The Best Boss

Jason Bateman gets to boss George Clooney around in the screen version of the book Up In the Air by Walter Kirn says Variety.

Jason Reitman (who worked wirh Bateman in "Juno") helms the film that has Clooney stars as a corporate down sizer who is obsessed with collecting frequent flyer miles at the expense of having a life.

Bateman will play his boss completing his work on the project before doing the comedy "The Baster" with Jennifer Aniston at the end of the month.