Buzz Watch: Talladega Nights and Sacha Baron Cohen

Authored by Jay Baage on August 4, 2006 - 11:20am.

Will Farrell’s latest movie “ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ”, that premiers today Friday, has gathered unusually good reviews for an outrageous comedy and is currently number 3 on the Yahoo! Buzz index for movies and moving up (+11% today). The Sony Pictures website has a feature that allows you to create your own movie poster, but as you can see, the result is so-so (maybe it’s because of my picture)…

An interesting side note is that talented British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (+167%) is also featured in the NASCAR comedy. Cohen is soon coming out with his own movie &ldquot;Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhastan,” based on one of his most popular characters from the Ali G (+12%) show: Borat Sagdiyev (+24%). The character has already has caused major issues with the nation of Kazakhastan because of the unfavorable way he depicts the country and its citizens and the movie will surely stir things up again when it premiers in November.