Sascha Baron Cohen's Bruno - coming May 13, 2009

[moegolden]

I'd be blown away if he can even come close to topping Borat. Mostly because I think the flamboyant gay character has been well-covered in show business, certainly compared to the archetype of a hilariously bigoted foreigner.



http://www.variety.com/VR1117987606.html

Universal sets a date for 'Bruno'
Cohen comedy to open on May 15, 2009
By PAMELA MCCLINTOCK
Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno" is ready for summer heat.

Universal will release the film on May 15, 2009. So far, there are no other R-rated comedies near that date.

Like Borat, the title character of the 2006 box office hit, Bruno is one of a trio of characters created and played by Cohen in TV skein "Da Ali G Show."

As Bruno, Cohen pretends be a flamboyant fashion and celebrity journalist from Austria who interviews unwitting members of the public who believe Bruno is a real person.

Twentieth Century Fox's "Borat" was a box office hit, grossing $128.5 million domestically in an early November release.

U believes "Borat" made Cohen enough of a household name to open "Bruno" in the high-profile summer sesh.

Already set to open on May 15 is Sony's "The Da Vinci Code" sequel "Angels & Demons"; a week later, on May 22, Warner Bros. opens "Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins," while Fox unspools family comedy "Night at the Museum II: Escape From the Smithsonian."

The first "Night at the Museum," released over Christmas in 2006, grossed $250.9 million domestically and $323.2 million overseas.

[DR. Jimcy M.E.]

I'm going to see it but I'm sure there will be scenes that make the naked wrestling scene from Borat look straight. I love when the southern people and jocks get pissed at him from the TV show so it will prob be good.

[moegolden]

I guess this should qualify as spoiler worthy....already it sounds like it will have some great moments....

Borat's alter ego dupes a former Mossad agent
Jul. 4, 2008
David Brinn , THE JERUSALEM POST

It's unclear whether his Mossad retirement benefit card will be confiscated, but former spy and current political analyst Yossi Alpher is certainly feeling sheepish after being fooled by actor Sacha Baron Cohen, aka Borat.

Cohen was in Jerusalem two weeks ago filming scenes for his next movie, Bruno, based on a character the British comedian played in his Da Ali G Show. In that show, Cohen played Bruno as a flamboyant Austrian fashion and celebrity journalist, regularly interviewing unwitting members of the public who weren't aware he wasn't a real person.

Cohen's producers contacted Alpher, a writer on Israel-related strategic issues and co-editor of the Israeli-Palestinian political Web site Bitterlemons, and asked him to be interviewed along with a Palestinian for a documentary that would explain the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the youth of the world.

"The producers explained that our interviewer, a German rock star, was the perfect person to establish strong communication with our audience," Alpher wrote in a column that appeared in The Forward.

Alpher - who served in the Israel Defense Forces as an intelligence officer, followed by 12 years' service in the Mossad and senior positions at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University and the American Jewish Committee's Israel/Middle East office - realized something might not be quite kosher when the "rock star" interviewee brought up Hamas:

"Vait, vait. Vat's zee connection between a political movement and food? Vy humous?" asked the interviewer in heavily accented English, echoing the obsession with the chickpea spread shared by Adam Sandler's Zohan. "Yesterday I had to throw away my pita bread because it vas dripping humous. Unt it's too high in carbohydrates."

The absurd Hamas-humous confusion went on for several minutes, and Alpher began to smell a rat, but stuck with the interview nonetheless - thus joining the long list of prominent figures down the years who have sought to maintain their gravitas while being tricked by one of Cohen's ridiculous personas.

It got worse, Alpher acknowledged: "Then the interviewer declared, 'Your conflict is not so bad. Jennifer-Angelina is worse.'"

Alpher and his Palestinian partner exchanged puzzled glances at the comparison of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie fighting over Brad Pitt, but because they had both received a fee for their appearance, and still hadn't completely internalized that their interviewer was not exactly who he seemed, they soldiered on.

"We played it straight and square... We smiled at the idiotic questions and answered them patiently... We knew something ludicrous was happening but couldn't quite figure it out," Alpher wrote. "Our rock-star host concluded with a mind-boggling song about the epic Middle East conflict between 'Jews and Hindus.' At the crescendo, he grabbed our hands and joined them with his."

Only after the completion of the interview did Alpher realize he'd been had, and that Cohen in the guise of Bruno had struck again.

Alpher had signed a release form before being filmed for the movie, due to be released in May 2009, so he won't likely be filing a lawsuit against Cohen like some of the comedian's patsies in 2006's smash hit Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Trying to make the best of the experience, Alpher asserted, "We ourselves were not being ridiculed - only the conflict that occupies and preoccupies us."

[BeerBelly]

I'm going to see it but I'm sure there will be scenes that make the naked wrestling scene from Borat look straight. I love when the southern people and jocks get pissed at him from the TV show so it will prob be good.

and the asshole newyorker not not wanting his face touched
along with the little bitch running and screaming "get away
from me !" was very funny too

[moegolden]

Oh shit much more info is starting to leak.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0708081bruno1.html


Fake Ark. bouts showing men kissing draw suspicion

By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press Writer Tue Jul 8, 6:13 AM ET

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others' clothes off and kissing — a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of "Borat" fame.
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"We had a contract for cage fighting. We were deceived," said Dwight Duncan, president and CEO of Four States Fair Grounds in Texarkana, where the first of two Arkansas fights raised suspicions last month.

