To reflect, Isla is also currently attached to star & produce Life Coach, Un Jour mes princes viendront (One Day My Princes Will Come), Desperadoes (a Hangover-esque comedy). And although we haven’t heard anything about it in a while she is supposedly still developing and producing comedy The Cookie Queen and lastly Groupies, another with no talk in some time. In 2011 we will hear her as a voice character in Rango and Isla is currently filming her role as Ginny in Burke and Hare. Big things for our lady love!

Isla Fisher is attached to star in Universal Pictures’ high concept romantic comedy Kiss & Tell, written by Dax Shelby and Robert Stevens.

Sheldon Turner is producing the film, about a woman who discovers she has the power to see exactly how a long-term relationship will unfold with a man after kissing him.

Turner, who recently adapted the video game “inFAMOUS” for Sony, will produce with Jennifer Klein.

Source: ComingSoon

Also, this site celebrated two years online yesterday as well. Isla Fisher Web was launched on her birthday in 2008.

Pegg has been using his Twitter account to update fans of the movie’s progress, which has already begun rehearsals.

1st day of Burke & Hare rehearsals at Ealing Studios where I once held off a legion of zombies with an old Winchester rifle. Happy days.

Pegg has been busy finishing up the comedy Paul, about two comic book geeks who meet an alien while driving across America, as well as meeting with Burke and Hare cast.

Just had the Burke & Hare read thru. Great cast. Some lovely unannounced surprises to come. Stay tuned for them. There will be squeeeeees.

Now doing Paul ADR [additional digital recording]. Have been a Regency period multiple murderer and a contemporary Alien befriending super nerd in one day. Not a bad day.

Burke and Hare starts shooting at the end of the month in Edinburgh and London.

Source: Reelz

The project is based on the true story a pair of British serial killers, William Burke and William Hare, gravediggers who sold the corpses of their victims to a medical college for dissection during the 19th century.

Serkis, best known for his work as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies, will play Hare opposite Simon Pegg’s Burke.

Fisher (Confessions of a Shopaholic) will play Pegg’s girlfriend, an actress looking for a patron who might or might not be an accomplice to the murders.

Wilkinson (Valkyrie) will play Dr. Robert Knox, an anatomy lecturer looking for fresh corpses.

The movie begins shooting January 31 in Edinburgh and London, bringing Landis back to the scene of his 1981 hit An American Werewolf in London. The Twilight Zone director’s last narrative feature was 1998’s Blues Brothers 2000.

Source: Reuters

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.

What are you voicing for Rango?

Fisher: I’m playing a lizard. I’m a hard lizard. It’s just a lot of fun. I get to tote a gun, and it’s just been a completely different experience from anything I have done before.

Is it you in a recording studio by yourself, or do you get to interact with anyone else?

Fisher: That’s what’s so interesting about Gore Verbinski’s process. We’re shooting it like a play. So we’re all on stage, and we act it out, and he shoots it with cameras. Then he’s going to animate the characters to match our faces.

That’s unusual, especially for a feature. Everyone involved generally meets one another at the premiere.

Fisher: Absolutely. When I did Horton Hears a Who!, I was just alone with the director in a booth. I’m really enjoying this process. It really adds such depth to the performance to actually see the other actor you’re interacting with and to experience it, rather than just be alone in a booth.

Source: SciFi Wire

The couple, who have been together for seven years, are busy promoting Sacha’s new movie Bruno, which premiered in London last week.

Now Isla is set to star in an action comedy called Your Highness, which will start shooting in Ireland this summer, putting paid to any hopes of a wedding.

‘If Isla signs the deal, it will mean moving to Ireland for a while with their baby daughter Olive,’ says a friend.

‘With all their projects, Isla and Sacha haven’t had time to tie the knot. They have set their hearts on getting married in Italy.’

The couple originally intended to get hitched in August 2006, and had even consulted wedding planners to organise their special weekend in a medieval Tuscan village.

But it all fell through due to escalating costs.

Source: Daily Mail

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

Isla Fisher, mother to Olive, is an actress and author, best known for her starring roles in Wedding Crashers and Confessions of a Shopaholic. Her Australian roots inspired her to design an aquatic-themed baby blanket for the Bundled in Hope campaign, with bold, under the sea colors, including the deep blues, purples, & greens.

