Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno tops weekend box office

July 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Sacha Baron Cohen's latest movie, Bruno, has taken his comic antics to the Middle East, but his jokes have not gone down too well with his Israeli and Palestinian victims. Bruno is a fashion reporter, a fictional gay character portrayed by Baron Cohen, whose goal is to become the biggest Austrian celebrity since Hitler.

July 16th, 2009 Gentler 'Bruno' to play in UK for younger teens LOS ANGELES — "Bruno" is getting a makeover in Great Britain so younger teens can see the movie. Universal Pictures UK is releasing an edited version of Sacha (SAH'-shuh) Baron Cohen's comedy that will tone down the racy moments so it can earn a 15 certification from the British Board of Film Classification.

July 14th, 2009 LONDON - Brit comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's film 'Bruno' will now also have a special 15-certificate version, after many under 18 youngsters thronged movie theatres to view it. The move was announced by studio chiefs on July 13, after hordes of young fans had to be turned away from cinemas that were showing the above 18 version, reports the Sun.

July 13th, 2009 LONDON - Brit comedian Sacha Baron Cohen gave cinemagoers watching the New York screening of Bruno more than they bargained for, when he gatecrashed the movie. Cohen, 37, stunned fans when he stormed into Times Square's AMC Empire cinema as his gay Austrian fashionista creation, dressed in a silver uniform and revealing red thong.

July 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has hired Enrique Iglesias' bodyguard for an interview with a terrorist after all other security agencies disagreed to help him in the venture. The actor wanted to chat with a real life wanted Middle Eastern killer in his new film 'Bruno', where he plays an outrageous Austrian.

July 1st, 2009 Fashion designers look forward to "Bruno"BERLIN — Austrian fashion designer Lena Hoschek says she is not put off by the prospect of "Bruno" — Sacha Baron Cohen's new film where he plays an over-the-top flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion enthusiast. Hoschek, who is popular for her 1950s pinup girl style clothes with U.S.

June 29th, 2009 Baron Cohen's Bruno falls for Australian PMSYDNEY — British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's new character has a thing for Australia's wonkish prime minister. Baron Cohen, once better known as the clueless Kazakh journalist Borat, has a new guise as a gay Austrian fashionista, Bruno.

June 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Sacha Baron Cohen and his fiancee/actress Isla Fisher have put their wedding plans on hold, for the Brit comedian is busy promoting his new film 'Bruno', where he plays a gay fashion designer. The couple have been together for seven years and originally intended to get hitched in August 2006, reports the Daily Star.

June 19th, 2009 LONDON - Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson has claimed that she is such a big fan of 'Bruno'-comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's latest alter ego-that she has even named her son after him. Bruno is a fictional gay Austrian fashion reporter portrayed by Baron Cohen, who interviews unsuspecting guests about topics like fashion, entertainment, celebrities and homosexuality The 49-year-old British cook has two children Cosima, 14, and Bruno, 12, from her first marriage to the late journalist John Diamond.

June 18th, 2009 Baron Cohen's Bruno has military flair at premiereLONDON — Sacha Baron Cohen made a grand entrance Wednesday for the British premiere of his new mock documentary "Bruno," turning up in a skimpy variation of the uniforms worn by Buckingham Palace guards. The British comedian came in character as Bruno in a towering bearskin hat, a red military waistcoat and tight black shorts.

June 18th, 2009 Baron Cohen appears as bull in SpainMADRID — Actor Sacha Baron Cohen's latest movie character, an Austrian fashionista called Bruno, drew gasps and some cheers as he appeared dressed as a bull in front of Spain's main bullring Thursday. The British actor-comedian who was in Madrid to promote his new movie — "Bruno" — arrived in a horse-drawn carriage escorted by muscular matadors just as the sun set on the historic bullring Las Ventas.

June 18th, 2009 LONDON - Brit comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has posed naked as Bruno for the cover of GQ magazine. The picture shows Cohen wearing nothing as he sits posing with a coiffed and highlighted fringe and pout, reports the Mirror.

June 16th, 2009 Baron Cohen _ as Bruno _ poses nude on cover of GQNEW YORK — Sacha Baron Cohen strips down as his alter ego — Austrian fashionista Bruno — for the July cover of GQ magazine. According to the magazine, Bruno is the first subject to appear fully naked on the cover.

June 1st, 2009 Bare-butt 'Bruno' lands on Eminem at Movie AwardsLOS ANGELES — Eminem apparently has flown the coop from the MTV Movie Awards after a close encounter with Sacha Baron Cohen. In character as flamboyant fashion reporter "Bruno," Baron Cohen flew in above Sunday's award show audience on a wire — and in a pair of feathery white wings and his rear end mostly exposed.

May 8th, 2009 LONDON - Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen was left in so much pain after a body bleaching process went insanely wrong that he could not sit for three days. Baron decided to bleach his body to fit into his character of a gay Austrian fashion reporter in his forthcoming flick 'Bruno', as he was told that mostly gays are hairless.