Battleship
The Avengers continued to hold onto the top spot at the box office, sinking three major new releases in the process.
The Avengers grossed an estimated $55 million in its third week of release, Box Office Mojo reports. The expensive action film Battleship, starring Taylor Kitsch and Rihanna, plundered just...
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Sacha Baron Cohen, The Dictator
The Dictator has won!
The Acadmy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has invited Sacha Baron Cohen to attend Sunday night's Oscar ceremony dressed as his title character in the upcoming film The Dictator, Deadline reports. This decision reverses the Academy's previous stance banning attendees using the red carpet for "stunting" or self-promotion. Baron Cohen had originally planned on walking the Oscars red carpet as the fictional Admiral General Aladeen.
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Sacha Baron Cohen
The Academy has made it clear that the Oscar red carpet is no place for "stunting" and self-promotion -- which may prove problematic for British comedic actor Sacha Baron Cohen.
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Sacha Baron Cohen, Freddie Mercury
Sacha Baron Cohen is going from Borat to "Bohemian Rhapsody."
The comedian is set to play Freddie Mercury in a biopic about the iconic Queen frontman, GK Films announced Friday.
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Currently untitled, the film will chronicle ...
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Larry Charles
CBS has ordered a presentation pilot from the team behind Borat and Bruno, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Penned by Borat, Bruno and Da Ali G Show writer Ant Hines, the comedy will revolve around a British low-life (Paul Kaye) who ...
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Bruno
A Palestinian shopkeeper portrayed as a terrorist in this summer's Bruno is suing Sacha Baron Cohen for libel in a $110 million lawsuit, the Associated Press reports.
In the film, Ayman Abu Aita, who filed the suit last week in District of Columbia federal court, was identified as a member of the militant group Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, which is "utterly false ...
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Bruno
Brüno needed a new look to secure an R rating stateside, and now it's undergone another one — this time for the kids.
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Sacha Baron Cohen's raucous comedy has been re-edited in England for younger audiences in an effort to boost revenue, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It marks the first time that two versions of a film are being simultaneously released in theaters in England.
The new "15"-rated version is 110 seconds shorter than the original "18"-rated version. Three scenes featuring heavy sexual content were snipped: a montage of exaggerated sex between Brüno and his boyfriend; Brüno pretending to have ...
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Bruno
Brüno beat dinosaurs at the box office, but can it beat Borat?
Sacha Baron Cohen's latest cringe-inducing mockumentary reeled in $30.4 million, good enough to win the weekend. But Brüno made half of its total on Friday and took an atypical nosedive over the weekend. Movies usually gross more over the weekend — Saturday especially — but Brüno only made $8.8 million on Saturday and $7.2 million on Sunday.
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Borat opened with $26.5 and finished its theatrical run with $128.5 million.
In second place was Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, with $28.5 million. The animated family film has ...
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Sacha Baron Cohen
A lawyer for Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno responded to a woman's lawsuit over the forthcoming film, calling it a "demonstrably and ludicrously false complaint" and urging her lawyers to drop the case.
Richelle Olson filed a suit against the movie's star and studio last week claiming that she was injured at...
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Eminem, Sacha Baron Cohen
Eminem is confirming that his surprise run-in with Brüno at the MTV Movie Awards was a pre-arranged stunt.
"Sacha [Baron Cohen] called me when we were in Europe and he had an idea to do something outrageous at the Movie Awards," he told RapRadar.com. "I'm a big fan of his work so I agreed to get involved with the gag."
In their staged Sunday gag, a thong-clad...
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