Mel Brooks says Richard Pryor "spurred on" Blazing Saddles ' use of the N-word. The filmmaker adds that "racial prejudice is ...

Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein is clearly one of the greatest horror parodies of all-time, and the greatest Frankenstein movie ever made in which the Monster dons a tuxedo and tap dances to an Irving ...

Wilder explained his idea for a comedy about Baron Frankenstein’s neurotic grandson. “My dream is for you to write it with me and direct the movie,” Wilder told Brooks. Brooks took Wilder’s cash as a ...

As a young boy, Judd Apatow says he wanted to grow up to be like Mel Brooks, the filmmaker of such comedy classics as ...

Get ready for laughs, lab experiments gone wrong, and a monstrously good time as “Young Frankenstein” takes the stage at Theatre at the Mount this coming winter. This electrifying ...

Zach Galifianakis will star in a new television reboot of the classic 1974 Mel Brooks comedy Young Frankenstein, titled Very Young Frankenstein. The series is being overseen by Brooks, now 99, and is ...

As a cultural, historical icon exploited for stage and screen, Frankenstein’s Monster is right up there with Jesus, Abe Lincoln and Santa Claus. You know the Monster at first glance: bolts through the ...

Based on the 1974 cult-classic film (written by Brooks and Gene Wilder), Young Frankenstein is a delightfully offbeat send-up of horror movies, old-school musicals ...