Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat courtesy 20th Century Fox
Sacha Baron Cohen has decided on his next two film gigs: Bruno, based on his fashion-reporter alter ego, and Dinner for Shmucks, a remake of the French film Le Diner de Cons.... Also per Variety, Vadim Perelman (House of Sand and Fog) will direct Angelina Jolie in Lionsgate's adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.... Ashley Judd is Helen, a music professor and mom who suffers from deep depression.... Per the Reporter, Ben Kingsley has been cast as an ashram leader who mentors Mike Myers' Love Guru. Also joining the comedy's cast are Meagan Good and The Daily Show's John Oliver.
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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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