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  1. 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 ...

  2. Mar 6, 2022 · The most common names behind those cinematic atrocities are Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, who got to do all those films exclusively because their names show up on the credits of the first Scary Movie, a spoof that made more money than the movies it was spoofing ($278 million vs. Scream's $173 million and I Know What You Did Last Summer's $125 million).

  3. Aug 27, 2008 · The works of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer represent a critical nadir in the spoof genre — not to mention cinematic comedy in general. Their films string together pop cultural references at will, but — and this is crucial to a successful parody — without additional comment or subtext, so audiences are asked to simply laugh because there’s something on the screen they might ...

  4. The genre died after the overwhelming weight of dozens of the worst movies ever made. Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer killed the entire genre. They’re like the anti-Zucker brothers. Rather than making movies that spoofed on a genre, they simply made the laziest “reference jokes” about recent pop culture.

  5. Meet the Spartans is a 2008 American parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. [4] The film is mainly a parody of the 2006 film 300, although it also references many other films, TV shows, people and pop cultural events of the time, in a manner similar to previous films that Friedberg and Seltzer had been involved in such as Scary Movie, Date Movie, and Epic Movie.

  6. Apr 8, 2021 · Infamous for their pop-culture heavy parodies, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have struck infamy. But like most meteoric rises to notoriety, this partnership must have started somewhere. In 1996, attempting to emulate the style of the parody films created by the beloved creative partnership, Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, the two worked on a script that…

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  8. Feb 25, 2024 · Those are largely the exceptions that prove the rule, and the decline of the parody can largely be attributed to two writers in particular. Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer co-wrote Scary Movie – which would recoup its budget 15 times over at the box office – and then proceed to run the entire operation into the ground.

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