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 ...

Saturday Night Live and The Lonely Island stars Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer bring ’90s nostalgia back by reviving Chip ‘n ...

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 ...

The Naked Gun reboot, like its predecessors, is a very dumb movie. In the best way possible. The spoof stars Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson. It's directed by our guest this week Akiva Schaffer. There ...

In a phony public service announcement that ran in theaters before certain movies, Liam Neeson, star of the new “The Naked Gun,” addressed a concern that he cares deeply about: the plight of big ...

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 ...

“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, ...