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Calling the film a “one day wonder,” TIME critic Richard Corliss contends that insta-reviews on Twitter are responsible for huge drop-off in attendance for Bruno, which did much less business on Saturday than on its opening day, unlike its competitors. Corliss cites box office data: Buoyed by the film’s robust $1.6 million at Thursday midnight screenings and impressive pre-buys of …

Sasha Baron Cohen’s Bruno narrowly won its first weekend at the box office, bringing in $30.4M in its first three days. The third installment in the Ice Age franchise came in second with $28.4M in its second weekend. Three years ago Borat made $26.5M in its first weekend, but did so on less than one-third as many screens as Bruno. …

Last night my loyal companion Aaron accompanied me to the 7:40pm showing of Bruno at Times Square’s AMC Empire 25, the nation’s busiest movie theater. Folks who tend to call movies “films” like to trumpet their avoidance of the Empire due to its notoriously raucous minority teenage patrons, but I wanted to see the movie with exactly that audience. Bruno …

Under the headline Stop ‘Brüno’ From Molesting Children and Teens, Christian movie review site Movieguide says they are asking the government to suspend today’s release of Bruno. Movieguide® has sent a letter asking local government officials throughout the U.S. to consider stopping the screening of the controversial movie “Brüno” starring comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, Movieguide® Publisher Dr. Ted Baehr announced …

“While the film scores plenty of laughs by mercilessly exposing dim-witted homophobes, Bruno’s persona also embodies some really lazy, crude gay stereotypes. A sex-obsessed ‘cockaholic,’ he is a shallow bitchy queen who uses and abuses everyone around him. Not nice. On the plus side, ultra gay Bruno will make many bigoted straight people feel uncomfortable, which is a delicious prospect. …

One year ago today I told you about a cage match stunt pulled by Sasha Baron Cohen in which two wrestlers kissed in the ring, rather than fought, thereby inciting an Arkansas audience into throwing projectiles and screaming homophobic insults. It took security and police 45 minutes to clear the venue as the actors escaped a guaranteed beating via a …

Some folks are concerned over Sasha Baron Cohen’s upcoming Bruno movie, saying that the character crosses the line from satire into stereotyping. I don’t care for Cohen, usually, but I’ll likely see the film. (Via – Towleroad)