This year’s Emmy Award nominees were announced, with “Squid Game” earning 14 nods, the most ever for a foreign-language show. The 74th Emmy Awards will be broadcast live at 8 p.m. Eastern on Sept. 12 on NBC and will stream live for the first time on Peacock TV. Best Drama Nominees shows: “Better Call Saul” (AMC), “Ozark” (Netflix), “Severance” (Apple TV+), “Squid Game” (Netflix) and “Stranger Things” (Netflix). Best Comedy Nominees shows: “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (HBO), “Hacks” (HBO Max), “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), “Only Murders in the Building” (Hulu) and “Ted Lasso” (Apple TV+). Best Actor in Drama: Jason Bateman, “Ozark”, Brian Cox, “Succession”, Lee Jung-jae, “Squid Game”, Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul” and Adam Scott, “Severance”. Best Actor in Comedy: Donald Glover, “Atlanta”, Nicholas Hoult, “The Great”, Steve Martin, “Only Murders in the Building”, Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building” and Jason Sudeikis, “Ted Lasso”. Best Actress in Drama: Laura Linney in “Ozark”, Melanie Lynskey, “Yellowjackets”, Jodie Comer, “Killing Eve” and Reese Witherspoon, “The Morning Show”. Directing for a Drama Series: Jason Bateman, “Ozark” (“A Hard Way to Go”), Ben Stiller, “Severance” (“The We We Are”), Lorene Scafaria, “Succession” (“Too Much Birthday”), Hwang Dong-hyuk, “Squid Game” (“Red Light, Green Light”), Karyn Kusama, “Yellowjackets” (“Pilot”) and Mark Mylod, “Succession” (“All the Bells Say”). Source: nytimes.com
Jason Bateman made his first important contribution as a film director in
The Family Fang (2015), which opens with a sequence that is one of the most provocative introductions to a movie I’ve ever seen. The story is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Kevin Wilson. Bateman (
Juno, The Gift) and Nicole Kidman (
The Hours, Dogville) play as the siblings Annie and Baxter Fang, both artists, somewhat successful but struggling with their art: she’s a moderately successful actress who’s appeared in a bunch of crap and a tampon comercial, and he’s a wunderkind novelist whose third book-in-progress is stuck in low gear while he is mired in writer’s block. Bateman is his usual splendidly sharp but understated self; Kidman matches him beat for beat in a way that she doesn’t often get the chance to do. Their warm but contentious relationship is the box out of which emerges a tale of the existential crisis of a whole family, but not in any way you’ve seen before, one that explores the boundaries between being true to oneself and being a self-obsessed freak when other people need you. It asks how much you may reasonably draw on other people as the inspiration for your art. It’s not funny in a way that makes you laugh out loud, but funny in a way that makes you uncomfortable. That is a place that few movies dare to go. Source: www.flickfilosopher.com
When Jason Bateman accepted his Emmy award for his work as director/producer in Ozark, Bateman began to tear up as he thanked his family. "I would like to say specifically though to my wife, my two daughters – Amanda, Franny and Maple – without you, none of it would be enjoyable and it probably wouldn’t be possible. I love you more than I even tell you I do. And I’ll be home for kisses so don’t go to bed. Amanda, pop a mint, I’m going to come give you yours in about five minutes." He called his family the "three most important people" in his life and gave them credit for allowing him to be the best actor/director he can be, saying that because of their love and support he doesn't mail-in his performances when he must be away from them.
"That keeps me from taking any of this for granted or just doing it half-assed," he said. In his usual deadpanning style, when asked if Bateman
could make a sequel to any movie what would it be? Bateman said, not missing a bit, Teen Wolf 3 in 3D. Jason Bateman's career dates officially from a Golden Grahams advert in 1979, when he was just 10 (he’s now 53). He talks about his mother's influence – she was a Pan Am flight attendant, originally from the UK. If certain things are hilarious to him, Bateman explains that's because “my mother is British and everything is dry to her”. His father would be the more obvious role model in professional terms. Kent Bateman was a writer and director, and the producer of the 1987 fantasy sequel Teen Wolf Too, the lead role that sealed his son’s teen-idol status as nerdy, unthreatening and very 80s at once. Source: people.com
In Teen Wolf Too, it was explained that Bateman's character Todd Howard was the first cousin of Michael J. Fox’s Scott Howard from the original. Todd Howard was recruited by Scott’s former high school basketball coach Finstock (inexplicably now a college boxing coach) in the hopes that Todd shared the family “werewolf gene” that made Scott Howard such an excellent werewolf basketball player. However, first cousins only have a 12.5% genetic similarity. So there was only a one-in-eight chance that Todd would be a werewolf like Scott. Teen Wolf Too is a 1987 American fantasy comedy film directed by Christopher Leitch, written by R. Timothy Kring, and starring Jason Bateman (his first film debut), John Astin, Estee Chandler and Kim Darby.
It is the sequel to Teen Wolf (1985). During his first boxing match, Todd has his second "wolf-out" to display his supernatural agility and strength and has a dramatic come from behind victory, thus earning the admiration of the students as well as the strict Dean Dunn (John Astin).
With his newfound fame as the prodigy wolf it comes girls, top grades and even a car from the dean but as the year goes on, Todd realizes that he is losing his friends and self-respect. He seeks advice from his uncle, Scott's father, Harold Howard (James Hampton), who helps him come to terms with his responsibilities. Todd also reconnects with his nerdy girlfriend, Nicki (Estee Chandler), who helps him regain his focus on being humble. Source: blu-ray.com
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