Wedding Crashers nymph Isla Fisher has signed on to star in Confessions of a Shopoholic, a Disney com based on the Sophie Kinsella novels (shop Amazon).... Also per the Reporter, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of Dawn Treader has had its release pushed back a year to May 7, 2010, due to "the challenging schedules for our young actors".... Leslie Nielsen, Marion "Mrs. C!" Ross, Jeffery Tambor and Brent Spiner have joined Josh Bell and Sara Paxton for the Scary Movie-esque action-hero spoof Superhero.... Tom Hanks is producing a thriller based on the new bio Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love and Betrayal.... The AP reports that Matthew McConaughey will replace Owen Wilson in Tropic Thunder.... To avoid a May 2009 showdown with James Cameron's Avatar, Variety says DreamWorks has moved up its own 3-D pic, Monsters vs. Aliens, to March 27.
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Sigourney Weaver is in talks to play the owner of the agency that hooks up wannabe-mom Tina Fey with surrogate Amy Poehler in Baby Mama.... Wedding Crashers hottie Isla Fisher is The Cookie Queen, the holder of a 20-year-old Girl Scout cookie sales record who resorts to sabotage when a fifth grader eyes her title.... Amber Heard (the CW's Hidden Palms) has boarded The Pineapple Express, playing Seth Rogen's honey.... Per Variety, Ridley Scott will direct Russell Crowe in the revisionist Robin Hood tale Nottingham.
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Rob Corddry, a correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, follows in the footsteps of such comedic peers as Conan O'Brien and Saturday Night Live's Amy Poehler when he lends his voice to The N's O'Grady (Fridays at 9:30 pm/ET) this week. Here's what he had to tell us about his animated gig, advising Jon Stewart on the Oscars and more.
TVGuide.com: On O'Grady, who or what are you voicing? A news reporter, perhaps?Rob Corddry: No, actually
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Something New's Simon Baker will star in Sex and Death 101, a dark comedy about a man who gets an e-mail listing every woman he has ever had sex with — as well as those he will bed in the future. Cool!... Wedding Crashers' Isla Fisher has joined Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Carla Gugino in the crime thriller The Lookout.... House of Sand and Fog director Vadim Perelman is turning the award-winning children's book The Giver into a feature.... Alexandre Aja, the director of the horror remake The Hills Have Eyes, will helm Black Hole, based on an acclaimed comic-book series.... Per Variety, Hostel director Eli Roth has been tapped to bring Stephen King's Cell to the big screen.
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