film, in which three friends make plans to bump off each others' three awful bosses, could be a great little comedy if things work well. The last big role to cast has been the third of the title's horrible bosses, and now an…
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Based on the cast alone, Horrible Bosses is starting to look like one of the more promising studio comedies on the horizon. The film about three friends who conspire to kill each others' bosses already has Charlie Day and Jason Bateman as two of the three friends, and Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell as two…
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Warner Bros, Walt Disney Pictures and 20th Century Fox have announced new release dates for a sixteen films to be released over the next three years. We have information and dates for all of the films, after the jump. New Line's follow-up to Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve will be released on December 9th 2011.…
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What is it with HBO and dramatic recreations of classic documentaries? Last year there was Grey Gardens, and now the network is lining up Cinema Verite, which will be a dramatized behind the scenes take on the 1973 PBS doc An American Family. The original series was a big deal; it frankly portrayed family troubles…
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The remake of Fright Night started off with a great piece of casting, as Anton Yelchin will play Charley Brewster, the young guy who fears for his life when he discovers that a vampire has moved in next door. Now we've got a name for the vampire -- Colin Farrell will play the role originated…
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