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'Dictator' Trailer: Sacha Baron Cohen Takes On Obama, Kardashians And More

Posted 12/14/11 11:53 am EST by in Humor, News, Trailers


It's been a little while since we've heard from Sacha Baron Cohen on the solo comedy front. Back in 2006, every annoying person you know dressed up as Borat for Halloween, but increasing familiarity with his mockumentary tactics made it more and more difficult for Cohen to film without being noticed.

Cue "The Dictator," a classically Cohen character who isn't making his debut mockumentary style. The trailer for the film, which just arrived via Moviefone, reveals a very conventionally shot take on a very goofy character -- half the typical formula, updated for modern times.

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Ben Kingsley Plays 'Ender's Game,' Sacha Baron Cohen Feels 'Les Miserables'

Posted 12/9/11 10:35 am EST by in Casting Call


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Ben Kingsley can't get enough of his "Hugo" costar Asa Butterfield, apparently. Their powerful dynamic in the Martin Scorsese 3-D period piece was easily one of the highlights of that movie, and viewers are about to be treated to another collaboration between the pair of actors.

THR reports that Kingsley is in talks to join "Ender's Game," Gavin Hood's adaptation of the science fiction classic from novelist Orson Scott Card. Butterfield was previously cast in the title role with "True Grit" actress Hailee Steinfeld flirting with the project as well. For his part, Kingsley would play a legendary war hero long presumed dead.

Get more casting news after the jump!

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Sacha Baron Cohen To Play 'The Dictator' In Comedy Based On Saddam Hussein Novel

Posted 1/20/11 6:08 pm EST by in News


Sacha Baron CohenSacha Baron Cohen has never been one to avoid controversy; in fact, he seems to crave it. Cohen's turns as Kazakh journalist "Borat" and gay Austrian fashion reporter "Bruno" (both characters from his HBO series "Da Ali G Show") drew criticism from various groups, as well as somewhere in the vicinity of 10,000 lawsuits (OK, that's a slight exaggeration). But Cohen's latest film could prove to be his most controversial yet.

Paramount Pictures announced today that Cohen will play the title character in "The Dictator," a comedy based on the 2000 novel "Zabibah and the King" by Saddam Hussein. Yes, former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (though, to be honest, ghostwriters probably penned it under orders from the ruler). According to the press release, the book "tells the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed." Great stuff. Read More...

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Alec Baldwin, Gemma Arterton And Sharlto Copley Joining 'Men In Black 3'?

Posted 10/14/10 12:15 pm EST by in Casting Call, News


Gemma ArtertonCasting is coming together for "Men In Black 3," and the names of those newly announced should get you plenty pumped for the upcoming threequel. The film will take place in both the present day and in 1969, and follow the MIB employees -- Will Smith's Agent J and Tommy Lee Jones's Agent K -- that we have come to know and love, as well as some newcomers.

According to Pajiba, Alec Baldwin is in negotiations to come aboard as the '69 Men In Black boss, while erstwhile Bond girl Gemma Arterton would play a secretary during that same period. "District 9" and "A-Team" star Sharlto Copley, meanwhile, is in negotiations to play what Pajiba describes as a "fast-talking Yoda type alien." Read More...

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Chloe Moretz On 'Hugo Cabret' And Co-Star Sacha Baron Cohen: Both 'Amazing'

Posted 10/7/10 4:09 pm EST by in Interviews, News, Video


The term "It Girl" gets tossed around a lot, but there's really no other way to describe Chloe Moretz, the precocious 13-year-old who first caught our eye as Joseph Gordon-Levitt's sage younger sis in "(500) Days of Summer," kicked some serious ass as the foul-mouthed Hit Girl in "Kick-Ass" and can currently be seen vamping it up (literally) in "Let Me In." But you know how we know that she's really made it? Because legendary director Martin Scorsese recently cast her in "Hugo Cabret," an epic adventure tale that marks his first go at 3-D filmmaking.

While chatting with Moretz about "Let Me In" last week, MTV News got a chance to ask the mature, intelligent teen about her role in "Cabret," what her experience has been filming the movie in London for the past three months, and whether co-star Sacha Baron Coen is anything like his big-screen thong-wearing alter-egos.

