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Jason Bateman who has mostly appeared in supporting roles in high-profile projects such as Juno,Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Hancock will now be seen in two movies.

Jason Bateman,

who has mostly appeared in supporting roles in high-profile projects such as Juno,Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Hancock will now be seen in two movies where he will reinforce his image as the go to straight man and ensemble player. He plays a corporate stiff in Horrible Bosses where he plans his employers murder. He is a part of the cast that includes Jennifer Aniston,Kevin Spacey and Jamie Foxx. In The Change-Up,due in August,Bateman gets to do a 180,playing a strait-laced family man who switches bodies with his friend played by Ryan Reynolds and becomes a foul-mouthed stoner.

Jeremy Piven,

the 45-year old actor,who plays Ari Gold in HBOs long-running hit Entourage has staged his last public platform and made his last screaming telephone call as the show wrapped up filming its eighth and final season. Eight years is a long time. Its just nice to know that I can walk away feeling like I did everything I could at the end. The complete irony is that people think I am Ari. No one knows who I am. Listen,Im just a stage actor from Chicago. Im an emotional guy. Im not this characterIm even shy. I dont run around screaming at people. But to play a guy who is the exact opposite of me was a feast, he says.

Project Nim,

a documentary about the life of a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky,looks at issues like what would it mean for an animal to talk? What separates an animal from a human? The movie opened last week in New York and Chicago and will be shown next year on HBO. It is named after the study,which began in 1973 with an infant Nim living with an Upper West Side family and ended after much trial and tribulation in a Texas animal sanctuary,where he died in 2000. It was a very interesting challenge formally to make a documentary devoted only to the life story of an animal, said James Marsh,the director,whose 2008 documentary Man on Wire won an Oscar.