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A Johnny Depp film and a big-budget musical featuring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have become the latest movies to be hit by the Hollywood writers' strike.
Depp had been due to appear in the Mira Nair-directed Shantaram, an adaptation of the Gregory David Roberts novel, Daily Variety reports.
Cruz and Bardem were to have starred with Italian icon Sophia Loren in Nine, a screen version of the successful musical inspired by Fellini's 8 1/2.
