{"id":499,"date":"2007-03-14T18:02:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/14\/slate-on-bruno\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T18:02:08","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T18:02:08","slug":"slate-on-bruno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/03\/14\/slate-on-bruno\/","title":{"rendered":"Slate on Bruno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Masters at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/\">Slate<\/a> has an interesting piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0056187\/\">Sacha Baron Cohen<\/a> and the deal his agents (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Endeavor_Agency\">Endeavor<\/a>) struck with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universalstudios.com\/index.php\">Universal<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruno_%28film%29\"><strong>Bruno<\/strong><\/a>, his next\u00a0film\u00a0project.<\/p>\n<p>She <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2161735\/fr\/rss\/\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Fox let slip the opportunity to make <em>Bruno<\/em>, Sacha Baron Cohen&#8217;s follow-up to <em>Borat<\/em>, some thought the studio let one of the hottest stars in the firmament get away. Others said the deal, which cost more than $40 million, was too rich\u2014especially since it&#8217;s an open question whether Cohen can pull off another movie based on people not recognizing him (this time as a gay Austrian fashion maven).<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Bruno<\/em> deal raises another good question: Has Endeavor, the agency that represents Cohen, invented the perfect crime? Or did it simply come up with a clever way of striking a very favorable deal that infuriates the studios?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It explores the way the deal may have been structured and whether or not it makes sense for Universal.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of it just click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2161735\/fr\/rss\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2161735\/fr\/rss\">Original article at Slate<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruno_%28Sacha_Baron_Cohen_character%29\">Find out more about the Bruno character at Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0056187\/\">IMDb entry for Sacha Baron Cohen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Masters at Slate has an interesting piece on Sacha Baron Cohen and the deal his agents (Endeavor) struck with Universal for Bruno, his next\u00a0film\u00a0project. She reports: When Fox let slip the opportunity to make Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen&#8217;s follow-up to Borat, some thought the studio let one of the hottest stars in the firmament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}