Screen Daily is reporting that Annapurna Pictures has snapped up the rights to an English-language remake of the 2010 Danish comedy Klown, with Sacha Baron Cohen (Grimsby) attached to star. The original film was directed by Mikkel Norgaard and “follows a man who tries to prove his fatherhood potential to his pregnant girlfriend by ‘kidnapping’ […]
Movie Review – Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
Alice Through the Looking Glass, 2016. Directed by James Bobin. Starring Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Rhys Ifans, Matt Lucas, Richard Armitage, Andrew Scott, Lindsay Duncan, and Sacha Baron Cohen. SYNOPSIS: Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in […]
Movie Review – Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
Alice Through the Looking Glass, 2016. Directed by James Bobin. Starring Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Rhys Ifans and Sacha Baron Cohen. SYNOPSIS: Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter. For all […]
Movie Review – Grimsby (2016)
Grimsby (aka The Brothers Grimsby), 2016. Directed by Louis Leterrier. Starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Rebel Wilson, Penélope Cruz, Isla Fisher and Ian McShane. SYNOPSIS: A football hooligan tracks down his long-lost brother, a spy for MI6, and they end up on the run from a terrorist organisation. Sacha Baron Cohen is a brave […]
Sacha vs Brian: The Freddie Mercury Biopic Saga
Tony Black on the saga of the Freddie Mercury biopic and the war of words between Sacha Baron Cohen and Brian May… The biopic of Freddie Mercury, the legendary Queen front man who died of AIDS in 1991, is shaping up to be one of the greatest lost film projects of the modern age. Surely a slam […]
Movie Review – The Brothers Grimsby (2016)
The Brothers Grimsby (aka Grimsby), 2016. Directed by Louis Leterrier. Starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Rebel Wilson, Penélope Cruz, Isla Fisher, Gabourey Sidibe, Scott Adkins, Barkhad Abdi, Annabelle Wallis, and Ian McShane. SYNOPSIS: A football hooligan tracks down his long-lost brother, a spy for MI6, and they end up on the run from a […]
UPDATE: Sacha Baron Cohen to write, direct, produce and star in Freddie Mercury biopic
UPDATE: Brian May has posted on his official website that Queen manager Jim Beach was joking, and that Sacha Baron Cohen is not currently attached to the biopic in any capacity. The on-off biopic of legendary Queen frontman Freddie Mercury finally looks set to be moving forward, with Sacha Baron Cohen set to write, direct, […]
Amazon orders comedy pilot Highston from Sacha Baron Cohen and Bob Nelson
Nebraska screenwriter Bob Nelson has just struck a deal with Amazon, landing his first official pilot order. The half-hour coming-of-age comedy Highston was written by Nelson and will be directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine) and exec produced by Sacha Baron Cohen. According to Deadline, Highston will be a single-camera project […]
The Biggest Oscar Snubs
Henry Bevan on the biggest Oscar snubs… You can never escape the Oscars. Even once the winner has been crowned, publications start talking about the next crop of hopefuls. There have already been vague articles on this already and people are already talking about Black Panther’s chances at becoming the first superhero movie to get […]
O.J. Simpson will reportedly appear in Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film
Sacha Baron Cohen is certainly no stranger to controversy, and it looks like he’ll be able to expect plenty more with his next mockumentary film, if a report from The Daily Mail is to be believed. According to the newspaper, Baron Cohen has paid disgraced football star and actor O.J. Simpson $20,000 to take part […]
