Paramount Wins Bidding War for latest Sasha Baron Cohen Comedy

(HMG) – Congratulations to Sasha Baron Cohen, who is reportedly going to be a daddy again and just scored big for his next movie project.   Armed with a comedy  that features him in a dual role with a character who tends goats and a deposed foreign dictator who gets lost in the United States, Sacha  has been making his way around Hollywood with “Seinfeld” writers Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel.  The foursome met with a total of six studio presidents over a period of two days, with Paramount eventually besting Sony in the fierce bidding war. Paramount president Brad Grey got so enthusiastic he sent a goat wearing a “Paramount T-shirt to  William Morris Endeavor, which represents the creative comedian, reports Deadline Hollywood.  Baron Cohen was impressed by the gesture and probably more that Paramount will be paying him an astronomical $20 million up front and also giving him 20% of the first-dollar gross, which could meanupwards of $50-60 million, based on the grosses of his last few films.