Isla Fisher May Star in Desperados

Universal Pictures has picked up Desperados, a comedy script from Ellen Rapoport that will act as a potential starring vehicle for Isla Fisher, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The story is set in motion when a woman sends an indignant e-mail to her new beau, who’s gone silent after they have sex. When she discovers he’s comatose in a Mexican hospital, she races south of the border with her friends in tow to intercept the e-mail before he recovers.

The project has been described as a female-oriented Hangover.

– comingsoon.net

Universal Sets Up Two for Isla Fisher

Great news! It’s been a little quiet in Isla land the past few months so It’s goo to hear she’ll be getting back to work soon with not one, but two new movies!

Universal Pictures has acquired two projects that will be developed as star vehicles for Isla Fisher, reports Variety.

Fisher is attached to topline and produce Life Coach, a comedy about a young woman who consults a life coach who turns out to be messed up. Liz Cackowski and Maggie Carey are writing the script.

Fisher is also attached to star in an untitled romantic comedy based on a French script called Un Jour mes princes viendront (One Day My Princes Will Come). Audrey Wells (Under the Tuscan Sun) will write the script.

Source: Variety

Isla Talks Rango with SciFi Wire

Isla Fisher told SCI FI Wire that she’s the voice of a gun-toting lizard in the upcoming animated movie Rango.

The film, directed by Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean), stars Johnny Depp as a household pet who embarks on an adventure to discover his true self. In addition to Fisher and Depp, the voice cast includes Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone and Ned Beatty.

Fisher spoke about Rango last month while promoting her current film, Confessions of a Shopaholic. Followed are edited excerpts of the exclusive interview with Fisher. Rango is slated for release in March 2011.

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Teen Choice Awards Nominations

Isla has been nominated for a 2009 Teen Choice Award. Go here to vote for her! All it takes is a short registration.

Your votes pick the winners of the Teen Choice 2009 so be sure to tune in Monday, Aug. 10 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX and see how your favorites did.

Movie Actress: Comedy
Anne Hathaway – Bride Wars
Isla Fisher – Confessions Of A Shopaholic
Jennifer Aniston – Marley & Me, He’s Just Not That Into You
Kate Hudson – Bride Wars
Amy Adams – Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Shopaholic on DVD In June

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment have announced the US DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of Confessions of a Shopaholic on June 23, 2009. Isla Fisher stars in this comedy based on the books by Sophie Kinsella.

Available on single-disc DVD ($29.99 SRP), 2-Disc DVD ($32.99 SRP) and 2-Disc Blu-ray ($39.99 SRP), the second disc on DVD and Blu-ray is just a digital copy.

All versions offer the following extras:

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True Confessions

Isla Fisher may play a Shopaholic but she insists she’s just a casual shopper in real life.

Isla Fisher to say she can think of nothing worse than shopping is surprising, considering she plays a shopping addict in Confessions of a Shopaholic. The romantic comedy, based on British author Sophie Kinsella’s best-seller, is directed by P.J. Hogan (My Best Friend’s Wedding).

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Isla Fisher’s Confessions of a Sopaholic Is The Big Time

And lately her image is plastered across buses and billboards all over the US.

“How am I on a poster?” she wonders when she spots them. And then reminds herself that someone has given her a movie.

“It’s a little unnerving,” she explains.

Sitting in a plush suite inside New York’s Ritz Carlton and wearing impossibly high Jimmy Choo shoes, 32-year-old Fisher looks every bit as young as she did playing troubled teen Shannon Reed on TV soap Home And Away in the late 1990s.

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