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The 1981 Mel Brooks film History of the World, Part I was never meant to have a sequel, but Deadline has confirmed Brooks’ high jinks across history will continue as part of an eight-episode variety series at Hulu. The writers room for History of the World, Part II will begin this month, and production will commence…

EXCLUSIVE: Could 95-year-old Mel Brooks be headed back to the Oscars? Don’t count him out. Brooks, who won the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for 1968’s The Producers and already is an EGOT winner, has written music and lyrics for “At the Automat,” a song from the new documentary The Automat, which is having…

EXCLUSIVE: The Random House imprint Ballantine Books has acquired and set a November 30 publication date in the U.S. for the Mel Brooks memoir All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business. The iconic director, producer, writer, and actor has also recorded an audiobook version that will be released simultaneously…

Cloris Leachman, who won eight career Emmy Awards spanning six programs and 22 nominations, and also earned a Supporting Actress Oscar for The Last Picture Show during a sterling seven-decade career, died Tuesday in her sleep of natural causes at her home in Encinitas, CA. She was 94. Her manager Juliet Green…

Mel Brooks is the latest in a growing number of Hollywood figures endorsing former vice president Joe Biden for the 2020 election. On Wednesday morning, the EGOT’s son Max Brooks shared a video of the comedy extraordinaire explaining his decision to vote for Biden. “Hi folks, I’m Mel Brooks and behind me you see my…

Mel Brooks, whose close friendship with the late Carl Reiner stretched back to the 1950s, has posted a tribute to his old Your Show of Shows costar. “Carl was a giant,” said Brooks on Twitter, “unmatched in his contributions to entertainment. He created comedy gems.” Brooks recalled meeting Reiner in 1950 on Your Show…

Max Brooks knows a thing or two about strange worldwide plagues. The author of World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide issued a Twitter reminder with a cameo from his 93-year-old father, Mel Brooks. “If I get the coronavirus, I’ll probably be OK,” said Max, speaking from his patio while his father stands on the…

Going from mermaid to monster, ABC this fall will debut Young Frankenstein Live! as its next live musical event, produced by the show’s creator Mel Brooks. ABC announced the musical event at the TCA Winter Press Tour in Pasadena today. Based on the 2007 Broadway stage version of the Brooks-Gene Wilder classic 1974…

Mel Brooks played to full houses during his two-night Broadway stand last week, adding $583,140 to Broadway’s overall pot of $36M for the week ending June 23. Brooks’ June 17-18 engagement at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre had a total attendance of 2,967, 99.2% of capacity. The $583K figure marked 112% of potential, with…

Comedy legend Mel Brooks is coming back to Broadway: The man behind the massive hit musical The Producers will stage a two-night-only solo show as part of the recently announced Residence on Broadway series at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Mel Brooks On Broadway is set for Monday June 17 and Tuesday June 18. The…

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…

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…