The Borat Movie

[Pubrick]

he already went to romania once for a borat tv show and chilled with vilo and his wife and the rest.

cool. i didn't remember that episode. makes it even less of a highlight.

[pete]

just saw the movie, it was funny.  but yeah, when you put a really funny main character in a comedy, there will be people who laugh at him and ignore the heart of it, which is perfectly fine, except all the people in this country with any slight resemblance to borat will get a lot of catcalls from meatheads now.

[MacGuffin]

Bruno Next for Borat
Ach-ja! Sacha Baron Cohen sets follow-up.

The rumors are true. It's Bruno. Sacha Baron Cohen has picked his next project and is currently shopping the Borat follow-up to studios.

Universal Pictures, according to industry insider mag the Hollywood Reporter, has extended a $42 million offer to Baron Cohen for the movie rights to Bruno, a film based on another of the actor's alter egos, a gay Austrian fashion show presenter and "the voice of Austrian youth TV." Bruno is the last of Cohen's outrageous characters to make the jump to the big screen.

THR adds that DreamWorks, Sony, Fox and Warner. Bros. are all also interested in the project.

Bruno is expected to start shooting in the summer. The film, which Baron Cohen is co-writing with Borat collaborator Jay Roach, is still in need of a director.

The character originated on Da Ali G Show in the segment Funkyzeit mit Bruno (Funkytime with Bruno).

[Chest Rockwell]

I don't like Bruno too much, based on what I've seen from the show. It's always the least interesting segment.

[Pubrick]

whatever, he's making a trilogy. he's earned my respect enough to wait and see what he does with it.

i liked the Ali G movie, and that was a different style than the show. Bruno will get married maybe, or he might get together with borat and ali g in a threesome that last 2 hours, who knows.

[squints]

i found borat and bruno the absolute funniest part of the show. Ali G was unfunny most of the time and the movie was godawful

[pete]

bruno is funny but he seems to be the least-developed character in all of the alig g show.  the original format seemed to be--ali g interviews the experts and the politicians, borat interviews the "life coaches" and the upper class, and bruno interviews the fashion and art elites, but when they came to America, they just seemed to step a class down.  Ali G was still talking to the same people for the most part, but borat and bruno started going out to the midwest and the south a wholelot, to interact with them goofy rightwing racists sexists.  it's always funny to hear old farmers and suburbanites spouting hate speech, but it's much less satisfying than the life coaches and fashion elites.  they still did some of that, but it seemed like all of that backwater south stuff coulda been covered in one episode, but instead it became a majority of the skits.

[Reinhold]

I think most of the laughs don't actually come from the writing.  the writing is great, but I just think the performance is amazing.  the accent, the grammar, the gestures, and the vocabulary make borat so outstanding.

yeah, he only loses the character a little in the fight scene, and i don't blame him there.

[gob]

The Running of the Jew was my favourite moment. It's a funny film and therefore does it's job.
I was thinking all the way through the movie how much of it was real and how much was staged/organised?

[Kal]

I heard this is only openning in 800-1000 screens at the most... why are Studios so fucking clueless?

They give bullshit films like Flicka 3000 screens and they tank. Then, they promote the shit out of this movie for a year (which became already a hit for people who didnt even know Borat) and now they do a limit bullshit release on the same weekend that they give Santa Clause 3 and Flushed Away more than 3000 screens.

Same as they gave last weekend Flags of our Fathers less than 2000 screens and they complained how it made less money than Prestige and Departed, and those had like 500 screens more. Makes no sense...

[Chest Rockwell]

The reason they took it down to 800 theaters is because of Snake on a Plane's performance. That movie did surprisingly bad, like $15 mil on opening weekend if I recall. Considering the hype machine was very similar for that one (large internet sensation surrounding it), which failed to generate ticket sales, whatever studio coming out with Borat just decided to put away the large opening in hopes good ticket sales on the 800 screens it is opening on and word of mouth will prompt a wider release. Makes sense really; I can imagine it's mostly going to be the same people that went out to SoaP that'll see this movie. Hopefully it will perform better, though.

[Kal]

With the difference that Snakes on a Plane had ONLY a cool title and people knew that. The reviews (the few that got out) were horrible. Borat so far has had only but praise from the media, festivals, and everybody that came in contact with it. I think it will do great... but in this country full with retards you never know. After all, Saw 3 was the 5th biggest October openning ever with almost 35 million.

[Pubrick]

I think it will do great... but in this country full with retards you never know. After all, Saw 3 was the 5th biggest October openning ever with almost 35 million.

this is both hilarious and depressing.

[MacGuffin]

Uni wins 'Bruno' auction for $42.5 mil
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Universal Pictures has won the intense bidding war for "Bruno," Sacha Baron Cohen's follow-up movie to "Borat."

Sources said that Universal is paying $42.5 million, beating out such other contenders as DreamWorks, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. Pictures for the worldwide rights to the film. The price includes the production budget of the film, rumored to be in the $20 million-$25 million range. Also included is a significant backend component, believed to be the 15% range.

The price has raised eyebrows in Hollywood because Baron Cohen's much-hyped "Borat" has yet to open. Despite much advance praise for "Borat," distributor Fox scaled back its Friday opening to about 800 theaters because it is concerned that the movie wasn't registering high enough in audience-awareness tracking.

With "Bruno," Baron Cohen is calling upon another of his comic alter egos, Bruno, a gay fashionista from Austria who fancies himself as "the voice of Austrian youth TV" and who sashayed from New York Fashion Week to Miami nightclubs in his previous appearance on HBO's "Da Ali G Show,"on which Baron Cohen also first introduced Borat to American audiences.

As in the case of "Borat," Jay Roach would produce with Baron Cohen. No director is on board, though it has been reported that Baron Cohen wants to shoot the movie during the summer.

[Pubrick]

No director is on board, though it has been reported that Baron Cohen wants to shoot the movie during the summer.

so the sun might direct it..