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THE GOODS: THE DON READY STORY
Piven's got the Goods
Jeremy Piven is Ready to roll-used cars off the lot, that is. The Emmy Award-winning Entourage star is set to play a used-car liquidator called on to save a down-and-out dealership in The Goods: The Don Ready Story, the first film greenlit under Paramount Vantage's deal with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Gary Sanchez Productions. (Paramount Vantage)
* BRUNO
Sacha Baron Cohen better start growing out his bleach-blonde faux hawk. Flamboyant fashionista Bruno, another of the Borat star's alter egos on Da Ali G Show, is set to take his inimitable interviewing style to the silver screen. After wrapping Bruno, Baron Cohen will sit down for Dream Works' Dinner for Schmucks, an English-language remake of Le Dîner de Cons-a French laffer about a pretentious Parisian who urges his friends to bring the dullest dunces they can find to his soirées. (Universal)
* HOTEL FOR DOGS
Cheadle to check into hotel
This Hotel is for the Dogs, literally. Don Cheadle (Ocean's Thirteen) will play the social worker charged with corralling a couple of orphans-one of whom will be played by Emma Roberts (Nancy Drew)-who hide dozens of dogs in an abandoned hotel in this adaptation of a 1971 children's book by Lois Duncan. (DreamWorks)
* THE INFORMERS
Identities of Informers revealed
Billy Bob Thornton (The Astronaut Farmer) and Kim Basinger (The Sentinel) are catching up on their reading-specifically, the script for this adaptation of a Bret Easton Ellis novel about the improbably intersecting lives of a movie executive (Thornton), his wife (Basinger)...