Bruno Called Out as Fraud

Palestinian political figure, Ayman Abu Aita, is calling Bruno fraudulent for lying about their meeting while being cast in a villainous terrorist leadership role for the Bruno movie. Truth of the matter is that Ayman had already served prison time, and have worked directly with Jewish state officials after the prison term.

There were no secret locations, and no bodyguards.  The interview took place in a “popular restaurant called Everest in the town of Beit Jala, which is in a section in the West Bank under Israeli control,” and the second was “Sammy Awad, the American manager of the Holy Land Trust“.

If this is true, the Sacha Cohen interview on David Letterman leads him to lose credibility. Maybe it was not a good time to come out of the Bruno character because now Sacha Cohen is accused of lying, and not Bruno (fictional character) accused of lying.

This may have more legs for a case than the bingo hall incident.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103797

Bruno: Opening Weekend Total Ticket Sales

Bruno the Movie had a strong showing on Friday, before losing steam as there wasn’t enough die hard fans of Sacha Baron Cohen to help with ticket sales on Saturday and Sunday. By industry standards, Saturday should be the best day for movie ticket sales.

1. Friday $14.4 million
2. Saturday $8.8 million (-38.89%)
3. Sunday $7.2 million (-18.18%)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/13/earlyshow/leisure/boxoffice/main5154166.shtml

Hard to say if Bruno is going to be a one trick pony with little box office longevity. In the meantime, it is being compared to movies like Watchmen, Twilight, and Hannah Montana: The Movie which would eventually gross an average of $229 million in worldwide sales.

Bruno did well along the East and West Coast where movie goers are more open minded, while sales were soft in the middle America where people may be easily offended by a fake gay character.