"It's a film about a boy named Hugo Cabret [played by Asa Butterfield], who's basically a street urchin, and he loses his father. His father dies. And he goes to live with his uncle who's a drunk and runs the clocks in a Paris train station," Moretz explained of the film, which is based on Brian Selznick's 2007 novel "The Invention of Hugo Cabret." Read More...

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Ronald Reagan Biopic Planned, MTV Casts The Gipper

Posted 9/8/10 3:23 pm EST by in Commentary, Humor


The saga of Ronald Reagan is certainly a fascinating one. The A-list actor went on to have a pretty okay career in politics. You know, just the 40th president of the United States. No big deal.

The biopic, which carries a $30 million budget and is targeted for a late 2011 release, will be helmed by "Malice" director Jonas McCord, The Hollywood Reporter reveals. He also wrote the script, working from a pair of optioned biographies by bestselling author Paul Kengor: "The Crusader" and "God and Ronald Reagan." McCord admits to not being a fan of the former president, but being intrigued by the project as he learned more about Reagan's early life. The story will open on the 1981 assassination attempt, telling the Gipper's life story through "flashbacks and flash-forwards."

It's all going to hinge on who plays Reagan, of course. And as you might expect, we have a few suggestions... Read More...

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Sacha Baron Cohen Has A 'Secret Life,' Garrett Hedlund Is 'On The Road' In Today's Dailies -- 4/19/10

Posted 4/19/10 4:30 pm EST by in Dailies


Sacha Baron Cohen-- Sacha Baron Cohen has allegedly been offered the leading role in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," the long delayed remake of the 1947 comedy of the same name. Cohen would star as the title character, a writer whose overactive imagination leads to some intriguing fantasies. [Pajiba]

-- Garrett Hedlund of the upcoming "Tron Legacy" is in talks to star as Dean Moriarty in "On The Road," Walter Salles' adaptation of the classic Jack Kerouac novel. Filming is slated to begin this summer. [Production Weekly] Read More...

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Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Chloe Moretz Join Martin Scorsese For 'Hugo Cabret'

Posted 3/16/10 10:00 am EST by in News


I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea that filmmaker Martin Scorsese, the man who gave us the likes of "Goodfellas" and "Taxi Driver," is following up "Shutter Island," his latest, with something for the whole family. "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," by Brian Selznick, is a 2008 Caldecott Medal winning historical-fiction tale of the titular young boy who lives in a Paris train station. The story is said to be inspired by formative French filmmaker Georges Méliès, a man who developed many of cinema's earliest special effects and camera tricks, as well as one of the early artists to twist the medium for the purposes of storytelling.

It seems that the production is kicking into high gear, as a number of high-profile players appear to be in the process of signing on to join Scorsese in his latest adventure. Deadline Hollywood reports (unsourced) that a sizable group of players is in the negotiations phase and landing key roles in the director's next effort. Read More...

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Sacha Baron Cohen's Academy Awards Banning Recalls Other Memorable Oscar Errors

Posted 3/4/10 4:30 pm EST by in Commentary


by George Loomis

With the Academy nixing the planned appearance of "Brüno" star Sacha Baron Cohen at the 2010 Oscars, MTV was left wondering exactly what makes the committee so wary. Why so serious, Academy? We came to the conclusion -– after a review of uncomfortable moments past -– that Mr. Oscar is especially sensitive because the list of bits gone badly is even longer than you think. Here's a small sampler... Read More...

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Sacha Baron Cohen's Planned Oscar Night 'Avatar' Spoof Canned By The Academy

Posted 3/3/10 12:30 pm EST by in News


by George Loomis

Sacha Baron Cohen’s next role had nothing to do with Borat, Brüno or any of his other personalities from "Da Ali G Show." This time? Cohen planned on appearing in blueface at this Sunday's 2010 Academy Awards ceremony, parodying James Cameron's nomination-leading mega-hit "Avatar" by dressing up as female Na'vi star Neytiri (Zoe Saldana in the movie). No matter how funny it sounds to all of us at MTV, Academy spokeswoman Toni Thompson confirmed that Oscar couldn’t see eye-to-eye with Cohen, and the idea was axed before it came to completion.

The planned skit would also have featured Ben Stiller as a bumbling translator who couldn’t adequately move between English and the Na'vi language. When the Pandora natives become frustrated over their words being twisted, Cohen’s Neytiri reveals the meta twist: that he (she?) is carrying James Cameron’s love child. Read More...

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