Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leslie Nielsen would be proud. Director Akiva Schaffer, 47, has revealed that he “threatened to quit” the “Naked Gun” reboot to ...

Akiva Schaffer reveals that the Lonely Island paid out of pocket for the penis scene in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.

When Lonely Island veteran Akiva Schaffer took over The Naked Gun — and set out to prove, with his Liam Neeson-led reboot, that comedy can still thrive in theaters — he watched many films for ...

Few understood just how brilliant the original "Naked Gun" films were quite like Schaffer, which is why he thought a reboot was a fool's errand until Neeson's name was mentioned. If you had grown up ...

To replicate the same on-screen, chaotic magic that Leslie Nielsen captured with The Naked Gun trilogy, it took years, rewrites, and the creative collaboration of comedians like director Akiva ...

Director Akiva Schaffer has always been funny. But being Naked Gun funny? That's a different skill entirely. "It wasn't easy," Schaffer tells The National. "I had to go back as an adult and study ...

"It's really wild. It's just one laugh after another." Paramount has unveiled a series of promo featurettes for the upcoming comedy reboot The Naked Gun, directed by the comedy mastermind Akiva ...

There’s probably nobody better to direct and write a movie like The Naked Gun reboot than Akiva Schaffer. He has a resume full of brilliant,... Akiva Schaffer on 'The Naked Gun' reboot , The Lonely ...

In the early 1980s, Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker pioneered a niche of slapstick- and wordplay-heavy spoof-comedies with films like Airplane! and Top Secret!, which displayed ...

Conner4Real can Never Stop Never Stopping. ‪ Check out the new trailer for Universal Pictures’ POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING – headlined by musical digital-shorts superstars Andy Samberg, Akiva ...

The Lonely Island's Akiva Schaffer will direct 'Stepsisters,' a movie that follows Cinderella's stepsisters Anastasia and Drizella, for Disney Cinderella's stepsisters are getting their own movie.

“It was polarizing in script reads,” Schaffer said on Monday’s episode of IndieWire’s “Filmmaker Toolkit” podcast. “People I really respect, like Andy Sandberg, when he read it for me, he was like, ...