Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s strand in which, each fortnight, we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ...

Jim Abrahams, a film director and writer behind hit slapstick comedies like “Airplane!,” “Hot Shots!,” the “Naked Gun” series and more, died Tuesday, his son Joseph confirmed to Variety. He was 80.

Johnny English, the secret agent of last resort, need not mean the movie of last resort. In “Johnny English Strikes Again,” the charming third chapter in the surprisingly durable spy-spoof franchise ...

Writing comedy is hard. (Just ask Seth Rogen.) I've been trying to nail the tone of this comedy script I've been working on, ...

When I was ten years old, I thought the greatest actor in the world was Leslie Nielsen. He was the star of every movie I loved, and I was always thrilled to see a trailer or find a VHS of a movie that ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The microbudget movie "Hundreds of Beavers” has turned into lo-fi legend. Mike Cheslik’s film, made for just $150,000 and self-distributed in theaters, has managed to gnaw its way into ...

On Oct. 11, the Museum of Modern Art held a screening of Jackass 3D, which opened in theaters on Friday. It’s safe to say that when Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Wee-Man and the rest of ...