A Palestinian man suing the makers of Brüno for being portrayed as a “terrorist group leader”—when he is, in fact, a socialist “community organizer”—has refiled his case with a few more recognizable names added to his list of defendants: Actor Jonah Hill and director Jay Roach, both co-producers on the film, have now joined Sacha Baron Cohen and NBC Universal in the complaint. The defamation suit also includes David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants production company and CBS, who were ...
[Read More]
Isla Fisher has married her long-term fiancé, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in a romantic sunset ceremony in Paris, Woman’s Day can reveal.
[Read More]
Just a week ago, Sacha Baron Cohen was announced as an Oscar presenter. Now, suddenly, he has vanished from that list. An insider familiar with the Oscar telecast says an Avatar sketch planned by Baron Cohen and Ben Stiller was nixed yesterday by show producer Bill Mechanic, who worried that James Cameron would be so offended by it that he might even walk out of the Oscar broadcast on live TV.
[Read More]
Apatow, Miller to produce Columbia comedy Columbia Pictures has set an untitled comedy that will star Sacha Baron Cohen as master detective Sherlock Holmes and Will Ferrell as Watson, his crime-solving partner. Etan Cohen ("Tropic Thunder") is writing the script, and Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller will produce.
[Read More]
Baron Cohen, 38, confirmed Oscar-nominated Baynham would be his lead writer after forming his own film production company Four By Two Films. The first fruit of their new collaboration is Accidentes, in which the former Ali G star will play an ambulance-chasing lawyer who helps a poor US immigrant win a judgement against his wealthy employer.
[Read More]
Malaysia has banned Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno movie. Although the country's government-controlled National Film Censorship Board gave no reason for rejecting the film, it is likely to be for its sexually explicit scenes and vulgar language. Bruno has also been prohibited in the Ukraine, Lebanon and Bahamas.
[Read More]
Sacha Baron Cohen is set to play an outrageous Eurovision singer for his next movie. He had originally planned a plot in which he entered the contest for Austria in his Bruno alter-ego. But since he has decided to put the camp creation to rest, he is now dreaming up a new character for the mockumentary.
[Read More]
The British comedian behind Bruno has tightened his security after a Middle Eastern terror group issued a hostile threat against him. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is "very upset" over its portrayal in Sacha Baron Cohen's film, in which he plays an Austrian homosexual fashion journalist. The Palestinian-based terrorists said they would "respond in a suitable way", according to a statement published online.
[Read More]
Bruno finds Cohen traveling once again to our shores in dogged pursuit of the American Dream, circa 2009: becoming famous for no discernible reason. In his dogged pursuit of celebrity at all costs, Cohen attempts to seduce Ron Paul, horrifies a TV focus group by showing them a dancing naked penis, invites Paula Abdul to eat sushi off a fat naked man, and instigates a full-frontal assault on propriety and sexual repression.
[Read More]
It's safe to say that after more than a decade honing his characters on television and in films, Baron Cohen is more than a comedian. He's the world's most famous performance artist, the inventor of a perfect hybrid of documentary and mockumentary, reality TV and psychodrama, Jackass and Andy Kaufman. When he gets the mixture just right, he creates situations of unbearable tension that at the same time turn out to be unbearably funny.
[Read More]
