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Jason Friedberg (born October 13, 1971) and Aaron Seltzer (born January 12, 1974) are American and Canadian filmmakers. They have primarily worked on parody films, which they began writing and directing during the mid-2000s. Friedberg and Seltzer's first five films between 2006 and 2010 received wide theatrical releases to mostly commercial success, but universally negative reviews; their ...
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Jason Friedberg (born October 13, 1971) and Aaron Seltzer...
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Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg are a pair of writer/directors that collaborate with each other on all of their projects. They create comedic movies that parody and reference pop culture in the Zucker, Abrams and Zucker style of rapid-fire gags without concern for the overarching plot or characterization.
Their first official project was the 1996 film Spy Hard and they contributed one of the many scripts that was folded into the first Scary Movie, but they did not gain notoriety until 2006 with Date Movie. While panned by critics, the film made back triple its meager budget and secured them a contract to do a couple more films. While 2007's Epic Movie, January 2008's Meet the Spartans, and August 2008's Disaster Movie received worse critical reception and inspired a vocal Hatedom, it wasn't until the last that the public rejected them (although it's unknown whether or not the film's failure was simply due to the different audience provided by its August release). In 2010, the duo released Vampires Suck, a Twilight parody which was as poorly received as their previous works. See also Superhero Movie and Dance Flick, which are often thought to be made by them.
Their next movie, The Biggest Movie Of All Time 3D, was slated for release in 2012, but still hasn't come about. Instead, they've recently experimented with non-parody films (namely, Best Night Ever), and a brief return to the roots in The Starving Games. Superfast was exclusively a parody of the The Fast and the Furious franchise, with few to no other references. In addition to the above mentioned The Biggest Movie Of All Time 3D, they've also announced two other parody films; Who the F#@K Took My Daughter? and
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•Artifact Title: Some of the films have issues with the titles not really representing the content being parodied. As the making-of materials on Disaster Movie revealed, this is because the films change rather rapidly in production and the title is simply meant to cover what the filmmakers expect to be the most marketable element.
•The Cameo: Carmen Electra appears in all of these movies (and plays a major role in Meet The Spartans) making her, for want of a better term, the series mascot.
•Creator Killer: Disaster Movie was Seltzer and Friedberg's first movie to bomb both critically and financially, and since then, their output has been far more sporadic.
•Dead Baby Comedy:
•Jokes about the most recent deaths of celebrities like Anna Nicole Smith in Meet The Spartans.
•A literal case of this happens in Disaster Movie, in which Juney chugs vodka, breakdances on her belly, and she and her unborn child get ripped apart by rabid wildlife from the popular disaster film Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Superfast! (also known as Superfast & Superfurious and sometimes marketed as Superfast 8) is a 2015 American action comedy film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. [3] [4] The film is a parody of the Fast & Furious film series. [5] It was released in theaters and VOD on April 3, 2015, to coincide with the premiere of ...
Jason Friedberg (born October 13, 1971) and Aaron Seltzer (born January 12, 1974) are an American-Canadian film director and screenwriter team known for making parody movies that have received extremely unfavorable reviews, but have done well at the box office. They were part of the writing team for Scary Movieand Spy Hard, and have written/directed films such as Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet ...
The Animated Crossover Movie Parody Project (originally known as Animated Movie) is a 2017 American animated comedy crossover-parody film directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, written by D.A. Nichols and Abbey Thickson, and stars Matt Lanter, Kevin Shinick, Crista Flanagan, Ike Barinholtz, Nicole Parker, Debra Wilson, Hugh Davidson, Mikey Day, Allison Janney, Larry Dorf, Rachel Ramras ...
The Starving Games is a 2013 American parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. The film parodies The Hunger Games and it stars Maiara Walsh, Cody Christian, Brant Daugherty, Lauren Bowles and Diedrich Bader. It is the first film in Friedberg and Seltzer's long-running partnership to be distributed independently. It was released simultaneously in theaters and video ...
For the genre, see Disaster film. Disaster Movie is a 2008 American parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. It stars Matt Lanter, Vanessa Minnillo, Gary "G Thang" Johnson, Crista Flanagan, Nicole Parker, Ike Barinholtz, Carmen Electra, Tony Cox, and Kim Kardashian in her feature film debut. Released on August 29, 2008 by Lionsgate, the film is a parody of the ...
