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Universal pays niiiiiccceeeee monies for Cohen's BRUNO!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I have missed 2 chances now to see BORAT and I think I'm going a little bit crazy in my brain. I want to see it so bad. And apparently Universal thinks there are a whole helluva lotta people out there like me because they just paid $42.5 million for Sacha Baron Cohen's next flick, BRUNO. It seems he has a monopoly on 5 letter character name titles that start with B.
BRUNO is focused on another of Cohen's characters, a gay fashionista in Austria. Congratulations to the Cohen team for getting such a sweet deal... now I just gotta figure out how to see BORAT before my laughter-less heart dies.
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I feel lame!
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liked Ali G, wasn't my thang. But Borat rules.
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Oct 30, 2006 1:28:30 AM CST
Why do I keep popping up in the top of the Talkback?
by i am a machineee
Don't be obnoxious, we all complain about firsters, but when given the chance, well y'know...
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is just compensation for having a small penis. Oh wait... ZING!
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Christ. No pressure then? Bruno was funny from what we saw of him, but $42.5 mill(£22.4 mill in real money) funny?
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But his segments on Da Ali G show were always my favorites.
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Ali G, Borat, Bruno...maybe he should mae a nother Ali G movie. But this time he should do it right!
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Damn you Michael Bay
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why is being gay so out this season??
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won't they run into the same problem as the Jackass crew did for their sequel? after Borat has been saturated everywhere, how will they get any more "real" segments? without real people reacting to Cohen's characters and his manipulation of them, Bruno kind of takes a nosedive in funniness. borat would still hold up, and Ali G, well, we all saw how unfunny he is without real people reacting to him. it's called Ali G's Indahouse.
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Fuck!
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mach nichts! wenn ich auf deutsch scriben, ich wurde auch ein paar "typos" machen.
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Sacha said he has a new character, one that he may have already doing in places and no-one has known. If it's Bruno people will just know, and how can they make it any different from the Borat movie? It couldn't be in the UK or anything because EVERYONE knows him. Should be a new character and setup.
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SBC is overrated, why on earth do you think that he displaced himself to the US cos we Brits got bored of the same shit again and again!!!
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Quint,
I have an extra ticket to a Borat screening in Los Angeles on Wednesday, if you're in the area. It's just a couple of days before wide release, but it's still a couple of days. Let me know if you want the ticket. -
I'm only interested in this if Bruno is played by a harmonica-blowin' Bruce Willis.
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$42M? That's a lot of money for one man taunting homophobes with mock-cocoa shunting. Could be v.good provided its more borat and less Ali G in Da house. I hope he takes advantage of his current power and has a real grab at the fashion industry instead of these affectionate love ins we've had up to now - Pret-a-bullshit and the Devil wears something unbelievably expensive but essentially looks ridiculous.
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Really?
I mean...really!?
Borat is very funny.
Not overly creative though. Not Austin Powers kind of genius with endless tent pole potential.Mike Myers someone didn't get anywhere near that kind of deal.
42 mill is way too high. That's insane. Sort of like Seinfelds 9 figure pay days and numbnuts who made Alias, Lost, and MI:3 and then moonwalked into a 30 mill contract.
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Shouldn't they have waited a week or two? Snakes on a Plane got this kind of hype an it wasn't very successful.
I am a big Bruno fan. I love the the way he shows how incredibly vapid the fashion industry is. -
I've always found Bruno's sketches on The Ali G show groan inducing, so I'm not looking forward to this..... and I'm not homophobic, I just don't like the character.
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not just giving him 42 million, right? That is a pretty small budget and it could easily pull that in a weekend or two if it hits at the right time. If it doesn't, it will probably still make more than that on DVD. Not much of a gamble, imo. I think Bruno can be funny, especially when he is in Alabama, but I also thought the next movie was a new character.
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I am not offended by Bruno but do you think that Gay Rights Groups will protest any of the content?
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Bruno makes fun of homophobes and fashion idiots, it isn't a character that mocks gays.
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"The price includes the production budget of the film..."
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will take out a 4 page advertisement in the new york times to improve their image before the movie comes out...
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CORNY MIOTHERFUCKERS!!
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I love Borat and I can't wait till next weekend but Bruno was always my favorite. The episode from the second season where Bruno goes on spring break and then gets those drunken frat boys riled up only to turn it on them and get them to shout gay stuff was THE FUNNIEST THING THAT'S EVER BEEN PUT ON TELEVISION.
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the scene with the wrestling team (all half-naked and living in an RV, hmmm...) when he announces they're on "Austrian gay TV!" is classic. However he has a much narrower range of targets than Borat and only provokes the homophobe reaction whereas Borat runs the gamut of race, sexuality, politics etc.
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Fox set that up a while back, after finding out the movie was "testing" poorly early on. Fox Execs have come out and said that they made a huge mistake, and are scrambling to rush it into wide release. Turns out it's been getting phenomenal reviews. Why the disparity ? Probably because the dumb-ass hick rubes who have the time to show up for focus group events are exactly the kinds of idiots Borat is making fun of ... and they probably just didn't get it.
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Oct 30, 2006 1:07:30 PM CST
Borat will not bomb and Cohen is not overrated
by the ghost of marcus brody
Cohen and Gervais are genius and it's about time the states discovers them.
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I mean hes sort of funny in TN (I think that was him), but I just dont find him funny. In the minority here I think.
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Just like SOAP, there's been so much written and said about Borat that people may not bother actually seeing it when it comes out. They're already burned out on it. I predict a box office south of $50 million. Which, given all the hype, would be pretty disappointing.
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You're damn right gay groups will protest! I totally support the rights of gay folks to get married and do whatever the fuck else they want to do, but some "gay rights" organizations get way out of hand with who they protest and try to bully. Save your energy for the people who'd strip you of your rights as American citizens - God knows there's no shortage of 'em out there. Don't waste time and money on people like Kevin Smith, because that's just stupid and you lose a lot more sympathy than you gain with stunts like that.
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Hmmm....Mike Myers a genius? not sure about that one mate. Seems like pretty simple humour to me, 'Yeah baby! and 'Shagadelic baby!' is all pretty tame. SBC isn't just extremely funny, but includes serious undertones. He may not be a genius but his comedy is more intellectual than Mike Myers' will ever be. And the idea he's getting paid more due to the fact that he's Jewish? come on! are you really that single minded?
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Mt question is, if Borat is so damn funny why haven't I seen anything funny in the previews?
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...if they think a BRUNO film will be nearly as popular as BORAT. Bruno isn't nearly as well known, and sadly, the fact that he is gay will surely be offputting to a percentage of American audiences. When the news of this movie first stared hitting the press, they made it sound as if Cohen had invented a n entirely new character... that would have been more interesting.
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It's been cut to only 800 theaters on Friday because hardly anyone knew about Borat when polled. Wait till the film opens atleast. Stupid waste of $$$.
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