Slow News Day: Bateman Joins Juno, Reno Cops Speak Out, Stewie's New Show, Fatboy Trailer, Zahn Cleans Up, Aqua Teen Poster

ITEM: Jason Bateman has joined fellow Arrested Development refugee Michael Cera in Juno, Jason Reitman's follow-up to Thank You For Smoking. The film stars Ellen Page as a the titular character, a teenage girl whose life becomes endlessly complicated when she finds herself pregnant with Cera's child. Bateman will play the husband of Jennifer Garner, who is interested in adopting the bastard child. Allison Janney (of The West Wing, Strangers with Candy, and Drop Dead Gorgeous) has signed on to play Juno's stepmother.

ITEM: Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant, who have been only appearing in character as Jim Dangle and Travis Junior to promote Reno 911!: Miami, recently dropped the act to talk to The Onion AV Club about the final days of The State, their improv methods, and how to keep Comedy Central from harrassing you. Most interestingly, they finally speak out (for the first time?) about their non-illustrious side careers doctoring screenplays for major shitfests such as Taxi and The Pacifier, revealing that somewhere, there exists a totally hilarious first draft of Herbie: Fully Loaded.

ITEM: Variety reports that FOX is developing an online Flash series for MySpace featuring Family Guy's Stewie and Brian as talk show hosts interviewing real celebrities. What a novel idea. The first show will premiere on Oscar night with guest Rob Corddry, promoting his new sitcom The Winner, also written and developed by Guy scribe Seth Macfarlane.

ITEM: Ain't it Cool has posted a bizarre and not especially funny trailer (if that's even what it's supposed to be) for Run, Fatboy, Run, a new comedy starring Simon Pegg, written by Michael Ian Black, and directed by David Schwimmer.

ITEM: Steve Zahn will join Alan Arkin, Amy Adams, and Emily Blunt in Sunshine Cleaning, a dark comedy about a crime scene clean-up company.

ITEM: We think the new poster for Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters is pretty fucking awesome.

Fast Track: Expect Delay

The Zach Braff/Jason Bateman/Amanda Peet vehicle Fast Track, which was pulled from the December 2006 release schedule with no explanation, is now back on track for a March release. According to Braff's blog, the move is motivated only by all three actors' inability to promote the film during their busy schedules (Braff is doing Scrubs, Peet is doing the still-not-cancelled Studio 60, and Bateman has Smokin' Aces and Arthur and the Invisibles coming out). This sounds suspiciously like a cover-up operation for a shitty movie, but as you know, celebrities never lie.

The film stars Braff as a man who has to take a job for his father-in-law after his pregnant wife (Peet) steps away from her breadwinning job. He immediately falls into a competition with another of her father's employees, a wheelchair-bound over-achiever who happens to be his wife's ex (Bateman).

Check out the moderately amusing trailer below, if only for its handful of golden Batemanisms, and the Comedyblog will let you know when a release date is finally set in stone.