You’ve got to hand it to Hollywood. As a collective, the town is quite good finding scapegoats to blame for their mistakes. Case in point: Twitter. Did you know that the reason some movies—cough, Brüno—have done poorly at the box office this summer is because of the Twitter Effect? The answer is … Read More
With all this extra money lying around, perhaps it might be time for Hogwarts to add a new wing to the campus: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ruled the roost over the weekend conjuring up an estimated $79.4 million in ticket sales. (Wizard jokes, hello!) Add that to the nearly $80 million Read More
If a slightly disappointing opening weekend wasn’t bad enough for Brüno, now it looks like even the controversy about Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest prank is smaller than anticipated. As The Hollywood Reporter noted yesterday, the only lawsuit pending against Mr. Cohen—a ridiculous one involving charity bingo and brain bleeds—has been dropped. And Read More
What’s Austrian for “not as good as we thought?” It was a tale of two weekends for Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno. On the one hand, the guerrilla comedy pulled down an estimated $30.4 million in ticket sales to pace the field; on the other, the total gross came in well below the Read More
If you aren’t in the mood to laugh, we suggest staying away from movie theaters this weekend. Three films hit screens today, all with the express purpose of making you laugh (and possibly cringe). As we do every Friday, here’s a handy guide to the new releases.
Brüno
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Brüno
Running time 83 minutes
Written by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer and Jeff Schaffer
Directed by Larry Charles
Starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten
So here’s the problem: How exactly should one judge the new Sacha Baron Cohen movie, Brüno? Should it be critiqued on its success in shocking people (a Read More
No need to channel-surf! Here’s a list of notables on late night tonight. We’ll post each weekday, for your convenience!
The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 11:30pm): Sacha Baron Cohen; Rob Thomas.
The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm): Samuel L. Jackson; Kevin Connolly; musical guest Andrew Bird.
Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC,12:05am): Kathy Read More
The upcoming summer movie season has plenty of comedies—Funny People, Year One, The Hangover—but, chances are, the only one that will still be talked about come September is Sasha Baron Cohen’s Bruno. When twenty minutes of the comedy screened at the South by Southwest Film Festival a couple of weeks back, bloggers and Twitterers Read More
