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8 Milestones in the Evolution of Jason Bateman

In Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s new alien romp Paul , Jason Bateman co-stars as Agent Zoil, a government official with an unknown agenda who is on the hunt for the escaped alien of the title. How did Bateman go from child star to one of the go-to supporting (and sometimes lead) actors in Hollywood?

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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day With 9 of the Most Fun Movie Drunks

For some of you, March 17 is just another work day but for the Irish (and the Irish at heart), it’s an excuse to wear head-to-toe green, blackout on cheap beer, and down enough Irish car bombs to either get you arrested for disorderly conduct or send you to the E.R. — just like the patron saint of Ireland would want. With quitting time here and a night of debauchery ahead, let’s remember nine film drunks would could liven up St. Patty’s.

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TRAILER: Could Friends with Benefits Be the Movie No Strings Attached Wished It Was?

Confession time: I love Justin Timberlake. Not his music career, mind you — though who doesn’t love a little ” Rock Your Body ” every once in a while — but his acting one. You can grumble that he jumped the shark with endless appearances on SNL and his performance as himself — er, Sean Parker in The Social Network , but for my money, Timberlake constantly hits it out of the park. He even makes something as disposable as Bad Teacher look moderately watchable in a “Let’s wait to see it on a Wednesday night on HBO2 !” sort of way. All of which is a long way around saying that his presence in Friends with Benefits is key to making this summer rom-com look positively charming.

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SXSW: Jodie Foster Unveils The Beaver to Adoring Austin Crowd

Even with director/actress Jodie Foster and rising star Anton Yelchin in attendance for the much-anticipated SXSW premiere of The Beaver , the packed house’s buzzing was focused on one hot topic: Mel Gibson.

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Review Round-Up: So What Did SXSW Critics Think of The Beaver?

While audiences nationwide will have to wait even longer to see how Mel Gibson fares as a man who depends on a beaver hand puppet to get through a mid-life crisis, a handful of critics saw Jodie Foster’s The Beaver last night at SXSW . According to the early word, it looks like anyone hoping for unbridled insanity or off-the-wall comedy will have to wait for an SNL parody. But what did critics think of the movie on its own terms?

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VIDEO: The Greatest Movie Title Sequences, Together at Last

So as we noted , SXSW goes beyond the basic Audience and Jury prizes and also doles out honors in categories like Poster Design and Title Sequence. At the screening honoring finalists in the latter category, juror Ian Albinson put together this nifty video, A Brief History of Title Design . While it’s by no means comprehensive, the montage is breezy and well-edited. Also, it ends with the undisputed champion of all title sequences. That said, I think Jean-Luc Godard’s giant, colorful titles should have gotten props here. What else is missing?

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Zack Snyder’s Superman Reboot May Have a Metallic Title, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Also in this St. Patrick’s Day edition of The Broadsheet: Shia LaBeouf grows Horns … Albert Brooks and Judd Apatow may finally team up… Liam Neeson still a go for Taken 2 … and more ahead.

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REVIEW: Seth Rogen Meets Brit Fizz in Smart, Saucy Alien Tale Paul

Maybe it’s a Canadian thing. Like his countryman, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen has a voice that’s 10 years older than he is — a combination of world-weariness and exuberance, an instrument that he’s mastered for specific comic shadings. Sutherland wrings anger and shock from the premature gray in his, and by the time 24 ended, he’d physically caught up with the age emanating from his larynx. In the likable, misfits-on-the road comedy Paul , Rogen’s soulful rustiness is used for the sound of the intergalactic traveler. With it, he lays a claim to being one of the premier vocal talents of his generation.

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Tom Hanks Might Answer Call of Duty for Scott Rudin

It has been quite some time since Tom Hanks has done anything really dramatic, so word that he’s attached to the big screen adaptation of A Captain’s Duty so soon after shooting Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is good news to anyone who fondly remembers when Hanx was more than a talking children’s toy. In Duty , the two-time Oscar winner would star as Richard Phillips, who was the captain of the Maersk Alabama when it was taken over by Somali pirates in 2009. Scott Rudin and the team behind The Social Network will produce. [ Deadline ]

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Jonah Hill is Serious About His 21 Jump Street Reboot

Let’s hear it for Jonah Hill! The newly thin comedy star has taken to his official Twitter account like a duck to water — or like an impostor to Twitter , as the case may sometimes be — offering fans a peek behind the curtain at the making of 21 Jump Street . On Tuesday’s docket: The firing range. “Let’s shoot some bad guys, motherf***er!” Hill wrote . Click ahead to see the slightly NSFW picture of Hill, post-bad guys-shooting. (This is assuming that flipping someone the bird is not suitable for your office.)

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