The all-round talent screened her fiction feature debut as a director at the Luxembourg City Film Festival: "I have Trine ...

Alto Knights' director Barry Levinson on his abandoned 'Diner' series with James Spader and Michael Madsen in Kevin Bacon and ...

Mel Brooks didn't want one of his actors to get any funny lines because he thought they couldn't handle it, and giving them a ...

Following the 2x Oscar winner’s death at age 95, writer-director Mel Brooks reminisced about working with Hackman on his Academy Award-nominated 1974 comedy classic Young Frankenstein.

Nosbusch learned directing from a big name. “Mel Brooks was one of my teachers at UCLA,” she recalled. “I will never forget that as students, we asked him: ‘How do you know the story to ...

Davis Musical Theater presents a laugh-out-loud comedic musical “Young Frankenstein,” based on the Mel Brooks movie from 1974. The shows run now through March 30, on Fridays and ...

US actor and writer Mel Brooks has said he thought there was “no reason” to make his 1967 hit film The Producers into a musical. The 98-year-old, who won an original screenplay Oscar for the film, ...

The iconic comedian also recalls his hilarious and sometimes triggering interviews with big Hollywood names, including Mel ...

Fifty years ago, The Times’ Charles Champlin spoke to Mel Brooks for the opening of his feature directing debut, “The Producers,” starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. In 2001, it would be ...

Mel Brooks’ 1974 was as good a year as any director has had. The top two films on this list both came out that year. Both are classic comedies. Both are funny and thoroughly enjoyable.