It's a busy old time for Paul Walter Hauser – with good reason, since he's been putting in excellent, memorable and award-winning performances in a variety of films and shows. He's now attached to another big title, joining Liam Neeson in the cast of Paramount's new spin on The Naked Gun.
The 1988 original saw David Zucker, brother Jerry, Jim Abrahams and co-writer Pat Proft turn their short-lived comedy series Police Squad! into a movie. It was an instant comedy hit, Leslie Nielsen's iconic central performance cementing his transformation from dramatic actor to comedy legend as Detective Frank Drebin.
Two sequels followed to diminishing returns (though there are still good gags to be enjoyed in both), but we started to hear rumours of a remake in development years ago. That went through a few versions — Ed Helms was attached to star for while — and more recently, Seth MacFarlane has been involved,...
The 1988 original saw David Zucker, brother Jerry, Jim Abrahams and co-writer Pat Proft turn their short-lived comedy series Police Squad! into a movie. It was an instant comedy hit, Leslie Nielsen's iconic central performance cementing his transformation from dramatic actor to comedy legend as Detective Frank Drebin.
Two sequels followed to diminishing returns (though there are still good gags to be enjoyed in both), but we started to hear rumours of a remake in development years ago. That went through a few versions — Ed Helms was attached to star for while — and more recently, Seth MacFarlane has been involved,...
- 5/1/2024
- by James White
- Empire - Movies
Exclusive: Paul Walter Hauser’s hot streak continues. After seeing New Line lock up rights to the authorized Chris Farley biopic in which he’ll star for director Josh Gad, the actor has signed on to the untitled Naked Gun reboot from Paramount Pictures.
Hauser joins an ensemble that also includes Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson, as previously announced. He’ll take on the role of Ed, Frank Drebin’s partner, which was inhabited in prior Naked Gun films by George Kennedy, and in the preceding series Police Squad! by Alan North.
Akiva Schaffer is directing and exec producing the comedy, slated for release in theaters on July 18, 2025. Dan Gregor and Doug Mand wrote the draft script along with Schaffer, with whom they partnered on the Emmy-winning film Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers. Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins are producing via Fuzzy Door, with Daniel M. Stillman also serving as EP.
Hauser joins an ensemble that also includes Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson, as previously announced. He’ll take on the role of Ed, Frank Drebin’s partner, which was inhabited in prior Naked Gun films by George Kennedy, and in the preceding series Police Squad! by Alan North.
Akiva Schaffer is directing and exec producing the comedy, slated for release in theaters on July 18, 2025. Dan Gregor and Doug Mand wrote the draft script along with Schaffer, with whom they partnered on the Emmy-winning film Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers. Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins are producing via Fuzzy Door, with Daniel M. Stillman also serving as EP.
- 5/1/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
So what happens when an over-the-top and incredibly sharp series, known for its brilliant satire, decides to flip the tables and satirize itself?
Well, you get an incredibly compelling hour of television.
Yes, the series went full-on meta on The Good Fight Season 4 Episode 4 with a satirized play about the characters, and it was quite a sight to behold.
However, as the title of the episode suggests, the "gang" didn't like it one bit.
Though only mentioned by name on The Good Fight Season 3 as a black attorney who got fired after being arrested for drug use, Alan North, or rather Jumaane Jenkins, made his theatrical debut on the series as the mastermind behind "C**ksucker in Chains."
And while it was funny for the play's audience and viewers, the outlandish and wholly hyperbolic depictions of the fictional lawyers at Reddick, Boseman, & Lockhart weren't exactly appealing to the "real-life" counterparts.
Well, you get an incredibly compelling hour of television.
Yes, the series went full-on meta on The Good Fight Season 4 Episode 4 with a satirized play about the characters, and it was quite a sight to behold.
However, as the title of the episode suggests, the "gang" didn't like it one bit.
Though only mentioned by name on The Good Fight Season 3 as a black attorney who got fired after being arrested for drug use, Alan North, or rather Jumaane Jenkins, made his theatrical debut on the series as the mastermind behind "C**ksucker in Chains."
