"Dreamgirls" Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson has joined the cast of New Line's "
Sex and the City: The Movie."
Hudson, who's in final negotiations, will portray the assistant to Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw. Pic revolves around the lives of the four main "
Sex and the City" characters, four years after the time frame of the finale of the HBO series, which wrapped its six-year run in 2004.