Blake Edwards, famous for writing, directing and producing slapstick comedy films like “The Pink Panther,” received an honorary Academy Award in 2004 for extraordinary distinction in lifetime ...

Slapstick started to merge into other genres, with Jackie Chan becoming a bonafide slapstick action-comedy star, while 1980s horror filmmakers Peter Jackson and Sam Raimi pushed their gore-soaked ...

The comedy here generally isn't quite as strong as the action, but that’s less a dig at the comedy and more a testament to just how mind-blowing the fight sequences are. 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad ...

At its best, from the mid-1950s through the early 1980s, Blake Edwards' career represented an unexpected extension of the spirit of classical Hollywood comedy in the Ernst Lubitsch-Billy Wilder vein.

12 Types of Comedy, From Slapstick to Satire. ... This comedy style is also what makes movies like “The ... How Jason Segel Found Renewed Purpose Through ‘Shrinking’ + A Move Out of Hollywood.

Alison (Katherine Heigl) and her sister Debbie (Leslie Mann) are out clubbing, celebrating the former’s promotion from stage manager on one of those Inside Hollywood TV shows to an on-air job ...

Hennefeld had long been interested in comedy and film. But seeing the 1903 movie "Mary Jane's Mishap" inspired her research into the early days of silent film, when female stars used slapstick for ...