Bidding for this blanket starts on May 20. For more info, check out Toys’R'Us.com.

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).

Fisher admits: “I shop rarely and poorly. When I shop, I just want to get in and out. I have a mission and I fulfil it.” But the actress loves to play characters unlike herself, which is why she was eager to portray Rebecca Bloomwood, a magazine writer with a passion for fashion and a mountain of debt.

She takes a job at a finance magazine in hopes of parlaying it into a more desirable gig at a fashion publication owned by the same company. Yet, even though Rebecca knows nothing about money, except how to spend it, her handsome editor, Luke (Hugh Dancy), thinks Rebecca may be just what the magazine needs.

Fisher, 33, was a little anxious about tackling a beloved modern literary character. “I felt a lot of people could be angry at me if I wasn’t able to execute it in a way they imagined the character in the book,” reveals the petite actress.

Her concerns were eased after she won over Kinsella, who serves as an associate producer on the film. “She told me after she saw the movie that I captured the essence of the character, which was the greatest compliment.”

Of course, as the central character, Fisher also had the burden of carrying the comedy and setting the tone. “I was genuinely shocked and perplexed that somebody would give me my own movie. It feels unbelievable.”

That ‘somebody’ was famed producer Jerry Bruckheimer, whose Hollywood blockbusters lean towards big-budget, effects-laden action aimed primarily at young men.

Why a chick flick? “We love the character,” Bruckheimer says. “Rebecca Bloomwood is such a unique, fresh, interesting young girl who embodies a lot of what young girls around the world deal with. Besides, her closet explodes in one scene.”

Bruckheimer says Fisher was the obvious choice to play Rebecca. The actress, who was born in Oman to Scottish parents and raised in Australia, drew rave reviews for her breakthrough role in Wedding Crashers, where she played Vince Vaughn’s off-kilter love interest. She subsequently co-starred in Definitely, Maybe; I Heart Huckabees; Definitely, Maybe; and Scooby-Doo.

But it wasn’t simply her comedic chops that made Fisher right for the leading role. “She’s a wonderful dramatic actress,” says Bruckheimer. “This movie wouldn’t work without the ability she has to pull that character off and see that she is serious.”

Fisher visited Shoppers Anonymous meetings, where she discovered various types of compulsive buyers: image shoppers, trophy shoppers, bulimic shoppers and collectors, among others. “As funny as it sounds, it’s pretty sad too,” she says.

Shopaholic was made before the economic downturn, which was partly caused by credit problems. “Obviously, it’s timely,” says Fisher. “But when we conceived the movie, it was a different economic period. The lesson Rebecca learns in the movie is a lesson we’re learning painfully. But the movie takes a responsible tone.”

Though she doesn’t like shopping, Fisher became a little more fashion-savvy while making Shopaholic. Famed costume designer Patricia Fields (who outfitted the Sex and the City gals and Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada) dolled her up in designer duds and accessories.

“At the beginning, I couldn’t believe we were spending 40 minutes discussing a belt,” Fisher recalls. “Then I began to understand there really is a sort of science to it.”

Fisher suggested having only extremely high heels in Rebecca’s wardrobe. “There’s nothing funnier than a comedic character tottering and the impracticality of wearing something that clearly doesn’t fit her and is uncomfortable. But she’s a Shopaholic so she has to have it.”

Fisher also suggested a humorous scene in which her character performs a quirky fan dance during a night out with her editor.

“I’ve had the idea for that scene in my mind for about five years and never found the right movie to put it into. There’s something funny about a girl trying to seduce a guy by doing what she thinks is a sexy dance that’s actually repulsive.”

Fisher attributes her comedic success to her willingness to go for broke. “I’ve always been someone who loves to tap into her inner idiot. I’ve always been the clown of my family, and I’ve always enjoyed mucking about. I’m just fortunate that I get paid to do it now.”

Fisher is engaged to comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) and has a 16-month-old daughter.

She is currently filming an animated movie with Johnny Depp called Rango

Source:The Sun Daily