<div><span class="date">Nov 13 2008 </span>Popular Actor/Comedians Providing Voices to CGI Family Comedy</div>
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<p>Sorry, trained voice actors, an all-celebrity roster led by Steve Carell is once again dominating the cast of a new animated film called <em>Despicable Me</em>:</p>
<blockquote>Illumination Entertainment topper Chris Meledandri has kicked off his Universal Pictures-based family film unit with "Despicable Me," a 3-D CG-animated film that has Steve Carell voicing the title character.
<p>Jason Segel, Kristen Wiig, Will Arnett, Danny McBride, Russell Brand, Jemaine Clement ("Flight of the Conchords"), Jack McBrayer ("30 Rock") and Julie Andrews are providing the other lead voices. The film will be released in 2010.</p>
<p>Carell's title character is a deplorable man known as <strong>Groo</strong> who masterminds the mother of all heists when he plots to steal the moon. Egged on by an evil mother (Andrews), <strong>Groo </strong>finds one obstacle in his way: a trio of orphan girls who temporarily come under his care and won't leave.</p>
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