Borat

BRUNO Blu-ray Review

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: November 17th, 2009 at 9:31 pm

We’re done with Sacha Baron Cohen’s most famous creations, cinematically speaking. When Da Ali G show hit it was a sensation in England, and a cult hit in America, and ignitied some stateside interest in this great prankster. On the show he played the daft Ali G (which was turned into the film Ali G Indahouse, released DTV stateside), the foreigner Borat (which was turned into runaway hit Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan) and the gay German fashionista Bruno (turned into Bruno). With the huge success of Borat, the possibility of Cohen being able to prank people got smaller and smaller, and so Bruno is the last shot until Cohen turns himself into something new, or hides for a while. My review of Bruno after the jump.

Weekend Box Office – BRÜNO Takes Number One with $30 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: July 12th, 2009 at 10:18 am

The weekend belonged to Sacha Baron Cohen and “Brüno” – had it gone down differently it would have made the last ten months of tireless promotion seem kind of over the top.  Though “Brüno” was the clear winner with $30 million in its first three days, this is not exactly the win that Universal may have hoped for when it picked up the rights to Baron Cohen’s latest mockumentary.  Not only did “Brüno” fail to blow those “Borat” percentages out of the water, but the prospects of the film showing “Borat” sized legs through the coming weeks is almost non-existent… unless watching two men, er, kiss suddenly becomes a lot more acceptable in the heartland.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Brüno	$30,426,000	$30,426,000
2	Ice Age 3D	$28,500,000	$120,573,000
3	Transformers 2	$24,200,000	$339,208,000
4	Public Enemies	$14,111,000	$66,538,000
5	The Proposal	$10,507,000	$113,764,000
6	The Hangover	$9,930,000	$222,442,000
7	I Love You, Beth Cooper	$5,000,000	$5,000,000
8	Up	$4,656,000	$273,775,000
9	My Sister’s Keeper	$4,180,000	$35,801,000
10	Taking of Pelham 1 2 3	$1,600,000	$61,194,000

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