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Mar 16, 2010 -
Here's a sentence I thought I would never type: Sacha Baron Cohen is in talks for a Martin Scorsese film. The same man who brought us Bruno and Borat is reportedly joining the director's latest project, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, based on Brian Selznick's book about an orphan who resides in a Paris train station circa 1930.
Baron Cohen will step into the role of the station inspector, while Ben Kingsley is being cast as George Melies, a famous silent filmmaker with a pivotal role in the story.
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Sep 21, 2009 -
- It's Jim and Pam's wedding website! — Halpert Beesly
- Get a load of new Edward, Bella, and Jacob stills from New Moon — PopSugar
- Glee has been picked up for a full season! — Fox
- Sacha Baron Cohen will lend his voice to an episode of The Simpsons — Entertainment Weekly
- The NPH Effect: Emmy ratings were way up this year, improving on 2008's low viewership — The Wrap
- Listen to new tracks from Built to Spill's upcoming album, There Is No Enemy — Stereogum
- Can Michael Cera break out of his hipster-nerd pigeonhole?
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Aug 04, 2009 -
This is one of those palm-to-forehead "of course!" moments: for his next trick, Sacha Baron Cohen will allegedly star in Eurovision: The Movie in which he will play a singer who enters the Eurovision Song Competition TV show.
Over two years ago, Borat screenwriter Dan Mazer and producer Damian Jones thought up Eurovision: The Movie, and Cohen will apparently dream up a new character who will compete on the show.
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Jul 10, 2009 -
There are cringe-inducing comedies, and there are grossout shockfests, and then there is Bruno. Sacha Baron Cohen's latest movie brazenly mates both genres while thrusting in a touch of documentary and hardcore porn.
Bruno made me squirm, but not in the way that Borat did.
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Jul 07, 2009 -
Over the weekend I got to talking with some friends about Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming movie, Bruno, and I learned that a couple of them probably won't see the movie because they find it too uncomfortable. The cringe-worthy situations that Cohen puts himself in, as Bruno and previously as Borat, are what many folks find hysterically funny, but at the same time, they can make some people squirm in a most unpleasant way.
Where does Bruno fall for you?
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Apr 02, 2009 -
As the new trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen's next mockumentary Bruno points out, Borat is "so 2006," and we haven't had Cohen's particular brand of outrageous discomfort-inducing shenanigans since then. Well, Bruno looks like it more than makes up for lost time.
Cohen's flamboyant Austrian character Bruno travels around doing and saying crazy things to provoke people — and getting it all on film.
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Mar 03, 2009 -
I've been mulling over this movie news all day because it's this bizarre mix of intriguing and "whaaaaaaa?" I'm not sure I've figured it all out entirely, but I'll relay the stuff we know so far.
The good news is that this project, titled Downsizing, will be directed by Alexander Payne, the man behind Election and Sideways.
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Jul 02, 2008 -
There was Sherlock Holmes movie news recently (Guy Ritchie looking to re-invent the old sleuth story) and now there's more Sherlock Holmes movie news (Sacha Baron Cohen playing Holmes, Will Ferrell to play Watson in, of course, a comedic version). Can we call it a Sherlock Holmes "surge" or "trend" yet?
Regardless, there are two Holmes projects in the works and both sound intriguing.
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Feb 20, 2008 -
In the days leading up until the Oscars, I'll be featuring the nominees in the various visual categories. This week, I'll be looking at the nominees for Best Costume Design. We've already taken a look at the costumes in Across the Universe, Atonement and La Vie en Rose.
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