While promoting Horrible Bosses, actors Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis spent months being ceaselessly asked, "Hey, have you ever had a really horrible boss?" Now, all three might be gearing up to once again run the gauntlet of obnoxiously obvious interview questions, as the central trio are expected to return for a sequel to R-rated comedic success. As of now, nothing is official with the stars, but New Line has committed Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley to get to work on a Horrible Bosses 2 screenplay.
When investment bank Lehman Brothers imploded in 2008 and became an opening act in a global economic clusterfudge of truly epic proportions, Lehman headquarters must have been absolutely fraught with drama, including stuff like rampart scapegoating, merciless backstabbing, and general horror. The upcoming drama Margin Call is inspired by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brother, taking place at an investment bank in a single 24 hour period during which a whole lot of people are presumably thrown under the bus. In the case of Lehman, that bus was not a bus, but a debt of over $700 billion. A new poster for Margin Call gets across the financial goings-on while wisely showcasing the tremendous cast, including Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Demi Moore, Mary McDonnell, Paul Bettany, Aasif Mandvi, Simon Baker, and Penn Badgely.
Here in America, we love buying products with negligible utility, particularly if such items are sold to us via out televisions, like the immortal EggWave and ShamWOW, both of which no doubt enriched countless lives with the endless convenience assured by their quality manufacturing. In Father of Invention, two-time Oscar winner and one-time Verbal Kint Kevin Spacey plays Robert Axle, a millionaire with an infomercial empire. His latest contraption, a remote control/ab workout combination called The Ab-Clicker ends up chopping consumers fingers off, though, and after a lengthy stay in prison, Axle has to try to pull his once-magnificent live back together. The first trailer for Father of Inventiona has arrived for your viewing pleasure.
Because the financial implosion of 2008 did not involve shoplifting celebrities,vajazzling, or a freeway closure, it remains an event, or rather an immensely complex series of events, that is underexplored in the popular consciousness. The upcoming Margin Call appears to cleverly avoid much of the overwhelming complexity by focusing on a single period of 24 decisive hours at a single investment bank. A first trailer for the film promises plenty of cutthroat maneuvering, scapegoating, and craven self-interest, all of which should get audiences rightly riled.
This weekend's new R-rated comedy Horrible Bosses presents ample opportunities for dark comedy and unabashed bad behavior. It's not, after all, simply a story of three terrible employers, but is actually about their three meek employees who conspire to live out the American Dream by murdering their bosses. The content, along with Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis playing the schlubs looking to dabble in homicide and Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, and Colin Farrell as their bosses, provides ample opportunity for actors to cut gleefully loose. While pretty much all the castmembers do so to varying degrees, it is our latest Rogue of the Week Jennifer Aniston who does so most successfully, playing way against type.
Jennifer Aniston is known for
playing the sweet and cute girl next-door type, but she shatters that image in
the new Warner Bros. comedy Horrible Bosses. The former Friends star spices up the
big screen with her fowled mouth raunchy character that she fearlessly
portrays.
In the movie, Aniston plays Dr. Julia Harris, a sexually crazed dentist who will stop at nothing to get her assistant Dale (Charlie Day) to sleep with her. Now most guys wouldn’t have a problem with this, but Dale is engaged and takes his relationship very seriously. The more he tells his boss he’s not going to give in to her demands, the more she harasses him. He’s miserable and wants to quit but can’t because he is a registered sex offender. His crime: peeing in a public school in the middle of the night.
Dale isn’t the only one having issues with his employer. His two best friends Nick (Jason Bateman) and Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) hate their bosses as well and the three buddies come up with a plan to kill them. Of course nothing goes right and the group of friends find themselves in situations they never thought they’d be in.
The movie also stars Kevin Spacey as Nick’s entitled and arrogant boss, Colin Farrell as Kurt’s cokehead employer, and Jamie Foxx as a self proclaimed badass that steers the guys right into trouble.
When a comedy includes a character named "Mother f***er Jones," it's a safe bet that a green band trailer, no matter how amusing, will not capture the proper spirit of said comedy. So a new, thoroughly red band trailer for Horrible Bosses improves upon its already-solid predecessors by including a plethora of expletives, plenty of innuendo, and more of Jamie Foxx as murder consultant Motherf***er Jones. Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis drop many an f-bomb as three beleaguered guys, while Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, and Colin Farrell each embrace the reprehensible as their bosses.
As you may have noticed when checking out the second trailer and first clip from Horrible Bosses, the comedy has a lot going for it. There's the instantly understandable concept of downtrodden guys wanting to kill their bosses, three reliably funny actors Charlie Day, Jason Bateman, and Jason Sudeikis) playing the trio, and three big deal actors (Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey, and Colin Farrell) chewing scenery as the eponymous employers. Six new character posters give both parties, the aggrieved and the grievous, their time to shine one-by-one.
Horrible Bosses got my butt in a seat as soon as I saw that Charlie Day of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is playing a dental hygienist. Luckily, though, Day is only one part of an impressive comedic ensemble that includes Jason Bateman and Jason Sudeikis as his fellow miserably-employed buddies, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, and Kevin Spacey as the awful employers of the title, and Jamie Foxx as a "murder consultant" named Motherf**ker Jones. A new trailer and clip for the murderous comedy hit today, and it'd be a shame for you to miss either other of them.
The upcoming R-rated comedy Horrible Bosses has a simple but potentially very funny hook: three beleaguered buddies conspire to kill each others' employers. Reliably funny actors Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis will bring their considerable skills to bear as the protagonists, while Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, and Colin Farrell as the bosses they've decided to shuffle loose from this mortal coil. Four new posters for the film dropped today, each matching a character to his respective boss and succinctly explaining what's so horrible about each boss. Take a look at Farrell proudly wearing the best comedic combover since Ernie Mcracken.