And while it was funny for the play's audience and viewers, the outlandish and wholly hyperbolic depictions of the fictional lawyers at Reddick, Boseman, & Lockhart weren't exactly appealing to the "real-life" counterparts.
- 5/7/2020
- by Jessica Lerner
- TVfanatic
To mark the release of Police Squad: The complete Series on 20th April, we’ve been given 1 copy to give away on Blu-ray.
There are 8 million stories in the Naked City. Here are six. Join Detective Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) and Capt. Ed Hocken (Alan North) as they solve the toughest cases – full of all the sight-gags, puns, and non sequiturs that made the series famous! Created by David Zucker, Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams, who gave us other classics such as Flying High! and The Naked Gun series.
Marginally a “straight” police drama in the Jack Webb/Quinn Martin school, Police Squad occurs in a strange universe where everything is taken literally (when a name “rings a bell” we hear bells go off every time someone mentions it), non sequiturs occur and sight gags abound.
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There are 8 million stories in the Naked City. Here are six. Join Detective Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) and Capt. Ed Hocken (Alan North) as they solve the toughest cases – full of all the sight-gags, puns, and non sequiturs that made the series famous! Created by David Zucker, Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams, who gave us other classics such as Flying High! and The Naked Gun series.
Marginally a “straight” police drama in the Jack Webb/Quinn Martin school, Police Squad occurs in a strange universe where everything is taken literally (when a name “rings a bell” we hear bells go off every time someone mentions it), non sequiturs occur and sight gags abound.
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- 4/20/2020
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Cinema Retro has received the following press release:
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Mediumrare Entertainment is proud to announce Police Squad! The Complete Series available for the first time on Blu-ray from 20th April 2020
Starring Leslie Nielson, Alan North & Ed Williams
There are 8 million stories in the Naked City. Here are six. Join Detective Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) and Capt. Ed Hocken (Alan North) as they solve the toughest cases - full of all the sight-gags, puns, and
non sequiturs that made the series famous! Created by David Zucker, Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams, who gave us other classics such as Flying High! and The Naked Gun series.
Be an eye-witness to all the comedic action for the first time in stunning High Definition
Available to pre-order now from Amazon
Synopsis
Marginally a "straight" police drama in the Jack Webb/Quinn Martin school, Police Squad occurs in a...
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Mediumrare Entertainment is proud to announce Police Squad! The Complete Series available for the first time on Blu-ray from 20th April 2020
Starring Leslie Nielson, Alan North & Ed Williams
There are 8 million stories in the Naked City. Here are six. Join Detective Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) and Capt. Ed Hocken (Alan North) as they solve the toughest cases - full of all the sight-gags, puns, and
non sequiturs that made the series famous! Created by David Zucker, Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams, who gave us other classics such as Flying High! and The Naked Gun series.
Be an eye-witness to all the comedic action for the first time in stunning High Definition
Available to pre-order now from Amazon
Synopsis
Marginally a "straight" police drama in the Jack Webb/Quinn Martin school, Police Squad occurs in a...
- 2/22/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
1967: Roger burned David's painting on Dark Shadows.
1981: Guiding Light's Alan showed up at Jennifer's trial.
2009: Gl's Olivia kissed Natalia.
2010: As the World Turns' Reid had no time for Luke."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1956: Actor Charles Dingle died at age 68. He played Conrad Overton in Irna Phillips' daytime soap opera The Road of Life.
1967: On Dark Shadows, the ghost of Josette duPres materialized in David Collins' room and magically completed David's painting so that it now depicted him and...
1981: Guiding Light's Alan showed up at Jennifer's trial.
2009: Gl's Olivia kissed Natalia.
2010: As the World Turns' Reid had no time for Luke."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1956: Actor Charles Dingle died at age 68. He played Conrad Overton in Irna Phillips' daytime soap opera The Road of Life.
1967: On Dark Shadows, the ghost of Josette duPres materialized in David Collins' room and magically completed David's painting so that it now depicted him and...
- 1/20/2019
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
1967: Roger burned David's painting on Dark Shadows.
