Live-Action How to Train Your Dragon Begins Filming

Universal Pictures’ live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon is one step closer to soaring on the big screen. Posting on his Instagram account earlier this week, writer/director/producer Dean DeBlois (who helmed and co-wrote the original animated film with Chris Sanders before going solo on the franchise’s three sequels) announced that production has officially begun on…

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How Mel Brooks Inspired Cult Classic The Hebrew Hammer

Before Eli Roth’s Donny Donowitz and Logan Lerman’s Jonah Heidelbaum, there was Adam Goldberg’s Mordechai Jefferson Carver — aka The Hebrew Hammer. It’s a little hard to say if the Jewish avenger of Jonathan Kesselman’s kosher cult classic (currently streaming on Peacock) helped pave the way for subsequent Semitic heroes, but the writer-director doesn’t rule out the hypothesis completely….

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