We doubt that when Jared Leto sat down to pen his 30 Seconds to Mars anthem "Kings and Queens," he anticipated it would one day score the trailer to a Martin Scorsese kids movie (or get 6 million views on YouTube, for that matter). But stranger things have happened. So when we pressed play on the trailer for Hugo, that Martin Scorsese kids movie we were talking about, and "Kings and Queens" started playing as Chloe Moretz and Asa Butterfield run through a turn-of-the-century Parisian train station, we thought, right on.

We're not sure what's going on in this first official photo from Sacha Baron Cohen's now-filming movie, The Dictator, but it's giving us the willies. Some background info: Baron Cohen stars as a Saddam-ish, iron-fisted ruler who relocates to New York City after being replaced by a goat herder (also played by Baron Cohen) back home. Then he falls in love with an organic food chick played by Anna Faris and blah blah happily ever after blah blah. But if anyone is going to fall in love with this guy, he'll have to do something about that palindromic hair and those Ibiza-turd glasses.

After wrapping Bruno and shuttering the Ali G empire, it's been a long couple of years of waiting to see what Sacha Baron Cohen would do next. Would he go all Dave Chapelle on us, disappearing into pile of his own millions, smoking weed and shirking the spotlight? Or would he pull a Jerry Seinfeld, marry a Barbie doll, buy a bunch of Porsches, and not do anything funny ever again? Or maybe he would do a Ricky Gervais -- give up the hard-won integrity of his previous projects to play the lead in rom-coms and insult people (brilliantly) at awards shows? But that would be to underestimate Cohen, who's gone and made a film "inspired by the best selling novel, Zabibah and The King, by Saddam Hussein."

Martin Scorsese is currently in London with a cast of character actors filming his first-ever foray into 3D, Hugo Cabret. Does that mean we can expect to see brain matter flying towards audiences from a direct gun-shot wound to the head? Probably not. Hugo Cabret is basically a kids movie about an orphan in 1930s Paris who lives in the walls of a train station and gets "wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton." It features a strong ensemble cast that includes Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, Jude Law, Chloe Moretz, Ray Winstone, Christopher Lee, and Sacha Baron Cohen, who plays an animated and elastic police inspector. Recently, we somehow ended up on Hugo Cabret's Facebook page, and there came across a picture of Cohen on set in full costume. We haven't been able to find it anywhere else on the web, so consider this an exclusive. Check it out after the jump.

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Remember way back in the summer of 2009, when Sacha Baron Cohen's fashion/celebrity spoof Brüno sashayed onto the scene and was promptly greeted by a big "meh" from critics and the general public? Remember how it attracted the ire and/or disapproving glares of LGBT support groups everywhere? Remember how the Palestinian activist who was wrongly portrayed as a terrorist in the film sued Sacha Baron Cohen for defamation? Well, he has refiled his $110 million lawsuit and this time he's going after everyone in the entertainment industry: Sacha Baron Cohen, NBC Universal, actor/producer Jonah Hill, director/producer Jay Roach, David Letterman (who aired a clip on his show), Letterman's World Wide Pants production company, and CBS.

Over the past few years, plenty of media pundits have alleged that the Oscar broadcast is in need of some re-jiggering. The standard criticism is that the show skews old, is too out-of-touch, too un-hip for today’s kids (a.k.a. the most vital demographic out there). So when this year’s co-producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic were casting about for their new host, they knew they wanted fresh blood, and were unanimous in thinking Sacha Baron Cohen the perfect candidate. (Something different, no?) Except the academy predictably said nix, thinking the man behind Borat and Bruno “too much of a wild card.” Still worse, now it looks as if he won’t even be allowed to present.

Sasha Baron Cohen's various fictional onscreen incarnations would be nothing without their outlandish wardrobes. Borat's banana hammock and Bruno's more recent otherworldly red carpet ensembles, for instance, are nothing short of genius. Relatively unknown, however, is the man behind the sartorial madness: Jason Alper. A classically trained costume designer, Alper began working in theatrical costuming 20 years ago. Eight years later he met Cohen in a mutual friend's London apartment, and ever since, Alper has been the actor's go-to stylist.

They may not know where Darfur is, but they're in 'Bruno', so who cares?

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