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EXCLUSIVE: Penelope Cruz is signing on to star with Ben Stiller in

, the comedy that puts Stiller back behind the camera again, with a Justin Theroux script for Paramount Pictures. Stiller will reprise his role as empty headed supermodel Derek Zoolander, and there have been rumors that Will Ferrell will be back as the sinister Mugatu and Owen Wilson as Zoolander’s supermodel rival Hansel. Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld are producing for Red Hour.

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in Spain, and she plays a small role in the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy

. Let’s hope that a byproduct of the surprising success of the long awaited sequel

is that sequels to other worthy niche comedies like

will gain more currency at studios. Despite the presence of Jim Carrey (who never does sequels) and Jeff Daniels and the Farrelly Brothers,

got turned down by its original maker, New Line, and everywhere else before Red Granite stepped up and financed the hit and Universal Pictures distributed.

was an irresistibly silly film. Like Carrey and Daniels, Stiller fully committed to character, that mugging buffoon supermodel and there were some hilarious moments in the original, from Blue Steel to the catwalk showdown between Zoolander and Hansel, to the freak gasoline fight accident that was one of the funniest movie comedy moments in recent years. Stiller has wanted to make this movie for a long time and it shouldn’t have taken 13 years to get this far. I’m hoping he gets to do this in time for his 87-year old dad Jerry Stiller to reprise as the weak-willed agent Maury Balltein, and that this re-dedication to dumb comedies clears a path for another

Oh, don\'t be such a Debbie Downer! This will be a good bit of fun!

…and how about we get all of our brains removed, we won’t need them.

I loved Zoolander. It was hilarious and Mustafah / Will Farrel and his sidekick Katinka / Milla...

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I know many people LOVE Dodgeball so would be amazing to see those characters again!

And personally I’d like to see Starsky & Hutch 2! I mean… the first one finished with 170M WW against 60M production budget so definitely made more money than The Watch, Tower Heist, The Internship or The Big Year so c’mon guys make it happen!

All for a zoo sequel but nobody needs to see another dodgeball or bruno. And the reality is that all of Sacha’s movies are basically sequels as it’s only him on screen.

The reason Dumb sequel worked so well was because we finally had a great pairing of comedic actors on screen together in a long long time — this is how it use to be before everyone wanted to do their own starring vehicle and agents and managers encouraged this for the big payday. We could just as easily do fresh and original comedies with great pairings as well that would work like gangbusters, because that’s what comedy is.

It’s also nice to see real actors do comedy and not anybody in the judd apatow camp — no disrespect to the Jason Segel’s of the world, but they aren’t leading men — they are sitcom stars at best.

I saw Dumb and Dumber To today. Not a great movie, by any means, but far superior to the awful Anchorman 2.

Silly Sequels! Wait what’s new about this again? If we’re going to do real silly sequels then lets do fictional follow ups to awesome non-fictional films. That will be a first! How about Rudy II, Goodfellas: The Return, and speaking of Penelope, lets do some more Blow

I am for Dodgeball 2. Just hope they don’t cast Penelope Cruz in it as well. At this point in her pretty loooong career she is a box office poison. Just look at the performance of The Counselor.

I loved Zoolander. It was hilarious and Mustafah / Will Farrel and his sidekick Katinka / Milla Jovovich were my favorite onscreen villians. I hope they both reprise their roles.

…and how about we get all of our brains removed, we won’t need them.

Oh, don’t be such a Debbie Downer! This will be a good bit of fun!

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