If Steve Carell is one of those actors who is desirous of playing many different kinds of roles and never pigeon-holing himself into a certain character archetype, he's not doing a very good job of it. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has just been attached to Brigadier Gerard, a period comedy about a French solider during the Napoleonic wars who is deluded about his level of bravery and prowess on the battlefield. Based on a series of short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, the script was written by Kind of the Hill writers Altshuler and David Krinsky. The character Carell is set to play, Etienne Gerard, is described as "a soldier who considers himself a gallant swordsman but whose actual skills often pale in comparison to his own conception of them." Sound familiar at all?

As we mentioned back when it was announced that director Steven Soderbergh was making a Liberace biopic, the helmer would first take on the low-budget The Girlfriend Experience, which tells the story of a high-price call girl, for Mark Cuban and 2929 Entertainment. That production is finally underway in New York City, and news came out today that the director is staying fairly close to his source material, casting porn star Sasha Grey as the lead.

I've heard of a studio greenlighting a movie's sequel after a great opening weekend at the box office, but I can't say as I've ever heard of a sequel getting a green light on merely the expectation of maybe having a great opening weekend at the box office. Despite the fact that the film doesn't open for another month, Summit Entertainment is already readying a sequel to Twilight, the film based on the first book in Stephenie Meyer's vampire novel series. The maybe-great opening weekend they're expecting? Summit has issued an estimated opening weekend take of a whopping $20 million. Yeah, that's it. So they don't expect to make their money back right away (the film's budget was $37 million) but they're firing away on sequel. I guess it helps when you have source material?

In the last couple of months, we here at the Moviefile have brought you quite a few reports from Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards casting couch. And I have to say, out of all those reports -- from Brad Pitt to Eli Roth to Ryan the Temp -- I don't think I ever did have an LP-scratch-moment of casting surprise until today. [Not even Mike Myers? - Zach] The film, which began its principal photography yesterday on location in Germany has a cast as varied as the director's lexicon of profanity.

As much as my Jersey upbringing makes me love dirty politics, I'm still sick of the U.S. Presidential race. It's the one reality program more drawn out than Flavor of Love. "Be over already, for God's sake!" I scream at the TV. I'm hoping tonight's debate suddenly becomes an episode of Dancing With the Stars. Seeing the two candidates put aside their differences to dance an ass-kicking version of the lambada (it's the FORBIDDEN DANCE, y'know) would do so much to heal America's wounds. Especially if they dance with each other. But I digress. In honor of tonight's sure-to-be-boring rehash of promises neither side will keep, here are some political movies you can enjoy.

This Friday's movie releases have something for everyone. For the politics-loving conspiracy theorist, there's W., Ollie Stone's take on the current president. For horny teenage boys -- hell, for horny boys of all ages -- there's Sex Drive, a teenage sex comedy whose red-band clip on the Internet features a woman giving the film's heavy set protagonist a Lewinsky before using him as a human toilet (I'm not kidding). And for the ladies, there's 40-year old Dakota Fanning in The Secret Life of Bees. Choose wisely, because something's gotta get that damn Chihuahua off the top of the chart.

Folks on the France set of John Travolta's One Night in Paris -- I mean, From Paris, With Love took a song from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and made it literal. Only this time, the lyrics were "Burn, baby, burn! Auto inferno!" According to the AP, a suspicious fire caused the filmmakers to suspend shooting in "in one of the Paris area's toughest housing projects." Ten automobiles were turned into car-b-ques by vandals, and the movie's producers sound surprised that such a thing could occur. What did they think they'd get in the roughest projects in Paris? A welcome wagon filled with wine and cheese?

Beverly Hills Chihuahua stayed atop the box office for the second week in a row. Apocalypse to follow, but not before we see more movies about talking dogs and the 'hoods from whence they came. You know how Hollywood works: If a movie makes money, they make 50 clones of it. So I invite you to play the Location Movie Dog game with me. Take a city or town, add a dog breed and voila! You have a multi-million dollar grossing movie. The title alone causes the script to write itself. The winner gets a contract at Disney and a free copy of that CGI mouth-moving software, the one that makes the baby on those E-trade commercials look like the Anti-Christ. Here are my game submissions.

What would Jim Henson think? The company that bears his name is making a Muppet movie for adults. I guess we all have to grow up sometime, but it raises several questions: Does this mean we'll finally get to see what the Great Gonzo does with those chickens? Will Fozzie Bear show us his "wakka-wakka," and will it be funnier than his jokes? Will we discover Bert and Ernie's Rainbow Connection, and will Kermit be depicted putting his pointy lips on some pork loin? Unfortunately, the answer is no. This is not Sesame Street After Dark; instead The Jim Henson company is making a film noir featuring puppets. Somewhere Raymond Chandler is going "What da EFF?!!!"

Perhaps spurred on by the recent drama of the world's financial markets, the Wall Street sequel that's been in pre-production since last year is finally getting put on the fast track, according to Variety . The original film starred Michael Douglas as the famously unscrupulous corporate raider Gordon Gekko, who was so slimy he might have oozed the very oil that slicked back his hair. 20th Century Fox reportedly wants Douglas back for Money Never Sleeps, which has his character being released from a stint in prison. Douglas may be tired of being associated with the character, though -- just a few weeks ago, he snapped at reporters who wanted him to answer financial questions as Gordon Gekko. [To be fair, I, too, have no tolerance for reporters who ask actors to role-play. - Zach]