Mitch Hurwitz

Hello, Michael. New Episodes of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Coming to Netflix

by Jackson Cresswell    Posted: November 19th, 2011 at 7:11 am

Expensive suits.  Quasi-incestuous relationships. Carl Weathers.  Minor Treason.  It’s been nearly six years since the Bluth family brought good wholesome entertainment into America’s living rooms.  But finally, after years of fan demand and seemingly endless rumors, new episodes of Arrested Development are returning to television in 2013.  Provided, of course, that television has Netflix.

Like Family Guy and Futurama before, Twentieth Century Fox is bringing back the critically-acclaimed sitcom (Time Magazine called it one of the best TV shows of ALL-TIME)  for a brand new season in 2013.  But unlike its animated counterparts, fresh episodes of Arrested Development will be broadcast exclusively on Netflix.  We told you back in March that Netflix would host original content with Kevin Spacey’s House of Cards, and while Development isn’t technically a Netflix original, the new episodes are surely the rental service’s highest-profile project to date.   Hit the jump for more on AD’s return.

Running Wilde DVD Review

by Jake Lasker    Posted: October 24th, 2011 at 6:00 am

Saddled with the pressure of being creator Mitch Hurwitz and star Will Arnett’s follow-up to Arrested Development, Running Wilde never was quite able to catch on with a wide audience. While many viewers might have expected a comedy operating on many different layers and filled with hidden jokes, Running Wilde was just a fun show whose only goal was to let its leads be silly. I for one had no problem with that, and I was more than happy to receive the Running Wilde DVDs to review. Hit the jump for my full breakdown.

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Coming Back for New Season Before the Movie [Updated with Video of Reunion and Ron Howard Interview]

by Ethan Anderton    Posted: October 2nd, 2011 at 8:23 pm

Earlier today, a tweet from The New Yorker, reporting straight from their own festival in New York, announced the unthinkable as Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz revealed during a cast reunion that the series would be back for another season, but that’s not all. This new season would lead directly into the long-gestating movie that has been talked about by each cast member, every other month, since the invention of television. Since that tweet, more details have surfaced from the festival from EW who reveals that Hurwitz intends to shoot 9 to 10 episodes, each focusing on on an individual character from the Bluth clan (which includes Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Portia DeRossi, David Cross, Will Arnett, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, Tony Hale, and Alia Shawkat). Each episode will catch audiences up on what the characters have been doing for the past five years since the series’ cancellation in 2006. More details on the new season and the forthcoming movie after the jump.

[Update: The entire 100-minute reunion Arrested Development reunion panel is now available for your viewing pleasure after the jump; we've also added an interview with Ron Howard where he talks about how the new season will relate to the movie]

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Cast Reunites for The New Yorker Festival

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: September 20th, 2011 at 9:19 am

It turns out it’s possible to get the cast of Arrested Development to reunite, or at least reunite for one evening.  Gothamist [via The Playlist] reports that Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, David Cross, Portia de Rossi, Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Jeffrey Tambor, and Jessica Walter will take the stage with Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz on October 2nd for a special panel.  I’m sure they’ll talk about free trade agreements, the philosophical merits of Kant and Heidegger, and other topics.  I doubt anyone will bring up the Arrested Development movie.  Who wants to hear about that?

In all seriousness, wouldn’t it be awesome if this is how they chose to announce that the film has a greenlight and firm start date?  It’s a bit of a long shot, but either way, you’d be crazy not to try and get into this event.  Tickets go on sale tomorrow at noon.  Unfortunately, there’s no discount if you blue yourself.

Rumor: Is This the Plot of the ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Movie?

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: August 16th, 2011 at 7:29 am

Take this news with a grain of sand, hermano.  Screen Rant is reporting that they may have the plot for the long-rumored Arrested Development movie.  I’m not crazy about the idea of an AD movie, but this sounds like it could be pretty great:

Ron Howard is making a movie about the Bluths using an A-List cast. But Dr. Tobias plays himself because nobody wants to play him in the movie. The Bluths decide to make their own movie in contention with Ron Howard’s.

The show has always been meta and the concept would certainly be appealing to a studio who could hire big name actors to help sell the movie based on—let’s face it—a show that was cancelled because it couldn’t build an audience.  Hit the jump for more of my thoughts on this plot and my feelings on an Arrested Development movie.