1981: Guiding Light's Alan showed up at Jennifer's trial.
2009: Gl's Olivia kissed Natalia.
2010: As the World Turns' Reid had no time for Luke."Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results."
― Machiavelli
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1956: Actor Charles Dingle died at age 68. He played Conrad Overton in Irna Phillips' daytime soap opera The Road of Life.
1981: Guiding Light's Alan showed up at Jennifer's trial.
2009: Gl's Olivia kissed Natalia.
2010: As the World Turns' Reid had no time for Luke."Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results."
― Machiavelli
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1956: Actor Charles Dingle died at age 68. He played Conrad Overton in Irna Phillips' daytime soap opera The Road of Life.
- 1/19/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
Updated: The Screen Awards revealed its 2013 winners tonight (October 30), recognising excellence in UK marketing, distribution and exhibition.Scroll down for full list of winnersBrowse the awards brochure HEREClick here for pictures from the nightClick here for videos of the winners
The awards were handed out at a glamorous ceremony at Park Plaza Riverbank in London. Broadcaster Edith Bowman hosted the event for the second year.
Universal took home the hotly contested distributor of the year award, with highly commended notices for Arrow Films and Lionsgate UK.
Sony’s Skyfall took home theatrical campaign of the year.
Picturehouse and Vue triumphed in the newly added exhibition categories.
The rising star prize was bestowed on Andy Green from Organic.
Film4 had three wins on the night, with Fox, Metrodome, Picturehouse Entertainment and Universal each celebrating double wins.
Alan North, who retired this summer from the Walt Disney Company and previously worked at Universal, Rank, and Odeon...
The awards were handed out at a glamorous ceremony at Park Plaza Riverbank in London. Broadcaster Edith Bowman hosted the event for the second year.
Universal took home the hotly contested distributor of the year award, with highly commended notices for Arrow Films and Lionsgate UK.
Sony’s Skyfall took home theatrical campaign of the year.
Picturehouse and Vue triumphed in the newly added exhibition categories.
The rising star prize was bestowed on Andy Green from Organic.
Film4 had three wins on the night, with Fox, Metrodome, Picturehouse Entertainment and Universal each celebrating double wins.
Alan North, who retired this summer from the Walt Disney Company and previously worked at Universal, Rank, and Odeon...
- 10/31/2013
- ScreenDaily
Updated: The Screen Awards revealed its 2013 winners tonight (October 30), recognising excellence in UK marketing, distribution and exhibition.
The awards (full list below) were handed out at a glamorous ceremony at Park Plaza Riverbank in London. Broadcaster Edith Bowman hosted the event for the second year.
Universal took home the hotly contested distributor of the year award, with highly commended notices for Arrow Films and Lionsgate UK.
Sony’s Skyfall took home theatrical campaign of the year.
Picturehouse and Vue triumphed in the newly added exhibition categories.
The rising star prize was bestowed on Andy Green from Organic.
Film4 had three wins on the night, with Fox, Metrodome and Universal each celebrating double wins.
Alan North, who retired this summer from the Walt Disney Company and previously worked at Universal, Rank, and Odeon, was honoured with the Film Distributors’ Association Lifetime Achievement Award. His former colleague Daniel Battsek flew in from New York to present North with the...
The awards (full list below) were handed out at a glamorous ceremony at Park Plaza Riverbank in London. Broadcaster Edith Bowman hosted the event for the second year.
Universal took home the hotly contested distributor of the year award, with highly commended notices for Arrow Films and Lionsgate UK.
Sony’s Skyfall took home theatrical campaign of the year.
Picturehouse and Vue triumphed in the newly added exhibition categories.
The rising star prize was bestowed on Andy Green from Organic.
Film4 had three wins on the night, with Fox, Metrodome and Universal each celebrating double wins.
Alan North, who retired this summer from the Walt Disney Company and previously worked at Universal, Rank, and Odeon, was honoured with the Film Distributors’ Association Lifetime Achievement Award. His former colleague Daniel Battsek flew in from New York to present North with the...
- 10/31/2013
- ScreenDaily
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