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‘The Naked Gun’ Filmmaker Akiva Schaffer Explains Why He Limited the Reboot to One O.J. Joke
Writer-director Akiva Schaffer initially thought a reboot of The Naked Gun was blasphemous until he realized the full ...
On This Week’s Screen Talk: Mubi’s Path Forward, ‘The Naked Gun,’ and Paramount’s Next Moves
On this week's "Screen Talk," Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio also dish on how studios are marketing their genre movies, ...
The Funniest Movie of All Time Is Now Streaming for Free
From the creators of The Naked Gun, Airplane!, largely considered one of the funniest movies of all time, is now streaming for free.
Every Reference 'The Naked Gun' Reboot Makes to the Original
Lt Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) is the son of…you guessed it, Frank Drebin, played by Leslie Nielsen in the original Naked ...
Box Office: ‘Naked Gun’ Makes $1.6 Million in Previews, ‘Bad Guys 2’ Has $2.25 Million
Paramount’s “The Naked Gun” reboot, one of the year’s funniest movies, has made $1.6 million at the box office so far after ...
Hilarious facts about The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Nearly 40 years on, The Naked Gun is still a high-water mark for spoof comedy - powered by Leslie Nielsen’s unflappable ...
Naked Gun’s original director on why woke Hollywood is scared of jokes
In 2018, David Zucker – co-creator and director of spoof comedy films Airplane! and The Naked Gun – told me that he was ...
The Naked Gun movie branded 'buffoonery' as others hail reboot as 'masterclass'
Film critics provide reviews of Naked Gun remake following the success of the original film starring Leslie Nielsen who ...