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Creator Mitch Hurwitz to Direct THE BOSS OF IT ALL for Universal

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: February 22nd, 2011 at 6:09 pm

While fans are still holding out for the long, long, looooong-talked about Arrested Development movie, creator Mitch Hurwitz has just set up a deal with Universal to direct a remake of Lars von Trier’s Norwegian comedy Direktoren For Det Hele or The Boss of it All. The film centers on an IT company that hires an actor to serve as the company’s president in order to help get the business sold, all because the company’s current boss had been pretending like there was another boss above him so it would be easier to break bad news to employees. Sounds a bit like The Office meets Office Space no?

The Wrap reports that Hurwitz is signed on to direct, with Emma Forrest set to write the screenplay. Arrested Development narrator Ron Howard will executive-produce with Brian Grazer through their Imagine Entertainment company. No word on when filming might start or how far along the project is, but the report does note that the project has been in development for about a year. Now, about that Arrested Development movie…

RUNNING WILDE Series Premiere Review

by Ethan Anderton    Posted: September 21st, 2010 at 1:05 am

The one thing that rich, pampered and self-indulgent oil tycoon offspring Steven Wilde (Will Arnett) can’t have is the romantic love of his childhood activist friend turned adult humanitarian and environmentalist Emmy Kadubic (Keri Russell). It’s either a stroke of comedic brilliance from executive producer Mitch Hurwitz (Arrested Development) or a cruel twist of fate that the one thing Wilde can’t have is named Emmy as it just so happens to be the name of the very same award that his new comedic series Running Wilde won’t be nominated for next year. It’s sad but true. Fox’s new comedy series doesn’t pack the same punch that made Arrested Development the cult favorite series it is today and while there are a couple genuine laughs to be had, the series almost requires a laughtrack to gain the comedy label.  More after the jump:

Mitch Hurwitz Interview RUNNING WILDE

by Christina Radish    Posted: September 16th, 2010 at 12:30 pm

The new Fox series Running Wilde is a romantic comedy series in which Steve Wilde (Will Arnett), a spoiled, filthy rich playboy, desperately tries to win the heart of his humanitarian childhood sweetheart, Emmy Kadubic (Keri Russell), by helping raise her 12-year-old daughter, Puddle (Stefania Owen). Rather than run the risk of letting Emmy slip away again, Steve pulls out all the stops to win her heart, but that may not be enough for this hopelessly mismatched pair.

During a recent interview, creator/writer/executive producer Mitch Hurwitz talked about how Running Wilde will be different from his last series, Arrested Development, why some changes have been made since the pilot was shot and what makes Will Arnett the perfect choice for a romantic comedy. He also gave an update on the progress of the Arrested Development feature film, said that they’re about half-way through writing the script now and that he hopes the cast will be interested and willing once they’re finished. Check out what he had to say after the jump:

David Cross Reunites with ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Alum Will Arnett for Fox Sitcom RUNNING WILDE

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: July 19th, 2010 at 7:26 am

Fox was already playing the “Arrested Development Reunion” card in promoting the new fall sitcom Running Wilde, with Will Arnett at the lead, teaming with Arrested creator Mitch Hurwitz and go-to writer Jim Vallely.  That card is worth just a little bit more now, as fellow alumnus David Cross has joined the cast as a series regular; he will appear in seven of the thirteen first season episodes ordered so far.  The Wilde cast was already pretty alluring: Keri Russell stars as the female lead opposite Arnett, a “lovable, but immature playboy.”  Hit the jump for the full synopsis.

David Cross Says ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Film Will Not Happen

by Max Steven Miller    Posted: April 8th, 2010 at 4:53 pm

Fellow Arrested Development fans, it seems that the rollercoaster that is the potential big screen adaptation of this incredible television series has taken yet another turn for the worse.  Toward the end of 2009, Collider reported that creator, Mitch Hurwitz would be directing the film and also revealed a couple of potential storylines.  Everything seemed like a go for a Bluth Family reunion.

