Combs recently won praise for his role in Russell Brand comedy Get Him To The Greek.

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But for now, studios are premiering smaller films like the romantic comedy Killers, starring Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher, and the comedy Get Him to the Greek, featuring British comedian Russell Brand.

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The rapper and music mogul plays a record label boss in Get Him To the Greek, which features comedian Russell Brand as wayward rock star Aldous Snow and is out in the UK on 25 June.

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