Alan Johnson, a three-time Emmy Award winning choreographer whose work spanned Broadway and Hollywood – and included four scenes from Mel Brooks’ comedies that became instant, irreverent classics – died July 7 of Parkinson’s disease at his home in Los Angeles. He was 81.

His death was confirmed to news outlets by his n…

I made it back from CinemaCon in Vegas yesterday just in time to take in the opening night of the ninth Annual TCM Classic Film Festival, again taking place at the fabled Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. So glad I made it because this evening gave us a double dose of cinema icons with Mel Brooks doing a hilarious…

Jacob Tremblay, Christopher Lloyd, Kenan Thompson and Mel Brooks have been cast as the voices in Lani Pixels’ untitled 3D animated feature that will mark the directorial debut of Kim Pagel, who also scripted the family story.

The film will follow Patrick and Susan as they attempt to rescue t…

SECOND UPDATE, SATURDAY: The marquees of Broadway theaters will be dimmed in memory of Thomas Meehan on August 30 at 7:45 PM for one minute. Meehan died August 21 at age 88

"Thomas Meehan was a key collaborator on some of the most memorable productions in recent Broadway history. His work brought deeper meaning and com…

HBO just released the trailer for If You're Not In the Obit, Eat Breakfast, a new documentary from producer George Shapiro and director Danny Gold which is about he vitality of those people who are going strong after age 90 and includes some of the biggest legends in the entertainment industry. It will debut June 5 on…

Update: Tributes hit social media Friday night and Saturday morning European time for John Hurt, the prolific two-time Oscar nominee who played so many memorable characters in so many memorable films. Along with Academy Awards noms for The Elephant Man and Midnight Express, he appeared in Best Picture winner A Man for…

As a swivel-hipped rock and roller, Conrad Birdie had a lot of living to do, the unknown actor Dick Gautier sang in the 1960 Broadway smash Bye Bye Birdie. At first a reluctant leading man, Gautier played many roles, including cabaret singer, stand-up comic, character actor and caricaturist. He was best known to TV…

The 2015 National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medals recipients were unveiled today by the White House, with the likes of Mel Brooks, Morgan Freeman, Audra McDonald, Berry Gordy and Philip Glass on the list for the National Medal of Arts, while NPR host Terry Gross and Wynton Marsalis are among the…

Mel Brooks stopped by Jimmy Fallon’s show, talked about collaborator Gene Wilder, who died Sunday at age 83, and to comb his hair.

“He was sick and I knew it…I expected he would go. But, when it happens, its still tremendous, it’s still a big shock,” Brooks said. “I’m still reeling from no more Gene – he was such a won…

Here is a photo gallery focusing on the career of Gene Wilder, who died Sunday. The revered comic actor starred in such inarguable classics as The Producers, Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein and worked alongside such comedy greats as Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Richard Pryor…

Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder teamed as director and star on a trio of iconic comedy films in their careers, in a collaboration that began with 1967’s The Producers, then a pair of classics amazingly in the same year: 1974’s Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, the second of which the two co-wrote.

Brooks tweeted a sta…

Gene Wilder, the singular comedy actor whose many iconic credits include Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the Mel Brooks classics Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles and The Producers, died late Sunday from complications of Alzheimer’s disease in Stamford, CT. His family confirmed the news to the Associated…