Matt Labov, a Los Angeles-based publicist for Baron Cohen, said he had no comment Monday about the faked fights. One of Baron Cohen's movies is due out next year.

The day after the June 5 Texarkana bout, Fort Smith's convention center hosted "Blue Collar Brawlin.'" Fort Smith police Sgt. Adam Holland said organizers told him a character named "Straight Dave" would goad a planted audience member into the ring for a fight.

The two men would then wrestle, rip away some of their clothes and share a brief kiss reminiscent of one between Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell in the film "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby."

Producers said "there would be a romantic embrace," Holland said. "They said it was kind of to essentially make fun, poke fun at wrestling — two guys rolling around on the floor, all sweaty."

An elaborate array of mounted and handheld video cameras caught the crowd of 1,600's reaction as the two men "went right up to the line" of the city's morality laws, Holland said. The two men stripped down to their underwear, kissed and rubbed on each other, the sergeant said.

The audience, as well as local fighters drawn to take part in the show, became enraged. "It set the crowd off lobbing beers," Holland said. "They had beers in plastic cups. Those things can get some distance on them actually."

Holland said it took officers about 45 minutes to clear the convention center, as the two actors sprinted away through a specially set-aside tunnel.

Those in attendance were told by several signs on display that they'd be filmed, Holland said, and signed waivers before the event. Convention center sales director Karin Hobbs declined to name the event's sponsor Monday.

Baron Cohen became a national celebrity after his 2006 hit movie "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," in which he played a bumbling reporter from the Central Asia nation.

News of the faked cage fights comes as Baron Cohen is in production of a movie titled "Bruno," named after the gay Austrian fashion reporter he developed for "Da Ali G Show." Baron Cohen, in the guise of Bruno, often interviewed hapless subjects in the South.

If the cage match visits came from Baron Cohen, it wouldn't be the first time Arkansas fell for a practical joke. In 2000, then-Gov. Mike Huckabee fell for a prank and congratulated Canada for preserving its icebound Parliament, calling it a "national igloo."

[WhiteHonkyDevil]

Wow, maybe they'll get Cohen in the studio so he can do nothing but keep repeating the same hack lines over and over again.

Cutting edge.

[moegolden]

this poster makes me want to see the movie right now....

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/graphics/art4/0708081bruno1.jpg

[Arc Lite]

I'm sorry but that's pretty funny. The smoking gun article has the "alleged" title:

Brüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt.

[moegolden]

Wow, maybe they'll get Cohen in the studio so he can do nothing but keep repeating the same hack lines over and over again.

Cutting edge.

come on....you're only jaded because you see him make all of the appearances on all of these shows at different times and do some of these rehearsed bits in character the same way.

i don't associate him with the word hack, even if he may be hacking his own bits. Creating Borat was impressive enough on any level. at some point, the jaded audience folk has got to cut the guy some slack.

in the old days of show business (vaudeville, borscht belt, casinos, etc), a guy could live on the same 20-minute act for 10 years. then came TV.
Carlin changed our expectations as to how much new material we could ever want or expect out of a guy. read louis ck's carlin entry. http://www.louisck.net/2008/06/goodbye-george-carlin.html

i'm thankful that we're not in pre-tv age anymore, but i'd just suggest you not watch any of cohen's talk show appearances as Bruno if you want to keep the element of suprise for this.

like i said, i think bruno would probably be tougher to pull off than borat, because there is so much gay-oriented comedy out there.

[moegolden]

I'm sorry but that's pretty funny. The smoking gun article has the "alleged" title:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_(film)
sez that title was merely a suggestion from a blog.

[WhiteHonkyDevil]

come on....you're only jaded because you see him make all of the appearances on all of these shows at different times and do some of these rehearsed bits in character the same way.

i don't associate him with the word hack, even if he may be hacking his own bits. Creating Borat was impressive enough on any level. at some point, the jaded audience folk has got to cut the guy some slack.

in the old days of show business (vaudeville, borscht belt, casinos, etc), a guy could live on the same 20-minute act for 10 years. then came TV.
Carlin changed our expectations as to how much new material we could ever want or expect out of a guy. read louis ck's carlin entry. http://www.louisck.net/2008/06/goodbye-george-carlin.html

i'm thankful that we're not in pre-tv age anymore, but i'd just suggest you not watch any of cohen's talk show appearances as Bruno if you want to keep the element of suprise for this.

like i said, i think bruno would probably be tougher to pull off than borat, because there is so much gay-oriented comedy out there.

I'm only jaded because I never found him funny, and when he was on O&A promoting the show, he did the same routine he did YEARS before when he was on a local station here in Detroit promoting Da Ali G show premiering on HBO

[ShooterMcGavin]

Trailer?

[moegolden]

VIDEO: Sacha Baron Cohen held by police after outrageous stunt on Milan catwalk
Last updated at 7:45 PM on 26th September 2008

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1062374/VIDEO-Sacha-Baron-Cohen-held-police-outrageous-stunt-Milan-catwalk.html

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/26/article-1062374-02CF430D00000578-489_468x520.jpg

[moegolden]

title said to be
"Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male."

[moegolden]

Sacha Baron Cohen crashes LA rally as 'Bruno'
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9476G4O0&show_article=1

[weakside]

I have been looking forward to this.

[moegolden]

I have a feeling he's gonna go for the record for full frontal male nudity in a mainstream film.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/12/sacha-baron-cohen-hires-p_n_143189.html