Missing Movie

"Charlie Brown...."

Oh Michael...I love when you're saying things like these about the movie :

Oh "Arrested Development" movie. You wicked temptress. One minute, you're happening. Then you're not. Then you're maybe happening, but somewhere far down the road. Then that ship has maybe sailed, but then it pulls into port again. So how about now? Are we there yet? Soon enough, says star Michael Cera...

"I'm pretty sure it'll happen, I just don't know when," the actor told MTV at a press junket for "Youth in Revolt," which hits theaters on January 8. "I think sometime next year, hopefully, we'll be shooting," he said, adding quickly once again, "I hope." Encouraging words, despite the qualifiers.

You can't really blame the guy for being cautious. I would guess that he hears the words "Arrested Development" in nearly every interview he sits down for. An accidentally chosen phrase could be blown totally out of proportion. A phrase like "I think sometime next year," in fact. "But he promised!!!" we fans will say.

Looking at the legion of fans who are still clamoring for more of the Bluth clan's antics, it's easy to see how "Arrested Development"'s cancellation accounts for one of the big fumbles in TV history. It's good to hear Cera staying so positive about the possibility of this movie finally pushing forward in the coming year.

Are you willing to accept Cera's words at face value, and continue believing that an "Arrested Development" movie will happen in the next year or two? Have you abandoned all hope?

Source : MTV Blog

Arrested Development : The Small Effort !

"Atkins !"

Now we know that the Arrested Development will come out for sure, Jason Bateman gaves us some informations about the movie like he's always did in IGN :

Jason Bateman has revealed that the proposed Arrested Development film will be a "small effort".

The 40-year-old actor, who played Michael Bluth on the cancelled Fox series, recently admitted that plans for the movie were still in the early stages.

He has now said that the project will be made on a small scale, while a script is more than "halfway" finished.

Bateman told IGN: "We hope that there is enough people out there who would want to see it that [Fox] Searchlight could get its money back from financing it."

He added: "[Series creator Mitchell Hurwitz] is halfway through writing the script now, and once he's done and if he's happy with it, we'll start to schedule it and then shoot it. And then be done."

"It will be a small film. It will be simple. We'll shoot it in probably six weeks. It will get a little release. It is not being done at big Fox, it is being done at Fox Searchlight. It's going to be a small effort."

It was reported earlier that Michael Cera will reprise his George-Michael Bluth character for the Arrested Development film.

Can't wait !

Mitch Hurwitz on NPR - Christmas 2008

We doesn't hear enough Mitch Hurwitz, that's why I've decided to bring to you a radio interview who date from last christmas. Mitch talks a lot about the movie and it could be interesting for those who've never heard this interview :

Mitch Hurwitz @ NPR

Year One - Cera & Cross

Year One with Michael Cera and David Cross is in theather since June 19th and the critics aren't very good. I've made for you a selection of critics from the website Metacritic.com. The Metascore is 37 out of 100, that's mean "Generally Negative Reviews".

80 The New York Times Manohla Dargis

A thoroughly, sometimes gaggingly broad and sly conceptual laugh-in.

75 San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Year One has one joke, but it's a good one, played for many variations over the course of an often very funny comedy.

67 Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

This is just silliness run mildly wild.

63 Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

At best it's a bit like Mel Brooks' "The History of the World Part I" (except Ramis stops somewhere in Genesis); at worst it's like a Scary Movie-type parody of John Huston's "The Bible."

50 Variety Ronnie Scheib

Lacks seismic guffaws but elicits many mild smiles.

50 USA Today Claudia Puig

The humor, largely centered around bodily functions and bathroom habits, is almost exclusively sophomoric.

42 The Onion (A.V. Club) Josh Modell

Year One isn't dreadful; it just isn't nearly as funny as it hopes to be.

40 The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

A lot of comedic talent founders in this new Harold Ramis comedy that doesn't exactly recall his glory days of "Caddyshack" and "Groundhog Day."

38 New York Post Kyle Smith

Its script isn't worth the papyrus it's inscribed on.

33 Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

The people who made Year One seem to think that all you have to do to make a hit comedy is get a bunch of jokesters together. But where are the jokes?

30 Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

A lowbrow, only fitfully amusing comedy.

25 Boston Globe Ty Burr

Any good will the movie generates, though, is grated right back off by Black, whose obnoxiousness has lost whatever charm it once possessed.

20 New York Daily News Joe Neumaier

During all of the film’s oh-so-long 97 minutes, Year One, barely earns a snicker.

12 Premiere Robert Calvert

We loved this movie the first three times we saw it, when it was called "Life of Brian," "Wholly Moses," and "History of the World Part 1."

0 LA Weekly Robert Wilonsky

Unbearably painful from shrugging start to outtakes-laden finish, Harold Ramis’ half-assed, hare-brained return to writing and directing makes Mel Brooks’ equally muddled, soporific "History of the World, Part 1" look downright majestic by comparison.

Michael Cera: What I've Learned (Esquire)

New few words about the movie in Esquire, Michael Cera talks a little bit about it but once again there is no real news...

Arrested Development never felt safe. Even the first season, we did thirteen episodes, and we thought we'd never do a back nine. So I never thought in a million years we'd get to make three seasons. I was happy we got that far. I thought it was really good, and I'm really proud of it. I don't think we made a bad episode.

Well, maybe. People want to make a movie. There are articles on the Internet that center me out as the reason it's not being made. I don't know where that stuff comes from. It could always fall through, but I think everyone wants to make it.

I got recognized from doing the show once in a while, by a type of person I could spot. I could tell when someone was an Arrested Development fan. They were normally very polite, and it was intimate. It was like a club. They would say things like, "Can you believe it? We couldn't save it." There was a real sense of teamwork. But when Superbad came out, there was no way to know. It was the hugest thing I'd ever done. Suddenly I had drunk guys coming up to me, high-fiving me, grabbing me, which was different from having a nice conversation with somebody about this show we both loved.

The whole article on the Esquire website.