Not so fast.  In a recent interview on TVSquad.com in promotion of his upcoming stand-up special David Cross: Bigger and Blackerer, David Cross claimed that, despite all of the speculation, an AD feature film is probably not going to happen.  For more on why we might never get to see Cross in his never-nude, cutoff, denim shorts on the big screen and to read the interview in its entirety, hit the jump:

Minds Behind ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Attempt to Lure Keri Russell Back to Television

by Max Steven Miller    Posted: March 10th, 2010 at 7:31 am

It has been eight years since Felicity went off the air, but it looks like Keri Russell is finally considering a return to television. And who better to lure her back to the small screen than the brilliant minds behind Arrested Development.

In a recent report from THR, Russell is currently in negotiations to star opposite Will Arnett in the Fox comedy, Wilde Kingdom. Arnett co-wrote the pilot alongside Arrested Development creator, Mitch Hurwitz, and writer/producer/sitcom veteran, Jim Vallely.

A hot television commodity ever since the conclusion of Felicity, Russell has spent most of her time focusing on features including the critically acclaimed, indie flick Waitress and most recently, Extraordinary Measures.

An Arrested Developoment Reunion of Sorts in the Works at Fox

by Keith Demko    Posted: February 20th, 2010 at 9:20 am

Though the Arrested Development reunion diehard fans most want to see would have to be the tremendously long-gestating movie, any project that reunites creator Mitch Hurwitz with Will Arnett – a k a Gob Bluth, of course – on TV in the meantime has to be good news.

According to THR, Hurwitz and Arrested Development co-executive producer Jim Vallely are close to signing a deal to create a single-camera, half-hour series for Lionsgate TV to be aired on Fox, with Arnett to be the main star. The show, in what sounds rather suspiciously (but welcomely) like the further adventures of Gob Bluth, would be about a “rich Beverly Hill jackass” who falls in love with a charitable tree-hugging woman who can’t stand his lifestyle. Come to think of it, it sounds an awful lot like Curb Your Enthusiasm too, but either way, it should be just insanely funny.

Hurwitz and Arnett have reunited on TV once before since the end of Arrested Development, but calling their very-short-lived animated series Sit Down, Shut Up a disaster would be far too courteous. Here’s hoping this new project comes together and works out a lot better, but doesn’t keep Hurwitz and Vallely away from that Arrested Development flick for too long.

Ron Howard Interview NBC’s PARENTHOOD

by Sara Wayland    Posted: February 8th, 2010 at 9:05 am

Parenthood started out as a successful film from Academy Award-winners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer in 1989, went on to be a sitcom featuring Leonardo DiCaprio in 1990 and is now returning as a one-hour drama, premiering on NBC on March 2^nd.

From Friday Night Lights executive producer Jason Katims, this new series re-imagines and updates the production to introduce audiences to the very large, very colorful and imperfect Braverman family, played by Craig T. Nelson, Bonnie Bedelia, Lauren Graham, Peter Krause, Monica Potter, Dax Shepard and Erika Christensen, among others.

While at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour to promote the series, executive producer Ron Howard explained that he was initially hesitant about revisiting a project that he truly cherishes, but that he realized it’s ultimately about parenting and being part of a family, which is universal to everyone. He also updated the status of the Arrested Development film, which he plans to narrate, as well as the development of the Dan Brown film The Lost Symbol and Cowboys and Aliens.

Check out what he had to say after the jump:

TASTE THE HAPPY! ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Creator Mitch Hurwitz Will Direct the Movie and Reveals a Few Details About the Plot!

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: October 25th, 2009 at 7:51 pm

At the beginning of this month, I reported an “Arrested Development” story without much enthusiasm because it was  aboutwhat we’ve already heard for a while now: the movie is getting made and Mitch is working on the script.  But tonight real news about the film landed online and even thought it’s minor by regular standards, for an “Arrested Development” movie it’s like stumbling onto a cooler with the name “MADDAS” written on the side.  Hit the jump to find out what the Bluths will be up to.

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Script News Raises Hopes; Hopes Most Likely Crushed at Later Date

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: October 4th, 2009 at 9:09 pm

Every time I have to report an “Arrested Development” movie story as the film languishes in perpetual early pre-production, I feel like I’m Lucy re-setting the football so that all AD fans (myself included) can get ready for another humorous-yet-educational parable.  Well, here’s the football again: “Arrested Development” creator Mitch Hurwitz and co-executive producer James Vallely are working on a screenplay for the “Arrested Development” movie.    Hit the jump to think that this time you really are going to kick the football.

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