Academy Award winner* Jamie Foxx has joined the ever blossoming cast of Horrible Bosses, a comedy about friends who plot to kill their awful employers. The star of Stealth and Booty Call is bringing even more star power to a cast that is already rumored to include Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, and the brilliant and vastly talented Charlie Day (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia).

Bosses is a tale of three friends (Bateman, Day and an undetermined third) who hate their jobs and decide they need to kill each other’s bosses, played by Farrell and Aniston, and I’m pretty sure if Jen Aniston is your boss, the judge is gonna let you slide on that one. Anywho, Foxx will play the mastermind of their dastardly plots and I’m sure he’ll be hilarious as always. *cartwheels, double-fisted dismissive wank*

Pile the workload on us, Hollywood Reporter:

Jason Bateman and Charlie Day are on board as two of the buddies, while Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell are in negotiations to play two of the three employers.

In a more comedic turn for the actor, Foxx will play a scam artist named Motherf*cker Jones who offers murder advice to the three pals. (The name of the character, which originally had an even more colorful name, might change, according to insiders.)

It should change to Irrelevant Jones. *adds a checkmark to the Burnsy Burns Board* This film has apparently been around for a few years, with actors dropping from the roster like flies. Among those once attached to the project: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Matthew McConaughey, Ashton Kutcher and Dax Sheppard. It’s a pretty serious red flag when Ashton “Paycheck” Kutcher and Dax “Dane Cook’s Supporting Roles” Sheppard drop out of a project, but then again there might be another reason this film has been in limbo. Did you have something to add, Reuters?

It got a new boost in light of last year’s hit “The Hangover,” which catapulted relative unknowns — Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis — to new heights. Its success showed it was possible to make a modestly budgeted comedy that could soar if the chemistry was right.

Foxx! Aniston! This thing has more chemistry than an Amish crack house.

*I can’t even type that with a straight face.

(It’s very possibly I’ve had too much coffee this morning.)

Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman are set to star in a movie of the ever-popular body-swap genre called Change Up, to be directed by Wedding Crashers‘ David Dobkin.

The project, written by “Wedding Crashers” and “The Hangover” writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, is basically “a responsible guy with a wife gets swapped with his best friend, a lazy man child.” [ThePlaylist]

It sounds great when you say it like that.  Not as great when you say “a body swap comedy from the writers of Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and Four Christmases, and the director of Fred Claus,” which, sadly, is also true. Fred Claus has been on cable a lot recently.  Check it out if you ever want to see a CGI elf version of Ludacris rap.  So yeah, hope for the Wedding Crashers/Hangover version of this creative team, but don’t hold your breath.  And I don’t know about you, but if I switched bodies with Ryan Reynolds, the first thing I’d probably do is try to jizz on my own washboard abs.  What?  Don’t act like I’m the only straight guy here who’s thought about it.  Oh right, I’m the weird one, whatever, you guys.

I apologize in advance for not being excited to report this story — I loved the show, I really did — it’s just that a lot of sites spent an entire year running ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT MOVIE??!? stories every other day, which usually consisted of them seeing Alia Shawkat on the street and yelling, “Hey Alia, is there going to be an Arrested Development movie??!”  She’d shrug, and they’d run STAR MAY BE ONBOARD FOR ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT MOVIE!! the next morning.  Some people even made a documentary about how the show was good.  Who the hell wants to see that?  I watched the show. I liked the show.  What’s the documentary going to be about, you ruining it for me?  Okay, tirade over.  AD creator Mitchell Hurwitz has begun writing the script, which he’s set to direct.

“Arrested Development” creator Mitchell Hurwitz [HURRRRwitz -Ed] and his co-executive producer James Vallely are working on a screenplay for the long-debated feature version of their short-lived Fox series. Even as they prep a new Fox comedy series with “Arrested” star Will Arnett, the writers are spinning more bizarre encounters for the eccentric, spoiled Bluth clan for possible feature production in the spring.

Hurwitz had said that he wouldn’t start writing a film unless all the main actors were committed. Hurwitz and Vallely are now forging ahead. Scheduling might be difficult, however, as several — Bateman, Cera and Arnett — have seen their careers bloom in TV and film since the series debuted in 2003. [THR]

Oh my gosh, someone started writing a script?  HOLD THE F-CKING PHONE, SO THAT I MIGHT SHOUT OBSCENITIES INTO IT.

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In this latest promo clip from Mike Judge’s Extract, Judge goes back to the well for the characters that made him famous, Beavis and Butthead.  I was about Beavis and Butthead’s age when Beavis and Butthead came out, so I’m probably guilty of the same kind of romantic nostalgia I make fun of sci-fi fans for all the time when I say this, but five seconds in I was thinking, “Oh man, remember Beavis and Butthead?  Beavis and Butthead were awesome.”  Anyway, nostalgia aside (I hope), props (or kudos, or another word that doesn’t sound as lame as props or kudos) to Mike Judge for being able to skip to the good parts of his own career.  This wouldn’t have been nearly as funny or likable if he’d used King of the Hill.  God that show sucked.  Though I think it taught us all the valuable lesson that fat pussies don’t make good lead characters. A lot of people will try bring up Fat Pussy Hunter 7 as a counter argument, but in that case I would argue it was more the mcguffin.

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This one’s called Couples Retreat, directed by Peter Billingsley (the little kid from A Christmas Story, believe it or not), written by Jon Favreau, starring Vince Vaughn, Favreau, Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman, and that one fat black guy.  Here’s how the project came about.

“Hey, we should make a movie in Tahiti.  That way we can go dick around in Tahiti for a few months.

“Good idea.  What’s it about?

“I dunno… Relationships?”

“Eh.  Works for me.”

[also available in HD at Apple]