Ali G Film Set for Prime Video Five Days After Theater Debut

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ali G: Who Iz I? is scheduled to arrive on Prime Video on October 28, just five days after its theatrical release began on October 23. Cohen announced the streaming date through Ali G’s official social-media account. The film’s short interval between its cinema opening and streaming debut places it on a rapid release schedule, though Amazon has not publicly explained the timing in the reports describing the announcement. The comedy, which marks Cohen’s feature directorial debut, follows Ali G as he learns that his girlfriend is eight months pregnant and travels to America. The character originated in Cohen’s sketch comedy work and returns in the new film after a long absence. The film’s theatrical release began on October 23; two accounts described its cinema run as lasting two days before the scheduled Prime Video debut. In the announcement, Cohen adopted the character’s familiar dialect and joked about how many times viewers could watch the 89-minute film in a day. The October 28 date is a scheduled streaming release, based on Cohen’s announcement, rather than a separately described confirmation of the film’s availability after that date. Amazon MGM...