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Plus, one Star Wars fan decided to digitally insert Harrison Ford into the trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story, and John Mulaney talks about the lessons he learned from writing for comedy legends who hosted Saturday Night Live.

Charles Crichton was a comedy legend who directed the first of the famed Ealing comedies (Hue And Cry), and followed it with other classics: The Titfield Thunderbolt, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Battle Of The Sexes.

Not exact matches

Host David Steinberg interviews the show business legends, lifelong friends who got their start writing for television variety shows and became comedy motion picture directors, each with a string of classic box office blockbusters to his name.

The Garden State actor - turned - director stepped behind the camera for the upcoming remake of the 1979 crime comedy, and he is still in awe at landing three «legends» to star as retirees who scheme to rob a bank.

The Robin Hood legend reared his head in the mainstream one - percenter comedy Tower Heist where Ben Stiller plays a building manager of a luxury high - rise who robs a millionaire to get his staff's pension - fund money back after it was «invested» in a Ponzi scheme.

Equally adept at the intimate and the epic, he lent visual character to both drawing - room comedies and picturesque outdoor westerns, and the list of directors he collaborated with reads like a who's who of cinematic legends: Cecil B. DeMille, Victor Fleming, Ernst Lubitsch, Anthony Mann, Preston Sturges, Raoul Walsh, William Wellman, William Wyler.

Written by Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare At Goats) and Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Men Who Stare At Goats), Frank is a fictional story based on the memoir by Jon Ronson and loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom (the persona of cult musician and comedy legend Chris Sievey), as well as outsider musicians like Daniel Johnston, Captain Beefheart and Harry Partch.

The Big Short marks a tuning point in the career of writer - director Adam McKay who made his name with Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy in 2004, followed by hit Will Ferrell comedies Step Brothers and The Other Guys.

Soul Men (R for nudity, sexuality and pervasive profanity) Samuel L. Jackson and the late Bernie Mac co-star in this road comedy about a couple of R&B legends who reunite for a memorial concert at the Apollo in honor of their recently - deceased front man.

Babyjohn Choi plays a young man who joins the eponymous department led by none other than comedy legend Richard Ng, Chin Siu - ho (one of the students in the original Mr. Vampire) and Yeun Cheung - yan (one of Yuen Woo - ping's younger brothers).

Comedian, actor and voice artist Gilbert Gottfried — a man Stephen King once called «a national treasure» — takes an affectionate look back at 100 + years of Hollywood history with some of the show business legends and behind - the - scenes talents who shaped his childhood and influenced his comedy.

Whishaw portrayed Bond's long - suffering gadget man Q in both 2012's Skyfall and 2015's Spectre, taking up the mantle from comedy legend John Cleese, who himself inherited the role from the man who made Q such a memorable character in the first place, Desmond Llewelyn.

Unfortunately, it plays more like a Will Ferrell buddy comedy, except replacing Ferrell's penchant for physical humor with Alexander Skarsgard's (The Legend of Tarzan, Hidden) one - note performance, which persistently disrupts the tone (Skarsgard was a last - minute replacement for the originally cast Garrett Hedlund, who left the project due to conflicts with McDonagh).

«Based on the ancient legend of a pagan demon who punishes the wicked, Legendary Pictures» KRAMPUS, a twisted horror comedy set during the holidays, is written and directed by Michael Dougherty (Trick» r Treat).

For the last few years, Apatow has reigned as the King Midas of comedy, a kingmaker who transformed the doughy, stony likes of Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen into movie stars and produced or directed a formidable string of big hits: Anchorman, Talladega Nights: The Legend Of Ricky Bobby, Knocked Up, Superbad, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Among these already released for the first time on home video include «Two Men in Manhattan,» Jean - Pierre Melville's 1959 filmed - in - New York noir that was never released theatrically in the states, Rene Clair's «The Beauty of the Devil» starring Michel Simon and Gerard Phillipe in a reimagining of the Faust legend, and «Perfect Understanding,» a 1933 romantic comedy starring Laurence Olivier and Gloria Swanson (who also served as producer) with a script by Michael Powell.

It was a dry, low - key comedy featuring old vaudevillian George Burns, comedian Art Carney and method - acting legend Lee Strasberg, as a trio of retirees who elect to rob a bank with minimal planning, because, why not?

This time, our assassin is the aptly - named Ethan Renner, taking his surname from one of the most boring action leads in film today — he's played by film legend Kevin Costner, who's trying to make a comeback between this, Man of Steel and the dire sports comedy Draft Day.

To the relief of comedy enthusiasts everywhere, in A Futile and Stupid Gesture (now available on Netflix), comedy legend and unsung hero, Doug Kenney, the man who co-founded the ground - breakingly irreverent National Lampoon magazine with his best friend, Henry Beard, «the oldest man who was ever a teenager», is imagined with great admiration and comedic inheritance by one of this era's funniest, most visionary voices, David Wain.

Who would called it, but Cannes 2016 is warming up to the year of outrageous comedy, what after Bruno Dumont's outs himself as the heir apparent to Slap Stick legend status; now it's the turn of German auteur Maren Ade with her 2h42m uncontrollably laugh out loud comedy of embarrassment that makes Curb Your Enthusiasm seem content and comfortable...